I am deeply convinced that it is comprehensive training that can turn a person into a Magus, and moreover I stand behind every word I have written, because each of them has been tested by my personal experience.
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By origin, “chara” is a deverbal noun from kēra (to do, to practise sorcery), and the vessel came to be called thus later, probably precisely as a result of its corresponding use.
The dissolution of the seeker’s being is a necessary stage in his transformation into a Magus, and it is precisely the attainment of control over the energy of dissolution—its balancing by the energy of coagulation—that is a necessary condition for achieving one’s wholeness.
For a practitioner who doubts his theoretical grounding, it is more effective to choose Sound-based incantations; for a practitioner who struggles to reproduce complex phonemes — Meaning-based incantations.
The Power that truly made the soul of the ancient Greek tremble, filling it with mystical awe, was Dionysus — a god almost forgotten in modern times, reduced to the patron of winemaking.
The peculiarity of Kabbalah as it exists today lies precisely in its fusion of the pantheistic constructions of Neoplatonism and the mythic motifs of Gnosticism with the Jewish faith in the Bible as a world of symbols.
For Magi it is obvious that, although any illness can be regarded as an alien intrusion, this does not mean that one should fight it only by directly contacting the spirits that caused it.
The Gnostic god Abraxas expresses the creative will of the Absolute, permeating the Cosmos, the world’s sharp striving for existence.
Gods do not tolerate frivolous dealings; their power is so great that, even without hostile intent, it can wound the psyche and even a person’s physical conduits simply by virtue of its disproportion.
In his ‘Book of Spirits’ the Magus records the names, seals, and other particulars of the spirits he has succeeded in contacting.
The art of translating objects and situations from potential existence into actuality through the application of the operator’s will was regarded as key to attaining Power and Wisdom.
There are many documented cases in which directors or staff of reserves that include Places of Power began jealously guarding those sites against all visitors; similar situations have occurred with museum personnel who handled magical artifacts.
For the ancient person, the gods were a living objective reality not because he lacked any notion of Jungian psychology, but because he understood the principle of analogies that underlies manifestation.