tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25882546.post9008728282584211316..comments2023-10-11T03:48:57.606-04:00Comments on Head For the Red: What the HELL is going on here?Rufus Opushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10806987441760167537noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25882546.post-32776568203099923652010-11-17T08:33:07.721-05:002010-11-17T08:33:07.721-05:00A simple thank you for your brilliant post!
I hav...A simple thank you for your brilliant post!<br /><br />I have been posing the very same question regarding AC for some time now and of course this is much more I wish to better understand. If one is sharing knowledge with others when then are they themselves not practicing ? <br /><br />Lusting indicates little faith, Believe in your works !<br /><br />I always manage to gravitate quite naturally toward Agrippa versus Dee's and Kelley and take everything with a grain of salt that derived from AC.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25882546.post-42313412712762028432008-04-28T00:21:00.000-04:002008-04-28T00:21:00.000-04:00Hey Red ~Great posting! You and Moloch are the onl...Hey Red ~<BR/><BR/>Great posting! You and Moloch are the only two mages I know who say "go for it" when it comes to using magic to make your day-to-day life "livable". <BR/><BR/>I have gone back to doing the work and I must say I have been getting results. I feel it is also helping me to grow because it takes a certain amount of discipline to "do the work".<BR/><BR/>"You really are one of the brightest wizards of your age".<BR/><BR/>~ AnuckAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25882546.post-86138272911096064392008-04-13T03:57:00.000-04:002008-04-13T03:57:00.000-04:00Hey Bro Red I have to agree with you wholeheartedl...Hey Bro Red I have to agree with you wholeheartedly this is a subject I have argued with many a "magician" over. Somehow they have the buddhist monk opinion that Magic isnt about wealth prosperity and health. living like hermits scrapping coins together but cannot even use the magick they study to manifest the rent money.. To a degree the great work is not about wealth and riches but about balance in all areas of your life.. The work described by the spirits to DEE was entirely material, and for us to dismiss it as symbolic is pure cowardice. If we don't believe it possible to do those things in the real and literal sense, the only way to find out is to get the tools and try the system according to the way the spirits say it should be done. We study the grimoires the Goetia promise these very things? I can state that I use magic for material means all the time have I been succesful yes by far .. But it is still a terrifying thing putting trust in these entities as for the great work I think even you can attest to the moulding and shaping that occurs to your physce in the process and responsibility that occurs by being thrust into situations of power and responsibility not many a magician are up for the amount of work Involved in my opinion. my 2p <BR/><BR/>JJon Buckleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00712984439394246149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25882546.post-81408613893591405892008-04-12T15:15:00.000-04:002008-04-12T15:15:00.000-04:00I suppose when you consider the folks of the time,...I suppose when you consider the folks of the time, there’s a clear distinction between thaumaturgy and theurgy. I’m sure during Agrippa’s and Dee’s era, to use magic from the angels and other higher beings could have been construed as an ungrateful slap in the face to the Divine. I don’t suppose any of them ever considered to ask if it was okay to use magic for personal gain. Or if the thought did occur to them, they’d probably have thought of themselves as “witches.”<BR/><BR/>As far as Crowley and all the other magicians that sprung from the Golden Dawn tradition you get the same old tired argument about High Magic and Low Magic, and which magical act would be classified as such. Even though Crowley was a bit of a rogue, he was raised under the direction of a dogmatic Christians in his younger years, Golden Dawn High Magic users later on life, and eventually a new revelation and current that became a religion. Being in this world but not of this world type of point of view. So it’s no wonder that it never occurred to him to use magic to acquire wealth. I’m sure if he had encountered a Voudan or a practitioner of Hoodoo in America, and embraced some facets of them, he may have had a different attitude and a different life. But that’s just my far-off-to-the-left opinion. I don’t want to make a host of Thelemites angry or anything insulting their prophet just because I made a guess as to what could have been. Or do I?<BR/><BR/>Just my measly 2 cents.Lazy Magushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15044387148355070008noreply@blogger.com