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                     TEST BY DOCTORS PROVE IT POSSIBLE TO SHRINK
       
       ON OCCULTISM
       
       Magicians, especially since the Gnostic and Quabala influences, have 
       sought higher consciousness through the assimiliation and control of 
       universal opposites -- good/evil, positive/negative, male/female, etc.  
       But due to the steadfast pomposity of ritualism inherited from the 
       ancient methods of the shaman, occultists have been blinded to what is 
       perhaps the two most important pairs of apparent or earth-plane 
       opposites:  ORDER/DISORDER and SERIOUS/HUMOROUS.
       
           Magicians, and their progeny the scientists, have always taken 
       themselves and their subject in an orderly and sober manner, thereby 
       disregarding an essential metaphysical balance.  When magicians learn 
       to approach philosophy as a malleable art instead of an immutable 
       Truth, and learn to appreciate the absurdity of man's endeavors, then 
       they will be able to pursue their art with a lighter heart, and 
       perhaps gain a clearer understanding of it, and therefore gain more 
       effective magic.  CHAOS IS ENERGY.
       
           This is an essential challenge to the basics concepts of all 
       Western occult thought, and POEE is humbly pleased to offer the first 
       major breakthrough in occultism since Solomon.
       
       Stud                                            [Illustration:  a 
       Demonology                                      wizard, holding a wand
       With An                                         high in the air.  The
       Enemy                                           wand is tipped with 
       This                                            Hand of Eris]
       Sunday"
        sez Thom, Gnos