Crowley the Great Beast 666

Egos and the Faux Magus

Scarlet Woman is the Gate to Vision;
She, alone, holds the key.
The Fool shall be rendered blind.

Oh Faux magus!
You are the Fool left sightless;

His Star sees not its own light.
Alone, forever in the shadows of ego.

Never to be made manifest by the one truth.
EVERY! Man and Woman is a star.

Ah, the Magus - the Magician - so many stake claim to the name, yet so few are worthy of the title.

Ego is such a misunderstood term. Ego is self - Ego is not the inflated, self-aggrandized version that so many of the current Magicians possess. Poor deluded souls that they are...There is such a distance between the two and once a Magician is caught up in the mistaken concept, little can be done to change it until it is too late and their ego (with a lower case <e>) has destroyed any real chance they have of attaining a true level of Magus.

Just for the sake of clarity - when referring to the deluded souls - I'll use the lower case <m> and when referring to the true, the bright light Magus - I'll use the upper case <M>.

Last evening, I was in the presence of a Magus. The difference between the two sorts - Magus vs magus is palpable.

From the magus ( I'm going to resort to gut feeling here because that's the best way for me to describe the difference) you feel like you're in a small enclosed space, filled with something unpleasant that forces you against the wall. You don't feel knowledge, you don't feel wisdom - you feel <stink> from them. The entire space permeated by their inflated sense of what and who they are. Like those neon lights on any main street in any city...all bright and interesting but are nothing more than a gas. Break one of the lights and all the interest, all the power to fascinate simply disappears because there is no substance. It's all smoke and mirrors, its all gas.

Now, when you are in the presence of a true Magus - one who has learned the difference between Ego and ego - there is a quiet opening of the horizons. Everything seems a little brighter, a little more clear. Knowledge flows from these people, right through you - with no barrier. Ya just feel like answers are there, you only have to open your eyes.

I get feelings off of people, sometimes actual visuals and while I don't always pay the attention I should to this phenomenon - it has never let me down. When I feel disquiet around someone, when that feeling that there is something nasty under the surface? I usually throw on the caution light and approach with care. I'll throw out a few lures and see what comes back and I have been pretty successful in my analysis based on this method. Not that I always pay attention; sometimes I throw caution to the wind and end up with windblown dirt in my face. It's a learning thing.

These magus types floating around have, usually, photographic memories - they can quote song, verse and page at you until the chickens come home to roost. Someone told me a story last evening and it fits right in - it was the story of a free-range chicken who had eaten a garter snake but due to the feeding process of a chicken, the snake wasn't dead and could be seen wriggling around in the chicken's gullet.

And so it is with the false magus - harmless looking enough on the outside but here is something not quite dead, not quite safe under those white feathers.

I've been saved a world of grief and frustration by a wonderful Magus. I've learned more from him than from any single individual, any group or any book. He can say more in a single sentence than can be held between the covers of a tome.

To the false magi out there? You've missed the points completely; you are so wrapped up in your own grandeur that you have become like the emperor with no clothes . You are all about the neon, the smoke and the mirrors - you are nothing without them. Just sad, pathetic egos walking about disguised as Thelemites - disguised as Magicians. Not unlike all those little Harry Potters who ring our doorbells at Halloween. Well, Halloween is over - maybe it's time to put away your costumes and discover the man behind the masks, if indeed, a man is what you are and THAT will remain to be seen.

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