Principia Discordia
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"Study Demonology with an Enemy This Sunday"
-- Thom,Gnos
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⚞ OCCULTISM ⚟
Magicians, especially since the Gnostic and the Qabalistic influences, have sought higher consciousness through assimilation and control of universal opposites -- good/evil, positive/negative, male/female, etc. (Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.) But due to the steadfast pomposity of ritualism inherited from the ancient methods of the shaman, occultists have been blinded to what is perhaps the two most important pairs of apparent or earth-plane opposites:
ORDER/DISORDER and SERIOUS/HUMOROUS.
TESTS BY DOCTORS PROVE IT POSSIBLE TO SHRINK
Magicians and their progeny, the scientists, have always taken themselves and their subject in an orderly and sober manner, thereby disregarding an essential metaphysical balance. When magicians learn to approach philosophy as a art instead of an immutable absolute Truth, and learn to appreciate the absurdity of man's endeavors, then they will be able to pursue their art with a lighter heart, and perhaps gain a clearer understanding of it, and therefore gain more effective magic. CHAOS IS ENERGY.
This is an essential challenge to the basic concepts of all Western occult thought, and POEE is humbly pleased to offer the first breakthrough in occultism since Solomon. Who's next?
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Omnia Discordia
(for when you can't help but wonder just what the meaning of life is and specifically what role you are meant to play in it)
2, 4, 6, 8, let us all assimilate!