How did it come to be this way? How did this all begin? Is there really someone left to remember? At least in the halls of the so called "Schools of Sorcery" where they claim they ammass every tiny bit of knowledge available to mortal mind to know... and they say even beyond that limit too... but do even they know it? How even their very power of magic came to us? Was it the first gift man took for itself? Or did it come first the ability to shape objects to obey our will? The gift they call "Science" or "Technology" these days? Both these skills are so greatly studied and known to mankind now that's nigh impossible to tell which was born fist. These days you can see the trains of the magnetic monorail dare our skies with but a low "humm" from their spell powered engines, flaring past you with a display of multicolored lights that would make a blind man drop his jaw in astonishment. Magic and Physic were explored to every extent, unlocking their secrets one by one until they served man in every aspect of his life... When was this absolute reign of knowledge conquered? It must have been so far in the past that nobody really remembers... Nobody remembers if magic was brought as an astonishing surprise in a technologically advanced world or if it was the other way around... or if they both grew together in armony or conflict... Nobody really cares, these days... Most of us are just happy using their rune etched steak knife to easily cut through their meal as they watch Channel 666 prime time broadcasting in their 16'' flat screen TV to learn the "Black Magic Trick" of the day... It doesn't matter where Magic or Science did come from, now it's enough for everybody to know that they are both here to make their life easier... or are they just serving Those Men get more money?...
Who? It should be obvious that when a society has such rich resounces to exploit, somebody does just that: exploit them to make profit out of such possibility... Men with power gathered knowledge and began selling it at a high price and probably soon they were so much indispensable to those who held the reins of the government that they soon escaped any kind of law and restriction, becoming free of doing as they pleased in exchange for the powerful kwoledge they held... It's anybody's guess that those who truly decide how things are going to be done are the Corporations and not our confused and frustrated "Administration"...
Corporations run rampant these days, trying to pile up yet more and more money every second of their uncaring rule... People usually despise those folks, but they don't get a choice, unless they want to go scavenging for food in Her streets and try Her patience and good heart.... Money floods in Corporative Pockets and everybody else is left little... if anything at all... Unless you are... A Priest...
When you see car lift in the air with but a blink of an eye or the scyscrapers loom down on you from their 500 floors, you in the end stumble in the thought that maybe somebody bigger than you (and them) had to make all this possible... and perhaps other men believe the same as you... So it's little surprise that churces and clerical organizations fill our streets too... However, although Spiritual Magic is a proven fact and can achieve heights as great as (and some say even greater) Black Magic and Science, no God nor Angel (and nor Demon, for what matters...) as ever showed up to prove its existence, so every faith had to keep arguing about principles and reasons while corporations grew stronger and richer... In the end spiritual matter couldn't keep the pace of good old money... and churches became a sort of "hobby" although their priest could call down lighting from the sky to strike the infidels... You see... even infidels are Customers... and frying a customer it's just not what puts a Corporation in a good mood... So faith had to comply...
It was later discovered that spiritual energy could be channeled by any man strong enough to will it into exinstence and, although faith in a superior being helped a man focus his inner strength, it wasn't absolutely necessary to accomplish the feat... But this didn't prevent people from clinging to their last bit of freedom... Freedom to be right although they were poor... So churches survived gathering the power from what the wastes Corporative rule left: Anger, Frustration, Desperation and even Hope...
Alas, not many are interested on how it started nowdays... They seem more bent on gleaning how it will End... because they think it will be a much more useful piece of information to prepare for what's to come... And seeing how things are going... I wouldn't call them fools...