Philosophies
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This page contains links to texts relating to the philosophy of different mages or traditions, how magick and reality works and other confusing matters.
General Mage Philosophy
- The Laws of Magick
- Finite and Infinite Games — From Finite and Infinite Games - A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse. Very relevant for Mage and roleplaying in general.
- The Great Conspiracy by Corwyn J. Alambar — What forces influence reality on its ultimate level?
- The Fall — An alternative view of the WoD, based upon Kid Eternity and Gnosticism
- Leviathan — An alternative view of the WoD, based upon the stories of Clive Barker
- Quotes for Mage gathered by Sean O'Connell
Philosophy of Magick, Reality and Related Matters
- Some Thoughts About Arete— About the nature of Arete, Personal Ascension, Oraclehood and Normality
- The Horror of Enlightenment — About how Arete changes mages in unsettling ways
- A Brief Discussion on Essence by Robert Ingdahl — About how the essences of mages affect their Ascension
- Practical Paradigm Engineering — A text about how the Traditions and the Technocracy manipulate reality on a large scale.
- About Theurgy — Theurgy is the mystical aspect of magick, the kind that brings Ascension closer. Different Traditions have different methods for this and this text discusses some of these methods.
- About Arcane — Frater IAM of Ordo Rosae Crucis explains his theory about how Arcane works and the phenomenon he calls the Twilight Zone
- The Subjective Nature of Reality by Jimmy McKinney
- Motivational Seminar for Mages by Ryan J Franklin
- The Constituent Parts of Identity by Aurelius — What Little Boys, Girls and Other Things are Made of
- The Book of the Eight Aeons
- Game of Two Oracles — A tale about games and rules
- Can a Mage Create Plutonium? — Discussing whether the elements really existed before the Technocracy decided to make them "scientific"
- Spheres, Planets and Patterns by Chrys Hearth — A Cabalistic view of how the spheres relate to the Tree of Life, the planets and the patterns
- Correspondences for the Spheres by Chrys Hearth — The Cabalistic correspondences for the Sephiroth related to the spheres
- Towards a Taxonomy of the Pure Ones — A discussion of how the One divided into the Pure Ones who subsequently became reality
- A Maslowian Hierarchy of Needs for Mages
- Science is Better than Magic by Jon C. Gilliam — An actual post from alt.magick, pure Technocracy propaganda
- A Democratic Paradigm — Are all views of reality equal or are some more equal than others?
Philosophies of Different Traditions
- Why are the Traditions so Western?
- The Ocean of Dust — Excerpts from The Ocean of Dust, a book which discusses Euthanatos philosophy.
- The Spheres According to the Cult of Ecstasy — A description of how a Cultist sees the different spheres
- The Spheres According to the Order of Hermes — A description of how a Hermetic mage sees the different spheres
- Aristotelian Paradigm of Order of Hermes by HB DesChenes and A Sandberg
- Walking in Beauty by Billy Bishop — Another system of correspondences between the Tree of Life and the spheres. Includes rules for astrological modifications.
- The History of the Traditions by Corwyn J. Alambar
Paradigm Pages
- Introduction by Paul Beakley
- Akashic Brotherhood Paradigm Page by Tetsu
- Ahl-i-Batin Paradigm Page by Tom Helgerson
- Celestial Chorus Paradigm Page
- Cult of Ecstasy Paradigm Page by Paul Beakley
- Dreamspeaker Paradigm Page by David Hood
- Euthanatos Paradigm Page
- Euthanatos Paradigm Page by Aurelius — An alternative paradigm page which ties in the Euthanatos with Wraith: the Oblivion
- Hollow Ones Paradigm Page by Malcus Dorroga
- Iteration X Paradigm Page
- New World Order Paradigm Page by The Man in Black (Kenneth Scroggins)
- Order of Hermes Paradigm Page
- Progenitors Paradigm Page by Chihiro Yamada
- Sons of Ether Paradigm Page by Paul Beakley
- Sons of Ether Paradigm Page (Wave Mechanics) by Anders Törlind
- Syndicate Paradigm Page
- Verbena Paradigm Page by Billy Bishop
- Virtual Adept Paradigm Page by Paul Beakley
- Virtual Adept Paradigm Page (Reality Hackers) by Constantine Thomas
- Void Engineers Paradigm Page by Paul Beakley
- A Believer's Paradigm by Thomas A. Morris