Magic

According to theologians and historians, the magic is ancestress of religion. After all, in fact, religion is nothing but a characteristic of a developed society, with a clear hierarchical structure. But what existed in the early stages of the birth of our civilization? The answer is simple - magic.

In the early stages of the birth of civilization, our ancestors believed in a mystical world of magic, which has a permanent impact on their lives. They also believe in magical creatures, which need to sacrifice and gifts to avoid court by their anger. It should say that in our modern age people believed in magic, or magic, can not so consciously, but unconsciously.

The most frequent philosophical explanation for such a strong belief in the magic of the people is what has been asked to materialist philosophy: 1) limited understanding of faith «given» large field maneuvers magic, and 2) that people could not understand - dread it, and people started to see this magic, 3) ministers of the cult used the term «Magic», to put parishioners astray for their own ends.

Scientific facts that would clearly answered the question of the existence of magic - no, which means that the «Magic» lies in belief or disbelief of every human being.

Many philosophers agree that religion emerged on the grounds of magic, when the human mind began to know and explain the world around him, but all the same: understanding the essence of the phenomenon - mg did not explain why the phenomenon occurs? Who will occur a phenomenon? In doing so, people started to look for a substance on what will happen all. The man began to speculate that there is some powerful force that controls their lives: if a person lives righteously - that he is happy to have him get in the event, when people are living sinful, and the sins of speech and thought and deed - the supreme power sends at such a sinner all sorts of misfortune and punishment - the main goal which is to urge him on the path of the righteous.