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Recieved: 1999/06/08 07:24
Subject: Re: [K-list] Black Magic
From: nancy
On 1999/06/08 07:24, nancy posted thus to the K-list:
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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 08:13:08 +0100
To: kundalini-l-eATnospamonelist.com
From: Martin Thompson <martinATnospamtucana.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [kundalini-l-e] Digest Number 55
08:34:48 Mon, 7 Jun 1999
at kundalini-l-eATnospamonelist.com writes:
>>>>I mean, controling prana in that way has it's name - black magic. :)
>>>>
>>It was my understanding that attempting to control other people is
what
>
>>amounts to black magic, and controlling one's self, white.
>
>It is my understanding that power is neither black nor white, but it is
>the use of power for good or for evil purposes that makes the action
>white or black. We can define and clarify "good and evil" in various
>ways... positive and negative... other-serving and self-serving...
>helpful or harmful. But the point is that it is the purpose that makes
>the action black or white.
>
I think that this is how nearly everybody judges actions: not even by
the results, but by the intentions.
Perhaps I could amplify my statement a bit to take this into account:
black magic would be attempting to control others for personal gain.
>I don't think we can see all attempts to control other people as always
>negative/bad/"black"... surgeons do it... psychiatrists do it...
>teachers... policemen... even traffic cops. :) As they are working
>for the good of others, their actions are "white."
>
There is a problem here. Suppose they have been duped? Their intentions
may be good, but the leaders of our societies, i.e., the same type of
people who in the past have sanctioned the destruction of American and
African civilizations, and who appear to think nothing of starting wars
every couple of years or signing death warrants for political advantage,
seem to have other intentions. In a sense, our leaders could *all* be
black magicians...
>And I don't think the result or outcome of the action makes it black or
>white. When the surgeon tries to help another, even save life, by his
>surgery, but loses his patient on the operating table, that doesn't
make
>his action "black."
>
I agree, assuming someone other than the surgeon isn't secretly in
control!
>Of course, sometimes the situation is complex. What if the doctor or
>the teacher or the magician makes a faulty diagnosis... misjudges the
>one he wants to help... and takes the wrong kind of action, although
>for the best of purposes... and the result is harmful to the
>patient/student? These things are complex... I couldn't see such an
>action as "black"... I see a white magician who makes an error in
>judgement.
There are some who say that if it was done with good intentions, in the
long-term it will work out all right. Others say that the road to hell
is paved with good intentions.
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