Discussing the Lesser Key of Solomon, and how much work it takes to do a "simple summoning" these days
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@sun The more modern our way of thinking gets, the more we need crutches to attain magical thinking.
@druid this is so true, even before you get into storytelling for fun. we don't see the world the way the ancients did, much at all
@sun We knew it was happening, too. The progression of the yuga cycle, the gotterdammerung, the elves retreating from human contact, the inevitable fall of Zeus, whatever. There's a feeling of inevitability to the rise of reason.
@druid do you think it was incremental or did it happen all at once with the announcement that the great god Pan was dead
@sun I think it was incremental. As Catholics like to point out, the rise of Protestantism did a lot for it, too. That's just the most recent example - it goes all the way back, you can see the Egyptian world progress from one of magical immanence to one where magic is something that must be performed in increasingly complex ceremony.
@kuteboicoder @druid interesting observation
@sun and now we have to use high-dimensional linear algebra