02-24-2024, 07:17 PM
I look today at a term that I reference when I talk about casting styles. My mentor called the four casting styles the Temples. Which are Heart for Symbolic, Mind for Runecasting, Eyes for Visualization, and Throat for Wordcasting. My thoughts have been drifting these past few months. What is the origin of such a term? Does it come from your body is a temple? Does it come from a more religious observation? Maybe it comes from the simple fact that Temples are often the place where most people congregate, which with the convergence point of many mana circuits, it is an apt comparison.
The Temples. Each to a different deity within yourself. The four deities of the self for casting. The first deity, the heart. Often the first one taken up by a magi on their first steps of becoming a magus. The next deity becomes their patron, if they do not get stuck and lost on the path of the heart. If I forgive myself this religious connotation that my thoughts are traveling down.
Maybe this is just a term that has been passed on for so many years that we have lost the true origin of it and I shall never know. Maybe habit will keep me referring to the casting terms as Temples. Maybe I will move my terms to another? These are just some of the thoughts as I mull over this from time to time. But whatever the end result, I shall continue to study.
It occurs to me as I write this entry, does someone who is blind have the ability to open the temple of the Eyes? Are the doors barred to them? Or is this the origin of Mana sight? Someone who had their temple stripped bare, unable to Visualize their casting, the window to the soul locked behind the damage. Thus they recreated the Temple in their own way. A mortal construction, bending their magical senses to replace sight. Mana sight may be an avenue of research I will keep open. Though I do hope that I do not need to destroy the Temple of the eyes to experiment with this technique. Even if it is a temple that I do not use.
I should finish this entry before my mind races towards other possibilities and experiments. Rambling in both the flesh and paper is probably not a good look if someone is reading this after all.
The Temples. Each to a different deity within yourself. The four deities of the self for casting. The first deity, the heart. Often the first one taken up by a magi on their first steps of becoming a magus. The next deity becomes their patron, if they do not get stuck and lost on the path of the heart. If I forgive myself this religious connotation that my thoughts are traveling down.
Maybe this is just a term that has been passed on for so many years that we have lost the true origin of it and I shall never know. Maybe habit will keep me referring to the casting terms as Temples. Maybe I will move my terms to another? These are just some of the thoughts as I mull over this from time to time. But whatever the end result, I shall continue to study.
It occurs to me as I write this entry, does someone who is blind have the ability to open the temple of the Eyes? Are the doors barred to them? Or is this the origin of Mana sight? Someone who had their temple stripped bare, unable to Visualize their casting, the window to the soul locked behind the damage. Thus they recreated the Temple in their own way. A mortal construction, bending their magical senses to replace sight. Mana sight may be an avenue of research I will keep open. Though I do hope that I do not need to destroy the Temple of the eyes to experiment with this technique. Even if it is a temple that I do not use.
I should finish this entry before my mind races towards other possibilities and experiments. Rambling in both the flesh and paper is probably not a good look if someone is reading this after all.