<Snipped quote by Shadrack Nor>
Think about electricity. It's a force with an origin and rules. Magic is the same—it has a lot of properties you might not expect, which leads to things like rituals and channels. But fundamentally, once you have magic, you can convince it to do work for you.
Soldier Boy: Electrictiy, that i can basically tell it 'heel boy!' yup...
Arch Numakhiim Ar'Gavryiell: You're already using it with the tesseract! I saw when you terraformed phobos and how you basically performed an intuitive prayer to activate it... did you never thought for one second that what you were pulling there was a ritual?
Soldier Boy: Uuuh, so you can remember that event?
Arch Numakhiim Ar'Gavryiell: Were above the dimension of time here?...