as someone who is into trad magic

frankiezaltar:

Ceremonial magic workers and traditionalist magic workers criticizing modern magic worker practices….

Is like traditional artists criticizing modern artists.

They all are still creating art. They are achieving their desired results, their skillsets are different and don’t always transfer well across mediums and platforms, but it’s still art and it still works for the artist.

Magic is an ever evolving practice, the reason we have the traditional ingredients and practices that we do is because someone way back when had them on hand used them and passed that knowledge down. And do you really think people weren’t laughing at those workers in their day and age about what they chose to use, why they chose to use it and how they chose to use it? I’ll give you a hint, in the academic world (I’m talking University papers that study this within historic contexts) they classify magic in High-Magic and Low-Magic categories. Not because one is superior to the other but because of the superiority complexes of one over the other and the ACCESSIBILITY of one of the other.

If your biggest gripe with someone else’s magic practices is how it LOOKS to you. You need to take a step back and realize you are no better than art snobs mocking digital artists. If the magic someone else works is working for them, regardless of their tools or made up paradigms or lineaged traditions; bottom line is it is WORKING for THEM. Just because you can’t recreate it for yourself or don’t understand how it is working for them does NOT mean that it isn’t working for them.

I know plenty of traditionalist artists that cannot for the life of them figure out how to duplicate what they do on a tablet, and vice versa. And both still recognize that each others’ art is still art and working for the person producing it.