02-18-2011, 12:01 AM
Tales of Power-
“Sorcerers have learned after generations of using power plants to account in their views for everything that is accountable about them. I would say that sorcerers, by using their will, have succeeded in enlarging their views of the world. My teacher and benefactor were the clearest examples of that. They were men of great power, but they were not men of knowledge. They never broke the bounds of their enormous views and thus they never arrived at the totality of themselves, yet they knew about it. It wasn’t that they lived aberrant lives, claiming things beyond their reach; they knew that they had missed the boat and that only at their death would the total mystery be revealed to them. Sorcery had given them only a glimpse but never the real means to get to that evasive totality of oneself.”
This is an interesting quote. Very subtle in distinguishing the difference DJ speaks about here. He says these men knew they missed the boat and only at their death would the total mystery be revealed to them. That they didn't claim things beyond their reach, and were men of great power but not men of knowledge. Sounds to me like they were practical sorcerers who mapped everything they were able to know about but then came to a point they were stuck and could not proceed further, but realized this at the same time, due to their pragmatism, realistic view.
So they helped pave the way for the new seers, didn't they? I don't believe that the new seers then rejected sorcery. Not by a long shot...simply the new seers saw that sorcery alone was not enough, and that to die a symbolic death is what the practical sorcerers had failed to do during their lifetimes.
“Sorcerers have learned after generations of using power plants to account in their views for everything that is accountable about them. I would say that sorcerers, by using their will, have succeeded in enlarging their views of the world. My teacher and benefactor were the clearest examples of that. They were men of great power, but they were not men of knowledge. They never broke the bounds of their enormous views and thus they never arrived at the totality of themselves, yet they knew about it. It wasn’t that they lived aberrant lives, claiming things beyond their reach; they knew that they had missed the boat and that only at their death would the total mystery be revealed to them. Sorcery had given them only a glimpse but never the real means to get to that evasive totality of oneself.”
This is an interesting quote. Very subtle in distinguishing the difference DJ speaks about here. He says these men knew they missed the boat and only at their death would the total mystery be revealed to them. That they didn't claim things beyond their reach, and were men of great power but not men of knowledge. Sounds to me like they were practical sorcerers who mapped everything they were able to know about but then came to a point they were stuck and could not proceed further, but realized this at the same time, due to their pragmatism, realistic view.
So they helped pave the way for the new seers, didn't they? I don't believe that the new seers then rejected sorcery. Not by a long shot...simply the new seers saw that sorcery alone was not enough, and that to die a symbolic death is what the practical sorcerers had failed to do during their lifetimes.