Planet Soul

The 10-Day Miracle Challenge

Because sometimes things just work

Mitch Horowitz
Human Parts
Published in
5 min readMar 3, 2019

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A man rowing a boat in Glacier National Park. Mood is a bit mysterious and muted.
Photo: Jordan Siemens/Getty Images

An old friend studied physics in the graduate program at Columbia University. He was also an astrologer. He had a particular talent — and respect for — daily horoscopes. Yes, the same sun-sign columns that run in daily newspapers and online. I questioned the method. “It’s a trick,” he replied. “But sometimes a trick works.”

Sometimes a trick works. Most spell workers and practitioners of chaos or ceremonial magick would agree. In fact, the sole question that really matters in all mystical or therapeutic methods is: Does it work?

Often a treatment works or fails based on whether the wished-for outcome can reach you along “established lines.” Working with established lines is one of the subtlest and most important points in all of practical spirituality. It means you must pay attention to practical channels of arrival and fulfillment. Success author Wallace D. Wattles put it this way in his 1910 book The Science of Getting Rich:

In creating, the Formless seems to move according to the lines of motion it has established; the thought of an oak tree does not cause the instant formation of a full-grown tree, but does start in motion the forces which will produce the tree, along established lines of growth. Every thought of…

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Mitch Horowitz
Human Parts

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