Magical Anubism
With Christmas and its famous Magic coming up, the Prophet would like to hold forth a little on Magic in general...
by The Prophet — 2026-01-15
1 Keeping wonder awake leads you to appreciate Magic.
2 As a boy the Prophet was already a right dickhead very curious, and he set about investigating magic, black magic and exorcisms in particular, in order to understand “something” we are told “does not exist”.
3 To talk a little about Magic, let us start from the beginning:
4 Once upon a time there was a human without any form of knowledge, and his almost total ignorance forced him to come up with various attempts to handle the wonder the unknown stirred in him, by developing religions and assorted “beliefs”.
5 Then, after Anubis took a trip to Greece, “Presocratic” philosophy was born “great”.
6 Philosophy (love of knowledge) gradually begins to set itself apart from myth, looking for rational explanations of reality.
7 The big problem is that, as you can clearly see with the Presocratics and keep seeing long after, in its attempt to explain “everything” it still ended up building explanations of reality that ended up leaning on something that had been “deified”.
8 Meanwhile Magic carries on its way.
9 The word Magus comes from a transliteration of the Greek “magos”, which means “wise man”.
10 Yes!
11 The famous Christmas “Magi”, the Three Wise Men, come from there: they were the learned men of their day.
12 Little by little, philosophy (the mother of the sciences) starts talking about science, trying to explain the phenomena it observes.
13 Investigating what is observed slowly leads to the development of science.
14 The problem begins when someone turns what science has understood into absolute truth and treats everything it cannot yet explain as non-existent.
15 But this looks a lot like religious behaviour, because it is precisely religion that needs to “regulate” magical ways and events so that they carry a shared value within a group of individuals, whether or not they exist.
16 Magic is the individual way of observing; religion is a “group way” of imposing only certain observations.
17 The sciences developed very differently around the world: think, for example, of how different the various medical traditions are.
18 As time went by and communication developed, the sciences, once countless and wildly different, tended to merge into one.
19 Meanwhile the Magus (the wise man) was being pushed out of his role and had to hand the sceptre of wisdom to the scientist.
20 Not only was he “pushed out”: with the arrival of centralised powers (kingdoms, empires, states and so on), and with the Roman Empire in particular, the Magus was persecuted and killed.
21 The persecution went on until the time when the Magus was called a Sorcerer and... still killed.
22 Lucky the poor Three Wise Men were long gone by then.
23 Meanwhile the scientist was making his way.
24 The scientist was the one who understood everything, except that every so often he discovered that many of his certainties needed revising.
25 So why did the system have to kill the Magus, who famously no longer understood a thing?
26 Who knows!
27 Meanwhile, as the Magi were being killed, the scientists were being “absorbed” into the systems of power.
28 Let us remember that in England the Witchcraft Act, the law under which magic and witchcraft were punished, stayed in force until 1951.
29 Coming to more recent times, the Magus, which still means “the wise man”, is simply discredited and mocked.
30 Magic no longer exists; science has taken its place.
31 The Magus is now defined as someone who does conjuring tricks; the scientist, on the other hand, is kept by whoever makes products and by the “states”.
32 In fact, most of the time we go and ask the “scientist” something, we are asking the barber whether we need a haircut.
33 Either way, the taxpayer is forced by violence to pay the scientist's salary, and not only that: he is also made to pay the salary of whoever trains him, who in turn is obliged to follow the state “curriculum”.
34 In thirty years' time it will turn out that much of what they taught you is wrong, but never mind: Obey!
35 Learn it by heart! Or I'll fail you!
36 The un-Enlightened will reply: “Quite right”!
37 “Magic doesn't exist!
38 There is only Sciiience!
39 Anyone who believes in Magic is a moron!”
40 That, essentially, is the history of Magic: it looks as if Magic has been stripped of its standing by whoever happened to be in power.
What is so threatening about something that “does not exist”?
41 To try to understand, let us ask Uncle Friedrich for help:
42 “But I should think that today (the year was 1880) we are at least far from the ridiculous immodesty of decreeing from our corner that perspectives are permitted only from this corner.
43 Rather has the world become ‘infinite’ for us all over again, inasmuch as we cannot reject the possibility that it may include infinite interpretations.”
44 When we talk about “infinite interpretations” we are simply admitting, Anubistically, our infinite ignorance.
45 But if “science” admitted its ignorance and its inability to be “absolute”, where would that lead us?
46 To the idea that everyone should be free to judge how reliable the information they receive is and weigh it up. But that is not how it goes: the economic powers, with the states as their front desk, use what they define as “true”, meaning whatever serves their interests, to impose obligations and bans.
47 The Enlightened has already worked out where this observation leads.
48 Science is an arm of power, not because it is evil in itself (quite the opposite, it is always a search for knowledge) but because it is not acting in good faith, and through no fault of its own.
49 The Prophet's problem is not with science: the Prophet thinks the damage lies in turning science into dogma and no longer wondering.
50 Science goes from “the search for knowledge” to “the keeper of absolute truth”, which is obviously just another form of control imposed by financial power.
So should we follow Magic, then?
51 What is this Magic, anyway? From here on, the word “Magic” is not necessarily meant in the esoteric sense.
52 The Prophet uses the word for everything that has real effects on human beings and yet keeps escaping a complete description, keeping wonder alive.
53 Magic is openness to everything, it is the absence of limits, it is the ability to appreciate “everything” with wonder.
54 Scientific understanding, put at the head of the train of inquiry, seriously narrows the breadth of knowledge: the greatest inventions and discoveries belonged to people who did not get on very well with “school” or had not yet had to come to terms with it.
55 Knowledge is the fruit of chasing a “magical” vision (one not recognised and categorised by science), which, until it is overwhelmingly proven, does not exist in “scientific” terms.
56 Fairy tales are the first engine of Magic for human beings, which is no accident: parents use them to stir a child's wonder and set him on the road to knowledge. Fairy tales contain the Magic needed for the job.
57 And by the way, fairy tales are reality, not stories.
58 Cinderella is a fairy tale because it draws on a true story built over the centuries through white Magic; the wonderful Harry Potter is a story because it was “invented” by a brilliant person. Stories become fairy tales when people start believing in them and handing them down.
59 But then, as time passes, the state, through school and other conditioning, “tears” the child away from his parents' white Magic, and wants the child initiated into adulthood, which, as Ferrario puts it:
60 “Among the Western tribes, consists in tearing a boy away from fantasy to introduce him to conformity”.
61 It follows, as Uncle Friedrich says: “The surest way to ruin a youth is to teach him to esteem “thinking alike” more highly than “thinking differently”.”
62 At this point Einstein (apparently) chimes in: “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
63 We leave the last word to Conrad: “The more intelligent a person is, the less they mistrust the absurd”.
64 The aim is to cage human beings so they only ever go from “A” to “B”.
65 Understanding Magic takes this kind of openness: fantasy lights up the imagination, and the imagination lights up the wonder of Magic.
66 Magic exists, and you have to work at understanding it.
67 Because we are immersed in Magic.
68 Without Magic, our immense ignorance does not let us exist fully.
69 Without a minimum of magical vision we are simply “limited”, and without a bit of the child in us.
70 We are not talking about conditioning: conditioning is only the scientific analysis of a small part of black Magic.
71 That is, it is only what science has managed to explain, but it is nothing compared with the power of black Magic.
72 We are surrounded by white Magic and black Magic every day, but we cannot see it.
73 As Carmagna says:
74 “Everywhere, mixed in with the particles of the air we breathe, there are particles of wonder and of the impossible.
75 And only a magician's sleight of hand can catch them.”
76 In fact you don't need to be a Magus, which is a long and difficult business: believing that Magic exists is enough to catch it.
77 Sadly, explaining what Magic is in itself is impossible, but the Prophet, oversimplifying a great deal, will try to give a few examples.
78 Someone you pass in the street gives you a huge smile.
79 You don't know why, but for a moment you are happy.
80 Being happy means having a good life and a good immune system.
81 That person simply “channelled” energy towards you for a moment, and you received it and enjoyed its good effects.
82 Maybe science will never manage to explain fully why... but as you can see, something undeniably happened.
83 What cannot be explained, as everyone knows, is Magic, so Magic exists.
84 People who love you, even when they are far away, unconsciously make you feel better, so in fact they contribute to your well-being and your health.
85 That is Magic too.
86 Someone who builds you up by believing in you makes you stronger.
87 Science tries to explain this phenomenon with “motivation”, but, once again, that is only the tiny part science has understood of the phenomenon of energy being passed on, which as a whole remains a magical act.
88 The things you had as a child, like your soft toys, are “capacitors” of magical energy.
89 The energy you put into those things will be given back to you when you look at them, and you will smile.
90 Even just remembering how “small” you were is an act of Magic, because it will strengthen you by helping you not to take yourself too seriously.
91 They say that working white Magic carries no risks, but the Prophet has very serious doubts: the risk is there, even though no entities are being forced.
92 “Good” is not always perceived the same way, so the risk of harming others or yourself is always there.
93 Black Magic is the opposite, that is, “forcing” energies to harm someone else.
94 This phenomenon too can be partly explained by science but, once again, only a small part of it.
95 “Forcing energies” is a difficult and dangerous act, above all for the one doing it.
96 An “ideologised professional hater” performs a genuine, if ridiculous, act of black magic by “forcing” his own, equally ridiculous, negative energy onto others.
97 But before he manages to ruin everyone else, he ends up burning himself out.
98 The “system” uses black Magic in order to exist, and it is only because the “masses” do not understand Magic that it seems to win.
99 The Prophet would rather not go any further, not only because “one does not talk about Magic”, but also because it would mean wading into areas that are very hard to deal with here.
100 What mattered was to explain that Magic is everything: it is when you fall in love, when you give your dog or your cat a good rub, when you listen to music and feel the “vibes”, when you walk into a bar and immediately feel at home among old friends you have never seen before.
101 All things science has tried to explain, to the Prophet's Anubistic amusement. Sorry, dear scientists: Magic exists, and you will most likely never be able to explain it.
102 And the next person who brings up pheromones to “explain” falling in love, the Prophet will charge with attempted murder by “armed laughter”.
103 Very often whatever power does not understand or control gets banished to the realm of magic, superstition or madness: power that was held first by kings, then by inquisitors, then by states, all the way to the fact-checkers.
104 Everything that is inconvenient for those who demand to rule is pushed away and filed in a category of recognised outcasts, some of whom today are called conspiracy theorists.
105 Systems impose vocabularies and logics, and the curious thing is that free people end up using the terms imposed by the system just to keep the conversation going, and fall right into the trap.
106 If the Prophet has not convinced the adept to believe in magic, he reminds him of a line from Peter Pan:
107 “Children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, ‘I don't believe in fairies,’ there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.”
108 The Prophet thinks it best not to harm the Fairies, so he believes in them and invites Anubists to believe in them too, and not to let anyone steal their Magic, because without it you are condemned to live in the well-known “shitworldliness” of reality.
109 Anubism is the first and only religion that, besides doing no harm and imposing nothing, loves magic!
110 The religions that count in the West fought magic because they were afraid of knowledge.
111 Anubism loves knowledge, because it loves freedom, and because it knows that only through knowledge and freedom will we understand magic and the uniqueness of Anubis!
112 So does the Prophet believe in Magic? “I don't believe in it: I know it exists.” (quote:
113 Jo Bo-ah in “Destined with You”)
114 To be clear, we are not claiming here that certain clowns who call themselves magicians are magicians.
115 Seeing so many women turned into monsters by cosmetic surgery, we are led to think these cosmetic surgeons are crooks.
116 Wrong, simply because the “good work” doesn't show; all we get to see is the bad work.
117 In the same way, we must not conclude that because we get to see clowns, magicians do not exist.
118 The Prophet apologises for all the quotations: they were put there on purpose to show that the existence of Magic is known to everyone.