The K in magick

Week #22 - the letter "K" again

I used to wonder why, in some instances, the word "magic" had a letter "K" at the end of it.  At first I thought it was just a Pagan thing.  Along the lines, I heard that it was used to differentiate between the magic you see on stage performed by magicians and what Witches do in practice.  About.com gives some credit to Aleister Crowley, saying:

Aleister Crowley started using the work "magick" and gave several reasons why. The most often mentioned reason is to differentiate what he was doing with stage magic. However, such a usage is really unnecessary. Academics discuss magic in ancient cultures all the time and no one thinks they are talking about the Celts pulling rabbits out of hats. 

But Crowley gave several other reasons why he used the term "magick," and these reasons are often ignored. The central reason was that he considered magick to be anything that moves a person closer to fulfilling their ultimate destiny, which he called one's True Will. By this definition, magick doesn't have to be metaphysical. Any action, mundane or magical, that helps fulfill one's True Will is magick. Casting a spell to get a boy's attention is most certainly not magick. 

 There is a lot of chatter out there about adding and omitting the "K".  Everyone seems to have their own opinion about what is right and what is wrong.  Does it honestly matter?  In the end, I agree with the owner of the Spiral Star website:

So when you get right down to it, you can spell it anyway you want. Magic, magick, magicke, magiq, magique, magiqe, majick, majik or however else you want to spell it, it's the same thing.

If you are referring to the workings of a Witch (moving energy to affect a change), it really doesn't matter how you choose to spell it.  Intention is what matters.  For me, I prefer to add the "K" to distinguish that there is a difference but I do not care if you choose to spell it a different way.  As long as we are aware that our discussion is on the same topic/type of magic(k), we are good.

I really like the rationale in the below picture and feel it is a good summation of my preference to use the "K".