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A discussion on juxtapositional magick
HH: So grand poobah, how do you do it then? What’s the big secret?
Joel Biroco: Juxtapositional magick. But essentially we’re talking about things that are
experiential. I gave up trying to explain my own experience as a substitute for other
people’s lack of experience. Don’t ask me to explain it, if you want to know what it is
cast a sigil—and jack off on it if you must—to understand juxtapositional magick, and
then maybe one day you will and you might thank me for taking the scales off your
eyes.
BPS: Hey, I was wondering if you could go into more depth. I’ve still got a LOT to
learn, but this sounds interesting.
Joel Biroco: It is beyond words, but if you think about what the term “juxtapositional
magick” might mean, and indeed cast a sigil to understand it (as simple as that), you will
begin to glimpse things that come under the heading of juxtapositional magick. But for
now: take a moment to study your room wherever you are reading this and take in the
juxtapositions that are already present. Make connections, join up things, visualize a
collection of objects as a one object, loosen the boundaries of objects. Notice your world
and its juxtapositions. Juxtapositional magick is not something one learns overnight, it
is a lifetime’s work, you must realise I can’t explain that to you, you must see it with your
own eyes. Don’t seek explanations, seek juxtapositions and study the natural placement
of objects in the world. The act of noticing should be a daily task until it becomes
natural, even if you have no idea what the juxtapositions mean all you have to do is
notice them. Understanding comes later. Then you can learn to manipulate juxtapositions
and learn to be a juxtapositional magician. Make a juxtapositional altar, which is one
that grows spontaneously over time without thought and is only one day noticed as
such. If you already have aptitude for this art then you will see that you have already
formed a juxtapositional magick altar without even realising it. Any conscious effort to
create such an altar will only destroy the possibility of producing it, so if you feel the
urge to create one and can’t see that you have one simply forget about creating one and
concentrate on noticing juxtapositions, then in time you will see where you have created
your juxtapositional altar. This is the essence of the power of juxtapositional magick, it
gives method to spontaneity.
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