Don's Source About Magical Personality

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Well, I need to make a correction.

My brothers and sisters, I believe I found the source which Don consulted. It's a book called "Applied Magic" by Dion Fortune.

The book Don used as a basis for questioning Ra about magic was not that of Dion, but a book called "The Magician: His Training and Work" by W. E. Butler. Don quotes this book in "Secrets of The UFO" as he recommends it in the bibliography. However, as Butler was a friend of Dion Fortune, it's possible that these concepts came from Dion. He cites her as a great occultist alongside Eliphas Levi and other well-known names. In the book there is an entire chapter on the magical personality.

Some excerpts:

The magical tradition afrrms that the universe is one, and that no part of that universe is in esse separate from any other part. As the poet writes, "All are but parts of one stupendous Whole." All that exists in the univlrse, therefore, is the expression of an underlying unity which subsists through all things. This may be condemned as mere "pantheism" but it is not so in reality, for behind the subsisting unity which express itself in the existing universe there is That of which the Universal Soul, the Collective Host of Life and Form is but an expression.

In order to build up a balanced magical personality, construct it around the three basic aspects of life: Power, Love and Wisdom.

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It is most important that the building up of the form-aspect of the magical personality should not be commenced before these three aspects of Life have been thoroughly meditated upon, and some realisation of their nature gained.

It will have been noticed that this training is based entirely upon the personality of the would-be magician and this carries with it many important implications. In the early stages of our magical training, our motives are usually mixed, but from the beginning one motive must be present in our minds if we wish safely to tread the magical path. This motive we have already referred to. It is the desire to know in order to serve, and it must be the primary motive of our interest in magic.