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To: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick,alt.consciousness.mysticism,talk.religion.misc From: "Tom"Subject: Re: Hermetic QBL (Unsupportable? ) (was Parpola Discovered! ....) Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 07:25:48 -0800 "Asiya" wrote in message news:a072lo$8au$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net... > "Tom" wrote in message > news:FnoV7.902$E93.64230@news.uswest.net... > > > > For a while I was strongly influenced by Castenada's outlook. > > It is a valid way to teach magick, but, like I say, it won't make > > you many friends. > > > > By constantly mistrusting everything and everyone, you can rid > > yourself of restrictive beliefs and false assumptions, which frees > > your perceptions of many self-imposed blinders. It's an > > iconoclastic extreme, though. > > This sounds a lot like your behavior on alt.magick, from some people's > perspectives. So it seems. Alt.magick readers often are extremely credulous and I've adopted a stance that I feel balances that extremity. Doubt and faith are tools of a magician, not his masters. Both should be used at their proper times and places and put aside when not in use.
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