Path: shell.portal.com!svc.portal.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!mbha.demon.co.uk From: Gratuitous Pseudonym Newsgroups: alt.occult.kabbalah.golden-dawn Subject: Re: G.D. Warning (repost) Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 21:08:17 GMT Lines: 24 Approved: dave@mbha.demon.co.uk (alt.occult.kabbalah.golden-dawn) Message-ID: <9604042208.ad25602@news.demon.net> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: mbha.demon.co.uk X-Mail2News-Path: mbha.demon.co.uk In article <828444362snz@mbha.demon.co.uk>, sv wrote: >Since the enlivening current behind any successful Magical Lodge is neither >passed on nor necessarily inherited, it seems to me that any claim to lineage >is irrelevant to the quality or otherwise of the operation of the Lodge. >Anyone who feels the need to rely on lineage for their authority instead of >integrity and knowledge is best avoided. I'd take it a step further. The "current" behind any magical organization lasts only as long as the individuals involved can maintain their focus on the ideals and goals that formed the group in the first place. As soon as personal and political interests which are separate from those ideals arise, the worth of the organization deteriorates. A magical title is not conferred by a single achievement or by passive seniority. It is an acknowledgement of the mastery of a particular state of consciousness. The authority of the title holds only when the bearer is acting from that state of consciousness for which the title has been conferred. No meal with Mathers, or any other single event, including ceremonial initiation, imparts any permanent or exclusive right to a certain title to anyone.