People have always intuitively felt the dualism of Power: it is a vortex, and yet it is a Flow. It is cyclical, and at the same time always directed.
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The notion that every event has a kind of introduction, a prelude manifesting in the world and open to observation, goes back to hoary antiquity.
The very debate over the authenticity of such sources draws wide attention to the revival (or reconstruction) of paganism itself, and thus expands the horizon of myths available to the human mind.
It is unlikely that there is a practicing Magus who does not know this work, which inspired Goethe and J. Dee, lauded by some as a “textbook of Magic” and dismissed by others as merely a “play of the mind”.
For the Magus it is very important not to “fight” fear, since such a struggle often drives fear into the subconscious; rather, one should become aware of fear as a natural reaction, face it, and—without pretending that “it’s not scary”—endeavor to preserve clear-headed judgment and steadily proceed toward one’s goal.
The teaching of Magic is a hard ordeal for student and teacher alike; completing it successfully is their shared victory, just as failure is their shared defeat.
By entering into interaction with the different Kingdoms of nature, the Magus learns to see the World more broadly and more deeply
“Enochian” rituals, despite their effectiveness and apparent safety, must be evaluated by the practitioner far more carefully than even the boldest Goetic operations, for the danger of deception and traps within them is extraordinarily high.
Among the evocative methods, by their nature, employed in Ceremonial Magic, Arbatel — the Great Pentacle, which governs the so‑called “Olympian” spirits, occupies a special place.
In the continuous fabric of the Worlds, as we have already discussed, there are places of least stability.
A person is born with the full set of instruments necessary to realize their potential, with a Power capable of destroying and creating worlds, yet spends their life running away from themselves and from Power.
The more interactions a Magus has had with other Waves of Life, the less like a human he becomes, and the deeper he sinks into the Unknown.
Beside a person there exists a force perceived as external to them that performs certain protective and tutelary functions.
