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So for its own amusement, it became the Universe, infiltrated it
with living consciousness, and now enjoys the ongoing interaction
from every possible perspective. We are eyes of God, together with
every cat and rat, frog and fly, and through us God's omniscience
is assured. But by participating in this consciousness, we share
its energy, and thus its power. So magick is simply a question of
learning how to exploit our access, and how best to regard the
possibilities we thus discover. Psychic energy is a separate stuff
which, though it has its usual origin in living tissue, may act
independently of it to spawn events consistent with its character.
Magick is a psychic technology, a set of techniques and an attitude
that enable the practitioner to manipulate psychic energy so it
generates reality in accordance with his or her will. "Taking
Power" offers a dynamic understanding of this technique, and a
vivid grasp of the attitude. From astral projection, the binding of
spirits, power spots and the subtle body to the Holy Guardian Angel
and magickal ethics, Stephen Mace presents it all in terms of the
dynamics of psychic energy, without regard for any symbolic
orientation. Thus the dynamics may be applied to any orientation,
or to no orientation at all, so long as one's ideology admits to
one's right to deal with reality in this way -- with the
obligations and the privileges of the Creator.
Magick depends upon no abstract philosophies, and doing it requires
neither devotion to any god or demon nor knowledge of the True Keys
of the Mysteries. Instead it is a technique for recognising and
manipulating psychic energy, both within the psyche and outside it,
and for acquiring the mental skills we need to do this effectively.
If the details of this technique can seem involved, well, the
psyche is a complicated instrument, and psychic energy is slippery
stuff to deal with. We must learn to manage it within our psyches
and also to split it off so it can act independently to produce the
"meaningful coincidences" we require. Magick is a psychic
technology, a collection of observations about psychic energy and
the techniques for manipulating it."Shaping Formless Fire" presents
these with a simple elegance that contradicts the notion that
magick must remain a hidden art. There is psychic energy with us
and all around us. We use its power to make our worlds, and to
master it is to learn how to make the worlds we require. To see it
as merely the way we perceive the world is to put ourselves at its
mercy, and forfeit its power.
The Joining is a disturbing look at what might happen when good
intentions are just not enough. A terrifying glimpse into a world
where the darker realms of ego and self-gratification are accepted
as normal. A story where monsters; locked away inside the prison of
self-control escaped. When expedience replaced prudence, no one
could have foreseen the hell it would eventually unleash. Ra Sor
and its people were brought into existence to ensure that what is
about to happen, could never happen...However; "the cure became the
disease." A young man who was made, not born holds one of two keys
to unlock the power of the altar stone and save not only his world
but the entire kaleidoscope of creation as well.
Stephen Mace explores the magick of using power to deal with the
two institutions that seem to do the most to cripple our access to
it: the Corporation and the State. Of these, the former is surely
more odious than the latter, and infinitely less vital. Most odious
of all, of course, is the carnal union of the two, but such
depravity may tend toward the decline of both parties, and "Seizing
Power" examines the dynamics of this process as well.
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