Hm well, word.. Platonian ideals, so to say. That could entrail a complex discussion about what actually shapes reality, mind or matter. Or both, mutually. These days, I'd rather say that words are overrated.
Where mind can travel, there are no words.. to misquote a popular movie. (;
You didn't actually specify how they're being viewed by whom. In case you're asking the official TOS stance, there are some old Usenet postings by Michael Aquino where he clearly stated that the TOS were "the sole and exclusive initiatory agency for Set on Earth". That's as official as it can...
"Uniting" the lands is a bit euphemistic. Lower Egypt conquered Upper Egypt (reflects in that Set as the Lord of Upper Egypt was beaten, not made an ally). No wonder since Lower Egypt had the economic advantage of the fertile Nile delta, and fertile lands are the economic basis of an...
No, not for me.
Set lost the battle of Edfu, after all, so the victorious road to overgodhood was kind of blocked. Even before, Set wasn't the leading one of the pantheon, that was Ra.
No, not for me. It's just that I don't work with the others.
No, at least not intentionally.
I can only speak for myself, other Setians may differ. But expecting an individualistic way to be the same for all would be a contradiction in terms.
That said, the whole Western notion of LHP being about one's individuality can be traced back to Blavatsky who basically misunderstood what the...
Just for the records (haha!), if that requirement has the consequence to keep people with such records away, I guess the TOS won't be unhappy. It's not only about security issues for a meeting. Imagine the worst case scenario, someone freaks out and runs amok or commits crimes of gang kind.
Now...
I'm not a member, but just to be fair.. The other side of the coin is that things in the US are a bit special, and the TOS is a US centered organisation. Ol' Lavey had his house being shot at back then although that wasn't even an overly "hot" part of the country in this regard. Plus that there...
Magic can form consciousness, that's the "applied psychology" aspect. You see, the scientific physicians acknowledge the placebo effect, but magic is a way to actually make use of it. Or more generally speaking, magic is a helpful tool for realising one's full potential, unhindered by adverse...
On the other hand, self-deception and delusion are very well group dynamics traits, so you have these problems on a group level then. The more closed the group is, the more probable this effect becomes. Escpecially if the power runs only from top to down, without any mechanism at all to control...
I wouldn't have written "also" if I had meant "just" (;
That is the point. AS philosophy, it does have said difficulties. But not as religion.
Well yes, of course - but with that line of argument, anything and it's opposite can also be a value. The point here is again, that valueing some...
Well, I've some knowledge of the Eastern ways, and the LHP was "dark", in a way.. meaning that it used to be practiced at the borders of society. A non-dualistic example would be the old Norse ways, which I happen to know somewhat more intimate, and the whole division doesn't make much sense...
Well, happiness isn't the primary point when working with Set (IMO) since there is no promised paradise, deliverance or such. Quite the other way round, it's the blue pill that would provide happiness. On the other hand, I regard the Xtian paradise thing as a kind of spiritual prostitution...
Maybe that's sort of normal when you get older. When we're young, most of life's parcels still are closed, and we may be excited to open them. Many of them, however, turn out to be empty boxes. That can earn some bitterness. But the root cause was having too high expectations upon life to begin...
I'd like to take another take on the question - it seems to imply to Set's existence within the space-time. On the other hand, there is no evidence that he did walk the earth like we do, within space-time. Maybe he did at some time, but even if so, he obviously stopped doing so later on. That...
Not directly, that is correct. "Believing" in Set still would imply that it's you yourself who'd have to become and to do the necessary things.
Religion can be very diverse, and it is all too frequent in the Western world to equate "religion" in general with things that are in fact special...
I've read quite some articles where Becoming is presented as a sort of linear process. Actually, that derives from the Progress myth perpetuated since the enlightment era of our culture. This, in turn, was a philosophy, and philosophy thrives upon the religious foundations of its culture. In our...
I'd like to address some points and have a kind of "open discussion". Means, I'm not asking questions to be answered, it's just the broad overall topic I've been occupied with over the last months. I'll try to keep it short, though I could without doubt elaborate much deeper, but who would read...