Nefastos wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:22 pm
Smaragd wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:41 pmIn refarding SoA terminology and joined practices, it could be seen that the Masks of Satan receive their forms from the four winds of the four directions and the winds themselves to be the masks or their respective demon kings.
A funny thing is, the article I just mentioned got started accidentally, since I had slacked from real work one noon & instead drawn pictures & chart of the Warhammer rpg chaos gods (Games Workshop really completed the original idea of Michael Moorcock) & their correspondence with the factual doubly four cardinal sins.
I will need a bit more time to look unto each one of your posts, but quickly just mentioning Chaos gods. If by them we mean Khorne, Nurgle, Slaneesh and Tzeench?
I find it interesting how one could see Eldar's and their falling in analogy to root races, black magic and Atlantis.
Of every race I think Eldar's fate is the most scariest, most advanced and strongest species and they end up creating Slaneesh which is embodiment of all hedonism and sadism. All the making of living beings into sentient furniture and so on...
Also I think there is a concept that revolves around that each of chaos gods are in "territorial warfare" over influence on people and things they feed on. This could be seen also as parallel to how one could win one sin with the other, Sloth is won by using Wrath? (Although here it's lower side: Sloth and higher side: Wrath)
Quite many can also feel sympathy for Nurgle-worshippers - everything will turn eventually into decay and there is some kind of false hope to be found.
If I remember these things correctly of course because that Warhammer world's lore is quite vast, but maybe it's good to keep 40k talking minimal although it's nice to find fellow brethren knowing about it too. I think my first association for "astral" was through 40k world, after all there's daemons, incantations and possibility of losing mind or even worse if contact with warp is created. I think some of the things work quite well in analogy to our real life phenomena.
I believe there is a picture I have seen of castle which is guarded by four angels and invaded by four cardinal demons. I am not aware of picture found in
Alchemy and Psychology but what's described here sounds similar to it.
Although one could try describing each cardinal or deadly sin and it's characteristics and find solution for each lock and knot (like described in Argarizim), I found it also interesting to try and see if four elements and seven masks could give more keys or point of views to look for them. Why I am thinking of this, is also that maybe through some kind of practice one could try solving one's problems.
For some people intellectual reasoning is enough, but for me thinking of cardinal sins is too hard as they seem to conspire against each other.
Maybe I need to make chart of 7 masks of Satan and deadly sins etc. and see if I can find something interesting and worth discussing. I come from quite speculative point of view