There is a concept of ritual in magic. And there is the notion of practice.

Machine-assisted translation. The original Russian publication is linked below.

There is a concept of ritual in magic. And there is the notion of practice. What's the difference? The concept of ritual was precisely and succinctly defined by Papus saying that if you take any peasant, give him some kind of weed and say 10 years with her to do something for some abstract purpose (say, to the forest more…