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- From: mitchell@seas.smu.edu (Utopium Enterprizes)
- Subject: Re: Pentagrams
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.150016.28481@seas.smu.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec15.231554.5753@seas.smu.edu> <71824@cup.portal.com> <1992Dec20.034109.12591@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:00:16 GMT
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- Thus wrote porta@wam.umd.edu (David Delaney Palmer):
- >In article <71824@cup.portal.com> Tagi@cup.portal.com (Thyagi Morgoth NagaSiva) writes:
- >>I only have one question for those moralists (especially from 'earth-based'
- >>religions) who preach that the 'point-down' or 'inverted' pentagram
- >>(heptagram, nonagram, or even trigram!) is somehow indicative of 'evil'
- >>or 'malevolence':
- >>Toward what, precisely, is the point directed?
- >>Figure it out, kiddies.
- >
- > I think you need to figure it son! There is no such thing as
- >a hell or a devil in earth based, Goddess based religions. The next
- >time you post know what the hell you are talking about.
- >
- Wait a second! Follow Thyagi's logic out before creating devils that he never
- invoked (well, not THIS time anyway)...
-
- To wit, making a syllogism:
-
- 1) An inverted pentagram points at the earth;
- 2) An inverted pentagram symbolizes evil; therefore,
- 3) The earth is to blame for the evil of the inverted pentagram.
-
- Simple, no?
-
- Of course, you have to realize that Thyagi was JOKING. (Or maybe not. ;) ) I
- stand by my earier claim that whether a symbol is evil or not has only to do
- with the magician, and the purposes to which he chooses to use it.
-
- I live by simple rules which others may consider moralistic. I avoid that
- label, since to me morals tend to be cut and dried, and socially defined. I
- prefer to act in accordance to the Law of Thelema. "Do what thou wilt shall be
- the whole of the Law. Love is the Law, Love under Will." Murder would go
- against my Will to Live, as Crowley suggests, simply because there are those
- (judges, vengeful relatives, etc.) who would wish to harm me in some way for
- my act. What is more, I am concerned about karma (that is, the web of caus-
- ality). Miixed with the human tendency to work out anger violently, it's
- apparent that I should try to keep my violence to at least a justifiable
- level... :)
-
- I now return this thread to it's original scheduled topic.
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