[UA] Old groups and power

[Frank Lohmann]

"Bailey Watts" <didi_mau at hotmail.com> wrote:

> They don't work because a lot of magic has to do with the mind and 
> obsessions of the magickers.  Different times produce different mindsets.  
> It's not that the old stuff is junk, it just doesn't work for anyone riding 
> our zeitgeist (I think that an anthropomorphic "Zeitgeist" character would 
> rock.  If it was a lao the Zeitgeist would ride us all).

My feelings exactly - but isn't it a "Loa"? 8)

One other thing I always felt was important for adepts and magic in UA was the 
individuality thing. *No* two Entropomancers are working their mojo in the same 
way, nor do two Epideromancers or Dipsomancers have the same ideas or ways to 
cast theier spells. There's no such thing as Cliomancer sects or Orders of 
Irascomancers around. Every adept has more or less found his own, special way to 
work his magic, and while he can give hints to other promising adepts-to-be, 
they also have to find their own way.

So, one thing I can see why old school magic fails is that people who try to 
work old school magic nowadays are much too caught up recreating or redoing the 
"traditional" ways of Wiccans, Golden Dawners or Indian Shamen (or is that 
Shamans?) to actually find the truth and the magical spark in themselves. I once 
said about the same thing in one of the old "OU in Europe" threads - people 
following the old traditions don't go the way of the adept, they start down 
avatar alley - becoming low level avatars of whatever the collective unconscious 
see as the archetypes of the wiccan witch, Crowley clone or noble savage.

Being an adept is basically saying "f*ck you" to society, the collective 
unconscious and the universe and following your own, obsessed rules - that way, 
you gain power. Following a tradition or lineage - or any kind of prewritten 
path - doesn't really qualify for the above. Hence, no old school magic.

YMMV, of course. 8)
	Frank
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Frank Cord Lohmann           
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