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.
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What the Magus does is directed toward the disclosure and actualization of essential aspects of his mind, the manifestation of his individuality, and the development of 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.
Physical reality is objective insofar as the very existence of the human being is objective, and final insofar as his incarnation is final.
Understanding and finding the “ideal state”—the Logos of a system—permits the system’s potentials to be actualized as quickly and efficiently as possible, and thus reduces its tension and dissatisfaction.
The breadth of the Runic gaze — its inspiration — is an essential condition for the successful application of the Runes, both for transforming the world and for transforming the mind of the eril; and one is impossible without the other.
The Magus must unite, upon their Way, creativity and purification — divestment and replenishment.
The Magus is that which he must be by his nature — an individual unit of the World-process, neither a “cog in the system” nor the “navel of the earth,” but the Great Spirit in one of the infinite number of Its aspects — no less than infinity and no greater than a point.
Tension — the incandescence that is a property of the primordial fiery nature of the mind — does not tire the mind; on the contrary, it is equilibrated for it, and what proves tiring is the withdrawal from it — the cooling and relaxation of the mind.