Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orphan, a ten-year-old goatherd, when he was taken in by a Church of Scotland mission in Kiambu and treated for a spinal disease. The mission educated him, baptized him Johnstone Kamau. After this he learned carpentry, edited the first Kikuyu-language newspaper and studied black magic. "My grandfather was a seer and a magician," he later wrote, "and in traveling about with him and carrying his bag of equipment, I served a kind of apprenticeship in the principles of the art." In 1929 he was sent to London to present Kikuyu grievances to the British government. His view...
...named Peter, but abandoned both when he returned to Kenya in 1946. By then he was a powerful man among the million-strong Kikuyu. He formed the Kenya African Union and established schools in which the teaching was based on old Kikuyu tribal lore and customs, including black magic...
...have presented to us in the 30 years of your timely existence transcends in importance, and in an understandable analysis of a difficult subject . . . When our heads are knocked off, that may be an end of our dreaming. But for the moment, we out-Carroll Carroll in our "magic operations in the dreamworld...
...Gnostic societies and their leaders will recognize dangers to their existence when they develop, but such dangers will not be met by appropriate actions in the world of reality. They will rather be met by magic operations in the dream world, such as disapproval, moral condemnation, declarations of intention, resolutions, appeals to the opinion of mankind, branding of enemies as aggressors, outlawing of war, propaganda for world peace and world government...
...substitution of "magic operations in the dream world" for a politics of reality brought on World War II, which Winston Churchill, its great warrior, called "The Unnecessary War." Voegelin describes the process...