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Mage (WhiteWolf) role-playing game
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The Main Idea
"Reality is not fixed, but rather a set of agreed upon assumptions enforced by the collective will of humanity, the Sleepers.
Mages are those people who recognize that reality is not static, and
realize that through the application of their will, usually channeled
through rituals or other similar "mystical" or "scientific" practices,
reality can be changed.
The specifics of their own belief, called a Paradigm, guides them..."
-http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/Mage:_The_Ascension
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Light
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Avatar
"The Avatar (also Daemon, True Genius) is the source of an Awakened individual's ability to perform magic, and which grants the possibility of Ascension."
http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/Avatar
Ascension: The process by which a Mage achieves ultimate power over reality, transcending the bounds of their earthly limits.
Light
Daemon (mythology)
"For
Greeks and Romans, daemons ("replete with knowledge", "divine power",
"fate" or "god") were not necessarily evil. Socrates claimed to have a daimonion,
a small daemon, that warned him against mistakes but never told him
what to do or coerced him into following it. He claimed that his daimon
exhibited greater accuracy than any of the forms of divination practised
at the time. The Hellenistic Greeks divided daemons into good and evil
categories: eudaemons (also called kalodaemons) and kakodaemons,
respectively. Eudaemons resembled the Abrahamic idea of the guardian angel; they watched over mortals to help keep them out of trouble. (Thus eudaemonia, originally the state of having a eudaemon, came to mean "well-being" or "happiness".) A comparable Roman genius accompanied a person or protected and haunted a place (genius loci).In PlatoIn Plato's Symposium, the priestess Diotima teaches Socrates that love is not a god, but rather a good daemon.
Daemons
were important in Neo-Platonic philosophy. In the Christian reception
of Platonism, the eudaemons were identified with the angels.
Cyprian was debunking the gods of the pagans as a euhemerist falsehood in his essay On the Vanity of Idols, but he had this to say of daemons:
The
daemons are real enough— "the principle is the same, which misleads and
deceives, and with tricks which darken the truth, leads away a
credulous and foolish rabble"— it is relying upon them that is
deceptive. In this way the daemons passed easily into Christian "demons."
In HermesThe lore of Hermes Trismegistus is a source both for pagan and Christian conceptions of daemons, for in the Corpus Hermeticum, they functioned as the gatekeepers of the spheres through which souls passed on their way to the highest heaven, the Empyrean. The Early Medieval St. Gall sacramentary testifies to the continuity of this belief of daemones
in the oldest extant prayer for anointing the dying: :"I anoint you
with sanctified oil that in the manner of a warrior prepared through
anointing for battle you will be able to prevail over the aery hordes."
http://www.associatepubli...emon_%28mythology%29.htm
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Mage (WhiteWolf) role-playing game
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Mage (WhiteWolf) role-playing game
Lead
[-]
The Main Idea
"Reality is not fixed, but rather a set of agreed upon assumptions enforced by the collective will of humanity, the Sleepers.
Mages are those people who recognize that reality is not static, and
realize that through the application of their will, usually channeled
through rituals or other similar "mystical" or "scientific" practices,
reality can be changed.
The specifics of their own belief, called a Paradigm, guides them..."
-http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/Mage:_The_Ascension
::Q::
Light
usher
Avatar
"The Avatar (also Daemon, True Genius) is the source of an Awakened individual's ability to perform magic, and which grants the possibility of Ascension."
http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/Avatar
Ascension: The process by which a Mage achieves ultimate power over reality, transcending the bounds of their earthly limits.
Light
Daemon (mythology)
"For
Greeks and Romans, daemons ("replete with knowledge", "divine power",
"fate" or "god") were not necessarily evil. Socrates claimed to have a daimonion,
a small daemon, that warned him against mistakes but never told him
what to do or coerced him into following it. He claimed that his daimon
exhibited greater accuracy than any of the forms of divination practised
at the time. The Hellenistic Greeks divided daemons into good and evil
categories: eudaemons (also called kalodaemons) and kakodaemons,
respectively. Eudaemons resembled the Abrahamic idea of the guardian angel; they watched over mortals to help keep them out of trouble. (Thus eudaemonia, originally the state of having a eudaemon, came to mean "well-being" or "happiness".) A comparable Roman genius accompanied a person or protected and haunted a place (genius loci).In PlatoIn Plato's Symposium, the priestess Diotima teaches Socrates that love is not a god, but rather a good daemon.
Daemons
were important in Neo-Platonic philosophy. In the Christian reception
of Platonism, the eudaemons were identified with the angels.
Cyprian was debunking the gods of the pagans as a euhemerist falsehood in his essay On the Vanity of Idols, but he had this to say of daemons:
The
daemons are real enough— "the principle is the same, which misleads and
deceives, and with tricks which darken the truth, leads away a
credulous and foolish rabble"— it is relying upon them that is
deceptive. In this way the daemons passed easily into Christian "demons."
In HermesThe lore of Hermes Trismegistus is a source both for pagan and Christian conceptions of daemons, for in the Corpus Hermeticum, they functioned as the gatekeepers of the spheres through which souls passed on their way to the highest heaven, the Empyrean. The Early Medieval St. Gall sacramentary testifies to the continuity of this belief of daemones
in the oldest extant prayer for anointing the dying: :"I anoint you
with sanctified oil that in the manner of a warrior prepared through
anointing for battle you will be able to prevail over the aery hordes."
http://www.associatepubli...emon_%28mythology%29.htm