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I'd like to venture a theory, let me know if you've come up with something along similar lines, cloud hex - I love the fresh views you bring into the occult. At least, fresh to me - most everything's been thought of at one point or another.
It seems to me that these three illusions are a means of helping to define the nature of the universe, from an occult perspective, by stating three things that the universe cannot be. (my definition of universe is more than just the physical aspect, all of creation.)
Even one pronouncement of what the universe cannot be will narrow down the posibilities significantly if you think about it. Three, and you have almost the foundation of a paradigm from which to operate.
The illusion of nothingness tells us that everything is structure, there is no 'outside' of existence. We can apply this assumption because it tells us that everything is significant. We think sometimes in terms of 'within creation' and 'outside of creation' but even the Void is a principle, and therefore it is something, even if that something is the principle of nothingness. Creation is all inclusive. Therefore everything is a source of energy, because all of creation is energy, even the lack of something. It's almost a sort of polarity.
The illusion of soulessness is a restatement of animism, in my opinion, and can be applied as animism. But, in a way it's almost more inclusive. If we are to say that soulessness is an illusion, then all things in creation have a soul - including nonphysical things like concepts, beliefs, and also taking into accound chemicals, etc., things generally considered 'outside' nature (a fallacious statement IMO) This widens any kind of magick involving a principle of soul, evocation, invocation, communication, etc.
The illusion of formlessness lends itself to the understanding of what is - all things have a form, a structure, even unstructured things have a form that is simply non-physical. All things with form have a 'place' and have 'something' to grasp or work magick on or from, including 'nothing' given form by contrast to 'something'.
Actually, laying it out like that, it's sort of way of stating some rather common principles in a different way.
But, tell us what you think, cloud hex, i'm interested to know if you went somewhere different than this in the application.
peace
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The world is complicated - that which makes it up is elegantly simplistic, but infinitely versatile.
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The Three Great Illusions
Jan 23 2007, 10:10 PM
