Post by shawnhartnell on Mar 16, 2015 23:59:55 GMT -6
-One who fears suffering is already suffering from fear.
Winston Churchill is famous for pointing out that 'All we have to fear is fear itself.'
A couple of my own favorite lines are:
'Pavement is my greatest teacher.'
and
'I'm already dead.'
and the fairly common
'Do or DIE!'
Look up 'counterphobic', it's quite common and a metric shitload of fun.
-The skillful performance of the Catholic Mass bolsters the energetic currents which aid Christian aims and spirits; the intentful performance of the Black Mass can tap into and invert these energies.
This is so vague it could mean anything. But that's a common and cheap trick: be vague and let your audience fill in the gaps.
-It is fairly common for fledgling sorcerers to receive some vision or theophany from a spirit or deity, which spirit essentially tells the listener that they are some form of chosen one and would lead him to start a religion (i.e. the Darth Omega transmission which started the Sith Academy). These occurrences are often far from as significant as they purport to be.
No offense, but someone had to tell you that?
-The significance of a mythology should not be determined by the objective historical truth represented by the mythos, but by the experiences achieved through interaction with its rituals and pantheons.
If there's no objective historical truth to them, then how could you interact with "it's" rituals -- in fact, where could you possibly learn them? You could just pull a new one fresh from your rectal neithervoid anytime you need one.... which (if you're not interested in reverse engineering and learning from the originals) is fine, and in fact it's Chaos Magick 101:Belief is a Tool. Even so, this requires an objective examination of subjectivity.
-In order to become adroit in lesser magic, it is necessary to fully immerse someone into a group of people much unlike oneself. The nature of the group thus infiltrated should be in some way beneficial or advantageous to another long term goal of the disciple.
Again: vague.
How is it necessary?
Are you telling me there's no other way?
And who's the clone who hangs out with other clones?