If the mind is oriented toward a swift release from the cycle of lives, ready to renounce all its comforts and attachments, it will find the scheme of the Bardo Todol more useful.
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Myth
Complete and most successful passage through the afterlife according to the map of each of the “Books” means the mind’s transition into the boundlessness and the unconditioned nature of the absolute spirit.
The essence of the transformation to be accomplished is precisely the “purification” of anger, the removal from it of all destructive and ruinous content, and its conversion into “pure repulsion”.
The revolutionary Way of the development of the mind has always been a very narrow trail that only a few could walk; this Way was never and could not be a mass path, since it required enormous will and was bound up with incredible difficulties and dangers.
Whatever the Magus does — appeals to the gods, summons demons, carves Runes or chants spells — he does it from his fullness, without falling into the cycle of action or into numbing stillness.
Magic is a worldview describing the existence of manifested being and the methods of effective action/awareness within that being, and Power is the capacity for manifestation, that which renders the potential actual.
Describing the forces and principles that the mind encounters on its path of development, and thus distinguishing those principles, makes it possible to structure awareness, to render its self‑definition orderly, and therefore to avoid the “runaways” and distortions that are inevitable when one moves by feel.
The mind’s ability to correctly “name” is directly proportional to its “creative capacities”, and “knowledge of names”, identical to “knowledge of the Logoi”, is, in fact, a measure of magical Authority
All inhabitants of the psychocosmos – Keepers, Demons, Predators, Parasites, idams – can be regarded as matrices comprising assemblages of individual Me of lower order.
Only when the Magus has undergone and awakened Power within himself, and has undergone and realized Love within himself, can he integrate them into a unity and attain the Great Perfection of the pleroma.
The “strikes” of predators, coming one after another, steadily and tirelessly, pose a constant threat even to experienced travelers, since in this struggle there is always the danger of “burning” one part of one’s soul after another
The Magus must not merely become aware of unity, nor even simply see it; the Magus must also awaken his heart, find within himself a living source of love and compassion.
Consideration of the involution of the Spirit, which receives so much attention in Kabbalistic literature, is indeed extremely useful from both worldview and practical standpoints.