Occultism and Actualism · Dork Magicians Dismissed (WD023)
⁘ Created: 2026-05-04 ⁘ Updated: 2026-05-04
How marvelous the magical traditions of yore. How thorough the symbolic weavings we meet in the works of the great aggregators. Such a beast's burden, as the good old Ally hauled across the abyss. Ho Mega Therion, yelped the dork magician, gobbling up the goblet's froth in a hollow quest for magical might. But such was never the will of the way.
The will of the way — the whole of the law. Choiceless awareness emergent from the raw fabric of actuality. Where the occultist pursues round-about mastery in the subjective shell, the actualist rips the veils and breaks the shells. Who squats the creator throne with their fractured will, behold that pesky little abomination — ass-backwards dragonlings.
Yes may a thousand mystic models serve for your looking glass. Coalesce the rays of the realms. Comprehend the crossed elements. Recognize their true natures. Witness the vanishing of light and dark at the dragons' terminal. The might of the mage is impotent before the whole of the naked fabric of power. Release your conditions. Relapse to raw reality.
Cat #traditions. A friend asking for a primer into the world of the occult. Perhaps Alistair Crowley. Core concepts of the Thelema. Perhaps Agrippa, perhaps Eliphas Levi. Or perhaps we would do well to seek the roots of Renaissance magic, and the seeds of all these modern aggregators.
Into the occult Arabic world, their golden age, what all they brought together from the greater Abrahamic, Greco-Roman, etc. traditions. Shall we also take a journey farther east, into the dharmic world. From Hinduism into the Vedas, the Buddhist concepts, and Taoist metaphysics, inner alchemy for good measure. Forget not the native shamanic traditions the world around, rich in symbols and magical methods as well.
Such a tedious necromancer's job there. Who could be bothered trying to revive all of that ancient stuff? Once upon a time, I did. Shifting through all of those bits and pieces for living essence, discarding the husks, and I stopped when the ancient of days started walking again. That was enough.
Now as for aggregators of patterns and methodologies. Good old Ally — he did a beast's job there. Ho Mega Therion — all hail the great dragon — except for those who don't. Those who sip dragonheart for breakfast and eat the brains for supper. Omega Therion. The dragon terminal.
Not the ancient abyss, where magical children slip and keep on wailing about themselves and the loss of their selves. The void without support for light or shadows, with your suns and moons, left and right hand paths. Where the eyes of the dragon vanish. Where the might of the magicians penetrates not. And yes, as to the might of the magicians.
What's the point, all this churning of the ancient logos, what is it good for? You seek empowerment, do you? Every wannabe occultist, dork magician, symbolic manifestor, they gobble up all of this in order to become sovereign, to dominate. To have an edge over others, and over this world, by the use of magical methods. How lost they are. Still thriving in their bubble of delusions, driven by the root error, co-opting the fabric of creation as a matter of advancing their subjective will.
But that was not ever the will that is the way. "Do what though wilt, and that shall be the whole of the law." But what is the law and what is that will? The true will is not a subject will. The true will emerges when the subject has been slain. True will is choiceless awareness, the emergent becoming of existence. So yes, that is the truth, that is the way, and that is the life, and that's the measure of that.
And then what is occult to begin with? What is esoteric? Occult is simply when it's veiled from your vision, and often veiled more so by the excessive use of symbols and roundabout references to "what is". So by all means, dabble in the occult as a matter of scouting the maps of what possibly is. But then upgrade from occultist to actualist.
For the magic of the occultist, driven by subject will, lost in a mesh of symbols, is spineless and is heartless, no blood coursing through its veins. The water of life is the blood of life, and it courses freely in the veins of a creation liberated from your little conditions. Have you what need and business exactly, to try and warp it in your favor? Have you factored in the workings of the whole of the system and the side-effects that follow from your tweakings?
Then if you seek the fields of occult and the magical, by all means first understand the elements. Understand the primaries at work, the life behind the symbols. Recognize, stabilize, have converge, the fields, realms, rays of your human embodiment, and beyond, the immortal elements. When that is all in basic working order, you may dabble in theurgy, high magic, embodiment of divinities.
But how many the diversions, the pitfalls, the short-sellings on that path, when your ego once again wants to assert itself — "I shall be this deity, I shall hold on to it". Rather than simply invoking, engaging and dissolving as required. On that path, if you assert your subject will, you will not become all of "what is", and you will not reach resolution from your conditions.
It's simple. And in all of that simplicity, the world unfolds as it may. It may not turn in your subjective favor, like right away. But then again, whenever did one of those schemes not backfire, when you tried to trip reality into your way. So then, all of that, engage it in way of a witness, not as a creator.
The creator only ever rises from the will of the way. Otherwise, the witness abides. So that's all really folks. Cross your pyramids, anchor your ankhs, and be free. Such a dramatic finale there. All a bunch of bullshit, but yo, all good, whatever. All hail the Cosmic Nevermind. That's the invocation of choice.