Re: [WW] Re: Other Magical Traditions

[Bryce <SandChigg@rocketmail.com>]

--- Michael Robert Blair <pellinoire@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I believe there is some idea that the origins of
> playing cards lie in a cover for some sort of hermetic
> secret - hiding it in plain sight. Something linked
> with the Cathars and the wandering troupadors.
> I don't remember where I read this, though I don't
> think it was a particularly reliable source.
> 
> I could never understand why in Buffy they had their
> Jewish witch use Wicca, which is of very dubious
> authenticity when her heritage was the Kaballah, the
> root of the modern western magical tradition when it
> dawned on me, that was why, the Kaballah is serious,
> Wicca is 'fluffy' and 'cool'.

Well, that and women aren't allowed to study Kaballah.  

-Bryce "Oy Vey!" Perry

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"Not everything is a labyrinth of dark conspiracy, and not everybody is plotting to decieve, enveigle and obfuscate!"

-Dana Scully, The X Files

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