Harmony

There is duality in everything we do in our lives. We are always surrounded by opposing things that complement each other. Over time we will learn and realize that balance is the secret to a successful Journey.

However, we are often faced with difficulties that prevent us from realizing what needs to be done. We hang too far to one side or the other, and we despair, thinking there is no other way out. Until we suddenly get out of that whirlwind of confusion, and we can breathe again, a sigh of relief.

When it comes to occult-related studies I've been reading a few articles that discuss the importance of having a balanced way to deal with personal, spiritual, and intellectual development and growth.
There is a way that is connected to readings of works and writings on the most diverse subjects. A standard study, where the person deals only with certain material to a certain level, and then only to other studies.

This is the academic study, where the student goes up degree after degree (many initiatory orders use this structure.) It is a more scientific than a perceptive study.

The other path is the path of perception. A sensitive path, of intuition. There is more practice, the contact with the energies of the cosmos, of nature, of the metaphysical world.
A Path of Intuition. This is the path of insights, which binds with ancestry and past lives. We could use as an example the (real) witches and other systems where the contact with the inner self is constant.

When it comes to balance, I think the two paths complement each other. Everything that is only theoretical, scientific, and solely studied, will lack in practice and application. And he who is completely attached to his intuition only relying on it, without seeking a better theoretical basis, explanations, and the knowledge acquired through academic studies, would not be a magician.

I think magick happens on a daily basis, in the simplest things, and for it to happen the intertwining between study and practice is essential. As in the very Caduceus of Hermes, where we see this connection translated into symbolism.

In addition to every theoretical and practical part, there are several paths within each one, various ways, and you can not delimit something by saying that this is right and that is not. We all seek some kind of answer, we have our own personal Journey. Often the tools we need are within ourselves, and it is all that we identify with. That special issue that suddenly catches our attention, and it is through it that we connect and our learning and evolution may happen. Something we have an affinity, we feel good, we align with. It resonates with us, echoes within us.

As I already wrote in another post, it is not that we cannot acquire new things, to tread new paths. This is always welcome. What we should not do is to give up something that we know would be right for us, to worry about what others might think. Because we think it would be conflicting, or that one would invalidate the other.

Everything that was written until today; that was created like theories, systems, philosophies, religions, was made by people. And people are flawed. Everything is created from the point of view of the observer, of what he feels. Then the mistake would be to follow something just because someone wrote it. Because at that moment this person or group of people said, "I think it's this way."

We should always feel. Analyze with the critical and rational mind, and pass things through the filter of the heart.

Mind and heart complement each other. But it is not the rational mind that will put us in touch with the "Self". It is the heart.

Trusting just in intuition can take our feet too far off the ground, blinding us from concrete truths, causing us to lose ourselves in illusions for example, or to be swallowed up by our "trips" and mental "traps".

If we keep too much on the theoretical level, it can make us an excellent speaker, but one of those boring people who can only speak of theories and quotations of books, a pedant.
When we can bring both together, we work theory in practice, and we can bring logic to the intuitive things we do.

Events are no longer mere mechanical rituals. And those that occur naturally find better ways to be explained and improved.

So let us seek balance, not a total explanation of something, but to become that, as we should become the Tao.