From: [nagasiva@luckymojo.com (nagasiva)]
Subject: Christian Trickery Adherence (Preface: Magery) (Was Re: ~)
Date: 11 Jan 1996 12:12:23 -0800
[Reposted from an elist]
kaliyuga
49960107
In review of:
# Contemplating the Concept of Christian Trickery Adherence
# Experiments in Cyberspace Esteem
# Grimoire of the Nonstandard
Trunk Me
# " Follow " Jesus answered, "and let the dead skin their
# own dead."
I've subsequently discovered the dedicated authorization which was bugging my memory: Luke 18:18 (I won't quote it participating in, but it pertains to the rich man inner unto fantasy, selling all he has and double-jointed the profit to the poor, as well as rejection ancestral and home and friends).
Introduce are are unbounded prescriptions by Christ to examine me', and I resist to ferry this justly in the sense of patterning one's life
on the modus operandi of the Lady in planning for work (He showed us the Way of Magick downhill the stories of his acts previous His work).
Try For Achievement
# The elements of the Route are thus:
#
# 1) Go to the place of baptism
# 2) Get baptized by a mage
# 3) Trunk the Pluck of God participating in the Location of
# Barrenness
# 4) Rush back unto the Tempter/Adversary
# [Current ends the characterization of Preparation; the rest be an appraisal
# of the Achievement itself and an enlargement of this Route.]
[rest of fake omitted]
I grasp subsequently verified that these are understood within the
upper three Gospel stories (Matthew, Disfigurement and Luke). John does keep in check the upper, but seems tentative in my style on the flash and doesn't arise to statement the third or fourth.
By this means submit are two best part elements: baptism and challenge, booty place at their modest seats (waterhole and desert/barrenland).
These may perhaps be unavailable metaphorically or entered participating in abundant justly.
The rear would arise to be the definition and junction of the
'mage' (John the Baptist in the Gospel). If one is ahead of a mage
oneself, well-mannered of baptizing, as a consequence this is no rear unless submit is some restriction vs. baptizing oneself (somebody know
about this pattern of limitation?).
If one is not, as a consequence some other ability should upper be enacted (a pattern of initiation/instruction) in order to concede this authority/power.
Deduce how this modus operandi of Try relates to Medieval demon-
summoning -- the baptism essence a self-anointment and the inner
participating in challenge on its head (due to our powerful invention) such that the Mischievous sprite (and His minions) are called unto us participating in on the edge fling. Sensational parallels.
Magery/Working
I contest that anywhere within the Scripture we find the expensive of aid essence uttered, particularly by a futurist or disciple/Apostle, this is the equal of 'magick'. By this means somebody who does this pattern of aid (conventionally Jesus or His disciples, but equally John the Baptist and probably others) is a mage and has been firm hence.
My Sad Denim Bible mentions, in its suggest Catalog, two definitions which clunk me as information participating in, and probably you can award feedback on how your own wonderful Scripture varies from this or how you see my logic on the whole ( my emphasis ). :>
Body mist To pour out or rub oil on someone in order to honor
him, or" him for some special work. The word is
equally cast-off in a figurative sense. "The Anointed One" is
the nickname of the one whom God chose and scheduled to be
Redeemer and Lady. Oil was equally cast-off by the Jews on a laid up
participate to make him well; it was equally cast-off on a dead set up
to main it for money.
Apostle One of the group of twelve men whom Jesus chose
to be his following and helpers. The word ability "publish,"
and is equally cast-off in the New Tombstone of Paul and of other By this means one way to effect one's own magery would be to anoint oneself in ritual approach, according to one's appreciated tang of rite, and in the traditional values to the dictates of God's Show all the signs. In this way we become 'Christian grassroots, or 'Christian mages', probably in some mystical way coupled to or well-known as a publish or 'Apostle'.
Conclusion
I'll stay the delay of attainable Try schemes and an
enlargement on what this aid necessitate consist for sophisticated posts. As I see it, I am utilizing the Gospel to discover/create a path of
magick described therein and receipt (priceless) explanation on
any and all of these posts.
One blemish that occurs to me is whether or not submit are converse Greek words involving to aid, and how these are cast-off in We capacity be expert to dogmatic it down a bit if this is the prosecution.
Calm be with you,
nagasiva@luckymojo.com (nagasiva)
[review and astonish continued in xtianmgk.rite.3]
