SleepingWolf said:
Feel as if we need dictionary definitions to explain the difference. Would siddhis not simply be a part of Magick under any definition?
This is not a dictionary definition... but
if I am not mistaken...
to do Magick, it is a step-by-step process. I raise, programme, and then direct Energy or Energies for a purpose, goal, intention, result. As for Siddhis, that is merely intending a thing to happen, then it happens - after serious and proper advancement and improvement of one's own abilities and oneself.
For a second, I thought Siddhis were the pathways in which Energy flows within our Soul. Those are
Nadis, of course. I forgot that momentarily. Perhaps these are related - our Aura when programmed, the Soul itself, the Powers of the Mind, each Chakra... all can do things. Chakras can be used for different things (i.e. each has functions, both Spiritually and Physically/Materially/Biologically/Mentally/Psychologically (Spiritual and non-Spiritual things affect each other, as well)), so these pathways help to direct Energy to... points or 'magic wands' to cause things to happen; each Chakra is a 'beacon', if you will, which has its own functions. When using or exercising the Siddhis (after discovering/learning them), we can cause things to happen at will, by will, without the long and sometimes arduous need to raise, programme and direct Energy and wait for however long, vibrating X times and affirming Y times, for it to manifest.
I think the process of using Siddhis is shorter... eventually. That being after we have become advanced enough - which takes its own time at first. The raising, programming and directing of Energy still happens, but like sewing a carpet by hand is raising, programming and directing, vibrating, affirming and visualising; using industrial equipment to create the carpet in
much less time is effectively the same, but happens much quicker.
Magick (raising, programming and directing Energy with vibrations, affirmations and visualisations and intentions) is like a Boy riding a scooter - one foot on the scooter, the other foot pushing along the ground. Siddhis are like a Man on a superbike. It's cheaper to buy the scooter but the end goal is much further away; it's much more work to afford the superbike, learn how to ride it safely, buy the protective gear - and the proper protective gear - and pay road tax, MOT, fuel, etc... but the finish line comes quicker and sooner.
How many Siddhis are there? How long's a piece of string?!
If I'm wrong about any of what I said here, then I'm wrong. Someone surely will correct me.