The Way of individual development includes three stages: awareness of imperfection, improvement, and reintegration, corresponding to the separation, perfection, and reunification of the aspects of the One.
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A clear understanding of which of the forces involved in a process are dividing and which are unifying is one of the factors that shapes the correct vector of that action.
The Way is a systematic, ordered, and directed development in which one step logically and inevitably follows from the previous and likewise logically and inevitably leads to the next.
However successful the activity of actualizing being may be, the mind must above all rely on itself, using the Environment as the field in which to manifest its will.
The cause and motive of the mind’s development is its striving to overcome the limits and frames in which it perceives itself.
The Magus’s art is, first and foremost, the selection of the right causes that lead to the right effects. Without that he only becomes further entangled in the cycle of gilgul.
If one can correctly determine which action has “come into its time,” performing that action—even without any special intention to make it “enlightening” or “developmental”—will most effectively promote enlightenment and development.
What the Magus does is directed toward revealing and actualizing the essential aspects of his mind, manifesting his individuality, and developing awareness.
Power can be defined as the result of an “awareness of being” that leads to the possibility of structured and purposeful activity within that being.
One can resist Paimon by cultivating the right attitude to the physical world and its resources: seeing them as the environment in which the mind develops, an environment important yet secondary to spirit, something not to be neglected but equally not to be idealized.
The Magus strives for mastery, not because being a “master” is important to him, but because any undertaking must be completed, any task finished, and responsibility must be accepted for every accomplishment.
One of the Magus’s important tasks is to attain a state of “indestructibility” of his mind. The Magus makes his mind whole, unified, integral, and therefore strong and unbreakable.
Under the sway of this demon a person absolutizes the value of experience, rejects all that is new and unusual, forcing it into the Procrustean bed of old templates.