The Limitations of Language:

Limitations of Language:

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

"Theurgy, as strange as it may seem to Western ideologies, can be recognized as the Neoplatonist means to bypass an exhausted discursive, or dialectical, knowing. For the theurgic philosopher this type of practice transcends the limits of dialectic and even negative dialectic, as a means to unify with ultimate causes. It can reach or touch a mode of experience that is technically unreachable by the normal avenues of human reason. An ‘action’ of some sort, such as eliminating the particularity of individual ‘ego’ through purifications, on technical grounds, is more equipped to do the job of assimilation and revelatory apprehension than discursive thinking."

"Proclus, however, recognizes that the gifts that are bestowed on this universe are fathered and bestowed without limit upon a physical world. To study it, therefore, is to learn the secrets that lie behind nature’s ‘veil’."

Ten Gifts of the Demiurge-Proclus' Commentary on the Timaeus

A true occult secret cannot be told or understood by erudition, it must be experienced. Today, following the structuralist school of linguistics known as the Prague Circle a lot of insight is gleaned into the nature of poetics, especially philosophical language. We have learned that via the use of certain poetic devices found within the structure of language itself, a writer is able to expose this unconscious substrate and actively target the intuition for the reader to understand the text on a deeper level. Philosophical language that seeks to describe the transcendent has always been a point of enquiry for scholars as linear discourse fails to capture the essence thereof in any kind of meaningful way. In the same way that regular discourse falls short of the aim of describing such experiences, a regular perception is also inadequate for us to see through this veil, thus the techniques of theurgy are employed to look into the higher worlds and experience divinity. Following that, insights into the mysteries are intuited and present alongside the work done by a magician. This work is arduous and often leads to sublimation of the ego as it is exposed to a deeper world of understanding that must necessarily be crystallized as part of the soul. The theurgist via this work of writing commentaries seeks to articulate that which has been felt, regardless of whether anyone else understands, it is first meant as a tool for the assimilation of new knowledge. When considering the Pythagorean tradition and the use of geometry and mathematics in some of these commentaries they were perhaps not written for the layman at all, but meant for the initiated. Of course, there are in most cases a large gap between the intuition and the intellect and thus non-discursive thinking must be as well articulated as possible for this gap to be bridged. Proclus felt that mankind was given ten perfect gifts by the demiurge, which is the topic of the book that the quotes are taken from. Although language is and will always be limited to describe things of this nature, the theurgists felt it was their duty to present these experiences to the world in written form. The first magick is and always has been writing, and as such, it has always been the work of the magician to enliven and preserve these teachings by way of this art form. Within the world of modern esotericism, these neoplatonic philosophers should serve as an example, that a badge of attainment and grade happiness means nothing unless you are doing the work and enriching this tradition via your contribution. Failure certainly means doing nothing, good report or not. Nothing is secret, secrecy is for shut ups and frauds, although, some things are harder to explain than others, however, we do our best, so that those with eyes to see may see. Hundreds of years from now this tradition will continue, and there will be new seekers, and it is perhaps only from the work left behind by us - our writings, that they may find guidance, and an affirmation of their place in a religious tradition, that precedes even religion itself.

Love is the law, love under will.