Kathryn wrote:
Thanks - and informative about MPs interesting position on magic. Does
he define "East".
I'm guessing the border between "east" and "west" have moved some since
classical times.
Would he say Persian is east or west?
I think you are right to refute what he says about India, - IMO.
Although probably could do with more research -
India certainly shares the same astrological system as the classical
world and before that used the Babylonian -
Dice oracles are another area of easy accessible common ground -
The language of western magick, owes much to sanskrit number system and
discovery of zero.
bb/93
Mogg
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> For instance, the above post claims a legitimate voice on
> SASM through construing the idea/concept/practice of "magic" as both a
> Western and Eastern phenomenon. As solicited by the /Societas Magica/
> Newsletter #20, I hope to take the time to respond to Marco Pasi's
> wonderful and very useful article "Theses de magia" in that regard
> (since he suggests that academics should construe "magic" as only
> Western).
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> A scholarly refutation of that, and assertion that the academic study
> of "magic" should include Eastern ideas/concepts/practices of it will
> take a good deal more time to compose, and might begin with Sir M.
> Monier-Williams' definition of "Yogin" which has been in accepted use
> for over 150 years, in /A Sanskrit-English Dictionary /(the edition
> I'm using is 2002)/. /One of these accepted definitions of "Yogin" is
> "a magician, conjurer." "Yogini" is "a female demon or any being
> endowed with magical power, a fairy, witch; sorceress." So scholarly
> conversations have their place, as do fully-constructed academic
> arguments.
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