Has any magic been shown to be actually functional?
Anything that look like magic for some person is just a technology that this person don't understand. Take any average smartphone user - smartphone is a literally magic box for them. They just used to it. So, magic don't really exist at all. It is just a technology we don't understand.
I've seen real magic in the workings of synchronicities.
In no case it is a magic. Just some unknown, hidden, unexplained process.
Can things be encoded in crystals (I know they can be used for encryption)?
You have such crystals in your USB flash memory sticks, SSD's and other *ROM's everywhere around. So, yes they could.
what ACTUALLY happened there?
Nobody knows for shure. Even if you somehow find out exact actions of all participants, this will tell nothing about the actual purpose. Even known results could say a little, since you could miss the real result, just because you don't know what to look at.
So, there could be only theories, one that will best fit for all known facts could be taken as a decent model.
I think you know what I am saying. By "magic", I'm talking about the ritualistic use of blood, crystals, sigils, wands, etc.
You can call anything a "process". Synchronicities can be a "natural" occurrence and indeed part of nature (which I would argue they are), but that doesn't make them any less magical. Like seeing cloud iridescence in person. But mere existence itself is magical...hey, I'm easy to please.
And yes, I know about those crystals...I'm talking about much larger things. Like Superman being less fiction and more open secret.
Oh, and I'm sure someone knows what happened there. And given the "actors" involved, it's certainly in the realm of the occult, and likely Satanism. If their "magic" was so real and strong, they wouldn't need to hide behind lies...but that's all they really can do...lie.
Knowing exactly what is happening when you see cloud iridescence in person does not make it less fascinating and marvellous. Even more - when you know how it works, you are much more amased, because you not only observing an enchanting show, but also understand the beauty of the universe design that make that wonderful things possible. You lose absolutely nothing when it is not a "magic" anymore for you, on the contrary, it becomes much more interesting.
If their "magic" was so real and strong, they wouldn't need to hide behind lies..
Lies could be part of "magic". To get your satanic goal you need to seed a lie that will be believed by many souls. That lie in billions of souls will f.e. somehow feed the entity that will in exchange provide them power or know-how to get the goal or help with the goal itself.
Or it could be like with a role of acid in shugar hydrolysis. You have to add a tiny amount of acid, may be in form of fruit juice of whatever to begin process of separation sucrose into fructose and glucose. That acid is even not consumed during process, it just create a conditions where this process become possible. So with lies - if they will not add them, they will not be able to start the real process.
I prefer to leave the "magic" for them, not buy it for myself. If they do some rithuals just because they stupidly believe in them, or because somebody told them to practice them, that does not mean I have to leave attempts to try to understand the technology they actually using. Even if I could build some very approximate, but working model of process they do, I could be able to find a way to stop it or resist it, f.e..
Anything that look like magic for some person is just a technology that this person don't understand. Take any average smartphone user - smartphone is a literally magic box for them. They just used to it. So, magic don't really exist at all. It is just a technology we don't understand.
In no case it is a magic. Just some unknown, hidden, unexplained process.
You have such crystals in your USB flash memory sticks, SSD's and other *ROM's everywhere around. So, yes they could.
Nobody knows for shure. Even if you somehow find out exact actions of all participants, this will tell nothing about the actual purpose. Even known results could say a little, since you could miss the real result, just because you don't know what to look at.
So, there could be only theories, one that will best fit for all known facts could be taken as a decent model.
I think you know what I am saying. By "magic", I'm talking about the ritualistic use of blood, crystals, sigils, wands, etc.
You can call anything a "process". Synchronicities can be a "natural" occurrence and indeed part of nature (which I would argue they are), but that doesn't make them any less magical. Like seeing cloud iridescence in person. But mere existence itself is magical...hey, I'm easy to please.
And yes, I know about those crystals...I'm talking about much larger things. Like Superman being less fiction and more open secret.
Oh, and I'm sure someone knows what happened there. And given the "actors" involved, it's certainly in the realm of the occult, and likely Satanism. If their "magic" was so real and strong, they wouldn't need to hide behind lies...but that's all they really can do...lie.
Knowing exactly what is happening when you see cloud iridescence in person does not make it less fascinating and marvellous. Even more - when you know how it works, you are much more amased, because you not only observing an enchanting show, but also understand the beauty of the universe design that make that wonderful things possible. You lose absolutely nothing when it is not a "magic" anymore for you, on the contrary, it becomes much more interesting.
Lies could be part of "magic". To get your satanic goal you need to seed a lie that will be believed by many souls. That lie in billions of souls will f.e. somehow feed the entity that will in exchange provide them power or know-how to get the goal or help with the goal itself.
Or it could be like with a role of acid in shugar hydrolysis. You have to add a tiny amount of acid, may be in form of fruit juice of whatever to begin process of separation sucrose into fructose and glucose. That acid is even not consumed during process, it just create a conditions where this process become possible. So with lies - if they will not add them, they will not be able to start the real process.
I prefer to leave the "magic" for them, not buy it for myself. If they do some rithuals just because they stupidly believe in them, or because somebody told them to practice them, that does not mean I have to leave attempts to try to understand the technology they actually using. Even if I could build some very approximate, but working model of process they do, I could be able to find a way to stop it or resist it, f.e..
LOL, nice chemistry analogy, seeing as how I did carbohydrate synthesis in grad school.
Acid is pretty apt for the vitriol...which is their last resort. "Pizzagate...FAKE NEWS"