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Kabbalah was and remains an urban teaching, oriented toward people who live removed from the forces of nature and who draw inspiration from the higher transcendental worlds.
From the standpoint of Magic, it is entirely possible to apply ideas and approaches drawn from different—even unrelated—sources, but only on one condition: that these ideas find harmonious coexistence in the personality of the Magus himself.
The idea of “spiritual purity” is highly popular both among religious fanatics and among those striving for the greatness of the “Enlightened”.
People often conclude that any being is doomed to absolute, transcendental solitude and cannot in principle be understood by any other being. How justified is this conclusion?
We have repeatedly noted the exceptional role gods play in magically oriented mythology: those who bind the threads of life, who steward plants and animals, and who channel the Great Flow of Power into the backwaters of specifically embodied entities.
Among the Radiant figures who uphold the foundations of the Cosmos, the figure of the Great Guardian, the Mighty Earth God, occupies a central place in every mythology.
Though he is rarely at the head of any people’s pantheon, this God has nonetheless always enjoyed exceptional veneration as the Lord of life and death.
Magic begins with overcoming the fear of facing oneself.
And that fear is not accidental. If one peers into the depths of oneself, one can discern an alien, malicious and treacherous being hiding there.
Where did it come from?
We have already said that Pagan myth accepts as the primordial basis of the cosmos the Supreme Biner — the Great Father and the Great Mother — who issued from the Depths of the Most High to effect the process of creation. At the first stage they remain undivided (Ymir, Rod), and it is precisely Their separation that creates the difference of potentials driving the World Process.
We have already said that the Magi understand power as the ability to realize one’s will. This ability is traditionally regarded as depending on two elements: the Power of Manifestation (or the so‑called “Life Force”), which determines physical health and the capacity for physical realizations and achievements, and the Power of Awareness (or the so‑called “Personal Power”), which determines the capacity for understanding and awareness—and therefore the application of knowledge.
The alphabetic system that emerged after the Departure of the Fairies into the Sid in the British Isles was Ogham. Although the earliest Ogham inscriptions date to the fourth century, the system probably goes back to much earlier times; nevertheless it was for a long period scarcely used for writing — indeed, the vast majority of Ogham inscriptions are funerary: epitaphs and sometimes fragments of spells.
Although Runes as a realizational-magical instrument possess considerable power, they, like all that is embodied, have limits to their capabilities.
In our conversations about the Runes we have repeatedly noted that Runes are a symbolic expression of flows of Power.
I would now like to draw attention to the fact that any Flow can be considered in two ways: on the one hand as a vector with definite coordinates and length, and on the other as the content of that flow, its inner current.