Post by ChaosGnosisIt is the total lack of hope that forces us to relinquish our hold on
old belief systems and stare into the beyond without a safety net. Then
you shall see what you will see!. And I bet my first sigil you won't
find it writtten in any of these little slices of lies we speak of
here.
What an adorable little cross-post to alt.dreams,
alt.lifestyle.all-faiths, alt.metaphysics.rebirthing,
alt.newage.angels, and alt.occult.methods. The forced "us" leading
inexorably to the forced "you" is delightfully trollish, yet it is
almost coherent and off-topic enough to have been written by a bot.
Perhaps it is a botulism.
Well, anyway, the botuloid who composed this teensy screed did mention
sigils -- an "occult method" -- which makes its postule marginally
relevant to alt.occult.methods, where i encountered it, and so i have
fixed the headers accordingly. Better to speak only to the small and
known than to cast comment upon the winds of randomity.
Sigils are an old-timey method used to contact spiritual entities who
were never human beings (in contradistinction to, say, spirits of the
human dead or spirits of humans unborn). The paradigm of sigil
magic(k) includes the presumption that some of these non- or
never-human spirits have fixed names and marks by which they are known
and prefer to be addressed, and by which these beings may even be
compelled to respond in ways favourable to the mage who knows their
aethyric addys and sig blocks.
Now, notice that the bot-thing who cobbled this message together spoke
of a "safety net" and of "little slices of lies."
It seems that the author approaches magical work (or dreams or
lifestyles, or metaphysics, or new age though -- consider the
cross-post line!) as a form of mental circus athleticism enwrapped in
fiction. The "safety net" evokes trapeze artistry, and the mention of
sigils in that particular contextual frame completes the circus
metaphor, with the spiritual entities arrayed in an unruly wild animal
act, called up and compelled by their sigils to perform tricks for his
or her audience.
The subject line ("The Afterlife?") is the name of this circus act, no
doubt -- but how does the author propose to segue from a lack of hope
through the Sigfried and Royness of compulsory sigil magic with
infernal or heavenly entities to the high wire of an afterlife without
a safety net? He doesn't -- and admits that the entire act is a sham,
one of many "little slices of lies" he tells in usenet everyday.
A very little slice, indeed, and, when squeezed, one which turns out
to be devoid of juice. It's sham lemonade, sold at a bot-circus, for
the amusement of bots.
cat yronwode
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