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//Jacob left Beersheba, and went toward Haran. He came to the place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! And behold, the LORD stood above it and said, "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your descendants; and your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and by you and your descendants shall all the families of the earth bless themselves. Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done that of which I have spoken to you." Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the LORD is in this place; and I did not know it." And he was afraid, and said, "This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."//
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//Jacob left Beersheba, and went toward Haran. He came to the place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! And behold, the LORD stood above it [or "beside him"] and said, "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your descendants; and your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and by you and your descendants shall all the families of the earth bless themselves. Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done that of which I have spoken to you." Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the LORD is in this place; and I did not know it." And he was afraid, and said, "This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."//
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//Jacob left Beersheba, and went toward Haran. He came to the place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed that there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! And behold, the LORD stood above it [or "beside him"] and said, "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your descendants; and your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and by you and your descendants shall all the families of the earth bless themselves. Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done that of which I have spoken to you." Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely the LORD is in this place; and I did not know it." And he was afraid, and said, "This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven."//
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====Magic====
Magic is dangerous. The merest mote of magical ability or experimentation opens the door to a world of hazards and risks most are not prepared to handle. That door is not easy to close. One cannot simply walk away from magic. Spirits and demons clamor at the gateway to the world of flesh the magus represents. The unfathomable entities of nonbeing that reside within the Qlippoth hunger for the destructive potential of the magus in their quest to unmake the world. For this reason magic is hidden from the general public, only misleading and adulterated manuscripts managing to filter down into common knowledge. For mutual survival, magi have banded together into secret societies and policed their own ranks to prevent discovery of potentially catastrophic knowledge. All of this occurs under the direction of the surviving Grand Masters, magi who if the tales are to be believed have passed the test of the Dweller on the Threshold and seen the face of God.
===The Laws of Magic===
Magic is the act of imposing one's will upon reality. Even so, simple will is not enough to enact change. Reality has vectors upon which it is accustomed to force traveling. The most common of these are the physical laws which science is quite familiar. Correspondingly, magic has similar vectors upon which the application of will is most effective.
The first thing one must understand is that the world as it is perceived is actually the result of a waveform being winnowed down from its absolute origin at the Godhead down to the manageable and material creation that mortals reside in. In its journey to the material world, this emanation passes back and forth between two extremes, often likened to the two pillars of the Temple of Solomon. Rebounding between Jachin the Pillar of Mercy and Boaz the Pillar of Severity, its zig-zag path is known to magi as the "lightning flash." In the tension between these two opposites, the whole of the potential of reality is contained.
Magi take this tension within themselves as a means to working their will. In emulating the conflict and potential contained within this model of reality, they provide the medium in which magic is possible. Each magus embraces a paradox, be it the tension between life and death, masculinity and femininity, order and chaos, or many diverse others.
If paradox is the medium within which magi work, they still must be mindful of the vectors upon which will is applied. Just as pushing a boulder up a hill is difficult, reality balks when it is forced in unaccustomed directions. The Laws of Sympathy represent the corpus of what magi have discovered of how to grease the wheels a bit.
- **The Law of Contagion** is the first and simplest Law of Sympathy. It represents the enacting of will upon physical vectors, albeit ones a bit more abstract than mundane science deals in. The Law of Contagion states that even after separation from the whole, portions of an object still have ties to the whole along which magical effects may travel. The most classic application of this law is the common "Voodoo Doll," an effigy made from the clothes or hair of an individual which allows a magus to work magic upon the subject from a distance.
- **The Law of Similarity** is the second Law of Sympathy and represents further abstraction upon the concept. It deals in symbols rather than physical traces, such as the symbolic connection between the metal gold and the sun, or silver and the moon. A complex system of occult correspondences has grown up around the application of the second law, incorporating astrology, metallurgy, and ritualized dramaturgy. Magi will often incorporate extensive costuming, timing of rituals to the day, hour, and minute to ensure maximum advantage.
- **The Law of Naming** is the third and highest Law of Sympathy. At its most abstract, this is magic worked at the level of linguistic correspondences. Just as Adam and Eve were given dominion over the inhabitants of the Garden of Eden by naming them, names carry power over the things they represent. Most magi are reluctant to give their full names, and even embellish them with titles to make them more difficult to divine. Knowing a being's true name grant's dangerous amounts of power over them, to the point of control or even destruction of the individual if properly applied.
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==Known Characters From This World==
- [[CallieCS Calypso Hecate Dranias]]
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