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Alongside the well-known and indisputable wisdom of the druids, the literature about them often contains indications—almost bashful hints—of human sacrifices practiced by them.
It is well known that the druids and the religion they represented had, by the beginning of the 1st century CE, become the target of successive measures of suppression carried out by the Roman authorities.
The Way of the Magus is the Way of mastering Power and mastering oneself. The chief consequence of accumulating Power is precisely the gaining of independence, control over oneself, and the end of existing as a victim.
From this arise two approaches, each of which calls itself “Magic”.
Among people there are those who appear very devout, whole in their “spotlessness,” radiating light and anointing, yet prove to be black and cold within. There are also people who do not display piety and righteousness, yet are filled with a light not apparent to everyone.
The Magus, step by step, frees himself from the destructors that enslave his mind and gains the ability to reduce losses of Power.
In the modern world, ideas about the dreaming body, the “astral” body and the “etheric double” regrettably remain at the level of the century before last, with its vulgar mediumism à la Cagliostro, muddled and lacking clarity.
One can only hope that dedicated groups seriously studying and applying this phenomenon will bring some order to the confusion.
All ancient cultures of the world, in the fragments of knowledge that have reached us, speak of astonishing beings that come to people’s aid and often save their lives. Animal Powers were regarded as extremely useful to people, who greatly need that direct, unmediated, absolute connection with the Universality of Life that animals possess.
The fundamental difference between the early and later attitudes toward the world’s duality is evident: over time the polarization acquires a strongly felt emotional coloring — a positive attitude toward Light and a negative one toward Darkness. Apparently this shift reflects processes that took place in humanity’s awareness of the world-process, its origins and purposes.
Although the picture of the world is fairly stable, from time to time fluctuations arise in it, and it trembles and thins. It is at those moments that its provisional nature is revealed and another reality peers through the attenuated veil.
At the same time, there are far more examples of people who, having abandoned the support of Traditions, ended up nowhere, having accumulated nothing but overweening self-conceit.
Magical traditions of different eras and peoples clearly understood the importance of Power in both magical and everyday life. Naturally, the question arose: how does one increase the level of Power?
There are several fundamentally important answers to this question.
There is probably no other question that has provoked such heated debate and elicited so many polarized answers as the question of how sexual energies interact with Magic and “spirituality.” Some staunchly defend the necessity of celibacy, or at least abstinence, for Magi; others, on the contrary, insist on the necessity of using sexual energies in Magic.
Modern mass mind has been conditioned to the belief that plants are entirely friendly to humans and that medicines derived from them are far better and more beneficial than synthetic ones.
The study of Dreaming has become very popular thanks to a vogue for Latin American writers who introduced the Western world to indigenous notions of trance visions.