Is there a fine line between science and magic or are they both each a means to the same end? Two sides of the same coin as a matter of speaking. Yes, magic is mysterious. Well, so are certain levels of science we have yet to master. Centuries ago we would've seen energy weapons as something only the gods could master. What do you think?
You can put it that way, because Science and Occult could be related, and they branch off from Philosophy and Alchemy. Look at chemistry and alchemy.
I've always been fond of the idea that magic is science that hasnt been discovered yet.
If one wanted to get technical, to someone alive in say....1800, the personal computer would have been a "magic box". Along with cars, planes, phones, radios, televisions.....one century's "magic" is another's technology.
I think that science and magic is very different. Opposite in my mind. They have totally different beliefs and have different meanings for different people.
Depending on the magic we are referring too. magic like
Merlin would be fantasies in the mind or parlor tricks of the writers. We know many depicitions in movies are just that smoke screens and special effects,
Magic in occult and other religion based socoties would go hand in hand with science, I strongly believe we could not have one without the other.