The source is irrelevant. Though, I do question your seeming obsession with "Dungeons and Dragons." After all, nowhere in any of my posts did I mention anything about it...and you've referenced it more than once in Internet writings.
Point: The Sith and the Left Hand Path's origins (Anton LeVey's concept of it, anyway) are both fictional. All mythology, all fables, are fiction. It is the message behind the fiction that one must consider. Surely, you don't discount the Fox and the Grapes as just a sad story about fruit?
We clearly have a very different idea on the way mantras are used. I am not a superstitious person. I personally don't care if the mantra is a recipe for a cheese sandwich; it's the emotion behind them, the drive, that counts. Mantras that must be repeated word for word and understood as such smack of dogma, something that should be considered to be the archenemy of reason.
Power is not omnipresent, available to be tapped at any time. No. The will to have power, the drive towards it, those are omnipresent. The knowledge of others and oneself required to obtain more influence over our world - that is a progressive thing, and requires continual attention and disciplined study. One cannot simply become powerful simply because one wishes it; metaphorical blood must spent to acquire it. |