02-27-2020, 03:22 AM
(02-26-2020, 11:27 PM)EvolvingPhoenix Wrote: So how do those practicing black magick in an effective negative order vilify the highly positive? Just curious? Like, what kind of s*** do they say and how does it compare and contrast to how extremely positive groups vilify the negative?
They say that the concept of white magic is hollow; that those who claim to act with a pure intent of service are only serving because it makes them feel good, self-righteous, validated, etc. In the end everyone is just chasing after one carrot or another. And they're not wrong from a certain perspective. How many people here would be so committed to being STO if they didn't have the thought of fourth density (or some alien home world) to motivate them? Is serving in expectation of a reward really selfless? It takes true self-awareness to give a decent answer to that question.
There is also the thought that the positive path is spawned our of sheer weakness and an incapacity to cultivate discipline and accept challenge. The negative path does not tolerate excuses, and it despises those who coddle the incapable. They believe that New Age thought stems out of a desire to dissociate, project and live out a fantasy reality instead of taking personal responsibility and dealing with the harsh truths of life.
Positive groups tend to be a little less creative and just go with the "black magic is the devil" sort of mentality, which I think is born out out of the fact that the negative mentality is somewhat alien in regards to conventional modern thought. Unless you've really studied their philosophy it's just hard to understand why anyone would do those things, yet it's very easy to project your own ideas onto a shadowy scapegoat. Usually those ideas crest at, "Because they're stupid/confused/evil." In actuality both sides do this equally to some extent, in which every unpleasant thing is unceremoniously swept over to the other side in a way that the individual doesn't have to question themselves.
In any grouping there is always the danger of the herd mentality, with the desire for stability and security raising unconscious blinders. Suggesting similarities between oppositely polarized groups can wreak havoc within that comfortable infrastructure, whose inhabitants would much rather believe that everything they despise lies with the other instead of in the mirror.