Philosophy of Mages and Mage

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This page contains links to texts relating to the philosophy of different mages or traditions, how magick and reality works and other confusing matters.

General Mage Philosophy
The Fall.
An alternative view of the WoD, based upon Kid Eternity and Gnosticism.
Leviathan.
An alternative view of the WoD, based upon the stories of Clive Barker.
The Great Conspiracy by Corwyn Alambar
What forces influence reality on its ultimate level?
The True Nature of Paradox.
The Laws of Magick.
Finite and Infinite Games
From "Finite and Infinite Games - A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility" by James P. Carse. Very relevant for Mage and roleplaying in general.

Philosophy of Magick, Reality and related matters.
Practical Paradigm Engineering.
A text about how the Traditions and the Technocracy manipulate reality on a large scale.
About Theurgy.
Theurgy is the mystical aspect of magick, the kind of magick that brings Ascension closer. Different Traditions have different methods for this, and this text discusses some of these methods.
Arete.
About the nature of Arete, Personal Ascension, Oraclehood and Normality.
Can a Mage create Plutonium?.
Discussion whether the elements really existed before the Technocracy decided to make them "scientific".
House Rules for Prime by Constantine Thomas
About Arcane.
Frater IAM of Ordo Rosae Crucis explains his theory about how Arcane works and the phenomenon he calls the "Twilight Zone".
Spheres, Planets and Patterns by Chrys Hearth.
A Cabalistic view of how the spheres relate to the Tree of Life, the planets and the patterns.
A Short Excursion into Cosmology by Tony Quirke.
A humorous account of the Creation.
The Return of the Ancient One
A Gnostic tale of how Chronos returned to the world.
The Horror of Enlightenment
About how Arete changes mages in unsettling ways.
About Avatars by datawolf
The Book of the Eight Aeons
Towards a Taxonomy of the Pure Ones
A hermetic discussion of how the One divided into the Pure Ones who subsequently became reality.
The Game
A tale about games and rules.
A Brief Discussion on Essence by Robert Ingdahl
About how the essences of mages affect their Ascension.
Res Hominem by Christophe Bachmann
About the Avatar, the Shadow and the Psyche.
A Democratic Paradigm
Are all views of reality equal, or are some more equal than others?
A Lesson by Sween DOG
Tracks by Eric Tolle
The Subjective Nature of Reality 1 by Jimmy McKinney
About Mice by Tommy the Terrorist
Are we controlling our lives and reality? Or are someone else doing it?
The Constituent Parts of Identity by Aurelius
or, What Little Boys, Girls, and other Things Are Made Of.
An Unpleasant Possibility by Evan Gibson
Is reality running out?
A Maslowian Hierarchy of Needs for Mages
The Nature of the Deity in the WoD by Nyarlathotep
What if there really is a God - and he is uninterested?
Egocentric Arete by Neal C. Oldham
Short Usenet posting about the nature of Arete, especially for hermetic-style mages.
Oracles by Kathy Ryan
What are the Oracles doing?
Oracles by Matthew Iskra
Why are the Oracles doing nothing?
Mundanity: a New Trait for Mage by Carl L. Congdon
The tension between the mundane and the secret worlds.
The Immune System by Peter Sears

Philosophies of different Traditions
Why are the Traditions so Western?
The Ocean of Dust.
Excerpts from "The Ocean of Dust", a book which discusses Euthanatos philosophy.
The Spheres According to the Cult of Ecstasy.
A description of how a Cult mage sees the different spheres.
The Spheres According to the Order of Hermes.
A description of how a Hermetic mage sees the different spheres.
Aristotelian Paradigm of Order of Hermes by H. B. DesChenes and A. Sandberg.
Walking in Beauty by Billy Bishop .
Another hermetic system of correspondences between the Tree of Life and the spheres. Includes rules for astrological modifications.
Beyond the Good Death : yet another look at the Euthanatos by Colin Y.S.C.
A detailed discussion of the Euthanatos philosophy and how it relates to Hinduism and Indian culture.
Cyberspace As Glassbead Game
A rather incomprehesible text, which demonstrates just how strange the Virtual Adept Paradigm may be.
Orphans Within The Traditions by Phil Masters.
About the Euthanatos by DataWolf
The History of the Traditions by Corwyn J. Alambar
The Celestial Chorus by Martin Terman
A View of the Euthanatos by Martin Terman.
A Game of Life
Interview With a Nashimite
An obscure subgroup of the Chorus that regard evil as the creation of the One.
A Conversation by by Yann Golanski (aka: Little man from another place), Timothy Toner (aka: Thantatos), Anders Sandberg, and Eric Tolle.
How the Traditions, Nephandi, Technomancers and Marauders see things - or want each other to see them.
Another Look at the Euthanatos by Steven Brandt
A look into their beliefs, and a passage from the Upanishads about the secret of death.

Paradigm Pages

 Bill Bishop's Collection of Paradigm Pages
Introduction by Paul Beakley
Akashic Brotherhood Paradigm Page by Tetsu
The Ahl-I-Batini Paradigm by Tom Helgerson.
Celestial Chorus Paradigm Page.
Cult of Ecstasy by Paul Beakley
Dreamspeaker Paradigm Page by David Hood.
Euthanatos Paradigm Page
Euthanatos Paradigm Page by Aurelius. An alternative paradigm page, which ties in the Euthanatos with Wraith.
Hollow One Paradigm Page by Stayne.
Hollow One Paradigm Page by Malcus Dorroga.
Iteration X Paradigm Page
The New World Order Paradigm by The Man in Black.
Order of Hermes.
Progenitors Paradigm by Chihiro Yamada.
Sons of Ether by Paul Beakley.
Sons of Ether Paradigm (Wave mechanics) by Anders Törlind
Yet Another Completely Different Son of Ether Paradigm by Thomas A. Morris
The Syndicate Paradigm Page.
Trenchcoaters by Paul Beakley.
Verbena Paradigm Page by Billy Bishop.
Virtual Adepts by Paul Beakley.
Virtual Adepts (Reality Hackers) by Constantine Thomas.
The Void Engineer Paradigm Page.
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