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The "high magic(k)" vs "witchcraft" dichotomy bears striking parallels to the "(high) art" vs "crafts" dichotomy.
The real truthnuke is when you realize Thelema (i.e. the "93 current") is, once you strip away the ceremonial magick and the Egyptian æsthetics, a descendant (at least in some respects) of the very same Spinozist/Nietzschean currents* that influenced folks like Deleuze himself! So, in a way, Crowley was right about this/these current(s) becoming a defining feature of our era (or "aeon"); he just didn't realize most of it wouldn't be via his own magical mystery cult, lol.
*Crowley's Nietzscheanism is glaringly obvious even if you haven't read the bit where AC calls FN "one of [Thelema's] prophets", but I still need to find out whether he actually references Spinoza anywhere (ol' sunshine wrote prolifically so it would take me forever.) There are, to my understanding at least, certain similarities between them (God/Nature as the single divine Substance -> the continuous body of Nuit, just for one example.) But I need to read more.
Magic(k) is basically "jailbreaking religion/philosophy" if you think about it
Swinging a bat at the astrology discourse by saying the only good reason to use astrology is to use the electional variant to calculate the optimal times to perform magic(k)al workings.
This is because magic(k) and astrology are both fake; compare to the anecdote of the "imaginary mongoose" in ch. 18 of Magick in Theory and Practice (Crowley 1929).
Honestly even when I'm talking about the Crowleyan definition I tend to put the K in parentheses
Enough about wizards as programmers. How about wizards as avant-garde conceptual artists. You make 5 papier mâché Easter eggs and impale them on 5 wrought iron spikes and put them up on a shelf in a gallery with a little placard that says "Artist's Statement" describing the concept behind the piece and what the spikes and the eggs represent and 100 miles away your archnemesis wakes up and realizes their womb has just become barren.
Foucault's four types of technology:
Technologies of production
Technologies of sign systems
Technologies of power
Technologies of the self
Clarke's Third Law:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
