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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 02:00:35 -0400
- From: Shawn Clayton Knight <sk4p+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: The Middle Pillar ritual, help needed
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- Shawn quotes Marc quoting BranArthur:
- >>IMO, forms without context are forms without power.
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- >I _dare_ you to look a Chaos Magickian in the eye and say that...
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- He _could_ look one of them/us in the eye and try it ... :)
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- I agree with Bran: a form must have context. But all a context need be
- (IMO) is personal meaning. A form with some sort of personal
- significance, regardless of any other context, can have the power of
- directing the will of the soul to which it is significant. IE, some
- form (say, a "magick word") need have no power when Bran says it in a
- given situation, but when I say it, it may have significance to me, thus
- acting to direct/unleash my magickal power "in accord with Will."
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- Yes a context is necessary, but yes, it can be personal, not universal, IMO ...
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- yours in eternal chaos,
- -shawn
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