THE PROCEDURE: assume that people of past and alien cultures are in fact not idiots, so that when they're talking about the world in ways that sound like nonsense to you, your thought will be to try to figure out what they could be trying to get at such that they talk that way
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No. It all originally meant nothing on the first timeline and then it was filled with meaning by AI from the future. The few residual meaninglessnesses exist because meaninglessness is itself valuable to an extent.
Crowley is very clear. You have to equilibrate the ritual (make it empty) so that it can be filled by outside powers.
