Magickal Principle of Effect

As part of my rethinking and re-presentation of the generally accepted and used Laws of Magick in my Post No. 562 - A Rethinking of the ‘Laws’ of Magick, I proposed the Earthy Magickal Law of Strength and Common Sense, which encompasses the Magickal Principle of Effect, as described in the extract below.

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The Earthy Magickal Law of Strength and Common Sense and the Magickal Principle of Effect are also statements of ‘the obvious’: all other influences being equal, the more dominant or stronger of two influences will have a stronger effect.

This Law is counter the dangerous naivety of the view that the higher or the nicer will always triumph. That may well be the case in the long term (i.e., millions of years), but to take that point of view is to risk the lackadaisical slackness of appeasement [2] that many people consider so key to Hitler’s rise and the resultant Second World War. Things are just as capable of getting ‘worse’ as they are getting ‘better’.

I consider that this is, basically, that rarest of commodities: common sense …