However elevated a state of mind may be, so long as it is confined within its own horizons, even if those horizons seem impossibly vast, we are not speaking of liberation.
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For a Magus striving to constructively actualize both forces — attraction and repulsion — and to avoid becoming dependent on either, it is vitally important to evade the traps of acceptance and rejection.
By using speech correctly in the form of incantations, mantras, vis, the Magus structures both the macrocosm and the psychocosm
The transformation of the duodecimal system of Gilgul’s “self-enclosure” into the duodecimal process of the Great Doing is a direct consequence of a clear understanding of this system.
The destructive darkness of the “anti-cosmos” and the engulfing, dissolving darkness of chaos differ in nature and in their mechanisms of influence on the “daytime” mind.
Regardless of the terminology and imagery a particular practitioner uses, interaction with the Enlightening matrices is a necessary component of the Way and an integral part of any transcensus, any initiation that takes place with it.
The Way to development does not lie through the suppression of impulses, but through their realization, identification, and analysis, which subsequently leads to control over their emergence at the moment of germination by controlling states of mind.
The understanding of poetry’s power as the art of embodying logoi underpins many transformational processes in worlds “far from Magic.” In practice, truly inspired poets are often more successful realizational Magi than arid occultists who cannot achieve such creative manifestation.
The transition of the mind from the “ordinary” to the “magical” (or, more broadly, the traditionally spiritual) worldview is not merely a rebellion, not simply a confrontation or an attempt to find greater personal value; it is a real revolution, a complete rupture with existing templates and matrices and their replacement by fundamentally different ones.
Only by harmoniously and consistently combining the two traditional approaches (“solve” and “coagula”, purification and realization) can one truly “exhaust” the gilgul, realize the potentials of the mind, and thereby go beyond the necessity of manifested existence (as well as beyond the prohibition against it).
To determine whether a given pull is a desire, and therefore whether it requires fulfillment, one must, first, find its roots (a desire is rooted in the depths of the mind, a need – in the body or personality, a whim – in transient fluctuations of the mind), second – determine its relation to the overall character of the mind’s development, and third – uncover its “evolutionary” prospect
Integration, that is — unification and transcendence, allows one truly to neutralize duality, remove its limiting influences, and thus to attain the purpose of manifested existence.
In order to traverse the entire Way of Initiation — which the system of the Arcana is meant to ease and formalize — the student must first grasp the “static” aspect of the system’s existence: the “Major” Arcana; after mastering that, one may proceed to study the dynamics of the system — the “Minor” Arcana.