(September 14, 2019 at 8:42 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: Actually, I've been browsing some occult forums recently and wow is this shit funny. You have all of these people who claim to have all of this magical power and they talk about how they shape reality around them and manipulate people and cast spells and shit. These people are really full of themselves. It's honestly sad lol.
I'm not sure if I feel worse for them or for their xtian counterparts.
What a strange, deluded sense of reality you must have to have to consider yourself this master of reality because you "practice black magic." Weird.
This is similar to hermeticism ("as above, so below", The Secret, etc) where you "create your own reality". The only difference is that hermeticism is more about thinking your way to the life you want and magick involves slathering a lot of ritual on top of that.
Both of those things boil down to getting your way via some formula.
Come to it ... how is Christianity or any other more "conventional" religion any different? Only the details change. You are still using your asserted brand of right-thinking, right-acting, and depending on your persuasion and personal leanings, ritual and community to get what you want or hope for in life.
