magicK kreEePing oOze FAQ
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This is from a series of continually-updated posts responding to recurrent
questions in this newsgroup. Please debate anything in here which seems
extreme and add your own response to these questions after the post. I'll
integrate what I can. Thanks.
tyagi nagasiva
tyagI@houseofAos.abyss.coM (I@AM)
1: "What is magic(k)? (etc.)"- Magick has been defined by many people in many different ways. ...
2: "What about role-playing game magic? (etc.)"- Role-playing is mythos-creation gaming in which characters are assumed ...
3: "How do I get started in magick?": Books- Ceci writes:...
3: "How do I get started in magick?": Tarot- I would suggest that you start with The Book of Thoth by Aleister ...
3: "How do I get started in magick?": Assistance- Questions like this often come up in rec.climbing. All kinds of ...
3: "How do I get started in magick?": Magical Systems- johnm@utic (Jonathan Montoya) writes:...
3: "How do I get started in magick?": Exercises- Pick up a copy of A Crowley's Magick in Theory and Practice. Read it....
3: "How do I get started in magick?": General- Information ...
3: "How do I get started in magick?": Warning- This is a note to those who are young (male or female) and are ...
4: "What about Hermes' wand, that snake-staff thing?"
5: "What is a pentagram? What is its history? (etc.)"- - The earliest recorded use of the pentagram as a mystical symbol was ...
5.2: "What is a pentagram? What is its history? (etc.)"- Jencina May Butler ...
6: "Is magick 'real'? Give me an example of a 'spell'."
7: "What is the Great White Brotherhood?"- Heidi=DeRick%Desktop%PCMkt=Hou@bangate.compaq.com writes:...
7.2: "What is the Great White Brotherhood?" cont.- 4. The Grade of Ipsissimus is not to be described fully; but ...
7.3: "What is the Great White Brotherhood?" cont.- Members of the A.'. A.'. of whatever grade are not bound or ...
7.3: "What is the Great White Brotherhood?" cont.- Members of the A.'. A.'. of whatever grade are not bound or ...
8: alt.magick: "Is there a FAQ for this newsgroup??"- If you write a response then I may include it with mine and we'll have ...
9: "What does 'akasha' mean? Is it a library?"
10.1: "What is the Abyss?"- [See the alt.magick KabbalahFAQ for introductory information.]...
10.2: "What is the Abyss?" cont.
10.3: "What is the Abyss?" cont.- And finally, LeGrand Cinq-Mars wrote the following while responding ...
11.1: "Who is Melkizedek? (Order, etc.)"- What follows is a compended file of posts on the subject of ...
11.2: "Who is Melkizedek? (Order, etc.)" cont- Between the references in the story of Abraham's rescue of his nephew ...
11.3: "Who is Melkizedek? (Order, etc.)" cont- Say, does this order have anything to do with an odd little book called ...
11.4: "Who is Melkizedek? (Order, etc.)" cont- ...opinions differ over at what point the Bible narrative ...
11.5: "Who is Melkizedek? (Order, etc.)" cont- As a point of interest, there is a Gnostic Christian text called ...
11.6: "Who is Melkizedek? (Order, etc.)" cont- The following quotations are from an excellent piece on the ...
12: alt.magick: "Why is Josh so hostile??"- Oh well. You either learn to walk through the flames, or you get ...
13: "Where did Wicca come from? Did Crowley invent it? (etc.)"- Gerald Brousseau Gardner started (or adapted, depending on the ...
13.2: "Where did Wicca come from? Did Crowley invent it? (etc.)" cont- Wicca was invented by Gerald Gardner (and possibly some other folks), ...
13.3: "Where did Wicca come from? Did Crowley invent it? (etc.)" cont- The term witchcraft is very specific, generally being ...
13.4 "Where did Wicca come from? Did Crowley invent it? (etc.)" cont- ...many Wiccans now realize that Wicca is not The Old Religion, but ...
13.5: "Where did Wicca come from? Did Crowley invent it? (etc.)" cont- ...Gardner was in fact continuing and building upon the esoteric Freemasonic ...
14.1: "What is Theosophy?"- THE THEOSOPHICAL ...
14.2: "What is Theosophy?" The Theosophical World View- THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, while reserving for each member full ...
14.3: "What is Theosophy?" cont.- The venerable (founded 1875) and much maligned but ...