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Illmatic: It sounds like maths is fundamental to your self expression (your Will, in a thelemic sense), and you are lucky enough to have found a route through life where you can express that.
Oh, yeah... I am so very grateful for having found my calling. I don't know enough about Thelema to have come up with the idea of it being my 'will'--I like the sound of it, but what does it mean?
I think you don't have to "go looking" for anything - you are already doing it, and if you do take a deeper interest in any specifc area of magical study, I think you'll find maths there - it's in the I Ching, it's in the qabalah and gematria and a million other places besides. I'm sure a synthesis of the two will come to you in time.
I think that the I Ching or the qabalah are definitely things I would be interested in learning more about. The maths that leap immediately to mind... when you quantify 'information', something is maximally informative (in a technical sense) when it is indistinguishable from a random sequence; for example, if I give you the sequence of words, 'Belgium, narcoleptic, sinking, Freebird, marzipan,' you have no way of guessing what the next word is, and so each word is a surprise. But the sequence, "The I Ching originates in..." there are very few words that can follow--the word that follows is less surprising, and has less information. But the first sequence isn't meaningful. So with the I Ching you've got maximal information but the meaning is dependent on the context of what the tri- and hexagrams mean. I don't know enough about the qabalah to comment on anything but the fact that it's a graph, and I know some neat stuff about graphs =)
Whoa, tangent. Anyhoo, I've tried to pick up a 'system' a couple of times and keep failing to figure out the right starting point. A post of grant's made me think that the way to go about the I Ching was to learn about the trigrams first--only 8 of those instead of 64.
Mordant C.: Lurid said something along the lines that one has to come at mathematics almost as if it is a conscious being, or a collective of conscious beings, that one must get to know and to understand.
Ohhh yeah. Sometimes mathematics just feels physically BIG. Like, you're brushing your hands over a surface to understand it, and you have a reasonably good idea of what the area in your reach is like, but you can tell you're touching the surface of something planet-sized. As for the being aspect, I feel almost like it is, I don't know, a sort of oracle--it will tell you many things, but only if you can solve the riddle. I.e., it will tell you that all Q-framistats are right-trapezoidal, but only if you are able to prove it. Once that's done, for all time any Q-framistat you come across is certainly right-trapezoidal.
As for the animism... this is yet another thing that I have much interest and little information about. I believe I've heard you mention animism recently; do you have any experiences to share on that front?
And yes, Quantum, I have seen Pi... For all my open-mindedness to things magic, I'm with Sol on the numerology front. My interest in numerology kind of went out the window when I noticed that reducing a number is really just a complicated way of finding the remainder upon division by 9 =) |
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