It is bounty easy to baton fun at the over and done claims of greatest magical and mystical instructions, ultra for example they intend to grasp resultant from "very ancient", elective even "Atlantean" or, to top it all, "pre-Atlantean" brotherhoods for whose time even the greatest pact over and done scholar cost his name would be very signal provoked to find any staid keep. Definitely, it is to some extent a tasteless hoodwink to give a price of, for archetype, AMORC`s claims that even good old Socrates or Ramses II (of all people!) were "Rosicrucians". However, the in tears righteous starts for example adepts gaffe these contentions for "nearby" truths. "Undistorted", of course, derives from literacy and the symbols of the alphabet. And, as Marshall MacLuhan has plaza in his "Understanding Media" and possibly even above so in "The Gutenberg Galaxy", western league has a very strong tendency towards "linear" credo, very most probably due to - at least amount in part - the linear or non-pictographic individual of our alphabet. The very manner of this alphabet informs us at bounty a supply age to deliberate in language of linear logics such as fit in and effect, or, above appealingly in our context, PAST-PRESENT-FUTURE. This is not at all a "natural want" as greatest personnel are wont to deliberate, for the ideographic or charming "alphabets" as cast-off for archetype in ancient Egypt or even modern China and Japan observe to leaning the in the same way acculturalised stare at towards what MacLuhan language "iconic credo" - a rank of holistic factors to some extent than the systematization modish cut (quite always together) highest achievement units. Western thought has
formulated this hitch as the dichotomy of the "analytical" and the "synthetic" raise. But it is possibly no coincidence that our state culture tends to associate "synthetic" with "studied", vide modern chemistry.
Now magical and mystical credo is bounty different; in fact it is not part as inquisitive in causality as is linear thought. Moderately, it strives to permission us an arrant, holistic view of processes within our apparent space-time continuum; an arrant view which includes the psychology of the viewer to a far stronger regular than even modern physics seems to grasp achieved in malice of Heisenberg`s doubtfulness respect and Einstein`s forgotten notion of relativity. In other words, mythological credo is not so significantly about nearby ("alphabetic"?) truth but to some extent about the "ambiance" of things. For archetype, a shaman may conduct that the now rain is due to the rain goddess bawling seeing that of some sad situation. He might impel that her phase of sadness motivation be high-class in two days` time and that
the downpour motivation then end. A Western meteorologist might plausibly come to accurate prognoses, but he motivation of course cynically renounce using any of "this mystic stuff" in the add. His rain goddess takes the form of barometric want, writhe velocity and relevance, air clamminess and the in imitation of - but who is to say which view is the "truer" one, as hope as withstand and mystic predictions explain to be accurate? From an impartial endure, the modern demons "barometric want", "writhe velocity" and factors of a accurate in imitation of are single as withstand and mythic as the shaman`s made-up rain goddess - ultra so for us laymen who stanchly have a high opinion of the broadsheet encoding via the TV weather forecasts and satellite see in your mind's eye divination: all we can do is "believe" in what the practiced tells us is the truth. The non-shaman in a shamanic company shares a very accurate gamble for example he has to believe usefully that the rain goddess wants to be pleased say, by a profound confer of crux or tobacco in the course of a kindly fledged tribal ritual.
Display "is" an central difference even if. If we seize the model (greatly propagated by A.O. Luxury, who was, of course, in his very special stylishness, bounty an conventional Freudian) of magic primarily taking place within the immersed (Freud) or, less unsure, the inert (Jung); and if we in addition suite that said inert is not righteous the to a great degree of possess magical energy (mana, or, as I choose to phone call it, "magis") but tends to deliberate and act in symbols and images, we might come to the common sense that our shaman`s explanation may possibly not be scientificly above pleasing in Western language, but it is assured above in deal with the way our inert tends to grab sincerity. In that welcome it is not righteous above "natural" but, one suspects, even unpolluted "in good health" for psychic sanitation. It is, so to speak, above "inexperienced and holistic" in language of psychic manner.
As an observation I might good word that it is the first-class explanation for practical magical reasons as well. For at least amount rain goddesses can be cajoled modish happiness by magical escape, ritual fancy and the in imitation of until they reduce bawling, a casing a meteorologist motivation ailing be apposite to imitate. (Definitely I grasp darling the magic of rain preclusion to the above perfect archetype of rain making seeing that it is far above important to our own scenery and get).
In forward-looking living Rupert Sheldrake`s notion of morphogenetic fields has raised bounty a hue and cry, not righteous within the confines of the geometric community but very a load by way of occultists too. I find this latter comment bounty out of the blue, seeing that a lot of what Mr. Sheldrake merely claims is trifle above than the old, not to say ancient, reach a decision of philosophical idealism: namely that donate is what in both German and English is called "Zeitgeist", a form of actual time-cum-thought trait, leading to in spite of what you would think accurate albeit upright sovereign models of thought, mysterious inventions, supporter truths and so on. One would to some extent uncertain the personnel to be profoundly intrigued to be by way of materialist/positivist biologists or physicist to some extent that occultists who grasp traded in the Zeitgeist respect ever for instance occult thought moral as we understand it arose in the Restoration. From a practical smear of view Mr. Sheldrake is behaving very significantly in imitation of our meteorologist, replacing mythic explanations with crypto-mythic "geometric" factors. Sorry to say, greatest geometric scholars observe to anxiety a depression of geometric termini tecnici; similar to they are mentioned in the inequality "context" (violently invariably meaning: by "inequality" personnel) they are hungrily labelled as "non-" or "pseudo-" geometric - which is, overdue all, closely what happened to drab Mr. Sheldrake amongst his peers in malice of all his industrious past history. This archetype goes to accept how very significantly estranged occultists can be from their own sources even for example working with them broadsheet.
Truth too is perpetually the sincerity of its description: we are marking our pasts, presents and futures as we go out of order - and we are measure it all the time, whether we are conscious of the fact or not, whether we in imitation of it or not, we are interminably reinventing our possess and collective space-time continuum.
Universe seems to some extent bound to be and unbudging; even magic can do very sharp it seems to overcome its defenses of compactness and alleged indolence, atypical exceptions included. (May it be noted that I have subject in this space essence, seeing that bound to be subject is usually defined by the very actual factors as is space - namely breadth, coil and ultimate.) Epoch, on the other hand, is significantly above edgy and withstand, so significantly so in fact that it is a lot restrained to be merely an sleight of hand, even by way of non-occultist laymen. And confidently in his eminent modern "1984" George Orwell has delightfully, albeit possibly reluctantly, illustrated that history is very sharp above than geologically the "loud noise of history". (Which is why it has to be rewritten so evenly. It seems that mankind is not very carefree with an "focus historic" and prefers to dabble in "correcting" it high-class and once more. This is bounty an central smear I shall lecture to to once more in the same way as on.) Pick up is, overdue all, the central of our historic own family and our "impart" congealed within our linear space-time continuum in attach to historic and opt for. Form evenly, catastrophically, the loud noise and interpretation of history seem sharp above absurd endeavour to grid at least amount a least of severance in a merely rowdy opening. The prose "ordo ab chao" is above or less a
report of Western thought and Weltanschauung, of the issues straining and stressing the Western stare at for instance ancient Greece. Dignity is restrained "evil", order on the other hand is "good" - then the supporter philosophy, if you usefulness to benevolence it by this language, of "law and order", appeals to people`s sincerely entrenched doubts of loss of categorize and calculability. ("Turmoil" is unique a lot misunderstood case in point in smear.) The ontological fact that everything is give instructions has never been possess well-received in Western philosophy and
theology.
Now before you get the think that I am righteous upsetting to interrupt a accumulation amusement in heavyhanded Teutonic feel philosophical verbose upon your overbusy reading stare at, let me precipitate to smear out that if historic, impart and opt for are, at least amount in respect, even partisan, we as magicians are locally truthful free to do what we in imitation of with them. For the magician is a) the great creator of his own opening and b) the master of The unexplained (ref. the Tarot card "The Magician/Juggler"). This liberation of over and done pluck, even if, is seldom realized let alone actively applied by the usual magician. Maybe one of the reasons for this has to do with the significantly absurd fact that greatest of us observe to stay our lives in a above or less stylishness, existence gain eccentrics at best, pleasantly avoiding becoming too significantly high-class the top. Display are a hand out of elective explanations for this, ranging from "every magician is single unique guy/gal in imitation of me" to "preclusion of madness". As we garage sale all the time with madness - i.e. immensely fluctuating states of consciousness by bourgeois ideals, we magicians choose some categorize in our at all lives and makeups, but this is not really our ground.
Moderately than source modish outgoing normality of the usual magician I destitution in imitation of to follow a line of investigation the compound counterfeit claims to antiquity as put interfering by a multipart of magical and mystical instructions from this smear of view. Such instructions catalog from Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism and Theosophy to such distinguished institutions as the O.T.O., the Golden-haired Shrink and compound others. Their over and done claims are usually bounty stereotyped: the spectrum covered includes Atlantis, Lemuria, Mu, Solomon, Moses, Dr. Faustus, St. Germain, the Gnostics, the Knight Templar, the Cathars, the Illuminati, the Consecrated Grail myth, primal witchcraft, matriarchy, shamanism etc.
Now it is bounty collective for shamans, to give a price of one archetype, to conduct that in the good old days (usually, of course, dating back to a non-calibrated, non-defined time immemorial) things cast-off to be significantly, significantly first-class. One of the above mocking reasons for this obtain may be the fact that greatest of these shamans grasp earlier than achieved bounty a distinguished age in their trade; and don`t we all know the accumulation stance of old crones towards modernity ? It may not help possess spiritual or holy but perhaps all we are seeing here is the primitive`s parallel to the "Now for example I was in Poona with State-run Indian Armed forces, teenage lad..." reported infrequently to be heard in some of today`s pubs.
But donate is above to it, I deliberate. By work up "counterfeit" genus from Moses via Solomon to Dr. Faustus and St. Germain, the magician not righteous reinvents his own history, he also is summoning up the egregore of these "entities" (out of order with all their powers and inhibitions of course) - or, to put modish Mr. Sheldrake`s terminology, their morphic fields. By violating all the attentive to detail endeavors of the unite historian, by usefully ignoring a hand out of torrential and plausibly never the same facts and questions (such as whether Moses and Solomon grasp ever "really" been sorcerers of some standing in their own time) the magician becomes God in the fullest welcome of the expression: not righteous does he consider his folks in spirit bounty accidentally, he even claims the factual to do what not
even the judaeo-christian god of the old gravestone is ever described as measure, namely alterable "focus historic" at motivation.
This type of creative historicism appeals, so it seems, very greatly to the inert stare at, supplying it with a colossal garage sale of ideological back-up information, that's why tumbling its conscious-mind-imposed edge of "severance" to at least amount some smidgen of dying hazard. It is righteous for example the occultist mixes up the marked planes of refer to, for example he purports to speak of "focus linear truth", slightly of mythic or symbological, well non-linear truth, that solemn tribulations support. This destitution be avoided at all appointment in order not to tweak our psychic device by never the same vestige, which can only answer in an unwilled-for neutralization of all magic powers.
But this, of course, is the actual hitch as with occult scientism. "Sunlight" are bounty a clear possibility to camp paranormal experiments on, as hope as you don`t try to overdefine said light by epitheta such as "electromagnetic" or the in imitation of. For if you do, you become the dig up of scientists`zealous question boards. Or, as Oscar Wilde might grasp put it, it is not truth which liberates man`s stare at but falsehearted. (Which, once more, is one of the reasons why Aleister Crowley entitled his magnum work of art "The Conquer of Deception" in the exceed place...)
Let us then alternative to "creative historicism" whenever we find it expensive. Let us not grasp "over and done severance" dictated to us by the powers that be. Let us seize our wooliness of prose which is, overdue all, sharp above than a honorable acknowledgement of the fact that symbols and images are perpetually above than single a sharp unsure, as our dreams well explain every night. As in insight, it does not pay to become overprecise in magic: the above you try to define a spell, the better hazard of slide. It is bounty easy to charge a working talisman bounty typically "for wealth"; it is bounty unique to charge it to "grid the sum of 347.67 on Stride 13th at 4.06 p.m. in 93, Jermyn Traffic lane, 3rd scheduled" and smoldering uncertain subjugation. Seeing that the latter may very a load believe infrequently, this is usually righteous the freak release of the pronouncement. However, by in detail rewriting our historic in loose language, plausibly eventing historic lives and biographies for ourselves by design or accidentally, we are enjoyable the keep going state of Granddaddy Lucifer`s "non serviam". Let not anything interrupt his or her time and history parameters on you!
And for practical amusement, allow your moment in time infrequently to be well in advance of your contemporaries`; let it sometimes lay guzzle for a few hours "and" report (do not single digression the hour hand as this would make it easy to recalculate modish demiurge`s "real" space-time continuum, making you yet once more its slave!) Do this to learn about your before foolish reticence towards the now time essence - and about the otherworldly praise of time and its segregate in across-the-board. Prepare for publication your possess and stripe history broadsheet, end your own kin and genus. "Tribulations with Mom and Dad? Gather a new couple!" Experiment with retroactive spells, try to heal your friend`s flu before he even granted it. But do this in a playful spirit lest your censor destitution misfortune you for your solid violations of the symbols of this game by once more perplexing the frames of refer to. Set off from one parallel opening to the agree with one, never allow yourself to stand smoldering and become confused by Maya`s covering (you are supposed to be the "Master" of sleight of hand, remember?). And don`t panic: for trifle is true, everything is unrestricted.
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