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My one worry is that in this situation it would be far too easy to 'experiment' with the belief system and wind up identifying it.
Is that a problem? Similarly, she might (possibly, depending on how open-minded she is, and how she discovers your ideals) experiment with yours, or see how it fits into her current belief, and she might identify with it. She'd find that a problem; I think you'd be glad from the sound of things. So why doesn't it work the other way around?
You say you're 'meant' to be a magus. Are you? In what sense? Suddenly saying with retrospect "oh, shit, I'm not meant to be this, I'm meant to be something else" doesn't really hold up in my book; I'd say that whatever you believe, you ought to be yourself. Most people are going to take a lot of convincing to believe in anything. You might identify with something a little, but it isn't going to change your standpoint - from the sound of things, you're not going to lose any of your bs no matter what else you add to your bs from hers. You can increase knowledge without losing it, and even if you don't believe what she does, you're going to at least be more aware of another BS.
Do you see? You're eventually going to run into contradictory arguments, but both sides might have something to add to the other. I don't think you should be so frightened of everything changing as a result of actually having to deal with a conflict of interest - as Haus points out, if we only dated people the same as us, many things would be infintiely more sucky.
I'm vaguely religious, and about as sceptical of magick as you can get, but I can acknowledge that they fill pretty much the same gap, so I wouldn't see too much trouble. I mean, in the end, I do have a funny kind of respect who believe in anything strongly enough; it's hard to have faith in anything, never mind what it is. And so she might have a problem with what you believe in, but not the fact that you believe in something. I mean, something is better than nothing, right?
So yeah. Don't let it get in the way. You seem to get on well, and you can put synchronicity down to divine intervention, or curious magickal symbolism, or just the fact you're two people who at the moment probably should go out with each other. All three are pretty much valid arguments - there's equal amounts of proof for all of them. So don't dismiss anything yet, go careful, and love her for what she is rather than what she isn't.
[Yikes. That might well be my first post in the Magick. I do read this place, you know.] |
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