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By Psyche | November 13, 2007
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Objective results are the proof of magic, all else is mysticism.
–Peter Carroll, Liber Kaos
It sounds flip, but it’s true.
Results magick needn’t necessarily be centred on the material, though it certainly can be about getting that job, that coat, that house. Changes can be made in personality, appearance, mannerisms; relationships – romantic and otherwise; creative output, and so on. The point is, the results are obvious: you either got the girl or you didn’t, you either quit smoking, or you’re still at it – all right here in the “real” world.
Success can be temporary, you may even know ‘em, those who can’t maintain a stable relationship, job, or master their addictions. Self-proclaimed magickians practicing for ten years renting cockroach infested bachelor apartments barely holding down that dollar store clerk gig, getting stoned every night to avoid – no, to get to that “special place”.
If there is no discernible difference between what your life was like before you performed an act of magick and afterwards, what was the point? Some small, initial success may spark a desire to continue - and that’s all well and good, but when you see the same patterns repeat themselves over and over, a seemingly endless loop - why bother? That’s not control and it’s not growth.
What are these people doing?
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November 13th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Escaping reality, quite simply.
This is actually a danger with any path that takes its eyes off the ground its standing on and looks up into the sky and wishes that it was there. Nietzsche would call them all equally nihilistic.
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November 13th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
Not merely that, but which projects desires and whims on to the sky, skries patterns in the clouds - especially on clear days, and argues about which colour best suits it, for the sky is obviously uniform.
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Five reply on November 14th, 2007:
‘Zactly. Actions, in my mind, will always speak louder than ideas and words (which are fine too, so long as action is the result), which explains perhaps my bizare predilection for philosophers who advocate that.. like Machiavelli.
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