magic

  1. mysterious. sometimes uncanny causal agent that defies conventional understanding of cause-effect, does the improbable; “it’s magic!”
  2. art form or utility that taps into subtle forces and energies to create, change, or preserve according to the will and capability of the user.
  3. agent of influence employed by magical practitioner or other to create, change, or preserve one or more aspects of reality.
  4. as a counter practice to mysticism, the work of bringing higher realities down into the mundane, material worlds.