The disadvantage in the sorcerers’ world is our lack of familiarity with it. In that world you have to relate yourself to everything in a new way, which is infinitely more difficult, because it has very little to do with your everyday life continuity.
Sorcerers don’t resolve this problem. The spirit either resolves it for us or it doesn’t. If it does, a sorcerer finds himself acting in the sorcerers’ world, but without knowing how. This is the reason why I have insisted that impeccability is all that counts. A sorcerer lives an impeccable life, and that seems to beckon the solution. Why? No one knows.
Impeccability is not morality, it only resembles morality. Impeccability is simply the best use of our energy level. Naturally, it calls for frugality, thoughtfulness, simplicity, innocence; and above all, it calls for lack of self-reflection. All this makes it sound like a manual for monastic life, but it isn’t.
Sorcerers say that in order to command the spirit, and by that they mean to command the movement of the assemblage point, one needs energy. The only thing that stores energy for us is our impeccability.
You maximize that movement by curtailing self-reflection. Moving the assemblage point or breaking one’s continuity is not the real difficulty. The real difficulty is having energy. If one has energy, once the assemblage point moves, inconceivable things are there for the asking.
Man’s predicament is that he intuits his hidden resources, but he does not dare use them. This is why sorcerers say that man’s plight is the counterpoint between his stupidity and his ignorance. Man needs now, more so than ever, to be taught new ideas that have to do exclusively with his inner world–sorcerers’ ideas, not social ideas, ideas pertaining to man facing the unknown, facing his personal death. Now, more than anything else, he needs to be taught the secrets of the assemblage point.
The position of silent knowledge is called the third point because in order to get to it one has to pass the second point, the place of no pity. The assemblage point acquires sufficient fluidity to be doubled, which allows it to be both at the place of silent knowledge as at the place of reason, either alternately or simultaneously.
Every human being has a capacity for that fluidity. For most of us, however, it is stored away and we never use it, except on rare occasions which are brought about by sorcerers.
Humanity stands at the first point, of reason, but not every assemblage point of human beings is exactly at the position of reason. Those who are exactly at their own point are the true leaders of humankind. Most of the time, unknown people whose genius is to exercise their reason.
There was once a time when mankind was at the third point, which, of course, was the first point at that time. But after that, mankind moved to the place of reason.
When the silent knowledge was the first point, the same condition prevailed. Not all points of agglutination of human beings were also exactly that position. This meant that the true leaders of mankind have always been those few humans whose assemblage points were either at the exact point of reason or the silent knowledge. The rest of humanity was merely the audience. In our era are lovers of reason. In the past lovers were silent knowledge, which astonished and sang odes to heroes from any other heading.
Mankind spent the longest part of its history at the position of silent knowledge, and this explains our great longing for it. Only a human being who is a paragon of reason can move his assemblage point easily and be a paragon of silent knowledge. Only those who are squarely in either position can see the other position clearly. That was the way the age of reason came to being. The position of reason was clearly seen from the position of silent knowledge.
The one-way bridge from silent knowledge to reason is called concern. That is, the concern that true men of silent knowledge have about the source of what they know. And the other one-way bridge, from reason to silent knowledge, is called pure understanding. That is, the recognition that tells the man of reason that reason is only one island in an endless sea of islands.
A human being who has both one-way bridges working is a sorcerer in direct contact with the spirit, the vital force that makes both positions possible.
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