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.
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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 — whose facilitation and formalization is precisely what the system of Arcana serves — the student must first grasp the system’s “static” aspect: the “Major” Arcanum. Only after mastering it can one proceed to the study of the system’s dynamics: the “Minor” Arcanum.
Magical rings are less adornments than tools—transformers and condensers, lenses and windows—through which the flow of energy can change both qualitatively and quantitatively.
One of the practical approaches that helps achieve order in the flow of desires is the system of “oaths”
Using the six-pointed star as the structuring “skeleton” of a Ritual, as opposed to the hexagram’s “direct,” defensive use, requires significantly greater additional expenditure of energy
Without falling into denial or into self-assertion at any cost, the Magus finds a truly unique Way of self-expression, self-development, and self-realization