That's not magic.  Those are miracles done through the power of God.
Quite a different thing.

Not really.  And this is what I like about Mage.  It's all in how you choose
to percieve reality.  I could believe that this message is really being
written by very tiny electric spirits and then whisked away to be
distributed by more elcetric spirits.  Or I could believe that it is being
transfered into "1"s and "0"s and then sent off along a huge network of
phonelines.  Or maybe we all _ARE_ the computers and this is how we
communicate, and what ever else we do during the day isn't real.  Are any of
those wrong?  No, just lesser degrees of right.  Some of these may not
coincede with what you or I percieve reality to be, but that doesn't make
them wrong.

Um, well...maybe not.  Man doesn't have the power within himself to cast
'magic spells'.  So, if miracles are by the power of God, take a quick
guess at where magic comes from.  ;)

Clarke's law: Any Technology, sufficently advanced, is indistiguishable from
Magick.  Magick is still here, we just choose not to see it.  If you want to
see magick, watch children play.  Watch their eyes when they play video
games.  They aren't sitting there controling the characters, they _ARE_ the
characters.  Man does have the power to make magick, he just loses it over
time, as he becomes more and more jaded.

There is a prayer in the book that I read every Friday night for the
Sabbath.  "Watch with a child's eye, and be amazed."  (I'm not Jewish.  I'm
Reformed Jewish.)

JD
Paladin of The Holy Pair
Verbena Mage
No-Brand Hero
Homepage <http://rvcc.raritanval.edu/~jfarber/>

Life is a disease: Sexually transmitted and always fatal.
But that doesn't mean that you can't enjoy it!
	-Death, 'Death Talks about Life'