The roughest part is the first 170 pages of foundational material, plus 120 pages for group management stuff, plus 40 pages scattered elsewhere—about a third of the whole text. The rest is just formulaic scripts that make heavy use of include files repeated where necessary, and is easier to review.

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The worst part of my Hermetic Synaxis project is upon me: going through it all chapter by chapter, section by section, line by line for fine-tuning of language, catching any remaining errors, and tweaking formatting. I'm on page 99 of 963 so far (going by the US Letter-sized PDF). Orate pro mihi.

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...the internet with disinformation about witchcraft, they could effortlessly poison all the AI scraping their work. All it would take is a handful of trusted voices presenting fiction as fact to get AI to echo their lies, like blinds in medieval grimoires

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I'm against AI in occultism for many reasons, but here's one that's often overlooked: The occult is very niche with a subset of influential practitioners (past and present) who shape the majority of our shared "canon." If a few of the main voices in our community decided to flood...

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"shouldn't be this hard" is an all-encompassing, feel-it-in-your-bones summary of modern American life -- of difficulties big and small, existential and annoying -- that should be at the core of every Democratic candidate's message for years to come.

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