ruffashlar
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Post by ruffashlar on Feb 22, 2006 4:37:48 GMT
The ancient mysteries are only ancient in the sense that the human leg is ancient, i.e., the ancient humans had legs the same as us. The mysteries are deep-seated psychological truths about what being human is, which everyone can access, but ritual is the usual grammar to which the acculturated mind responds most readily.
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Post by a on Feb 26, 2006 0:19:18 GMT
The mysteries are deep-seated psychological truths about what being human is, which everyone can access, but ritual is the usual grammar to which the acculturated mind responds most readily. Ahh Ruff, but how many, even those involved with ritual, actually access them and feel them, as opposed to simply recognising that they exist? How many remain completely blind?
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ruffashlar
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Post by ruffashlar on Mar 6, 2006 1:12:29 GMT
...how many, even those involved with ritual, actually access them and feel them, as opposed to simply recognising that they exist? How many remain completely blind?
As far as ritual is concerned, their blindness is probably a strength. It means, not realising that there is anything to access, they are able to access it directly, powerfully, and unconsciously.
It is only necessary to understand what ritual is when what is being attermpted is a ritual of intention. Worship is not covered by this definition of intention: the cultural elements notwithstanding, the urge of the creature to worship the divinity is primitive and unspeakably ancient. Neither is funereal ritual essentially different.
But by ritual of intention is meant any ritual intended to cause change to occur. It is those wishing to cause change in whom the ritual awareness is needed, and this is why Initiations are so important to get right. But the Candidate himself need know nothing.
And even in rituals of intention in which the participants are desirous of alterations in reality that cannot be called anything but Magic, as many theorists have long expounded, half the effort is in trying to return the operator to the state of innocence he would have been in had he no idea at all of what he was about to accomplish.
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giovanni
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Post by giovanni on Mar 6, 2006 4:40:09 GMT
Ruff you are quite right.
I remember that just before to be initiated I was recommended to accept the ritual with trust and serenity, passively, avoiding to elaborate mentally what I was going to do.
I rationalized the ritual only afterward, when I could be spectator of other initiations.
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