It is precisely doubt that should distinguish the Magus from a religious fanatic; it is precisely doubt that transforms an “occultist” into a Magus.
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The Third Att describes the formation of connections on the Magus’s Way with the beings that surround him and the influence of those bonds on his further advancement.
A Magus who has achieved certain successes in his advancement sooner or later notices his solitude. Indeed, on the earlier stages he stood face to face with the Power that guided him, sometimes opposing him, but always faceless and undifferentiated.
At the level of the Second Att the laws of the Magus’s existence on his Way are forged; these are the result of establishing a hierarchy of values within the Way and finding that Way’s place in the world’s economy.
It is well understood that Yav traditionally denotes manifested existence, the world-process in its continuation. The concept of Prav is more difficult to grasp.
The runic order can be viewed both as a description of the stages of the World’s formation as a whole, and as the Powers operating in the concrete life of a particular person.
The original concept of the Qliphoth is closely connected with ideas about the Tree of the Sefirot. It is held that each Sefira has its reflection — a qlippa. However, contrary to common belief, the Qliphoth are not “anti-Sefirot”.
Ancestral force, ancestral ties, ancestral debts — all these concepts are connected to the Physiological egregore. This term typically denotes the general energetic structure of a particular lineage or family.
Anyone who, in one way or another, has had the experience of perceiving the Interworld has noticed that a strong wind constantly blows there. Since it is odd to attribute the properties of earthly weather to the Elements, the question arises: what is the nature of this wind and what explains its its strength and constancy.
World mythology contains many images of the Cosmic Tree. Yet analogies often arise where their fit is not harmonious. An example of such a strained analogy is the common conflation of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life with the pagan World Tree (in particular, Yggdrasil).
Although the concept of “Hell” in the familiar Christian sense is foreign to magical thought, magic nonetheless organically includes the notion of grim Worlds of Retribution.
The Myth under consideration describes life as an essentially unified, yet differentiated Flow, made up of individual Waves.
The Slavs were in particularly close communication with the spirits of nature, which is why Slavic lower mythology preserved numerous descriptions of the character and peculiarities of various Stikhials.