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From: "Tom" <dantoNospam@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: Hermetic QBL (Unsupportable? ) (was Parpola Discovered! ....)
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"Asiya" <asiya_is_here@MEATBALLSmindspring.com> wrote in message
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> "Tom" <dantoNospam@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:FnoV7.902$E93.64230@news.uswest.net...
> >
> > For a while I was strongly influenced by Castenada's outlook.
> > It is a valid way to teach magick, but, like I say, it won't make
> > you many friends.
> >
> > By constantly mistrusting everything and everyone, you can rid
> > yourself of restrictive beliefs and false assumptions, which frees
> > your perceptions of many self-imposed blinders.  It's an
> > iconoclastic extreme, though.
>
> This sounds a lot like your behavior on alt.magick, from some people's
> perspectives.

So it seems.  Alt.magick readers often are extremely credulous and I've
adopted a stance that I feel balances that extremity.

Doubt and faith are tools of a magician, not his masters.  Both should be
used at their proper times and places and put aside when not in use.