Uncle AL "Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur inconformity to will"
"Name withdrawn to keep anonimty"wrote:True magic occurs when one liberates oneself from the illusionsfabricated by the archons of this world. Gnosticism is the pursuitof the knowlegde leading to this liberation. This is recorded in theGospel of Phillip and elsewhere."
Magic is of the demi urge. no matter how you cut it. If we examine Kabbalah we can see some clear themes. The word Sin for instance in Judaism means to turn away from. Much like the oldman's face of Chokmah is turned away from Binah. We see "good"turning away from "evil." Magic(k) is thus "evil" in of the self. The root of magick kabbalisticlly is based upon hod or the 8th emeanation. The scintilation of the intellect. The superflous illusion of maya...the SELF.
Magick is centerd around the SELF!
"Victory is mine..." the other base of the kabblalistic pillar.
For further evidence let us examine the conventional placement oftarot upon the tree of life. This is the one familiar to most.
Now this was actuaLLY created by the Golden dawn as a blind. As a wayof testing new initiates. Its actually rubbish. Yet it is what mostseekers use! It is rubbish because it only places the cards due to numerical values.
Example Fool card one goes on path 11 as 10+1=11 Devil goes on path 23 as 13+10=23 Oh dear! we see we have all been fooled! oh no! But wait no...this conventional way does work. But how does it work? If we examine the cards on the tree we see a clear pattern. We see that it is not about transcendance but reinforcement. Its about bringing the divine into the manifest, malkuth. How is this transcendance? its not. This is Gnosis of the ego, the self, of all matter. This is Gnosis of the demi urge. Yet many Gnostics and none Gnostics see this as a way toGnosis. It is the way to the demi urge.
"The counterfeit spirit or ego is our personal manifestation of thedemiurge (lead archon). Often when an individual is drawn to trueliberation, the ego perverts this into a pursuit of power ----soinstead of a transcendent search for liberation from this world, the individual becomes interested in power over this world, thinking thatcontrol is linked to freedom. We become our own demiurge. This error is manifested in many primal societies and also in morecomplicated traditions such as ceremonial magic and elaborate groupsthat don the name of gnosticism like in lesser realms of the OTO. Control and manipulation doesn't lead to liberation; only knowledge and ascendence leads to liberation and expansion. Spells and magic are but distractions along the path, similar to blind devotion. Now there is such a thing as theurgy. Martinists and Kabbalists practice this as a path to expansion. It employs many of the sametechniques as ceremonial magic, but its aim is union with the divine rather than earthly power. Many feel that original masonry would also fall into this class, but it's become degraded, although there are still a few esoteric-based masonic groups that embraced the alchemical and gnostic pursuits of theurgy."
The problem with theurgy is when it becomes the outer action. Theurgy should occur within. When we are literalists we assume that theurgy is somthing that manifests outwards...this is then servingthe demi urge ..reinforcing malkuth. Transcendance is not reinforcing what is already there, its going beyond it. This is why kabbalah is pretty much flawed, as it of the self/manifest reality.
Magic(k) is doing things on our own terms...much like adam and eve in eden..grasping for fruit. They were unready, yet they partook. Much like a child in a candy store scream "I wanna..." there were 2(3) trees in eden....
--Br Benjamin Assisi
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