Going back to the relation between magic and religion, this is tricky. Personally, contrary to Star Eyes, I've never been a student of the occult arts (except if one sees astrology as an occult art). I always thought of it as "dangerous ground". Perhaps I am being cautious, perhaps there is some fear from previous lifes. I suppose I could have dwelt in these matters and being "burn". So for now I feel confortable with a more rational approach to religion, even, if, historically, the two have been in many ways like the two faces of the same coin.