No matter how strong the faith, with an imperfect intention there will be no magical effect; conversely, when the intention is impeccable, unbelief will not diminish its effectiveness.
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The chief obstacle on the path of this development is overestimating one’s resources — the imitation of possessing something, which removes the very incentive to attain it.
Even the “benign” use of iron is fraught with the risk of its power running out of control — the cruelty of the fiery depths is simply too great, its thirst for hot blood too strong — blood flowing through iron and from beneath iron.
The image of the Great Dark Mother, who gave birth to demons and to the World Serpent himself, has been familiar to humanity since ancient times.
Despite its elusiveness, the soul is a rather fragile substance that requires constant attention and care.
Everything humans attain only by balancing their dominant principle with a binary one is given to the Fair Folk “from birth.”
Passing through the Kolo of Svarog carries the mind through the heights and depths of the Psychocosm, engendering in it the possibility and desire for creative activity.
Only a heart open to selfless love, only honesty with oneself and transparency of mind banish the demon of lust.
The Magus saddles a dragon — he does not renounce the elemental forces; he brings them under his control.
The whole question is what is closer to a particular person — to develop the mind or its Conductor, to live in an infinitely deep world, or in a multiplicity of worlds.
The Heptameron does not depart from the general line of Grimoires in the Solomonic cycle, and there are no grounds to consider it more “luminous” than, for example, the “Lemegeton.”
Magi who seek to minimize Lamassu’s influence on the Psychocosmos have developed numerous strategies aimed at detecting and expelling the Parasite of mind.
The hexadic nature of each principle from the standpoint of the Futhark opens additional pathways for operating within the principles themselves, for interacting with the Primary Elements that compose those principles, and thus for ordering one’s own composition.