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Some people do the same thing every day, endlessly (like some Buddhists I know) which ultimately offers little in the way of transformation - judging by their personalities - and only serves to fossilize belief well and truly; they end up feeling certain that their path is THE PATH and brook no argument about it. Other people love to do a big exciting knees-up ritual a few times a year, and don't pay much attention to their magic in between (there are plenty of Wiccans like this, I've met them too). So to answer the point you raise, in short: I believe that the belief that transformation only occurs within the context of ritual or sacred activity always leads to "religion" [is] a terrible disease which sorcerers could usefully avoid! I think that [the Azoetia] puts the case very well for a total integration of ritual, dreaming by day and night, creative activity, inspired thinking, sexual activity, and so on - all the best things in life in fact! - and that the sorcerer should turn everything towards his or her Path. Transformation is happening at every moment, whether we want it or not - the point is to encourage changes to go in the directions we want them to go.
(Francis Blackman)
(Francis Blackman)
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Date: Nov. 16th, 2004 08:38 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: Nov. 16th, 2004 08:45 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: Nov. 16th, 2004 11:01 am (UTC)From:the pure or unsick often linger about existing and enjoying the sun rise and this that and the other pointless task
at least thats how I think the viewpoints are doomed to wreck into each other over and over producing absolutely nothing except the broken ideal's that are left to be re-assembled into something else entirely.
when idea's collide the roots of the idea are the first to be forgotten because only the roots of an idea can change the process of thinking. The time it takes to learn new ideas and drive them down to the soul to have those new thoughts and paths open up a new wave of expression to ultimately pointless being that we only live to 100 years.
oh crap I lost my train of thought