Insightful article by Brandon Sanderson on two types of magic systems: hard (where every rule is explicitly defined) and soft (more mysterious magic where the reader doesn't know the rules or how it works) and everything in-between:
http://brandonsanderson.com/sandersons-first-law/
(linked to in the external link)
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