Cavendish writes about the law of return, “The law of return is the principle that the force of a spell which fails, rebounds on the head of the sorcerer.” What of a dark spell that succeeds? Why do black magicians believe that successful harmful spells avoid the law of return? What can Creator tell us?

This is a clever propaganda message used to manipulate human thinking and encourage practitioners of the dark arts to maximize their diligence and work at developing their power, with the threat of failure coming back to haunt them, as an incentive to do their utmost in serving dark agendas. The need for readjusting methods and strategies may become apparent with a failed black magic attack, for example, if the Law of Karma creates a backlash for that practitioner. The Law of Karma is a divine instrument that, in effect, polices the universe through giving a consequence for human or other beings, through their actions, good or bad. Both kinds of energies will be noted, recorded, and projected into the future and will circle back to the originator with rewards in the case of positive influences on the universe, and with a punishment of some kind, or a loss will happen that punishes a perpetrator engaged in wrongdoing—that eventuality has been noted. In past eras, it has just as often been through an intended victim having established a divine partnership, through regular prayer practice and a strong belief in the divine, so as to render black magic impotent and, moreover, those individuals with a good intuitive sense may well perceive they are being attacked in some way, and may well be able to see intuitively who their attacker might be and then arrange some kind of exposure or comeuppance for their assailant. Hence giving rise to the notion, "If you are going to do it, you had better do it right or you might have to pay the piper," but the true mechanisms are not understood by practitioners of black magic. When they fail, it is often because they are going up against the divine, and when they succeed it is only because their victim is not aware of that safe haven available to them, and believe in it, and therefore the black magic succeeds by default because, in effect, their human target has dropped their guard and made themselves vulnerable. So the success of black magic is not truly derived from great power but the fact people surrender their native power, as a consequence of their divine origins, and this will make them vulnerable to the workings of a lesser being because they have chosen to be defenseless in the face of any would-be attacker seeking to manipulate and overpower them.