Science, Sorcery and Magic.

From: mr happy <ajbehan_at_tcd.ie>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 16:44:22 +0000 (GMT)

Sorcery is associated with the Humanist philosophy which envisions a knowable, rational universe. In other words, as pointed out in TotRM #13, sorcery is scientific. I suspect that Westerners call their own magic "philosophy" or "science" and everyone elses "sorcery", "magic"etc. Albeit only to the extent that medieval medicine or alchemy was scientific.

The discussion of the Malkioni on and off-line seems to have concentrated on schism, heresy and theological nicities. Fair enough but the sorceror's magic isn't supplied by his deistic religion, merely justified by it. Their cosmology is seperated from their theology and just hasn't been addressed.

Can anyone out there improve on the oft ridiculed idea that they see the Inner World as the shadows of the Runes on Plato's cave wall?

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