On 5/15/2012 12:54 AM, Morgan Leigh doth schreibble :
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> I still don't think we have got to the why of this question.
> Why should we proceed in the order of the zodiac, the seasons,
> the Coriolis force or the winds? Why should we follow, or not,
> the direction of the sun?
It has been conclusively established that Gardnerian practice,
at least, is largely founded upon the Stoic/astrological physics
of the grimoires (the *Key of Solomon* in particular), along with
other procedures drawn from the same Hellenic/Stoic/Ptolemaic
stream (such as the "Four Watchtowers", by way of the Hermetic
Order of the Golden Dawn).
See, for example, Aidan Kelly's *Crafting the Art of Magic, Book I:
A History of Modern Witchcraft, 1939-1964*, his *Inventing Witchcraft:
A Case Study in the Creation of a New Religion*, and Henrik Bogdan's
*From Darkness to Light: Western Esoteric Rituals of Initiation*.
There is a wealth of material available for those Wiccans (and other
inheritors of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn) who wish to explore
the foundational frame that underlies what they perform, in the event
that they don't know /why/ they do what they do.
I still find it remarkable, at this late date, that so many "Hermetic"
magicians know so little of astrology and its history, and vice-versa.
Cors in Manu Domine,
~ Khem Caigan
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"Heat and Moisture are Active to Generation;
Cold and Dryness are Passive, in and to each thing;
Fire and Air, Active by Elementation;
Water and Earth, Passive to Generation."
'Of the Division of Chaos'
-Dr. Simon Forman
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