From: Pan Area: MagickNet To: Sandirien 15 Aug 96 21:19:00 Subject: Re: Magick UpdReq what crowley meant to use magicK as , is the distinctionbetwene stage trickery as opposed to contacting , linking or knowing the various powers of the universe (whew).. crowley was kinda a hard ball, but his 'message' as i understand it, is that this NEW age is the age of the enlightenment of man. we all have ultimate potential now. crowley simply took it upon hisself to show the rest of us that it can be done... crowley, along with many others, even and especially in the framework of the golden dawn's christian mysticsm stressed the fact the the only aspiration of worth, the only goal desired after is THE KNOLEDGE AND CONVERSATION OF THE HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL, the true self beyond self. to attune to this personal guardian angel, one would use and learn from the banishing(s) (l.b.p.r.) and (for crowley) the invocation of the higher genius, called the BORNLESS RITUAL. HUA! pan 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Pan Area: MagickNet To: Jade 15 Aug 96 21:33:00 Subject: Re: Pollution UpdReq instead of classifying the residue or the magick itself as pollution, it seems a better idea to know that things just change.. always changeing, ever the same... stability in motion. just like when a person breaths. is exhalation pollution. also, i do believe that even the simpelest forms of magick create.. even the sex act, that so many take for granted is actually intended to create. and from this, neergies are created into our world, and the world of dreams.. whaen these forma are actuates, and givven power (espeecially over a long period of time) we get large power structures, or egregores. like what catholicism did fot the devil, or the sex industry (deep topic i'm not here dealing with. don't misunderstand me). seems to me that the more dark, painful, wicked, evil ( all personal terms) power one creates ( especially with magical training), the more one will suffer. suffering is not bad so long as one can learn how not to suffer that way anymore. now, also the egregores that we ( hu-MAN) creates/ed is not god , but a strange reflection of how we expect god to be. these are not the archtypes, are not the gods. -pan 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718