There are many registers of descriptions for the Root, some applying to the Root itself (no description or negation of description in effect) and some applying to how things relate (participate) to/in the Root.
The Root, in essence, is nameless; that is what it is in reality. It has no relations, no reference points, no description, and even itself is negated. However, when we speak of the Root in the world of magecraft. It is the summit/pinnacle of mystery, truth and knowledge.
Mystery to denote its integrity, its nature as the pinnacle of ineffability, that is ineffable even within its effects. Truth to denote the supremity of its reality beyond all else, where all else is a veil of its essence. Something that, from a dialectical perspective, is the negation of all things that allows for the affirmation of all things. But in truth, ontologically, transcendence over everything. Its all-inclusive nature, as the beginning and end of everything, distinctions, attributes, causes and even words themselves. All things are true, because it is the truth condition beyond things that a true. Knowledge, because all things caused, proceed from it. Within its effect and cause distinction has yet to exist, and so, to be connected to it is regarded as coming to know everything
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But importantly, know everything about the terminus from a particular perspective.
Ryougi Shiki, with the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, sees the end of everything as the death of everything, and so she's said to catch a glimpse of the Root (they specifically even say the microcosm of the world known as the Root/smaller part of the Root) because of that particular perception.
*"Shiki is... Shiki, right?"
"......Because my origin is 'emptiness,' the Shiki possessing this body can see death. During those two years of comatose sleep, unable to see the outside world, Shiki continued to gaze into the void that is Ryougi Shiki. As a result, she came to know the texture of death."
"Shiki has always been drifting in the sea called the Swirl of the Root. Alone, in the form called 'Shiki'...... If her origin truly is 'emptiness,' then it’s no surprise she would wish to return all things to nothing. That’s why, without exception, Shiki was able to kill anything. Even if the personality called 'Shiki' tried to deny it, this is the prototype of her soul. Because she is nothingness, she inherently possesses a directional tendency that desires the death of all things."
"Yes, that is Shiki's ability. Like Fujino Asagami, she has a special channel that allows her to see something different from ordinary humans. A special vision that glimpses into the microcosm of the world, called the Swirl of the Root. But I can dive even deeper. Perhaps... I myself am the Swirl."
With the Mystic Eyes of Death perception sees the end of everything as the death of everything, and so she's said to catch a glimpse of the Root (they specifically even say the microcosm of the world known as the Root/smaller part of the Root) because of that particular perception.
Noble Phantasm
Yuishiki · Chokushi no Magan
Vijñaptimātratā · Mystic Eyes of Death Perception
Rank: EX
Type: Anti-Unit
Range: 1
Maximum number of targets: 1 person
Yuishiki · Chokushi no Magan.
By opening the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception to the maximum, the target’s “lines of death” are severed.
You may have millions of life-span, recovery power that resurrects from a suspended state, or a stock of hundreds of lives, but since “the concept of death in the individual” is laid bare, a fatal wound is inflicted while ignoring their immortality.
Her eyes, as Ryougi Shiki, rather than Void Shiki with the Mystic Eyes, for example, are Vijñaptimātratā. Which, in Cittamatra Buddhism, denotes the conventional truth of all experience as being constituted by consciousness, revealing the ultimate truth of all things as empty.
The perception of objects in appearance/manifestation arises dependently proportional to consciousness, with the karmic seeds stabilising ideas of cognition reactionarily into objects of experience. Conditioned by an underlying storehouse, being the Alaya-unconsciousness.
The boundary conditions constituting the power of the Mystic Eyes are the underlying truth of all things/objects as impermanent. And so, it can bring death to all things—because it enacts the boundary conditions of existence, which in itself is death.
All by seeing a partial boundary condition in, connecting to the Root/catching a glimpse of its microcosm (smaller facet)
Zelretch catches the boundary conditions not of death but of the domain of Parallel Worlds; he sees records of Parallel Worlds and the concept of recording.
With recording in the context of Type Moon is the perception of a given domain of causality, as a 'dream/memory' of your reality, as an illusion/fictional projection of your reality. And so, from this, we can understand that Zelretch views the domain of parallel worlds as such. In fact, in Strange Fake, he's shown to be an observer of possible worlds within his book of observation.
Monitoring the entire universe and its parallel worlds, as if it were a fictional domain. The title describing as "observer. Character Creation", alluding to his causal power as an observer supervening over that domain and character creation.
After all, the concept of time travel was already made possible through the Second Magic.
Record manipulation, revision of possibilities, and so forth involved the operation of parallel worlds.
So, there was no way that could be the Fifth Magic.
"This axis is wrong... these lines will be annihilated too.."
When the man slipped his finger into the sky, the heavenly bodies displayed on the surrounding walls began to revolve.
"Oh, this cut-off isn't so... no, it's the worst. That damned giant spider will wake up. It's a century too early to face that."
Then, as if to match his words, the pages in the book hovering in front of the man turned with a flutter, inscribing multifarious information in real-time. The thickness of the book was about that of a standard encyclopedia.
Regardless, as the man guided his finger through the air, thousands— tens of thousands of pages were born and erased.
After continuing this activity again and again, the old man muttered as if in boredom.
"As I thought, no matter how this is resolved, it doesn't result in a satisfactory outcome for the Association. Having said that, there isn't enough reason for my interventions. Yes, it's a com-
Zelretch catches the end of everything as records of Parallel Worlds, at times his mere observation determines a possible world as an actual world (a perspective relative to that of Soul to the material world). The Third Magic is having the capacity to interact with the reality of everything within the transient material world. Which is the eternal soul that allows one to recognise it as a separate hypostasis and thereafter control its external activity/output of waves/meaning/spiritrons. One effectively becomes immortal as well, because they exist primarily as saint graphs; they can always come back once their body is remade.
So the proper understanding of this is not that they see the Root, but they see transient boundary effects or the boundary of conditions of certain domains.
"Or rather, it is like crossing the wall of dimensions. If you try running all the way to the end, there is a world made by completely different rules, and you end up learning those rules..... I suppose that is what it comes down to."
Aoko compares it to overcoming dimensional walls until you run to the terminus (end), and "find" a world with completely "different rules" and you learn them. But rather than being you learning them, for it is unknowing within the Root and it has nothing in itself to. Laws are what appear when representation stabilises after contact with the boundary:
Where's my next wife? Where is the wife bearing my magic key? Who am I? Of course I know. I exist to understand everything. I exist to reach the ideal. The logos of the world. The alpha and the omega. The absolute laws of creation. The Root. Thus, I couldn't go on without knowing who I am.
And in magecraft, this is the Root viewed as logos (not the essence of the Root), whereof it is the
absolute laws of the world, the alpha and omega (boundary condition of all things): logos.
If we were to assign it a provisional reading, it would be ‘kara’ (emptiness/origin). How it’s interpreted is up to each individual, but to put it simply and clearly, it’s the ‘Swirl of the Root.’ However, since the ‘Swirl of the Root’ already exists as a named concept, it is, after all, something distinct from 『 』. Figuring out how to turn this into a line of dialogue was a real headache during the drama CD production.
And importantly again, people's understanding of it varies with interpretation, because they experience it as boundary conditions of certain domains of phenomena (which is why it is described as transcending Maya/illusion, and recognising that all of creation is emptiness). We know that Ryougi sees the terminus/boundary conditions of existents, Zelretch sees the terminus/boundary conditions of Parallel Worlds, and Third Magicians allow for perception of the higher-dimensional soul.
Perfection cannot be something that exists. It has to be a place for us to reach.Humanity's destination. Humanity's conclusion.The meaning of my soul. The answer to what it is we must accomplish. I want to arrive at that conclusion.That is the state of true permanence. One onto which nothing can be added, and from which nothing can be taken away.Ergo, the sole thing upon this earth that could be referred to as eternal.
Is a perception that compares to what Roa described as the meaning of Soul, which is a perfection of all material instantiation. It is also the boundary condition of all human life within the surface texture. Described it as the only Eternal thing in the Celestial Sphere, true permanence that cannot be added not removed from.
It allows one to gain a revelation of the absolute laws from the Root in the world of magecraft. This is why it should be thought of less as a direct contact with the Root. It is described more as a
direct participation within the Root through the absolute laws of it, through:
The more we learn, the farther we stray. The Root is no different—a vortex that can only be approached in ignorance, in a pure state of unknowing. Yet in ignorance, you cannot perceive it—so the pursuit is meaningless.
"pure unknowing", in fact, before in the Age of Gods, magecraft was True Magic itself, as I've explained before. And magecraft at that time began with traditions like hermeticism, one of the many that have the Root as their goal:
Magic techniquesThe origins of magecraft, astrology, alchemy, etc. trace back to the Hellenistic period. This refers to around 290 B.C., 40 to 50 years after Alexander the Great, who built the foundation of the Roman Empire, died suddenly of a fever. Hellenistic period points to the era when the three great dynasties ruled across Egypt, Syria and Macedonia. In a era which made a single nation out of vast lands and races with differing thoughts; a movement to unify Greek and Oriental culture had begun. Several hundred years later, this knowledge became highly systematized by the time of the Roman empire. Because the origin existed in the Hellesnistic era, it's called the Hellenistic culture, and among those of it, people who thought that knowledge was supreme, created the school of thought called Hermeticism. Under Hermeticism, it's said that magecraft built it's fundamental theoretical system. The Hermeticists performed the instruction of information via text. Works written in a format where a god called Hermes Trismegistus grants knowledge to human disciples who consider knowledge supreme; they still remain to this day and they're called the Hermetica. Incidentally, Hermes is the name of a Greek god; as for "Trismegistus," would it be appropriate if you call it the "Thrice Greatest"?For the "Thrice Greatest", they are philosophy, theology and Kingship. It's recorded in the name of this god that Hermes is a great philosopher, a great theologian and a great king. In the ancient Roman era, magecraft was an extremely common thing. From the deceptions and incantations up to reaching authority magecraft, attaining the level of philosophy. Magecraft was categorized by three properties and there are "Goetia (Classification of evil things)", "Mageia (classification of general things) and Theurgy (Classification of higher things)While the story of the era that is thought to be the foundation of origin of magecraft is stated here, the explanation of a summary of 2000 years worth of history would be difficult. Because many books pertaining to them are published in Japan, if you're curious, I'd want you to try reading them. If one understands the fact that magecraft is being researched even today by the hands and brains of scholars and amaterus alike (mainly it's history and thought, however), you might think that "Perhaps a magi family lineage like that of Rin Tohsaka actually exists somewhere, right?"
Well I suppose we have no way of ever knowing for sure.
Believing in the teachings of Hermes, who himself frankly spoke about how direct experience in contemplation or divine grace of Nous cannot be taught at all:
I have nothing to say but this: seeing within me a formless vision that came from the mercy of god, I went out of myself into an immortal body, and now I am not what I was before. I have been born in Nous. This thing cannot be taught, nor can it be seen by the physical body …. Now you see me with your eyes, my child, but by gazing with bodily sight you do not see what I am. I am not seen with such eyes, my child.
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Hermes speaks of the experience of the divine, outlining how he has nothing to say of that revelation. Seeing within himself a formless vision that came from the providence of God. He found himself within the immortal body; he was now what he was not before. Having been incarnate in Nous, he came to the conclusion that it could not be taught nor seen by the physical body. To see with your eyes does not grasp the essence of what you are; no such perception can reach that.
Aoko, for example, speaks of contact with it as
understanding it as having the meaning of impossible redefined, but after contact with it, when inquired on by Touko, Aoko says she doesn't remember anything about her "contact" with the Root. But it nonetheless left a permanent transformation within her Soul, that impossibility is their understanding of the Root. Absolute domain laws from the Root.
These again are not relations within the Root, because the Root is said to negate even these understandings of it, even as "the swirl of the Root". These are how beings relate or participate in unity. Other narrations provide commentary closer to theological themes:
Someone once said, "Had it only ended at the Third..." Magecraft is the study of history; feats of our making, and life orbiting the planet. But True Magic is the providence of a god beyond the heavens.Why do those who stand on the earth extol the virtues of miracles beyond humankind and the planet?
Because this understanding of the Root in relation to True Magic regards True Magic as divine providence from the God beyond—in the heavens. That provides the means to extol the virtues of miracles beyond humankind and the Celestial Sphere.
All the various systems of magecraft that have spread throughout the world are nothing more than individual streams branching off from that great vortex.That’s why similar legends and mythologies exist across different cultures. The original cause is the same; what differs is the embellishment, shaped by the nature of those who interpreted ‘it.’Astrology, alchemy, Kabbalah, Taoist mysticism, runes—there’s no end to the researchers who have studied such things.Because their origins are the same, they all ultimately arrive at the same final goal.Having come into contact with magecraft—the terminal currents branching from the Swirl of the Root—they inevitably begin to imagine what lies beyond.—What is it that stands at the summit…?”-
And so, the Swirl of the Root, from the perspective of magecraft, is like a greater river from which modern magecraft systems branch off (fragment) from. Similarities across legends, mythologies over different cultures, exist because there is exactly one Cause, it is the same across all of them, only differing according to cultures, with respect to embellishment. It is that which shaped the nature of those who 'interpreted it'.
Traditions like Astrology, Alchemy, Kabbalah, Daoism, and Runes all have the same origin and ultimately arrive at that final goal. Magecraft systems that are degraded from the status of True Magic are simply terminal currents branching from the Swirl of the Root, which exists at the summit of all.
Faced with Shiki’s sharp interrogation, Touko seemed to give a faint, wry smile.“There is a purpose. But what you said isn’t wrong either. Magi pursue zero—something that was never there to begin with. In the end, their goal is to reach the ‘Swirl of the Root.’It’s also called the Akashic Records, though it’s more accurate to think of that as just one function attached to a part of the Swirl.The Swirl of the Root is, most likely, the cause of everything. From there, all phenomena flow outward. If you know the cause, the end will naturally be derived as well.Put simply, you could call it ‘ultimate knowledge.’ Though calling it “ultimate” imposes a standard and reduces it to something finite, so the term isn’t quite correct. It’s just the easiest way to understand it.
So, we already know that the Swirl of the Root in itself cannot be described in essence, for they impose finite standards and are ultimately swiftly negated as inadequate to express its pleromatic nature. This, including a popular description of it within the perspective of magecraft, the Swirl of the Root as 'ultimate/perfect knowledge or wisdom'.
Which calls into question what, then, is the Swirl of the Root referable as the summit of magecraft systems? Well, you see, it is True Magic itself; the awakening of absolute laws that govern domains of causality before
unfolding.
True Magic can attain perception of boundary conditions of specific domains, because they have control over domains at the level of their absolute laws.
The biggest difference between Magecraft (and subsequently everything of human convention and natural order) and True Magic is that:
Magic is nothing more than making use of the blessings bestowed by this sun.
Magecraft makes use of the blessings bestowed by the Sun. Its core element? It is not Creatio Ex Nihilo; magecraft doesn't create anything, no mystery at all. What it does is imitate natural phenomena; this is the compensation paid in exchange for utilising human convention mysteries.
At its core, magic is the imitation of natural phenomena—or the compensation paid in exchange for them. We can study mysteries, put them into practice, and reproduce them, but we cannot create mystery itself.
Since it uses effects already
from the Sun (source), all it does is study what comes after it, in order to reproduce the effects of the mystery. This is different from the source itself, for magecraft
cannot create mystery itself. The result?
Well, perhaps after enough research one might eventually reach that point. But there is a great barrier standing there—a kind of limiter that human knowledge simply cannot surpass.
If it is about human wisdom, and the world as humanity knows it? Then, after enough research, one will eventually reach a point. A great wall that human knowledge simply cannot surpass. This is not the position of the effects of the Sun
, but the position of the Sun itself.
Now you may ask, what is this "Sun" you say? In this grand and layered metaphor.
“And True Magic is the act of wielding the sun itself.
The Sun is the Sun (source) itself that is wielded, to which the effects of magecraft, reproducibility in magecraft, are but a downstream and imitation of it.
It reaches a realm that no one else can attain, and brings about miracles that no imitator—indeed, no one at all—could ever reproduce.
And remember? Magecraft doesn't create miracles/mysteries; it imitates natural phenomena. But True Magic? It creates genuine mysteries without contingency on downstream domains. Because it
is the reference point, as the summit of the domain itself. It can be said that, since True Magic reproduces mysteries in unknowing, from the perspective of the natural world and human knowledge, it can even be said that True Magic brings forth miracles/mysteries ex nihilo.
Because its reception and usage are non-discursive. Possession of True Magic, and thus, its domain of causality, is contingent on nothing in discursive terms:
“True Magic, to begin with, is something like a reward bestowed upon a magus who has reached the ‘Swirl of the Root’. Even if the magus’s physical body lacks the capacity to actually wield that Magic, simply opening a path to the Root means that, from the standpoint of magecraft, they can more or less do whatever they want. In other words, it’s like becoming the richest person on Earth.”
Much like authorities of Divine Spirits in this regard, it requires no external justification propositionally/discursively, because its reproduction is a natural right from awakening to direct participation within the Root.
No matter how much money is spent, or how much time is devoted to it, it remains a technique that humanity, as it exists now, simply cannot achieve. That is what ‘magic’ truly is.”
Tldr
- True Magic effectively in essence operates at a level where "what counts as possible operation" is still plastic and undetermined.
- Magecraft operates inside a differentiated world where causality has already stabilized into consistent, determinate and repeatable law.
Gradation
Magecraft works because phenomena at its level (within the domain of the surface texture) are already segmented, and their determinacy and consistency have already been decided. Thus, repetition is already meaningful, so it can imitate fire because there's a scientific methodology to how one can create fire, sustain it and the effects and dynamics of fire.
Limits of magecraft
What magecraft cannot do, however, is touch the condition that makes "lawfulness of imitation" possible in the first place. So properly speaking, the real barrier isn't "more energy is needed", "more power is needed". It is a categorical mismatch in operating
inside law and accessing
law-formation conditions. Hence, why True Magic can perceive boundary conditions, of what miracle (underlying domain of causality) it has jurisdiction over and what proof of a miracle it attests to.
True Magic (the Sun)
True Magic, on the other hand, is not simply "stronger magecraft", higher energy, better imitation or deeper knowledge. There is, in fact, a reason why Type Moon categorically differentiates between imitation of revelations (True Magic/Sun) and exercise of revelation (True Magic/Sun).
The True Magic, instead of manipulating events inside reality. It acts at a level where reality's event structure is selected. It is not evaluated inside the same causal bookkeeping system. It is participation in a regime whereby the "system" (object) and "operator" (subject) distinction is yet to be fixed.
Suddenly. Here, with no answers in sight, confronted by the foolishness that came from beyond, I feel like fading away. “Right now, I must unify the consciousness that is regressing toward zero into a single whole. This sound.This kind of foolish nonsense—so vexing it almost brings me to tears—is no time for me to be held back by it. My greatest problem from the very start is that red ghost.”
Hence, the process of operation itself involves unifying oneself with an aspect of your consciousness that regresses/reverts back to Zero (the Swirl of the Root), and integrating both in unity to become whole. It is a structural participation at a generative boundary of causality, and a leakage of pre-differentiation into differentiated reality.
In fact, it is because it involves that union that mages seek such a perception. A point at which the beginning and end are yet to be decided as distinctions, and in what manner:
If the goal is to learn, then the goal exists, but isn't there something to be learned from the process itself? If there's only the beginning and the end, then isn't that the same as zero? As you said, magicians are seeking zero. 'They aim for something that has never existed from the very beginning.
A point at which the goal of learning is undifferentiated from the process of learning. The
endpoint of knowing as the
act of knowing, in unity, this perception allows one to make their sense of
self transparent.
All magical systems originally disseminated throughout the world flow from this Swirl. Those systems are nothing more than narrow streams. Because they stem from the same root—the Swirl of the Root itself—they are ultimately fragments that have split off into things like astrology, alchemy, Kabbalah, and so on. In the end, they all carry the same origin in their hearts: Taoist immortality practices, runes, and countless others—there's no end to listing them.Researchers who have touched upon this... It is because they were able to imagine what lies at the peak. The ultimate purpose of a magician is to make the self transparent. To reach the truth—there is no goal other than this.Those who have preserved only their sense of self... They are the collective that is forever unfulfilled. The world wants to know what form "truth" truly takes. It calls those who pursue this: magicians.
Because once the self has been purified from discriminatory (obscuring the purity of unity inherent in all things), they can witness the form the 'truth' reveals itself in.
This is the way in which the Root reveals itself in contact with it, which is obviously once again, distinct from the Root's essence. As per Type Moon's essence-contact distinction.
We can get a general idea of what they mean by 'transparency/formlessness', as per the descriptions of Soul
This was also alluded to as the reason why Soul can connect with the Root. Formlessness or transparency, you see, is a mode of apprehension whereby discursive knowledge (say, human knowledge for simplicity's sake) is met with the uncertainty of a lack of grounding principle. Because at a grounding principle, knowledge as cause and knowledge as an effect are undifferentiated. The process of knowing and knowing (known) as a goal is undifferentiated, too.
"I became obsessed with puppet automation, all to attain/reach at 『 』through the perfect model of man." On the contrary, he was trying to reach 『 』through the soul rather than the physical vessel. In short, through something where existence is non-existence like the cat inside a box which couldn't be measured.
Likewise, for the Soul, it is unlike the physical body, which cannot be made formless. It is not even an 'object' nor a subject strictly speaking. But a condition where existence and non-existence (consequently life and death) are indeterminate, for they have yet to be differentiated into determinate opposites. To make the self transparent is to align it with the nature of the soul as transparent.
It is aligning yourself with what is regarded as the centre of all unfoldings/effects when you trace them through a chain. A domain still grounded in the Root, still in alignment with it.
Because the physical vessel has a definite form, it cannot be passed through. But the soul, which is formless, can be seen through. It is what a certain psychologist preached regarding the collective unconscious. He probably thought that if he traced through that chain, there would've been a center to it. Well, in short, both he and I were seeking the original source. I wonder if I should call it the "One" that is the Origin, the humanity's Original so to speak. Modern humans have branched out too much and have already ended up with attributes and lineages to an extent that it's impossible to measure them. We cannot reach the Origin. Attribute and lineage, so to speak.
And so, something that is "One", the original nature of humanity. Humans have diverged from this latent oneness within them, modern humans have ended up with and accumulated excess attributes that are impossible to measure. And so, they cannot connect directly to this 'Origin' already grounded in the Root.
We know, in fact, that True Magic operates at this scale. Because Divine Spirits like Saver, Amaterasu and so forth have such views of the manifested world of natural order (surface texture and human order) as an illusion/shadow/emptiness. As a result of True Magic operating that way, authorities are of an equivalent scale even when they differ in role.
Divine Spirits like Saver and Amaterasu are stabilised boundary conditions themselves; they exercise control over boundary conditions this way. Take Savers (Buddha) Noble Phantasm, for example, a particular summit of mystery within the tradition/culture of Buddhism.
Which operates on the same principle of humanity having an underlying unity, that is, a reflection of themselves. And if you remember that traditions and cultures are similar because they are partial contemplations and interpretations of the same source and goal. And so, the similarity between this is towards the earlier description of Soul as a centre point. Whereof, the boundary conditions of existence and non-existence are determined by where those boundary conditions have yet to exist, wherein all humanity is still 'One'.
It is rooted in Advaita Vedanta, and the idea of all humanity as 'One', this oneness being Brahman. Is based on the Atman (True Self), being fundamentally unified with Brahman.
Return to the One Through ReincarnationNoble Phantasm Name:Amita Amitābha (アミタ・アミターバ)Savior’s supreme Noble Phantasm. The ultimate manifestation of the Wheel-Turning Holy King (Chakravartin).
According to the Indian concept of Brahman, every human being is a reincarnation of Brahman; in other words, all of humanity is ultimately a single individual. (Indian reincarnation often ignores the flow of time, so nitpicking the details would be rather uncouth.)
This state is timeless, for so long as the cycle of transmigration itself ignores the time axis. So too does this goal exist outside of the time axis. Hence, principally all beings are in a way destined to attain enlightenment and enter Nirvana. Because outside of time, every single person will, in the end, be reincarnated as the Enlightened 'One'.
But the material world, the world sustained by the human world and natural order, reflects the way of thinking of humanity. Is regarded as the burning world, or world of suffering.
So Buddha's jurisdiction is a timeless authority that forcibly terminates the karmic seeds that attach a human individual to conditioned/dependent existence, which is the reality of human order.
It represents power over the underlying power conditions of karma:
From this perspective, all humanity is destined to attain enlightenment and enter nirvana. Why? Because every single person will, in the end, be reincarnated as the Enlightened One....Uh, at this point even I’m not entirely sure what I’m saying, but this goes far beyond something as trivial as reincarnation or immortality. It’s something truly incredible—(and so on).In short, it is a cycle of reincarnation in which “all humans will eventually become me.” A mechanism that saves all sentient beings from suffering.
Allowing him to target an individual in the cycle of reincarnation (which is timeless/outside of time), to return them to the Oneness that he has already attained. And so, it is a jurisdiction that in principle exterminates an individual from human order, which in effect, is saving them from suffering.
For any living human, this attack inflicts unavoidable and overwhelming damage. However, the protagonist may have a slim chance of enduring it, because they are not technically alive (spoiler). The protagonist has not yet experienced the suffering inherent to life—the Four Sufferings.
And because much like True Magic, as an authority it exercises jurisdiction over underlying causal domains, which the material world and human order are but a manifestation of. It is something that operates conceptually, ignoring the toughness of an individual human to inflict an unavoidable and overwhelming damage.
Damage may be a misnomer; it reassigns the target's ontological status within the causal system of existence itself—reclassification of existence.
Hakuno only has a small chance of surviving it because he doesn't count as 'alive' within the conditioned world, or at least is faintly. He hasn't experienced suffering inherent to life, the four sufferings.
So, besides everything I've explained. We can also understand that this realisation is inherent to all human beings. The potential for enlightenment is there, which then awakens the nature of the material world as 'empty/nothingness' with manifestation as an illusion, as I explained just about in the last parts of page 6.
The crest that Touko had become able to use was more than twice as powerful as Aoko’s. Aoko gazed at that threat through half-lidded eyes, completely outside her interest. Rather than such external matters, she quietly probed for what lay hidden within her own heart, and carefully seized hold of it. It felt like algae in her hands. It was not a kind of intense passion, nor was it hard or large. Surely, this was just the momentum of the moment. She abandoned thought itself, brought the knots of her heart into her grasp, and stared intently at her enemy.
That's why they say True Magic lies hidden within the heart of Aoko. And so, she sought it by inward looking, probing for what subsided deep within her. "Abandoning all unnecessary faculties of apprehension like thought itself, bring within herself the knots of her heart into her grasp."
"Ngh..."
The electrical discharge lashed at her body.This miracle threatened to destroy the worldthe world had to protect itself. It moved to expunge her.
When utilising True Magic, its order threatens the natural order, or the human order's own ordering principle, based on the seeds of Karma. And so, the seeds of karma within Alaya react by trying to extinguish the True Magic before fully realising the mystery.
Pain scorched her every cell, iying to tear away her consciousness. But she did not falter,All this pain and this loneliness was to take her to the Root.
Ever since inheriting True Magic, she had suffered this torture time and time again.
It's a spiritual battle that comes when your consciousness tries to connect to the Root; you have to fight back against 'Order'.
"By the name Blue, I speak for order. Hear me."A censuring voice told her to stop.
At the edges of oblivion, her hand touched the true form of Magic.
However, the battle ends the moment Aoko realises her stage halfway by attaining the unified language, the speech of God. And therein, she immediately asserts herself to Order. Essentially, bridging the gap between the subject as the agent and the world as object, because now you don't speak through speech by imprinting the meaning you convey as a reality in the world. Not speech, but jurisdiction, language as jurisdiction.
"Five timeless words: Order has fallen to ruinWhat was declared had come to be. In this time and place alone, the Fifth Magic made itself known.
The meaning she wishes to express is one of timelessness. The five timeless words that assert her superiority over Order (the seeds of karma).
This speech, a byproduct of reaching the Root and attaining True Magic, exists as True Magic does. In a mode of reality before-meaning, because it is where everything is still undifferentiated. It exists before the human order in ontological priority, because these systems of human order, systems of differentiation like magecraft and science. They all imitate once again, the Sun itself. True Magic is before even the separation between cause and effect, because magecraft, as an imitation of its reality (reality of the Sun as blessings), is an effect. Which is why, only it alone causes mysteries, whilst magecraft reproduces it based on natural order.
Natural Order again has yet to have meaning to True Magic, meaning is a differentiation that appears after it.
With a single word, Aoko nullified the runes, dissolving them before they could be given meaning. The power of Aoko's words had surpassed the magical energy of Touko's rune magecraft. - Mahoyo - Chapter 12
So with the language of that Sun too, you can return all magecraft attacks to nought. To nullify it before it gains meaning, by nullifying it with what is
before-meaning.
When it came to True Magic, however...If the Aozaki Magic was anything like Alice Kuonji's fairy-tale monsters, then mage strength was not a part of the equation. At this point, it was Touko against Magic itself. And there was no winning against Truth. The transcendence and idiosyncrasy of True Magic rendered things like magecraft irrelevant. - Mahoyo - Chapter 12
And so it renders meaning-dependent phenomena like magecraft irrelevant, as a result of its transcendence and idiosyncrasy. A battle against a wielder is not a battle against a subject or agent, but a battle against the very truth itself.
“True Magic, to begin with, is something like a reward bestowed upon a magus who has reached the ‘Swirl of the Root’. Even if the magus’s physical body lacks the capacity to actually wield that Magic, simply opening a path to the Root means that, from the standpoint of magecraft, they can more or less do whatever they want.In other words, it’s like becoming the richest person on Earth.”
Importantly, reaching the Root doesn't guarantee domain supremacy (True Magic) because if you physically lack the talent to wield the Magic type from the path you have to the Root. Then, you can be a monster another way; that simple path already allows you to have the capacity to do everything in terms of magecraft.
A means of communication common to all living things…That is none other than a gateway to the Origin itself.Babel also means “God’s Gate.”………Though, it seems that Godoword himself, lacking the capacity as a true magician, is unable to pass through that gate.
The final veil in the gate/path to the Root is the unified language itself. If you don't have the ability to wield that True Magic-domain physically/can't pass through the Gate. Then you can still retain the connection/synchronisation you have to the world, like Divine Spirits (except they have their own domain supremacies under authorities too). This allows you to still wield the unified language, although it is effectively clear that supervening over a domain through True Magic is better than just having the unified language.
It covers more range, more or less.
“We only know how to fool the world. They had the power to rewrite it however they wish. That is how powerful Divine Spirits are. Of course, they could only wield a fragment of the gods’ powers, but they were still far more powerful than we can ever aspire to be. Some of their spells are similar to the Ten-Count spells we use to deceive the world, but they are still fundamentally different. You could say that we are entire dimensions behind them. They were capable of changing the world with a single word by simply invoking the gods.”
This is why Divine Spirits could rewrite the world however they wish, capable of changing the world with a single word, were the magi, when invoking the gods.
Type Moon does not actually commit to the Swirl of the Root revealing itself. Rather, the subject becomes a locus where the distinction between operation and observer is temporarily invalidated.
And this capacity is actually just inherent within the individual, when they attain it, it is true they become
Root-like insofar as they participate in closer proximity to it.
The powdery snow fluttered. The atmosphere crackled around the girl.---This Magic transcended the Mysteries.The gateway to miracles that eluded human knowledge was preparing to make its appearance on the snowfield.
And hence, gain dominion over boundary conditions of phenomena as the source of mystery within that domain—and so transcends the mysteries of that domain and eludes human knowledge.
The thing that Aoko has inherited is the Mystery among Mysteries, ergo True Magic.
In fact, it is a mystery even amongst the mysteries of magecraft. Hence, transcends the duality of science and magecraft. It is what is referred to as 'zero', and it is said that magecraft and science depart from one another.
...Even so, magecraft does have its benefits. Just as there are some things only science can accomplish, there remain heights only Mystics can reach.If science is racing into the future, then mages are racing into the past. I think the Tohsaka grandmaster said that.Whether you're heading into the past or the future, your destination is the same: zero, or something like that.
One in negating mystery in disclosure and another in affirming mystery in concealment, True Magic transcends not only human knowledge but even the mysteries of magecraft itself. They say despite magecraft and science departing from one another, to be in sustained tension, they are all chasing zero. All human knowledge and human mysteries point towards that same goal; they all point towards it because they were never differentiable from it at a core level. They are altogether undifferentiated.
This is True Knowledge, the mystery of mysteries, True Magic. It is not appropriate to call it True Knowledge, because it is zero as a result of being where the tension/duality of science and mystery (magecraft) reconciles into undifferentiated.
And so you can't call it True Knowledge without suggesting it is (or is just a higher-order object) still higher within the same regime as science and True Mystery without suggesting that it is just a higher-order object or higher within the same regime as magecraft. Hence, it is where both knowledge and mystery become undifferentiated, collapsing into identity.
Back then, mystery wasn't something mysterious—it was treated as common sense. It was a world of swords and sorcery, so to speak.
This is a recount of the Age of Gods having had True Magic as commonality, because common sense (knowledge) was identical to mystery (magecraft).
True Magic is the event in which the Soul temporarily ceases to distinguish between its own causal modelling of reality and the underlying generative structure that produces those models. All of this is inherent and latent within the Soul as the 'centre' of all 'traces of causation'.
"Root-reception" in Type-Moon is not revelation of an external absolute, but rather an activation of an internal capacity that is only meaningful under contact with the
absolute.
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