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.
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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.
Not “magical practices,” but Will as the substance and foundation of existence, not “self-improvement,” but following one’s Way—these constitute the basis of the traditional attitude toward Magic.
Insecurity and self-doubt give rise to a defensive reaction — intolerance, an insistence on one’s “rightness” and the denigration of all who think or act differently.
In the Dream Space every impulse is realized. Every passing thought there acquires a palpable, plastic tangibility.
Since, throughout a long stretch of human history, humanity existed precisely as the feeding base for numerous predators, it is clear that fear of Power belongs to the deepest and most powerful emotions.
The more Power grows within the Magus, the more unstable the world around him becomes, while at the same time his inner foundations grow firmer.
No people except the Greeks — and not the early, radiant Greeks, but the later ones who had touched Egypt and Chaldea and been scorched by their wisdom — captured so precisely the Spirit of the Day-Star: illuminating, mercilessly exposing secrets, scorching, and self-sufficient in its perfection.
Thanks to A. E. Waite, a flippant attitude toward the Grimorium Verum has become entrenched in modern occultism.
Any collectivity, any multiplicity, strives to individualize. The whole process of evolution consists in organizing simpler elements into more complex wholes, and their individualization.
It is well known that unlearning what has been learned wrongly is much harder than learning it for the first time. A wrong, profane understanding imposes a perceptual cliché that is subsequently very difficult to shake off.
This is exactly how the pagan schools perished under the onslaught of Christianity: Magi who failed to assess the situation made critical mistakes, and Power (the Gods) turned away from them.