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.
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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.
Concord — meaning the mutual strengthening of elements — is the primary sign of a system’s harmonious state. The measure of a system’s harmony is its symmetry: the mutual necessity of its elements.
One of the figures popular in modern mythology is a grim spirit that serves as the “sanitary orderlies” of incarnated worlds. The modern mind has grown accustomed to calling them “flyers,” following Latin American writers; their traditional name is Galla (Gallu), but I prefer the name S. King gave them — 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.
The honor of the Magus is his self‑identity; it is his acceptance of responsibility for his decisions and his fulfillment of the obligations he has undertaken. Such a state, first, is a manifestation of the Magus’s will and, second, a testament to and support of his integrity.
The Way ‘from theory to practice’ is usually far more effective, since it prevents the repetition of blind actions, unconscious waste of power, and ineffective influences so characteristic of novice ‘practitioners’ who squander vast amounts of power merely through misunderstanding.
It is necessary to warn all practitioners against such neglect, to remind them that there are no trifles: in a battle where a Magus’s soul and freedom are at stake, any one of these “trifles” can prove decisive.
The magical myth regards Power in two modifications — in the aspect of Vital and Personal Power (Meigin and Mattr). Unfortunately, these two kinds of power are very often confused, which prevents their effective use.
Understanding the full relativity of his account of the world, the Magus must strive to explain all phenomena on the basis of the system he has adopted.
For a Magus it is more effective to say not simply, “this is the truth,” but, “for me at this stage this is the truth,” thereby emphasizing this notion’s double dependence—on the person and on the stage of the Way.