What Does Magic Supply?

DEBORAH L. SCHEETZ

Magic is trying to make a comeback. The overcrowded occult section in bookstores tells the story. Reason, people are saying, has failed to come up with answers to suffering and lack.

Will mankind turn back the clock, descend to pagan rituals, in hopes of release from the fearful fantasies of the race's childhood? Can primitive superstition supply what intellect and technology have failed to supply?

The genuine Christian knows that magic is not an answer to anything. Though the various forms of magic—astrology, divination, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, voodoo, and so forth—are not technically the same, they have in common their dependence on the fallible human, or mortal, mind for their supposed power. The magician himself is the source of "power," and is himself the end to which the "power" is directed—an ultimately selfish state.

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