A History Of Magic

Journal Entry 1

5 Things that i understand
1. The human mind is rooted in truth and in reason. It accounts for all progress to intelligence. The Zohar represents absolute truth while the Sepher Yetzirah represents the method of acquistion.
2.Zoroaster expressed a manner in which is understood by theologians as the circumincession of the Divine Persons. In his multiplication of the triad by itself, Zoroaster created the absolute reason of the number 9 and the Universal Key of all numbers and forms.
3 Magis are ruled by a monarch who is considered sacred. He is considered the god on earth, and he causes mortals to lie prone when he passes.
4. Magic is a science, that when you abuse it you end up losing it and it also causes onself to become destroyed.
5. Black magic had originated in India and has also perpetuated in original traditions.

4 questions
1. Why has the battle of the Magis arrupted over the years?
2. How are the kings of Magis chosen?
3. Why did all Magis ahve to abide to the laws of the king?
4. Why weren't Magis able to defend themselves against dark magic?

3 words I don't Know
1. Pg 68 Lucidity- clearness of thought or style
2. Pg 71 Sybarite- voluptuary , sensualist
3. Pg 72 Gymnosophist- any of a sect of ascetics in ancient India who went naked and practiced meditation

2 Literary Elements
Pg 62 "Emerged from water, like a Sun in its rising."-Similie
Pg64 "Hereby is man but a shadow of a shadow."-Metaphor

Summary Sentence
Magic is influenced by the origins of life itself and is expanded in mathematics, art and religion.