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While I take Crowley to task for many things, his advice here (below) is a pretty good place to stay even when you reach journeyman-level magician. After that your impossible things have been integrated and you won't go into spiritual psychosis... too much.
Yes, I wholeheartedly agree. If you don't want to strain your brain too much, take Crowley's very practical advice.
I also think some advice from the Principia Discordia might be useful :
GP: Is Eris true?
M2: Everything is true.
GP: Even false things?
M2: Even false things are true.
GP: How can that be?
M2: I don't know man, I didn't do it.
Oh! And if any more trad magicians think aliens are totally stupid and have no place in magic.... by some accounts perhaps one of the most powerful magicians of the 20th century might have been Ted Owens who got his powers (if I recall his praxis) by praying to the UFOs.
The PK Man: A True Story of Mind Over Matter (2000 )
Oh! And if any more trad magicians think aliens are totally stupid and have no place in magic.... by some accounts perhaps one of the most powerful magicians of the 20th century might have been Ted Owens who got his powers (if I recall his praxis) by praying to the UFOs.
The PK Man: A True Story of Mind Over Matter (2000 )
Okay, let's talk calmly. The true God is only one God. He created the universe from nothing with His power and knowledge, and He created us from Adam and Eve. When God warned Adam and his wife in Paradise, He told them not to listen to the words of Satan, for he is your enemy who wants to lead you astray from My path. If you eat from the tree, which is, incidentally, “wheat,” you will fall to the ground and suffer greatly. I believe that His words are clear and strict. So what is the cause of misery on earth? It is the struggle for livelihood and the competition for luxury. One Bugatti is not enough. Here, as the philosophers have summarized, we are in the last world, where the universe is corrupt, and even the enormous creatures, the suns and galaxies themselves, fall and die. What is their sin? Man, they are in their own world, where they die happy after fulfilling their mission on Earth. So why do you die sad? Wipe the tears from your eyes, for they will not help. The food chain imposes its dominance. You eat meat, or the lions will eat you... Disease does not afflict us alone, but all living creatures, and even metals suffer from rust and corrosion. Have you heeded God's warnings? I warn you, they will work even if you do not know them... And that is the problem. Those who claim to have the ability to see the future are the ones who must answer why they failed... They will often say that the reason for their failure is that they cannot see and understand all the relationships between all those billions of stars in order to understand the future. Those who claim that God speaks to them and tells them the future are the ones who must answer. You will not find it; you will only find empty justifications devoid of real substance. But isn't there a philosophical solution that can enable us to avoid falling into all these calamities? The answer is that we must have a strong health system that can withstand shocks.
As for artificial intelligence, ha ha ha, how can we not know about it when scientists of magic and spirituality talk about the intelligence of every planet and star and how they work in hidden harmony with the movement of the universe and respond to you? We, the scientists of spirituality and magic, were the first to talk about them thousands of years ago. In the film Apocalyptica. The entity destroyed all weapons and disabled them, wanting to declare that the Earth no longer needed them after it was unified under one person. I think his vision is somewhat correct. I await your response.
I've been to the source of the universe while out of body, and it doesn't comport with your religious dogma. There's no floaty guy who created everything. Things just emanate from the source because they do, just as trees grow from soil (not the best analogy but itll have to do). Trees don't sit around worshipping soil or attempting to mold their behavior to soil's expectations. Soil has no expectations. It's time to get over this god idea.
If you would just add an "I believe..." or "In my personal framework... " and then talk about how your mythic model impacts your praxis, then I think everybody would support you. But you can't come AT people here on a very with a fundamentalist narrative. Nobody here believes in a gasesous vertebrate floating around in the sky. To come from a highly literalist viewpoint just gets a hard nope.
I've been to the source of the universe while out of body, and it doesn't comport with your religious dogma. There's no floaty guy who created everything. Things just emanate from the source because they do, just as trees grow from soil (not the best analogy but itll have to do). Trees don't sit around worshipping soil or attempting to mold their behavior to soil's expectations. Soil has no expectations. It's time to get over this god idea.
shall be compelled to reply to you with calmness. You claim that you have visited the very center of the Cosmos and found things emanating from there? So, what is your definition of 'there,' and what is 'there' indeed? You state that 'there' is a source of something; thus, what is the essence of this 'thing'? Does it create planets, suns, or spirits? And a question that I hope you understand and accept from me: Can you visit your neighbor's apartment to inform us of what it contains? Or visit any place in the heart of the Earth to tell us some of its secrets? Man, we are not children here... Forgive me, but these are my convictions..
If you would just add an "I believe..." or "In my personal framework... " and then talk about how your mythic model impacts your praxis, then I think everybody would support you. But you can't come AT people here on a very with a fundamentalist narrative. Nobody here believes in a gasesous vertebrate floating around in the sky. To come from a highly literalist viewpoint just gets a hard nope.
I cannot say that it is based on my personal convictions, because, with absolute neutrality, it is the Truth. And the Truth, my friend, is absolute, non-neutral, and possesses only one form. The Truth is exclusionary because it simply negates ignorance.
If you look intently at everything around you, you will conclude that it is the creation of one being only, and that is God. God is not as depicted by any book; God, as I believe, see, and ascertain with a 'firm certainty,' is transcendent beyond all things. He has no limiting description, nor an encompassing form. He is not constrained by time or place.
He is Living, Omnipotent, Electing what He wills, knowing all past time, and also knowing all future time unto eternity. Indeed, Eternity is less than His Majesty. He is Holy, meaning He is not mingled with injustice, forgetfulness, or even another god, because there can be no like or equal to Him. He is not described by standing or sitting, which is why it is said, 'Established upon the Throne,' because the word Istiwa (استواء) means, to us, an action that cannot be described by other words, for it is an action that none of our languages can reach.
The One God created and originated everything from His treasuries. And the treasuries are merely a word—'knowledge'—only to bring the meaning closer to you. His treasuries are behind a gate that no creature can penetrate, because it simply lies beyond Nonexistence (the Void). Whoever can enter Nonexistence and traverse it will find them, and I challenge any creature or false claimant to divinity to say that they even understand the substance and essence of these descriptions.
This vast Cosmos is larger than everything any priest of any god, across all nations, has described it to be. No single priest across all combined ancient eras has ever risen to describe what lies beyond the very first Heaven, which is what we know as the Universe. My friend, Science states that the diameter of the observable Universe is 93 billion light-years... and it is but a fraction of the Greater World.
How is it that these false claims to divinity have not even reached a fraction of that description? I consider the claim of His non-existence, even if some love it, to be sheer human intellectual nonsense. It is like waiting a billion years next to a piece of meat to create a hamburger patty. 'Do not forget, the Truth is shocking, exclusionary, and has only one face.
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