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From: SifGreyWillow Sent: 5/29/2008 1:38 PM
Studies in Faery Magick Lesson 3:

Now you have the basics of magic, but magic is nothing without balance within yourself and the world around you. As you awaken to your potential within, and without, you must be in harmony or else you disrupt what you are creating. WHY? Because all that you create must have a foundation. If there is no foundation you are just creating illusions for yourself and thus it will at some point crumble and be destroyed.

How is a foundation created? It is through finding yourself, finding out who you are. In order to find who you are; find yourself, you must be ready to face yourself. The mind will get in the way as you explore deeper and deeper. The mind is like a knife dividing you up and up into little pieces telling you that you are this and you are like this and you feel this way about this.

The mind is a tool not who you are! You need to let it go, such as through meditation or through awareness. What is awareness? It is the ability to step back from your mind and watch and thus you can alter the mind and use it like a tool. Meditation does the same thing but is a passive way rather than an active way of accomplishing this aim.

When you are close to moving the mind out of the way you will find that FEAR will come into play. This is because the mind is losing control. It will try to wrap you in a web of fear, saying "you will forget who you are, you will go insane, you will be nothing, etc." Fear is the Ultimate illusion, this is the place of facing yourself. Like Luke in StarWars.

Time is a key to understanding Fear and the Mind. For time does not exist. Everything happens in the same moment, the same point. You remember this ever changing point and thus you have past. You can predict patterns based off of this past and thus you have the possible future. Time is a tool, but most of us are caught up in it and thus we are controlled by it. Fear works within Time and the Mind uses it all to it's advantage when you decide to give up mind.

It will be a struggle to begin with. We start out as the warrior on the path towards developing our magical ability, and we will win until we have to fight ourselves. At this point we will have to lose. Humility is apart of the path and when you can stop fight yourself and lose then you are ready to be the master of yourself.
The more expansive your thoughts, the more expansive the reality you create [Sanaya Roman]

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