A long time ago an occultist wanted to learn how magic worked.
He looked at the magical systems from all over the world and assumed they all worked, then came to the conclusion that although they seemed to have nothing in common, they actually had one thing in common to all of them:
That commonality to every magical system throughout history was that the people who used them believed that they worked. He came to the conclusion that is magic was real than it operated on the basis of belief.
He conducted a thought experiment that went as follows:
- Imagine that there's a God, big G god, who is absolutely omnipotent.
- This God decides what reality is, and since his power is innate he can use it without realizing he has it, its unconscious and unintentional, it's active all the time, constantly warping and rewriting reality all in its own, whatever Gods mind can envision, his power makes real. Mental power over the material existence.
- So one of the first things God makes is another God, and now that there's two of them, reality is now the subject of a tug of war.
- Assuming for simplicity sake that both Gods are operating at full power in all things, when both Gods are in agreement reality changes in accordance with that agreement on what it should be.
- but when the Gods disagree on some matter there their minds are opposed, reality continues as it is, affected by either, because the power of the two are pulling in opposite directions and cancel one another out.
- when the mind of one God acts where another does not, the God who acts is pulling alone, and so gets his way due to there being no contestment. And of course we can pull back the simplification that they are operating at full power whenever they "tug", meaning the own who "tugs" the hardest tends to win out, as theirs is the strongest psychic force operating upon reality.
- okay, now we can imagine they make a third God, again we should highlight another simplification here that we are assuming all the Gods are identical and thus equal, which obviously would not be the case for long. Important to note that there are different levels of omnipotence which here corresponds to their capacity to tug upon the nature of existence with their minds. Some can produce more tugs of greater strength than others can.
- So now there's three Gods, Monad, Dyad, Triat. They all tug upon reality with their minds, their psychic forces becoming a net summation of force equation to decide whose wills gets to reshape reality. So now we have things like game theory and other strategic models at play here.
- Then there is a fifth, and a sixth, and a seventh, and each time all the Gods become less Godly with the addition of another. Their omnipotent power diminishes with every new addition that competes with their power over reality. And by the time they have a couple thousand Gods, there emerges a very stable unchanging reality that every individual God has little to no power over, although this is the reality that all the Gods had made together as a whole. Nobody can tell who the original God is because their power also was applied to themselves since they are also a parr of the reality they altered while remaining a part of it (which they'd have to do to affect it, how to move something you've never had anything to do with?).
- the point is, we are all omnipotent Gods, and its the presence of each other within the same reality that is preventing us from executing our full potential due to the psychic interference of other people.