From: amanda@INTERCON.COM (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: Re: Perfect Love and Perfect Trust.
Date: 10 Sep 92 03:26:27 GMT

> It has been my personal experience in this world that apathy is 
> generally is as much a danger to all that I hold to be useful, good, and 
> sacred as hate or antipathy is.  

In fact, I'd even rank it slightly past hate; if you hate something, you at 
least care about it--it's still an affective relationship, even if it is a 
negative one.  The opposite of love is indifference.  C.S. Lewis wrote some 
nice allegory along this theme...

> Disinterest in somone who is trying to send stupid psychic "attacks" 
> your way is a very good way to discourage them and make them look like 
> idiots at the same time, aka Josh's world where psychic attacks do not 
> exist per se. 

Indeed.  I'd actually classify this as a subclass of the general strategy of 
not accepting a situation on someone else's terms.  Disinterest in something 
they want to be important is one way, but there are often more active ways 
that you can do this.  The essence is to present someone with something 
that's "not in the script."  Agreeing with someone who's trying to pick a 
fight with you is another example.

> I believe that Amanda was referring to the concept of 
> Love as the perfect force.  There is nothing that can restrain someone 
> who acts from perfect love.

Precisely.

> I myself have a tendency to equate perfect 
> love with the proper expression of perfect will.

Yup.

> No matter what I do, if 
> I am acting through my will properly, then I am expressing it through 
> the medium of perfect love.

Exactly.

> "There is no need to slay the wicked.  Evil will find death by itself."

Pretty much by definition.

> Also, referring to love as just another type of 
> shield does not jive at all with what I know about shields.

Well, I can sort of see her point, in that love gives you the means of coping 
with adversity, but that's about as far as I can draw a parallel.

> Love isn't wizardry, it's magick.  

Or, as someone else put it, "Magick is nothing but the science of love."

> While I do believe that everything is everything else, I don't believe 
> in lowest common denominator world-views.  I would rather believe that 
> everything is sacred than mundane, in diamonds rather than mud, in love 
> rather than apathy, in friendship rather than competition.

Yes!  This reminds me of one of the better description of esoteric study that 
I have seen: "Learn at first concentration without effort; transform work 
into play; make every yoke that you have accepted easy and every burden that 
you carry
light!"

> In general, I have enjoyed the past week or so's posting much more than 
> in recent months.  A lot of people suddenly seem to be contributing as 
> much good stuff as there is drek coming out, and it's fun. 

I agree.  I'm having a great time, although I have to be careful of the
effect on my productivity :)...

This whole month seems to have gotten off to a good start.  I guess Mercury's 
out of retrograde :).


Peace,

Amanda Walker <amanda@intercon.com>
-- 
"I have reached out throught the bars of my confinement;
 I have watched the tower I built fall apart."  --Fred Small, "Every Man"

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