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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 6260576" data-attributes="member: 3649">Well, you can easily have a 'super-nature' without gods - it's just another aspect of nature that people don't fully understand, yet. Yes, all magic can be said to start out as priest magic, but it really goes back much further than that. All magic is actually science, because it wants to accomplish the same goal - answering questions about the universe, and later taking the form of manipulating the environment. All Earthly magic takes this exact form, whether it's in the form of miracles or incantations. The main difference is the priest says 'thy will be done' and the wizard says 'my will be done'.&nbsp; Me, I'd go with the Deryni-like idea that all magic is psionics - the human mind transforming matter and transferring energy - and all the books and symbols and incantations are crutches, props for the concentration that most wizards are convinced they need for some various reasons, or simply because it makes visualizing the fantastically-complex thought-patterns needed much easier.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 6260576, member: 3649"] Well, you can easily have a 'super-nature' without gods - it's just another aspect of nature that people don't fully understand, yet. Yes, all magic can be said to start out as priest magic, but it really goes back much further than that. All magic is actually science, because it wants to accomplish the same goal - answering questions about the universe, and later taking the form of manipulating the environment. All Earthly magic takes this exact form, whether it's in the form of miracles or incantations. The main difference is the priest says 'thy will be done' and the wizard says 'my will be done'. Me, I'd go with the Deryni-like idea that all magic is psionics - the human mind transforming matter and transferring energy - and all the books and symbols and incantations are crutches, props for the concentration that most wizards are convinced they need for some various reasons, or simply because it makes visualizing the fantastically-complex thought-patterns needed much easier. [/QUOTE]

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