Bumper Book of Magic

16 Oct 2024 - 01 Nov 2024
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    • Slipping into this, but not sure what the hell I am doing. This stuff is meant to be practiced, and I don't think I could bring myself to practice it. Hm. Still nothing wrong with learning the schtick I guess.
    • Today, read a couple of the pages on the Sephirot (which are, oddly to my eye, part of a section on magical places, including things like "fairyland"). He presents them as things to be attained, which is also odd to me – I always thought of them as sort of metaphysical principles that were always operating, not states you try to achieve. (It may be my earlier undestanding is the wrong one though)
      • Hm yes I think I have a scientist's conception of (eg) Hod, whereas Moore's is that of a fiction writer. Hm. So Moore is more "postmodern" or nominalist than I am. No