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              TEST BY DOCTORS PROVE IT POSSIBLE TO SHRINK

ON OCCULTISM

Magicians, especially since the Gnostic and Quabala influences, have
sought higher consciousness through the assimiliation and control of
universal opposites -- good/evil, positive/negative, male/female, etc. 
But due to the steadfast pomposity of ritualism inherited from the
ancient methods of the shaman, occultists have been blinded to what is
perhaps the two most important pairs of apparent or earth-plane
opposites:  ORDER/DISORDER and SERIOUS/HUMOROUS.

    Magicians, and their progeny the scientists, have always taken
themselves and their subject in an orderly and sober manner, thereby
disregarding an essential metaphysical balance.  When magicians learn
to approach philosophy as a malleable art instead of an immutable
Truth, and learn to appreciate the absurdity of man's endeavors, then
they will be able to pursue their art with a lighter heart, and
perhaps gain a clearer understanding of it, and therefore gain more
effective magic.  CHAOS IS ENERGY.

    This is an essential challenge to the basics concepts of all
Western occult thought, and POEE is humbly pleased to offer the first
major breakthrough in occultism since Solomon.

Stud                                            [Illustration:  a
Demonology                                      wizard, holding a wand
With An                                         high in the air.  The
Enemy                                           wand is tipped with
This                                            Hand of Eris]
Sunday"
sez Thom, Gnos