The world of the Magus is not “black-and-white”; it is simultaneously and wholly both black and white. The Magus is a maximalist in the strictest sense of the word.
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A mind striving for accelerated evolution, depending on its individual characteristics and level of awareness, most often attempts to proceed either along the “Right” Column, the Column of Holiness, or along the Left Column of Severity.
For a Magus it is vitally important not only to discover his strengths, but also the gaps in his development; not only to cultivate what obviously seeks growth, but also to work on “illuminating” the depths of his mind.
The Magus is “in his place,” in his natural state, when he understands that within himself are Choshekh, Pleroma, and Logos.
The world is flows of probabilities, and every action alters the membership of the self in one or another flow, in one or another chain of cause and effect.
The Magus is a creator whose aims are both creation and creativity.
The development of the magus as an integrated being must include both elements — the cultivation of his “essential” component, that is, training in action; and, on the other hand, the development of his “knowing” level — that is, training in awareness.
The description and mapping of mind — the discovery of its dead ends and the doors opened within it for development — are among the most important actions that mind must undertake.
Being is justified not by what or how a person acts, not by how they look or what they think, but by how fully they are aware of their unique way of knowing the world.
“An overreach into the one-sided assertion of ‘perfection’ threatens to halt development; falling into the feeling of ‘growth’ and ‘acquisition’ leads to degradation.”
Schools and Lines, from time immemorial developing their strategies for the development and cleansing of mind, have elaborated two principal approaches to confronting greed.
By doing what is necessary, the Magus passes his Way with ease; and the Unicorn — bearing his mind through dark forests and the bogs of material attachments — proves an invaluable aid in overcoming self-interest, envy, and jealousy.
Travelers very often learn to receive—to take—but do not give due attention to developing their reflecting, giving capacity.