Pagan Religions in Five Minutes - Suzanne Owen
43. Is there a Difference between Magic and Magick?
Pagan Religions in Five Minutes - Suzanne Owen
Caroline Jane Tully [+]
University of Melbourne
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Caroline Tully is an archaeologist at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include religion and ritual in the Aegean Bronze Age, reception of the ancient world, and contemporary Paganisms. She is the author of The Cultic Life of Trees in the Prehistoric Aegean, Levant, Egypt and Cyprus (Peeters 2018) and many academic and popular articles.
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This chapter explores the difference between “magic” and “magick”. While the former has been defined differently across cultures and eras, “magick” was introduced by Aleister Crowley to emphasise aligning actions with one's True Will. Subsequent adaptions have modified this concept, and “magick” has become the predominant term in contemporary practitioner literature.