Anyone who sets foot on the Way of Magic must clearly understand that this Way is not a joyful and serene ascent “from perfection to perfection”, but a Way of constant, exhausting struggle.
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Mapping is by no means mere intellectualizing or a superfluous activity; on the contrary, it markedly increases the effectiveness of the Way by creating coordinate systems and thereby ordering the Psychocosmos, which in turn makes governing it easier.
The game is the primary form of existence of desire, since desire is valuable in itself, and its fulfillment leads to its disappearance.
For the Magus it is very important not to fall into either condemnation or indulgence, focusing attention on his own Way and those who share it with him.
In ritual, as in myth, the main thing is structure; the motives behind particular deeds are secondary to the actions themselves. Any action or text in a ritual takes on symbolic meaning.
Fenrir and Garm, Jormungand and Surtr — these are not only symbols of psychic processes; they are living agents that exist in the Psychocosmos as truly as their “Higher” analogues live in the Macrocosmos.
Monads can be regarded as the source of Will, Logoi — of Intelligence, and Vortices — of Feeling.
As soon as a person feels a sharp shift within — a change of mood, the arising of a desire, or, conversely, its fulfilment — they must immediately direct all their attention inward and prevent the Predators, so clearly visible at that moment, from participating in the reorganisation of the Psychocosmos.
The figure of the Thunderer is a component of the Great foundation of the cosmos, necessary for the separation and the union of Sky and Earth, since separation and union are two sides of the same process, the process of cosmization of chaos.
For the Magus it is important to know how to desire and to realize desires here and now. Therefore the Magi do not set “spiritual growth” as a goal, but strive for harmony here and now.
The basis for achieving effective realizations in Magic is considered to be the skill of forming intention—that is, the ability to create balanced programs which, being endowed with Power, lead to the attainment of the desired result.
Whenever we speak of a scenario for how a situation may develop, we must use probabilistic terms, since the choice at an actual branching point may differ from what was predicted
It is precisely the periodic return of matter to the primal substance that makes the development of Spirit possible.