Some friends of mine were talking about a role-playing game in which the characters are able to manipulate fate and chance, by working through entropy. "What a wonderful idea," I thought! Is it possible to do this from a Hermetic perspective - increase our chances of doing something, of having someone believe us when we're talking, of making us more lucky, and so on - and, if it does, how does it work? How would entropy be covered from a Hermetic perspective? I'm not sure - Bardon speaks a lot about the lawfulness and order of the universe, so it seems kind of odd that we could make ourselves "lucky" (manipulating chance instead of actual events). On the other hand, if the Akasha represents possibility, being the source of everything on the three planes (as I'm given to understand it), then one could easily expend a _little_ effort to stack the deck in her favor, as opposed to expending a _lot_ of effort to come up with a royal flush, to use a poker metaphor. Either way, useful or no, it sounds like an interesting possibility. To me. =P The poor Hermetic's Swiss Army Knife, I guess. My next question has to do with water magnetism. By magnetising a bottle of water, cold soda, et cetera with a certain wish/property, like "health" or "calmness," is it possible to create something akin to a classical "potion," albeit on a much lower level of power? I'm sure that it's possible in the short term, a la the water/Eucharistic magic, but what about the long term, like if you stored it away in your fridge for later use? Thanks in advance. - Basim