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Magick is defined (in my opinion) as the focused application of a person's willpower to affect specific changes in accordance with specific needs or desires. The rest is just dogma which (hopefully) aids the practitioner in attaining the state of mind in which the willpower is most concentrated and easily focused on the work at hand.
Mysticism, on the other hand, (and again, this is a personal definition) consists of two parts; the first part being communication with entities with which the practitioner feels attuned to, and the second part being the attempt to raise personal "energies" (for lack of a better word) to the level of these entities.
Magick itself, incidentally, has no "colour" or "ethical properties". It is neither white nor black; neither good nor evil. It is a tool, albeit one that is greatly misunderstood. You might think of it as being similar to a hammer; you can do very constructive things with a hammer, such as building a house, or very destructive things, such as smashing a car to chunks of scrap metal. Neither one makes the hammer inherently good or evil, and neither is easy to do by yourself with a single hammer, which is where the focusing of the will comes in.
