
12 ◾ Game Magic
2.6 RITUAL AND MULTIMODAL INPUT
Magicians express meaning in ritual through performative and participa-
tory action, requiring the active involvement of magical practitioners with
an understanding of its rules and symbol systems. As such, ceremonial
magic is a precursor and analogue to games as interactive multimedia.
Because these multimedia performances are intended to accomplish prag-
matic or spiritual work, ritual in ceremonial magic is oen referred to as a
working or, in more modern English, an operation. Both these terms were
frequently used by occultist Aleister Crowley, and later by graphic novelist
Alan Moore to ...