Machine-assisted translation. The original Russian publication is linked below.
Preceptor Alexey R.K., preceptor “Terma”
Success in any business comes only when a person believes in it. Not during a rational analysis of the state of affairs and not at all during criticism of one’s views and suffering.
What exactly is success? We can consider it as a result of the effectiveness of our actions. Those. if we performed some action, and it, in turn, had a result, then what we just defined was achieved - success. The student is preparing for an exam, the discipline is very difficult, and most of the semester is behind him. There is catastrophically little time, literally in a week you will need to come with your grade book to the teacher and describe (or even tell, just think) everything that is known about his subject. Many of those who recognized themselves in this description can remember how it all happened in detail. One of the key events was the mindset for success, victory: if, without attending a single lecture, you start preparing for the exam a few nights before taking it, and unshakably believe that everything will work out (well, at least for a passing grade), then after a week you can find the coveted grade in your grade book, sometimes even exceeding expectations. This is an element of inclusion in a certain agreement, where it is possible to achieve a certain result.
When teaching magic, the importance of fixation is often talked about. This fixation is based on two components: model and energy. A model is a picture of the world, based on which you can perform some action. If in a person’s picture of the world there is an opportunity to eat his friend, then he will not worry about supplies for the trip, he will simply gather a group of tourists to whom he will introduce himself as an experienced guide. And vice versa: if in a person’s picture of the world it is forbidden to eat his friends, he will take with him a lot of food, which he will still have to share with each fellow traveler. Any model is always based on some assumptions and axioms. It contains some postulates that cannot be refuted. For example, in classical geometry, two straight lines can have only one intersection point. And already in non-Euclidean geometry - depending on your luck. Each of these geometries represents a branch of mathematics that is needed for something. At the same time, using the postulates of non-Euclidean geometry, you can get a bad grade at school in the 6th grade, and using the postulates of classical geometry, you can forget about organizing GPS.
The model can be considered as clothing for consciousness. The human body can be dressed in different outfits and the combination of different things is called a costume. Costumes vary and are not suitable for all activities of the body they are worn on. It is not customary to wear a tracksuit to the theater, and swimming in a tailcoat, like an evening dress, is very uncomfortable. In the magic of the model, it has an applied meaning, in a sense primary. If for people of the first three castes their body is the main source of anxiety, stability and everything in general, since they are identified with it, then for magicians such a source is consciousness. Therefore, here we are talking about the skill of changing these models. Just as warriors change ties depending on the nature of the meeting, forks - on the type of meat and glasses - on the drink, so magicians change models based on current circumstances. These circumstances are created by the magician himself. By influencing with his consciousness what is happening around him, the magician creates reality around himself. This is a definite skill that needs to be trained.
The skill of mastering the body and using the right behavior in the right circumstances is called etiquette. In a magical environment, the skill of behavior at the level of consciousness is called similarly. Moreover, if among people they often turn a blind eye to violations of the rules of etiquette (look at how the British monarchs react to the fact that they were looked at askance, touched in the wrong way (Kennedy, Carter, Trump), etc. Previously, they could easily be flogged or executed for such things, but now everyone tactfully pretends that nothing happened), then in the magical environment it most often hits the nail on the head. And if not immediately, then a very short time later.
Etiquette in magic is not built out of nowhere, since it is connected with the main activity of magicians - the creation and transformation of the surrounding world. Imagine how many problems a person in tights can cause while sitting at the premiere of The Nutcracker. Now imagine how many problems a magician can bring when he looks out the window at a busy avenue and thinks “accident, accident, car accident, tram going off the rails.” These are completely different values, hence the different control over the activities of different castes. Up to the fourth caste, people’s thoughts only harm their health. Here is a hard worker looking out the window and thinking about a car accident, and then he has trouble sleeping at night, or has a pain in his side. He waved his hand and went to do something else. The consciousness of such a person works only to ensure the behavior of the body. At level 4.1 the situation begins to change. The energies of the body and consciousness are aligned. This is the level of students, here the main task is to learn to control consciousness. The first thing that is mastered at level 4.1 is extrasensory perception. A person feels what is happening around. Hence the growth of empathy, but not quite ordinary: from the outside it seems that the magician has compassion for everyone around him and wants to help. In fact, he just literally feels the suffering of everyone around him and wants it all to stop as soon as possible. Feeling the world directly with your consciousness, magicians are included in the society. Those. magician 4.1 already lives as a magician, but this is a kind of initial level. Hence the specific consequences of violating etiquette. Since the sensations from the environment themselves are quite vivid, there is unlikely to be a desire to disturb the overall harmony.
If something like this happened, using the above example, a level 4.1 adept will simply see car accidents more often in the near future, which will cause not the most pleasant sensations. Which, believe me, he will, firstly, remember, and secondly, he will do everything to avoid them in the future.
At level 4.2 (master level), violation of etiquette is almost impossible. Firstly, because these are serious magicians who themselves create conditions that are strikingly more accurate and global than adherents of 4.1. Secondly, these guys remember (including thanks to the practices of reincarnation) what the violation of certain rules in the past led to (for some reason, they were reincarnated). And thirdly, at this level there is full inclusion in magical society. The magician becomes a master, he establishes contact with the hierarchy, he knows what, how and why he needs to do. This finally becomes his main and only motivation. There is a certain signal coming from above that is impossible to argue with. For example, a magician lives on the edge of a forest and suddenly the information comes “there should be a city here.” And this information cannot be ignored, since the maximum energy is already in consciousness, where the signal directly arrives. Here it’s easier to forget that your shoe has holes or your nose itches. The magician begins to somehow implement this signal, creates an energy base on which the settlement will be built. First, a road appears near the edge of the forest. Shops and some car washes appear along the road. Then suddenly all the necessary resources for life are found. People arrive, start messing around, doing something, a small settlement develops, then a city. And everything seems to be the same, only the magician sits in the house and thinks “so here we are now organizing a concrete parking lot, but there will be a greenhouse.”
Another component of fixation is energy. If before this we were talking about the model, about the information on which everything is built, then when talking about the construction process itself, we will have to mention the resources necessary for this. Energy is everywhere in different forms. Most often this is potential energy, which can be converted into kinetic energy. A person is born with some kind of potential (genetic predispositions). He eats milk, cereal, vegetables and grows by leaps and bounds according to the pattern laid down by his parents. There are no deviations from this pattern normally. Those. If you take a cone from a pine tree, then the pine tree will grow from it. It may not be so crooked or even, but it will still be pine. But this requires some kind of environment, some circumstances.
For a magician, the environment is an opportunity to develop and translate information into experience. Any information can be translated into such an experience. Now you have learned the structure of a Roman catapult and are sitting there drawing it, creating some diagrams, and signing up to become a reenactor. Or we learned how to put a person into a state of hypnosis. Until you try to implement this, build a new model on this basis, a picture of the world in which you can do this, the information will be lying around to no avail. There are a lot of disciplines taught at the school. Some people sometimes talk enthusiastically about how they return to school textbooks and re-read them avidly. It would seem that all the exams have been passed, the material has been covered, it seems that it would have been possible to move on a long time ago. But the person comes back and reads like the first time. This is due to the fact that during school years a person simply memorized information in order to pass the exam. Naturally, it did not take hold in his mind as a real experience. Including because he did not invest enough energy into it. But now I’ve turned 30, everything that has not passed into experience since school has dissipated (information also has such a property in the mind). The person opens the textbook again and, while reading, translates this information into experience. He tries to do something, adds vitriol to the water, examines worms, solves quadratic equations. And he does this not for the exam, but for himself. From here he receives experience that allows these structures to take hold in him.
What is his motivation anyway? Very simple - he is interested. This is called high frequency motivation and is associated with the top connection. Each person has two connections: the lower one is connected with the 3 lower chakras, it allows the physical body to live normally, receive the necessary energy and dump the excess; the upper one is tied to the 3 upper chakras (anahata is in the middle and “is involved little by little everywhere”) and allows consciousness to receive a signal from the system and somehow also develop. Magical development is associated with strengthening the upper connection (hereinafter referred to as VP). From there the adept receives information, feels something from the world around him, etc. That is, if you have a desire to do something without obvious physical or material benefit, the VP works well for you. Its good performance also allows you to work with models. This happens by feeding the energy of consciousness.
When a magician works with his consciousness, he builds some kind of model for this work. Now the main course takes 2MA. Each minor arcana is some position of consciousness, and the position of consciousness is based on some model, some postulates. In 2MA of Swords, for example, we talk about the fact that the world around us consists of various flows of energy. It flows from one object to another. The object itself, whatever it may be, represents a certain glow of energy, different from others. And this is just a position that you need to enter and fixate on. If you stand on this “shelf”, then you can achieve the results that this shelf suggests, i.e. really feel the energy everywhere, how it moves, etc. If you don’t get involved in this, then you won’t be able to feel the energy.
Remember that a magician can do what he believes in.
Briefly: any work begins with fixation in a certain position; To fix, you need to have information about the model and energy; if something doesn’t work out for you, let go of expectations, rest, believe that you will succeed and try again.
