Christomythopoesis

Magic, in this sense, has two meanings. In Boehme’s idiom, Magic is the name for the underlying reality of the natural phenomena we encounter through our senses, the foundation of the corporeal world. But Magic is also analogised to mean the affective response to God’s outpouring of Himself in His creative act. Magic, then, is both divine emanation and creaturely participation. Magic is the gods speaking God back to God. What ancient Christianity claimed, and what was so repugnant to the iconoclastic Puritans who railed against the old folk traditions of deep England, was that the Incarnation’s ultimate effect was that all who shared in its power became themselves gods upon the earth, who thus confidently spoke God back to God.