"high magick"
is the term that aristocratic literati use to describe what they do when they play at ceremony
as opposed to "low magick" that is practiced by those who are colonized.

The sacrifice and offering of blood appeases merely Genetic Atavisms of Carnivorous-Us-In-Past-Forms.
(Never forget, dude, you used to be a DINOSAUR!)

People of varying caliburs of magick exist in all fields
practicing all techniques
with varying degrees of finesse.

Does a man with the slickest of tongues,
evoker of memorable tale tellings
and filler of senses, with words

not work a magick?

(as he walks away with your wallet in hand... disappearing it, to the eyes, with a flick, then, of the wrist?)

Does the teacher not work their magick, stilling a class of restless children and priming them with information?

Do you work no magick as you orchestrate the typing of your fingers, calling from the "Well" of memory symbol sets which make words, so you can share experiences with us?



"High" Magick:
Acts of Liberation;
Unshackling, and ever extending the limits.

"Low" Magick:
Using that same liberation in Malkuth.
Manifestation and Sorcery.

Shamanism and its ceremonies typically revolve around healing - the great convincing of freedom to comfort - and therefor, "High" Magick, by the classical definition.

Which magickian has greater powers?

Magickian L, who, in smoke filled chambers, exhausts their vocabulary of archaic names, glimpsing fantastic colour and form in the field of their imagination behind their eyes, hearing disembodied voices, and then, ritual finished, goes back to their job and daily life, lesson learned, if not continuously applied?

OR

Magickian R who has un-erringly good "luck" in matters of transportation, who arrives to purchase a particular item only to find it on sale, with a complementary bottle of water accompanying it, and, en route to their destination, after spreading some of their abundance to a pan-handler who happened to share a particularly inspiring story, meets with a friend they'd intended to speak with a few days earlier, and forgotten until just this convenient moment; oh, fantastic, they *do* have that information R'd sought...



What would you, with all your justification, seek to accomplish IN YOUR LIFE,
WITH YOUR HUMAN BODY
Oh Domesticated Primate?

And piss on the confines what keep Magick the stuff OTHER PEOPLE wrote.

It's *all* Magick, dude, ALL OF IT.

And last I checked, off of the planet (immersed within so-called "Chaos" [*licks*]), all direction becomes relative.
So, "High" as compared to *what* specifically?

or, as I believe Pope Pete said (in one of his books, its around here somewhere, I am just being too lazy to quote it directly) that real high magick is beyond all of those things. High magic is magic without form or action. The "empty handed gesture" as it were, where by thier vary nature, that sorcerer reshapes reality to his will, by his Will and naught else.

So, No one I have met, shaman or golden dawn, OTO or Gardenerian truly practices "HIgh Magic"

Many thanks to Arun and HermeticBear who refreshed my memory,
My initial response seems... somewhat oblivious to the, now, blatancy of the High Magick;

Lightwork.

Yes, the Shamans weave lattices well, so well, so well. Shh shh sh
The plant helps facilitate reception and awareness on the part of the subject.