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We have said many times that at a certain stage in the development of the Magus’s self-awareness he confronts the obvious fact of the falsity of the world’s ordering, the error of the basic principles of the worldview, and the inauthenticity of the motives for existence within that picture. At this moment the Magus experiences a kind of “midlife crisis,” but far more serious, often accompanied by illness and depression, and leading to an irreversible change in his mind.
Most schools and teachings regard the possession of free will as the most important distinction of a human being.
We have already said that, for the Magi, “will” signifies the capacity to create stable vectors of desire. But what, then, is its freedom?
While acknowledging the transcendent reality of the Absolute, the Most High, the pagan does not seek contact with it, nor attempt to describe its properties and manifestations; instead he directs his mystical feeling toward the concrete agents of that transcendental Will—the gods.
The Vertical Flow, comprising both descending and ascending currents of force, has several symbols; the best known among them is the image of the Chariot of the Most High — the Merkabah (Heb. מֶרְכָּבָה, “chariot”).
