The Ethics of Personal Power

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The lifescape of magick and witchcraft is a place and a way of being rather than a peradigm of something one does. We know each other by recognizing the way in which we live and that which is within each of us that has lived, thus forever. It is the recognition of the quest.

The nature and initiation will keep you questioning for the rest of your life. there will be no surcease. There is no walking away from this once it has called your name and you have willingly answered. The force that you work with will continue to feed and inspire you; and everything ends up being looked at through eyes that know and see.

Like attracts like is also certainty. You will come into contact with others of the craft with whom you can share and synthesize. Like we are on here i hope. These like minded individuals can become an important focus for honour and truth, and they will be powerful allies should the need arise. It is most important that you establish ethics at the onset of your relationship so that honour is not betrayed later. The ability to abuse the focus with which one is aligned has been perpetrated before, and the ego is always responsible. This could be considered a conditioned response, as we are brought up in a society that promotes competitioned and aggressive striving for sometimes superfluous success- the seeking of power for its own sake being one of the false reasons for accessing this quest. This is an identity-seeking excuse for lots of people. Their desire to access the landscape is, itself, valid.They often have the feeling without the knowing to mirror themselves. I am writing this mainly for them.

Some people will seek, accumulate information , and call it knowledge. They seek it for the sake of owning, possessing it to access an identity, and they end up with exactly nothing. The reason for the seeking of knowledge, and the practical application of it, is to become that which your soul knows you are, by your very nature, and to be a vessel for this knowledge to create change in accordance with the pattern inherent in magick and mysticism. It is unnecessary, for example, to acquire the fanciest ritual regalia, to wear the finest robes, to drape oneself in all the appropriate jewlery. When people set out to accumulate for the sake of how impressive they appear, others of the craft become wary of the reasons this is being done. The art of one's ritual things is, however, greatly respected.

Remember the quantity is not relative to quality in the occult arts and science. Your prime expression comes from who you are, the direction of your learning, and the application of knowledge, understanding and wisdom.

Love and Light

Lou xxx

Subject: Re: The Ethics of Personal Power Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:41 pm

Magick is truly a responsibility, along with the secrets of the universe, and to be the keeper of these secrets, of this wisdom, knowledge and power, is one of the burdens and blessings of the universe.

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