Hearing this, Carl finally came to his senses. The magical theories of the "Bloodborne" school are imbued with the spirit of pragmatism, and do not predict that the world is composed of elements or stars, but are divided into "material causes", "form causes", "dynamic causes" and "purpose causes" according to practical needs.

This is actually very easy to understand, the material cause, that is, the main material and raw material that forms the object, whether it is an element, an astrological phenomenon, a spiritual child, or an atom and molecule quantum, is a kind of material material that forms an object, and the "bloodborne" school does not care about their essential differences, as long as they do exist, inhabit certain characteristics, and can achieve certain functions, they can be used as the magical "material" of the bloodborne school.

As for the formal cause, that is, the design pattern and shape given to the main substance, that is, the genetic map that controls human inheritance, the software program that controls the operation of the computer, the design drawings of the construction of the building, and so on. In the eyes of the mages of the Bloodborne School, all existence in the world can be expressed in abstract design drawings and actual material materials. Form determines the structure of matter, shaping the infinite universe.

Whereas, motivation and purpose are easier to understand. Motivation is the fundamental driving force that drives magic and shapes materials and forms. Purpose factor, that is, the purpose to be achieved by designing an object.

According to this classification, the Bloodborne School, which divides all magic into four components, that is, first determines the effect and purpose of a magic to be achieved, which is the purpose cause. Then the formal drawings designed for this effect and goal, which are the formal causes. Then there is the texture and material that needs to be filled in to realize this drawing, which is the material factor. Finally, there is the injection of the power that drives the magic, which is the driving factor.

"Determination of the purpose ......"

Framing Model ......

Filler Material ......

"Energizing ......"

"These are the four basic steps of our bloodborne school's spell casting, which is different from the way the elemental school resonates with the elements and guides the elemental rhythm in the chanting, and it is also different from the astrological school that first establishes the mapping relationship between the self and the stars, and casts spells in the way of astral projection, and it is also different from the spell school that relies heavily on runes and spells, relying on the arrangement and writing of runes to cast spells!"

"Our spell casting method is the most convenient, the fastest, the most purposeful, the most structured, the most conducive to learning, and the most widely compatible. Hmph, even those old old-fashioned Elemental Sects, who have been slandering our Bloodborne School for turning magic into a craftsman's craft, without the artistic beauty of magic, don't they still quietly learn our spellcasting methods to improve their magic in private?"

Carl didn't know the grievances between the several major schools of magic in the Magic Empire, and he couldn't tell which of their theories was higher. However, he felt that some of the ideas of the Bloodborne School were quite palatable.

Although the division of material causes, form causes, power causes, and teleological causes is biased towards pragmatism, it already has some simple materialist meanings.

Carl's undergraduate science on Earth is computers, and it is easy to understand the idea of the Bloodborne School, the formal cause when casting spells is actually mathematical modeling, abstracting real problems into a mathematical model and writing them into software programs, and the material cause is actually the hardware structure such as circuit boards and transistors that make computers. The combination of software and hardware, and then powering on (power factor), forms a complete computer to run and implement various functions (power factor).

"The great sage Arist believed that human knowledge and wisdom originate from perception, and perception originates from the soul. The human soul can be divided into three parts, namely: the plant soul, the animal soul, and the rational soul. ”

Among them, the plant soul and the animal soul can be collectively referred to as the irrational soul, representing irrational things such as human instincts, feelings, desires, etc. The vegetative soul is the static, passive side of the irrational soul, while the animal soul represents the restless, active, aggressive side of the soul. ”

"The irrational soul is the instinctive impulse of material and form derived from the human body, while the rational soul is the sublimation of perception and wisdom such as thinking, understanding, and cognition, and represents the noblest and most perfect side of human consciousness......"

"The basic meditation method of our bloodline school is based on this concept, first awakening the vegetative soul that sleeps in the depths of our body's physical materials and forms, then ascending from the vegetative soul to the animal soul, and finally restraining desires, harnessing the vegetative inertia and animal desires of the main self, and truly sublimating to the perfect state of pure reason......"

The basic meditation method of the "Crimson Tower" is called "Bloodline Tracing the Source", which is also a meditation method based on the theory of plant souls, animal souls, and rational souls, and this beautiful teacher only teaches the most basic part of the meditation method, which is the part of awakening the plant soul, and further, the complete meditation method can only be obtained after becoming a full-fledged mage.

Carl unexpectedly discovers that the method of awakening the vegetative soul is somewhat similar to the "Dream of the Dragon Breathing Method" he learned from Princess Alicia, which is to first fall into a long and slow slumber, tap the instinctive potential of life in the deep sleep, and transform from a short-lived species to a long-lived species.

It is only to awaken the plant soul that is more inclined to go deep into the physiological activities required by the survival instinct of those people, listen to the pulse of the heart, feel the frequency of breathing, experience the digestive cycle of nutrients ingested by the human body, trace the process of power transmission in the body, and reproduce the forms of those physiological functions that are vital to life in the soul, as if copying a picture scroll, and gradually depict a plant soul in the self-consciousness.

To some extent, this is also an abstract modeling, an abstract modeling of the self, which is experienced by perception, sublimated by wisdom, and engraved in the soul......

After the meditation class, there is the potions class, which is a course similar to chemical experiments, mainly to learn the common sense of various physical properties and the preparation of potions, and emphasizes the ability of hands-on experiments, because most of the magic potions have magical powers, and have the same idealistic side as magic, it is difficult to quantify them as accurately as chemical experiments, and more often rely on an intuitive perception of the pharmacist, although the general formula of the potion is similar, but even if it is the same formula of the potion, the measurement after the preparation of different mages is also subtle and different, and all of this can only be explored by the mages themselves。

Like the potion, the pronunciation of the spell when casting spells is also subtly different from person to person, and the spells recited by each mage are not simple imitations of others, but must be infused with their own spirit and their own understanding, in order to truly drive the magic and form all kinds of magical magic.

The more he studied, the more Carl felt the breadth and profundity of magic, which was just as profound and vast as science, and an open academic system that was constantly evolving and evolving.