everything falling away and the abyss being unveiled is necessary for you: > initiation, which involves both physical and mental ordeals. these ordeals are experiences, often quite painful, which make it possible for the aspirants consciousness to be elevated to a more exalted state. in a peculiar manner, seemingly unconnected circumstances have the power en masse to jar open a clenched chakra. a man may lose all he loves in the most excruciatingly painful way in order that he realize the unimportance of terrestrial phenomena. > an ordeal is usually blind in the sense that neither the aspirant nor the master is responsible for the occurrence; it is a necessary manifestation of the magicians own will-toward-enlightenment. it is important that these not be regarded as any sort of punishment for bad behavior (as in the religion of the slave-god). there are no moralistic aspects about the ordeals; they are necessary regardless of right and wrong.
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