Augur
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Post by Augur on Oct 16, 2009 22:06:37 GMT
First off, a magickal name shouldn't be used outside a magickal or sacred setting. To do so is to demean and dirty it. You know, profane it? It's like using your athame to cut your sandwich meat.Depends on your tradition, surely? Francis of Assisi was of the opinion that all things in the created universe were equally sacred, and speaks about Brother Bread, Brother Dirt and even Brother Sh!t. Or, as one of the Buddhist missionaries was heard to say in definition of Buddhism, that it was "great emptiness, with nothing sacred in it". Absolutely. I was referencing the more ceremonial/hermetic Western tradition. There are schools and philosophies like Assisi's or some kinds of Buddhism that don't draw any distinctions between the mundane and the divine. I think there's a strong argument for this approach and aesthetically, at the least, find it quite appealing. However, in those schools of thought there's no need for a magickal name, is there? I guess it all depends on where you are and where you plan to be going.
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ruffashlar
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Post by ruffashlar on Oct 20, 2009 13:44:41 GMT
Well, you have a point. But, if anything, rather than pulling everything down to the mundane, it rather raises the commonplace to the sublime; and your ordinary name itself becomes a magical name, a statement of intention. Which is why, I suppose, Franciscans and Buddhists usually adopt a new name to remind themselves of their direction: a saint's name, a grand Old Testament prophet's name, or an embodiment of some spiritual principle; or one of those big long Sanskrit jawbreakers
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