I am late to this thread but want to add Christ is the Magnum Magus the greatest magickian. He healed the sick , raised the dead, was resurrected from the grave.
Christ saw visions, had prophecies, spoke to God directly, worked with angels , interpreted dreams. In Gnostic apocrypha such as the Gospel of Judas and the Pistis Sophia of Christ; Jesus teaches to project out of the body as angels and he appears on the street in the form of a child. He projects to a heavenly realm and returns and projects to the future , also. The Bible is filled with magick . If used to heal, to learn , to see, to fly this is not ill , this is not evil. It is only when magick is used to harm that it is evil.


The three magi were magickians. King Solomon was a magickian. Magick is integral to the Bible. The Bible is written by many authors, as you know from being a thumper. And these authors have varying degrees of Divine Inspiration and write in conflict with each other.

The Catholic church teaches that it is a blessing to see one's deceased grandmother in a dream but it is risky to evoke spirits and that is frowned upon and warned against. The interpretation of dreams is rife through the OT and the NT this is something most Christians would not take exception to. The visiting of spirits and angels is also present. How then shall we see them and hear them if we do not learn to do so?
Matthew 13:15-16
For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.

But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.

We were created to become in the image of the Elohim, it is our reason for being. One place to find your answer is in the Bible itself. There are passages of the Bible that invite the human to become the magickian. Ecclesiastes has been called the Biblical Emerald Tablet as have other verses which promote becoming closer to God through meditation, prayer and visions.

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