nagasiva yronwode, YIPPIE Director wrote: et al
I may have missed it in your very long post but did you maybe consider the
magician's body as an essential part of magick?
I believe in some Hindu traditions the body is said to be the only
necessary magical-religious tool -
hence the project common amongst magicians of keeping the body
healthy long enough for the mind to achieve liberation .
(See Alchemical, Ayurvedic and Siddha Medicine as aids to this process)
I think it is Marcel Maus who writes that some mental states may be
contingent on certain physical states -
which to me opens up the possibility of Yoga or work with the "Body
Yantra" (tool or mechanism).
Of magical tools - probably the most interesting and useful is the
statue or fetish - and the techniques of
activating this as a means to liberation - these techniques -
perfected in ancient Egyptian "Ceremony for Opening the Mouth for
Breathing"
find there way into the
Corpus Hermeticum, Kabbalah and hence into our own magical tradition.
For me its not really about props and their disposability - its about the
undoubted power of these magical objects and what they teach us about
the magical quest?
"Love and do what you will"
PS: In my experience Chaos Magicians seem to have as much paraphenial as
most other magicians -
most significantly the magical ring -
|