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HH: Holy shit, that is one of the best things I have ever seen you type up, vague because
of the nature of it, but informing… damn… that’s deep… I mean really.
David Cantu: Thanks Joel, this makes sense. I guess you would have brought pattern in
if you had meant to, so slap me for mentioning it.
Joel Biroco: Juxtapositional magick is my own formulation derived from many different
systems of magick over many years, and certainly the Chinese concept of li or “pattern”
feeds into that, but to mention such advanced concepts to a self-proclaimed beginner
would be out of place, so I simply provided a sketch to get him going. A brief description
couldn’t possibly exhaust juxtapositional magick.
David Cantu: Please correct what you see wrong in this view, but the rearrangement of
knowledge into symbolic systems like the Tree of Life lead magicians to see juxtapositions
between elements in new ways. I know that this isn’t what you mean in the present
practice, but it could go to the heart of why such symbolically connective systems work.
Any comments on that Joel?
Joel Biroco: Yes, and the art of “correspondences” is also equally as important in bagua,
but although these methods do certainly relate to what I refer to as juxtapositional
magick what I am really talking about here is something far more “second-nature” and
tuned-in, real moving with spontaneity without thought. Study of trigram and qabalistic
correspondences can lead to this, but in itself it lacks the sheer elegance of true
juxtapositional magick, which operates in the sense of wuwei (“not doing”, doing nothing,
no effort, no purposeful action). I am talking about something far more direct than
going via a symbolic filter of correspondences or resonances, or any kind of symbolic
framework. In this sense, by juxtapositional magick I really mean pure magick.
Mika Kaplan: It seems like using a symbolic filter of correspondences would be a good
“first step” then. One approach to the qabala (and I think Crowley discusses this
somewhere…?) is that you relate everything to the Tree of Life, everything, from the
grocery bill to the color car in front of you at the stop light, to the snippet of conversation
you hear passing people in the street, etc… to the point that the connections become
subconscious. Or maybe the correct word is unconscious. The need for the symbolic
framework disappears and there is no effort involved in seeing, knowing, understanding
how it all comes together.
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