Alright, so I've reduced my magical practice to two intents...

[Horuseus]

Why are these 'spells' necessary? Seems a contradiction to the notion of acceptance.

They are not but so isn't a furnished home, running water nor electricity. These all came as innovations that have great use and novelty that can add to our experience. Whether they become dependencies is our choice.

Yes but those 'dependencies' mentioned are tangible 3D constructs we use as a placeholder for the belief in water/electricity. In other words, while at some higher level we may be able to spontaneously form water out of nothingness, as it were, we have certain agreed upon rules and parameters of the game in 3D which prevent us from doing so.

I'm not saying there's anything 'wrong' with using such mantras as affirmations, as it were, but rather in this case those are facets that naturally come about after balancing, and so should not need reinforcement in the form of words which actually don't do anything on their own really (Unless you believe that it does, in which case why not go direct).