<Dons robes, and pulls thick tome off shelf>

"Ahem: 'DO AS THOU WILT SHALT BE THE WHOLE OF THE LAW'.

"This is the _MOST_ important law of magick, and was laid down by 
Aleister Crowley. Yes, he was an idiot, an alcoholic and a drug addict, 
but he was a magickal genius. The point I am trying to make here is that 
Magick is the art of changing the world according to your will.
"By transmitting this message, I am performing an act of magick. The 
world is being changed by this information turning up in a lot of 
people's inboxes.
"But magick is more complex. Another act of will could be the production 
of gold chloride. For that, I will need-"<pulls out a phial of powdered 
gold and a bottle> "_some gold and some concentrated hydrochloric acid. 
Now, I pour some acid into this beaker-" *glupglupglup* "- and add the 
gold." *fizzz*
"This process required not only my will, but three things: The elements 
of the process, by which I mean the acid and the gold, and a motive 
force to start it all off- in this case, Money. These things aren't 
cheap.
"So: If I, say, wanted to throw  fire at someone, I could buy or make a 
flamethrower. Or, I could persuade the Nitrogen in the air to ignite 
along the path of a catalyst that is already there.
"BUT: Magick is seldom spectacular because it seldom needs to be. I 
could just will a person's heart to stop. Elements: Person and cricket 
ball. Motive force: my hand." <Throws ball at passing guy. Ball hits guy 
in chest and guy collapses.> "I hit him at just the right time. All I 
had to do was hit him at the right time to screw up the electrical 
pattern in his heart.
"I daresay Sailor Mars, for example, has never heard of these. But I 
would dearly love to know what the motive force and elements behind her 
firethrowing attacks are.
"This concludes my sermon for today."

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