Most Rituals of Magic either open or close particular Gates, acting as additional mechanisms that regulate the flows of energies.
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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 is to learn to find and realize those interactions that bring about the most expansive and harmonizing changes in the current 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.
The mind’s ability to correctly “name” is directly proportional to its “creative capacities”, and “knowledge of names”, identical to “knowledge of the Logoi”, is, in fact, a measure of magical Authority
The mind must strive to overcome the multiplicity of its manifestations, toward unidirectionality and precise focus, without which the depth of the mind’s penetration into being will be insufficient for their integration
We are real to the extent—and in those respects—in which will manifests, as an instrument of realization, as the cause of reality.
For the Way to become natural, one must first study it long and hard; and to understand that the Way was never lost, one must first search for it long and hard.
The mind must find the strength to abandon the habit of sheltering behind the walls of illusory harmony; it must stand face to face with itself and the world, and find balance not by ignoring but by integrating all opposites.
Only when the mind stops fleeing from presence, stops narrowing its field and striving to limit itself, to “forget itself,” does it find the keys to its nature — the nature of active presence, active creativity, active awareness.