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hagbard's avatar

"That must mean that for someone who takes up the work of the ancestors, who brings something that they've made possible into the world - to continue an inheritance, a divine inheritance that's miraculous, impossible; and to reincarnate or recapitulate that divine inheritance in the form of a teaching that's presented to the world - it means necessarily that the teaching will be inverted. It comes into the world and casts a shadow. And all of the people that gather to see the light, mistake the shadow for the thing itself. Within a generation, the teaching is lost, you might say."

Is this all related to what Crowley called the curse of the Magus degree in his A.:.A.:.?

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Alan Chapman's avatar

Yes :)

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Alcedo's avatar

The German word for success "Erfolg" is made of two parts:

"Er-" is a prefix which means:

1. to give in, devote or to change under stress

2. to follow a purposeful action

3. the expression of death or killing

4. to gain something

5. it expresses a process of growing

and "-folg" means to follow or to comprehend

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