Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl00869)

On Wed, 15 May 1996, Jerry Schueler wrote:
>
> 	This is a different situation then blocking the aura itself.  Yes,
> you can set up a private "room" on the astral, that will keep others out.
> This is exactly what the Magic Circle is designed to do.  Also, many
> magicians create an entire room on the astral plane in which to work.
> They mentally create the room and its furnishings, perform banishing
> rituals to keep the unwanted out, and so on.  The mundane would say
> it is all just imagination.  The magician would counter that the imagination
> is itself a divine tool of magical creativity and, when used together with
> the will, is the real key to any magical success.

In fact, I remember reading somewhere that the ancient Akkadian word
"imga" turns out to be the root to *both* the word "magic" and "Imagination".
								-JRC