Just recently starting to see that some traditions of magic/sorcery are a bit more profound than the typical mumbo...

check out evola

Now do it again but with trips

Just wiki'd him, Essays on Magical Idealism serves as the proper starting point, I assume?

or the hermetic tradition

also check out historian jm roberts history of secret societies. he describes a lot of the political/social climbing aspects of 'magic' organizations and is a good survey of shit to avoid

The problem with magic/sorcery is that it's esoteric. And people want to be part of anything such. It's a bit like wanting to be a secret agent AND telling everybody about it. Thus discussing it on public forums becomes moot.

As you delve deeper and deeper you will learn this-and-this but, you will also realize that it wasn't what you were expecting, never mind something you would learn on Veeky Forums.

Recently I've been reading about Sufis. Yeah it's a meme (also) but there's a lot to it. A mode of life that includes - for example but not excludingly - disciplined 'dhikr' and asceticism *will* provide you with what might be called 'mystical'. But it won't make you a teleporting dervish who pisses honey like the stories might tell.

My recommendation would be picking a context that makes sense to you historically and geographically. Mysticism, or magic (which aren't synonymous but I'll use them as such here anyway) is always connected to your surroundings and to your past. You can't just search the globe on google and become an Indian wizard, to exaggerate a lot.

It sounds like you're just talking about psychological manipulation and hypnosis. You should honestly just read some books about influence and watch some The Real Hustle.
Unless I'm retarded and you're actually talking about telekinesis, then carry on.

what i get out of this post is basically "there's a more practical/pragmatic side to some of the esoteric stuff, but it's not going to essentially genie you to your ideal life" and "pick something culturally relevant, as it's easier to believe in something relevant to your life than it is to pick something you think is interesting in a foreign/alien way and running with it"

This image seems legit. I've been through Wilson and some Hall myself.

well that's thoreauly embarrassing

watch this

whoa

admitting that you can make mistakes and that that's ok - THAT is true magic.

dubs

Magical arts generate incongruous circumstances, incredible situations rendering esoteric associations literally. see the surrealists

noice

clearly lots of interest in this topic. i could get into it a little bit - we should do a reading group

are you proposing some sort of witch circle format?

are there any esoteric/occult/mystical writers who are into psychedelics and are not complete crackpots

Damn, thank you boys for the responses. Too many to respond to but I'm going to start tearing into this stuff for sure. I'll continue to monitor this thread as well. Thank you.

Best intro in Kenneth Grant's The Magical Revival. He was an accomplished magician himself, and the book is written from his own unique system's perspective, but it gives a fair a detailed overview of the occult revival of the late 19th/early 20th century from Blavatsky, Fortune, and Spare to Crowley. He also has a good understanding of Tantric magic.

You have to be quite intelligent and educated to get the most out of the book, as well as the ability to leave logic at the door.

Depends what your threshold for "crackpot" is, really

yea read liber null and liber kaos. theres a bunch of good books on chaos magic and crowley magick. its fucking hard to explain it to people though, even after reading the books its still hard to explain to someone who hasnt experienced magic. i come from a very scientific household and i was totally against all this being real until i decided "fuck it ill try it". if you go into it with an open mind you can see some crazy shit go down. but if you go into with a mindset of "prove it", youll most likely miss the point.

the really weird shit is that there are so many people doing this stuff. among all walks of life. your neighbors could be occultists or someone you work with, people generally hide it tho cause its a total turn off. the first few raves i went to i was so surprised at how many people were openly talking about magic and doing it in plain sight.

Grant is considered a retard even by most thelemites. even people that believe lovecraft was co-prophet of the new aeon think grant is a retard. theres way better magic out there senpai

If you have to ask this question then you have low magical potential. If you approach magic through your received lens of rationalist thinking then you're already on the wrong track.

/x/ has a massive download for magic somewhere, but IU can't find it

Check out this thread yuki.la/x/18837275

Also this thread has pretty much everything they have ever seen or read

>Jung instead of Geertz on symbols
>No Jesus: The Last Great Initiate

No, its all satanist trash, right?

care to expound on this?

I'll try to keep these series of posts concise.

Magic as we know it today is largely the product of the so-called "Occult Revival" which took place during the 19th century. The main figure associated with this pseudo-Renaissance was Alphonse Louis Constant, going by the nom de plume Eliphas Levi.

Levi's main influence was felt principally in his tripartite formula of magic; by means of a well developed Willpower and Imagination, one would be able to manipulate the Astral Light, thereby causing magical phenomena to occur.

This notion did not originate with Levi, but with the French milleu of Mesmerism where he came from. Franz Anton Mesmer is, properly speaking, where the seeds of modern occultism are sowed, sprouting upon the arrival of his second generation student, Jules Dupotet Sennevoy.

The philosophy is fairly straightforward; the planets emenate rays upon our earth, which forms an all permeating substance known as the Magnetic Fluid. The process of manipulating this substance is known as Animal Magnetism. Hypnosis was a term coined by James Braid, who sought to explain the strange phenomena of Mesmerism away as placebo.

Here's the essential lit for understanding Mesmerism and the formation of modern occultism;

>The Original Writings of F.A Mesmer, George Bloch
>An Introduction to the Study of Animal Magnetism, Jules Dupotet Sennevoy
>Magnetism and Magic, Jules Dupotet Sennevoy
>The History of Magic, Joseph Ennemoser
>Dogma and Ritual of High Magic, Eliphas Levi

What the Mesmerists - or Magnetizers, as they were known - believed, was that they had found the key to the magical doctrines of the ancients, and often justified their philosophy through plenty of selective and out of context of quotations. Mesmer did indeed draw his doctrines from the ancients, principally from Renaissance magicians and Paracelcian doctors, but these two latter operated from a wholly different operative framework. Magic before Mesmer was a different beast altogether.

The most influental philosopher of Late Antiquty in this reagard was Iamblichus, who introduced the practice of theurgy as the epitome of the Platonic tradition. Proclus was likewise tremendously important in formulating the philosophical framework. This mature Neoplatonic stream eventually seeped in to the Christian traditon through Pseudo-Denys and the Arabic tradition through the translations made in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.

It would be too cumbersome to enter into a detailed exegesis of these two traditions. Suffice it to say, Neoplatonism formed the rationale for the praxis of soteriological ritual magic.

Peasants didn't read, so folk magic is a very difficult subject to study since we have no literary sources extant. However, there was a form of magic which wasn't concerned with soteriology per se; the Grimoire tradition. Grimoires are spirit catalogues giving detailed instructions for summoning spirits in a ritualistic setting and getting shit done. They are, however, deeply saturated in Christian piety.

The expection to this is the Arabic Picatrix, which introduced the Medeival Latin West to the praxis of astrological magic, supported by the astrological theories of Al Kindi and Abu Ma'shar.

There are strong similarities between the early Byzantine Hygromanteia and the Greek Magical Papyri from Late Antiquity, but a plausible transmission has yet to be found.

Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages are incredibly rich periods; the works I have mentioned throughout my post should give you more than enough to study.

Enter the Renaissance, where Cosimo Medici employs the young Marsilio Ficino as the head of the Florentine Academy, set the task with translating the works of the Platonists into Latin for the first time - here Ficino marries soteriological Neoplatonism with the Arabic tradition of astrological magic. Ficino's associate, Pico Della Mirandola, furthermore strenghtened this bond in his 900 Theses, but also introduced the study of "Jewish" Kabbalah, which is in fact based on the Celestial Hierachy of Pseudo-Denys. These Christian Kabbalistic notions were further developed by Johann Reuchlin and Francesco Giorgi.

This intertwining of Neoplatonism, Arabic astrology and Christian Kabbalah is known as Florentine Platonism. The greatest summa of these doctrines was written by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, in the Three Books of Occult Philosophy.

There are many names and peculiar topics to deal with during this fruitful period, but without a proper comprehension of Late Antiquity Platonism it doesn't get you very far. Start with the Greeks, as the meme says.

Anyhow, in 1888, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was established. It was a hodge podge of various streams - structurally, it was based on Speculative Freemasonry. The order not only drew from the French Mesmerists like Eliphas Levi, but also incorporated select aspects of Florentine Platonism. The modus operandi of magic was formulated by MacGregor Mathers, one of the founders of the Golden Dawn, in the Z Documents. The account of the orders teachings was published by Israel Regardie, though he was never a member of the original order, but rather an offshoot after it collapsed internally.

Aleister Crowley, a former student of Mathers, took his own spun on things, though he never deviated from the Mesmeric framework set by Levi - hell, he claimed to have been an incarnation of him. Crowley, a strange fellow, was the most influental occultist of the 20th century.

He inspired Alexander Gardner, who gave us Wicca. He inspired Peter Caroll, a member of the IOT who pioneered the tradition of Chaos Magick, a post-modern relativistic approach to magic which rests heavily on Thomas Kuhn's notion of a paradigm. He influenced the Fraternis Saturnis, which gave us Franz Bardon and his pseudo-Hermetic works.

As far as I'm concerned, Jung is a deviant of Mesmerism, as it was understood in it's hypnotic aspect of James Braid. A Mesmer gone mad, if you will.

These should about cover the most common streams of occultism. They vary greatly, but most modern branches can be traced back to Mesmerism, just like the older branches can be traced back to Platonism.

With that said, most occultists are fucking whack. Delusional burnouts in a straightjacket. Just take a look at /x/ or any of the other occult forums online and see for yourself. There's an incredible amount of bullshit out there and it sells.

People sacrifice proper scholarship for an emotional rush, swayed by tall tales, enamoured by the prospect of being on the fringe. Keep your head cool and your sources reliable.

It's getting late, so I'll check this thread later if it's still here. Feel free to ask away.

Magick is only of interest to the mentally ill, or those on the path towards it.

Want to know the best way to increase your magical capacity? Stop taking your schizophrenia meds

They're not going crazy; they're going sane in a crazy world

damn...

Sometimes I wish I had schizophrenia honestly.

You really should hang out here, you might learn stuff. And lots of book links in the Mega.

mckenna is a crackpot - anyone who takes too literally things like chakras - i dont know, who are some and ill see for myself if they are

Most thelemites are mindless sheep following an ossified personality cult. They have no chance of successfully crossing the abyss on the path they follow and wouldnt recognize a master trying to assist them if he grabbed them by the hand and pulled them halfway.

Is there a particular issue you have with the very introductory and broad survey of a work that I recommended? Have you even read it?

Recommending this.

>most thelemites
How does one even become a thelemite. It seems to be self-contradicting

thanks, copped - not that familiar with jodorowsky, and this is off topic - but i also want to get more into video art

can you please link to somehwere where people unironically think lovecraft was some sort of prohpet hahahah

Jodorowski is great regarding hermeticism, etc. I was just thinking of a video I want to do but making video art kind of requires friends or lots of money of which I have neither.

To be fair, Crowley goes out of his way to address the seeming contradictions in his vision of a religion based on individuals following their true wills. Crowley was a true master, but his legacy has been ruined by his church. It would have been in better hands with Grant, although some problems with the systematisation of enlightenment techniques for the many are unavoidable.

That thinking originates with Kenneth Grant, who thought Lovecraft, although or because he was so ultra-repressed, unconsciously tapped into an important and long dormant magical current that defines a new era for mankind. It's written about throughout his Typhonian Trilogies, which are not accessible to the feebly concrete-minded. Peter Levenda has a more accessible book on the subject more suitable for scientistic idiots.

His comics are great, and for the more serious occultist he wrote what is probably the best book on the Tarot ever written.

>A history of Western Philosophy
>AND Being and Time.

Dropped. Not even close to the same level of difficulty. Russell was a biased Hack.

Russell is funny though if you're already educated. And he's indisputably a genius in the field of logic.

so there's something to it youre saying

There is a lot of uncertainty in the question of enlightenment; it arises necessarily from causes and conditions so it's not for everyone. How do we know if it is for us?

Start with magic black and white
Then read some golden dawn stuff

Triforce or nothing bitch

It's about as real as religion. You can waste a lot of time just reading occult texts. My advice would be to start a practical system like Bardon's, where there are actually ancillary benefits apart from just theoretical reading. This way if it does end up being fakery, at least you will come out a more virtuous, concentrated and balanced person out of it, as opposed to just having book knowledge that doesn't really apply anywhere else.

>ctrl+f "tulpa"
>0 results

Guess I'll be back tomorrow then.

youtube.com/watch?v=6HqgmMB1_ZI

One's full realization is the project of life and the universe, everything else is a distraction, generally rooted in fear of discovering the real.

Christ teaches us magic. Egregore but with faith. Faith so strong that it changes the world around us.
>kind of like Matrix

you are a god

>muh gick

>Cuckservatives: How Conservatives Betrayed America
>Adios America

what am i seeing here

this is so fucking cringe

Never got into his really nitty gritty Principia Mathematica stuff. But at least when it comes to the bits of his actual work that I have covered (Decriptivism about names), he gets BTFO by Kripke et al.

That being said, Problems of Philosophy is pretty baller. I'd recommend switching that for his dogshit History.

Lol, funnily enough I went through a lot of these on what i thought was "my own initiative", that is, without ever seeing this chart. I guess I'm less original than I think lol.

Can personally vouch for Manly P. Hall as a very good primer, and Gurdjieff and Ouspensky as good "big-boy stuff"

Not too big on the Golden Dawn stuff and Kabalism, there's maybe nuggets of knowledge in there but a lot of it is masturbation over esoteric concepts that they probably don't fully understand and that you need to know Hebrew to get, lol. Especially not too big on Crowley, a very turgid writer and i accuse him of the same thing --- writing about stuff he probably doesn't know about, but just seems poetic and cool to him. Some Egyptian mythology here, some Qabala there, some trappings of Eliphas Levi and Hermeticism there, etc., etc...

Robert Anton Wilson is a good intro to the whole subject, despite what other people say. A good INTRO. The more you get into it, the more you'll disregard what excited you so much in the beginning. I'm saying this in the same way that I wouldn't suggest, say, Finnegans Wake to someone who wants to get into literature.

Also Huxley (Perennial Philosophy) and Joseph Campbell (Hero W/ A Thousand Faces) could be good intros.

In general, start with the stuff that interests you to feel around and have an understanding of basic concepts that will be repeated again and again in occultism, you shouldn't dive straight into even Crowley (who I don't like but at least admit writes in a very complex, nuanced, allusive way at times).

Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (from what I've read of the books there) are probably the most mindfucking writers IF they touch something in you. If they don't, then count yourself lucky, as you won't be tortured by obsession with them. I' surprised In Search of the Miraculous isn't on that

The Kybalion also is great and could be read whenever you want, hard to call it either a beginner or an end-level book.

All in all, use, to the degree you can, your own judgement and read what interests you. You don't have to listen to me or anyone else (can you trust me as a genius or a sage?), and if you don't start off with reading what may be trite but interesting, you won't be able to build up to more complex books on it. Just cause I dislike what the Western tradition has of Hermeticism and Theosophy and all that blend of stuff doesn't mean you shouldn't read it, in fact I insist you SHOULD read it to go through the same process i did --- taking what's good from it, and ultimately realizing what stuff you can throw out based on your judgment. There are seeds of great and beautiful knowledge in them from what I know.

Also is a good post.

I'll try to keep these series of posts concise.

Magic as we know it today is largely the product of the so-called "Occult Revival" which took place during the 19th century. The main figure associated with this pseudo-Renaissance was Alphonse Louis Constant, going by the nom de plume Eliphas Levi.

Levi's main influence was felt principally in his tripartite formula of magic; by means of a well developed Willpower and Imagination, one would be able to manipulate the Astral Light, thereby causing magical phenomena to occur.

This notion did not originate with Levi, but with the French milleu of Mesmerism where he came from. Franz Anton Mesmer is, properly speaking, where the seeds of modern occultism are sowed, sprouting upon the arrival of his second generation student, Jules Dupotet Sennevoy.

The philosophy is fairly straightforward; the planets emenate rays upon our earth, which forms an all permeating substance known as the Magnetic Fluid. The process of manipulating this substance is known as Animal Magnetism. Hypnosis was a term coined by James Braid, who sought to explain the strange phenomena of Mesmerism away as placebo.

With Mesmerism, you get a plethora of occult streams, but they're all originating from the same ocean. Here's the essential lit for understanding Mesmerism and the formation of modern occultism;

>The Original Writings of F.A Mesmer, George Bloch
>Magnetism and Magic, Jules Dupotet Sennevoy
>The History of Magic, Joseph Ennemoser
>Dogma and Ritual of High Magic, Eliphas Levi

What the Mesmerists - or Magnetizers, as they were known - believed, was that they had found the key to the magical doctrines of the ancients, and often justified their philosophy through plenty of selective and out of context quotations.

Mesmer did indeed draw his doctrines from the ancients, primarily from Renaissance magicians and Paracelcian doctors, but these operated from a different operative framework. Magic before Mesmer was another beast altogether.

The most influental philosopher of Late Antiquty in this reagard was Iamblichus, who introduced the practice of theurgy as the epitome of the Platonic tradition, an idea that came to it's final fruitition with Proclus. This mature Neoplatonic stream eventually seeped in to the Christian traditon through Pseudo-Denys and the Arabic tradition through the translations undertaken in the House of Wisdom. The Arabic Picatrix introduced the Medeival Latin West to the praxis of astrological magic, supported by the astrological theories of Al Kindi and Abu Ma'shar.

Enter the Renaissance, where Cosimo Medici employs the young Marsilio Ficino as the head of the Florentine Academy, set with the task of translating the works of the Platonists into Latin for the first time - here Ficino married soteriological Neoplatonism with the Arabic tradition of astrological magic.

Ficino's associate, Pico Della Mirandola, furthermore strenghtened this bond in his 900 Theses, but also introduced the study of "Jewish" Kabbalah, which is in fact based on the Celestial Hierachy of Pseudo-Denys. These Christian Kabbalistic notions were further developed by Johann Reuchlin and Francesco Giorgi.

This intertwining of Neoplatonism, Arabic astrology and Christian Kabbalah is known as Florentine Platonism. The greatest summa of these doctrines was written by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, in the Three Books of Occult Philosophy.

Mesmerism and Florentine Platonism were married in a rather strange blend with the commencement of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1888. This is, by far, the most influental magical order of the last three centuries. The core of their teachings was written by MacGregor Mathers in the Z Documents.

Aleister Crowley, a bastard child of the Golden Dawn, was the most influental occultist of the 20th century. Crowley took his own spun on the teachings of the Golden Dawn. He claimed to have been an incarnation of Levi and held his teachings in great esteem, thus obscuring Mesmerism while simultaneously popularizing it further. From Crowley's influence, you get Wicca and Chaos Magick, which is a post-modern relativistic approach to Thomas Kuhn's notion of a paradigm. Jungian psychology is also quite popular, but Jung was simply a James Braid gone mad.

These are the two major streams of thought; Neoplatonism and Mesmerism for traditional and modern magic, respectively. There are of course important nuances in the different expression of these traditions, but it would be too cumbersome to dissect and analyze each of them.

For magic proper, you'll want to study the Grimoire tradition - your approach to these is very much dependent on the school of thought you're following since they contain no theoretical background. These are the essentials;

>Papyri Graecae Magicae, Hans Dieter Betz
>Techniques of Graeco-Egyptian Magic, Stephen Skinner
>Hygromanteia, Ioannis Marathakis
>Techniques of Solomonic Magic, Stephen Skinner

I have already mentioned the Picatrix, which is a very important work. The Archidoxes of Magic by Pseudo-Paracelsus is another essential in regards to astrological magic, as is The Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy by Pseudo-Agrippa.

For Neoplatonism, the three most important philosophers are Plotinus, Iamblichus and Proclus. For the Neoplatonic roots of Mesmerism, read the following;

>On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination, Synesius
>On the Stellar Rays, Al Kindi
>Cosmographia, Bernadus Silvestris

I hope this has been helpful.

I think having voices/speech counts as magic

Why don't occultist ever talk about art? Like how would an occultist interpret Shakespeare or Beethoven?

They do.

Examples?

Occultism and magic (for a non crazy) is spirituality involving the mental (mind). Similar to how spiritual healing is non-science based medicine, occultism is non-science based psychology. I find it very interesting, and it can be easier to fill in the blanks of your mind with mysticism instead of hard facts, but it can be very consuming if you get too involved.
Read the Kyballion to get the basic gist. Study Mandaeism, it's early Christian Mysticism. Also druidism, read The Veil of Isis by W. W. Reade for a basic gestalt of many different occulti/religious orders of olde.

I hate this watered-down pseudo-consensus about it being mind-expanding willpower shit. Styxhexenhammer is hocking it lately and everyone is following suit.

Ironically it ruins what makes it interesting by taking the messiness out of it. "Oh, it's all just ______" is a good way to kill it, WHATEVER it is.

magic of the gaps?

Weirdo/loser here. Be glad to provide recommendations.

Introductions to the subject:
>Mary Anne Atwood "Suggestive Inquiry" (general overview of alchemy)
>Anything by Frances Yates (fun introductions to various subjects)
>Rudolf Steiner "Intuitive Thought as a Way of Life" (A sustainable, general approach to life)
>Aryeh Kaplan "Inner Space" (Kabbalah)
>Helena Blavatsky "Isis Unveiled" (wide, heavily opinionated overview of occult/esotericism)
>Anything (even vids) by Stephen Skinner

Serious, foundational writings on magic/esotericism/mysticism:

>Plotinus "Enneads"
>Proclus "Elements of Theology"
>Iamblichus (anything)
>Emerald Tablet of Hermes
>Agrippa's Four Books of Occult Philosophy
>Jakob Boehme (anything)
>Elphas Levi: Transcendental Magic (intro to modern "magic")
>Orphic Hymns

Grimoires/Spellbooks (note, I have almost no experience with these so I am just listing those which I've heard are most useful)

>Key of Solomon
>Lesser Key of Solomon/Goetia
>Grimorium Verum (supposedly dangerous)
>Necronomicon (probably fake)
>Grand Grimoire (really expensive, and supposedly dangerous as well)
>Aleister Crowley "Magick Without Tears" (not sure if this is a spellbook, but it has quite a reputation)
>Picatrix

Be careful with the practical stuff, and always cultivate yourself morally before doing anything. This is as true in esotericism as in life in general, probably more. As earlier posters have noted, if you have predispositions towards instability, unprepared experimentation in this realm can cause severe problems.

Footnote: beware of anyone interested in magic and esotericism who is also heavily interested in dogmatic religion and/or politics. It's a pretty toxic mixture. Always come to your own conclusions, based on the best advice of your conscience.

What is The Real Hustle? I can't find it anywhere.

>I can't find it anywhere
I found it by typing "The Real Hustle" into Google

The Phenomenal world rewards particular kinds of attention, like belief or allegiance, with a modicum of reward. Note that this is not the Darwinian/Nietzschean/Liberal reward of blood-soaked sportive glory, but bitterly ironic rewards of little to no substance beyond endless participation for its own sake. Almost perfectly ironic because it is touted as immediate Dionysian ecstasy through felt experience and yet one would need Apollonian self-effacement to keep from revolting against the Cosmic gulag one is kept in for temporal eternity under the pretense that THIS is the antechamber to Elysium.

Sorcery is:

1. A name for the means of engaging with the Phenomenal world.

2. A Literary repository reminding one that doing so is Evil.

3. When used pejoratively, a projection of the desperate Yang unable to admit its own abjection.

how can i constantly keep in mind that im going to die? as soon as i bracket it, bourgeois spooks start to take root

"Abracadabra": Aramaic- 'I create as I speak.'

The idea of magic arises from a time where the application of language was about as liberal as murder is today (in first world countries). To speak well and cause influence was a magical art. To cast control over the mind of a listener was an act of mysticism. Of course today this is just known as opinion sharing, or charisma. But in the past words held real weight. They weren't just words, they were the ideas themselves, and to speak in certain tongues could strike fear into the hearts of others (as the idea of curses, damnation, vengeance, or prophecy). That is your true heart of magic. The ancients having more respect for language than it will ever receive again. They were more aware of the influence of one's words over themselves as well as others, and hence religions of peace formed with the practice of loving thought and care. For it strikes not only peace within the hearts of others but alters the mental state of the speaker as well, for better or worse.

Real magic was and always is just influence over the mind.

Your post was fun to read. You've clearly put a lot of thought into your worldview, which is clearly that of a hardcore gnostic.

Isn't, however, sorcery another word for illicit use of spiritual agency, to be sharply distinguished from theurgy? Sorcery is an attempt to break into the spiritual world without having respect for it; using it as means to an end. Theurgy is a form of spiritual agency, being used for communion with God(s), and as a means to fulfill God's will.

Sorcery depends on the assumption that God's will is not entirely good, and that one must use spiritual agency illicitly in order to break free from it.

This, however, seems to be analogous to a man who, knowing how to change a tire, goes to an automotive shop and tries to take over all of the responsibilities.

I agree, the world/cosmos can feel like a gulag at times, but that doesn't mean that I know how to make a better one.

q u a d s

>magic is totally real everyone

jeez this really is the most stupid board

>if you go into it with an open mind you can see some crazy shit go down. but if you go into with a mindset of "prove it", youll most likely miss the point.
Eh? Wouldn't the external crazy shit result be the same, say, in one of those collective events though for both the open-minded and the skeptical?

Sup OP.

So that infographic does exist.. Reading Prometheus Rising right now and was hoping that this was a thing haha

I've read Kyballion and PR. which of the next tiers is along the lines of RAW's non-localized quantum circut?

Cosmic Trigger is next.