What is a Mystic?
Put simply, a mystic desires a direct, personal relationship with God. The desired connection is sought through the heart with love and devotion. The mystic is heart-centered. Nowhere is it stated that only saints can be mystics. Many saints are mystics, but sainthood is not a requirement. You can be a lay mystic. You do not have to be professed like a priest, rabbi, sister, or nun.
The mystic seeks to understand sacred truths through intuition, personal experiences, contemplation, and inner transformation. Mystics are capable of profound revelatory experiences and illuminating insights which are generally ineffable, surpassing language. Because of these experiences, the mystic tends to grow beyond rote practices, dogma, and the limitations associated with organized religion. There is a tendency to shun intermediaries.
A mystic wants to connect directly to the Higher Authority reflected in his or her mystical experiences. Though experiences are transitory and unsustainable, they tend to be powerful and memorable. They can have life-long effects. Experiences reflect peak states of awareness, insight, and an ecstatic state of union. They come and go of their own accord. They cannot be held, detained, called, changed, or acted upon. They owe their happening and origination to a Higher Power.
What is a Spiritual Magician?
The magician endeavors to know God. The magician is head-centered and intends to understand how God manifests in the world. For this reason, the magician works to bridge the Higher unseen spiritual realm with the physical earth plane. He or she is a master at grounding and wants to embody God's Divinity while uplifting humanity.
Energy, and in particular spiritual energy, follows thought. The magician practices the power of manifestation in all its higher forms through intention, concentration, will power, and focus. In this way, the magician becomes a co-creator with God. As he or she moves ideas into physical manifestation, the magician as co-creator experiences how God can and does move and work in the world.
The magician practices psychological and spiritual alchemy to transmute negative and lower emotions and energies such as anger, hurt, and fear into insight, corrective action, empathy, compassion, trust, and spiritual growth.
Who is the Unification of the Mystic and the Magician?
This is someone who exhibits traits of both the mystic and magician, and endeavors to both know and love God while manifesting Divinity in the earth plane. Mystic-magicians use both the insight conveyed in profound experiences and the power of manifestation to teach, transform, transmute, and uplift humanity while honoring the God they know and love.
Excerpt from the Mystic and Magician