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Magick is the term which is designed to cause intentional change and the magick is described or developed by the person named as or known as Aleister Crowley, who is a British occultist, although he did not invent the underlying idea. The Anglo-Saxon in Magick is a means of indicating the kind of magic in which Crowley has performed. K is the eleventh letter of several alphabets, and eleven is the principal number of magick, because it is the number which is attributed to the qliphoth- the underworld of chaotic forces that have to be mentally occupied before magick can be performed.

K has other magical suggestion: it corresponds to the power which is aspect of creative energy, for k is the ancient Egyptian k which means, the magical power. Specially, it stands for k ties which means vagina, the complement to the wand or phallus which is used by the Magician in certain sexual magick aspects of the great work. For Crowley, the alternate spelling was just used to differentiate the magick from other practices, such as stage magic. Magick is not capable of producing miracles or violating the physical laws of the universe, although Crowley had asserted that it is theoretically possible to cause in any object any change of which that object is capable by nature. Crowley had preferred the spelling magick, defining it as the art and science of causing change to occur in conformity with the will. By this, he had included mundane acts of will as well as ritual magic. In his theory and practice of magick in chapter XIV, Crowley had said; what is a Magical Operation? And he defined it as any event in
nature which is brought to pass by Will, must not exclude potato-growing or banking from our definition.

Crowley saw magick as the essential method for a person to reach true understanding of the self and to act according to one's true will, which he saw as the settlement between destiny and freewill. Since the time of Crowley's writing about magick, many different spiritual and occult traditions have adopted the K spelling, but some have redefined what it means to some extent and for some modern occultists, it refers strictly to paranormal magic or activities, which involves influencing events and physical phenomena by mystical, supernatural or paranormal means.

The well known person Crowley defined magick as the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will. He went on to elaborate on this, in one postulate, and twenty eight theorems and his first clarification on the matter is that of a postulate, in which he states "ANY required change may be effected by the application of the proper kind and degree of Force in the proper manner, through the proper medium to the proper object. Crowley provided some further statements about the nature of magick as he had defined it that every intentional act is a Magical act and Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions, it is the Art of applying that understanding in action.