#LawsofMagic The Law of Self-Knowledge: 
The most important kind of magical knowledge is about oneself; familiarity with one’s own strengths and weaknesses is vital to success as a magician.
Key concept: “Know thyself.”

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The Law of Synchronicity con't:

Key concept: “Coincidence is seldom mere"

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#LawsofMagic The Law of Cause & Effect: If exactly the same actions are done under exactly the same conditions, they will usually be associated with exactly the same “results;” similar strings of events produce similar outcomes.
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Today's #LawsofMagic: Law of Knowledge
Understanding brings control; the more that is known about a subject, the easier it is to exercise control over it.
“Knowledge is power.”
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#LawsofMagic The Law of Synchronicity:
Two or more events happening at the same time are likely to have more associations in common than the merely temporal; very few events ever really happen in isolation from nearby events.
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#LawsofMagic: The Law of Association
If any two or more patterns have elements in common, the patterns interact “through” those common elements, and...

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#LawsofMagic: The Law of Pragmatism:
If a pattern of belief or behavior enables a being to survive and to accomplish chosen goals, than that belief or behavior is “true” or “real” or “sensible” on whatever levels of reality are involved.
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#LawsofMagic: The Law of Pragmatism keywords:
If it works, it's true.

Phaedra's corollary: If it doesn't work or doesn't work well, why do you keep doing it?

Credit to Isaac Bonewits c1979, 1989, 2001
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"The #LawsofMagic are not legislative laws but like those of physics... are practical observations that have been accumulating over the course of thousands of years, with remarkable similarity in almost every known human culture." Isaac Bonewits, 1979
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#LawsofMagic  The Law of Cause & Effect key concept: Control every variable and you control every change (lotsa luck with that!)

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