Why did you choose to be a magician?

[ezequiel2000]

Everything has life force and intelligence. Rocks are particularly interesting. For example quartz has real time instantaneous connection right through this galaxy.

I believe that precious stones are also used for magic.

[Amor]

What a magus does with intent is magic.

The rest is..... not very useful

[hEhEnegers]

Well I was kindoff inspired by Harry Potter (* a childish thing uk) and I that kinda kid who wants to break every rule out there but now I have realised that changes take time to occur , contradictory to things shown in media . But I am still relevantly new to the topic (*only like 1/2 of a decade into research of these things ) so I will still learn.

[Amor]

What are the preconditions for other intelligences to cooperate with the would-be magician?

[ezequiel2000]

Well I was kindoff inspired by Harry Potter (* a childish thing uk) and I that kinda kid who wants to break every rule out there but now I have realised that changes take time to occur , contradictory to things shown in media . But I am still relevantly new to the topic (*only like 1/2 of a decade into research of these things ) so I will still learn.

I haven't read the Harry Potter book, but I've seen the movie.
In my opinion, the occult is a very difficult subject to understand and learn, and it's even more difficult to explain it to someone who has never read about it.
I find it very difficult to understand the occult.
It's clear that this subject isn't for everyone; you have to have an open mind.
Another thing I learned from reading occult books is that these books contain hidden messages that only an initiate could understand.

For example, the Kybalion.

[ezequiel2000]

What are the preconditions for other intelligences to cooperate with the would-be magician?

I don't know how to answer you.

I think the magicians of ancient civilizations would have been trained from a very young age; they would have had to have a special psychological makeup.
Your question reminds me that in ancient Egypt, the temple priests had specific criteria when choosing a follower; they didn't choose just anyone.
That's why I say that an aspiring magician would have to have special qualities.
I suppose that the Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Illuminati, and other occult societies also have their own criteria when choosing their followers.

[Amor]

> an aspiring magician would have to have special qualities.

Three obvious steps:

- control physical desires
- control emotions
- control thoughts

Otherwise like a loose cannon on a ship in a storm

[ezequiel2000]

I believe meditation is used to help aspiring magicians gain self-control and inner peace.

When I was talking about the magician's training from childhood, I forgot to mention the case of Moses from the Bible.

And I think that in India, children train from a young age to be yogis; William Walker Atkinson mentions this in one of his books.

[Amor]

A magus may have any or many trades and professions. When the magus operates with suitable intent, the trade/professional actions are naturally magic.

The mage's intent brings other intelligences into cooperation and the results may be marvelous.

For example, a fellow I knew was living at the time in a spiritual community. He had offered to coordinate the next weekly meeting after a sequence of disappointing meetings.

He decided to separate the personality section of the meeting from the spiritual section by clearing the air with someone playing a specific Bach violin partita that he liked. He did not know that that piece was often regarded as the most difficult violin piece in the Western repertoire.

At lunch a visitor approached him offering to play that very piece. And it worked well - lifting the energies for the spiritual content.

[ezequiel2000]

It's a good story!

[Erebus Nekromantia]

Simple answer: traumatic childhood experience.
I was a weird kid accused of having a wild imagination and always being "away with the faeries". I could hear whispers and see things out of the corners of my eyes, but whenever I told anybody, namely my parents, I would get into trouble for being "silly". It was worse at night in the dark, which made me deathly afraid of the dark, and then one night when I was about eight or nine, Dad had had enough of my phobia and told me to fetch something out of the car for him at night. We lived on a dark street, and I pleaded with him as he pushed me out the front door, locked it behind me, and turned off the porch light. He told me he would let me back in once I had that something (I can't even remember what it was) from the car, but I just huddled against the front door in the dark and screamed for him to let me back in. I don't know how long it took, but the whispers and movements became so intense I just broke and felt separated from myself. The whispers and moving things were still there, but I just walked in a daze to the car, got the something, and then calmly knocked on the door and announced that I had it. Dad was proud of himself, thinking he had broken me out of a bad habit, but he did keep asking if I was okay because I was behaving strangely like I was in shock. I was back inside the house, in the 'safety' of the light, and the whispers and movements were just as intense as they were in the dark, and I did not care.
After that night, I learned that I could enter that broken and separated state of mind at will, and it pretty much became a nightly exercise for me, because it made me unafraid of the dark. At the beginning of high school, some of the unpopular girls were into witchcraft and had books and magazines on the topic, and that's where I was exposed to the concept of altered states of mind, and realised that was what I had been doing all these years. Pretty much every spell requires entry to that altered state of mind, and so I began practicing witchcraft and identified as Wiccan. I was never much of a Christian - my parents were raised Catholic but my siblings and I were never baptised or went to church or anything - so it was nice to find a source of divinity in the God and Goddess, who allowed witchcraft. Nowadays I still see the source of all things as the God and Goddess; Our Lord and Lady; as Two, as One, as All; but I'm a Wiccan in name only, as I think it is a good word to describe what I do, but I've definitely left the religion far behind me.
The rest is history.

[ezequiel2000]

Simple answer: traumatic childhood experience.
I was a weird kid accused of having a wild imagination and always being "away with the faeries". I could hear whispers and see things out of the corners of my eyes, but whenever I told anybody, namely my parents, I would get into trouble for being "silly". It was worse at night in the dark, which made me deathly afraid of the dark, and then one night when I was about eight or nine, Dad had had enough of my phobia and told me to fetch something out of the car for him at night. We lived on a dark street, and I pleaded with him as he pushed me out the front door, locked it behind me, and turned off the porch light. He told me he would let me back in once I had that something (I can't even remember what it was) from the car, but I just huddled against the front door in the dark and screamed for him to let me back in. I don't know how long it took, but the whispers and movements became so intense I just broke and felt separated from myself. The whispers and moving things were still there, but I just walked in a daze to the car, got the something, and then calmly knocked on the door and announced that I had it. Dad was proud of himself, thinking he had broken me out of a bad habit, but he did keep asking if I was okay because I was behaving strangely like I was in shock. I was back inside the house, in the 'safety' of the light, and the whispers and movements were just as intense as they were in the dark, and I did not care.
After that night, I learned that I could enter that broken and separated state of mind at will, and it pretty much became a nightly exercise for me, because it made me unafraid of the dark. At the beginning of high school, some of the unpopular girls were into witchcraft and had books and magazines on the topic, and that's where I was exposed to the concept of altered states of mind, and realised that was what I had been doing all these years. Pretty much every spell requires entry to that altered state of mind, and so I began practicing witchcraft and identified as Wiccan. I was never much of a Christian - my parents were raised Catholic but my siblings and I were never baptised or went to church or anything - so it was nice to find a source of divinity in the God and Goddess, who allowed witchcraft. Nowadays I still see the source of all things as the God and Goddess; Our Lord and Lady; as Two, as One, as All; but I'm a Wiccan in name only, as I think it is a good word to describe what I do, but I've definitely left the religion far behind me.
The rest is history.

From what you're saying, you must have suffered in your childhood.
Now, in the present, have you overcome all your fears, or are you still afraid of something?

[Erebus Nekromantia]

Now, in the present, have you overcome all your fears, or are you still afraid of something?

There's plenty to fear in the occult, but I manage to keep a level head. Most of the time.