If you haven't noticed, western occultism is at cross-roads.
There are
the traditionalists, who keep pushing off on potential initiates the same
tired, rather silly talking-points about the Hermetic Principles: mentalism; the
principle of correspondences; the theory of polarity; the law of synchronicity;
the law of symbolism; the law of this or that.
Pure sophistry.
Magick is
change in perception; nothing more and nothing less.
Authors like
Christopher Penczak, in The Inner Temple of Witchcraft, think that they are serving the cause by
rehashing the Hermetic points and sprinkling in a few points about contemporary
scientific theory & quantum physics into the mix.
They all
seem to understand one basic scientific talking point: wave vs. particle. But nothing else.
Quantum
physics is not about waves or particles at all, at least not theoretically.
It is about
magick. And magick is, as I said, change
in perception.
My daughter
& I put together a presentation that will explain things a bit
further. "H. P. Lovecraft's Cosmic
Carnival of Horror." Take a look
& a listen if you haven't already.
JLS
