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To: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick.ethics,alt.satanism,alt.religion.wicca,alt.magick,alt.pagan,talk.religion.misc From: duo@teleport.com (Tom Schuler) Subject: Re: Controversy and the Limits of Satanism (was Satanic Ethics and Magick) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 97 05:46:47 GMT In article <5p4ek9$7vp@chile.earthlink.net>, "Wayne Walton"wrote: > dclxvi@best.com wrote in article <5p0p0s$6ne$1@shell5.ba.best.com>... >> >>to clarify, these lines are convenient fictions. >> >>'I' is (am) a convenient fiction. > >Convenient fiction? It is the only reality that matters!!! > >'me' and 'them' is the only way to keep a sense of identity and >individuality in this life. 'I' is the only thing that prevents us from >being ants. > >The only convenient fiction is that we're all the same. (oh no! The PC >Police are gonna get me now!) You don't have to worry. You're mostly harmless, so they won't care too much about you. A little clucking and tsking, perhaps. Now, as to fiction. You are clinging desperately to that little ego of yours, but, no matter how you struggle, you can't make it into more than it really is. You have chosen a very shaky base for your reality, if it has to depend on a concept of "I" at its center. Study some neurology and some psychology, if you're up to it. Ego boundaries are elastic. They can expand and contract limitlessly. The only difference between you and the chair you sit on is your active imposition of that boundary. When you slam your finger in the door, you might say "I hurt myself". You might also say "I hurt my finger". Elastic ego boundaries, sometimes your finger is you, sometimes it is not. It is also possible to completely dissolve ego boundaries by inducing certain states of consciousness. Mystics and madmen throughout history have been telling you this, but you are almost certainly too frightened to heed them. There are a number of advantages to being able to dissolve and reformulate yourself. For one, you end up with a much clearer and stronger identity when you put it together yourself, rather than allowing the chance events of your environment to do it for you. What you are currently calling your identity is a product of random forces and the various, competing indoctrinations you have been subjected to since your birth. Take a good look at yourself and you'll notice what a patchwork creature you are, cross-hatched with contradictions and conflicts. It's a slave self, made for you by others. The alchemical formula "Solve et Coagula" refers, at least in some senses, to the dissolution and reconstruction of an identity by choice. It's part of what magicians do.
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