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To give a Western student that classification is to try to make him suppose that he can account for the origin of consciousness, by accounting for the process by which a certain knowledge, through only one of the states of that consciousness, came to him; in other words, it is to make him account for something he knows on this plane, by something he knows nothing about on the other planes; i.e.
, to lead him from the spiritual and the psychological, direct to the ontological.
This is why the primary, old, classification was adopted by the Theosophists, of which classifications there are many.
To busy oneself, after such a tremendous number of independent witnesses and proofs have been brought before the public, with an additional enumeration from theological sources, would be quite useless.
The seven capital sins and seven virtues of the Christian scheme are far less philosophical than even the Seven Liberal and the Seven Accursed Sciences -- or the Seven Arts of enchantment of the Gnostics.
For one of the latter is now before the public, pregnant with danger in the present as for the future.
The modern name for it is H YPNOTISM.
In the ignorance of the seven principles, and used by scientific and ignorant materialists, it will soon become S ATANISM in the full acceptation of the term.
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Forbidden Knowledgesoteriology
Transgressive knowing acquired against divine prohibition — the Watchers' teaching of metallurgy, sorcery, and cosmetics in 1 Enoch, the Gnostic Eve narratives, the Promethean mytheme; explicitly contrasted with gnosis_direct_knowledge, which is salvific.
The 'Seven Arts of enchantment of the Gnostics' are described as 'pregnant with danger in the present as for the future,' positioning them as transgressive knowledge whose misuse produces harm.
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A magical or spiritual orientation that turns occult power toward self-aggrandizement, domination, or personal ends divorced from — or actively opposed to — service of the divine, contrasted with the Right-hand Path's use of the same powers in reverent service and selfless healing. Distinct from psychic_attack (one specific malevolent technique this orientation may employ, not the standing orientation itself) and forbidden_knowledge (a transgression-against-divine-prohibition narrative, not an ongoing praxis-orientation).
The passage explicitly warns that hypnotism, a neutral technique, 'will soon become SATANISM in the full acceptation of the term' when used by 'scientific and ignorant materialists' without knowledge of the seven principles, describing the malevolent perversion of a legitimate art.
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