The Meaning of Forgiveness from the Perspective of Magic

The meaning of forgiveness from the perspecitve of magic. What is forgiveness? Forgiveness implies simplification, an act of bringing your existential volume to zero. A person who forgives simplifies their own force that stands behind them.

What Is Forgiveness? What Happens When You Forgive an Offender?

We live in a society shaped by certain moral principles, and our environment largely determines our beliefs. The reaction of forgiveness is often the first — largely thoughtless — response. It is characteristic of people living under the influence of society, the state, and religion. How often has it happened that, when hurt, we forgave those who offended, we forgave our enemies? And in that very moment of forgiveness, we lost a great deal.

To understand what a person relinquishes through forgiveness, we must first examine the concept itself.

The etymology of the word “forgiveness” implies simplification — an act of bringing something to zero. Someone has wronged you, encroached on your rights, and caused you to lose them. When a person forgives, they simplify their own force that stands behind them, and in that moment, it is as if they declare: “I can be hurt. Strike me, mistreat me — I am of no value.”

Forgiveness, as a form of resetting, is possible only in very rare cases — and not everyone has the capacity to grant it. When choosing to forgive an offense, a discerning person will consider what, if anything, is received in return for that forgiveness.

In the act of forgiveness, existential volume is lost. It is not lost at the moment the offense is inflicted, but at the moment of forgiveness. Thus, offenses committed by the strong against the weak should not be forgiven. By forgiving the offender, a person nullifies the harm done to them — and, in doing so, nullifies their own rights. In this way, they demonstrate to the world that the rights they have earned over many years hold no value.

At the same time, the offender who is forgiven receives this existential volume almost for free. Their value within this system increases, and in this situation, the offender becomes more “entitled” than the one who was wronged.

A question arises: what is this seemingly strange Christian commandment — “Forgive. If someone strikes one cheek, turn the other”?

Given that the Bible has been translated from Aramaic into Greek, from Greek into Latin, and then into many European languages, there is no absolute guarantee that the wording has been preserved exactly as it was. Variations and distortions are possible. A person cannot know with certainty whether it has been rendered precisely. And so, one often begins to trust blindly in priests who interpret and transmit these commandments.

If a person lacks critical thinking, then they cannot truly lay claim to any rights — because they are unable to verify information or pass it through their own consciousness. But one who has not confined themselves to a single Bible, who has studied other sacred texts in different interpretations and found the strength to compare them, comes to understand that things are far more complex.

Those who accept everything on faith from priests are overly trusting sheep. Such people should be approached with caution. These are the most dangerous people — those without discernment, living purely through emotion, reacting and feeling, but not thinking.

How to Reclaim What Has Been Forgiven?

In most cases, the process of forgiveness is irreversible. It can happen that, after relinquishing their rights through forgiveness, a person later wishes to reclaim them. In such a situation, they must understand that the moment has already passed. Especially if it happened long ago — particularly if the person is a Christian and, on the ritual day of Forgiveness Sunday, pronounced the phrase: “God will forgive.”

And now, asking for one’s rights back is much like asking for the return of a gift once given to a close friend.

However, if you feel you are in the right, be prepared to pay the price. Time was invested in acquiring those rights — the time a person spent gaining them. Accordingly, when those rights were relinquished, the value of that time was given up as well. To regain them, in many respects, you will have to begin again from the very beginning.

The first way to reclaim your rights is to rise to a higher caste than the one to whom you relinquished them. From that position, you can demand their return. For example, if you gave up your right to money while operating within the merchant caste, then to reclaim that right, you would need to grow — advance to the warrior caste — by passing through a certain series of trials. From the standpoint of a more substantial consciousness, you would then be able to demand the restoration of your rights.

The second way is to place the person to whom you relinquished your rights into conditions where they will return those rights voluntarily. This is referred to as manipulation of consciousness.

The third way is to find a force that will compensate you for those rights — not through that person, but directly. This involves establishing a connection with a higher power, often through vows or geasa — obligations that this force may require. It restores those rights, which the person must then repay by fulfilling geasa, vows, or pledges — according to the terms set by the force that granted their restoration.

There are ways to restore one’s rights. However, each case must be considered individually, as no universal solution exists. In every situation, one method will prove more effective than another.

Remember: in all cases, nothing is ever truly free or given at someone else’s expense. Everything must remain in balance. The belief that “God loves me, therefore he owes me” is not our approach.

No god grants anything without conditions. And if something is given to you today that you know you have not yet earned, then tomorrow you will have to repay it. It is better to ask from the start: “At what cost?”

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