CM: An apocraphyl Messenger system?
Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2004 2:05 am
Original post: Anathema_Oracle
An interesting idea was spawned by a certain notion I've come across.
It basically states: Magick is the art of making Angels come to you when you ask properly, instead of the traditional Angels coming to you when they feel like it/ are ordered by God.
Is magick a reaction to an unstable and dangerous world that people live/lived in, trying to control forces beyond their own control?
Copts had a number of magickal formulae to ask Archangel Michael intercede on a person's behalf in matters of personal fortune, health etc..
Their vision of Gabriel was of a celestial being capable of giving cosmic wisdom, and has a number of textual incantations...
Enochian, Ceremonial magick, keys of Solomon, are they all just the natural product of people interpreting their religious beliefs..ie: Christianity, Judaism and making it more personal or influential rather then a passive relationship with divinity.
If western magick has its roots in divinatory or transcendent religious practise, how has it evolved into the human using their own "will and intent" without the intercession of a deity?
Is this true to the theme of western magick that the individual has power outside of a deity and its minions, is this an adaption to the modern ideas of psychology and libetarian ideals of the Enlightenment, as opposed to the older Rennaisance and medieval notions of magick?
An interesting idea was spawned by a certain notion I've come across.
It basically states: Magick is the art of making Angels come to you when you ask properly, instead of the traditional Angels coming to you when they feel like it/ are ordered by God.
Is magick a reaction to an unstable and dangerous world that people live/lived in, trying to control forces beyond their own control?
Copts had a number of magickal formulae to ask Archangel Michael intercede on a person's behalf in matters of personal fortune, health etc..
Their vision of Gabriel was of a celestial being capable of giving cosmic wisdom, and has a number of textual incantations...
Enochian, Ceremonial magick, keys of Solomon, are they all just the natural product of people interpreting their religious beliefs..ie: Christianity, Judaism and making it more personal or influential rather then a passive relationship with divinity.
If western magick has its roots in divinatory or transcendent religious practise, how has it evolved into the human using their own "will and intent" without the intercession of a deity?
Is this true to the theme of western magick that the individual has power outside of a deity and its minions, is this an adaption to the modern ideas of psychology and libetarian ideals of the Enlightenment, as opposed to the older Rennaisance and medieval notions of magick?