Month: December 2011

‘Sigil’ as a word is out of date. All this magic stuff needs new terminology because it’s not what people are being told it is at all. It’s not all this wearying symbolic misdirection that’s being dragged up from the Victorian Age, when no-one was allowed to talk plainly and everything was in coy poetic code. The world’s at a crisis point and it’s time to stop bullshitting around with Qabalah and Thelema and Chaos and Information and all the rest of the metaphoric smoke and mirrors designed to make the rubes think magicians are ‘special’ people with special powers. It’s not like that. Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. ‘Life’ plus ‘significance’ = magic. (2004)

Grant Morrison (via thenewabnormal)

wtchs:

Loki
18th century Icelandic manuscript SÁM 66 in the care of the Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland. (Norse Gods and Goddesses – About the Major Norse Gods and Goddesses in Norse Mythology)

What I’ve learned from Sex Magick in the last 10 years

acanthis:

Yeah, this is a naughty article. This is no theorizing after having read Crowley’s books or anything about tantra yoga. I only retell things which I have learned myself. Some of these things I had to learn before achieving any results. Much frustration was involved here, so please, enjoy an authentic article by Acanthis.

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Let me just put the whole thing in a kind of mundane level. Like, suppose you walk out in the street, this evening, and you see a crime being committed, you know, somebody is robbing someone else. Well, you have three choices. One choice is to try to stop it, maybe you call 911 or something. Another choice is to do nothing. A third choice is to pick up an assault rifle and kill ‘em both, and kill a bystander at the same time. Well, suppose you do that, and somebody says, “Well, you know, why did you do that?” And you say, “Look, I couldn’t stand by and do nothing.” I mean, is that a response? If you can think of nothing that wouldn’t do harm, then do nothing. And the same is true, magnified, in international affairs. Apart from the fact that there were things that could have been done.

About bombing of Yugoslavia – Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)

Americans are encouraged to vote, but not to participate more meaningfully in the political arena. Essentially the election is yet another method of marginalizing the population. A huge propaganda campaign is mounted to get people to focus on these personalized quadrennial extravaganzas and to think, ‘That’s politics.’ But it isn’t. It’s only a small part of politics…

Noam Chomsky – Interventions (via noam-chomsky)