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Message no. 1
From: LGLUMKA@***.BITNET
Subject: Magic/matrix
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 20:55:00 EST
***** Hi
well, your all probably wondering why i have that strange
'*****' at the begining and end of my messages, the reason it is there
is magic. Now many of you are going to say that you CAN NOT access the matrix
by using magic
I'm going to have to agree with you on that point. Matrix and Magic
just do mix sort of like trying to mix a metal and air at room temprature
(thanks for the analogy Spirit) they will both be there but they won't be
combined (like dye and water).
What I do can not be explaned by normal hermatic means ( and the
spiritually of the shamanic won't help either according to Claw).
My way about hermatic tradition is slightly different then most.
when most mages create a spell they start off making the long and complicated
formula for the spell. First they decide what they want to have happen
then they work it from their.
With me its different, really fragging different. When I
think up of the idea I "KNOW" what has to be done, the only thing that i really
need to do is fine tune it, ie as Spirit would say 'keep on adjusting and
tweeking the sucker it until you get the level of output that you want'.
(i think she means that you keep on working of the formula until you've go the
force out of it that you want, i never really have gotten to understand
this technology stuff yet).
The best anology I can think of, of how to explain how it works
is that I know the basics by instinct. I didn't just start noticing my magic
like everyone else. They would start doing things without knowing what they
were doing, they would summon spirits or spells to help them only in times
of need, then they would not be able to do anymore for a long time. This was
instinct for them. With me I knew that their was magic, and I knew that I
WAS magic, it was a part of me and me a part of it, the rest just came along.
It like a person who has never had music lessons but can play the song they
just heard on the piano. The basis was already there and all there was left
to do was to build.


Now back to the matrix, the way i do it is realy simple and really
hard. The actual formal is not complex at all, in fact it really doesn't
exist all in one place. Normally i'll get the idea and the basic instinct
and then work from there on the force and power of the spell. With this one
all i have is the basic concept that i want use the matrix to talk to people,
thats all. Everything else that I do comes in the casting of the spell,
(the drain is like combinig a month of drunken hangovers into
one day), and then I just think about what I want to say. Not the actual
specific words as such (because i don't think in anything but Sperethiel)
but the concept of what i want to say and how I want to say it.

As you can see the concept of the spell and what I actually do
during it are fairly easy to understand ( well atleast to me) staying
conscious after doing it is the hard part.

By the way for all you deckers out there, no I can't effect
Personas, ICE, Systems, Commands, Programs, Data, Files, Accounts
and all of those other multitude.

To simply put it, THEY DON'T EXIST, they are just a made up thing with
no connection to mother earth, only through technology and the mind can they
ever become a CONCEPT/THOUGHT that could effect people.
(ie you are made to believe that you are the image and you are
if it gets fragged so do you)

if you have read down this far and are still confused, your not the only
one. AND I WROTE THIS ESSAY!!!!!!

sorry about the length I didn't realize i would
take this long *****

-Nightfox (is goning to be hurting because of this tommorrow
when he wakes up)




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Daniel Waisley Lglumka@***.grove.iup.edu --------(-- IUP FENCING
SCA - Shire of Robledol, Households - Cryptic Demesne (fencing) + Brotherhood
of Agincourt (archery),
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sorry for any bad grammer or spelling, etc. My mind works at 637
thoughts per minute, and my hands at 1.2 letters per second
Message no. 2
From: "E.S. Brunsell" <ericb@***.WISC.EDU>
Subject: magic&matrix
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1993 15:45:53 CDT
>>>>>[Hey Damnman or was it Dabnab or Merymen or... well whatever do you
need
some aspirin?]<<<<<
-- The Driver <..:..:.. / ..-..-..>

>>>>>[Damnit! I thought I told you not to touch my deck. Don't I pay you
enough to keep your hands to yoursellf?

Sorry about that madman. You just can't find any quality help these days can
you.]<<<<<
-- Couch <..:..:.. / ..-..-..>
Message no. 3
From: Armand <stadams@*****.UARK.EDU>
Subject: Re: magic&matrix
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1993 22:40:07 -0500
>>>>>>[ {insert evil grin here} ]<<<<<<
--Madman(..:..:../..-..-..)

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