In this world, what defines one entity from another. Nothing but the fact that the entity is "defined" by definition. When you recognize something, you recognize it by the belief that you have in your mind about it. It is not hard to see. When you see water, you define it as water because it has a specific set of traits and has been defined as "water" in the most litteral way possible. Water knows its purpose and it always acts the same way because it is a static force in the universe, there are dynamic forces that seem to impose their will and bend or shape the way things turn out. You could say that combined, these dynamic and static wills create the true will or destiny of the universe. Now every will, static or dynamic has power. This power is what makes us move, some would call it kenetic energy, others chi or any number of other names, for simplicity sake, I will use the word energy because it seems the closest to the actual feel of this power. Water's energy is all devoted to following a set of laws that, as far as humankind has found, are impossible to break without changing the form of water. This is the way of static wills. Their will is to do as they do, as they have always done, and as they always will. They know their part in destiny and follow it. This is what makes them powerful. The dynamic energy is formed to a dynamic will, this will often times seems weaker or divided. This is because they often times do not know their destiny or how it will play out. They just do. When you truely start realizing why you do, then you understand what your true purpose is. Magic (or magik) as defined in the hermetic arts and demonological sectors of belief is using ones will to either impose a task or duty upon another entity or using ones will to do a task. It has been said that even a sneeze is a magical act because it is a willful act. Waking up every morning is an act of magic, as are dreams(as an act of our subconsious will), as is everything we do to try and enforce our will and our purpose on the world around us. It is my belief that if we study and meditate on these ideas and what our purpose is in the universe I think that we can further ourselfs to the point of doing superhuman things. I feel this is a part of my destiny and a part of the will that I have found in me. I feel that I have been one that is suppose to speak out with these ideas so that others may hear them.

There are two parts to understanding and pushing towards superhuman power and what I call exterior magical acts(or "unheard of" magical acts). These two parts are understanding your will (which is synonomous with understanding your purpose) and understanding your power. The simplest way to start to understand these concepts is through understanding your feelings and actions (which I will explain in a moment) and understanding your power in terms of your body and how you control it. The first of the two is understanding your actions and thereby understanding your feelings about what you do and why you feel that way. The understanding I have gained about emotions is we feel the way we feel because of how closely we are following our will and purpose (or our understood purpose). You could also say just as easily that we are creating our will and purpose by our feelings but it makes no difference which is which. Does the bee use the flower to get food and survive or does the flower use the bee to propegate? It doesn't matter, I digress. So when you do a willful act, you have a feeling about that willful act. Emotion is your position towards that action or willful act that has just taken place. By understanding your emotions and what you do and don't like you will start to really understand why you do the things you don't like (black magic) and why you do the things you do like (white magic). This is the easiest way to strengthen your magic because as you define your purpose you can more focus more on your actions towards that purpose. Each time you do an action if you understand more deeply what your true purpose is you can do actions far beyond your ability to create the disired effect in order to further the purpose you have found.

Now on to understanding the two parts of a willful act. The will and the energy. We will start with the energy because the will has been explained in vague detail but I have touched only a little on the energy of ourselves which is key to understanding the energy of anything else. Inside each of us there is a well or possibly a spring of energy. You can look at it any way you would like because each person's energy structure is different because their purpose is different. This is where people are said to have an "affinity" to a certain element, its because you prefer to view your energy in that way. If another person understands the way you are viewing your energy and imposes their will with its opposite affinity it usually creates the desired effect of doing more. Say if someone with a fire affinity is starting to get angry about the actions that are being taken around him and you need him to wait, you put your hand on his arm and run some flowing water energy into him from you and say, "Relax."

Now, thats a bit dramatic, but you get the idea. This same idea can be used while fighting and was by many martial arts schools, especially Kung Fu. You take your energy and either use an animal or element to fight with. The way I find best to test your own affinity is to meditate, try to feel what you have inside you. Where is your core, why is it there? I can't tell you these things, but you already know them and if I see you(or hear you, or feel you) I may be able to, with what I know of you understand what your affinity is and possibly what your energy structure is.

An energy structure is the way you get and release or use energy. A tree's energy structure is different than a human's and one human's energy structure is slightly different from another humans. You can make generalizations and catigorize human energy structures because there is such a different variety of them. No two are going to be the same but as humans and everything else naturally does, things of the same gather together. Also try to understand your energy structure. How you get energy and how you use it defines how you do things, how you use it defines what you can do. If you can think of a way to use energy in a different manner than anyone else because of how your energy structure and affinity mix it makes it so that you can do something that is very hard for someone else to do. Now anyone with any affinity can use other types of energy as well. They may or may not be able to use them better, it all depends on the structure and what they have meditated on and thought of. If you have something like a fireball thought out better than another person and understand how it fits your purpose better than they understand how it fits theirs you will be able to make a better fireball.

So you may or may not be thinking that the only reason to even have a defined energy structure is because you want to. This is true but that is where we come to the will aspect of the equasion. If you have a more defined will, your choices will be more defined because instead of asking an entity to do something, you just know it is going to do it. If you don't know that the choice you made is going to happen, its no longer a choice, its a question, "Will you do this for me?"

I digress, the point that is being made is that if you have a more defined energy structure, you will make more defined choices and therefor be able to do greater and greater things. The easiest way to define anything as science has shown is to classify it generally and then focus it down until it is completely different than anything else. So to understand yourself more completely you should understand the things you have in common with others and generally classify and then go down until you have your true name. Now your true name is a powerful thing for most beings, because if you know a true name you know truely what something is, so most times you can hold a sort of blackmail, but I digress again. Understanding your true name may be a part to understanding and using your power, that is for you to know, but as far as I have learned, it is the most important thing to doing any magical act. As you're reading this you are understanding that not everyone is a "mage" or even a supernatural creature, if the energy within you is purely banal or does not need or want to step beyond the natural level you are at then you are a part of the majority. I would just ask you to open your mind to the ideas of this magic because of the fact that your banal energy imposes a damper on my endevors. I think everyone wants to see awesome and amazing things, but by holding on to this world and not beleiving in any of it we stop that very thing from happening. Now you may say to me that this is part of my will and destiny to push and struggle against you and this is why I only ask. I understand that there will always be a yin to yang, but remember, yin is in yang and yang is in yin.

So how is reality and how are entities defined? They are defined by themselves, by being. Understand that being is a willful act in its self and that by being you are a powerful creature.