{"id":3217,"date":"2011-10-23T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2019-02-05T20:20:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T01:20:36","slug":"how-to-become-a-mage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=3217","title":{"rendered":"How to become a Mage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will, I hope, be an ongoing series of quotations from Josephin Peladan&#8217;s <cite>How to become a Mage<\/cite> (<cite>Comment on devient Mage<\/cite>). Perhaps there is still a chance to form young men with a free mind, not stuck in useless propaganda hoary with age.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The art of life doesn&#8217;t consist in living large, but rather in living consciously.<br \/>\nL&#8217;art de la vie ne consiste pas a beaucoup vivre, mais a vivre consciemment. (p 151)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\nLove inseminates, that is, it awakens in us, multiple impressions, only by imagination and desire; it is therefore evil to do the carnal act, and the least is the best. For sensual pleasure is not in the spasm, but in the prior excitable progression.<\/p>\n<p>L&#8217;amour ne feconde, c&#8217;est-a-dire n&#8217;eveille en nous de multiples impressions, que par l&#8217;imagination et le desir ; il est donc mauvais de perpetrer l&#8217;oeuvre de chair, et le moins c&#8217;est le mieux. Car la volupte n&#8217;est pas dans le spasme, mais dans la progression nerveuse anterieure. (p 111)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will, I hope, be an ongoing series of quotations from Josephin Peladan&#8217;s How to become a Mage (Comment on devient Mage). Perhaps there is still a chance to form young men with a free mind, not stuck in useless propaganda hoary with age. The art of life doesn&#8217;t consist &hellip; <span class=\"continue-reading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=3217\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[247],"class_list":["post-3217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hermetism","tag-josephin-peladan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}