The Magus does not hope, not because he is indifferent to the outcome, but because he is simply immersed in his action and in the awareness of that action.
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The high degree of order required for effective development must permeate the Magus’s entire existence.
The Magus must act, and his actions must be conscious. The Magus must immerse himself inwardly, but these immersions must not be a cover for laziness and arrested development.
“The contents of our mind” is the aggregate of all reflections of the energies of the Macrocosm in the Psychocosm, as well as the aggregate of descriptions, interpretations, and impressions of those energies.
The Magus seeks to realize his will; the Magus is focused on his own development, and in that—his egoism.
Only by understanding that even in the most complete absence of constraints there is a limitation inherent in that absence can we “go where we do not know, to find what we do not know.”
A Magus’s sacrifice is, strictly speaking, not deprivation, not renunciation, and certainly not suffering. A Magus’s sacrifice is a free and natural transformation of resources.
Actions are secondary to this state; it is not actions that generate the Way, but the Way that generates the actions it requires.
Upon entering the Middle Way, the Magus must understand clearly that this is not a path of relaxed repose; it is a path of intensity and tension, of ceaseless battles and overcoming.
The more frequently and to a greater degree the mind is present in being, the higher the degree of their mutual actualization, the closer they are to their source, the fewer the fetters of illusion, and the weaker the power of destructive forces.
Any authority, any teaching, any energy must be accepted only after analysis and only insofar as it corresponds to the individual tasks and the Way of the given being
Control implies influence over the emergence of the impulse, and effective magical existence is not possible merely by redirecting existing currents
The state of control is achieved by establishing a connection with that higher level — with the Logos of the being.