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- From: cranmer@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.magick
- Subject: Ritual and everyday life
- Message-ID: <13076.2a6f0bca@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 19:43:06 EDT
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- Hello,
-
- All the 'theoretical' talk about magick recently (in the 'Possible
- to obtain magic powers' thread) has got me thinking about the role of
- ritual and ceremony in the magical life.
-
- Ritual is a very interesting and powerful art form, but it isn't
- everything. Also important, as I think Tagi recently mentioned, is the
- 'art' of living everyday life in a magical and spiritual fashion -- in
- the real world 'out there.'
-
- Both ways of 'doing magick' have their strong and weak points, although
- in many traditions as one advances in skill/atunement/whatever, the need
- for isolated rituals and 'spells' decreases as one becomes more 'at one'
- with oneself and/or the world. This weaning off isolated ritual, however,
- may contain dangers. Could it lead to the living of life in a constant
- otherworldly 'haze?' Is this desirable? Well, I may just leave those
- questions unanswered (for myself at least) till I get to that point.
-
- I've been doing a lot of study of the Golden Dawn system of magic(k?),
- and I'm starting to visualize the dichotomy between ritual and the 'every-
- day' in terms of the Kaballah. The 10 sephiroth can represent rituals
- (the grade ceremonies for the GD), and the 22 *paths* seem to be able to
- represent the *application* of what is learned/revealed in the rituals to
- ones own 'living practice.' Neat.
-
- Any comments and opinions are of course welcome......
-
- - Steve Cranmer
-
- PS - I also have been working on the idea of 'solitary' versions of
- the G.D. grade rituals. Not just doing the 'official' ceremonies
- in the 'astral', but actually altering their structure to support
- only one 'celebrant.' If anyone is interested, I could post or
- email the first draft of my solitary 0=0 ritual.
-