Message no. 1

From:	Brett Ryan Brown <calvinoi@*******.SCRI.FSU.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Two Questions (One answer)
Date:	Fri, 5 May 1995 19:03:40 18000

> 2) On a related note, how far can you go with Masking? What I'm
> thinking of is making a hermetic look shamanic. Perhaps the masking
> wouldn't hide the fact he is initiated, but would make him look shamanic
> instead...I'm not really sure. I don't think this can be done, but I
> wanted to see what the consensus was.

I would have to say an enthusiastic "no". I think that, because a shaman
"talks" with his totem to get all of his power, then this would not
work. Basically, the shaman sees this masked hermetic in the astral.
His aura may look, to the shaman, like another shaman, _BUT_ the shaman's
spirit totem should see through the hermetic's masking easily. Thus, the
totem would know the truth, and then so would the shaman (unless the
totem was feeling particularly spiteful or something towards the
shaman...) However... I believe that it is possible for a hermetic to
fool another hermetic with this. Another hermetic would see the aura and
decide that it's not that of a hermetic magician, and so would then jump
to the next logical conclusion: that it is a shamanic magician.

Then again, one must ask themselves if they really think that there are
noticeable differences in the auras of the two seperate practices that
can be exploited with this form of masking. Well...whatever. :-)

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