Designer of High Magic

by

Michael St.Clair

To the

Infinite Spirit

“I wrote my will across the sky in stars.”

Lawrence of Arabia

To some, stars are mere dots in the sky. To sea captains, they are navigational aids. To poets, they are heavenly inspiration. To astronomers and new age astrologers, stars are instruments which God created to harness time - to structure the un-measurable and infinite, or the absurd… God invented time so nothing would appear to occur simultaneously, so there would be order instead of chaos, so we could experience things and events chronologically and thereby learn and grow spiritually. The stars do not force us, yet they can guide us by displaying the secret and esoteric "writing on the wall" of the celestial firmament. Mapping the future in the now is what this knowing is to help us. This book explains what I know.

How can we decipher the encrypted code that God left us before He set time in motion? The content of this book and its card deck is designed in a way to attempt an answer through spiritual astrology and High Magic, or the art of the possible, as opposed to the preconditioned and fated. Spiritual astrology, the clock of destiny, is a road map to fulfilment. We must watch this charted course very carefully as we enter the third millennium with its promise of new beginnings, and with its inherent dangers.

Let us see if we can find a path through the maze of space-time and discover where we came from, where we are headed to, and who we actually are. As we can see, the world did not end with the year 2000, nor was there a societal meltdown of panic and fear caused by the media hype over "Y2K." However, the world will change as we humans transform ourselves.

The concept of "Y2K" associated with the year 2000 is to be seen as a type of informational warfare designed to keep humanity fear-based; yet, in actuality, it is a powerful spiritual metaphor for a massive upgrade in a new form of human consciousness. We need to change the collective programming of our brains in order to see further and evolve-to take responsibility for our own transformation. Additionally, we need to increase our memory database to include an understanding of the overall picture, our possible future, and the remembrance of who we really are.

The Age of Aquarius posits precisely that question: Who are WE? During the Age of Leo, 13,000 years ago, when the architects of the pharaohs built the beautiful, majestic sphinx-the Lion body with the human face-and the pyramids in Cairo, humanity asked, “Who am I?” While the Age of Leo focused on one man, the Pharaoh, and his infinitely clever Magician, or high priest, the Age of Aquarius is concerned with the whole of humanity as one-our group. On a spiritual level, "Y2K" symbolized the switching of the microchip in the collective memory from me to us - and moving on with this new perspective.

Now is the time to create our new lives, as the three dimensional “real” world spins out of control. The years ahead are about how we transform our world into a magical life…

The

"Millennium Signature"

in the Sky

As the millennium began on January 1, 2000, the moon was in Scorpio, signifying that now is the time to face our fears and bring light into the shadows of the subconscious. It is time to exert control over our reflexes and eliminate, or let go, of outworn and outgrown emotional reactions as well as plutonic (chaotic and undermining) relationships.

The Scorpio moon has a dark, cynical stinger, yet its vibrational qualities are also compassionate, profoundly psychic, and artistic. The moon is at its most powerful when in Scorpio (I had this position at birth, as did Steven Spielberg, Charlie Chaplin, Jimmy Carter, Harry Truman, and Eric Clapton). Be grateful that God has timed the night of the millennium with a Scorpio moon, so we can all face our fears and win by so doing. Victories need challenges. Without challenges, there are no victories. The psychic Scorpio moon is in esoteric terms also the high flying and far seeing eagle. The 25 years ahead bring the challenge of surfacing fears with the strength to face and overcome what we most dread. The new age started with the rising of the Southern Cross in mid Scorpio.

While we must face some form of our fears every day, we can control this anxiety. Even though fear is an emotion, based on thoughts, it must transform into a thought that is manageable. We can change our fear-based thought processes into faith or hope-based concepts and ultimately create magical ideas that transform our lives and our planet Earth.

We are and/or become what we think, as Biblical scriptures and philosophers suggest. Our bodies are merely temporal vessels for our souls: The eternal portion of our being is formless thought. Whether we acknowledge it or not, we create our world and ourselves by the power of our thoughts. We need to use this precious gift more often and consciously to think magical thoughts and dream magical dreams. Magic is simple; any child can do it. As we grow up, we tend to forget the power of imagination - it is all mere thought. High Magic, however, is calm, deliberate, linear, focused thought - the art of transformation in tune with Spirit, God, and the Universe.

This new millennium, the world of thought, is all about High Magic - Spiritual magic - or the power from within to transform and to re-align the stars of fate. Now we are leaving the past and our prisons of experiences behind us as we move into the future, free, independent, reborn, and questing toward the unknown. We have reached the point where we cannot measure the un-measurable; science, quantum physics in particular, faced with the non-proven  has crossed over into the realm of thought where the mind of the observer effects what is seen. Perhaps that is how God planned the Universe, leaving free space for the creativity of the human mind.

As Shakespeare wrote, "We see what we believe, as certainly as we believe what we see." Formerly, we believed something only if we saw it, but now the opposite applies. We must believe it in order to see it. In other words, we must mean what we think and intend it to materialize in space-time. Every intentional thought is an act of High Magic, as is every intentional act; both of 'which will have an effect on us and our experiences.

Stepping into the unknown requires courage, or grace under pressure. Yet, at the same time, it is as natural and effortless as the sun rising, water flowing, grass growing, or our breathing. We just do it by living each day as it comes. Yesterday was not more or less unknown than the day before, yet it is now past and completed as if it has gone the way of the Trojan War or the Middle Ages. However, tomorrow is no more unknown than today was yesterday. There are patterns of the past reflected in the future vortex of times ahead.

Obviously, there is a vast difference between yesterday and tomorrow. We cannot shape yesterday. We can only give it a different interpretation. But we can and must shape tomorrow. As surprising as it may seem, the future will look just the way we think it will based on the creative power of our thoughts. That, in essence, is High Magic, which includes predictions, divination, and the art of change, also known as transformation.

What we experience in our existence is based on our expectations. If we anticipate the worst, "Y2K” problems, wars, famine, upheaval, and ecological disasters, we will encounter trials and unhappiness. However, if we expect the future to be fun, then we could experience such manifestation as new love relationships and babies or interesting travels and adventures. However, we need to know what lies ahead in realistic terms of the extended now; I discuss this in detail in my books “Icons of Destiny” & “Passage To Peace”.

We will – on the other hand – learn that we live that which we predict. So why not simply imagine, think, dream, and visualize such magical outcomes as love, health, wealth, prosperity for all, a united and clean world, and a peaceful planet. If all the billions of people on earth would think such thoughts, we would be well on the way to experiencing an economic boom lasting a whole generation in a millennium Golden Age. According to high tech astrologers and scientific gurus, the last time the planets aligned as they did in January 2000 and the months that followed, was during the reign of Thuthmosis III, the Pharaoh under which the Egyptian civilization experienced its height of glory.

There may be golden ages, but there are no ordinary moments according to a philosopher of the Socratic School. Every moment counts and is important. Live in the moment; focus on what is happening now. Don't plan details too far in advance and thereby limit the manner in which the good you desire materializes in your life.

Remember the saying, “People plan, God laughs”. Leave space in your plans for the Universal order of Spirit to manifest. Although we should plan only for the short term, as Magicians, we can predict what the future will bring if the present events run their full course. Yet we can change a potential outcome by transforming our thoughts and actions to affect a different future possibility. We cannot change some events such as the track of a predicted hurricane, for example. However, even in this instance, we can change our thought, attitude, and reaction to it. We can let our fear paralyze us, we can prepare for it, or we can move out of its path. Hence, no future prediction is "cast in stone". There is always the variable of freewill and the possibility for change in harmony with Divine Order.

While retaining our traditional trust in God's Universal plan, we need to develop a new belief for this dawning millennium, which is a faith in ourselves in tune with the guidance of Spirit. The greatest challenge we face at this time is one of opening ourselves to new realities; owning, controlling, and focusing the enormous unlimited, creative, nuclear power of thought within each of us. Are we willing to take the necessary risks? Do we have the courage to venture into new galaxies of space and time? However, the central problem for humanity remains the right application of technology. Are we using thought to invent new bombs or to invent new medicine? To conquer other parts of the world or outer space? To teach people or to destroy people?

Are we using the Internet to bridge gaps, to read divination cards, and to bring the peoples of the world closer together? On the other hand, are we showing children how to assemble a nuclear device? Therein resides our challenge.

The challenges that face us at the dawning of this new millennium are mirrored in the planetoid of magic, Chiron, seen by some as the death star, which was conjunct to the transforming avatar Pluto in Sagittarius. Chiron & Pluto started the journey jointly in Sagittarius at the same spot in 1999/2000 while this hand book was designed and texted. These two heavenly bodies were also conjunct, but in the sign of Leo, during 1941 when the United States entered into war with Japan.

In 2010, in the constellation of Aquarius, Chiron will conjoin Neptune, a cosmic channel of spirituality. Chiron and Neptune last conjoined in Virgo when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan in 1945 with devastating results. The influence of Chiron can heal or wound; teach to transform and produce magic or instruct for demolition and effect death. In the Aquarian Age of the World Wide Web, we can, for example, either disseminate ideas for spiritual growth or provide the plans for constructing nuclear bombs. Chiron is thus the planetoid to track, while the choices for right action are ours.

Dawn of  A New Age

Believe it or not, but we are actually moving toward a Golden Age, a time of ascension, but not everyone wants it. We may have to fight for the better world we desire. The struggle will be within the mind, heart, and spirit of each individual. This battle has already begun and is a secret spiritual conflict; an informational warfare of ideas and thoughts. Indeed, it is the realm of High Magic. The ultimate outcome will be according to Universal Order, for Spirit always guides High Magic.

Although the High Magic of astrology appears not to be as precise as the science of astronomy, its foundation is firmly based on intuition and the understanding of cosmic law, or balance. Aided by inspiration, astrology works with the universal languages of art and metaphor by comparing such apparently unrelated things as stars and humans.

However, the magical reality of quantum physics reveals that stars and humans are indeed interconnected. The ancient truth “as above - so below” encourages us to discover what we need to know through reading "signs" in the heavens. Yet modern astrology is not about what must be; it is about what we can do - a vastly different understanding of this ancient art. The divine rights of free will and choice reign supreme in the art of modern astrology, just as they do in the technology of science.

The "signs" in the heavens report that Pluto (the powerful ruler of death, transformation and rebirth) entered the centaur constellation of Sagittarius (the seeker of truth) in 1995 and will spend years in this sign of religion, law and order, morality, spirituality, publishing, higher learning, and freedom. Chiron (the ruler of Magic) has now joined Pluto in Sagittarius. Their meeting, conjunct to an arc-minute on the night of January 1, 2000, manifested the "millennium signature" which signified the healing of humanity's wounded power and pride as well as the regeneration of our knowledge, science, technology; and, last but not least, our spiritual faith in ourselves, our Cosmic origin, and in the Universe itself.

Chiron joined Pluto in the 12th Sagittarius degree of the Sabian symbol with its keyword of "adjustment" and the reading, "A flag that turns into an Eagle." May the eagle fly and turn into a "Chanticleer," a rooster, saluting the dawn of this new age, for the millennium was birthed with this signature. In 1953, Marc Edmund Jones interpreted the meaning of the 12th degree Sagittarius Sabian as "a symbol of balance which every individual must maintain between the established allegiances which create the substance of his conscious selfhood and be idealized ambitions by which he is self-sustained as an identity in his own right." In other words, the individual must maintain successful self-establishment through genuine self-expression.

The above interpretation suggests that we all, as human beings of the new millennium, must present our own version of ourselves; particularly our spiritual nature if we are to have character. Yet our personality ought not to conflict with whatever is necessary to survive, physically and spiritually. Actualizing our spiritual nature must not result in physical death, nor should physical survival compromise our spirituality.

Spiritual understanding is revealed and refined through the tireless struggles of the individual with the situations presented moment-by-moment within the space-time experience. During this dawning millennium, the individual will explore new ways of seeing the face of God. The flag that becomes an eagle in the Sabian symbol suggests new forms of relating to the sacred in the Aquarian Age Universe.

Lined up directly with Earth, Chiron (symbol of the Magician, astrologer, and shaman), joining with Pluto (icon of wealth, nuclear power, and transformation), is here to teach us a new holistic worldview. Together in the sign of Sagittarius, these two planets mirror a new spirituality and creative methods for integrating teaching and learning, psychology, astrology, sociology, quantum physics, cosmology, and High Magic; new professors teaching at universities with an innovative curriculum designed for holistic learning.

The content of the Atlantis Oracle and the new card deck are but one manifestation of what will eventually become a movement of integrated understanding of a better world.

In essence, Chiron is ushering in a paradigm suggesting to all of us how we must change in this new millennium. In birth charts, Chiron shows where we need to claim responsibility for transformation. In a few years, when Chiron moves into Aquarius, this vibration will help us evaluate and restructure our treatment of each other on a universal scale. In 2010, when Chiron conjuncts Neptune, planet of spirituality, the doors of perception will open for all of us. I predict that by then, the new drug of choice will be a humanitarian and holistic high - legal, democratic, and free. Faith will replace the fragmentation of Tower of Babel knowledge. There is a potential for false spirituality, false gods, shadow light, and a misguided or very deceptive one-world religion: Beware of this future!

I feel that all of these changes will lead to a deeper trusting of ourselves –faith in our own link with Spirit, the non or un-manifest, God, the Universe, or Cosmos – as opposed to a reliance on what priests, rabbis, or muezzins tell us in schools or places of worship. The individual human heart in tune with Spirit will replace organized religions with their structured dogmas. We will seek others who think as we do and form teams, communities, corporations, and movements with a common goal.

We will take steps to heal individual and group power on this planet, preparing to take our place as responsible members of this interplanetary and intergalactic society; and we will live according to an ancient law, that is expressed quite simply as “HARM NONE!”

Since the Godhead is everywhere, you are a part – an emanation - of Him. Your body is your temple, or the vessel of your soul, the who you are, who you were and who you will be, all in one. Your body includes the Universe of stars that appear out there: As above - so below.

You do not need ten new commandments or a salaried “preacher.” Perhaps you need only one commandment, and that is, “Live in the moment in tune with the Spirit!” On the other hand, maybe you need one hundred commandments - those you make up for yourself. As long as you respect other peoples' beliefs, you are on the right track. On the other hand, we will see in the book “Passage To Peace” why ‘beliefs’ as such are also a curse, although they form the map to destiny.

Let go of the old; discover your own path. Follow your own intuition, but be spiritually humble, tolerant, loving, and understanding of others. It does not matter where you go to “worship” as long as you mean what you pray inside your own building - your body, heart, and mind. If your will and thoughts are in perfect cosmic alignment with God's and the Universal Order, Magic will happen - your will and His will be One - you, your life, and the world will transform. You were born to transform yourself and to change the world with it. This book of highest magic will teach you how to achieve this. Studying and applying this knowing will take you time; so sit back and enjoy the process as you take it in…

According to an ancient Chinese proverb, it is wise to call things by their proper names. It is also prudent to define the exact meaning of concepts that may have various definitions and connotations in other cultures or ‘belief systems’. Therefore, some important key terms used in this text are defined here to reveal the author's intended meanings for a better understanding of this divination hand book.

High Magic: The art of causing change or transformation in the manifest world of the universe through the un-manifest, by the use of thought and in accordance with the higher will and divine order. High Magic causes the unlikely or the improbable to occur, which is perceived by others as "luck" or "coincidence." High Magic is demonstrated by synchronicity, which means the co- incidence of meaningful events of importance with no distinguishable causal connection, according to psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. High Magic is consciously intended. It is an art, neither “good” nor "bad;” neither "Black Magic" nor "White Magic." In this book, the word "Magic” refers to High Magic as defined above. A "Magician” is a human being who practices High Magic.

Destiny: Fulfillment of the highest potential of a human being, given by the un-manifest at birth. To follow it requires being all one can be. To achieve that, destiny demands full actualization and complete appliance of all the talents or abilities given at birth. Destiny is "what is meant to be," quite to the contrary of fate or fatality. There are many fates – an array of infinite possibilities - but only one of them is destiny, which is the best, or optimal, of all the possible fates.

Fate: A series of events, thoughts, and actions that form the pattern of a life. Fate is often confused with destiny or used in the narrow context of death and dying or other events usually perceived as negative. What we actually do with our life, as opposed to what we could do with it, is our fate, whereas the highest potential of what we could do is our destiny.

Oracle: (1) Either obscure utterance or the authoritative, influential pronouncement given by a Magician or high priest as a response from the un-manifest to an inquiry; (2) scriptures, divine communication, revelation, or prophecy; (3) a person serving as a medium giving the response, or "divination;" (4) an utterance made or received as authoritative, wise, inspired, and spiritual; or, the highly esteemed, the ultimate and extremely consequential and influential, or portentous pronouncement. A divination is a type of oracle.

Space-Time: The four-dimensional continuum consisting of the three spatial (height, width, depth) and one temporal (time) coordinates in which all physical and measurable quantities can be located by the extension of the physical reality (model) existing within this continuum. Space can also be time when used in a term such as "in the space of four hours." Space-time is another term for the visible cosmos, or manifested universe.

Astrology: The clock of destiny; the study of the art and science of the stars in synchronicity with human experience, for space-time is harnessed by the stars.

Un-manifest: (1) The formless foundation and source of all existence - God or Spirit, Universe or Cosmos - unknowable within the space-time continuum; (2) the non measurable entity beyond perception within the higher self, or the higher, or pure will.

Spirit: (1) That which mediates between body and soul; the spiritual component of a human being that separates from the body at death; (2) the divine influence animating and inspiring a human being; the usage of “spirit" represents the opposite of "ego," not from a judgmental position, but to signify the higher, or true, self; (3) a supernatural being.

Ego: The "lower" self as perceivable, constituting a human being, including body, mind, thought, memory, senses, feeling, emotion, sensation, and identity. The true, or "higher," self (as opposed to the lower self) can be perceived only indirectly by the positive influence it exerts on the lower self. The higher self is the "real" center of awareness in a human being. This true self, having its essence in Spirit, is the gateway by which a Magician accesses the non manifest.

Universal / Cosmic Law: The harmonious evolution of space-time, its progress, and purpose. All of creation, including the smallest cell, has its purpose in the unfolding of cosmic law. By the use of free will, it is possible for a human being to oppose cosmic law for a brief period of space-time. However, universal law functions as a power to balance human discord. The balancing of cosmic law appears as a ledger in the Akashic records of space-time, wherein is written the purpose of evolution, or human destiny.

Magic Circle: The defining limit or boundary of a person, thing, thought, or place – dividing it from everything else to establish its identity and sphere of influence. Even a name can be considered a magic circle. Circles as used in rituals of magic are symbolic extensions of this definition. A gesture is enough to cast a magic circle and project the power of thought. For example, a forefinger extended as a sword's laser beam with the intent to cut through a point or the extended palm of the hand raised in a circle to establish a shield for protection. Although quantum physics might dismiss the magic circle as merely thought, it is, nonetheless, a most powerful tool of the Magician.

Magician: A human being who uses High Magic to fulfill his and others' destiny in accordance with Cosmic Law. A Magician is a living medium or conduit through which the light of Spirit, or the non manifest, expresses itself in the space-time world of form. A Magician could also be defined as someone who knows his or her destiny and live, or acts to fulfill it.

Manifest: The universe of form, or that which is perceivable in space-time, including thoughts and dreams. Anything that can be named, thought, sensed, or seen is part of the manifest, as opposed to the un-manifest (as defined above).

Divination: The practice of foreseeing or foretelling events and of discovering seemingly hidden meaning or knowledge, by way of High Magic. Divination is the intuitive perception and instinctive foresight of an event, situation, circumstance, action, or thought of someone else. Ultimately, divination flows from an inherent understanding of cosmic law. In addition to intuitively accessing present and future events, divination is effective for seeing into the past and revealing previously hidden events in their context. Divination transcends time in its moment-by-moment ability to focus within what is perceived as the past, present, or future.

This electronic hand book is designer science for the mind, or High Magic, to use the term we just defined. Clients encouraged me to describe what I have experienced and asked me to explain what I know to be true. Here, in a "nutshell," is the theory behind what I call The New Millennium Designer High Magic.

Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity in essence postulated that time and large bodies of mass, such as stars, distort space. Only in the last few years have state-of-the-art and cutting edge designer propositions been made in the domain of quantum physics and cosmology that can be seen probing the underpinning of the principles of High Magic. This is the domain of the vortex theory.

Science has long ridiculed the art of magic and its basic underlying laws. High Magic will triumph over simple science. However, with the rise of such brilliant and celebrated men as Carl Gustav Jung, Carl Sagan, Joseph Campbell, Stephen Hawking, and physicist John Wheeler, we have entered a revolutionary and expanding zeitgeist similar to the time of Galileo and Newton, an era that seems like the Dark Ages to Aquarius Age Magicians. Welcome to the theory of millennial designer magic – the vortex and his master – in which realm the line of demarcation between science and magic becomes obscure, or non existent.

Do you remember the Uncertainty Principle, which not only states but also necessitates that it is impossible to predict both the position and motion of a particle? (We will discuss this later.) Electrons, we now know, tunnel their way through both space and time while appearing to leap "magically" from points A to Z without ever travelling between these two positions. I call that designer High Magic.

Today, physicists seriously speculate that by hurling yourself through the abyss of a black hole (were this humanly possible), you may also travel through time. The vortex theory that was presented in 2003 stipulates – and I predicted it in 1998 – that we will discard practically all known sciences, since the notions of time, space, motion, energy, light, sound, matter, and dark matter, and all that connects these dots will be totally redefined, thus science as such will be rewritten very shortly when my new cosmology will be validated.

Very radical experimenters have indeed designed the first time machines. Once we can muster enough energy, we may then actually do this ultimate act of High Magic - the conquering of both time and space. Concerning another interesting scientific theory, that of “cause and effect,” Sir Isaac Newton said that if the initial position of everything in the universe were known, we could then calculate all subsequent events. Today, quantum physicists and chaos theory have proven, quite to the contrary, that even when all causes are known in advance, it remains forever impossible to determine, predict, or foresee all the effects. Which theory is true? What do you feel? Who is to know the truth?

The universe, self organizing breathing entity, which is a single song or one verse, is inherently a gigantic uncertainty. Indeed, it now seems the outcome of this inter-galactic uncertainty may be conditioned by the mind of the beholder. Ultimately, the modern "magic" of science may simply state that we do not observe "reality" as passive spectators, but rather, co-create it moment by moment with the universe as our participant in this great game of designer High Magic.

Because of the obvious dearth of material proof, so-called "mainstream science" denies this co-creation of reality as fiercely as the Inquisition negated Christopher Columbus's right to go and find out if the Earth was indeed a sphere. In the same manner as Columbus, I have checked and found out that High Magic exists. You can make the same discovery. All you need is a little faith and you will see it when you believe it, but not vice-versa. This is the threshold of a new age. It is the time to test the “occult” and see if designer divination, hidden from the view of the unaware, really works.

In the introduction to his book, New Millennium Magic, theoretical magician Donald Tyson wrote that the purpose of the universe might very well be the evolution of intelligent beings capable of observing this universe. In other words, the Magicians. Scientists are discovering that the universe is essentially and inherently "unknowable," for nothing is determinable with absolute certainty. Some scientists now accept what appears to be a form of "High Magic" as a final portal to understanding. By speculating about matters that seem "magical" - such as the fact that reality as we know it is conditioned by our perception, yet everything is uncertain and nothing is predictable - scientists risk their livelihood, reputation, and ultimately their sanity if they attempt to remain within the realm of mainstream thought.

Trying to measure the un-measurable or un-manifest is absurd. A magician may muse about such subjects, but he is regarded by most of society as a "lunatic" anyway. As independent thinkers, magicians are leaders rather than followers; somewhat like generals without armies or teachers without schools. If you agree with this, in theory at the very least, you are encouraged to read on using your own thought process rather than conventional "scientific" thinking.

Acknowledging the subjective and uncertain nature of what we observe, our "reality," is anathema to conventional thinking, while "believing in order to see" is a fundamental principle of High Magic. One reason we have progressed so far in our thinking, so that we can now consider what we formerly thought was absurd, is the fact that we have just about "out-thought" traditional science, or the reality models as we previously knew them.

We have now reached the outer limits with the Relativity Theory, Uncertainty Principle, quantum mechanics, multidimensional geometry, and super-string theories put forth by Bell, Einstein, Heisenberg, Wheeler, Sagan, Hawking, and others. We have gone beyond the pale and across the abyss. The smartest minds in cosmology and mathematics are now forced to journey into the realm of the formless and un-proven, the world of pure thought, which may seem to them an alien and moral wasteland - the dark side of the moon. Nevertheless, to the Magician it is paradise - the domain of High Magic.

In order to enter this realm of the formless and go beyond what we now know, we must be willing, as Edgar Allen Poe once envisioned, to dream the dream no ordinary man has ever dared to dream. As he wrote in a famous poem, "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” We must be willing, as the theoretical magician, Donald Tyson, suggests, "to think magic thoughts and dream magic dreams." We will then be freed from our prison of conditioned thought and experience. It is one thing to think magic thoughts on the level of a theoretical magician or write about them as a scholar magician of the stature of the late AI Crowley; but it is something else altogether to elaborate a theory that actually works in daily practice – to create applied High Magic.

Were I living in the 12th Century (and certainly I was), I might have been burned at the stake for my beliefs, unless I was the Commander of the Knights Templars’ last bastion. Yet miracles, magic, mystery, and madness are always closely enmeshed in the fine line that is soon erased between science and mysticism.

Moses cast down his rod before the Pharaoh and it became a serpent. That act was accepted as a miracle. He parted the Red Sea. That was also considered a miracle, just as was Jesus walking on water. However, an Egyptian Hierophant, or high priest, performing supernatural feats is condemned for practicing wizardry, sorcery, blasphemy, or magic. Interestingly, the oriental root of the word "magician" - "magus" - actually means “priest or wise man.” In today's terminology, he would be considered a philosopher or leader of men.

As W. Somerset Maugham wrote in The Razor's Edge, "Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy."

That too is the consequence of high magicians and our applied theories. The boon of applied High Magic is that it enables us to tap into the boundless universe of spirit and gives a sense of purpose to an otherwise seemingly hopeless existence. The powerful archetypes harnessed by High Magic can be seen as emanations of the Divine, forming a link with the sacred. Our destiny is to make quantum leaps into the non manifest, beyond space and time, towards the Godhead.

Although traditional science and both magic and miracles appear forever irreconcilable, applied designer magic uses a variation of the systematic experimental approach fundamental to science, as the cutting edge of quantum physics partakes of the freedom inherent in High Magic.