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Magic Monday

The picture? I'm working my way through photos of my lineage, focusing on the teachers whose work has influenced me and the teachers who influenced them in turn. Like Allan Bennett, who we discussed last week, this week's honoree was a teacher of Aleister Crowley. George Cecil Jones was the man who introduced Crowley to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and later on helped Crowley found the Argenteum Astrum (Order of the Silver Star, or A∴A∴), the first of the two magical orders the Not-so-great Beast headed during his lifetime. (The other, the Ordo Templi Orientis or OTO, will be discussed next week.) Jones was a working chemist and metallurgist as well as a serious student of the occult. He practiced the magical virtue of silence more effectively than most of his contemporaries, however, and very little seems to be known about him.
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(Anonymous) 2023-02-27 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)Maybe I'm not far enough into the book but if the general pattern that the principles established on a "higher" (or lower, as in closer to the unmanifest) level percolate through everything that is created out of this level of existence holds, wouldn't that imply that every society HAS to decline and dissolve someday and that there is no stable state that can be reached, regardless of how complex or simple a society is? Just as there is no immortal body? And that the decline will either happen in a natural, relatively relaxed way if the individual entities are aware of the process and do their part of that all kinds of nasty effects including divine intervention may happen if they don't? (I can't help it as I don't know where to turn to in the light of the following... it IS *slightly* related however and only to bear with a good portion of Galgenhumor - but then it's really funny. Have you seen this: https://www.eugyppius.com/p/worlds-most-ridiculous-fact-checker )
And then another question that pops up in this forum in this or that variety every now and then: Why are egregores not conscious (or how can it be that they are not conscious?). If you define consciousness as awareness plus memory, and awareness as the capability to react to an external stimulus, what's missing?
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2) Thank you for this -- no, I hadn't seen that. The guy in question clearly has a room temperature IQ.
3) They have no memory. All that's in their minds is what's put there by the people who create them, deliberately or otherwise. That's why egregors don't learn from their mistakes, and very often keep on doing the same thing over and over again despite an unbroken track of failures. Kind of like the US government...
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(Anonymous) 2023-02-27 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)no subject