Yes, re-welcome. Like I had said: no one leaves. But please pardon me if I find the topic title inspiring if slightly misleading.
"Genuine Occultism"
Image: Tantalos sets the table for dinner.
Obsolete* Levi's comment:
The operations of science are not devoid of danger, as we have stated several times. They may end in madness for those who are not established firmly on the basis of supreme, absolute, and infallible reason.
"Obscurantism"
Image: Sisyphus applies for a retail job after dropping out of college and told by Mom he needs to pay rent or move out. One of the two.
Obsolete** Levi's comment:
In order to devote ourselves to ceremonial magic, we must be free from anxious preoccupations; we must be in a position to procure all the instruments of the science, and be able to make them when needed; we must also possess an inaccessible laboratory, in which there will be no danger of ever being surprised or disturbed.
"Bleak Superstition"
Image: Midas scours Amazon for the right ginger remedy for his suspected male pattern baldness because his buddy told him it worked for him like in a week.
Obsolete*** Levi's comment:
The milder and calmer you are, the more effective will be your anger; the more energetic you are, the more precious will be your forbearance; the more skillful you are, the better will you profit by your intelligence and even by your virtues; the more indifferent you are, the more easily will you make yourself loved.
* Yeah, still using the TM. Ugh. Anyways, the order of commentary may be permuted.
** I mean, I have the new translation on audiobook and pdf, but the latter I cannot find because my files are a mess atm.
*** You know, that's the problem with downloading so many books - I have stuff from like 2005 that I still have not read. I browse through and find, of all things, Albert Pike. Why the fucksnizzle did I download Albert Pike?