Your interpretations please..

topic posted Thu, October 8, 2009 - 7:32 PM by  Wanderingwolf
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To Know

To Will

To Dare

To Keep SIlent.


These are the laws, please share your interpretations of each
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Wanderingwolf
Orlando
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  • Re: Your interpretations please..

    Wed, October 14, 2009 - 10:09 AM
    To know - thyself is very important to personal & spiritual growth but is very hard to do, it can be very hard to to look inside.
    To will - to will yourself to do something you know you need to do, but have a hard time doing, can be very empowering.....LOL
    hey , the lightbulb just came on for that 1.
    To dare - oneself to grow & learn.
    To keep silent - and not share your knowledge is wrong , given situation on a case by case basis of course.

    My life path is a work in progress at the moment, i'm really trying to do the "positive" thing.
    How am i doing....?

    Blessings.
  • Re: Your interpretations please..

    Fri, October 23, 2009 - 1:18 AM
    This list seems very close to the Masonic motto ‘Vide, Aude, Tace’ — ‘See, Dare, Be Silent’ (I saw it once just outside of Belfast as I was heading to the airport). It seems fairly transparent at one level. See all that you can: power relationships, methods of collecting and disseminating power, information and all manner of things. Dare to use what you learn for whatever good you see fit and according to what you have learned. Remain silent about what you have done and how you learned to do it, first so that your process of learning can continue and second so that you do not fall into vain boasting.

    Interestingly, there is another motto: Audi, Vide, Tace si vis vivere in pace (Hear, See, Be Silent if you wish to live in peace). The near homonyms ‘Aude’ and ‘Audi’ are suggestive, reminiscent of that old rhyme “There was an old owl who lived in an oak / the more he saw the less he spoke …”, but I’d rather not go into the matter much more than this.

    Instead of imperatives, effectively giving a series of commands, these are a string of infinitives, simply stating the action itself without any reference to time, person or cause — or object for that matter. The entire formulation is an invitation to a hermaneutic moment in which the reader decides the proper references.

    What are my own? Well, I take it as the same as the Masonic motto above, but with the added impulsion to will. This I believe to be derived from the Crowleian idea that magic is the willing of action, so the process becomes knowledge leading to power which is directed by the will. Magical effect contravenes usual causal relationships, so that the entire undertaking requires a certain amount of daring, transgressing natural, social and sometimes ethical restraints. Finally, the relationship between secrecy and power, no less safety, is widely if not vocally recognized.

    That’s hardly everything, but touches on most of the important stuff …

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