What is magick, and why do you spell it with a k?
There is no universally agreed-upon definition of magick. One popular definition is “the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will” (put forth by Aleister Crowley). Some see it as a change in external reality, sometimes internal reality (perception or worldview or consciousness). Magick can also be defined as any of a variety of life-practices which devote the practitioner to self- and (thereby) environment- transformation. Crowley revived the archaic ‘ick’ spelling that had dropped out of fashion by the early 1800s. ‘K’ is the eleventh letter of the English alphabet. The number eleven has quite a few symbolical imports. Eleven is the number attributed to the Qlippoth (chaotic, unbalanced forces in the Qabalah). Eleven represents the union of the microcosm (pentagram – five) with the macrocosm (hexagram – six). On a Thelemic note, eleven is the number of words in “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law”, the number of letters in Abrahadabra, and the nu
