True magic exists, and it is not an occult art as many believe. In fact, once stripped of all its mystifications and deviations, it remains what it is: a sum of wisdom capable of bending reality to one's will.
You should know that a “magical act” is always within our reach, every day, so much so that we often perform magical acts without knowing it and, in the same way, on several occasions we shoot ourselves in the foot, as we perform a magical act in reverse. All this happens out of ‘ignorance’, because the ‘Laws’ that govern and regulate everything, those capable of generating ‘miracles’, are ignored.
Magic is still seen today as a practice reserved for a select few initiates. An art made up of stills, candles, pendulums, formulas, symbols, sorcerers, invocations, and so on. All true, but it is not magic, it is ritualistic. Being a ritualist, a “ceremonialist,” does not make you a magician. Turning to a ritualist, working closely with subtle entities, does not mean doing or practicing magic. Not authentic magic, at least.
The magical arts are not the activities of sorcerers, nor is gazing into a crystal ball, nor is performing a “love spell.”
Ritualism could be defined as the occult part of magic, but true magic is not occult, it is noble, it is High, it is visible, it is a path of growth and inner transformation that ritualism has transformed into a few days' excursion.
Almost anyone can become a ritualist: all you need to do is study, be initiated, practice, and have a thick skin. But entering the path of Magic, the authentic kind, is quite another matter. And it is incredible how people fail to realize that the most powerful Laws, those capable of generating supernatural wonders, are always there, right before our eyes. Even at this very moment. True magic consists in knowing these Laws, having eyes to see them and the courage to touch them with your own hands, experience their effects and understand how they work, so as to direct your own tangible reality.
Interest in the occult stems precisely from this assumption, but with a different, less noble and less sacred purpose. What drives people towards ritualism is their lust for power, to gain personal advantages of domination and revenge, but by a Law of Analogy, these same people will remain slaves to their base instincts and, in some cases, victims of a backlash. There is nothing magical about this risky waste of energy, there is no evolution or awakening of consciousness and, therefore, no constructive results in one's life.
“To reach the Sanctum Regnum, that is, the wisdom and power of magicians, there are four indispensable conditions: an intelligence enlightened by study, a courage that nothing can shake, a will that nothing can break, and a discretion that nothing can pollute or corrupt: KNOW, DARE, WANT, BE SILENT. These are the four words of the magician.”
(Eliphas Lévi – “The Dogma and Ritual of High Magic”)
KNOW, DARE, WANT, BE SILENT. Nothing else is needed.
There are four fundamental conditions for anyone who wants to create something, something magical, that is, something that, before appearing on the material plane, is visualized on the subtle plane. But first of all, you need to KNOW, and go beyond the known. Once you know, you must DARE, having the courage to desire, and then WANT what you desire, with discipline, perseverance, and humility. And finally, you must BE SILENT, in order to defend your creation, waiting for it to fully mature.
This is a practice that can only be achieved by a centered person, that is, an individual who has already done the work of centering themselves, a person who knows exactly what they want and how to get it.
In other words, to see the “magic” in your own existence, you must first become the master of your own life, and to do so, you must consciously interrupt the mechanical flow within you: in your thoughts, your body, and your emotions.
Here is the fundamental difference between the ritualist and the authentic magician: the former learns an art, the latter makes that art a philosophy of life.
The last chapter in one of the most interesting books on esoteric psychology, Thorwald Dethlefsen's Destiny as Choice, has a title that I find enlightening to say the least: Everyday Life as Ritual.
Seeing one's daily life as a gigantic ritual is what represents High Magic, and it is what leads to the alchemists' Philosopher's Stone. No tricks, no shortcuts, no deception. You have to get your hands dirty to turn lead into gold, poison into medicine, hatred into forgiveness, darkness into light. Because only those who have become light can radiate light. Only those who have transformed themselves can transform others.
True magic begins from within, not from without; it leads to freedom, not dependence; it radiates, it does not reflect.
You know those moments when life is breathing down your neck and everything seems to be happening at once, from injustices to unexpected events, from disappointments to psychological setbacks? Well, a centered person in that moment knows (KNOWING) what is happening, because they are aware of the Laws, so they dare (DARE) and decide not to react, not to offer external resistance, because they know what they want (WANT), which is to resist internally the “law of identification,” not identifying with what they feel, but remaining silent (SILENCE) and waiting for the wind to change. It is precisely when these four conditions are present that something “prodigious” happens. It is not a question of passive acceptance, but of no longer offering resistance, because, as Jung said: “what you resist persists.”
When someone insults or verbally attacks a person, the latter usually reacts in kind. This is mechanical, a reaction that denotes a lack of centering, an action of reverse magic because it is subject to the law of identification.
But if that same person made an effort to remain clear-headed and centered in that moment, taking a deep breath and listening to themselves, instead of launching a counterattack, they would realize how much energy they are saving and conserving within themselves. Conserved energy plus a dose of energy generated by the friction between mechanical and conscious will. A considerable amount of energy to be used for a magical act.
That simple, voluntary, and conscious interruption of their hypnotic-like mechanical behavior produced a powerful energy in that person to achieve an unexpected result. Some would call it a miracle, but it is true magic. High magic. And here is the wonder of that act: all of a sudden, their gaze becomes sharper, their back straightens, their mind stops making noise, and their emotions are tamed. By working on his inner self, he managed to calm his outer self. If he hadn't done so, he would have let himself be “devoured” as usually happens, bringing all the negativity inside himself. There it is, the shot in the foot I mentioned at the beginning.
Obviously, these are just a few examples from everyday life, but these magical acts, if reproduced consistently, can produce a dense amount of energy that can be used to change our surrounding reality. The same would happen if humanity were aware of its mental and sexual energy and the great waste of energy that has been going on for centuries.
All of a sudden, our lives would be transformed, miracles upon miracles would happen, and not only we, but everyone around us would benefit. We would thus begin, by resonance, to attract what we need, what is useful. Because to receive something, all you need to do is be centered and truly need it.
You should know that a “magical act” is always within our reach, every day, so much so that we often perform magical acts without knowing it and, in the same way, on several occasions we shoot ourselves in the foot, as we perform a magical act in reverse. All this happens out of ‘ignorance’, because the ‘Laws’ that govern and regulate everything, those capable of generating ‘miracles’, are ignored.
Magic is still seen today as a practice reserved for a select few initiates. An art made up of stills, candles, pendulums, formulas, symbols, sorcerers, invocations, and so on. All true, but it is not magic, it is ritualistic. Being a ritualist, a “ceremonialist,” does not make you a magician. Turning to a ritualist, working closely with subtle entities, does not mean doing or practicing magic. Not authentic magic, at least.
The magical arts are not the activities of sorcerers, nor is gazing into a crystal ball, nor is performing a “love spell.”
Ritualism could be defined as the occult part of magic, but true magic is not occult, it is noble, it is High, it is visible, it is a path of growth and inner transformation that ritualism has transformed into a few days' excursion.
Almost anyone can become a ritualist: all you need to do is study, be initiated, practice, and have a thick skin. But entering the path of Magic, the authentic kind, is quite another matter. And it is incredible how people fail to realize that the most powerful Laws, those capable of generating supernatural wonders, are always there, right before our eyes. Even at this very moment. True magic consists in knowing these Laws, having eyes to see them and the courage to touch them with your own hands, experience their effects and understand how they work, so as to direct your own tangible reality.
Interest in the occult stems precisely from this assumption, but with a different, less noble and less sacred purpose. What drives people towards ritualism is their lust for power, to gain personal advantages of domination and revenge, but by a Law of Analogy, these same people will remain slaves to their base instincts and, in some cases, victims of a backlash. There is nothing magical about this risky waste of energy, there is no evolution or awakening of consciousness and, therefore, no constructive results in one's life.
“To reach the Sanctum Regnum, that is, the wisdom and power of magicians, there are four indispensable conditions: an intelligence enlightened by study, a courage that nothing can shake, a will that nothing can break, and a discretion that nothing can pollute or corrupt: KNOW, DARE, WANT, BE SILENT. These are the four words of the magician.”
(Eliphas Lévi – “The Dogma and Ritual of High Magic”)
KNOW, DARE, WANT, BE SILENT. Nothing else is needed.
There are four fundamental conditions for anyone who wants to create something, something magical, that is, something that, before appearing on the material plane, is visualized on the subtle plane. But first of all, you need to KNOW, and go beyond the known. Once you know, you must DARE, having the courage to desire, and then WANT what you desire, with discipline, perseverance, and humility. And finally, you must BE SILENT, in order to defend your creation, waiting for it to fully mature.
This is a practice that can only be achieved by a centered person, that is, an individual who has already done the work of centering themselves, a person who knows exactly what they want and how to get it.
In other words, to see the “magic” in your own existence, you must first become the master of your own life, and to do so, you must consciously interrupt the mechanical flow within you: in your thoughts, your body, and your emotions.
Here is the fundamental difference between the ritualist and the authentic magician: the former learns an art, the latter makes that art a philosophy of life.
The last chapter in one of the most interesting books on esoteric psychology, Thorwald Dethlefsen's Destiny as Choice, has a title that I find enlightening to say the least: Everyday Life as Ritual.
Seeing one's daily life as a gigantic ritual is what represents High Magic, and it is what leads to the alchemists' Philosopher's Stone. No tricks, no shortcuts, no deception. You have to get your hands dirty to turn lead into gold, poison into medicine, hatred into forgiveness, darkness into light. Because only those who have become light can radiate light. Only those who have transformed themselves can transform others.
True magic begins from within, not from without; it leads to freedom, not dependence; it radiates, it does not reflect.
You know those moments when life is breathing down your neck and everything seems to be happening at once, from injustices to unexpected events, from disappointments to psychological setbacks? Well, a centered person in that moment knows (KNOWING) what is happening, because they are aware of the Laws, so they dare (DARE) and decide not to react, not to offer external resistance, because they know what they want (WANT), which is to resist internally the “law of identification,” not identifying with what they feel, but remaining silent (SILENCE) and waiting for the wind to change. It is precisely when these four conditions are present that something “prodigious” happens. It is not a question of passive acceptance, but of no longer offering resistance, because, as Jung said: “what you resist persists.”
When someone insults or verbally attacks a person, the latter usually reacts in kind. This is mechanical, a reaction that denotes a lack of centering, an action of reverse magic because it is subject to the law of identification.
But if that same person made an effort to remain clear-headed and centered in that moment, taking a deep breath and listening to themselves, instead of launching a counterattack, they would realize how much energy they are saving and conserving within themselves. Conserved energy plus a dose of energy generated by the friction between mechanical and conscious will. A considerable amount of energy to be used for a magical act.
That simple, voluntary, and conscious interruption of their hypnotic-like mechanical behavior produced a powerful energy in that person to achieve an unexpected result. Some would call it a miracle, but it is true magic. High magic. And here is the wonder of that act: all of a sudden, their gaze becomes sharper, their back straightens, their mind stops making noise, and their emotions are tamed. By working on his inner self, he managed to calm his outer self. If he hadn't done so, he would have let himself be “devoured” as usually happens, bringing all the negativity inside himself. There it is, the shot in the foot I mentioned at the beginning.
Obviously, these are just a few examples from everyday life, but these magical acts, if reproduced consistently, can produce a dense amount of energy that can be used to change our surrounding reality. The same would happen if humanity were aware of its mental and sexual energy and the great waste of energy that has been going on for centuries.
All of a sudden, our lives would be transformed, miracles upon miracles would happen, and not only we, but everyone around us would benefit. We would thus begin, by resonance, to attract what we need, what is useful. Because to receive something, all you need to do is be centered and truly need it.
