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< Oh, how about just a grazing glance 'o the good 'ole Thelema?
A lot of attempts to sketch out meanings in a way that can reach another person end up having to be poetry. Most people are not confident enough to attempt the necessary poetry, since it's such a risk. On the other hand, it's so rewarding when it does come right and you see what someone else meant underneath their language and you can reach the concepts -- maybe they're not maps of the Ineffable, but shadows of it?
How else do you get the same semantic meaning on different wetware or hardware? Ship as source code! That's why traditions are passed down as rituals, or as specific instructions for meditation. Those are the equivalent of source in an imperative language. THOU SHALT. Music is a true human universal - everyone has the same reaction to the same pieces, in type if not in intensity. It's closer to the "native" data format, but because it's lower bandwidth than language or a visual medium, it can't pass on instructions as precisely. Call it assembly language.
oh, meaning
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come out, come out
rare-ever you are