Mathematics?
If (A) and (B) have something in common, then both can be influenced by it. (A) and (B) also influence each other. The more they have in common, the more they influence each other. Now this may be changed by two sub-principles:
SIMILARITY
(Sympathetic Magick)
Physicist Wolfgang Pauli, discoverer of the Pauli Exclusion Principle,
would co-write with psychoanalyst Carl G. Jung an essay entitled
"Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle." Pauli claimed
that new discoveries vindicated synchronicity, which as one
commentator has noted, is "the old belief in a system of magical
correspondences in a new guise," because it suggest events may
be linked by similarity just as much as by proximity. And Pauli
also felt that it might explain some of the mysteries of psi.
The cause and effect resonate with one another. You might drip
water onto the ground in a ritual to bring a rainstorm. Wanting
to fly might have you wearing feathers and chirping like a bird,
etc.
CONTAGION
(Homeopathic Magick)
You know how Christians that are "born again" witness? This is contagion.
Once something comes into contact with something else then that substance, person, or object can then be used to "witness" for that. Another example would be the traditional use of hair or nail clippings on a voodoo doll. A witness is like tuning in a crystal ball. Power is contagious.
"An idea is something you have;
an ideology is something that has you."
--Morris Berman
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