What Is Myth Built Upon?

The only mode of development accessible to human awareness is the detection of connections among the things and objects with which the mind interacts.

This detection, traditionally called mapping, is essentially an act of creation: it is precisely by describing the surrounding world that the mind creates it for itself.

This means that the act of perception is an act of realizing the will toward awareness, and the primary source of this will is the Great Spirit’s striving for self-knowledge.

In other words, each time the mind describes the world — that is, sustains its Myth — it becomes the creator of that world. The degree of perfection of the mind is determined by how illusory the description it creates is — by the ratio, within this description, between objects generating energy and “empty” objects.

At the same time, since the creation and maintenance of Myth is, in essence, an act of will, like any realization it requires points of support.

It follows, in turn, that the effectiveness of the Description largely depends on how well the points of support for the Myth are chosen. The choice of the right support determines how fully a given Myth reflects the interaction of energies proceeding from their inner nature — and thus how capable this Myth is of helping to generate the Power of awareness.

The description of oneself, as part of the general description of the world, is likewise subject to this rule. The more adequately the mind describes the personalities discerned within it, the more energy it can generate — and thus the more “authentic” its bearer becomes.

So what can serve as a support for creating an effective Myth?

First of all — as we have said more than once — it is the degree of correspondence: the kinship of the categories used in the Myth with the categories with which the mind itself associates. In other words, the Myth a mind builds for itself must be maximally harmonious to the mind itself.

The force of attraction that exists between objects that harmonize with one another is usually called love.

Accordingly, love as a driving force is another reliable point of support for creating an effective Myth.

A Magus must clearly understand which key concepts of his Myth are the supports of that Myth, and which are merely secondary details.

And when battle confronts him with the necessity of renouncing some concept, the Magus must also know what he can continue his Way without, and without what his system will collapse.

In other words, it is very important to understand what, under what conditions, and for the sake of what a Magus can sacrifice.

An important art of the Magus is the ability to find within himself and around himself systems that generate energy, and to determine the connections among them — and each such system can also be used as a point of support.

To summarize, let us emphasize once again: a Magus striving to expand his mind must, above all, strive for the authenticity of his existence — that is, for the most effective possible translation of the binary of Powers. The fewer arbitrarily conditioned concepts his Myth includes, and the more opportunities this Myth provides for generating awareness, the more effective — and thus the more authentic — existence within it becomes.

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