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To: alt.magick
From: bloodofenoch@goddamnfruit.com ({ Secret Chief })
Subject: Re: Eastern LBRP
Date: 1 Jun 2003 21:10:36 -0700
"SwAmI" wrote in message news:...
> I am currently asking these questions on this very Forum.
Really? I thought you were asking whether there was a Hinduized form
of the LBRP out there, not whether it was a good idea. But since
you're on the right track now, I'll do my best to answer.
> Thanks for
> pointing out the Obvious, though.
My specialty.
> "{ Secret Chief }" wrote in message
> news:a3076ef3.0305311209.284b8a4@posting.google.com...
> > "SwAmI" wrote in message
> news:...
> > * Do the Hindu gods fit into the four-directions/four-elements model?
Short answer: no. Neither do Greek gods, Norse gods, Boddhisattvas,
Daoist immortals, or any of the other divinities. Gods are
essentially poetic things; the four-elements/four-directions schema is
an essentially allegorizing mechanistic view of the world.
In poetry, you have a lot of ambiguity, surplus meaning and redundancy
floating around - that's what makes it complex and interesting -
that's what makes it poetry. But allegory strives towards economy -
that's what makes it clear and clever. The two do not naturally fit
together. To make them fit, you have to force them; you have to make
poetry to become and debase what makes it itself.
> > * Do their names function in the same talismanic way as Kabbalistic
> > god-names?
They do function in a talismanic way, but not in the same talismanic
way. Hebrew god-names one fears to pronounce at all; when they are
spoken finally, it is an earth-shattering occurence. Hindu god names,
on the other hand, are invoked by ceaseless repetition:
"Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna
Hare Rama
Rama Rama"
etc.
> > * Is their relationship with their worshippers at all similar to the
> > relationship between magician and Deity presupposed in the LBRP?
I'm not qualified to answer definitively, but I'd say no.
> > * Does Hinduism have the same attitude towards "hostile" or "blind
> > forces" as the one presupposed in the LBRP?
Again, not qualified to answer definitively, but I'd guess not in
general.
> > * Etc.
Another question is: which Hinduism? It's a *huge* and very very old
religion, with a lot of different and often incompatible flavors.
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