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OK, I think I get where you're coming from on this - am I right in thinking that you are struggling with the idea that there is no authoritative account of events, and that vested interests often manipulate the historical record in various ways to provide a particular flavour to their coverage? And that, by extension, as a chaos magician who uses historical events as a source of focus or power or similar, you're finding this disruptive?
I think the official line, such as there is, is probably that one is not exactly using an absolute historical event, but rather the self-generated idea of a historical event - in the same way that you are not actually enlisting Abraham Lincoln to free you from your restrictive lease, but rather the idea of Abraham Lincoln as you imagine him, or possibly some energy that resembles Abraham Lincoln, or a specific aspect of Abraham Lincoln - in the same way that one might propitiate Apollo in his specific aspect as a healer in a particular element and as the patron deity of prophesy in another.
So, if you're making some sort of magic which references the Battle of Medway, or similar, then what matters is by this argument what you think of the Battle of Medway, or a particular aspect of the Battle of Medway relevant to whatever you're doing. Whether this is true or not, or what standard of truth you'd like to apply to the whole process, I have no idea. Liminal Nation might give you some more pointers on the magical elements.
At the risk of indulging in armchair psychology, however, I don't think the magical impacts is exactly what you're looking at here - if you've been making mojo based on the undeniable presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - something which I think even George Bush and co. gave up claiming a while back - I'd be interested to know how that's been working out. It seems rather that you are coming to the realisation that the world not only is not as one might imagine, but that one can never feel truly informed about the state of the world as one is living in it. That's not really a problem with being a chaos magician, exactly... |
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