“Not enough desire” most often means “not enough understanding.”
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Observations
Laziness, as a manifestation of failing to see the value of action, is a true scourge of our age; it is precisely pervasive indifference—suppressed and withered drives—that creates the principal “food base” for Demons of every sort and caliber.
Not only does each action by itself lead either to the evolution or the degradation of the flow of mind, but every product of that action must also be judged from this perspective.
Discipline and practice, as the two components of the Way, are directed toward the “return” of the mind to its original purposes and the meaning of its manifestation.
The problem is a reduction in the mobility of the ruach, a loss of the “fluidity” of mind; there is little difference whether mind becomes mired in problems and suffering or “gets stuck” in “positive thinking”—in either case mobility is disrupted and the natural nature of mind is constrained.
The Western Way is the Way of liberation through exhaustion, that is — the identification and actualization of the “root” potentials of this stream of awareness
However elevated a state of mind may be, so long as it is confined within its own horizons, even if those horizons seem impossibly vast, we are not speaking of liberation.
For a Magus striving to constructively actualize both forces — attraction and repulsion — and to avoid becoming dependent on either, it is vitally important to evade the traps of acceptance and rejection.
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.
The understanding of poetry’s power as the art of embodying logoi underpins many transformational processes in worlds “far from Magic.” In practice, truly inspired poets are often more successful realizational Magi than arid occultists who cannot achieve such creative manifestation.
The transition of the mind from the “ordinary” to the “magical” (or, more broadly, the traditionally spiritual) worldview is not merely a rebellion, not simply a confrontation or an attempt to find greater personal value; it is a real revolution, a complete rupture with existing templates and matrices and their replacement by fundamentally different ones.
Only by harmoniously and consistently combining the two traditional approaches (“solve” and “coagula”, purification and realization) can one truly “exhaust” the gilgul, realize the potentials of the mind, and thereby go beyond the necessity of manifested existence (as well as beyond the prohibition against 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