job said:
Hi
You don't always get what you expect but you don't expect a wicked sense of humour!
Anyone familiar with AC, I feel, should be ready for that!
Job said:
"All this magic stuff needs new terminology because it's not what people are being told it is at all. It's not all this wearying symbolic misdirection that's being dragged up from the Victorian Age, when no-one was allowed to talk plainly and everything was in coy poetic code.
And now we are in some type of liberal age? Wilhelm Reich tried it, he wrote very good books on sexual therapy (he appears to be the father of the whole of the modern 'bodywork' movement). He was eventually imprisoned, and his books publicly burnt (in the USA in the 50's) he died 'somehow' in prison. I feel it is quiet nieve to think that one can go out there and teach the mysteries openly (even in a 'free' country such as Australia) without copping some serious flack. I've seen it happen, and experienced it personally.
Job said:
The world's at a crisis point and it's time to stop bullshitting around with Qabalah and Thelema and Chaos and Information and all the rest of the metaphoric smoke and mirrors designed to make the rubes think magicians are 'special' people with special powers. It's not like that. Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. 'Life' plus 'significance' = magic."
Grant (off his head) Morrison
Well, yes, off his head indeed. One may as well state that quantum physics is doing the same with all their strange ideas and terminologies. By nature the occult must be either expressed in myth, symbol and metaphor or we need to invent a better language than English to describe the forces and perceptions and processes (which we are slowly doing by incorporating terms into English from languages that have an open magical or exoteric tradition eg. Sanskrit)
Magicians ARE special people with powers, well, accomplished magicians are, and should be well versed in the internal and occult (hidden from external ) natural laws and processes at work within themselves, environment and tools and substances they use. That might apply to a carpenter or an engineer as well, therefore we could call an accomplished carpenter a magician but a crappy one that cant even make a stool doesnt deserve the title (neither does a potter that cant make a t-pot that pours properly). The futher we get away from these principles into mass production, the further our society moves away from 'magick'.
In my perception the vast majority of the human race are a bunch of idiots and I feel most must come to this conclusion after studing even a small amount of history, religion, environmental destruction, etc, etc.
The only saving grace seems to be the occasional genius that occasionally throws us a lifeline.
Sounds like you have had a reading off me!