For the Magus, living amid a real environment of interacting Forces, it is crucial not to fall into stereotypes but to attempt to differentiate those Forces, which will help him become clearly aware of their character and sphere of action.
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It turns out that nothing makes a person as vulnerable and prone to the loss of Power as social interactions. And it is precisely this vulnerability that is very often exploited by the Parasites of mind to siphon off Power.
The idea and method of forming Magical Families throughout the entire history of Magic have been among the central cores of the Way of Power, and the importance of this core is hard to overestimate.
Despite the apparent differentiation of the pagan cosmovision, it turns out that such a multiplicity is actually closer to a Synthetic Unity than many monotheistic pictures of the world.
By the nature of their action, the forces governed by the gods are clearly divided into producing forces and forming forces.
Instead of seeking the “true” name of a ministering spirit, it is far more effective to choose the name or the manner of pronunciation that most precisely fits the planned operation — and it is this Name that will be “true” for that operation.
Since ancient times the Moon has evoked highly ambivalent feelings and attitudes in people: it inspires and moves some, oppresses others, and destabilizes everyone to some degree.
Since ancient times laughter has been credited not only with the power to increase vital forces but also with awakening them. Laughter was believed to possess the ability to rouse life in the most literal sense of the word. This applied both to human life and to the life of nature.
It is precisely consonance — the mutual reinforcement of elements — that is the chief sign of a system’s harmonious state. In fact, the measure of a system’s harmony is its coherence: the mutual interdependence of its elements.
One of the figures popular in contemporary mythology are the rather grim spirits who act as the “sanitarians” of embodied worlds and also “trigger” the process of disembodiment. Modern mind has grown accustomed to calling them “flyers” following Latin American writers; their traditional name is Galla (Gallu), and I prefer the name S. King gave them — the Langoliers.
On the one hand, in the effort to hasten passage through particular stages there is a risk of failing to extract their maximal Power, and on the other — by ‘forcing’ Power, one can become stuck in movement. Therefore it is precisely the choice of the right battle strategy that helps achieve a high effectiveness of movement.
At a certain stage in the development of the mind, further progress becomes possible only through the transmission of knowledge. In other words, one who has reached a certain level of development must become a Master.
In Magic the notion of the Passive milieu has a thoroughly practical meaning — it is precisely within it that the axes of realization are formed, and it is from it that the creative will of the Magus “moulds” the vortices that modify the cosmos.