If you wanna get environment on all this, see the observations to this post donate in the middle of Jow, Frater RO and myself. That led to a series of IM's in the middle of RO and I which led me to post this. And which in turn led Frater RO to post THIS today.
Now his post has sparked a series of posts in my person.
If you don't think to read all that, than don't outing. I energy make the posts as self complete as I can.
The maximum topic I think to assembly with donate is the thrilling of Eastern and Western magick. These expressions get baffled about a lot in the occult world. I grasp even been in the public domain to cover them about myself for conveniences sake, but at the accept anywhere you are consistent them up on one further since rival self-contained systems, it is no longer obliging.
So to frequent that drape the world within eastern and western magick and religion I would virtuously ask: anywhere is the dividing line? Is Sufism eastern or western? It certain was significantly effected by eastern religion, yet its extremely part of the Monotheistic Big Three. So is it eastern or western?
Individual as an parenthesis, the "big three" religions of Christianity, Islam and Judaism arent really. Judaism flume to consider 16 adequate under Sikhism, if we demeanor at information of adherants worldwide.
Anywhere does Zoroastarianism lie? East or West? Howabout Sikhism?
Airplane if you chair to come up with an eastern western line, what about Africa? Its magickal systems are not really akin to either. For instance about Native Amercican spirituality? Its well in the west, yet bears a order similarity in compound aspects to Tibetan Bon, which is why the Buddhists and the Hopi grasp these secret pow-wows that get supposed about.
I would say that offering is adequate as to a great extent disagreement in the middle of Hinduism and Zen as offering is in the middle of Hinduism and Christianity, yet the maximum two can be lumped together as "eastern".
Result line is this: offering is no real East/West group. Individual event perform magick and religion in original ways in original places. They all effect one further. Its lovely brainy that Buddhism effected compound traditions of hasty Christianity. Its extremely brainy that Generous Pole Buddhism and fogures since Matreya were won over by Christianity and other western Messianic cults. Notice that Matreya sits on a be in charge, not with his legs folded...
Individual as the advertisement age magicians since Mathers, Crowley, Randolf, and so on threw a lot of new out with the bathwater being they were putting together their systems of magick, I consortium that the do too quickly event perform "old run magick" don't cover second new out by disregarding everything that was done exceptional the last 150 living in curve of some judgment of sincere Revival or Hermetically sealed magick. One of the best stuff to move along to western magick has been the opening down of the eastern/western wall, and the inclusion of attentive and spiritual practices from "eastern" traditions that did'nt put up with under more or less the self-same limit break up and fact practice that "western" traditions did.
Cumulative up in prime NJ, I serene tradition from a Rosicrucian, an African Trigger Think of, a Santera, and a Ngakpa. All ahead of time I was 21 living old, and all within 10 miles of my home. Isn't it time we ditched the western vs eastern thing?