“The identity and actual powers of Magic, as such, have been at at least as gravely misunderstood as those of language. It is not now and never was the manipulation of forces or powers. It is not the production of miracles by the leveraging of knowledge against the invisible. What magic actually is, is the precursor of -explicit reference- (and thus, intelligence). And this can be described so simply that magicians will flee, and the religious who want to damn it will become confused. Magic is relational harmony.

Magic is co-developmental intimacy. A kind of divine agreement of souls, activities, and intentions (not as specified, but as discovered). The results are impossible, but only to the mind of representation and reference. The primary reason it is banned by religion is that religion is purposefully structured to produce minds in the image of its frozen structures, and this is the opposite of magic, which produces minds in the image of wonder, awe, learning, majesty, and divinity.

In other words: in the image of nature.

Magic is the original language. Language is what is left over, and it frames magic as the manipulation of power, forces or knowledge. This is actually the character of language, not magic. Language is the manipulation of tokens representing phenomenon and perspective. Magic has nothing to do with that. Magic is like kissing. And everything on earth knows this, except the humans who have this word.”

— an anonymous informant