[UA] So you want to write a school?

[Bryant Durrell]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:57:23PM +0100, mattias.ostklint at husqvarna.se wrote:
> So you want to write a school?

Cool article, in my book.  Thank you.  Couple of comments:

> My point is this. At some time you may well find yourself going ballistic
> over Hieroglyphs, Alchemy, Voodoo, Tantric magic or plain old
> drugs-and-drums shamanism. That's ok. Then you will want to write it up
> into an UA school.
> 
> You can't.
> 
> Because I say so, and because it isn't post modern.
> 
> Write a ritual about it instead. Try to make the ritual old-school.

The other option here, which is well-supported by existing material, is
to figure out how it's been transmuted by the postmodern age.  
Cryptomancy is a good example of this.  So is Pornomancy, because that's
what's happened to tantric magick, in a way.  Narcoalchemy.  Idolmancy
for voodoo.

> A magick school should have an irony that everybody can relate to.

/But/ a magick path need not.  Remember, this is personal stuff, and
does not require the cooperation of the universal subconscious.

What distinguishes a magick path from a magick school?  Just numbers.
People willing to buy into your warped vision.  That's why Bibliomancy
is a school and the guy who does hair-based magick is just one guy.

> What, you're whining? You really want to make something of this idea of
> yours and I'm just really spoiling your vibe? Ok, there is one thing you
> can do. Write a duke. Give us a cool, kick-ass adept duke that uses this
> thing of yours. Don't write it up into a fully-fledged school with a
> complete list of formula spells, just give us the basic irony, taboo, a
> couple of spells, small and significant charging and what he thinks might
> be needed for a major charge. And what he will do with it if he gets it.

... yeah, that's what I was getting at.  Never mind, you had it covered.

-- 
        Bryant Durrell [] http://www.innocence.com/~durrell [] 9/11/2001
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