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A thought that's been on my mind for a few days concerns the "energy" (hate that word) we burn in our endeavors.
Mana, Gnosis, Qi, Source, Chakra, just some of the words that come to mind at the moment, feel free to list any others...
So if as above is so below then it's only logical for magick to have it's own power source-
The fuel of the mind is attention or concentration just as the body has fatigue, health has immunity, im seeing it everywhere i look these days..
In Thelema and by extension it's parent they used willpower and the Easterners use Qi and Chakra we know all of this already.
So i suppose my questions would be, are all these sources of energy actually one and the same?
i am of the opinion that it depends on the praxis used meaning they are not all one thing with different names
can we try and categorize them all somehow? the spiritual energy would be that of our own souls?
What would be the equivalent in Evocation/summoning magick?
for example we know that Thelema burns on willpower and they have probably produced the most instructions on how to Grow this trait
but what about the others, more etherial and theoretical as they are? how do we grow each of them?
I am still very new to the study of vampyrism but this concept of harnessing
this energy from around seems just as appealing as generating it from within, i'd like additional thoughts on that.
well the same goes for the whole thread but this in particular.
another thing that comes to mind is difference between Strength vs Endurance/conditioning
So then, increasing the capacity for amount of this supposed fuel is a way to enable the magus into performing more and more "powerful" rites is it not?
yet they are not equal to the "strength" right?
Magick that is oriented towards the mind needs both imagination and willpower and so on...
what does Chaos rely on? Faith? that too must have it's capacity and a measure of intensity/ quality
so can we theorize then on two Magi, one with low count of whatever units of mana compared to another - yet the lesser might have a much purer/higher quality
of this energy - is this what we call talent in a Magus?
It's pretty hard to sell to my self this idea of dozens of different, specific energies within ourselves... yet by the logic i've used so far i can't conclude a different answer
i'd also welcome any cultivation methods both famous or less known to be noted if you think of any.
this can be quite a large description so keep it limited to the ones you personally think are effective, interesting
instead of listing a whole yoga procedure
im also aware this, like many of my other posts read rather crude for the eloquent aristocracy here but please forgive me that issue as im only here for the magick and i make all of my posts on the spot without focusing on the fluff.
This i forgot to mention, also means that our use of magick is limited unlike what most books which often claim
it's an inexhaustible resource that one can do all day every day, we must recharge the batteries whatever they are after we have spent
that energy do we not? It's problematic then that we can't "feel" ourselves burning it, unlike physical or mental resources that produce
very clear strain
Mana, Gnosis, Qi, Source, Chakra, just some of the words that come to mind at the moment, feel free to list any others...
So if as above is so below then it's only logical for magick to have it's own power source-
The fuel of the mind is attention or concentration just as the body has fatigue, health has immunity, im seeing it everywhere i look these days..
In Thelema and by extension it's parent they used willpower and the Easterners use Qi and Chakra we know all of this already.
So i suppose my questions would be, are all these sources of energy actually one and the same?
i am of the opinion that it depends on the praxis used meaning they are not all one thing with different names
can we try and categorize them all somehow? the spiritual energy would be that of our own souls?
What would be the equivalent in Evocation/summoning magick?
for example we know that Thelema burns on willpower and they have probably produced the most instructions on how to Grow this trait
but what about the others, more etherial and theoretical as they are? how do we grow each of them?
I am still very new to the study of vampyrism but this concept of harnessing
this energy from around seems just as appealing as generating it from within, i'd like additional thoughts on that.
well the same goes for the whole thread but this in particular.
another thing that comes to mind is difference between Strength vs Endurance/conditioning
So then, increasing the capacity for amount of this supposed fuel is a way to enable the magus into performing more and more "powerful" rites is it not?
yet they are not equal to the "strength" right?
Magick that is oriented towards the mind needs both imagination and willpower and so on...
what does Chaos rely on? Faith? that too must have it's capacity and a measure of intensity/ quality
so can we theorize then on two Magi, one with low count of whatever units of mana compared to another - yet the lesser might have a much purer/higher quality
of this energy - is this what we call talent in a Magus?
It's pretty hard to sell to my self this idea of dozens of different, specific energies within ourselves... yet by the logic i've used so far i can't conclude a different answer
i'd also welcome any cultivation methods both famous or less known to be noted if you think of any.
this can be quite a large description so keep it limited to the ones you personally think are effective, interesting
instead of listing a whole yoga procedure
im also aware this, like many of my other posts read rather crude for the eloquent aristocracy here but please forgive me that issue as im only here for the magick and i make all of my posts on the spot without focusing on the fluff.
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This i forgot to mention, also means that our use of magick is limited unlike what most books which often claim
it's an inexhaustible resource that one can do all day every day, we must recharge the batteries whatever they are after we have spent
that energy do we not? It's problematic then that we can't "feel" ourselves burning it, unlike physical or mental resources that produce
very clear strain
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