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In my usage, magick is causative ritual. Magick may also be considered ritual that heightens psychological aptitude or inclination—or, very possibly, an amalgam of psychology and extra-physicality, a topic considered throughout this journey. In any case, magick is results based—or it is nothing but a museum piece.
Mitch Horowitz • Practical Magick: Ancient Tradition and Modern Practice
Alchemy itself has been seen as gold making, Self-making, and God making, and there are also the divides between phenomena and noumena, limit and transcendence, mechanism and vitalism, thought and being, image and idea, spirit and nature, soul and spirit, ontology and history, absolutism and relativism.
Stanton Marlan • Jung’s Alchemical Philosophy: Psyche and the Mercurial Play of Image and Idea (ISSN)
Hermes facilitates transitions, as between order (Apollo) and orgiastic excess (Dionysus).
George P. Hansen • The Trickster and the Paranormal
In Yoruba mythology, Eshu is understood to have gotten one of the creator gods drunk at the beginning of time, and that is why there are cripples, albinos, and all other sorts of anomaly in the world. When geneticists breed fruit flies, a fly sometimes appears with legs growing from the sockets where its antennae ought to be. Clearly Eshu, who
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A Hallucinogenic Compendium
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The 7 points about Hermeticism are called the Kybalion:
The principle of mentalism: the Universe is mental (imagination);
The principle of correspondence: as above, so below” (microcosm);
The principle of vibration: everything in constant motion;
The principle of polarity: all paradoxes may be reconciled;
The principle of rhythm: everything is cyclical;
