The last couple of days, a question got posted about the Pentagram, and the best answer chosen included words to the effect of "and the other meanings should be kept hidden until one passes initiation because they are dangerous". This has got me to thinking.
Whether you "believe" in the reality of magic or not, there are certainly dangers there in a real and psychological sense in that you can start to play round with something like a ouija board and frighten yourself silly, perhaps doing yourself long term psychological harm. Most anything we invest our belief strongly into affects our psyche deeply, and is, at every level "dangerous"
Which begs the question of secrecy. Not a great believer in secrecy, not because information is safe, but because in my experience secrecy is usually used as a tool to hook people further into something, and to bestow authority into those who may have no great wisdom, just on the virtue they got in early. Like a pyramid marketing scheme. Thoughts?
2007-10-09
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