Large Fierce Mammal

Back on Day 1, I laid before you some specific flavours of forbidden knowledge. I want to refresh your mind, Goode Reader, before we get too far gone, as is said.

To begin, there are historical practices, now treated as anachronistic in this self-crowned “enlightened” age …

“… There were, and are, cultures in the world for whom the very thought of announcing one’s real name would be anathema, all in the belief that the knowing of such an intimate thing would grant advantage to an adversary. It could make one vulnerable to sorcery, and must needs remain hidden at all costs….” ~ Worldly Wisdom Wednesday – The Power of a Name

And Truths you would be best advised to not so cavalierly cast into the dustbin of anachronism, for they may quietly present themselves in an event or spectacle near you …

“Black magic at its core, is just a form of weaponized psychology…. The psychology is in making the people watching it believe that it is beyond explanation.” ~ Ed’s Manifesto

As previously quoted here, when Miyamoto Musashi wrote in his Book of Five Rings …

“If you know something, you know something. If you do not know something, it does not exist in your world.” ~ Musashi, What You Don’t Know

He was not speaking literally. Rather, he was speaking of how such ignorance will affect one’s perceptions, thoughts, and actions — situations such as this, drawn from personal experience …

“Back in the September of 2013, Mrs. LFM and I dropped by the house of a Friend on the way back from a day canoe trip in the woods, and so I was openly wearing the usual bush gear with the likewise usual sharp and pointies …. there was a young woman visiting who had come with a man my Friend works with, and who was, let us say, young beyond her years. I recall that her name was Dominique, and I was soon to learn that she had embraced the implications of that moniker to a degree marvelous to behold.

“Upon being introduced to me for the very first time in her life, and sharing with me the status of invited guest in another Man’s home, this ever so young woman immediately and pointedly expressed her concern about my being “armed” … She wasn’t shocked or panic stricken you understand, just opinionated in a dangerously and rudely misguided sort of way. The whole thing was made all the more interesting considering the venue – my Friend has an extensive sword collection and has them prominently displayed all over his house….

“… I was game in the moment and I said, ‘So the simple visible presence of my safely sheathed knives bothers you. Let me ask you this; what if I’d come in wearing my favourite tweed dinner jacket, with all this still present but hidden underneath. Would that be better?’

“She replied, ‘Well, ignorance is bliss, right?’

“Ah Goode Reader! Never were words spoken that so perfectly encapsulate the incipient doom of society! For my part, after a derisive snort and a pause to sip the whisky my Friend had so generously placed in my hand, I replied, ‘No. Ignorance is most certainly NOT bliss.'” ~ Stupid is as Stupid Sees

All of which ties into this, already said but demanding of no end of reminders …

“And let it never be forgotten, Goode Reader, the most dangerous and insidious kind of forbidden knowledge — that which is self-forbidden and willfully eschewed.” ~ Dark Sentiments Season 7 – Day 1: Forbidden Knowledge

I will let those points marinate in your mind, Goode Reader. Until next time.