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- From: oispeggy@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown)
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- Subject: Re: My answers (was Re: ... Definitions of "evil")
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 16:37:00 GMT
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- In article <1hsml9INNq3e@shelley.u.washington.edu>, rjb@carson.u.washington.edu (LeGrand Cinq-Mars) writes...
- >
- [stuff deleted...]
- >
-
- It would be nice to have a set of rules that worked in all
- situations, but I haven't yet found any.
-
- >Thus one might say that ethical considerations are primary: that although
- >unethical activities might lead effectively to magical or mystical states,
- >ethical considerations should take precedence.
-
- Maybe for some, in some situations...
-
- >Or, one might say that
- >esthetic or experiential considerations are primary: that even a great
- >crime is holy if it leads to God, and that the magical or spiritual
- >context takes precedence.
-
- Maybe for some, in some situations.
-
- >Or one might say that they are disjunct, that
- >the mystical or magical attainment should be recognized, and the crime
- >dealt with by the secular arm. We might, for convenience, give these
- >attitudes the names Classical, Romantic, and Modern, respectively.
- >
- >Consider, then, some magical Jeffrey Dahmer (whose love, sweet love, was
- >called a crime), with a fridge full of mandrake roots and holy celtic
- >heads. Which perspective seems most (as they say) appropriate?
-
- For JD, I speculate that his crimes against others were for him
- magickally significant, despite the fact that others view
- them/him as abhorrent.
-
- Wonder what makes someone deviate so far from the norm in the
- first place.....Hmmmm....
-
- >Casuistically,
- >
- > --LeGrand
- >
- >{Does it seem that the Classical and Modern fall into one group, and the
- >Romantic into another? Would a Thelemic perspective be totally
- >different, or would it be a subset of the Romantic? Or could a Thelemic
- >perspective be either Roimantic or Modern?}
-
- Don't understand what you mean by each of these.
-
- - Peggy -
-