tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817682567561164198.post7023852399284728739..comments2024-02-20T09:54:37.105-06:00Comments on Talking About Ritual Magick: Trouble With ModelsFrater.Barrabbashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11689013897789072360noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817682567561164198.post-18118317066879552062010-05-03T05:30:19.964-05:002010-05-03T05:30:19.964-05:00Wow - four paragraphs of demonic babbling...Wow - four paragraphs of demonic babbling...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817682567561164198.post-45893376098220394472010-04-21T19:53:23.804-05:002010-04-21T19:53:23.804-05:00there is, however, a 'metamodel', as there...there is, however, a 'metamodel', as there is also a 'correct' way of looking at reality. The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon, though it is semiotically relative to it. <br /><br />With enough inner experience, there comes a point where the analysis of paradigms and models becomes moot. For we live in a multiverse, an ultraverse, yet it is composed of a limited number of primitive elements. these elements may be combined and recombined into a vast variety of combinations, which then may be aggregated to create the formations of structures.<br /><br />Of course, it may be argued that even this is simply a 'model', but there is nothing one can say to a person who enthrones doubt as a ruling principle. the operative imperative in experiential understanding is Faith.<br /><br />There is an overarching superstructure that may be percieved with strenuous effort, but it stands outside of all magical systems. Along the initiatory path of Sophia-Scientia, the unfoldment of the Mystery involves the experience of reconciliatory paradox ( as well as its necessary opposite) and the experience of certain, shall we say...'inconvienient truths'. <br /><br />truths such as the fact that magic has no effect on the highest level of being, which is superior even to the most exalted magical practices, and must come to us of its own will as a gift of God.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817682567561164198.post-33189756608231156422010-04-19T15:53:34.874-05:002010-04-19T15:53:34.874-05:00Thanks Gordon - I was just ensuring that I was und...Thanks Gordon - I was just ensuring that I was understood. What I would like to do is put together a list of all of the models that folks think are relevant to the theoretical perspective of magick. I started this out on my Face Book fan page for this blog. If you have a face book account, then just search for "Talking About Ritual Magick" - and look down the posts for the last few weeks.Frater.Barrabbashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11689013897789072360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817682567561164198.post-52209428372099913112010-04-19T14:52:26.728-05:002010-04-19T14:52:26.728-05:00I'm with you 100% on the sentiment.
But -fun...I'm with you 100% on the sentiment. <br /><br />But -funnily enough- I just posted something similar to this about how I don't think we use the word or the idea of 'model' correctly.<br /><br />http://runesoup.com/2010/04/sorcerys-next-top-model/<br /><br />There is probably a lot to be gained from having a big ol' bloggy discussion about this.Gordonhttp://runesoup.com/noreply@blogger.com