Illusions

We are intelligent.
We are smart.
We want to know the truth.
Yet, we love to be misled.
The truth, as they say, is out there, however, the lies are inside our minds1 . The power of the illusion lays in the strong fantasy of the misled, not in the talent or the art of the illusionist. Just keep that in mind if you want to know how Daleth magic works.
The eye deceives, the mind spins wild fantasies around that wrapped view, the mouth will tell lies for truth, convinced, convincing. For the truth is that what we have seen, with our own eyes, and heard, with our own ears. However, the truth is also what we made of it with our own minds.
Our wonderful minds, that sometimes make reality stranger than fiction. Our minds, that have the power to dream, to fantasise, to build our own truth. Our minds, so apt to hide the lies behind reality, the illusions beyond reality.

And we will dream and say it is the truth. And we will freely drown in fantasy. We will love illusions. It will spice up our dull days, it will enlighten our lustless lives. We are willing to see the world with a magic view.
And we are willing to share that view. Stories are told and retold, paintings made, and by any means we will try to share the dream of reality we have.
Soon, the truth we heard from others will be our own truth. And in reality we can relive the fumbled, wrapped, mislead truth by remembering the stories, the paintings, the dreams of others. And yes, we will continue to live in the lies, spread it, buying and selling, building a culture of shared illusions and dreams.
For all those who have heard a truth, this truth becomes reality, and the woods will be sparkled with strange creatures, the night will send monsters, the skies will be filled with gods. That is the truth of the humans.
That is the truth.
Your mother told you.
Your teacher told you.
Your neighbours tell you.
And you will tell them the very same truth for your view towards reality is spoiled with the same illusions.

Illusions are the true magic of Daleth. It is the beginning and the end of all other magic. If you are sensible for the power of illusions, all other magic will work just as well. All truth is held together with bonds of illusion, and those who fail to see that bond will not understand the world as the others will. Will be a liar and a traitor to civility. Will be put away in the madhouse.
Illusion is also the start of inspiration, ideas triggered by the wrapped view towards the world, dreams that are made reality. That is a very strong power, that makes illusion worthwhile, yes, necessary for a society.

Truth and lies, what is the difference if magical powers of illusion are larger than life, and stronger than steel? And so Daleth has its magical creatures, its wizards of the wrapped mind, its magicians and illusionists. And, more important, it has a population, who believe this truth...

Although... do they?
The illusion of a different truth is just a word away.

Related topics:

1 Free quoted from “Hogfather” by Terry Pratchett

Home