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.
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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.
By offering no concessions, the Master steels the student’s spirit, preparing him for real battles in which the stakes are higher than life.
Using a sephirothic spread of the Arcana in accordance with the current situation, and skillfully swapping cards within that spread, the operator is capable of quite effectively changing situations in the desired direction.
The soul is understood as the product of the spirit’s action upon the body, “ensouled matter,” which arises as a potentiality at the very beginning of creation, and, as the potentials of the monads are realized, grows.