- Joined
- Mar 25, 2022
- Messages
- 219
- Reaction score
- 393
- Awards
- 9
Nowadays, with many resources from previously closed practices, and even cultures, being made easily accessible, we are finding more and more people pick up (dare I say appropriate) various symbols, phrases, levels, what have you of these systems. While I personally am for freedom of information - in almost whatever form that may bring - there is something to be said to have a system to sit you down and guide you through the various levels, teachings, and systems of these closed systems. (Yes I said systems many times. Fight me.)
First and foremost, as someone who is more or less LHP (For what that's worth), I found that my series of mentors simply taught me what they could before passing me along to the aether to find me another one. Now, no individual can fully claim that they found their teachings "by their own", as many authors, forum posters, and individual discussions can lead people down their paths, but there is a drastic distinction to be made between those who have just been passed from mentor to mentor and those who have followed a specific closed system (such as Thelema, OTO, A.:A ( I can't do that symbol properly), Masonry, Illuminati (Yes, they're real. Fight me.), Theosophy, or Rosa Cruxis). Whether this being knowing your place in the magical world, having a system to know if you know what you know, you know, or simply being able to have a paradigm that doesn't constantly conflict with itself, there is some positive in the more esoteric versus the exoteric knowledge.
Discuss.
First and foremost, as someone who is more or less LHP (For what that's worth), I found that my series of mentors simply taught me what they could before passing me along to the aether to find me another one. Now, no individual can fully claim that they found their teachings "by their own", as many authors, forum posters, and individual discussions can lead people down their paths, but there is a drastic distinction to be made between those who have just been passed from mentor to mentor and those who have followed a specific closed system (such as Thelema, OTO, A.:A ( I can't do that symbol properly), Masonry, Illuminati (Yes, they're real. Fight me.), Theosophy, or Rosa Cruxis). Whether this being knowing your place in the magical world, having a system to know if you know what you know, you know, or simply being able to have a paradigm that doesn't constantly conflict with itself, there is some positive in the more esoteric versus the exoteric knowledge.
Discuss.