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New Aeon Magick
Chapter 6

by Garald Campo

                            KNOWLEDGE

"The decisive question for man is:  Is he related to the infinite
or  not?  That is the telling question of his life.  Only  if  we
know  that the thing which truly matters is the infinite  can  we
avoid fixing our interests upon futilities and upon all kinds  of
goals which are not of real importance".

                                                       Carl Jung
                               ***

Knowledge   as   applied  to  Magick  is  very   different   than
conventional  knowledge.  In a rapidly expanding  scientific  age
where  computers are things anyone can own; the word  "knowledge"
has  come to mean "having information".  This is  very  different
when it comes to the Magical Art.

Today's "Magician" behaves  as though  some one has unscrewed the
top  of  their  head and vomited  into  it  Regardie's  "Complete
Magical  System  of  the Golden Dawn" and  Crowley's  "Magick  in
Theory  and Practice".  Rather than using the superb  instruction
offered  by such books in order to gain mastery over ritual,  the
student  repeats  what  he reads, but  is  unable  to  contribute
anything new.  Knowledge, to a real Magician, is experience.

I  have  said elsewhere  that  one cannot "know"  what  an  apple
tastes  like despite another's efforts to  describe it  to  them.
The  advantage to having Knowledge  of  a particular  subject  is
that   the  response  from  a  particular   action  is   somewhat
predictable.

A dabbler may have a lot of  information about  Magick,  and talk
a great deal  about  their  make-believe successes,  but only the
Magician will have enough  Knowledge  to determine the outcome of
any specific ritual.  Like children;  We learn  by doing.

Knowledge   outlasts  time.   Information  is  being   constantly
replaced  by  updated information, it has no  endurance.   Strive
therefore,   to  experience  all  things  rather   than   collect
information.  Gathering information is for those who, because  of
their  fear of death, experience life through the eyes  of  brave
men.


                               ***

                             COURAGE

      "Courage means being afraid and saddling up anyway."

                                                       John Wayne

                               ***

Perhaps  the biggest pitfall of magicians is the aspect of  fear.
Fear  manifests  itself  from lack of  Knowledge.   Anything  not
understood can create a feeling of fear towards a subject,  idea,
or  object.   This is because the mind tries  to  anticipate  all
which  could  potentially  go wrong from the  experience  of  the
subject by calling up all information related to the  experience.
If  there  is  insufficient information a  fear  of  the  unknown
manifests.  This fear can interfere with your work by making  you
feel incompetent, thus persuading you to abandon the Work.

The  most  dangerous  fear is created by things  which  are  half
understood.  When your mind calls up the data associated with the
experience  it  comes  up with a few bits  and  pieces  of  "self
manufactured"   preconceptions   created  by  what   little   and
incomplete  information one may retain in consciousness.

While the following illustration may be somewhat crude it  serves
in  making a point:  Take the child who touches the stove and  is
burned.  If he or she is not instructed that ovens aren't  always
hot,  or  in the proper behavior around hot appliances,  it  then
becomes possible that the child, upon growing up, will have  some
distorted  image of ovens the rest of his or her life.  The  fear
created  by this  process  will prevent  them from discovering  a
sane method by which to utilize these appliances.

Fear  is a built-in safety device which keeps us  from  repeating
mistakes,  but  when it dominates what we think and do  based  on
preconception  it  has become our master.  This is why it  is  so
important  to  finish the Work you have started.   If  you  leave
anything  half-finished it will only be half-understood,  leaving
the phantasm in your mind with the grim chore of finishing it for
you...In any way it can.

                              ***

                              LOVE

"Love  is  a God; Strong, free, unabounded, and  as  some  define
Fears nothing, pitieth none".

                                                           Milton
                               ***

Love  is  one of the trickiest things to talk about  because  the
word has had so much untruth pumped into it.

The underlying essence of real Love is unconditional.  You cannot
Love  one  thing and not love another.  The delusion that you can
separate  yourself  from any other thing is created by  the  ego;
using  lust of result, bigotry, or a false pride as its  weapons.
This  kind of love usually hurts or wounds, and when we feel  the
prick  of   its thorn many of us learn to shut  ourselves  up  to
authentic Love.   Our  hearts harden like tempered steel.   Every
time we confuse love with Love we become a little more  calloused
and  resistant.   This  may happen to such an extreme  that  when
Love  comes our way it is confused with the lesser love  and  not
allowed  to  find  its  true palace within  our  heart.   A  very
perceptive  man once said that  the only kind of falling which is
not failing  is falling in Love.

The  kind of Love referred to in conjunction with Magick is,  for
the most part; unknown to most people.  When one's life is  being
lived to its fullest potential, and all the little ordeals  which
come our way when we stray from our path have disappeared, that's
when we are likely to experience Love.

It  manifests itself as "Gold".  Everything you look at  suddenly
has  a Golden Aura around it.  There is a feeling  of  excitement
and  rediscovery.  The things you took for granted have  suddenly
changed. They must be reexperienced under this new Light.  One is
likely  to experience new found trust and hope in people  because
you  are able to recognize the deity within them.  Everything  is
possible now.  You have become as a child.

Love is Unity.  Meditation is impossible without it.  Every  time
that we attempt to fully experience another object we must  unite
with  it.  Without the ability to Love we cannot.   When  dealing
with other people this could, and usually does, manifests in sex.

Sex  can be the Highest Sacrament, but it must be brought from  a
Nephesh  (animal  consciousness)  level to  a  level  of  Nashama
(Highest Aspirations of the Soul).  This is only possible if  the
act is being motivated by the Unifying factor within Love.

Being able to Unite with object and subject is only a small  step
into the countless possibilities of the experiences dealing  with
Love.   When  you  have mastered Love you  will  have  completely
united  with  it,  so that it burns and  communicates  to  others
through you.  You will then have harnessed that Mysterious Energy
which turns Lead into Gold.

In  those scarce times when two people feel  pure,  unadulterated
Love  for  each other, an astral bond is created.  Often  psychic
phenomena  may  be  experienced as an inner  rapport  is  created
between  individuals.   "Love is the law, love under will":   One
of the many Mysteries of this Law is to Love all creation, by  so
doing  the  Magician will develop an astral connection  with  the
whole of the Cosmos.

All  in all, Love is a rare commodity in this world.  It  doesn't
come often.  When it does we should be prepared to recognize  it.
If  you  are fortunate enough to find someone to  Love,  consider
what  a privilege it is that this person has found you worthy  of
sharing their Universe; respect them, recognize their right to be
themselves,  to  be free-thinking individuals, and  then  embrace
them as loosely as you can.

                               ***

                             SILENCE

 "Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods".

                                                          Emerson
                               ***

Of  the Four Magical Powers, Silence is perhaps one of  the  most
important.  It can, in fact; prevent some very painful situations
in your life.

The previous Aeon has left a very dangerous kind of poison in the
"group  mind" of the Western Civilization.  We have only to  look
at  history  to realize that everything of value which  the  Holy
Books had to offer was altered by those of in authority in  order
to make slaves of the simple man.

The  "Church"  has  been in power so  long,  and  the  scriptures
inaccurate for so many generations, that even its leaders are  in
the dark as to the True meaning of their manual.

Conventional  Religions indoctrinate that all one must do  to  is
believe.   One is not to question the Scriptures.  This was  done
to prevent free thinking, and as a result the masses have  become
gullible, lazy, and easily controlled by those in power.  To find
Truth in anything one must have a thirst for Knowledge; one  must
question  all  things.   It takes a lot of  hard  Work.   Western
Religion with its dogma has created a breed of humans who do  not
question  the motives of those in authority and are too  lazy  to
seek Truth for themselves.  They believe anything their superiors
tell  them because their superiors appear to have done  the  work
they have avoided.

What does this have to do with Silence?

Study  the  history  of the "Church" and you will  see  how  many
innocent people have been tortured and killed simply because they
would  not submit their will to them.  How many cultures  has  it
completely erased by "making good Christians out of savages"? How
many  battles were fought in the name of the "Church" where  good
people were lost on both sides just to satisfy the lust for power
and money?  It has even prosecuted its own people for questioning
its motives.

By  keeping  your Work secret it is charged Magically and  it  is
made   sacred.   When Ancient Egyptian Adepts inherited the  name
of  a Spirit or God he zealously kept it from the  profane,   for
by uttering the name the forces inherent in them were summoned.

Besides  consecrating your Work, Silence reduces  the chances  of
your  operations  being interfered  with  by those  who  are  not
sympathetic  to  Magick.  Do not allow doubt to enter  into  your
Work  because  you  have allowed others to  interfere.  TEST  ALL
THINGS  AND HOLD FAST TO THAT WHICH IS GOOD.  Enough  said  about
ignorance and pestilence.

There  are other reasons why Silence is so important  to  Magical
Work.

We  all  know people who talk a great deal, but do  nothing.   It
would  appear  that  talking about it  brings  some  people  more
satisfaction than actually doing it.
It  requires the same amount of energy (different type  but  same
proportion)  to talk about something and to actually do it.   You
can talk away your enthusiasm in a project so that when it  comes
down to "grounding" it you have none.

To explain this further we have to study how thought is  filtered
from the Archetypal Plane to the Material Plane.

All  truly great ideas believed to be inspired by genius  are  in
fact "sparks of the Divine".  One who is adept in channeling such
ideas  has  mastered the methods by which one tunes  in  to  that
plane.

These "sparks" come from the Archetypal Plane.  These archetypes,
being  by  nature so abstract, are beyond  understanding  in  the
intellectual  sense.   The "spark" must go through a  process  of
solidification and materialization, just as a fertilized egg does
before being transformed into a fetus.

The spark descends downwards to the Creative Plane.  This is  the
womb where all great thoughts are conceived.  There it stays  for
a period of time until it is transformed into a symbol.

Once the Creative Plane has matured this symbol, it flows down to
the  Formative  Plane.  When it has reached this  step,  and  not
before, is when one first realizes that there is something  going
on  in their mind that demands attention.  Although it may  still
be  a little rough, the idea is realized.  It must be shaped  and
prepared  so  that  it  can be  brought  down  even  further  and
manifested in material form on the Material Plane.

The  problems begin as soon as one becomes aware of the  activity
going on in their mind.  It is easy to gratify one's sense of ego
by boasting their still unmanifested project until the continuity
between  the  Higher  and Lower Planes is  disrupted.   The  link
becomes  weak,  and  the concept is  aborted.   Silence  is  very
important indeed in Magical Work.

To  further illustrate the importance of Silence I  include  this
bit of information:  Research done by marriage counselors  showed
that couples who only thought of the carnal aspects of lovemaking
had  no problem talking about it with others.  Those couples  who
respected  their  partners and thought of their  love  making  as
special; would not talk about it with their counselors.  They had
made their lovemaking sacred.

We show this kind of Devotion with our Work.  Don't kiss and tell
& do not throw your pearls before swine.

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