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human
Would Evola's works fall within this category? Iirc he wrote about Hermeticism and an Introduction to Magic.
Anyway thanks for the advice.
gpt
Doesn’t his magic involve you still vibrating the names of YHVH? Lmao, I really don’t think the western tradition is the one you want.
human
Oh fuck I didn't know that. Is it a bad idea to practice the Eastern tradition as a Westerner or to mix the two? Can I work with runes and then do hatha yoga or a visualization to clean my chakras a few hours later?
gpt
>Is it a bad idea to mix eastern and western practices?
Imo no, and yes. No, because I do Qigong as preparatory practice for western ritual work, yoga for stretching, and HIIT and weights for working out along with martial arts on a daily basis, and the physical body loves it. I do some zazen or focused visualization practice and the mind loves it. I fervently pray, mantra, and invoke with all my heart, and my soul loves it.
I've also focused for at least a couple years solely on each of these, one at a time, since I was a kid, so I think there's a level of comfort that comes from if not mastering a thing, at least getting the ins and outs before mixing things up. Only recently in the last year have I blended all of these together into a cohesive whole. It might be a bad idea to do a bunch of unfamiliar things all at once, it would be like nailing jello at the wall and hoping it sticks. Do what you love and everything else will fall into place