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If the mind is oriented toward a swift release from the cycle of lives, ready to renounce all its comforts and attachments, it will find the scheme of the Bardo Todol more useful.
Complete and most successful passage through the afterlife according to the map of each of the “Books” means the mind’s transition into the boundlessness and the unconditioned nature of the absolute spirit.
The essence of the transformation to be accomplished is precisely the “purification” of anger, the removal from it of all destructive and ruinous content, and its conversion into “pure repulsion”.
We are the product of the relation between our realized and unrealized desires; we are the result of the interaction of our nature, our realizations, and our shadow.
The revolutionary Way of the development of the mind has always been a very narrow trail that only a few could walk; this Way was never and could not be a mass path, since it required enormous will and was bound up with incredible difficulties and dangers.
Most Rituals of Magic either open or close particular Gates, acting as additional mechanisms that regulate the flows of energies.
Whatever the Magus does — appeals to the gods, summons demons, carves Runes or chants spells — he does it from his fullness, without falling into the cycle of action or into numbing stillness.
Magic is a worldview describing the existence of manifested being and the methods of effective action/awareness within that being, and Power is the capacity for manifestation, that which renders the potential actual.
Recognizing freedom as the highest value means granting each individual stream the right to determine its own boundaries.
The magical strategy consists in learning to find and realize those interactions that lead to maximally expansive and harmonizing changes in the flow of mind.
For the Magus it is equally important to find a balance in satisfying his needs, to recognize and neutralize whims in time, and, of course, to perceive and support the unfolding realization of a budding desire.
Describing the forces and principles that the mind encounters on its path of development, and thus distinguishing those principles, makes it possible to structure awareness, to render its self‑definition orderly, and therefore to avoid the “runaways” and distortions that are inevitable when one moves by feel.