Many people are under the impression spells and rituals work as in the movies and expect them to really work that way: you recite some words and wave your wand around and poof! Whatever you asked for becomes reality in an instant. Or within a very short time. Unfortunately, this belief is being spread by some individuals who are involved in the occult in some form or another.
Now, I'm not saying things can't happen that way. They sure can although a lot of times it's not that easy because many reasons. I wrote the article on magical resistance because of that, as well as to direct people to it whenever someone comes seeking my services and expects an overnight miracles, and I also talk about it in Magic Words. But in this article I want to talk about another factor that can prevent the success of magical operations - cheating.
By cheating I mean someone is doing mundane actions against mundane rules that apply in certain areas of life which someone else addresses with magical means to cause change. You'd probably say casting spells is cheating, but in many cases people make use of this method because it's very hard for them to achieve a certain thing with mundane means alone. If it were that easy then it's likely they wouldn't use spells in the first place, especially in a world where, besides many frauds and scams, there are well oiled bureaucratic machines that in many cases work against the average citizen, at least in the background.
But I'm not here to talk about government institutions although you could imagine things being of a similar nature in this case as well, more pronounced in certain countries than in others. I'm not going to talk about corporations either, but I'm sure you can imagine they work only for themselves.
What I will talk about are smaller fish, but fish that have the means of twisting things on a mundane level in ways that can render spells and rituals useless. I've witnessed this myself more than once and I will share a few examples.
1. A man (Person A) had a business deal with another (Person B) involving the export of a certain product from one country to another. While Person B was going to take the product from the producer (actual seller) and arrange the paperwork, shipping and final transaction, Person A came up with a serious buyer.
Since the country of origin had laws that could easily be twisted in favor of the authorities and bureaucracy was at home there, Person B had a difficult time getting the paperwork done and so on. Spells were cast for that purpose, as well as for insuring the transaction was made with ease. Person B managed to export the goods with relative ease afterwards, met with the buyer and the transaction was done quite quickly.
The problem was that Person B was officially acting as a stand-in for the seller. He signed the contract using his firm in order to have legitimacy. But instead of giving the bank accounts of his firm to the buyer so that he'd receive the money there and afterwards keep his and Person A's cut while giving most of the sum to the actual seller as the contract stipulated, he gave his personal accounts to the buyer. The buyer transferred the money in those accounts, but then Person B could not access the money as a private person because the contract was made using his firm. The bank suspected him of attempting fraud and contacted the authorities. The money was confiscated and Person B was left to deal with the law. No one saw their share of the money.
Had Person B been honest, he would've been paid in the account of his firm and then distribute it accordingly as it was written in the contract. So maybe in this case some of the spells worked because they prevented him from stealing the money, but others failed because they were done so that Person A would get his share of the money from the deal.
2. Two football (soccer) teams faced each other in one of the last games of the season. Team A needed to win desperately to get closer to winning the championship title, since Team C was close behind them in the table. Team B had lost all hope of winning the title by then and they were playing simply for fun or as some would say, for honor. Spells were cast against Team A to prevent them from winning.
Team A was leading 1-0 when in the last minute of the game Team B was awarded a penalty. The player who was to take the penalty kick got close to the other side's keeper and it seemed they exchanged a few words. Then the guy took the shot as if he were an old lady and the keeper easily saved it. Team A won the game 1-0 and would eventually win the title.
So the spells worked in some way because they allowed Team B the chance to equalize in the last minute. However, it seemed pretty obvious for everyone they willingly wasted that change, especially since none of its players seemed upset by the miss. Not even the guy who actually missed.
3. Do you know those promotions various companies have for their products? Usually for foods and drinks and such. They have a code somewhere on the product and you text it or enter it on some site and you can win various prizes, including (larger amounts of) money.
Spells were cast on a person for more money. The spells worked in various ways and she was able to earn various sums from different sources. Being a consumer of fizzy drinks, she noticed some of them had such a promotion and decided to start sending codes. Besides winning a small prize consisting of a shirt that was practically worthless, she still had the chance of winning the grand prize.
The problem was she came across quite a number of codes the site rejected because they had already been sent. It is obvious they were sent by someone else and it's possible something like this happened: the same code was printed on a large number of products. This might have been a printing error that would be somewhat understandable, but in many cases around here it is known the grand prize in such promotions is usually won by someone on the inside, or at least someone close to someone on the inside. So it's possible someone introduced the winning code right after the campaign started and everyone else who introduced the same code later on was notified the code had already been used. And since there's more than one prize in many cases, some of them being quite valuable, it's possible certain people introduced the respective codes early on.
Now, I have no idea how those codes get sorted by the computer when they draw the prizes. I imagine the software could be tweaked, or the computer is fed with the exact number of codes that were initially printed in addition to the codes that later were introduced by participants. So if you have 10 million products that take part in the promotion and 1 million of them bare the same code, someone from the inside who entered that code on the first day of the promotion would have 1 in 10 chances of winning.
So in this case even if the spells were not aimed directly towards the person winning promotions, it's probable they worked in such a way as to have her come across a codes. Since the codes had already been sent (by someone else), we can at least question the nature of the promotion in terms of how the winnings are generated.
Now I know people might say the spells weren't powerful enough and I would agree. But given the number of variables I had to think of in regards to situations without involving foul play, I'd say the spells did their job quite well. In every case there were at least as many variables involving foul play that I think covering those in their entirety would've spread the spell's power way too thinly. Which it eventually happened, since the desired outcome was not manifested in the end.
So I would say at least in the first two examples the spells were more than 90% successful in terms of manifesting my will towards the end result I wanted. But in the end the human factor prevented a complete success, which in these cases it meant complete failure.
Here's another example in which life in general beat magick just because it could. This past fall a certain damsel came across a certain guy at the guy's workplace. The gal was doing practice for her college for a few weeks and was shown around the place by a few staff members a fwe days at a time so she'd understand whatever it was she had to understand for her college mandatory project thing.
The gal was not the guy's type and she also had a boyfriend who brought her to work every day at 5 to 9am and picked her up from work every day at 5 after 5pm. But the guy noticed she was eyeballing him big time and decided to be wicked. This is where yours truly stepped in and sent a certain sublunar spirit to make her have sex with him. Within a couple of days they were almost caught while being involved in highly indecent explicit behavior of a sexual nature.
Alas, they couldn't go all the way and circumstances prevented them from meeting during their free time. They haven't seen each other ever since and the guy is ok with it, probably a bit sorry he missed out on a free fuck.
My point is the spell was a success. The spirit clearly made her come up to him in some manner that escalated into that behavior I've mentioned. But life made it so things could not unfold all the way and that's that.
As a conclusion, the universe is a vast and highly complex mechanism, both in its seen and unseen micro and macrocosmic forms. Spells can make things happen for sure, but there's things spells simply cannot do if cast in the usual ways. Other approaches have to be considered and problems be have to be addressed from different angles and sometimes certain desires prove to be a bridge too far even by targeting them in many different ways. I've talked about this in Magic Words while also talking about how one can improve their ability to uncover different angles by working on their consciousness.
Otherwise, if it were as simple as some people involved in the occult make it seem like, there'd be many millionaires out there after just a few months of casting spells. Reality says otherwise. So food for thought.
Hate on, dum-dums!
The Great Gazoo
