Fascination

What do you find fascinating, and why? 

Perhaps you have a fascination with the number three.

What do you know about the etymology of the word fascinate?

What holds you spellbound, and why?

How do you usually assess apparent coincidences and matters you perceive to be associated with luck or misfortune?

Perhaps you sometimes interpret coincidences in terms of personal significance. 

Perhaps you sometimes mistake randomness for a pattern.

Perhaps you look for hidden messages where none actually exist.

Perhaps you look for meaningfulness where none exists.

Perhaps you regard something as meaningless because you have not yet discovered its meaning.

Perhaps you fail to distinguish clearly enough between numerology and number theory.

Perhaps there are some ideas and perceptions you find irresistible and even compelling.

Perhaps you often perceive seemingly meaningful images where none actually exist.

Perhaps you are interested in the history of the fascinator. 

Perhaps you are interested in the history of the word fascinum. 

Perhaps you are interested in the history of Fascinating Rhythm.

Perhaps you are interested in the history of Mysterium Cosmographicum.

Perhaps you are interested in the history of triangles, trios, triads, trebles, thirds, triples, triplets, tertiaries, trilogies, triptychs and triumvirates.

Perhaps you are fascinated by hendiatris and its history.

Perhaps you are fascinated by triadic reciprocal causation.

Perhaps you are fascinated by the triarchic theory of intelligence.

Perhaps you are fascinated by the thermodynamic triple point.

Perhaps you are fascinated by the politics of tripoints.

You may be familiar with the mathematical law of trichotomy.

You may be familiar with trigonometry, geometry, triangulation and trig points. 

You may be familiar with the many past and present uses of tripods, including sacrificial tripods.

You may be familiar with polymaths and philomaths.

You may be familiar with the trivium and the three Rs.

You may be familiar with the prevalence of apophenia and phobias.

You may be familiar with the history of third-person narration of the omniscient variety.

You may be familiar with the organisational theory of triarchy.

You may be familiar with the economic theory of triadisation. 

What is your acquaintance with quantum biology?

What is your acquaintance with The Great Red Dragon paintings of William Blake?

What is your acquaintance with exegesis?

Perhaps you are fascinated with a particular interpretation of a particular text, image or phenomenon.

Are you sure you will never forget Hecate?

Are you familiar with the three main virtues praised in particular cultures?

Are you floating like a real witch, at least in your imagination?

Are you familiar with The Magic Flute and the symbolism within it? 

Do you have a fascination with the mysteries associated with faith, trust and confidence?

Do you have a fascination with the source(s) of reason, rationalism and/or compassion?

Do you have a fascination with matter and imaginings, or matter and energy, or imaginings and artistry?

If you have a fascination towards culture and kindness, how do you usually display that fascination?

What do you believe, and why?

How thorough are your assessments of people, including members of royal families?

What do you know about the limits of physical models?

What do you know about the limits of conceptual models?

What do you know about localism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism? 

What do you know about expressing the enlightened virtues of reasonableness, morality and justice, especially if you are a journalist?

Being moral is reasonable in itself, of course.  It is also the basis of real justice.

How do you prefer to defend yourself against the dragon of corruption?

Who has been attempting to hide corruption from you through obscurantism?

Do you equate the ethereal with the ethical, the spiritual, the political, the artistic. the magical or the otherwise imaginative?

How do you use your imagination to protect yourself, and other people, from psychological, physical, political and financial harm?

You may be aware that corrupt governments only stay in power when they are supported by the ignorant and/or when they prevent the well-informed from gaining power. 

Corrupt usurpers of power similarly thrive on support from the ignorant and/or by otherwise preventing the development of well-informed, compassionate leadership.

The ignorant often regard the well-informed as the enemy.

What is your acquaintance with transcendence?

What is your acquaintance with transmutation?

When will the current emergency be over, according to your own, self-assessed, purportedly well-informed assessments and re-assessments of the situation?

How have you defined the emergency?

Which values have you been expressing through your responses to it, and to whom, and in what ways?

Perhaps you regard emergencies in the same way as stage sets, or action movies, or adventure stories, or pop music videos.

Are you quite well acquainted with the libretto for The Magic Flute, and its librettist, Emanuel Schikaneder? 

Are you familiar with Mozart's overture? 

Are you familiar with the story of Yvain, the Knight of the Lion?

Perhaps you are quite fascinated with stories about Ywain, Gawain and the other Knights of the Round Table.

Perhaps Mozart and his Freemasonry friends regarded themselves much like Knights of the Round Table.  They may have viewed themselves as being on a quest for philosophical enlightenment and spiritual enlightenment, even with much fun along the way.

What do you know about the influence of Christoph Martin Wieland on Mozart and his associates?

Perhaps you are more interested in the Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum of Elias Ashmole.

Or perhaps you are more interested in Shebitku and his wife, Queen Arty.

Or perhaps you are more interested in Mozart's contributions to Thamos, King of Egypt and/or The Philosopher's Stone, or the Enchanted Isle.

You may be more fascinated with the Temple of Isis at Pompeii or the late classical Greek alchemist Cleopatra or the medieval French alchemist Perenelle Flamel.

Or you may be more interested in comparing the  three theological virtues of Christian theology with the Taoist Three Treasures, the Three Sacred Treasures of Imperial Japan and the Three Jewels of Buddhism.

What is your acquaintance with the literary rule of three?

What is your acquaintance with the visual rule of thirds?

What is you acquaintance with philosophical trichotomy?

What is your acquaintance with the transcendentals?

What is your acquaintance with the French word trois?

What is your acquaintance with the French word qui?

What is your acquaintance with the French term en ligne?

What is your acquaintance with the French phrase lire entre les lignes?

What is your acquaintance with the Fates, the Moirai, the Norns, the Matres and Matronae, the Trinity, the Trimurti, the Trikaya and Tridevi? 

What is your acquaintance with syncretism?

What is your acquaintance with syncronisation?

You may be aware that unity is not necessarily associated with peace and goodness, or even truth.

How do you distinguish between oppressive unity and harmonious unity?

What is your acquaintance with the International Training Centre for the Harmonious Interplay of Beauty, Understanding and Magnificence?

What is your acquaintance with Twaklin?

How do you identify the beautiful in culture and nature?

How do you identify the truthful in terms of understanding?

How do you identify the good in terms of magnificence? 

Perhaps you are more interested in looking at millefleur tapestries and/or millefiori glasswork than in exploring interpretations of deeper meanings in and through the arts and sciences.

Perhaps you have never compared the Latin words magnus and magus and attempted to trace their etymological origins.

Perhaps you are more interested in learning about Old Mother Hubbard and/or Mother Goose and/or the court festivals of Catherine de Medici. 

How do you distinguish between activities mainly associated with entertainment and those associated mainly with politics and those mainly associated with therapeutic intentions?

What do you do to entertain, to help heal and to empower, and for which audiences?

How do you attempt to defeat menaces? 

How do you distinguish between real menaces and imaginary ones?

How do you know when the people claiming to subdue menaces are the real menaces?

How do you warn people about the hazardous?

How do you describe the horrendous, and for what purpose(s)?

What do you describe as stupendous, and why?

What do you describe as tremendous, and why?

How do you compare the careers of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Ignatius von Born and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

How do you interpret the Apocalypse Tapestry commissioned by Louis I, Duke of Anjou?

How do you interpret the meaning of enlightened secularism?

What do you know about the necessary, entirely peaceful anti-clericalism associated with the enlightened separation between religion and government?

How clearly do you distinguish between the wisdom of good reasoning and the injustice of religious discrimination?

Perhaps you think all religions are associated with discrimination against all other religions, and towards the non-religious.

What is your acquaintance with the papal ban on Freemasonry?

What do you know about secret societies and the reasons for their secrecy? 

Perhaps you have a fascination with the topic of secrecy.

What do you know about the reasons why initiations are required in secret and not-so-secret organisations?

When do you know a secret activity should be made public?

What do you regard your home range to be, and why?

What do you know about the wisdom of a group of enlightened persons when compared with the wisdom of an enlightened individual?

What do you know about crowd psychology and its effects on gullible fools?  

How do you distinguish between the golden mean and the golden mean fallacy?

How do you tell the difference between reasonably balanced reporting and dangerously false balance?

How do you tell the difference between real equivalence and false equivalence?

How do you distinguish between the conscientious presentation of accurate information, the apathetic conveyance of misinformation and the deliberate encouragement of disinformation?

Perhaps you would rather learn more about The Lady and the Unicorn than about the prevalence of lies and other forms of deception.

Perhaps you associate witches with legendary creatures.

Perhaps you do not regard witches as ladies or queens or goddesses.

What is your acquaintance with unicorns, dragons, black swan events and little owls?

How do you compare Athena and Minerva and their association with owls?

What do you know about Athena, Hera and Aphrodite in relation to ancient Greek warfare?

What do you know about Jupiter, Juno and Minerva in relation to Roman religion?

What do you know about the Woman clothed in the Sun?

What do you know about the Whore of Babylon? 

What is your acquaintance with the meaning of apocalypse?

How do you respond when someone regards women as inferior beings? 

How do you respond to conspiracy theories about Freemasons and the Illuminati?

What do you know about Mozart's masonic music?

What do you know about antisemitic conspiracy theories?

What do you know about the Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory?

Varying interpretations of the past and present are often causes of controversy.

Varying attitudes towards the future are also causes of controversy more often than not.

Everything ever written, and everything ever otherwise made, is an expression of history.

What do you know about superstitions, biases and phobias?

What does history teach you about education?

What does history teach you about fascination?

What does history teach you about prosperity?

What does history teach you about the harmony of the world?

What does Mozart teach you about the harmony of the world?

Do you know much about Mozartian acronyms?

Do you know much about the Trazom of Twaklinilkawt and the art of imaginative anagrams and appropriate palindromes?

Do you think Mozart would have become so famous through the centuries if his surname had been Sonnleithner or Schuppanzigh?

Would Marianne Mozart have become more famous if her surname had been Auenbrugger or Genzinger or Moszyńska or Olin or von Thun und Hohenstein? 

What does history teach you about despotism, including the claimed enlightened variety?

What does history teach you about a journalistic view from nowhere? 

What do you know about the history of book burning and other practices aimed at preventing the sharing of knowledge, ideas and experiences, including quite reasonable ones? 

What do you know about classified information?

 

Perhaps you are aware that many documents hidden from public knowledge prevent a true understanding of the past, and of wisdom.

 

Knowledge is lost through accidental or deliberate destruction or secrecy or archival inaccessibility or indecipherable language or by failing to acknowledge the heritage value of particular information.

 

Keeping the gullible ignorant has long served the interests of the corrupt and otherwise cruel.

 

How do you prepare yourself to become better acquainted with the truth? 

What do you know about overtures in music?

What do you know about Singspiele?

What do you know about artistic foreshadowing?

 

What do you know about influential operas? 

What do you know about the prevalence of ambiguity in human experience?

How do you respond to ambiguity?

How do you define high ideals?

If you attempt to express those ideals, why do you do so?

If you attempt to emulate individuals you believe to be representatives of those ideals, why do you do so?

 

If you would prefer to live simply for the ordinary pleasures of existence, rather than striving to achieve any higher ideal, why do you believe you deserve to experience ordinary pleasures?

Regardless of your ideas, or lack of them, what are the ordinary pleasures you most enjoy, or would probably enjoy if you had (more) access to them, and how do you define the essence of those pleasures, and the associated sources?

What do you know about the career of Christian Felix Weiße?

What do you know about the history of literature for children?

There is much important history to reflect upon through this grimoire.

What do you know about humour as therapy?

What is your acquaintance with satire, especially political satire?

The first performance of The Magic Flute took place on 30 September 1791.  By then, Mozart had a seven-year-old son, Karl Thomas and a baby son, Franz Xaver.  Four other children had not survived infancy.

What did you believe when you were seven years of age, and how did your beliefs change as you grew older? 

How did you learn about wickedness as a child?

What did you learn about humour as a child?

What did you learn about religion as a child?

What did you learn about nature as a child?

What did you learn about love as a child?

With what were you fascinated as a child?

How did you learn about symbolic boundaries as a child?

What have you since discovered about the ship of fools?

What have you since discovered about your political responsibilities? 

What have you been discovering about your patronage responsibilities?

What have you discovered about the meanings of profanum, sacrum and twaklinium?

What are your responsibilities in relation to influence and control? 

What are your responsibilities in relation to daytime and nighttime?

What are your responsibilities in relation to knowledge and ignorance?

What are your responsibilities in relation to motivation and action?

What do you know about the career of Sebastian Brant?

What do you know about the character of Hanswurst and the scatology of Mozart?

What do you know about using real and fake magic to turn sorrow into joy?

What do you learn from the past about prejudices and injustices?

What have you been discovering in records of various sorts in relation to mysteries?

What have you been learning about political pleasantness, and from whose point of view?

What have you been learning about a global Mozarty Party, and how, and where?

How and where do you usually learn about worthiness?

What do you know about beliefs concerning false gods, true ones, classifications of demons, classifications of angels, classifications of political leaders, classifications of religious leaders, classifications of artistic persons, classifications of criminals and classifications of witches? 

Perhaps you do not have a fascination with classifications, even though many experiences in life are shaped by classism rather than fairy stories and classical music and justice.