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Must be something weird going on in my chart/planets or something because a lot of miscommunication is going on. Something with Mercury maybe? I'll have to try some divination because I am no astrologer ( Read more... )

Hubris is really about a loss of humility ( Read more... )

The magical system most use is based on Hermeticism, which is based on Renaissance knowledge of ancient Greek and Egyptian science (the elements, etc.) What would a magical system based on what modern science has learned about our world look like?

Daily rant: In a class on anthropology, a religious student has protested the anthropological definition of magic as an attempt to control the supernatural, in her mind, God, and thus Christians do not do magic. My response ( Read more... )

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Shoot, I am a total mongrel. The last one of my ancestors that came over was in the 1840s, the first European ones were here in the 1600s and the Native American ones, well, depending on your point of view, have either been here from the beginning of creation to 15,000 years ago or so ( Read more... )

A discussion on a list about magic about our birth religions, the Moon, symbolism, whether cultures ( Read more... )

"Hermeticism is a form of Gnosticism based on the Greek Imperialist doctrine of Interpretatio Graeca (Greek Translation or Interpretation) where nations they conquered had everything including their Deities and Magicks reinterpreted using Greek Models as a way of forcing conformity to Greek culture and traditions." -Jose Prado ( Read more... )

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