Never dismiss the importance of Philippine magic just because you are unable to penetrate it. It is very potent and very effective, though it enables only a selected few to wrap their heads around it.

Should you be one of those few, you know that:

--it can turn vagabonds into kings
--it shields from danger and it heals
--it connects you to all of the bridges that Filipino mages erected from long ago in history
--it has nothing to do with religion, though most of it seems to borrow heavily from religious imagery and prayers
--it makes Nature your ally, for its language is essentially the language of elementals, not Latin, not Spanish, not Hebrew, not Greek.