The destructive darkness of the “anti-cosmos” and the engulfing, dissolving darkness of chaos differ in nature and in their mechanisms of influence on the “daytime” mind.
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Regardless of the terminology and imagery a particular practitioner uses, interaction with the Enlightening matrices is a necessary component of the Way and an integral part of any transcensus, any initiation that takes place with it.
To determine whether a given pull is a desire, and therefore whether it requires fulfillment, one must, first, find its roots (a desire is rooted in the depths of the mind, a need – in the body or personality, a whim – in transient fluctuations of the mind), second – determine its relation to the overall character of the mind’s development, and third – uncover its “evolutionary” prospect
In order to traverse the entire Way of Initiation — which the system of the Arcana is meant to ease and formalize — the student must first grasp the “static” aspect of the system’s existence: the “Major” Arcana; after mastering that, one may proceed to study the dynamics of the system — the “Minor” Arcana.
Every traveler must clearly understand that destruction, collapse, and downfall are utterly inevitable and necessary as part of the Way.
Moloch is the force of sacrificing one’s “original impulses”.
The Myth describes the primary duality of Mind and the Medium as two coequal properties of the One in the aspect of its manifestation.
To understand what “kind of destruction” a Magus is dealing with means either to accept that destruction as necessary (and perhaps even to facilitate it), or to oppose it.
The Divine Healer — Raphael — is the force of “transparency,” of the “health of currents,” manifesting both on the macro- and on the psychocosmic level as the system’s striving for self-control, self-protection, self-organization, and self-differentiation.
“Ministering” spirits, in their opposition, ensure the dynamic equilibrium of a system, yet they also hinder the integration of its component dualities.
By using the “adoption of divine forms” to evolve the mind, one can locate and objectify powerful ascending currents within oneself that transform the psychocosmos and accelerate its development manifold.
For the Magus, the level of his Luck is a consciously appreciable factor in his development. “Luck” for the Magus is not an inexplicable play of probability, but the result of a certain energy at work—an energy that can be assessed and measured and must be used according to its purpose.
The danger that destructive forces may be actualized — forces that can “awaken” in the Interworld when potential space comes into contact with the actual mind — is perfectly real.