Changes
Perhaps the most information can be yielded in changes. Calculus is concerned mostly with changes and progressions. There are many symbols and devices constructed to measure change, the derivative, limits (okay so they don't, but stick with me), the integral, &c.
Change is perhaps the most important thing that we can learn from, for change is always occurring... to say that it is constant is a misnomer, for change itself is changing, which is changing, which is changing, ...., you get the picture.
I had so many wonderful ideas to include here, and found that when I started writing they drifted away from me. I could make many comments from my memory, so I guess that will have to serve until my own discoveries are bolstered from whatever hole they've hidden in.
In Ceremonial Magick, and indeed Magick in general, change is a powerful event. Here now, I am not talking about the general idea of change as in life's progression, but actual instantaneous change, such as going from one thing to the next, leaving a room for another. The transition point in such a case is the door. The act of change and of the transition is powerful. Who could say no to this? Going from one room to another, one leaves behind the ideologies of that room for another. Going from the hallway to the bathroom forces one to abandon the idea of travel and directions for the idea of physical need, toiletry habits, &c. Leaving the bathroom reverses the process.
Now let's abstract this concept a bit. The sun rising and setting in its course causes continuous change, but looking at the instant change, say on the major points of the day, sunrise, noon, sunset, midnight, the changes are again obvious. Definitely the course of one's actions changes during the course of the sun... to say that the sun is the cause of these changes is perhaps a fallacy, but the representation of them is within our scope of consideration.
Magickians of Solomon's day had the concept of a Magickal Hour, whose length was variable, it changed depending on sunrise and sunset.. then that period of daylight was divided by 12, and lo and behold! that's the length of a Magickal Hour. Certain experiments conducted... a tad sloppily I must admit, by some parties many years ago determined that certain effects occur on the changes of the Magickal Hours... Nothing too deterministic... emotions wax and wane, hunger strikes and relents, little things that are more emotionally based. There are other effects, but I leave that to the reader to determine.
Transitions are the focus of everything because everything can be rendered into a change. Take two moments and find the "derivative" at any point between them. Time is continuous and integrable at all points in this case... so change is everywhere and wherever we want it to be. This brings to mind a certain one of the Magickal Formulae formulated elsewhere and by other authors, that of IAO.
IAO, Isis Apophis Osiris. In the short run, it represents a thing's original state, the death state, and the ressurected form. Take the example of a child who plays with a toy for a month, then becomes bored with it and leaves it alone for some period of time, then finds it one day and discovers another use for it, and brings it into the Osiris state. Isis Apophis Osiris. IAO is also a symbol for the Divine LUX (Lat: Light, pronounced "Lukes"), as transposing letters, &c. yields three forms of cross, and the cross is a symbol of LUX.
And I can't find a way to wrap up this ramble, so I'm now done. There.
Change is perhaps the most important thing that we can learn from, for change is always occurring... to say that it is constant is a misnomer, for change itself is changing, which is changing, which is changing, ...., you get the picture.
I had so many wonderful ideas to include here, and found that when I started writing they drifted away from me. I could make many comments from my memory, so I guess that will have to serve until my own discoveries are bolstered from whatever hole they've hidden in.
In Ceremonial Magick, and indeed Magick in general, change is a powerful event. Here now, I am not talking about the general idea of change as in life's progression, but actual instantaneous change, such as going from one thing to the next, leaving a room for another. The transition point in such a case is the door. The act of change and of the transition is powerful. Who could say no to this? Going from one room to another, one leaves behind the ideologies of that room for another. Going from the hallway to the bathroom forces one to abandon the idea of travel and directions for the idea of physical need, toiletry habits, &c. Leaving the bathroom reverses the process.
Now let's abstract this concept a bit. The sun rising and setting in its course causes continuous change, but looking at the instant change, say on the major points of the day, sunrise, noon, sunset, midnight, the changes are again obvious. Definitely the course of one's actions changes during the course of the sun... to say that the sun is the cause of these changes is perhaps a fallacy, but the representation of them is within our scope of consideration.
Magickians of Solomon's day had the concept of a Magickal Hour, whose length was variable, it changed depending on sunrise and sunset.. then that period of daylight was divided by 12, and lo and behold! that's the length of a Magickal Hour. Certain experiments conducted... a tad sloppily I must admit, by some parties many years ago determined that certain effects occur on the changes of the Magickal Hours... Nothing too deterministic... emotions wax and wane, hunger strikes and relents, little things that are more emotionally based. There are other effects, but I leave that to the reader to determine.
Transitions are the focus of everything because everything can be rendered into a change. Take two moments and find the "derivative" at any point between them. Time is continuous and integrable at all points in this case... so change is everywhere and wherever we want it to be. This brings to mind a certain one of the Magickal Formulae formulated elsewhere and by other authors, that of IAO.
IAO, Isis Apophis Osiris. In the short run, it represents a thing's original state, the death state, and the ressurected form. Take the example of a child who plays with a toy for a month, then becomes bored with it and leaves it alone for some period of time, then finds it one day and discovers another use for it, and brings it into the Osiris state. Isis Apophis Osiris. IAO is also a symbol for the Divine LUX (Lat: Light, pronounced "Lukes"), as transposing letters, &c. yields three forms of cross, and the cross is a symbol of LUX.
And I can't find a way to wrap up this ramble, so I'm now done. There.
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