I - The Magician
I - The Magician
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I - The Magician Keywords Spiritual Power. Self-Knowledge. Will. Intention. Mastery. Self-Discipline. Self-Control. Self-Confidence. Skill. Creativity. Intelligence. Discrimination. Inner Guide. Intuition. Synthesis. Magic. Alchemy. Themes The Magician is busy grounding Heaven on Earth. This is the path of the initiate, leading to mastery. Comparisons This is manifest reality (vs. the unmanifest of 0). Like The Fool, The Magician is interested in everything. The Fool is more unconscious, flowing and merging with everything. The Magician is more conscious, focused on harnessing and directing energy, on transforming and manifesting. Experiential spirituality vs. the structured spirituality or authoritative religion of The Hierophant. The Magician's shadow is The Devil. Prospero from Shakespeare's The Tempest shows this journey from black to white magician. Do you work for personal gain only? How much can you work for the collective, for the divine? Notes & Quotes "How can we tell apart white magicians and black magicians? The movements of a black magician trouble the peace in other people, extinguish their thoughts, confuse their ideas and take their minds away from the wellsprings of life. Whereas the movements of the white magician are full of purity, harmony, serenity, and gentleness. They are sincere and beautiful, they give us life, they enlighten us and free us from the chains of the lower nature." (O.M. Aïvanhov, The Two Trees of Paradise [CW3], p.95) "More and more people today are interested in the occult: they are searching for the secrets that will enable them to become powerful magicians. They think they will find these secrets in rites, talismans and magic formulas, and in spite of their total ignorance of the realities of the invisible world, they start evoking the spirits. Poor wretches! What they will find is psychic and even physical imbalance, for their spells will not be answered by higher spirits, but by entities of the lowest kind, elementals and larvae. Yes, this is the truth, the inexorable truth. Why? Because there is only one way to attract luminous spirits, angels and archangels, and that is to make continual progress in the spiritual life. Heavenly entities will not help and encourage anyone who does not manifest purity, love, righteousness and truth. No one who lives an ordinary life can pierce the mysteries of the universe. The divine world distributes its blessings in proportion to our own efforts. There are always others who will give us the things we ask for – but at what cost!" (O.M. Aïvanhov) "Self-control, self-discipline, self-knowledge, these are the requirements of the initiate." (Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki) "Some people wonder how one becomes a black magician. Actually, it is very easy. Anyone who gives free rein to their worst instincts, who continually breaks the laws of goodness, justice, and love, who tries to succeed at the expense of others, to oust and destroy them, cannot help but become a black magician. So, it is quite clear. Many people imagine that in order to become a black magician, one must have a diabolical master who teaches the art of evil spells and incantations. This is sometimes the case, but you do not necessarily need a master to become a black magician. Anybody can become one even without a master, without anything; it is enough to let oneself be guided by one’s lower nature. Similarly, if someone thinks only of helping and enlightening others, they are on their way to becoming a white magician even if they have no master to teach them." (O.M. Aïvanhov) |
Also see:- Major Arcana Tarot Maps of Consciousness articles |
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