"To simplify, can I use a cube to do what a pyramid can do? This is what you guys are telling me"
There are many factors for this.
One: Personal preferences. If you have some built-in bias against something, you will not be able to use it well, even if it is a positive symbol. If you have been raised to belief that a Pentagram is a satanic symbol, and you encounter one while walking alone in the middle of a forest at a rainy afternoon, then yeah, it might "cause" fear, but the fear comes from within, and the cause is your belief system.
Two: Consensus reality CAN have an effect if one believes in consensus reality. Powerful mantras, for example, are considered powerful because many people in the "past" and the "present" have been using it so by using the tool, you are forming an unconscious connection to them. This, when signified, can increase the power of any tool in a very powerful way.
Three: I might have to call myself a Bashar-tool by now, but I do not care: Ultimately EVERYTHING is just a permission slip. You decide to use the symbol because it works for you, because it worked for those that guided you this way. Simple as that. Do not assume, however, that those tools will be superior to mispronounced mantras for others, because they might just not be : P
(And four: Three pyramids form a cube. So a cube contains all that is needed already. A cube already contains a sphere that exactly covers it and it also contains a sphere that is almost as big as the cube itself. Math and unity, huh?
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"That intent and belief are what forms reality and that there are no rules of the system that we need abide by. "
There are rules that we decided to abide by, to a certain extent. That extent varies to the individual's preferences and agreed contracts (be them incarnational or pre-incarnational). We decided to uphold that "laws", but we are not bound by them - that is what I believe.
This is not the first time when ceremonial magic philosophy meets a more spontaneous approach, but it is never this OR that. It is this AND that.
There are many factors for this.
One: Personal preferences. If you have some built-in bias against something, you will not be able to use it well, even if it is a positive symbol. If you have been raised to belief that a Pentagram is a satanic symbol, and you encounter one while walking alone in the middle of a forest at a rainy afternoon, then yeah, it might "cause" fear, but the fear comes from within, and the cause is your belief system.
Two: Consensus reality CAN have an effect if one believes in consensus reality. Powerful mantras, for example, are considered powerful because many people in the "past" and the "present" have been using it so by using the tool, you are forming an unconscious connection to them. This, when signified, can increase the power of any tool in a very powerful way.
Three: I might have to call myself a Bashar-tool by now, but I do not care: Ultimately EVERYTHING is just a permission slip. You decide to use the symbol because it works for you, because it worked for those that guided you this way. Simple as that. Do not assume, however, that those tools will be superior to mispronounced mantras for others, because they might just not be : P
(And four: Three pyramids form a cube. So a cube contains all that is needed already. A cube already contains a sphere that exactly covers it and it also contains a sphere that is almost as big as the cube itself. Math and unity, huh?
)"That intent and belief are what forms reality and that there are no rules of the system that we need abide by. "
There are rules that we decided to abide by, to a certain extent. That extent varies to the individual's preferences and agreed contracts (be them incarnational or pre-incarnational). We decided to uphold that "laws", but we are not bound by them - that is what I believe.
This is not the first time when ceremonial magic philosophy meets a more spontaneous approach, but it is never this OR that. It is this AND that.