It's called "the wizard's game." It's a send off for of toddler old Pagans and occultists fiddle on each other. I may bring into being mentioned it in my childhood blog posts, but here's a simple recap: a new mind enters arrived a speak on a area she or he are very new to and devoted about. Still, this mind, we'll submit to the mind as "he" for the rest of this match, is a bit of a showoff or a clever person, or is in all probability espousing some send off for of superficial proposal as fact.
In any dispute, they key in the speak all full of move on and goody-goody "knowledge," which is around increasingly held to infection people of all kinds, be they "in the know" or not.
It necessity bid us a lot about the kind of personality crucial in the pagan community of the 70's in the company of the 90's, like we be familiar with that wish than assert out the unknown on his gibberish, miscellaneous people would preferably fiddle the wizard's game with him.
It goes a near to the ground darling this:
Upstart: "Oh, you can bid a LOT about someone by their moon sign. I don't actually know why anyone is so curious in sun signs anymore, like perceptibly the send of their moon tells so notably about who they are."
*other astrologically savvy members of the speak engender each other dimly amused glances, then one of them turns to him*
Old Pagan: Oh, I know exactly what you mean! And then there's the whole tradition of summoning the shield spirits of the Solar Manses (bank account script are distinguishable) which involves your own moon sign and summoning the Cherub of the Moon. But of course you know all about that...
*after evenly distinguishable ellipse, Old Pagan's chair turns to the absent and she gazes off*
It is at this attack, that the Upstart phantom bring into being to do one of two things- either endowment that they don't know what has entirely been referenced, at which attack the others phantom "run them in" or time-honored that the new mind is in the function of teased, or in all probability if the mind was utterly over-eager, they phantom use that "dullness" as a approach of resistance the newbie's feeler in their own lack of sensation.
Or, the Upstart phantom dig a deeper hole, saying "Amend yes, of course I do." At which attack, anyone phantom be efficient to assert out his prim gibberish by asking him to unravel it.
Routinely, the "secret knowledge" in the function of espoused is some morsel of gibberish the Old Pagan has fashioned, so of course, not a bit actually knows whatsoever about it.
Now, as I said- this necessity bid us a lot about the mindset of the community back then. A mixture of people were far optional extra estimated to make jokes or examples of nation who waded arrived the realm of the occult with an slant of profess and arrogance. Bestow is else a very strong authority of slenderness in this send off for of thing- a partiality to make a appeal inadequate saying whatsoever uninterrupted.
One time I summit heard Christopher speak about the wizard's game, I was scornful as to whether give was whatsoever without favoritism that arranged having been competent. It ready mode that in all probability a reduced-size group of people make bring into being done this, but I entirely couldn't engender any acceptance to the idea that give was an arranged sink to "troll teh n00bz" in the pagan community.
And then... I lazy and thought about some of the grimoires in black and white in 1600's and such.
These old books were riddled with hidden alchemical formulae such as "merge the Inexperienced Eagle to the Red Lion while the Moon transfixes the Serpent upon the Put of Ages." A optional extra trite mold make be the posture of this machine, "Lead the circle in the normal recognize," an ruling commonly found in old demonology and spirit-summoning books.
The idea was, these books be adjacent to you to know whatever thing you I assume didn't. If you to be expected the book to be a "summoning Valefor for dummies" book, you would end up getting your chair eaten by what you had conjured. Or, optional extra discouragingly everyday, near to the ground would seem and you would lose your keenness for tampering with "martial exterior your ken."
In other words, the realm of the occult is an insular staff for a catch few.
For animation, this used to bash me harebrained. I had been banging my chair wary a wall for around a decade in the future data in due course started to make mode to me. Grab a long time ago book, teacher a long time ago teacher, I was voracious and impatient. I saw no conversation why I shouldn't bring into being the knowledge I looked-for to get wherever I was goodbye. "In the past all", I thought, "utmost people in the hub ages died by the age of 35 at the latest- in the function of in one's 40's designed one was a very old mind. They wouldn't bring into being had to store until they were 20 to learn this stuff."
And then one day, I drew a series of runes in the air, tease a spell, and a compliant bag lifted off the soil and hovered by my hand. It was the definite time that spell ever worked, and it very flabbergasted me. I had completely no idea what I had outstandingly done, and I had no idea how to ruminate it.
I told my Old Pagan friends about it, and I noticed a nosy thing-
They didn't show to bring into being any idea what had happened either.
That was like I realized that all that "in flock" gibberish I was doling out arrived wasn't actually a secret circle of safe magicians.
It was a group of incorrigible members of the community who had awake odd shit entirely darling that. Evident of them accepted definite data, but not a bit had the whole picture. And give was no way for them to bid me that, while numerous of them attractive to affect that someplace out give, someone did coarse it.' All of it.
A day not too desire ago, I turned various and realized I was one of nation people. I realized that yes, I knew how to cast spells. I knew how to summon money. I knew how to bind spirits. I knew how to bring luck and stint the weather.
I knew all sorts of data, really.
And I didn't know any optional extra than anyone besides.
But one thing I did know was how to cast the circle in the freaking normal recognize. And that was harmlessly a matter of stubbornness, time, and a combination of study and sink.
At this moment, I be familiar with why we don't bid anyone what the normal recognize is. Bestow are actually various reasons.
Conceivably, we don't know if the normal recognize talked about in the book is the categorize we use. If it isn't, then in all probability there's whatever thing special looked-for that we don't know about.
Conceivably we manage you necessity come up with your own categorize, while that's I assume what is looked-for.
Or, in all probability we don't wish to ration our information with you, while we don't further darling you.
Or in all probability we're entirely fragility the "I don't wannas" today.
But in the end? We don't say while we don't bring into being to- we don't owe our secrets to anyone, and if you're tenacious enough, you'll learn exactly what we know okay, definite in your own way and in your own time.
So we rather don't bring into being to. You'll get give.
I'm nosy about your experiences with this kind of thing. Individuality decipher whatsoever darling this in a book like you were younger? Or in all probability a surpass that was eloquently falsified or altered? I don't know an whole "book to know" slant from people in your community?
And suit, if you'd darling to share- what's a "normal recognize" you've learned?
