The Roles of the Magus
We have said many times before that the Magus’s primary task is to expand his consciousness.
This expansion corrects a situation that Magic regards as distorted. It aims to free consciousness from the power of predators and parasites and to restore its original meaning as a means of actualizing the Monad’s potencies. Yet Magic is not merely a Way of “return” to “proper” development. It is not merely the correction and acceleration of evolution. It is the Way of perpetuating individual awareness as such.
From the standpoint of Magic, the narrowness of human consciousness is not only a “wrong” state of affairs. This narrowness also blocks the continuation of awareness itself.
When a particular incarnation ends and an individual being dies, the amount of its consciousness is usually so negligible that it has no chance of overcoming the barrier of the Supreme Predator.
The Magus strives to move consciousness into a new, creative state. To do this, he must pass “between Baphomet’s horns” and break out of the circle of causalities.
The breadth of awareness and the measure of Power required for this decisive battle must be very great.
As a system, Magic includes several fundamental Ways of preparing consciousness for its passage into Eternity.
One of these key tasks is to create an axis for that consciousness.
Everyone understands that all intelligent beings in the world play their roles, moving from role to role throughout life and changing mask after mask.
It is equally clear that human awareness is so narrow that, apart from these roles themselves, a being’s life usually contains nothing at all; or, as people say, there is no face beneath the masks.
So it is no surprise that when the final mask falls — at the moment of death — only a memory remains of the person, a reshimo, and nothing more.
A person usually cannot “take off the mask” and “become himself” not because he stubbornly refuses, but because there is nothing beneath the mask. When he loses his games, he also loses himself. In fact, a person is only the sum of his actions, and when he stops acting, he vanishes.
The Magus persistently and purposefully cultivates something constant behind the masks: his selfhood.
This does not mean that the Magus renounces games and roles, or that he “pretends.” On the contrary, he also moves from role to role, and while he is “in character,” he is in no sense “pretending.” He plays as though the game were the only thing in his life — completely, without reserve.
At the same time, somewhere behind the stage, quiet and unnoticed, a silent observer sits: the Magus’s selfhood. It does not interfere with the game, yet it stands ready to “draw the curtain” as soon as the performance ends.
Throughout his life the Magus fills himself with this selfhood. He becomes aware of his individuality and develops it, like a butterfly slowly and invisibly ripening inside a chrysalis, ready to emerge into freedom when its time comes.
And when Baphomet’s maw splits the Adir of awareness and drinks its energy, the Magus’s developed and disciplined selfhood flies out of its shell and gains a chance at a new existence as a creative intelligence.
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Is pure consciousness the silent observer that watches the games?
“The whole world is a theater, and people are its actors.”
A small but very profound article. Too mind-blowing.
Baphomet is perceived by the consciousness of an ordinary person as a convenient final mask (role) – resulting in complete merging?
Baphomet is perceived by the Self of the magician in the multifaceted form of the stream of infinite manifested possibilities? And the Self, free from forms and structures but possessing an understanding of infinite possibilities of itself and the stream, transforms into a creative mind?
Everything is written correctly. For example.. a person spends a lot of time and effort to construct, accumulate, and create something for someone else.. And at one wonderful moment, everything becomes unnecessary or disappears, explodes, is destroyed.. And what remains.. NOTHING. After the material disappearance, this creator, artist, or inventor either realizes that the meaning of life is not in what he was doing, which either changes the person (the realization of their false existence begins) or leads to death, as a reason for the illusory loss of the meaning of life.
After the disappearance of the material, the individual must realize the falsehood of this world and begin to seek a path to themselves.
Theoretically, if a mage strives for this after death, shouldn’t they be able to do so in life too? Is this what magical solitude is?
So, feelings and thoughts relate to the self, while emotions and mind relate to the personality?
But after all, Baphomet himself will not chase after every cunning Mage, so it is a somewhat far from omnipotent projection, like various tutelary entities. On the other hand, what can a Mage do ‘there’ to forever rid themselves of their machinations?
And Baphomet does not chase anyone. Everyone comes to him on their own.
In this context, a question arose, ‘And when the jaws of Baphomet crack open, Adir of awareness drinks his energy, the developed and disciplined self of the mage flies out of its shell and gains a chance for a new existence as a creative mind.’ I would like to learn more about this, if people go to him themselves… This leads to temptations, obstacles, etc.
Is living contact with Baphomet in all its diversity and multifacetedness the essence of the development of awareness and its consequences – the Self of the mage? The risks of uneducated self-experimentation are obvious – but how else?
A mage can be said to be forced to wear this or that mask and play a role; if one lives and acts all the time, so to speak, with an open face, then the number of those who want to hit that face significantly increases. It is much easier to appear in life as someone whom society perceives calmly while remaining oneself; at least it doesn’t require expending a lot of effort on pointless scrapes with the environment.
The magician wears a mask not out of fear of society, but because without a mask he will be invisible primarily to himself… What will that potential in us rely on? Another question is, “who chooses the mask?” Is it the potential, or does one mask put on another mask that is successfully imposed by society…? And where is the line, when you play and when you are played…?
All life is a theater) But the theater can be different… There is a theater where there are several actors… If there are already two actors, then they cannot step outside their role. They will limit each other, and each will embody only one aspect with their play. And there is a theater of one actor, like in the ancient dramatic theater, where masks were used and the actor changed them according to the situation… He played several roles, unifying in himself all the opposites and options of himself….
Thank you for the article. Is the loyalty of parasites to the Supreme predator really that strong.. are there traitors among them.. Or is ‘retreating into defense’ under the pressure of awareness of its presence already a betrayal?