For the Way to become natural, one must first study it long and hard; and to understand that the Way was never lost, one must first search for it long and hard.
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Only when the mind stops fleeing from presence, stops narrowing its field and striving to limit itself, to “forget itself,” does it find the keys to its nature — the nature of active presence, active creativity, active awareness.
Just as the blissful reliance on materiality as the source of goods and pleasures is a dead end and leads only to the accumulation of empty experience, taking pleasure in negation drives one toward destruction and self-fixation.
It can be said that any successful Magus is a goetic Magus, even if the Lemegeton is not his reference book.
Responsibility for the Magus is not merely a pretty word, nor even a desirable positive quality; for him it is a direct condition of both his own survival and the safety of those around him.
In realizing himself in action, the Magus does not relinquish the inward orientation of his self-reflection, otherwise he risks losing his balance and falling into empty activity; and when withdrawing into himself he does not forget the necessity of self-knowledge in action, otherwise he loses the meaning of his individuality.
The Magus does not identify himself with the personalities and subpersonalities that flow one into another, nor does he deny them; he watches the play, sinks into his undifferentiated depth and reappears on the surface, avoiding both absolutism and nihilism.
Magic is the Way of developing the mind through actions, a Way of transformation and transmutation that runs through ordering, the interaction of the minding part with objects of awareness.
An individual knowable aspect becomes available to cognition only when it manifests itself, and the mode of such manifestation is interaction with other such aspects
Magic is, above all, the Way of the development of mind, and when we speak of the “growth of Power” we must be clear that we mean precisely Power — awareness — not merely the accumulation of energetic potential.
The Demon “breaks down walls”, erasing the boundary between “property”, that is—the actualized reality—of different beings.
Veelzevul’s influence on the mind consists in the dissolution of hierarchy, the mingling of feelings and emotions, and their interweaving with whims, caprices and passions.
The Magus, on the one hand, creates the road beneath his feet, and on the other—strives not to leave traces upon it, breathing reality to the full but not becoming its slave.
