nineisamagicnumber 1 month ago

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who try to persuade others; and those who live their lives as though nothing is going on beyond their personal concerns.

Cologero Salvo
nineisamagicnumber 2 months ago

Complexes can also affect the thinking function. This is especially obvious in those obsessed with ideologies. Tomberg writes: ‘A person who has had the misfortune to fall victim to the spell of a philosophical system (and the spells of sorcerers are mere trifles in comparison to the disastrous effect of the spell of a philosophical system!) can no longer see the world, or people, or historic events, as they are; he sees everything only through the distorting prism of the system by which he is possessed.’ These complexes are more insidious because they can affect entire nations.

Every day I encounter some writer or another warning against yoga, or reiki, or some other practice, because they are ‘demonic.’ These writers assume that the demonic is ‘out there,’ so that if we would only stay in our ‘safe spaces’ we would avoid the demons. The real truth is that the demonic is within, deep within, us. Only the work of intense inner purification can liberate us.

The difficulty is exacerbated because the demons, or complexes, can seem so natural and obvious to the person afflicted. The person then erects a wall for self-protection, only letting a few people in. Of course, those people must not be threatening to the demonic complex, or in contemporary parlance, they are enablers. All too often, the enablers prefer to keep the afflicted person weak and dependent

Cologero Salvo
nineisamagicnumber 3 months ago

The others, the mages, the theosophists, the cabalists, the spiritists, the hermetics, the Rosicrucians, remind me, when they are not mere thieves, of children playing and scuffling in a cellar. And if one descends lower yet, into the hole-in-the-wall places of the pythonesses, clairvoyants, and mediums, what does one find except agencies of prostitution and gambling? All these pretended peddlers of the future are extremely nasty; that’s the only thing in the occult of which one can be sure.

J.K. Huysmans
nineisamagicnumber 4 months ago

To believe in the equality of all men, when we see them all unequal; to believe in liberty, when we see slavery established in all parts; to believe that all men are brothers, when history tells all are enemies; to believe that there is a common mass of misfortunes and of glories for all men born, when I see nothing but individual glories and misfortunes; to believe I am referred to humanity, when I know humanity is referred to me; to believe that humanity is my centre, when I constituted myself the centre of all; and finally, to believe that I should believe these things, when they are proposed to me by those who tell me that I should believe only my own reason, which contradicts all those things they propose to me, is an absurdity so stupendous, an abberation so inconceivable, that I stand mute and astounded in its presence.

My astonishment increases when I observe that those who affirm human solidarity, deny that of the family, which is to affirm that enemies are brothers, and that brothers should not be brothers; that those who affirm human solidarity are the same who a little before denied the political, which is to affirm I have nothing in common with my own, and all in common with strangers; that those who affirm human solidarity deny religion, though the former cannot be explained without the latter; and from all this I deduce in legitimate consequence that the Socialistic schools are at once illogical and absurd—illogical, because after demonstrating against the Liberal school that some solidarities cannot be accepted while others are rejected, they fall into the same error, accepting one amongst all, and rejecting the remainder—absurd, because precisely the one they proposed to me is not a point of reason but of faith, and because this proposal comes to me from those who deny faith and proclaim the imprescriptable right of reason to empire and sovereignty.

J.D. Cortés