Further considerations enable the the distinction between magick and sorcery to be sharpened by considering their different relationships to symbolic mediation. Magick operates through the intentional manipulation of conceptual configurations. A desired outcome is applied to the vector, potentially producing a specific curvature of the pneuminous field towards its manifestation. The magician ordinarily encounters the operation through its apparent effects: reality seems to have been bent towards the intended result.

Sorcery, by contrast, might involve the progressive attenuation of the accretions through which ordinary human consciousness is organised. Rather than manipulating symbolic structures to produce an outcome, the sorcerer potentially establishes a more direct relationship with the Outside. Here the vortex becomes particularly suggestive. The analogy is more that the sorcerer does not merely produce a vortex; the sorcerer becomes the vortex.

In this speculative condition, pneuminous activity is organised through continuous movement, preventing ordinary conceptual accretions from acquiring their habitual stability. The vortex is not an absence of pneuma, but a dynamic organisation in which fixed accretive determinations are continually disrupted. Such an organisation might itself produce curvature within the wider field. Unlike the specific curvature sought through magickal intention, however, this would be an ongoing and comparatively undirected modification arising from the sorcerer’s mode of being.