From: intraphase@gmail.com   
      
   This is the summary, gist of it all.   
      
      
   Abstract Cores   
      
   1. The Manifestations of Spirit   
      
   2. The Knock of the Spirit   
      
   3. A. The dusting of the link   
   3. B. The stalking of ones self   
   3. C. The trickery of the spirit   
   3. D. The trickery of the abstract   
      
   4. A. The fourth abstract core is an act of revelation.   
   4. A. The descent of the spirit or being moved by intent.   
      
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   Intent creates edifices before us and invites us to enter them.   
   This is the way sorcerers understand what is happening around them.   
   I want you to understand the underlying order of what I teach you.   
   It means two things: both the edifice that intent manufactures   
   in the blink of an eye and places in front of us to enter, and   
   the signs it gives us so we won't get lost once we are inside.   
      
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   There is a threshold that once crossed permits no retreat.   
   Every sorcerer should have a clear memory of crossing that   
   threshold so he can remind himself of the new state of his perceptual   
   potential. One does not have to be an apprentice of sorcery to reach this   
   threshold, and the only difference between an average man and a sorcerer,   
   in such cases, is what each emphasizes. A sorcerer emphasizes crossing this   
   threshold and uses the memory of it as a point of reference.   
      
   An average man does not cross the threshold and does his best to forget all   
   about it.   
   Sorcerers say that the fourth abstract core happens when the spirit cuts our   
   chains of selfreflection.   
   Cutting our chains is marvelous, but also very undesirable, for nobody wants   
   to be free.   
      
   4. A. The fourth abstract core is an act of revelation.   
   4. A. The descent of the spirit or being moved by intent.   
      
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   The secret of our chains is that they imprison us, but by keeping us pinned   
   down on our   
   comfortable spot of self-reflection, they defend us from the onslaughts of the   
   unknown.   
   Once our chains are cut, we are no longer bound by the concerns of the daily   
   world.   
   We are still in the daily world, but we don't belong there anymore.   
   In order to belong we must share the concerns of people. And without chains we   
   can't.   
   What distinguishes normal people is that we share a metaphorical dagger: the   
   concerns of   
   our self-reflection. With this dagger, we cut ourselves and bleed; and the job   
   of our chains   
   of selfreflection is to give us the feeling that we are bleeding together,   
   that we are sharing   
   something wonderful: our humanity. But if we were to examine it, we would   
   discover that we are   
   bleeding alone; that we are not sharing anything; that all we are doing is   
   toying with our manageable,   
   unreal, man-made reflection.   
      
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   Sorcerers are no longer in the world of daily affairs because they are no   
   longer prey to their   
   self-reflection. What a strange feeling: to realize that everything we think,   
   everything we say   
   depends on the position of the assemblage point.   
      
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   Technically the assemblage point is the 5th core, abstractly stated 1-2-3-4 =   
   5  AP   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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