2010-05-12, 01:48 AM
( Dark magic cont. )
However, things are not that simple. Within darkness, all disparity becomes invisible; the difference between self and others vanishes as well, and the spellcaster looses sight of himself. But magic spells are never anything more than techniques the caster uses t accomplish his willful purposes; their purpose is not to reach some kind of absolute truth. As stated by Schelling's school colleague, G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1830), "To pit this single assertion, that 'In the Absolute, all is one,' against the organized whole of determinate and complete knowledge, or of knowledge which at least aims at and demands complete development-to give out the very naivete of emptiness of knowledge." ( Phenomenology of Spirit, preface ). In order to use a technique as a technique, especially within darkness, one must not lose sight of one's self.
What is needed then is a "confrontation with one's shadow," or "an encounter with one's anima."
However, things are not that simple. Within darkness, all disparity becomes invisible; the difference between self and others vanishes as well, and the spellcaster looses sight of himself. But magic spells are never anything more than techniques the caster uses t accomplish his willful purposes; their purpose is not to reach some kind of absolute truth. As stated by Schelling's school colleague, G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1830), "To pit this single assertion, that 'In the Absolute, all is one,' against the organized whole of determinate and complete knowledge, or of knowledge which at least aims at and demands complete development-to give out the very naivete of emptiness of knowledge." ( Phenomenology of Spirit, preface ). In order to use a technique as a technique, especially within darkness, one must not lose sight of one's self.
What is needed then is a "confrontation with one's shadow," or "an encounter with one's anima."