Entering the Great Book
As with any great adventure there is the exploration, though the art will be clearly defined in the systems you may join. The Art itself is a pattern of the simplistic to the complex. Which is greater the ocean you know or the one you don't... (The Mysteries are clearly defined from the system of the advanced mindset to the cultivate design as one learns their form and road...) See i just told you everything and you still don't have a clue... It is in our nature to reveal it all in simple puzzles, but to get in you have to have the key to the Designs...and to earn that you must climb the ladder.....Unlike most designs that show the patterns of the Cabal or the Solomonic Tokens. It is in our nature to instruct the lower secrets and the patterns that reveal the symbolism, because most occult designs work by the key cipher method few of the adept class are made aware of the design within the art within the design, and gather/learn the full measure of the temple structure... As with most designs it is by "privileged" acceptance of an Oath in ritual, that allows the entering one called "neophyte" to most basic schooling designs/system.. to advance to the upper levels in the temple structure to the education and or awareness of the GREAT BOOK.....
The Nature of the Key
In this statement is the art of knowledge of the occult and more, it is often mistaken as you are to "take" what you think is yours, fight for the right to be the one with it, If you have it given but you fight to see, you will never have, never be, never see.... because to fight is not to be "dedicated", it is merely to feel out of place and want to make one...Many a Magus in claiming falls into this Fear.... (To be appointed comes not from the appointee or the right of the Arts) it comes mastery of the path itself, and to claim value for something you never done, never been a part is no better then "wishing on a star, sure it will come true, but was it more for your ego/vanity, or for the fact you was thankful you got a wish?.... This is the grand reason KEYS, sygils, talisman, and tools are hidden...both in plain sight, and all about, and even made to be there before you get there....)
You are as you have Earned....
You will only be ever granted what you have duly earned, and not one farthing more... Greed is the reason that most never get or achieve but recreate and then are forgotten, In the book of Crowley...he proves that there is a hidden dual goal of the master verse the servant/disciple...but it is that fear and lack of honor in the arts that call to us, that create the will to destroy who we are meant to be, and the POWERS, won't stand for it, and they will not be questioned, if you chosen to question them.. then leave here and go find an easier road, because you will get kicked out before you even enter...And thought the game of the Greek chorus is apart of the "modern" example of the older occult truth, it is still only a game, and like any game its the rules that set the standards of conduct.... A true and honest practicing one, will not steal or cheat, we may bend the rules if they are way deemed unfair, but only with the council of ones who have felt the same sting.... Justice will cut you as easy as it will cure you as well......(the double edge sword Ideal)
The Powers
When you embrace the powers they Embrace you back....
The art isn't about strict rules and fate may force your hand to do something you wish you wouldn't, the art knows your heart and though it can be stressed to the last heart string, if you are of its design then you serve it, and you ask nothing else.. yes it can be a bit cultist but to be a student is to play follow the leader, and the art as of the dedicated require that measure, oath or not....
When i stretch out my hands........
The powers aren't something you can demand and be above, they are hundreds of millions of years older so you are but a glimpse in their eyes, and they care for you only as far as you care to be by them, after that your life isn't even a question anymore....(unlike those magi/magus) that declare they are this or not... The powers will follow through with everything they do... (When occult masters/magistracy/or above think they are better and more powerful then gods, they become like the fallen gods of the times before....empty and without anyone caring they are this or that....a fools fool.....
The only way to redeem yourself in their eyes, is to remember who gave you the will to be,..... not by yourself......any who think this might as well drift into the sands, and be swallowed.... (But what about godhood, or self made god) These are the fantasy of those who are lost in their own Ego/Id.... and yes you may rule for a time, so your successor is born, and they will fix your mistakes.... your not just kicked out...even if you kick yourself out....
Forgiveness doesn't come from others it has to come from you....
Another grand lie from the book of the self made gods/goddess's for they are fighting the fact they will seek to be redeemed in the eyes of the powers when their sun has turned to moon, in hidden cover they will come to one who has done as they did, and seek to be forgiven.....atonement isn't the answer, of course your going to pay...but that isn't it... You re-make your name good in the eyes of those about you even if you are not liked your aura can be eternally accepted and loved.
Dragons serve the only way one may maintain Order.......
An Oath may be broken, in the course of discovery, an action taken by one in the dragon's design, when it is accepted as un-breakable...a pact/oath/bargain, this is required at times to push the dedicated into the education needed to control their actions, by all means the oath once broken can't be repaired.... however in the effort of testing...an oath can be broken, many times to find more then truth but loyalty at heart.... DRAGONS LIVE BY THEIR OWN RULES, this is something required when nature is influenced in bonds made by those who are most dedicated to the destruction or construction of something that effects more then one person, Its never easy for a dragon to serve correctly because they understand the mindset of the one they attach to or serve and emotional fears/doubts/goals/self made ego, and pains can create in the mindset of the one they serve and might need to remind someone of the Greater messages......
We should never be ruled by our "OPEN" emotions...........
Throughout the course of your study you will get on the good side and bad side of others this is natural, never accept it as a loss, and if you make it into the ARTS at the higher levels know that the ability to act on an emotional venture, is just that emotional, "silence is golden" because it gives one a way to reflect before breaking or bending any bond...
but know that the actions of this in personal fashion is just that, but as one of guide or other, the dragon/higher will and reserved self are called in to serve the judgment and it is as cold as arctic wind.......
As one pushes themselves to explore the powers of the Transformations of self, so will the changes push back....