Intellectual Magick

Weird topic. But it's a "Liberals are from Venus and Conservatives are from Mars" sort of thing.

In the 2oth Century, "real" Magick gained much popularity—and a LOT of publicity. The resurgence probably began with the development of Wicca by Gerald Gardener. It continued with the dissemination and development of his ideas by his spiritual descendants, the various "traditions" of Witchcraft—and ultimately arrived at the degenerated, weak, emotional, haphazard and erratic New Age inanities by legions of common, lazy, fanciful and essentially, goofy, adherents fascinated by unicorns, ley-lines, "henges" and reprehensibly perverted archeological conclusions.

As a result, Magick has become more well-known but less effective...and the object of scorn, ridicule and much eye-rolling among the "thinking" classes.

Which is unfortunate. Because it is the "thinking" people who make the best magicians!

Like anything worth doing, magick for results requires knowledge, skill, commitment, study, seriousness, intelligence, planning, emotional control, a sort of scientific method, mental, physical and emotional discipline, and the ability to delay gratification. This, of course is anathema to Liberals, which accounts for the towering silliness found in almost any group of "spiritual seekers" outside of orthodox traditional religion. They are populated almost entirely of touchy-feely Left-wingnut losers*. These airy-fairy, fluff-bunny, emotional, intellectually infantile adults pursue Magick with the same degree of thought and maturity brought to bear by 4th graders experiencing their first crush.

As unlikely as it may sound, real Magick works. It causes real results in the real world. But only if it is performed by intellectually serious practitioners.

Most serious people laugh at self-professed, would-be witches and magicians—rightly in my opinion—because they are generally silly cows wearing glitter, sprinkling fairy dust, seeking easy emotional and often sexual gratification, and operating strictly on feelings and appetite. They indulge in the fanatasy of magick in an attempt to hide from the real world and their barren lives...not in any serious attempt to improve, affect or integrate them.

That is the province of the serious magician.

Intellectual, focused, disciplined, thoughtful Conservatives are quite good at it.

Emotional, scatter-brained, anti-intellectual, undisciplined Liberals are VERY bad at it.

So, remember, the next time you're at a gathering of smart and serious Conservatives, you might be in the presence of a powerful and effective magician.

Be polite.

The Gunslinger
Stand and Be True

*Emotionals tend to run in packs. The lower the intelligence, the less discriminating: the lower the standards for friendship. It is not always true, of course, but I've noticed that, often, the number of a person's "friends" is inversely proportionate to his IQ.

Brainiacs tend to have very small, select circles...and spend a lot of time, contentedly, alone.