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Originally posted by DogHead
Magic that is ritual in nature is inherently amoral. Amorality is fashionably supposed to be beyond or between good and evil in a Nietzchean way. I can't logically see how anything unmoral can be anything other than contrary to morality since only a sociopath would not want to respect healthy boundaries.
Originally posted by DogHead
Magic that is ritual in nature is inherently amoral.
Originally posted by DogHead
The paedophilia symbolism is apparent in many places and similar code symbols turn up in computer games, tv shows and all sorts of other places.
Originally posted by Masonic Light
Originally posted by DogHead
Magic that is ritual in nature is inherently amoral.
There is nothing in the slightest "amoral" about Golden Dawn ritual. In fact, it is very ennobling and inspiring, and one could possibly say, of divine origin.
Originally posted by DogHead
I don't really see what is ennobling or inspiring about it. To me, and to many I think, ritual magic is total bunk. As one biographer of Crowley said, the only problem with the wonderfully entertaining ritual magic(k) stuff is... It simply doesn't work.
Amorality is evident since it places humankind ahead of anything else through the espousing of a system where thought and meditation places a mortal in the position of a putative god. More evidence of the effectiveness of said process would doubtless cause many more people to flock to the practices. The more public practices anyway.
In order to elucidate the matter, let me again turn to the terminology of modern psychology. The term "complex" has achieved a fairly wide notoriety during the last quarter of a century since the circulation of the theories of Freud and Jung. It means an aggregation or group of ideas in the mind with a strong emotional charge, capable of influencing conscious thought and behaviour. If my interest is Magic, then naturally every item of information acquired, no matter what its nature, is likely to be built by association into that constellation of ideas clustering around my interest--becoming in the course of years a thorough-going complex. Mrs. Jones my dairywoman, because of her professional predilection, will have her complex centering about milk and cows and butter and the price of eggs.
Originally posted by DogHead
I don't really see what is ennobling or inspiring about it. To me, and to many I think, ritual magic is total bunk. As one biographer of Crowley said, the only problem with the wonderfully entertaining ritual magic(k) stuff is... It simply doesn't work.
Amorality is evident since it places humankind ahead of anything else through the espousing of a system where thought and meditation places a mortal in the position of a putative god.
Originally posted by Masonic Light
Actually, amorality is the denial, whether implicit or explicit, of a system of morals.
Originally posted by Masonic Light
Obviously, the Golden Dawn does not fit this definition because it, like Freemasonry, has a strict code of morality. The basic theory behind this is that one must first conquer the passions through strict moral conduct before one is ready for more serious spiritual insight.
Originally posted by DogHead
Ritual magic(k) is a religion? Interesting. What god or gods does it bow down to, I find myself wondering. What a perfectly interesting statement to make, in so many ways.
Authors such as Colin Wilson have discussed at length the hopelessness of most magic working as described. It is a topic where, the closer to the direct experience someone comes, the less believable, credible and let's be blunt real it seems to be.
The whole concept of serving with both hands ie good and evil practices balancing each other out in some psychotic parody of normal psychology is inherently morally ambiguous... or amoral.
And as for mental health, where are the reports of people integrating their psyche and growing as people to balance out all the reports of people destroying their lives with an unhealthy preoccupation with sick practices, delusional states and superstitions?
As for not being judgmental of the "religions" of others, a "religion" that refuses to condemn and indeed practices ritual sacrifice that includes human sacrifice, even in theory, is at the level of savagery that the twenty-first century should be entirely rid of.
Likewise the pedophilic implications of worshipping entities who in their time on Earth counted amongst their followers the classical Greeks- who whatever their achievements were a race of paedophiles. No civilised person can expect to hide their paraphiliac tendencies under a cloak of claimed religiosity.
Magic is always about finding causation where none exists. Absent evidence, means absent causation prima facie until evidence is found. Anything else is just so much mental masturbation.
Originally posted by DogHead
Ideation as a means of doing that is dangerous, incoherent, and provably unsuccessful.
Even if your assertion were true, which frauds like the founder of the Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley are demonstrators to the opposite effect. Advanc(k)ed prac(k)titioners of magic(k) seem to have a disturbing tendencies to be arguably psychotic fraudsters of epic proportions, which doesn't really tend to make their other claims more convincing than any other ravings of common or garden madmen and madwomen.
Interesting too that you now, speaking with whatever authority, espouse that this is a belief system known not to work, and yet claiming for itself the mantle of Alchemy, a separate belief system and one that is universally seen as having merit, not to mention a clear moral axis.
Originally posted by Masonic Light
You have yet to show that any of these people were actually "frauds". They themselves took it very seriously.