Introduction to Magic: Rituals and Practical Techniques for the Magus by Julius Evola

Author:Julius Evola [Evola, Julius]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780892816248
Amazon: 0892816244
Publisher: Inner Traditions
Published: 2001-06-06T22:00:00+00:00

Abraxas

The Second Preparation of the Hermetic Caduceus

In chapter III I told you the first secret of the Great Work: "Create an image and stare at it. In the darkness, get used to seeing with an invisible light." Then, with the practice of the mirror, I told you how you can entirely detach the sense of sight from the physical world and external space and actualize it in the ethereal light.

This is the beginning. The perfection of this starting point, which is available to the adepts,62 consists in knowing during the day, as you are awake, how to see and not to see at the same time—to see in the invisible light and to not see in the visible.

Be aware, however, that our goal is not the passive ecstasy of one who only sees and perceives the manifestations, but rather the capacity to direct them and to project on them his own strength, to create them and to destroy them by provoking corresponding effects in the physical world and on the beings inhabiting it.

This is the second phase of the Opus magicum. The name we give it is: the second preparation oj the Hermetic Caduceus.

Every magical realization implies an active, dry, and fixed principle that acts sympathetically on a passive, humid, and volatile principle: that is, a "projection" in the vehicle of a clothing of sulfurous fire, also known as breath and burning water. First of all one needs to prepare with the Art these two elements or principles in our hermetically sealed "philosophical vessel."

Let me remind you what "hermetic sealing" means; the guard at the doors of the senses—and: Silence. Initiatory silence does not consist merely in not talking (not even with yourself), but also in not hearing and in not reading. Detach yourself mentally from your surroundings, by realizing that nothing can or may be allowed to disturb you: "The unrighteous will not succeed in affecting my equilibrium."

When magi claim that the "vessel" must be made of pure crystal and very strong, they are pointing out that in your consciousness, or "laboratory," in addition to constant tenacity, everything must be transparent. You need to be able to see clearly and objectively within yourself, as iT under the light of the sun, and also to realize the absolute impossibility of being insincere with yourself.

The masculine active principle is still our Gold 0 , but it is exalted, freed, and fixed.

Remember the first preparation of this principle (see chapter IV). It is a soothing, unifying, and dominating of the mind; it is the calm, energetic being superior to yourself; it is the nucleus that in the intoxicating atmosphere of the "soul of the earth" knows how to resist passion by remaining steady in the impure impetus of the "waters." Eliphas Levi (Dogma and Ritual of High Magic) said that the magus thinks and wills; he does not love anything for the sake of desire, and does not reject anything out of passion. The word "passion" designates a passive state, whereas the magus is always active and victorious.

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