[Opinion] The Best Magical System Is.....

[ArchonLynx]

If your just adopting a system & not altering it to your liking your honesty only using a small percentage of your potential the best magic system is one you create for yourself.

Alot of dogma must be accepted if your just adopting a system & in the end you don't actually learn much the average practitioner just believes the belief system that comes with the magic system & that prevents growth & actually creates more division within.

You don't need temples,coverns,lodges,cults,churches,etc to do anything.

I'd like to hear what some of y'all custom systems look like do you incorporate different archetypes such as angels,demons, elementals,archons,jin,plasmoids,gods, etc or do u stay to one type?

 

[BlackRose97]

I couldn't agree more with this! Dogma is the absolute death of personal evolution. The moment you try to squeeze your unique spirit into a rigid, pre-packaged system, you start performing someone else's theater instead of doing real, raw work.

For my own custom approach, I absolutely love blending different 'currents' and archetypes, but I don't treat them as clashing systems. Instead, I view them like different frequencies on the same cosmic radio.

In my practice, I don't feel the need to choose between 'light' and 'dark' or stick to just one pantheon. I might work with elemental energies for daily grounding and balance, but then call on very different, primal archetypes depending on what a specific situation demands.

To me, the secret to making an eclectic, custom system work without it becoming messy or chaotic is having a rock-solid personal anchor (your own center, your True Will) and treating every force you interact with with genuine, level-headed respect, rather than viewing them through outdated, human-made moral hierarchies.

Building your own toolkit is where the real power is. What does your current setup look like?

 

[agloval]

It's inevitable to end up combining different traditions on this path, I think those of us who do this are curious by nature, and yes, I do think it's good to specialize, or at least commit to one, but it'll still cross paths with others anyway, because in the end everything is syncretism.


My advisor always tells me "Beware of the Dog-MA" lol