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Not the history of magic. Not the anthropology of belief. Not the psychology of superstition. But magic as recursive symbolic operation upon reality. Magic as symbolic recursion. Magic as metaphysical interface. Magic as technΔ“. ON DEFINITION: Magic is that operation by which symbol affects structure, and structure re-patterns the world. - A spell is a symbolic compression. - A ritual is a structural re", "now": "This concise declaration defines magic as symbolically mediated structural action and establishes a curriculum, method, and founding act for its academic study. Its force is institutional and programmatic: the document performs the field-founding operation it describes.\n\nThe surviving body is a compressed declaration recovered from external metadata rather than a conventional long-form disciplinary prospectus. 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