A long time ago an occultist wanted to learn how magic worked.

He looked at the magical systems from all over the world and assumed they all worked, then came to the conclusion that although they seemed to have nothing in common, they actually had one thing in common to all of them:

That commonality to every magical system throughout history was that the people who used them believed that they worked. He came to the conclusion that is magic was real than it operated on the basis of belief.

He conducted a thought experiment that went as follows:

- Imagine that there's a God, big G god, who is absolutely omnipotent.

- This God decides what reality is, and since his power is innate he can use it without realizing he has it, its unconscious and unintentional, it's active all the time, constantly warping and rewriting reality all in its own, whatever Gods mind can envision, his power makes real. Mental power over the material existence.

- So one of the first things God makes is another God, and now that there's two of them, reality is now the subject of a tug of war.

- Assuming for simplicity sake that both Gods are operating at full power in all things, when both Gods are in agreement reality changes in accordance with that agreement on what it should be.

- but when the Gods disagree on some matter there their minds are opposed, reality continues as it is, affected by either, because the power of the two are pulling in opposite directions and cancel one another out.