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Well, I take back what I said about the authors making claims to a tradition that isn't very old. It's clear that they've done their research into connections between current grimoiric traditions and Greek antiquity. From a Buddhist perspective, though, their claims about the death process are not accurate. Typically there is only a period of 49 days before a mindstream is reincarnated. Will say more in final review
— Jul 03, 2025 10:36PM
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Steven
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I just have to make a note here, the visualization that the authors suggest for "spiritualization" is almost one-to-one analogous with the process of dissolution in anuttarayogatantra. The difference is that here, they don't regenerate themselves into a deity, presumably because they don't know why that is necessary. This is one of the dangers of misappropriating Eastern Tantra into western magic.
— Jul 04, 2025 05:59PM
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These authors are already trying to make it appear as though they belong to a tradition that is older than it actually is--British esotericism has no roots beyond the Victorian era of Waite and Crowley, full stop. It is a revival tradition and it has no empirical links to an initiatory tradition that stretches back earlier than that.
— Jun 29, 2025 08:05PM
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Planning on speed reading this one in less than 48 hours, if I can. I'm not looking to conjure spirits; I'm very at home in my Buddhist practice right now. I'm always interested in what the western esoteric tradition has to say about it though, especially since their accounts of conjurations are... Less than convincing, sometimes
— Jun 29, 2025 06:39PM
