The Magical Chain
Our theory of conversation introduces a crucial occult notion: the Ancient Serpent, the great, magical agent, the writhing double current of light and magnetism in the human body, the blind, fatal force which, which, as its Mother, produced it. Unless the soul breaks free of her it will return, bound to its origin in the fiery core of the Earth. These alternative movements of freedom and fall are, in the grand scheme, always a matter of concatenation, of a chain of causes producing results which themselves again process as causes.
Our theory expects to fashion this all-pervading chain into an optimized form, one usable by everybody and even by the world as a whole, congenial with individual preference and replete with security, astonishment and enjoyment.
The sociological mechanics of progressive process in the universal movement, thus far undiscovered and unexploited in our day and age, are formal/conversational. The mechanism is latent in today’s society, but it hasn’t been noticed. The reality of the process, of its civilization-making force, will be a question of its desirability and of those who desire accordingly. If it can be rendered attractive, people will want to find out about it.
A formal conversation, like the magician’s chain of will and destiny, is a necessary concatenation produced, or equivalently discovered, by the people who have gone to the trouble to stage it. The staging needs to be careful and exacting, but the result is always effective. The people who work with conversation in this way are to be world agents. Out of the moral order they sustain as magicians, they create or fashion the real and actual world.
A model conversation is a highly formal affair. It can be reduced to symbolic logic or to the applied theory of speech acts. It can be studied in detail with physiological monitors and with video recording. The meanings concatenated are clear in real time to each person present, they are accurately remembered and in the ideal case, the same mental content appears in real time, as a thaumaturgy underwritten by cooperating free agents, in everyone’s mind. The effect is a moral/biological residue which each person carries away and then quite naturally releases into the world to work its own way.
In this way the Magical Chain may be reintroduced into society and civilization. Steps should be taken to safeguard its reappearance. Egypt and Chaldea both lost control of it. We need to make sure today’s civilization does not.
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