Our Word "Magic"
Our word "magic" comes from the word "magus" describing the great one who held the secret knowledge. It was the knowledge that brings power with it. It was the knowledge that commanded the inner-world from which most of what we value has come, including our technology.
Magic has had a bad connotation for being divorced from morality, and so we remember tales of cruelty and selfishness. The wife that was left for years while her husband was in the crusades, attempted to preserve her youth by bathing in the blood of infants.
Power always seems to highlight both ends of the human scale. There is always the unknown man who vanished in the icy river after he saved the victim of a plane crash and dove again to find another victim.
The ancient mystery schools cultivated those extreme potentials, while offering discipline and guidance. This allowed the vastness of human power to express itself in a good way -- a way that would benefit humankind.
An enlightened being, who knows at core that we are all one, would not be tempted to do anything harmful to others, anymore than the fingers of your hand would wish to damage the thumb.