09-15-2018, 06:33 AM
What is the service of a white magician?
Altering/ennobling/purifying/perfecting the self? Isn't an ascetic doing this?
Healing the sick? Isn't a healer doing this?
Experiencing the union with the Creator? Isn't a mystic doing this?
Understanding the deeper meaning of life? Isn't a philosopher or sage doing this?
Exorcisms, purifying a place, protection? Using superpowers? Consciously influencing the uncosious mind, evoking archetypes? Maybe. We all perform rituals but some are specialists like priests. Jesus did healings and miracles but they are called "signs" - they are symbols, signaling something to the unconsious, stimulating faith, announcing fulfillment of the prophecies ...
Altering/ennobling/purifying/perfecting the self? Isn't an ascetic doing this?
Healing the sick? Isn't a healer doing this?
Experiencing the union with the Creator? Isn't a mystic doing this?
Understanding the deeper meaning of life? Isn't a philosopher or sage doing this?
Exorcisms, purifying a place, protection? Using superpowers? Consciously influencing the uncosious mind, evoking archetypes? Maybe. We all perform rituals but some are specialists like priests. Jesus did healings and miracles but they are called "signs" - they are symbols, signaling something to the unconsious, stimulating faith, announcing fulfillment of the prophecies ...