Article: Mystic, Magic and Technique

Abstract

Magic and Mystic refer to something which are characterized by ubiquity, strangeness, and by the mysterious force it has on people and things; however magic and mystic choose opposite ways: mystic has a contemplative relation, not to say “poetic”, with “that” betting on the possibility of its interior experience; magic bets on the possibility of being able to manipulate the forces of this powerful and occult phenomenon for human purposes, through technique. The intimacy magic has with the manipulation of objects and processes and its curious belief in casualty while basic law and its rituals, it has made magic and not mystic to follow the first scientists by the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth century. The technical relation magic has with the Being is still moved by the mana, thus scientific mechanics will overcome magical mechanics. Mana dispensed scientifically caused magical forces to collapse. Many authors have interpreted this rationalization process as an irreversible one. And it is indeed. Because the way keeps on being opened forward and what brings us curious perspectives to date. Key-words: Mystic, Magic, Technique, Science