Of course not all types of magic involves the dealings with demons. The most obvious example is Natural magic, or the science and art of using the magical energies that exist already into the things that exist in Nature. It that stance of the RCC was truth, you could go to Hell by drinking your daily cup of morning coffee, or taking yearly vacations to the beach, or eating Chicken soup every time you are down with a cold!!! (Two out of three of those are natural species used in homeopathic remedies, btw: Coffea tosta & Natrum muriaticum. I am not sure anyone has done the probing experiments with Gallus domesticus, but I would not be surprised it will show effects in the upper respiratory track when somebody gets around to do it).
I will also not put my hand on fire to defend what the high hierarchies of the Vatican think, say or do.
But, taken with a grain of salt, it is not such bad advise at all. Keep in mind that individual exorcists are posed to clash with the grubbier half of the magical communities. People who get enlightment and blessings will rarely go to seek the help of the Church's professional pest control services, after all.
Furthermore, what I have learned from personal experience is that people who break the taboo of not dealing with the occult are, more often than not, gullible fools (myself included). And since the development of the kind of magic that lets you develop the subtle potentials of the human condition is ALWAYS marked by the trifecta of 1) Hard work, 2) Delayed gratification, and 3) Self knowledge, it was impossible for the marketplace to be flooded with the kind of doctrines that ignore at least one (and probably all) of those safeguards.
So, let's say you go to a yoga class. More likely that not your teacher is going to be a flake; and if she is not you will have to do a 2nd roll on your will-force to not quit on your fist month and go shopping for the flake next door. If you land at Flake studio, you will deal with a bunch of other students who each believe the weirdest of things, and everybody is required to believe everything every other weirdo believes, out of politeness. A Satanist in such a group is like a fox inside the hen-house, and you should do well to stay away at least until you develop a minimum degree of self awareness that would let you know your mind is being played with.
So, because I have a strong, self-serving, emotional interest to do so, I prefer to see the prohibitions from my Exorcists as the training wheels of spiritual development. You cannot truly learn while still using those, but they'll spare you a few falls early on.
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branchandroot
I will not defend the indefensible, but...
Date: 2024-11-11 07:09 pm (UTC)(Two out of three of those are natural species used in homeopathic remedies, btw: Coffea tosta & Natrum muriaticum. I am not sure anyone has done the probing experiments with Gallus domesticus, but I would not be surprised it will show effects in the upper respiratory track when somebody gets around to do it).
I will also not put my hand on fire to defend what the high hierarchies of the Vatican think, say or do.
But, taken with a grain of salt, it is not such bad advise at all. Keep in mind that individual exorcists are posed to clash with the grubbier half of the magical communities. People who get enlightment and blessings will rarely go to seek the help of the Church's professional pest control services, after all.
Furthermore, what I have learned from personal experience is that people who break the taboo of not dealing with the occult are, more often than not, gullible fools (myself included). And since the development of the kind of magic that lets you develop the subtle potentials of the human condition is ALWAYS marked by the trifecta of 1) Hard work, 2) Delayed gratification, and 3) Self knowledge, it was impossible for the marketplace to be flooded with the kind of doctrines that ignore at least one (and probably all) of those safeguards.
So, let's say you go to a yoga class. More likely that not your teacher is going to be a flake; and if she is not you will have to do a 2nd roll on your will-force to not quit on your fist month and go shopping for the flake next door. If you land at Flake studio, you will deal with a bunch of other students who each believe the weirdest of things, and everybody is required to believe everything every other weirdo believes, out of politeness. A Satanist in such a group is like a fox inside the hen-house, and you should do well to stay away at least until you develop a minimum degree of self awareness that would let you know your mind is being played with.
So, because I have a strong, self-serving, emotional interest to do so, I prefer to see the prohibitions from my Exorcists as the training wheels of spiritual development. You cannot truly learn while still using those, but they'll spare you a few falls early on.