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- From: oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown)
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- Subject: Re: Goal of Magick
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- Date: 29 Jul 92 16:33:00 GMT
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- In article <Bs5MtE.3wv@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ba@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (B.A. Davis-Howe) writes...
- >(David Tomlinson) writes:
- >
- >>I have been working on (in my head) an idea about the
- >>goals of metaphysical techniques around the world, and it
- >>would seem to me that the first goal of all 'Magickal
- >>Systems' is to stop the internal dialogue ie. your thoughts,
- >>and the second is to obtain control over your dreams.
- >
- >>Is this making it too simple?
- >
- >Yes, this is too simple. There is no simple generalisation which applies to
- >all magical systems. The book, _Good Magic_, which is a complete system of
- >Spellcraft in the Naturalist Realm of magic, has nothing in it about stopping
- >the internal dialogue or controlling dreams. (It is also the only *single book*
-
- No stopping of internal dialogue? Well, is anything done to help
- focus? If so, doesn't that stop internal dialogue?
-
- >It sounds like your description best fits what I call Sorcery, which is a
-
- Could you expand on your definition of sorcery?
-
- >
- > Merry meet, merry part, merry meet again,
- > Br'anArthur
- >
-
- - Peggy -
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