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PostPosted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 4:03 pm


What are the strangest and most fascinating facts you have found regarding your path along the way?

Why were they so fascinating?

What is the conext of that fact?
PostPosted: Sat May 14, 2011 9:14 am


Guys really have this thing for Cthulhu.

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PostPosted: Sat May 14, 2011 10:29 am


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Guys really have this thing for Cthulhu.


Dude, everyone has a thing for Cthulhu. Lovecraft is just awesome.
PostPosted: Sat May 14, 2011 11:01 pm


Well, the most surprising fact I ever learned was that baby carrots are not really baby carrots, but larger carrots that have been sliced and shaped.

I think the most surprising fact along my path was that there are no set criteria for gods, and that anyone can claim to be a god and it can be absolutely true.

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PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2011 11:33 pm


I've found that just about everything in the contemporary Western Esoteric Tradition has been brought to us through the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (and sometimes made popular by Aleister Crowley). What doesn't come from them probably comes from Blavatsky and Theosophy.

Learning this really puts a lot of the eclectic neopagan things I've read into perspective and gives me an idea of why things are done a certain way, or what influenced other things.
PostPosted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:39 am


I think for me it wasn't an actual "fact" so much as a revelation. For a while I was trying to see how I could fit the Hermetic principles into the Traditional Craft as outlined by Robin Artisson when I realized that there are several simaler philosophical cross overs such as the connection of all things through an invisible web of connections.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 7:41 am


AniMajor
I think the most surprising fact along my path was that there are no set criteria for gods, and that anyone can claim to be a god and it can be absolutely true.

This was a fun one I sorta came too a while ago as well.
PostPosted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 7:52 am


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I think the most surprising fact along my path was that there are no set criteria for gods, and that anyone can claim to be a god and it can be absolutely true.

This was a fun one I sorta came too a while ago as well.
Where did you come across this fact?

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 2:48 pm


Loona Wynd
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I think the most surprising fact along my path was that there are no set criteria for gods, and that anyone can claim to be a god and it can be absolutely true.

This was a fun one I sorta came too a while ago as well.

Where did you come across this fact?

It was just a thought I had been churning over for quite some time. Whether or not it's a fact is yet to be seen, but I'm fairly certain.
PostPosted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 9:16 pm


"Expect the unexpected" is way too true.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:26 pm


Or to elaborate that further.

Expect the unexpected without expectation.
PostPosted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:11 pm


The only absolute is that there is no such thing as absolutes. That the universe stays orderly by contradiction flowing smoothly. Order and Chaos, Chaos and Order. That we can never have just witchcraft or just magick, because both fulfill specific needs humanity needs.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 5:18 pm


Mystic could you expand on what you mean by that statement?
PostPosted: Fri Aug 19, 2011 5:20 pm


kage no neko
"Expect the unexpected" is way too true.
I would agree with that. I would also say that Vox's expansion of the statement is also accurate. Along with that though:

Has any one had something they expected to happen in ritual, happen, just not how you thought it would be?

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:31 pm


Loona Wynd
Mystic could you expand on what you mean by that statement?
Sure. Everything that we know to be true could be right or wrong. The yellow I see may not be the yellow you see. Scientific facts could be coincidences, lies, or the strangest part, their own imagination. They could only be seeing what they want o see, or what they expect to see. Our eyes are to only way we see, and the brain is a fickle thing.

Well, when someone enforces Order, Chaos comes to beak it. When there is too much Chaos, Order is enforced to keep it in check. All things will eventually dissolve into Chaos, and then reform themselves into Order.

Well, think about this. Most witches are earthy. Herbs, incense, crystals, potions, spells. Not all witches are, but mainstream witchcraft is. Magicians, we are astral creatures, relying on higher planes for our magic. We always have our heads in the clouds, sometimes literally.
Witches are the earthy magic users, many are very down to earth people, who use down to earth methods. In the past, and even now, witches are the healers, the potion makers, very personal. Magicians are the priests, the librarians, we pander to the larger will of the people. When they need a love spell or a job spell, the go to a witch. When a family wants to say its last goodbyes, they go to a magician. Does that make sense? Or am I just insane.
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