Comments | scarletmagdalen: Hermetic seals: sowing the seeds for dishonesty?

scarletmagdalen

Hermetic seals: sowing the seeds for dishonesty?

Mar 04, 2011 20:43

To dare, to know, to will...and to keep silent (or alternatively, "shut the fuck up"). We've all heard it, from those of us in the Western Mystery Trads, traditional witchcraft groups, British Traditional Wicca--you name it. Undoubtedly this idea of keeping seals upon hidden knowledge dates back to the concept of initiation back in ancient times ( Read more... )

initiation, esoteric orders, gd, gd community, golden dawn, hermeticism

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uncledark March 5 2011, 04:31:37 UTC

I've thought about ritual secrecy for some time. I'm still torn on it.

The only good that it does, so far as I can tell, is in the internal changes that keeping a secret has on the magician. I've never encountered secret information that actually needed to be secret because of the impact it would have on the profane.

I'm torn on secrecy as IP protection. Seems like a barrier to teaching, to me.

The Universe, she thinks she's funny... victoryfaust March 5 2011, 21:51:29 UTC

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Re: The Universe, she thinks she's funny... victoryfaust March 5 2011, 21:52:44 UTC

...obviously, it's a message to me from the Gods...