Machine-assisted translation. The original Russian publication is linked below.
I see that some discussion has arisen in the school’s Watch group. And I want to discuss it on a common platform. The question is posed as follows: “To what extent do we have the right to use combat spells on civilians and, if so, in what case?” These are quite important questions that you need to answer clearly when practicing combat magic. A battle mage who doubts can do little at all.
I want to remind everyone that the goal when creating the Watch is to create a group of people who can work in a hard mode with real powerful combat spells. It is as if we are growing a certain organ in our egregor, which will allow us to achieve some other goals. Then the question arises: where and how can you practice combat spells? Those who have tried to practice combat magic in practice, and not in words, know that it is very difficult to start practicing many skills somewhere. Of course, sometimes you want to kill your boss, but then the emotions pass, and it’s somehow unclear (where will you find a new boss then?), or you want to strangle your work colleagues, but then the emotions pass, and the person understands that somehow you can’t do this, that after all, we are in the same boat. It’s like you have a gun, but it’s not clear how to learn to shoot with it, because it’s not clear who you can shoot at. And I want to practice the skill in real conditions. And I just saw this opportunity and took advantage of it. And he offered it to his students.
The answer to the question under what circumstances a magician can use a combat spell is not declared anywhere. All the etiquette and rules that exist in the world of magicians are a consequence of a certain experience of interaction. The world is a rather complicated place. Let’s say we study people’s karma and look at Vasya, who killed Petya. And then we look at Kolya, who killed Valera. And then to Sveta, who helped Vita. And we see that Sveta has acquired the most karma. They didn’t pay attention to Kolya at all, no karma arose. And Vasya even received some kind of reward for his action. All because Vasya fought in the war for some of his ideals, and his egregor won and established his own law. And Vasya is a hero within the framework of this law. Kolya, who killed Valera, turned out to be a police officer on duty, and Valera was not of particular value to the world, the world did not even notice. Since Kolya was not in any kind of emotional relationship, but was simply doing his job rationally, no imbalance arose. And Sveta, who tried to save Vitya for half his life, did him a disservice, created an extremely strong difference in potentials, aggravating her and his position in the world.
We must understand that when we talk about karma and law, we are dealing with certain quantities and mechanisms. There are no individuals here who would issue bonuses or withdraw them from accounts. The system has some kind of consciousness of its own, and it has a scale of values that it is guided by. The problem is that this scale is not clear to us. It is inhuman, this scale. The system is interested in development. But what fits into her ideas about development is a big question. And it cannot be answered unambiguously. Imagine Vasya, who all his life found himself in difficult situations, experienced a lot of stress, suffered, and endured hardships. This is good? And Petya, who lived like Christ in his bosom, had no problems, his parents decided everything for him, and he simply enjoyed life. Any problems were fixed for him. Whose life was good? But it turns out that Vasya, who gained experience, coped with difficulties and strengthened himself and created a complex personality. And he has advanced somewhere in terms of evolution. But Petya did not advance anywhere and therefore died, because the world saw no prospects for him. Already at the human level, all these criteria become not obvious about how to live life profitably. And when we talk about the development of the system, what will benefit it is a big question. But she measures the situation with her consciousness, not yours. Moreover, at different points of the system, and even more so in different eras, different laws apply. Hence, there is simply no rule to be written about how and what is allowed to be done. Therefore, every magician proceeds from the experience conveyed to him by his teacher and his own experience that he has accumulated. Moreover, for a magician this experience will extend over thousands of bodies. The magician also has a vision and is guided by it. He listens to the world all the time and sees how things are now.
At the same time, if we are talking about combat magic, then this is working with situations, and at the level of masters it is the development of society, civilization. And the magician, he is part of some kind of superorganism that develops this civilization. He is part of the team. There are always those above him and below him in the hierarchy. And in the battle magic of the team from above, they are not discussed. And not because it is prohibited, but because it simply cannot be done. You need to understand what hierarchy is in order to understand why the command from above cannot be violated. You need to imagine how the system works. The point is that if the brain issues the command “run,” then the entire body, organs, cells find themselves in certain conditions and carry out certain commands and cannot fail to carry them out. Mahonia sets the conditions for the body. And in Mahonia there are gods. But there may be several teams that somehow see the development of the world. And, say, at the Magonia level there is some kind of football game going on between these teams, or they are actively trying to figure out whose path is better, and at the level of the middle world there are strong confrontations. And different groups of battle magicians play as if for different teams. There seems to be a confrontation between ideas. And as a result, the world goes through some variants. Moreover, in our branch this option passed, but there are some parallel options where another one passed. The system is enriched with experience, the number of human branches along which human civilization goes is growing, people receive new qualities. Moreover, today battle magicians play in such a lineup, and 200 years later - in a different one, and those you played against yesterday are on your team today. Therefore, the relationship between them is not based on any emotions, there is no negativity towards each other. There is an understanding that we are all participating in some kind of game. And if you lost today, well, excuse me, you’ll be born and take revenge.
So, having found himself among combat magicians, the magician himself, he clearly understands where he is and what he has the right to. He plays for his team, is part of some superorganism, he is a member of some order, and some goals are announced there. And he assumes that these goals are correct. Who determines whether goals are correct or not? People always want to receive some kind of assurance, signed by higher powers and personally by God, that this goal is correct. But there are no such assurances. The world develops because it is moved. Is it possible not to move the world? If we imagine a situation in which there are no incentives for civilization at all, then this civilization is over. She'll just bend over and that's all. Imagine a person whose consciousness has no stimuli. This is called depression. And the man withers away. It's the same with civilization. But where should we move it? And here is the options field. In combat magic, there is an order of scouts associated with the study of options for the development of civilizations. And they, looking through some forks, studying where things led, collect this experience, and somehow those who deal with the specific world are guided by it. The society of magicians is a fairly large and branched structure. And we are talking about the brain, about the consciousness that controls the body. People, they don’t control anything, they just find themselves on this planet, which is flying somewhere at high speed in space, and generally understand little. Today they were born, and they were told that they need to do this and that and buy themselves a car. And before that they were explained that they needed to buy themselves a good horse. Tomorrow they will explain something else. A person lives very little and rarely has time to find his way in life. And he is not capable of developing such a thing as civilization, no matter how much he would like to. He simply doesn't have the capabilities. And magicians have it.
Combat magic involves fairly tough interactions. Imagine James Bond, who received an assignment from the CIA. He completed the task, but after him such a trace remained there, destroying half the country. But all this doesn’t matter, because I completed the task. This thing, the very principle of battle magicians, was described by Krishna to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita. Just read it. The text may be ancient, but its relevance has not changed.
There is an undeniable situation in which a magician has the right to use combat spells. This situation involves an attack on a magician. The magician has the right to defend himself. And we used this very situation to train the skills of combat magic, to train people. Although we ourselves are not in any real combat conditions, we can consider what is happening from a certain angle. How - I explained to the Watch. And then we talk about the fact that everyone who runs at us with a sword is a legitimate target for training. Then the question arises about the legality of this action. And the answer must be sought not in your thoughts, but in reality. The people who study at my school must somehow be able to work with the 16th lasso. And when you do something wrong, you should feel that the voltage is rising and you are creating a potential difference, that you are charging the spring. And this is called the accumulation of karma. Moreover, this spring can be positive or negative in terms of the result. If it hits you on the head, it’s negative; if they give you a pie, it’s positive. And when you do something, you must always keep track of this spring, which can be charged. If during these trainings you really feel that you are accumulating karma, then you stop and stop this business. But here it is important to get away from any thoughts. What is important here is the contract itself in which you are included. If you initially think that this action is controversial, then you do not do it, because in relation to your internal agreement you will be cocking these springs. I myself clearly monitor what the Watch does, and none of them earn any karma there. It would be immediately obvious. Everyone can sit down and watch aspect 16A of the activities as part of the Watch training. And see whether something is cocked or not.
All these skills have quite specific applications. I have just returned from Crimea, and this tough interaction is clearly felt there. And I got involved in it, tried to increase the depth of immersion. There is some kind of clash of systems going on. Moreover, this collision is not so much planned by magicians, but is simply some kind of natural process in the Earth’s body. And they are trying to take control of him. But at the same time, magicians also make some plans for the future and proceed from the fact that the world should go like this, that is, this process should have some specific result. And another group of magicians may somehow see differently. Now there is no such thing here, but, say, during the Cold War there was a fierce confrontation between two magical groups. Now there is no strong contradiction between magicians about how the world should pass, and they lead it calmly and smoothly. And we are talking about managing large systems - egregors. There are always key points in egregors that define and influence. And they use all the same spells that you are currently practicing in the Watch. It’s just one thing - a student learns something, and another thing - a master works, these are different levels of work. But when you learn something, you move in some direction, you specialize. I, too, got involved in this process, tried to work there and tried to make some contribution to it.
Our world is ours because we live here and we are building for ourselves what we will continue to live in. Battle mages assume that they can control the development of civilization. Just as you assume that you have the right to control the body with which you are connected, battle magicians as an organ, as a kind of collective mind, identify with the body of this civilization and say: “This civilization is me.” And then they all together form a kind of superconsciousness of this civilization. It moves this civilization forward by force of will. Moreover, this consciousness is group, it is different, inhuman. And each individual magician is simply a certain particle of this consciousness, like a brain cell participating in some processes, performing some function in this world. Whether he does it correctly or incorrectly, we don’t know. It's just that if a body doesn't have a head, then that body is useless. And someone must be the head in this world. And this head is the magicians. Moreover, there is movement in this head. And the magicians gradually go through their evolution on the planet and move on. Therefore, there must be some influx of new magicians into the head. There must be people who learn something and in the future will be able to do something as part of this work. Therefore, the hierarchy itself treats the training of students, and these are levels 4.1–4.2, as calmly as possible.
I hope these things that I told you will give you something. For the most part, I say this to the school’s Watch, as well as to people who may join the Watch in the future, or people who will connect their lives with the specialization of battle mages. I also want to ask the leader of the Watch, Alexei Rimsky-Korsakov, to write a short article-report about the work of the Watch, about the experience that was gained, what they learned, what it gave you personally, how this experience influenced your life. You can include responses from different people from the Watch in this article. I think it will be useful for you to draw some conclusions, and it will be useful for the people to listen to you. Because there is a lot of thinking on this topic, but in fact people do not have access to any real experience at all.