I guess it depends on your point of view...
Well, this is bizarrely relevant. I did a keyword search for "names" in this forum, wondering if this topic had been covered before, and was led to this topic, which led me indirectly to this.
Now, why I was previously completely unaware that Robert Masters had an entire occult theory supposedly based on the teachings of the goddess whose name I bear on this board, and why nobody has ever mentioned this to me before, I really can't say... But the theory itself is interesting.
In brief, Masters postulates that according to the teachings of the Temple of Sekhmet, every person has five "bodies" or selves; the physical body, the "double" (by which he seems to mean the perceptual self), the "shadow" or dream self, the magical body, and the spiritual body. (Why the latter two are differentiated is unclear to me as of yet.) The idea apparently being to recognize these various "bodies" and to differentiate and develop their abilities, while harmonizing them with one another.
I wonder whether each body might not have its own name? Perhaps in acquiring pseudonyms, we are merely discovering them?
Does anyone know more about this theory?
And does anyone else have any thoughts on the efficacy of operating under a magical persona? |
