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'''Sorcery:''' ''the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.'' |
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The incremental openings of perception gradually banish the |
false selves, our cacophonous ghosts--the "black magic" of |
envy & vendetta backfires because Desire cannot be forced. |
Where our knowledge of beauty harmonizes with the |
''ludus naturae,'' sorcery begins. |
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No, not spoon-bending or horoscopy, not the Golden Dawn or |
make-believe [Deoxy:shaman.htm shamanism], astral projection or the Satanic |
Mass--if it's mumbo jumbo you want go for the real stuff, |
banking, politics, social science--not that weak blavatskian |
crap. |
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Sorcery works at creating around itself a psychic/physical |
space or openings into a space of untrammeled expression--the |
metamorphosis of quotidian place into angelic sphere. |
This involves the manipulation of symbols (which are also |
things) & of people (who are also symbolic)--the archetypes |
supply a vocabulary for this process & therefore are treated |
as if they were both real & unreal, like words. Imaginal |
Yoga. |
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The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but |
then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so |
tangible. The dullard finds even wine tasteless but the |
sorcerer can be intoxicated by the mere sight of water. |
Quality of perception defines the world of intoxication--but |
to sustain it & expand it to include ''others'' demands |
activity of a certain kind--sorcery. |
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Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural |
Law, only the spontaneity of ''natura naturans,'' the tao. |
Sorcery violates laws which seek to chain this flow--priests, |
kings, hierophants, mystics, scientists & shopkeepers all |
brand the sorcerer ''enemy'' for threatening |
the power of their charade, the tensile strength of their |
illusory web. |
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A poem can act as a spell & vice versa--but sorcery refuses |
to be a metaphor for mere literature--it insists that |
symbols must cause events as well as private epiphanies. It |
is not a critique but a re-making. It rejects all |
eschatology & metaphysics of removal, all bleary nostalgia & |
strident futurismo, in favor of a paroxysm or seizure of |
''presence.'' |
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Incense & crystal, dagger & sword, wand, robes, rum, cigars, |
candles, herbs like dried dreams--the virgin boy staring |
into a bowl of ink--wine & ganja, meat, yantras & gestures--rituals |
of pleasure, the garden of houris & sakis--the sorcerer climbs |
these snakes & ladders to a moment which is fully saturated |
with its own color, where mountains are mountains & trees are |
trees, where the body becomes all time, the beloved all space. |
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++The tactics of [Local:Post-Anarchism_Anarchy ontological anarchism] are rooted in this secret Art--the goals of ontological anarchism appear in its flowering. Chaos hexes its enemies & rewards its devotees...this strange yellowing pamphlet, pseudonymous & dust-stained, reveals all...send away for one split second of eternity.++ |
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