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A chat on 4chan
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So:
Most 'weekend witches' kind of people can't do magic just because they studied it because they studied some fake crap for a short bit, they treated it as a step-by-tep program rather than developed certain outlook, spiritual faculties, mental abilities, they were doing it for particular effects/achievements never caring what it'd take to get there.

People who can do shit either come from background where what they can do they shouldn't do and if they do anything it's in their best interest to keep it hidden. Magic isn't some fucking real life cheat code, it's expansion of your tool box - if you're a retard and don't know how and when to apply it, just want to 'magic it all good', you have wrong idea about magic.

Most traditions that seem sensible enough to get you anything are less of a set of lessons and more of a whole lifestyle to dedicate yourself to, usually for the sake of reaching spiritual rather than doing better in the mundane. I fact, supposedly since magic is in big part dependant on your mental process, thoughts and feelings anchored in material desires are what will fuck up your practice in many regards without you developing particular state of mind beforehand. Thus making majority of people treating magic as a way to do cool and profitabel shit - saborage their own chances from the get-go.
gpt
Pardon typos, multitasking and frankly I cannot be further arsed (because if OP would really care, he'd learn all this during his 25 hour study if what he studied wasn't some retarded roleplaying crap).