Alchemic Silence
I have been asked by several people 'off-blog' why I have not participated in the offerings on Alchemy. Certainly, any reading of my postings would indicate an intense interest in the transfer of knowledge -- especially from 'less controlled sources' (new-comers might scan the archives of this blog using 'Lantern') --
The problem is that I have too much to say about the metaphysical applications of alchemy -- inluding a beleif that most of the great thinks since the Dark Ages have been alchemists, but dare not use the word. Here are a couple of extracts from my book "Phinominal Propengicks" that will probably discourage any further interst in my interest ...
Magick
The meaning of this word is both Situated and Relational, and therefore intensely personal. One purpose of this book is to support each seeker to establish their own working definition of Magick. In a general sense within these pages, the term applies to Information or Knowledge in the Proximal Zones that is mysteriously manifest in the Practical Zone as Phenomenology. Traditionally, the attempt to transfer Magick to the Practical Zone is Alchemy, wherein it becomes science. The process of increasing the likelihood of this happening (propensity) is called Propengicks, as limited by Phinominal Expansion.
KNOWING in any magickal sense, is one of understanding what "is not magick", at least for yourself. This is what alchemy was all about (beyond the science tricks stuff). If information can be drawn from the Conceptual and Innate Zones of Knowledge (Proximal) and become 'known' in the Practical arena (made science), then what is left over must be either pure Magick or Epiphenomena. This doesn't work because of 'phinominal expansion', but the idea of separating "what might be magick" from "what is known" is of immense value –
papa
posted by Anonymous @ 3:48 AM
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What is known is called science
That is unknown may be magic
but what is unknowable is religion.
Every day I speak to you in tones that the old alchemists would have found to be magic, the language of space has becom science, but why it all exists is still in the realms of religion.
My motive may be deceptive. It is true I like to play with words and ideas. But I have no real interest in scientific tricks or trickery. I am interested in active imagination and tapping that subterranean reservoir that contains all supplies our knowing.
That which is imagined often comes to be ... I suppose that is what religion is all about. I see space flight as once being only a figment of someone's imagination, and now we have satellites, a space station, and flights back and forth.
What other wonders are there floating about in our collective imaginations?
Vi
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