Imposing your will

by Sep 16, 20153 comments

Imposing your will on someone or group of people is all about making the victim’s world smaller, trapping them in a structure or system that limits their outlook.

One way is to impose your will is make them believe they have no choice or they have to act in a certain way, such as limitations in diet. The methods are subtle and do not appear to be coercive, at least to the victims. Giving up hope works well – “There is nothing I can do about it.”

Having order and structure in your life is good, isn’t it? Yes, well, to a point. Brushing your teeth every day is for hygienic reasons and would not be a problem. However, when we find ourselves in the realm of superstition and fear, of causal reality, then we are truly imprisoned.

Walled Gardens

Prisons do not have to be barbed wire and bars – they can be really beautiful. Another term is a walled garden. Before he achieved enlightenment, the family of Buddha knew he was destined to be a spiritual master, and so they kept in him in a palace surrounded by beautiful objects and people, and he was never allowed to see anything that was ugly. One day he was out of the palace and he saw a dead dog in the road, at that moment he realised his calling, and he left the palace.

Religions are another type of walled garden where everything is so beautiful you would not want to leave, or they give you promise of nirvana or heaven when you die if you have been a good person during your life.

Magicians like to think that they are free of such superstition, but they fall prey just as easily. The best example of this is the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. If you want to learn tarot or progress on the spiritual path you have to work your weary way up the paths to Tipareth if you are very lucky.

For years I made copious notes and drew and redrew the Tree of Life in an attempt to understand this system. One day I collected all the papers together, and I had a stack over a foot high. I had a real shock when I compared early notes to my latest insights, and found nothing changed. That was my epiphany. 15 years of study and no progress.

The Tree of Life is another Walled Garden (it was found in the Garden of Eden remember) that has to be transcended from form and structure to formless and unbounded.

One magical technique is to impose by will the structure of the Tree of Life into the aura of the victim (there is no other kind, only victim) where it will stay and the magician can easily manipulate the thoughts and feelings of the person. The magician acts as jailer, and here is the really sad part – he has no idea he is also a prisoner.

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3 Comments

  1. Segovius

    Good blog. Anything at all can be restricting – perhaps especially things that aim to ‘free’ people.

    Magic should, imo, be about freeing yourself and ‘making it your own’ – you can’t make something your own if you’re following. Perhaps the point of following is to learn not to follow?

    You see it a lot with charismatic people like Crowley or Gurdjieff.. they made something new of their own but instead of doing the same and making their own new thing, thousands just follow them. Human nature I guess.

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    • pauladmin

      Thank you Segovius! People are slaves to imitation these days

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  2. Chris matthews

    Excellent post Paul.
    I guess there are many ways to impose your will. For example repetition as subtle form of hypnosis or bran washing. For example “Oh, you can’t to this, be realistic” …says the ultimate pessimist. Or perhaps through superstition, and religious dogma. Or maybe the laws and bylaws of the land are another way of imposing will on others.

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