#76 Nebu - Economic Magicians

Like a lot of people I came out of college thinking that economics and personal finance all takes place in an arbitrary conceptual reality that bears only a secondary concern to my inner world of hopes and dreams. It was only later after a long process of internal reflection and struggle with the ‘real’ world, that I began to perceive the reality of value. I was studying many of the great Left-Hand Path Magi and Esoteric Teachers along the way and each of them me left clues. (More on my personal process in the Post-Script). No single one of these things at the time caused me to reverse course, but as I found each influence and allowed it to crystallize I eventually built up some leverage – first, leverage to break free of the magnetic pull downward into inertia, and then to tap into the kind of magnetism that can pull you upward. Each of these Magi left me a piece of the puzzle along the way, and as I began to put the puzzle together a new reality began to materialize before my eyes. I realize some of these names may be more or less familiar depending on the background of the reader. I’ll make no attempt to justify any of them or to give intricate details or background on the individuals named. My aim here is solely to illuminate the lesson in as efficient a manner as possible, and allow the reader to decide if more research is in order. Anton LaVey – “Responsibility to the responsible.” This from the Seventh of LaVey’s Nine Satanic Statements from the Satanic Bible: Satan represents responsibility to the responsible instead of concern for psychic vampires! When I first encountered this it felt like a huge blanket of guilt was being lifted off me. Embracing the principle of responsibility means realizing you won’t ever get anywhere in life just complaining about others and whining and crying about how others have treated you.