Path: typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail From: nagasiva Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick Subject: Imagination Magic (was where to start?) Organization: Sonoma Interconnect,Santa Rosa,CA(us),http://www.sonic.net Lines: 72 Sender: yronwode@sonic.net Message-ID: <9l24at$oln@bolt.sonic.net> References: <9kn6fj$h7r$1@plutonium.btinternet.com> <997170662.16132.0.nnrp-01.c1ed8da9@news.demon.co.uk> <3B6FA283.2123@luckymojo.com> <997173986.17485.0.nnrp-01.c1ed8da9@news.demon.co.uk> <3B7044D3.FF0EF0B2@pacbell.net> Reply-To: nagasiva@yronwode.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.4 (NOV) Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 02:14:55 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.201.224.36 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 997496095 208.201.224.36 (Fri, 10 Aug 2001 19:14:55 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 19:14:55 PDT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick.tyagi:28472 alt.magick:256920 50010810 VI! om Hail Satan! Hail Yes! War on 'High Magick' continues.... Steven King: > ...crowley in a book i cant recall the name of this minute supports > the idea of using as magical tools the ordinary impliments at hand, > as an example he gives a description of a rituale he wished to perform > half way up the side of a large mountain he was climbing, as he was > mountenerrring and not in a temple he did not have the rituale > equipment at hand but substituted his flashlight for his lamp his > climbing ax as his wand camp cup for his chalice and a plate for his > disc. etc. etc. why not also do it outside the bounds of TIME? you can summon up the will and intend the ritual and then *whoosh* it's all done (in your imagination (astral world))! I mean why bother with time when you can relegate spatial dimensions to imaginationland *too*? Joseph : > a lot, if not all rituale work can be done "astrally" oh sure, but what makes it more effective than obtaining mere 'astral' (i.e. imagined) results? Crowley, whom you mention above, appears to have been a Master of imagining his own attainments, why not imagine the work *and* the goals? it can become a clever child's game rather quickly. "I'm an Adept!" "you don't say? how can you tell?" "I did the Adepti ritual in my own mind! and now I'm the most spiritual guy on my whole football team!" "impressive." >> As I say, I am a newbie and so I can't speak from experience - but, I would >> like to think that Magick can be learnt and practiced without any books or >> tools at all. Somehow, that seems more 'Magickal.' > speaking from experiance, its possible but, while it is possible to "invent" > an entierly new tradition for oneself just as valid as any hoary cult from > antiquity, books and information in this age are very inexspensive. it makes sense that such an invention is possible. after all, why not invent everything, inclusive of the results, from the ground up? isn't that what historical mages did too? who is to gainsay you? you could even promote your accomplishments that you invented as 'true for you', or invent a nice Fraline Sprengel and claim it was 'booned to you' and be done with any kind of critical assessment or quandry over what constitutes 'spirituality'. what matter the method of science, just use the METHOD OF RELIGION, AND MAKE IT ALL UP! Imagination Magic! It's easy! It's fun! and there's no expense! >i recommend the crowley volume "book 4" liber aba (magick in theroy and practice) >specificaly the 1994 weiser edition, as, IMO, it is a one volume, complete text >giving all the info you need to get starteed in your own path, from meditation >and astral work to ritual cerimoney giving both theroy behind it all and >practical examples as well as reading lists and examples of how its done. and >it dosnt insist you become a thelemite or crowley cultist, the man (crowley) >himself was at pains to express the need for the individual to "find their own >way" and not to slavishyl copy what has gone before, though at the same time >not to toss "the baby out with the bath water" can you quote him to this effect? shouldn't be difficult, he had more printed perspectives than a poetic hydra. I don't think he said anything of the sort, but can't be sure. thanks. blessed beast! nagasiva -- emailed replies may be posted ----- "sa avidya ya vimuktaye" ----- "that which liberates is ignorance" http://www.luckymojo.com/nagasiva.html hoodoo catalogue: send postal address to catalogues@luckymojo.com