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One thing I have come to
understand of late is that you do not fully comprehend the nature of
intent. I fear you're confusing it with intentions and it's a clever
trick of the Eagle that the two words bear visual resemblance but are
essentially opposites. It's often been said that the road to hell is
paved with good intentions, and while the interpretation of that
mythical location is sorely mistaken, the sentiment expressed is utterly
correct.
Look at it like this: you will never become eternally Whole through good
intentions but only through unbending intent, and if you don't see the
difference you will stumble and fumble and ultimately fail because
intentions are the things you want and hope and plan to do, but Intent
is the unwavering image held in the heart of your heart and soul - the
paradigm upon which everything you Think or Do becomes a Realized
reflection of the paradigm itself, yes? It is a meta-physical part of
you, invisible to the naked eye but no less real than liver or spleen,
and if you aren't using it to its full potential, your evolving self is
incomplete, dis-eased as a body without a heart, see?
Intent
is the active side of clarity, an unwavering vision
held firmly in the mind, which serves as the sorcerer's direct interface
between question and answer; the metamagickal probe or prod applied to
the all-knowing All as a means of extracting the specific Knowledge
required to achieve the manifestation of the intent itself; it is the
quantum Questioning mother of the Will β not the Will, but without
which the Will can never manifest because without Intent the Will has
nothing to manifest, nothing to create, no seed to nurture; Intent is
the goal/vision the sorcerer projects unceasingly onto the silent screen
of eternity until eternity reflects the sorcerer's will by yielding up
the information required to achieve the Intended evolution. Intent does
not compromise. It does not yield to reason or common sense. It can be
summoned clearly, instantly and impeccably in all states of awareness by
invocation of the word
Intent.
The quantum concepts with which otherworlds are built can give you the
keys to the third attention or just as quickly lock the door forever if
you take it as commonplace or just another mystery with no solution, and
this is another reason your Intent must be impeccably defined with the
sharpest knife, a vision cut away from the Nothing which you turn to in
times of doubt or confusion. Intent is the instrument you rub against
the web of non-local information to create a sympathetic synapse between
the brujo's question and the evolutionary answer, the intersection where
vision becomes manifestation through manipulation of matter/energy using
the invisible tool of Intent itself. It is, quite simply, the overlap
point of vision and creation, brought into being by using the question
to elicit an answer which is in accordance with the unbending vision.
(Orlando,
November 23, 1999)
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