What is Magic?

[Ankh]

I have seen quite a bit in the Ra material about magic and magical, but I would like a simple explanation of what "magic" means in this context. I am NOT talking about the Tarot card, the Magician.

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Getting back to my first question, can anyone explain - in very simple terminology - what Ra might mean by "magic"?

You've had some very good answers to these questions in this thread. One that was missed is:

Magical ability is the ability to consciously use the so-called unconscious.

...However, now that I've mentioned the Tarot, a second question would be why does Ra speak so much about the Tarot and the cards in it. Is it perhaps because Carla and her group are especially interested in this "distortion"?

To me Tarot and Astrology have meaning perhaps because there are so many thought forms built up around them in the mass consciousness. ...

Tarot was a method that L/L Research group chose to study to understand the Archetypical mind which is:

The archetypical mind may be defined as that mind which is peculiar to the Logos of this planetary sphere. Thusly unlike the great cosmic all-mind, it contains the material which it pleased the Logos to offer as refinements to the great cosmic beingness. The archetypical mind, then, is that which contains all facets which may affect mind or experience.

To study the Archetypical mind is a work of an adept (or magician?). And Ra offered the group to choose one method of this study. L/L Research group chose Tarot as the method of the study of Archetypical mind.