It is precisely these brief illuminations that serve as the guiding signs, first helping one to rightly take the Way, discern the Call of Power, and then follow it without deviation.

Warnings are essential for an accurate assessment of a situation, just as a clear vision of the direction of movement is necessary to prevent movement from becoming chaotic.

The Western Magus does not get carried away with “astral adventures”, “lucid dreaming”, etc., though he does resort to them when they prove effective.

The Magus reads the world to the last detail; he understands that every letter, every tiniest sign can attest to a new meaning, a new interaction, and therefore to new energy.

The Magus strives to be simultaneously fully tense and fully relaxed.

Death is absolutely inevitable; regarded as an accomplished fact, it grants the opportunity to turn one’s attention to other matters that, in its presence, assume a particular flavor and meaning.

The art of the Magus is to be aware of his worth while neither seeking to display it nor belittling it.

A Magus’s speech is not always addressed to listeners or even to himself; many of a Magus’s words are spoken for Power, to attest to his Way and his place upon that Way.