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An issue occurs to me in relation to my magickal practices that may be irrelevant, or at least not worth devoting much RAM to, but which I think all of us at all interested in The Craft (or whatever your preferred monicker) can benefit by. I suppose it's quite epistomological, and as such no definitive answer can be known, but I'm interested on individual takes on the concept.
Much of the technique I employ in my most frequent ritual involves a good amount of chance, mitigated by information I choose using my conscious, subconscious and unconscious minds. Obviously, this cannot be regarded as entirely random, though where my direct involvement in the process ends it would certainly seem to lack any immediately discernible logic. (My apologies that I can't go into much more detail about the process itself; as I wrote in the Magical Secrecy thread, my partner is uncomfortable with me discussing the specifics, even within a sympathetic context.)
My question then is this: with the intentional, implied, encoded, abstracted and utterly random elements of this ritual combined, coupled with similar properties involved with whatever happens with the end product from my side once encountered by an anonymous other in an unknown context, how much of my will is involved, and how much is something else working through the components I employ, myself as a mediating factor, the one most immediately impacted by these choices, and the resulting behavior and choices made as a result of their unwitting participation? Or, if I am supposing that this will in some Rube Goldbergian way make a desired impact, is it I who has willed it so, or is it the closed system within which this has all occurred used me as its tool?
Circles within circles within... oy, I'm dizzy.
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