2010-05-12, 01:36 AM
Dark Magic
Magica Erebea
"Magica" is Latin for "magic." "Erebea" is the feminine singular nominative case of the adjective meaning "of Erebos." According to Hesiod, Erebos (Ἔρεβος
is the god of darkness in Greek mythology, the son of one of the original gods, Chaos. The children that Erebos begat with his twin sister Nyx (night) were Aether (shining air) and Hemera (day), (cf. Theogony 123-125), and, being darkness and night, they are divine beings that precede light. In the words of the German romantic philosopher F. W. J. Schelling (1775-1854), "All birth is from darkness to light." ( Investigations of Human Freedom, SW360; but according to Hesiod, it wasn't that everything was born from Chaos and darkness-the heavens, the oceans, and many others were born from Gaia, who was born at the same time as Chaos. )
This light cannot give birth to darkness, bur darkness can give birth to light. Darkness is not in opposition to light. Darkness is a source that holds all things within it, and is tremendously broad-minded. And this broad-mindedness becomes a power that takes in all opposites such as good and evil, the superiority and inferiority, self and others, etc. This is because light is the basis of opposition and disparity. Schelling says, "Light's advance on the dark aspiration to create something ... is due to the thoughts that are mingles in chaos becoming distinct ... and unity is being erected" (ibid. SW316). If light is the basis of opposition and disparity, darkness is the basis of nondiscrimination. Therefore, dark magic has the tremendous broad-mindedness to take in all power withing discriminating between self and others.
Magica Erebea
"Magica" is Latin for "magic." "Erebea" is the feminine singular nominative case of the adjective meaning "of Erebos." According to Hesiod, Erebos (Ἔρεβος
is the god of darkness in Greek mythology, the son of one of the original gods, Chaos. The children that Erebos begat with his twin sister Nyx (night) were Aether (shining air) and Hemera (day), (cf. Theogony 123-125), and, being darkness and night, they are divine beings that precede light. In the words of the German romantic philosopher F. W. J. Schelling (1775-1854), "All birth is from darkness to light." ( Investigations of Human Freedom, SW360; but according to Hesiod, it wasn't that everything was born from Chaos and darkness-the heavens, the oceans, and many others were born from Gaia, who was born at the same time as Chaos. )This light cannot give birth to darkness, bur darkness can give birth to light. Darkness is not in opposition to light. Darkness is a source that holds all things within it, and is tremendously broad-minded. And this broad-mindedness becomes a power that takes in all opposites such as good and evil, the superiority and inferiority, self and others, etc. This is because light is the basis of opposition and disparity. Schelling says, "Light's advance on the dark aspiration to create something ... is due to the thoughts that are mingles in chaos becoming distinct ... and unity is being erected" (ibid. SW316). If light is the basis of opposition and disparity, darkness is the basis of nondiscrimination. Therefore, dark magic has the tremendous broad-mindedness to take in all power withing discriminating between self and others.