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No participant can have failed to notice the degree to which numerous threads here have rotted lately, largely due (in my view) to the sudden arrival of a self-proclaimed "ippssissimus" named "Joe". With Asa's support, Joe has suggested that time is short, that the coming year holds vast dangers, and that we should all fall in line and get cracking on ensuring that we do our collective utmost to avert imminent disaster.
I, among others, have responded to these suggestions with scorn and derision.
It is rare indeed that life, so commonly painted in a multitude of shades of gray, presents one with a fairly binary situation. I see two possibilities here: either Joe is seriously mistaken about his grasp of the subject matter of this forum, or I am.
I have my own opinions on the matter, obviously, and I've belabored the board sufficiently with them. I would summarize my view of the matter by saying that the highest grade Joe could possibly hold, in my estimation, is Adeptus Ineptus, -1°=11. But I try to keep firmly in mind Crowley's dictum that the Ipsissimus is "beyond all comprehension of those of lower degrees". Perhaps Joe is an extreme illustration of the truth of this.
Joe, who tells us that he is "not concerned with the physicl anymore and spend most of my time detached working with all spheres and energies", has suggested that he does much of his communication and teaching "asrally". Asa, whom Joe claims as a student, has evidently received some communication weighty and persuasive enough to encourage him to subscribe to, and support, Joe's point of view.
It may be that Joe, for reasons I cannot surmise (no doubt due to my insufficiently "high level"), seems to have much more difficulty communicating on the "physicl" plane.
I'd like to propose that Joe and his students, whomever they may be, as well as any other interested (and capable) parties, take their proselytizing efforts (and make no mistake: Joe is Enlisting your Support for a Cause here) off the Magick and confine it to the astral plane. This will have the benefit of ensuring that only those of a sufficiently "high level" involve themselves, and that any "jokers" (such as myself, say) are excluded. Given that time is evidently of the essence, this would also ensure that the necessary measures are taken by those capable of doing so, in all due haste, without the petty distractions of having to explain themselves to those less adept.
In this way, those of us who are, perhaps, too low-level to appreciate the tremendous opportunity which is passing us by can get on with our "pussyfooting around" with "simple base witchcraft and shamanism", not to mention that "overly simple" Chaos magic. Let us leave those with sufficient capacity to their "high level occult magicks and ippssissimal works".
I personally have no interest in "purifying the world". No doubt this is due to a lack of faith and imagination on my part. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. |
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