Discipline is the effort to filter the motives of action — to separate one’s own motives from those imposed by predators and intended to make one lose power.
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Ceasing to struggle may seem like an act of weakness, but in fact this “weakness” is the Way to Power.
The individual mind is surrounded by an entire spectrum of elements attuned to it: the higher minds of the Keepers, the attuned minds of its Family, and sometimes even the minds of parallel beings.
For the Magus the “Higher Soul” is not an object of cult, not an object of desire; it is one of the participants in the great game, no more privileged than the “lower” personality, which is both its creator and its creation.
The Abramelin system can be very effective for those to whom it suits, and that is its chief value — broadening the repertoire of ways to enact one’s power.
The alchemist who produces the Philosopher’s Stone also attains the Elixir of Life.
Although the primary purpose of Aegis-helms is active protection, it is believed that these signs can be created for any purpose.
The first manifestation of activity set the Ice in motion; its second manifestation gave rise to proto-life — the Jotuns; and the third found expression in the gods — bearers of mind and creative power.
Pagan priests never claimed that “truth” was more accessible to them than to ordinary people; their status was determined simply by their knowledge of what was “pleasing” and what was “not pleasing” to a given deity, and this knowledge made contact with the deity easier.
As soon as the mind moves beyond causal orientation, it may be said to enter a state of dreaming.
For the Magus, restraining oneself is completely unacceptable, and manifestations “let through” at the stage of arising must be carried through to completion, while it is precisely this “stage of arising” that is the object of the most attentive scrutiny
Only by concentrating on one’s personal battle can one hope not only to win oneself, but also to help those beside one to win.
Active crossing of the Threshold, overcoming it as an obstacle, leads to an increase in the Magus’s power; therefore for him the Threshold is a necessary means on the Way to power.