When properly made, a Rune sign—especially a composite one—can become an unsurpassed aid on the Way, helping to hierarchize and “cosmize” the Psychocosmos, to order it and to steer the forces flowing within it along specific vectors.
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Being an embodiment of movement, of realization, the Western Magus is alien to stopping and repose; for him movement is always better than stopping. Therefore he prefers moving backward — to stagnation, to a dead end — when that dead end is truly insurmountable at his current stage of development.
The events of Rituals of the Rift occur outside their participants: for the operator the field of activity is the crossing of the Rift by the other participants, while for the participants the Power that helps them cross the Threshold issues from another mind — the operator’s mind.
Situations in which an effective Magus cannot do without forming ties reduce to three cases – 1) monadic kinship; 2) the need to close the Chain; and 3) debt obligations.
Which way to choose — to return to gilgul, to linger in the elements, to enter a stone or a tree — is decided by each Family, each Magus on the threshold of their Last Battle. And that choice in any case deserves respect — respect for the spirit of the warrior.
Magical Chains are aimed precisely at opening up for their participants the possibility of accumulating Power; to this end they give those participants pushes in the form of a Loan of Power, passed further along the chain, sustaining the life of that chain and bringing its participants to new levels of development.
The Tetractys (or the “Sacred Pyramid”) embodies a vivid form of the Universe’s wholeness, which progresses from its unity toward the multiplicity of the material world.
Inspiration is a state in which the leading role belongs to the personality itself, inducing the flow of Power, whereas obsession is a situation in which the personality finds itself in a subordinate, led condition, playing by someone else’s rules and being used as a source of Power.
Having set a goal and formed the intention to achieve it, the Magus ceases to dwell on it and plunges into action. That is why verbs are more important to the Magus than nouns: he lives by action, by movement, by the Flow of Power.
Even missing such a chance at a point of no return does not imply a return; it also constitutes a definite choice and therefore has definite consequences. In other words, even by avoiding a choice, a person makes a choice.
In a number of cases the primary goals change, and they can even be aimed at a conscious relinquishment of some amount of Power — and this is not about an “exchange” or any other “commercial” relationship.
Only if the Wayfarer constantly and thoroughly checks himself—his thoughts and actions—for their “magical” quality, and checks the “practices” for harmony and conformity with his Way, does he have a chance to win the battles that fate has prepared for him and to realize his Orlög.
For the Magus the world is not entirely real, but it is not merely illusory either. Magic proceeds from the fact that all we perceive is a product of description; yet that description is not erroneous — it is based on the potencies of reality, although it is usually distorted by alien influences on the mind.