Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.
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Words were originally magic, and the word retains much of its old magical power even to-day. With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair; by words the teacher transfers his knowledge to the pupil; by words the speaker sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings.
The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.
Though impervious to the sacred, I loved magic. The cinema was a suspect appearance that I loved perversely for what it still lacked. That streaming was everything, it was nothing, it was everything reduced to nothing.
Words were originally magic, and the word retains much of its old magical power even to-day.
The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature – and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.