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In document Letters to Gail Two (Page 56-60)

Dear Gail:

Magicians are strange creatures. They have two paths to follow — the right hand path which is the white magic or good magic and the left hand path which is the black magic or bad magic. There is no center or middle path as one might call it.

A magician is not especially interested in reaching the goal of being one with the deity which is the final path of the mystics. He is concentrated on learning the techniques of manipulating the forces of nature. He works with nature and over nature to gain his ends; the white magician is working for the good of universal mankind and the black magician is working for himself. These are the end goals of each type. A magician might be called a necromancer, sorcerer, a conjurer. However, he deals with the secret forces of nature and works in the astral plane where the spiritual force is a dualistic nature. Hence the reason why he can use either the negative or the positive forces.

Magicians work on a mental level, using the mind powers for their illusions, phenomena and healings. They can be witchdoctors, kahunas, priests, mediums, shamans, medical doctors, or that which we know today as advertising men, propagandists, etc. They work with a principle called vital force, which is known to us as Soul force, and which is existent in man, animal, plant. Sometimes this is called mana and can be manipulated so that phenomena occurs, such as the raising of tables; moving furniture without apparent human effort; levitation; making a change in the weather; and the holding of life and death in the hands of a single person.

Many groups use magic today, but it is under another

name, still as primitive as the earlier days in our history of mankind. Magic went undercover when the orthodox religious groups came into power, when medicine gained a political hold over people, when science became a popular fad trying to explain away the mysteries of mind and nature.

Voodoo still practices its magic in many parts of the world, including civilized London and America. The witch doctor is prominent among the South American Indians, negro tribes in Africa, and the Shaman is popular with the peoples of the north. All these were very necessary before the invention of psychology and psychoanalysis. You must understand that with the advent of the industrial revolution, the social revolution and the leisure which man is gaining today, the church lost its hold over the masses, and Luther’s schism brought a new power into office, the industrialist has needed all the resources possible to keep the people in check.

So it is done through several agencies, not as an organized plan but one which has fitted in, hand and glove together.

Man was once a God who walked the earth, but now he is reduced to being a puppet who is enslaved to work for the benefit of others. The Freudian doctrine which has been accepted by our western civilization has set forth a theory that man is inherently weak, that he must be mothered from childhood to death by his mother and, when he is old enough, married to a woman who will take over where mother departed. The old theory under which we lived until the advent of Freudism was that too much mothering made a boy a weakling. This new doctrine (comparatively new — 50 years old) has brought about the conflicts seen in our society today, where youth won’t take discipline; hence the juvenile problems. It is practiced in the Catholic church — although this would be denied if questioned — but if you stop to think about how much emphasis is put upon the Mother of God by

the church, then you can start thinking what is behind all this.

This thought has taken over our whole life in society today.

Where does this fit in with magic? The Freudian doctrine is the antithesis of magic, as well as is the church. In the east where magic is practiced daily by all peoples from high government officials to peasantry, the Brahmans (priest caste) tried the same controls over people as the church did from its beginning in Rome by putting together a doctrine which says that man is weak, an animal, and lives at the mercy of a creator who deals only through its priests. Magic, on the other hand, created Gods of men, when it was white magic; when black magic it tried to reduce men to zero points. Get the point? This being true, then the orthodox religions, psychoanalysis, medicine, etc., are practicing black magic today — that is to some extent. At least this is my thought because they are trying to make controls on man through moral and materialistic laws.

Some of the greatest magicians known in history have been: Count Alessandro Cagliostro, Hermes Trismegistos, Appolonius of Tyanna, Albert Magnus, Agrippa of Nettesheim Adonis, Mesmer, Paracelsus, Plotinus, Simon Magus, William Butler Yeats, etc. These men are the ancestors of many today who walk the streets unknown to others as magicians. A magician has power over the fire elementals, water elementals, wind elementals and earth elementals. Western magic stems from earlier civilizations

— the Chaldean, Babylonian, Assyrian, Greek and Roman.

The Jewish people took it up and developed it in the cabala to the high form of what it is today. Palestine was the crossroads in the early days when the Romans learned of it during their occupation of the city and took much back to Italy, thus spreading it to the rest of the western world.

The Essenes was a Jewish cult, to which Jesus belonged,

that trained its members in magic. It was one of the early mystery schools. It was put on paper for the first time in 12th century in Spain and later picked up in Poland by a mystery school (as Chassidism) where a famous rabbi taught it. Later a German monk put down the secret science in a manuscript after being initiated into a secret order of magicians, and started a secret school in his homeland, the first except for the Knight Templars who practiced magic until destroyed by the King of France in the 16th century. Elphas Levi belonged to the German school, but he revealed his findings in an amazing set of books which can be found in certain libraries over the country. His works revived a group who in the last century opened the famous Order of Golden Dawn to which belonged a number of writers: Wm. Butler Yeats, Alistair Crowley, Arnold Bennett, A.E. Waite, etc.

Much of Jung’s, the psychologist, works belong to the secret teachings of magic. Anyway, the secret wisdom teaches that man’s destiny is in his own hands, that he is a God, he can control the powers of his mind. Some of the secrets are too powerful to divulge except to the purest initiate. In the course of time the student of magic learns telepathy; healing of insanity, drunkenness, disease; how to project his desires into the formative world where all things must originate before materialization; learns to control spiritual forces by symbols, by rituals and by divination; learns the art of clairvoyance and clairaudience. He learns astral travelling and about other planes where he can travel by his other bodies. He learns the Tattwa vision and the Tattwa tides. His powers of concentration, memory, intuition, creative imagination and judgement are enormously increased.

More later.

Paul

62. Exoteric and Esoteric Knowledge

In document Letters to Gail Two (Page 56-60)