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Magic is an ancient practice rooted in rituals, spiritual divinations, and/or cultural lineage—with an intention to invoke, manipulate, or otherwise manifest supernatural forces, beings, or entities in the natural world.
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Magic is a force older than mankind with the power to manipulate a target, whether tangible like an object or the environment, or something intangible like time, by supernatural means. Magic allows a user to bypass normal limitations and achieve results that are often not possible based on understanding laws of science. Magic can often be split int...
Natural Order
The Natural Order in and of itself is magical in nature. It dictates the universal aspects of reality. Even God and Amara are to some degree bound to it as it demands their co-existence or co-death. On many occasions, Death has shown his staunch support of the Natural Order. Even when acknowledging the efforts of the Winchesters in saving the world, Death would still point out how the hunters' repeated resurrections were an affront to the natural order.
God Power
Amara and God belong to this category as they are Cosmic Forces. While God is technically a deity in his religion, the caliber of power God has is vastly superior and different to that of the other pantheons in the show. His magic is completely independent of tribute whereas many of the pagans were greatly stronger in the past than present time due to greater amounts of tribute. Amara, God's sister has similar properties to her power. God's power was capable of creating the multiverse and even alternate dimensions, while Amara has the power to destroy them all. Their power and being also functions as part of the Pillars of Reality in The Natural Order. The loss of one of them and their power would undo reality. It is believed this can be prevented if the multiverse lost both of them.
Angelic or Enochian Magic
Angelic magic is an extremely powerful form of magic that is mainly practiced by angels. Because there are many variations of angels, there are also many variations of angel magic that is specific to the angel. For example, while angels are known to possess highly advanced and very powerful angelic magic with the ability to banish demons, resurrect the dead, and travel through alternative dimensions, other angels are unable to achieve these feats of magic. However, angels can be limited on what they can do. This depends on heaven's laws or who is in command at the time, the factor of strength each angel's grace is, as well as other magic at play like sigils designed to weaken angels. Some other supernatural beings such as Eve and Leviathan can cut angels off from their power and prevent them from using their abilities. Enochian magic is not exclusive to angels, however. Humans, demons and other beings, like the Whore of Babylon, well-versed in Enochian can use or counteract this magic. It has been shown that if humans use certain Enochian Magic, it takes a toll on the caster's soul draining it until it's gone as with the case of Lily Sunder. Angelic Grace, the source of angels powers, is also the energy source that keeps Heaven in its place. If there is not a sufficient amount of Angels in Heaven or an immensely powerful one, Heaven will collapse overtime and all the souls will be subsequently returned to Earth.
•Different dimensions have different variations of magic. For example, Heaven is known to have the most powerful white magic while Hell is known to have the most powerful black magic. It is also known that alternative dimensions have magic as well. This was proven when Dean and Sam Winchester traveled to a parallel universe where the magic was significantly weaker than the magic in their world.
•God has been seen to give absolute immunity to magic to humans like Sam Winchester.
•Rowena has stated that to cure one curse, one has to know how to inflict another; they live side-by-side in the magic world, and one cannot be without the other.
•According to Rowena, one of the cardinal rules of magic is that disposition affects execution; this implies that performing spells correctly demands a certain frame of mind.
•Dean once compared magic with cocaine, stating that once someone gets a taste of it, it's surprising what they will do.
•Rowena claimed that magic can do anything as well as contain anything.
- Aerona. An aerona is a person with the ability to see and understand all forms of illness, whether it is physical or mental. If someone is sensitive to the pain of those around them, then they have this power.
- Aligist. Aligist is the term for someone who can understand all languages. This isn't as common as it seems like it should be. Some people are born with this gift while others work their entire lives to learn it.
- Astral Projection. Astral projection is the ability for one to project an astral body containing one's soul. This astral body can go anywhere in the world and go through walls.
- Breathe Underwater. The ability to breathe underwater is a fairly uncommon power. Especially considering not many people actually have the need to do it or are willing to try to see if they have it.
magic, a concept used to describe a mode of rationality or way of thinking that looks to invisible forces to influence events, effect change in material conditions, or present the illusion of change.
Magic is an attempt to understand, experience and influence the world using rituals, symbols, actions, gestures and language. Modern theories of magic may see it as the result of a universal sympathy where some act can produce a result somewhere else, or as a collaboration with spirits who cause the effect.
Magic, like religion, is concerned with invisible, nonempirical forces; yet, like science, it also makes claims to efficacy. Unlike science, which measures outcomes through empirical and experimental means, magic invokes a symbolic cause-effect relationship.
Magic or sorcery is the use of rituals, symbols, actions, gestures, or language with the aim of utilizing supernatural forces. [99] [100] : 6–7 [101] [102] : 24 Belief in and practice of magic has been present since the earliest human cultures and continues to have an important spiritual, religious, and medicinal role in many ...
