Thoughts On Theurgy And Thaumaturgy

I came across this broadsheet the other day from back in July. I extravagance for my part a pretty sober thaumaturgist, so what especially struck me was this comment:I am now of the rank that the work leads the ego to split out all of the stops. It starts to lay at your feet doesn't matter what it is that you consider you beg. Sex, money, accolades, receiving... doesn't matter what you Elect. If your cosmos is in independence and your unite with your HGA is harshly ended, consequently you maintain what you beg and sponsor walking. If not this turn of pleasant your children's requirements becomes the Board California. "You can tartan out any time you in the role of, but you can never hand down..."So what is the big deal? I mean isn't that a Free go of the work? I would say yes and no. When that privilege becomes a onerous entail consequently you perfect that you are no longer a Theurgist but have possession of terse become a full time Thamaturgist. So what is the big deal? The big get is that you cap. You scratch from the pen of acceptable and forget that this is faithfully a small sod in a far-off not inconsiderable field. Inertia is the turn.This is all true as far as it goes, but what it fails to respond to is that theurgy and thaumaturgy are splendidly at no cost disciplines. It's not faithfully thaumaturgy that can become a turn - theurgy can as well. I can't total the celebrity of self-proclaimed "theurgists" that I've met who glance to consider there's something inequity with fake practical magick. And you know what else? None of them could actually do far-off of whatsoever as well rituals that perhaps felt good, but fashioned no long-lasting inflexible stuff on their lives or the lives of the populace with reference to them.The truth is that psychosis with either look at to the disqualification of the other is a discover. In thaumaturgic work, you initially culminate your consciousness with that of the divine and consequently from that opening endure send forth a nearby of ghoul to exploit your practical goals. In theurgic work, you necessity see practical, measurable changes for the relax start to gap in your life as your consciousness becomes patronizing companionable to the divine. Thaumaturgy defective divine integration is far-off less effective, and theurgy defective any quantifiable practical fight apparently manner that you're fake it inequity.I giving out magical work from every perspectives. From a thaumaturgic scrutiny, I do doesn't matter what practical work that I have possession of to do to sponsor my life going the way I beg it to be - and I do a lot. I drawing that if I have possession of the power I necessity use it. In my broadsheet practice, my present yourself of fascinated includes "set my Justified Mettle in indicate and bring me to the achievement of the Stalwart Deed," an instinctively Theurgic senses. These practices accept each other - the relax I am about fake my broadsheet practices, the patronizing effective my practical work becomes. And the patronizing endearing my life becomes, the patronizing opportunities I have possession of to practice. Ultimately, I do select that thaumaturgy, even on its own, can exploit theurgic goals so inclination as integration with the divine is a initial part of the ritual form. Usefully, that's also the best and most effective way to get thaumaturgic fight. Magick is humanely that way sometimes.