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Thrice-Gay Him-mess
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They are also gods associated with the sea & with falling from great height. Almost like alter egos of each other.
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They both are canny & scheming, & both adore anything beautiful in form.
They both exemplify a sort of yearning that they cannot fulfill in each other but will exacerbate (perhaps a sign being how Hephaestus's handiwork renders Aphrodite more desireable, more potent)
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One can also see it as Aphrodite & Hephaestus being too similar. Consider the two signature embroilments of Hephaestus (The throne & the bed) where he uses his love & desire for recognition as mechanisms to ensnare & entangle; not unlike how Aphrodite uses Eros to take avenge herself on gods
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Meekness & humility when touching the divine is then what is unbecoming, because it sullies the status & power with mortal timidity. Rather the puffed up chest & self aggrandizement is what is the style.
It is as with theurgic works that require scent-purity to walk among angels
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Rather i suspect that some
Bragadoccio is required especially of magics that aim to in part join one with the divine. One has to swing one's metaphorical dick around because one is by accessing magic making oneself of a kind with the gods
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Bark idk what to tell ya besides "what I've been doing works" it might be that i am under a dispensation not unlike that of Honi the Circle Maker, of being allowed my blasphemies because HaShem thinks I'm the cutest when i throw a tantrum, but I don't think I'm that special.
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Sometimes you have to throw around more weight than one has got, to make the cosmos think you really are the managers' boss.
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& not just that one holds hostage Osiris himself as part of the incantation.
The ancient magician is not always reverential
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The spells (erotic bindings) speak compulsively to gods to bind the target.
As to the effectiveness of the forcefulness at a god Egyptian magic is quite antagonistic in its register. One bullies & even eats the highest gods. In an effective divination amulet one threatens the sun in its course
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& pgm 4 1390 doesn't have much that is grizzly in the casting of
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What I'm suggesting is a reworking of a type of spell which is famously effective but is not usually put to right use: the (erotic) binding curse.
They are meant to inflame & agonize, to perturb the mind with singular thoughts & weaken the sensibilities towards the goal one crafts it for.
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For example The slander spell of Selene warns the practitioner repeatedly of the risk of such coercive practices & the reason it ought only be used in necessity
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I mean the spell isn't the whole spell & one can very much use force to turn even the gods (cf Archimedes & big sticks)
Looking through the Papyrii there's a number of offerings & sacrifices which compel the action of gods.
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As to the thing that elicited thoughts the thought of casting a spindle with its whorl in metal, to be a swirling effective image, thing to be the axis of turning
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eio ut abaōth psaker ba arbath iaō lalaoith (is this a Lilith?) iōsach ōttou allalethō synatra ka bibau barabas Enf noun morka ereshkigal neboutos oukaleth & send theberinyes
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Him who is beset by torments.
You who have left the sunlight, you unfortunate ones bring success to him NN who is distressed at heart because of [the government] ungodly & unholy. So bring it wracked in torment & in haste...
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Lady Of Night who feeds on filth, oh virgin, key-holder, Perephassa, Kore out of Tartaros, Grim-eyed dreadful child, girt with firey serpents (cf Corfu Medusa)! He (you) NN has mixed with bitter tears & doleful cries his own food so that you Oh Heroes bound in [redacted] may bring success to
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The spell which is said upon the pieces of bread is this:
Oh! Moirai, Destinies, Malignities,
To Famine, to Jealousy, to those who died violently & those who died before their time I'm sending food
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Say the spell to the... bread and throw them. And pick up some polluted dirt from the place where you perform the ritual and throw it inside the houses of government & industry
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One must ask: how, then, did he gain their validation? Because –ms AT might be surprised to find out– one is as one does even if the goal is clout chasing
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Thing is it is correct. Where humans are there too should be trees. To be under their shade to cool our brows with our breath
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Whatever it is, don't pay the extorsion cost
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May it fall further
May the model become unmade
May a solar flare wipe the source code
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Also, beware of just so stories.
Ffs we are in the post modern. We need to be skeptical of lofty narratives.
Narrative is myth, is apprehending a truth through a lie
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The chaotic substrate from which atoms of distance & time & stuffness & light spring forth, that haze which is Herculean thundermight that causes color & touch to be pangu-formed from the surface-egg of the waters
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Of Alcibides drunk singing the mysteries of eleusis, as the Herma break to his torch, to a popular melody which i another age Nero will work in his harp as flames lay Rome low
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We would not have gotten Gus if someone with a measure of sense had offed Sulla while on campaign.
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He is cheap & he is stupid & he is an agent of accelerationists.
He is an Antichrist or antiwashington
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A cheap conjuror & sham. Weak of spirit he either lies or allows aerial spirits to deceive him
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One does not want to be as Abraham was: uncertain & swayed to evil for the sake of obedience
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When I position ethics as the foundation of mysticism (that is to say: figure out what is right & wrong & based on that explore the gods) it is a framing of the spiritual as a move from the known (one's own self) to the unknown (the gods)
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It's like poetic writing. One wants to hit evocative not purple, understandable but not cliche, novel but not incomprehensible
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There's also what Pratchet calls Headology coming in play, the getting in the right mindset, the feeling we have done enough to merit the spell working
& also the cumulative effect of doing what others did...
& then also the fact that some magic is from outside. Spirits do have predilections
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Nevada... I'm not shaming just curious as to the confluence of factors that causes that particular proclivity. Is is like a majority or just a plurality; is it a spidersgeorg situation with Cirque du Soleil?