Dear Tumblr Occultists (that includes all you pagans, thelemites, ceremonial magicians, satanists, wiccans, witches, et al., except you re-constructionists, you’ll never learn)
As a forty-two year old human being, I feel like I shouldn’t have to do things like this anymore but obviously there’s a need.
Why do you waste your time telling people their interpretation of a symbol/deity/practice is wrong?
Why is it wrong? Because some book told you otherwise? Because a bunch of other people believe differently?
Could it be that what they are expressing is their own personal interpretation of the mystery? Could it be that it is no less valid than anyone else’s?
Have you ever stopped and asked, “why did you interpret it that way?” Maybe they have a good reason.
Maybe the reason you are a shitty magician is that you are unable to grasp the idea that things can have multiple meanings and definitions, sometimes even totally opposite, at the same time.
If someone has a different interpretation of something and can’t justify their reasoning, just move on. Don’t waste your time and look like an asshole trying to tell them the “correct” meaning.
There is no correct meaning.
There is no “is.”
Nothing remains true. All limits change.
