Stay True to Benevolent Paths?

One thing that really annoys me is all the half-assed language and vagaries swirling around the magical space or New Age subculture. A lack of clarity or the use of non-words and unstatements is not helpful I think.

Something I’ve seen a few times lately is a half-hearted disclaimer that goes something like “one is advised to stay true to benevolent paths”.

I’m serious. I was reading about Black Merlinite and how it can help integrate the shadow (although the article didn’t use those exact words) and of course I see the disclaimer after a blurb about the White Ray and the Dark Ray, whatever the hell either of those are if indeed they even are at all.

What the hell? One is advised? I guess that’d be me since I was the reader.

Who is doing the advising? Not the author I think, I mean wouldn’t he have just had the balls to tell me he advised??

I would certainly hope so if it’s so important to him.

Also, what the fuck does that even mean? Can we get any more candy-assed non-committal if we try really hard?

What are you saying buddy? Since you left it at that failed attempt at Yoda-cryptic I can only try to interpret.

Let’s do it then.

I’m either too dumb or too weak to tackle big stuff like ethics?

I don’t know the difference between good and evil if I encounter either?

I’m a scoundrel?

You worry I might sue you if I unleash dark forces into my life after reading your article?

Or this is just more virtue-signaling in today’s breezily smug magical lingo.

Never mind what these benevolent paths are, I’m just supposed to be dialed in as a result of my exposure to contemporary magical literature I guess. I suspect the underlying implication has something to do with never using magic for self-defense or for attaining money or influencing other people and yada yada barf.

Honestly I wonder why some people even practice magic in the first place.

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