[UA] Oh, Those Wacky Cliomancers

[Eric Christian Berg]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Stuart Anderson wrote:

> > So, would a cliomancer charging at the wrong place (which everyone
> thought was the right one) still gain a charge?
> 
> Some folks run magick as being all about intent. If he tried to charge
> and couldn't, he'd know he was at the wrong spot. 

I believe that UA takes both into account, you have to have the details
right and you have to have intent. The example in the book of the
pornomancy unintentionally re-enacting a scene in the Naked Goddess' life
is an illustration of the reverse point, but I don't recall there being a
specific example of having the intent right and the 'crunchy bits' wrong.
However, it isn't hard to envision a bunch of sincere, but not studious,
occultists botching a ritual by using a bad translation or substituting
components. :)

On the flip side, however, I believe that Cliomancy has a special focus on
mass belief, so an argument could be made that enough people 'knowing'
that a site is significant in such a way is all that matters, since
history is less an objective science and more a study of perceptions of
the past. 

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