Where did proxies come from?

  • WeAreThe801
    Participant

    Here’s a question for the UA creators as well as anyone else “in the know:” aside from generalized notions of sympathetic magic, does the UA concept of proxies have any kind of occult-historical precedences? If so, what, where, who, how?

    — signed, a vidiot who unwisely choose Lost as his focus.

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  • CriticalFault
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    Well speaking from a strictly metaphysical ideal on the topic its nothing more than enforcing a sympathized suggestion. Convincing the universe that your proxy is enough of you to be counted when the magick hits the fan so to speak.

    Think of magick as electricity. Follows the path of least resistance carrying its goal. Proxying is forging a new path that is hopfully more conductive than you are. >=)

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  • F.A.R.
    Participant

    Although I don’t know the origins, it’s a fairly common idea – Harry Potter and Voldemort seem to be accidental proxies, for instance (or perhaps intentional proxies if, as some far-too-intense fans speculate, Harry is a horcrux – but that would cause huge logistics issues and is thus nearly untenable). Many other fantasy novels that involve scrying use proxy-like techniques (name anagrams, family members) to foil that magic.

    Hell, it’s not too far from strapping something that smells like you to a moving object to foil hound dogs.

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