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I'm trying to post once a week to this journal, and since I've been busy the past week and don't have much, I'll just post a brief thought for now. I'm re-reading John Michael Greer's excellent book, "The King in Orange." What I find myself wondering is, how many of the elites in the Western world are involved in the occult? Much of their power seems rooted in magic that they have used to keep the masses in line. But do they realize they're using magic? Or are they accidentally practicing magic? If that's the case, how many of us, the average Joes and Janes out there, accidentally practice magic?

Date: 2022-01-10 03:28 pm (UTC)
boccaderlupo: Fra' Lupo (Default)
From: [personal profile] boccaderlupo
It may be worth reading Giordano Bruno's brief tracts on magic. They are telling. Bruno anticipates much of what we might regard today as modern advertising and marketing, namely the manipulation of people's desires by the will of the magician, in particular employing Eros and "binding." Modern advertising, therefore, might be regarded as a form of debased magic; these folks know they are manipulating others, but they are not equating it with magic, and just as with magic, there are good and bad advertisers as well as effective and less effective advertisers.

Axé,
Fra' Lupo

Date: 2022-01-10 03:32 pm (UTC)
boccaderlupo: Fra' Lupo (Default)
From: [personal profile] boccaderlupo
Sorry, but an addendum: Another way to view it would be as attention capture. Any form of informational exchange can be regarded as attention capture (that is, if you are reading this, and truly digesting the contents, I have captured your attention). So on an extremely basic level, any form of attention capture is magic.

That said, it's magic at its most basic. It does not employ, for example, the more esoteric correspondences of ritual high magic (for Catholics, something like the Mass, or Communion, for example, in which myths have been ingested over years in the audience, and then are "activated" through gestures and symbols).

Date: 2022-01-10 10:23 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] boccaderlupo
If it's a form of communication, I guess it could be—but likely the manipulator has "seeded" the victim with thought patterns, or is aware of existing ones in the victim, and then "activates" those thought patterns to try to produce the desired result. Thus, any type of will training could in principle break the bonds between the mage and the subject, even if it merely allows the subject to become aware of what the mage is trying to achieve.

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