Machine-assisted translation. The original Russian publication is linked below.
I always explain everything in detail in class. Our school is different in what we say here. This is how I was taught, and this is how I teach. Our school has always been distinguished by the fact that we discuss everything in detail here. We ensure that our people understand the physics of the process they are dealing with. All those long conversations in school are considered practice. I spend about half the time explaining, and then I say: “Let’s start practicing,” and we move on to the exercises. But these discussions are also practice. All these conversations provide a certain setting. The flow of information that I broadcast is not because I want to talk. This is part of the training.
Consciousness is a system that works with information. And depending on the information with which it interacts, consciousness is adjusted. When I give out an information flow, it falls on consciousness, and it’s like a kind of turn of consciousness in a certain direction. A certain position of consciousness. From this position we continue to do exercises. If this position is not there, then all these exercises are useless. This is the problem with teaching magic. You can’t just give exercises to a person and say: “Here, do it.” We need certain positions of consciousness that need to be formed. We need a certain picture of the world. If this picture of the world does not exist, then the person remains in his basic position and tries to do something magical in it, but it does not work. We need a different position.
When I load you with some information, you use it to tune into certain states. And then you work in them. Then there is a trace in consciousness from this work. Then you begin to reflect on this trail and the information you downloaded. Information is growing. You literally grow this information as a structure, just like a crystal is grown. And when the completed form arises, quality will arise. And then a closed structure will arise. And a closed structure is integral information, and it is capable of holding the assemblage point on itself. Then you have developed quality and move on. We compare each such step with movement along a ladder. There is a concept about the ladder of St. James, leading to the Lord God. It's like this ladder. Movement into the bright world due to the development of certain positions of consciousness. And at school we describe these positions through the minor arcana of the Tarot. When you understand the essence of these positions, you understand the physics behind the development of the qualities of consciousness, then you can move consciously. You can tune into these positions and work in them. Then the exercises you do make sense. Otherwise, all these visits to magic circles simply turn into the fact that a person remains all the time in his usual position, but sometimes tries to do something magical in it and each time does not understand why nothing works out for him. He thinks that the problem is in schools, which he changes 5 times a year. It's not about schools. You need to change your initial position, change your picture of the world. And the information that is given during training in magic is part of the training; it’s not all told for the sake of a nice word. We are talking about creating a special space in the mind in which a magical personality is formed, and it is different in nature.
And gradually a person flows into it and becomes identified with it. All practice should be done from this special position. To learn to fly, you need to assume that you have wings, and then you can try to work with them.
Here we can also add that for people of the 4th caste, working with information, comprehending some information are real actions that change the fixation of the assemblage point, and this somehow affects the world, situations. For a magician, working with his picture of the world is not a theory or empty actions, but a completely practical aspect of life. But for a person of the 1st–3rd caste, these actions seem too abstract and empty. For them, real interactions occur only where the physical body does something. And everything else is, as it were, above their level, beyond interaction. Hence, they do not understand all this thinking, pondering some ideas, reading books, and information interaction. For them, consciousness is only a tool for controlling the body, and everything that does not belong to the body is, as it were, useless. And for a magician, consciousness is part of the planetary mechanism. And if you change the state of consciousness, change the picture of the world, this will somehow affect the universe itself, on situations related to the magician. That is, for a magician, theory itself is pure practice. And for a person of the 1st–3rd caste - a pure abstraction, divorced from reality.
