Path: Supernews!supernews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!199.2.96.62!news.rain.net!news.teleport.com!duo From: tschuler@teleport.com (Tom Schuler) Newsgroups: alt.magick Subject: Re: schools of magick Date: Sat, 07 Jun 97 02:08:47 GMT Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016 Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5nafim$msu$1@nadine.teleport.com> References: <5mn0aj$iav$7@nadine.teleport.com> <19970601005301.UAA18114@ladder02.news.aol.com> <33932832.14086303@news.powertech.no> <5n0el9$ngm$1@nadine.teleport.com> <01bc7262$ca264b40$e7f031ca@rugg.ihug.co.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-pdx05-28.teleport.com X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #2 Xref: Supernews alt.magick:104200 In article <01bc7262$ca264b40$e7f031ca@rugg.ihug.co.nz>, "Grey" wrote: >Yellow? I've never heard of the Yellow in all of my experiances. I have >seen the Grey (magick of neutrality) nd somethings even Red (or something; >The normal person ie without magic). > >Please explain, I may even learn something new. Your experiences do not include the writings of Aleister Crowley, then. He describes the school of Yellow magick as "the consideration, with complete scientific and philosophical detachment, the fact of the Universe as a fact." Its students make no moral judgements at all, as do the Black and White schools (at least as Crowley described them). It is more contemplative and less volatile than the other schools. It is austere and intellectual as well as mystical. Crowley describes Pythagoras, Zeno, and Epicurus as philosophers of Yellow magick. He considers the Tao Te Ching to be its foremost mystical text, although he comments that Taoism as a religion has little to do with the Tao Te Ching or Yellow magick, except obliquely.