“The trinity of nature is the lock of magic, the trinity of man the key that fits it. Within the solemn precincts of the sanctuary, the SUPREME had and has no name. It is unthinkable and unpronounceable; and yet every man finds in himself his god. “Who art thou, O fair being?”, inquires the disembodied soul, in the Khordah-Avesta, at the gates of Paradise. “I am, O Soul, thy good and pure thoughts, thy works and thy good law… thy angel… and thy god.” Then man, or the soul, is reunited with ITSELF, for this “Son of God” is one with him; it is his own mediator, the god of his human soul and his “Justifier”. “God not revealing himself immediately to man, the spirit is his interpreter”, says Plato in the Banquet.
Besides, there are many good reasons why the study of magic, except in its broad philosophy, is nearly impracticable in Europe and America. Magic being what it is, the most difficult of all sciences to learn experimentally – its acquisition is practically beyond the reach of the majority of white skinned people; and that, , whether their effort is made at home or in the East. Probably not more than one man in a million of European blood is fitted – either physically, morally, or psychologically – to become a practical magician, and not one in ten millions would be found endowed with all these three qualifications as required for work.
Civilized nations lack the phenomenal powers of endurance, both mental and physical, of the Easterns; the favoring temperamental idiosyncrasies of the Orientals are utterly wanting in them. In the Hindu, the Arabian, the Tibetan, an intuitive perception of the possibilities of occult natural forces in subjection to human will, comes by inheritance; and in them, the physical senses as well as the spiritual are far more finely developed than in the Western races. Notwithstanding the notable difference of thickness between the skulls of a European and a Southern Hindu, this difference, being a purely climatic result, due to the intensity of the sun’s rays, involves no psychological principles.
Furthermore, there would be tremendous difficulties in the way of training, if we can so express it. Contaminated by centuries of dogmatic superstition, by an ineradicable – though quite unwarranted – sense of superiority over those whom the English term so contemptuously “niggers”, the white European could hardly submit himself to the practical tuition of either Kopt, Brahman, or Lama.
To become a neophyte, one must be ready to devote himself heart and soul to the study of mystic sciences. Magic – most imperative of mistresses – brooks no rival. Unlike other sciences, a theoretical knowledge of formulai without mental capacities or soul powers, is utterly useless in magic. The spirit must hold in complete subjection the combativeness of what is loosely termed educated reason, until facts have vanquished cold human sophistry.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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