Try it and find out. Better yet manipulate someone you don't much like into trying it first.
"Woe to he that steals me"?
That's what Damon Brand claims:
*peace be upon you allThanks to you all for clear opinions. I understand much better. I'll go through the rituals with sincere heart and absolute determined to evolve.
Pay be upon you all
Even if it was true, all you really need to do is tweak the rituals a little (As some practitioners like to do) and make it yours. Every ritual that you come across from occult books was probably taking from another practitioner author anyways, all they did was tweaked it, reprogrammed it to make it work for them... so isn't that then theft, as the practitioner gave no such permission?
Eventually, you'll (most likely) get bored of any occult library. We are creatures of novelty and need the prospect of endless new possibilities and never-ending mysteries in front of us, just to stay sane and functional. So the collection of life-handling recipes no matter how great and ancient, does not help. For example, imagine a world in which absolutely everything goes your way. You read all the books and became omniscient. As defacto a God of that reality, you would have total control over everything. Of course, you would have a blast for a while, enjoying everything you would find enjoyable. But sooner or later that ultimate satisfaction would fade away and you would find yourself entrapped by the "Universe of known things and phenomenons". No more uncertainty, no problems, no randomness and mystery, no more challenges. Just your total control over everything. Although what is described is every billionaire's wet dream, that is not a good place to be, because it hides a seed of madness and self-destruction.
And that's when you become a GM(Game Master).
Good point.
Just use the magickal defense by GOM themselves to negate it if there is a curse. What are they gonna do about that?
Well, it is kind of confusing when you say "We don't know cause we lack perspective" and yet you know enough to (indirectly) state that there is no God by saying that you are an atheist. I mean I understand that from our modern viewpoint, there are so many old and primitive concepts of the (usually) anthropomorphic entity that runs the Universe. But if we put those fairytales aside, what do you exactly know about the nature of reality to make you decide to be an atheist? This is not a provocative question, I would like to know. I ask cause because, in most of the magickal traditions, there is no question of God's existence (including GOM-style "instant Kabbalah").
Damon Brand writes books for a living under another pen name, this is why he's so fanatical about copyrights. He also says somewhere that the publishing industry was "deeply flawed", so probably author royalties aren't what they used to be.
the answer is quite clear, it directs people to the book because the information in it will not be changed even if it is uploaded in pdf
I re-read my post but nowhere in there did I say that "there is no god".I think you're reading too much into my words or projecting something here.
I thought this too.
I don't follow.What the pen name has to do with being fanatical about copyrights?
I meant that he depends on royalties (not only from his magic books) for income, that's why his anti-pirating stance is so extreme that he (purportedly) resorts to curses. He can't very well announce that he's cursed his romance novels or whatever he writes under another pen name, so he claims he's cursed the GoM books instead. Other authors, although not many, have followed suit; I suppose curses is the only means they can try to curb wide-spread pirating. Less-books sold = less income.
All the copies in our Library are fine (I've read most of them); some are weirdly formatted, perhaps for an earlier Kindle version, but the characters are ok.
