The main lesson for every Magus in this story should be the confidence that he is capable of creating his own viable Myth and acting within it — in the case that none of the existing Myths satisfy his individuality.
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The Magus’s impeccability lies in continuing to move forward, even while convinced of its futility.
The task of the magus is to go firmly and unfalteringly along his Way, not turning aside toward either blissful idiocy or petty, swaggering brawls.
The Magus persistently and purposefully cultivates something constant behind the masks: his selfhood.
Only by cultivating sincere feelings within himself, without fearing to confront his own fears and limitations, and only by widening his outlook and his tolerance, the Magus finds himself in that awakened state so essential to his development.
Within the category of will the process occurs whereby individuality is unveiled and creatively conjoined with the world‑process in its most general sense.
When you engage with Runic vectors, you must try to grasp their first principle: the most general description of the guiding force they express.
A Magus’s actions must be highly ordered and highly adequate to his way of describing the Cosmos, and the greater that adequacy, the greater both the effectiveness of his actions and the expansion of awareness — the Magus’s self-realization.
For a Magus it is vitally important to control his imagination and avoid emotionally charged modeling of situations if he truly strives for the effective realization of his will.
A Magus not only does not condemn systems of describing reality different from his own; he clearly understands that his own system is no more than one among many possible variants
A Magus’s gaze must constantly and purposefully seek manifestations of power around him, and, at the slightest sign of Power, the Magus must rush headlong in that direction.
It is essential to understand clearly that all the principal “friends” and “enemies” of the personality dwell precisely in the Psychocosmos.
The language of vis is not simply whimsical poetic refinement; it is also concrete magical operations aimed at isolating the necessary aspects of a Power and manipulating those aspects.