Marbaniang, Domenic

Summary: Rational Theologies see magic as a form of experience and so dismiss it as the far lesser real. Man is God. Empirical Theologies usually combine magic with religion and construct theories whereby powers can be tapped by humans who have access to the secret science. Men can become gods. Revelational Theologies usually see magic as anti-divine. Man is not neither can be God. Magic in Rational Theology Arguments based on Gaudapada’s Karika from Epistemics of Dicine Reality (2009) “…reason lacks any synthetic (empirically demonstrable) way by which it can be proven that something can be created by someone out of nothing. The only cases where such creation out of thin air is seen are in magic or the conjurer’s trick. But the result of such creation is illusory and unreal and proof of the doctrine of non-dualism which states that phenomenon is illusory or unreal.” (pp.90-91) “The phenomenal world is called real only in the same way that an elephant conjured up by magic is called rea...