“Anything — and I mean ANYTHING — that someone else has figured out, you can figure out too.”

I’ll have to repeat that observation that goes, “if that were the case the world would be a different place.”
There’s that damn slogan, “knowledge is power”. I say Insider knowledge is power.

I must build courage however. This includes those insidious face saving ego machinations I fear.

I agree with the rest 100%.

Ya, about figuring things out. I suppose you mean tapping into the morphic field as new agers might say. Tie this in with the idea of reincarnation tho. Most humans like music…they’ve more than likely learned an insrtument or two throughout their many incarnations. But what happens when (this) little billy gets a bit older? He takes piano lessons, again!

THAT my friends is the way of things. We are dupes of a larger cosmic process…. A. Crowley said we are all Stars.I’ll add that stars go nova. I suppose the PTB leave truths in plain sight for those with astute eyes. Other than this tho, any magickal (etc) systems out there, say on the shelves at your local Border’s book store or plastered everywhere online, are as watered down and neutered as to be perfect wheel spinners.

I do wonder if black op scientists ever looked into Dr. John Dee’s “enochian” or Angelical system.

But in general, I guess we can say there’s nothing inherent, as in power, contained in a symbol. it is the user themselves which empower said symbol. Prior cultural conditioning/consensus may be just that; it still doesn’t indicate Innate power in symbol.
Interestingly, this idea seems to be a complimentary of karma conjunct reincarnation. That is, it would appear, ultimately, we are our own judge of karmic outcomes.

So as usual, it’s all in the mind. So again, I feel symbols, in magickal use, seem to be surprisingly moot. They are more like file names or records for general lore. And really, this Lore may be as relative as subjective time. Do you really need color coded candles and the right squiggly lines to manifest such and such? I think this stuff is for low magick manifestations. Then what about same for high magick;which is much more subjective? And isn’t good living and charity etc better than high ceremonial rituals?
Something seems amiss here.

This is why I’ve been perusing “sacred” geometry and aether physics. The rest seems pure contrivance.

This is also the weekend however and I may feel different in a few hours!

Thanks for your patience.

Socrates said “En oida, oti ouden oida” meaning “I only know that I know nothing”.

Buddhists used to fill up a cup of tea until the tea spilt down in order to show that a full mind cannot approach Zen.

It is surprising to find all the time common thoughts between seemingly different cultures.

I like to say “when you know, you don’t know, you know” What can we ever know for certain? Nothing, right? But this “knowing” or “Great Doubt” as it’s called in Zen tradition is a kind of “knowing”.

Only with this paradoxical, Zen knowing can we know the Unknowable, that is the Infinite and Eternal present in every moment.

Thank you so much for such a wonderful site.

Oh, and thanks for the link to Hex :)

cheers, ~Arrowyn

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