From:    Joseph Max                             Area: ENOCHIAN
To:      Julia Phillips                         20 Oct 94 10:47:30
Subject: Re: enochian 101                       UpdReq 

 S>     One of Michael Moorcocks truisms was that ritual is less
 S> necessary in emergency - rather a psychic adrenaline kicks in
 S> when magick is paramouunt and survival demands access to the
 S> cycles themselves.
I agree with Moorcock's basic statement, but see another possible explanation
for the effect he describes. Three factors appear to enter in to the
application of effects magick: a symathetic link to the object of the
operation, a symbolic link to the operator's mind, and the achievment of
magickal trance. The more immediate the links and deeper the trance the better 
chance there is of projecting the Will to cause change to occur. The gnostic
trance is simply that in which the mind functions completely in the "now"
without interference. Terror is a grand old tradition in magickal initiation
found in many cultures. Such negative emotions as fear, terror, revulsion,
anxiety, etc. are as capable of inducing a gnostic state as positive emotions
like exaltation and sexual climax.
The purpose of ritual is to focus the Will upon the object of the operation
and usually the object is removed from the performance of the ritual by time
and/or space. But in a life-or-death situation, the mind is _supremely_ focus
on the object, so the need to use ritual to raise the correct emotional
responses is greatly diminished.
Also the sympathetic link is more easily accomplished - it is at "point-blank
range" as it were.
Of course, the more used to handling one's own emotional responses and
psychological states one is, the more adept one will be in an emergrncy
situation - training kicks in when there is no time for conscious
deliberation. So the use of regular ritual work as a training regimen is
extremely  beneficial!
Just my two-kopeks worth... 
...I'll go back on topic now, Mr. Moderator, I promise...


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