The Magus - The Spiritual Destiny of Man
The Magus - The Spiritual Destiny of Man
The Magus - The Spiritual Destiny of Man
Cosmos 1
Spirit 3
Fire 5
Air 9
Earth 11
Water 13
Alchemy 15
Magick 19
Psionics 23
Theory 25
Past 27
Present 29
Future 31
Rulers 33
Spells 35
Rituals 37
Meditations 39
Magus 40
Destiny 41
Preface V
Anyway all of this has taken much thought to put into words and
describe, and should be read as many times as needed and
meditated upon, until it is understood, if not at first as it is the
backbone of this work.
Before publishing this book I had a few friends look it over. One
noted that he didn't understand how expansion created unity,
where as contraction created division or separation. Infinity
stands as the absolute positive polarity of the Cosmos, being so
big it's beyond size. Nothingness on the other hand stands as the
absolute negative polarity as it is so small it is beyond size. Thus
Infinity and Nothing are both extremes not relatives and so are
aspects of Spirit because they are boundless in dimension, and so
not a thing of limitation (the 4 elements). All four elements
appear at once and disappear at once coming from or being
absolved into Spirit. Water the dividing or subtracting element, is
responsible for the many things which constitute the Cosmos.
Fire the unifying or adding element is responsible for all these
things coming together as one. So notions of the Cosmos
expanding from the beyond (Spirit), then contracting back into it,
like the Big Bang and Big Crunch in Science, are actually
inaccurate explanations of what happened and will happen, but
with the right theme. Of course there is more than the material
layer of the Cosmos as well to consider when talking of Science
which only deals with the measurable objectivity of the Earth
element or realm.
May you learn the destiny of all mankind, the persona and
archetype of the superior man, the Magus.
- Kenneth E. Hayes
Cosmos 1
By accessing the Astral Plane, one can begin to view firsthand the
various layers of the Cosmos, and not just a normal physical
waking consciousness. Planes above which are less limited and
easily mutable by the imagination, mind, and will/perception, as
well as planes below which respond to the more primitive and
lower emotional states, can be perceived as real as the physical
dimension of the senses which the normal man knows as reality.
This way a true understanding of energy, form, and consciousness
can be understood and backed up with logic of metaphysical
occult models of the subtle bodies and worlds which we inhabit,
but suppress the true nature of them by assuming they all are
happening on the physical. The inward planes, we fit into the
workings of the brain.
One last note on Spirit, is that when the Cosmos ends, all
that it ever was will be taken into raw Spirit, and fitted together as
perfect oneness. Objects, like people, contain space and
substance, so what happens eventually is that all the space is
removed to join everlasting unity (See: Destiny).
Fire 5
Fire is the first element, linearly but also the last element
circularly. Circular motion is the true path of how the Cosmos
manifests then reabsorbs itself into Spirit. So Fire is the Alpha
and Omega, the beginning and the end. The Cosmos manifests
downward then circles round again. The linear thinking makes
Fire first and Water last, as they are Light and Dark respectably,
may be one's first conclusion of how time works, and so we all
perish eventually within the Void (Nothingness). The interesting
thing is that energy or movement which is what everything is, can
not be slowed down so much to be made absolute zero. In fact
scientists have tried this, and the result is a spring back of energy,
coming the opposite direction and volition before ever reaching
true absolute zero. So circular time is more akin to how the
Cosmos really works.
though as well, and it's easy to confuse the psyche with the mind,
body, and emotional aspects of ourselves. This becomes even
more complex, when the elements in a state of great manyness or
size of the Cosmos during the middle times, become mixed
somewhat into each other. Thus physical fire, and emotional fire,
for example.
spirituality and morals. Not all are saints, but most take a general
idea of goodness at face value.
Fire can warm and give life, but it also can burn and be
destructive. Thus now we talk of the negative side of Fire. Spirit
has no negative side, but each element has a positive and negative
side, as well as neutral. The neutral is either a small amount of
each side, making an equilibrium, or a great amount of each side,
but each indeed, and so like a ping pong game. The stable or
orderly and chaotic. Air the balancer and Earth the imbalancer.
Other than this most of us know what the Earth plane is, as the
majority of mankind believes to live in it on a part of it called the
planet earth, which is just one of so many planets in the many
galaxies.
The negative and positive associations of the Earth and Air, each
being what constitutes the middle realms of reality, are many like
all the elements but in the following paragraph is a few.
Where as the Air reaches for life over death, Earth does the
opposite. Death is seen as superior to life on Earth over all,
though the ping ponging that goes on makes life have the upper
hand at times. Still the earthly condition is to be a prisioner, a
spirit made to live in clay. Earth can have the greatest of beauty
of all the elements, but it is the plane of mortality as living man
understands the term, and life eventually is overcome by death.
Thus suffering belongs before anywhere else to Earth. Water
technically suffers more, but the dead, can't feel the way man
can, as they are very numb and cold.
The Water element has very little light within it but much
darkness. When great amounts of dark energy and matter
(solidified energy), come together they allow a form of life to
exist which is comprised of darkness and so deathforce, verses
lifeforce. Water is like a reversed mirror of Fire, so it's very
similar to Fire, but in a twisted, not quite the same, way.
Water if one stays on the surface is essential for life. The deep is
a place of caution though.
Alchemy 15
twin opposition.
One may notice that the colors are not the order of the traditional
colors of the rainbow, and are as well as rearranged and follow
backwards! This is not how the chakras are usually described, but
instead as the rainbow which follows the electromagnetic scale of
visible light and color. I have deliberately changed them though
to follow color from shades of light to dark, which I believe is the
proper order of colors. I believe the EM scale is a purely Earth or
physical dimensional order of color, which is half strait and half
backwards, more so backwards, because of Earth being comprised
of darkness and light mixed, where darkness is the greater. Thus
instead of red, orange, yellow, yellow, orange, red, and the green,
blue, indigo, and purple is correct, except that it starts at yellow
and goes to purple, instead of vice versa which is the traditional
rainbow.
not try to hard, but allow the force to gently move the item. It
takes practice, sometimes many failed attempts, but many people
do learn and witness this ability, even if it never advances much.
This is why the first sentient beings, barely man and very
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Anyway the Air element is half light, half dark, like the
Earth element, but with one important difference. The light is
slightly greater, and so increasing. Thus Christ was a man, and
died (the Earth phase), but his soul returned to his body, and his
whole body ascended into the heavens (the Air phase in bloom).
and continues the Air phase in full. During the Age of Aquarius,
all of man shall die only to find out they are still alive in body,
and then having a consciousness which is more powerful than the
physical body, shall ascend to a higher state of being. In fact the
whole physical dimension will do this.
of the Cosmos.
over the elements at their most extreme, to where they are most
fractured and manifest. The greatest spells are not the one's
written longest, but spoken longest, or at least left alone to
manifest over time. Magick manifests two ways, through sheer
force, or through quiet patience and unmoving faith.
May science never ground us into our senses, but also may
religion never delude us into slaves of our emotions. The way of
Spirit is the way of balance, always.