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The way I've come to regard this subject now, is much like a martial art philosophy.
There was a kendo master who started out with a 3 foot long sword. As time progressed and he improved, he used a 2 foor sword, then one and a half feet, then one, then a half, until he did not need a sword any more. Not saying that the ritual tools will one day be obsolete. It's more like, a complete understanding on multiple levels for each tool, and an integration with them, so the physical tools are not really needed.
Now, with that out of the way, I also believe it beneficial to use the tools in rituals, especially formal ones, becasue they represent universal principles.
Anyway, I'm all for ritual use of the tools--the more you use them and contemplate them, the more you will understand them. The better you understand the more Powerful (?) your magick. Then you will not need them, but will understand the value of using them.
Hope that makes sense!
PAX
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By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule-
From a wild clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of SPACE- out of TIME.
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The Tools, Are all of these props really required?
Jabberwock The Tools Oct 29 2005, 07:41 AM
Oct 29 2005, 07:41 AM
