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   From: glass@panix.com   
      
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   In article <49e7402a$0$5626$e4fe514c@dreader20.news.xs4all.nl>,   
   bassos  wrote:   
      
   >Never played the actual game.   
      
   Funny stories there. At the time I was actually really disappointed with   
   it, took offense. Water under the bridge but water can remember,   
   apparently. The memory of what magick looked like a generation ago in the   
   analog days.   
      
   >Learning by merely reading what is posted + what is linked and forming   
   >questions based on that, which are subsequently answered was for me a very   
   >nice way to get into magick.   
      
   And now here we are in this noteworthy absence of personal histories, the   
   am.   
      
   >> Alchemy has something in common with fishing."   
   >   
   >Patience with distracting factors ?   
      
   And an ability to work with external materials and situations. To roll   
   with a poetic occasion, savor the accident.   
      
   No accidents in a vacuum.   
      
   >When shit is turned into triple a rating stuff.   
      
   This is the central question the storm poses. Will shit rise to AAA or   
   will treasury melt into shit -- which is live and which is memorex --   
   where paper leaves off and gold begins. Achilles and the tortoise are   
   racing: if one wins, good [money] will flush out bad, technology will   
   triumph, utopia. If the other wins, the bad [money] chokes the system,   
   crash. Turtles all the way down. The race never ends until somebody takes   
   a short cut off the track.   
      
   >Still the one starter question of why an economy has to grow like cancer   
   >does, instead of reaching homeostasis like nature does, is something i bring   
   >up now and then.   
      
   Not sure I know that nature; at the moment everything is expanding and the   
   aethyr of [money] reflects those conditions. The equilibrium -points- in a   
   new direction and that representation "out of this world" is itself   
   inflationary. There just happens to be something instead of nothing, as it   
   were.   
      
   Of course it remains to be seen whether the cosmological is indeed   
   constant. Saddle-shaped economies. Toroidal economies. Steady-state or   
   punctuated-equilibrium economies, sure.   
      
   The Big Bang is one of the few things that even the Dawkinsites and the   
   creationists take as a shared article of faith. I find that interesting   
   and almost poignant.   
      
   There were three schools of magick, the white, the black and the yellow.   
      
   >The hanged man is the symbol of the boddhisatva.   
   >Returned to hell with a smile for getting to carry a body again.   
   >   
   >Now what part in the alchemagical process does this describe ?   
      
   This is one of those areas where I break from the crowley. His work is   
   exclusively heliocentric, the idea that the adept consciousness is within   
   and identified with the sun and so the sacrificial formula is obsolete,   
   whereas the hanged man acknowledges that here on earth there will always   
   be shadows and separations as we move. (Y sin embargo se mueve!)   
      
   On the one hand I'm told it is never dark in space.   
      
   On the other hand I'm told it is terribly dark in space.   
      
   On the third hand the sun is a yellow star, and so it goes.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)