the depths of the Gift of Magic. What is your freedom to choose when you can achieve
Immortality?
Eighth Trap: Peace. War is the natural state of the world. Man is constantly at war, but he simply
does not realize it - from the first days of human history he has been fighting against nature,
fighting against the wild beasts. He is learning how to build a shelter to protect himself from
storms. How to improve his hunting equipment to provide a livelihood. Then he fights for the land
to get fruits from it. He is fighting for a territory to have more land to cultivate. He fights for
religion, he fights for political ideas. The whole history of mankind is in fact a history of warfare.
The war is constant. Peace is only a temporary state of stagnation. The tree bears fruit once a year.
The farmer works all year for these fruits - a state of war, constant work. Fruit picking is the short
period of "peace". This moment is not for rest but should be used for judgment and
synchronization. War is the storm that knocks down dry branches, leaving only living trees. War
is the test for the Warrior.
Here we must show Clarity and Distinguish in order to understand War as a phenomenon. War is
pure action. Forward-Looking Intention. The spirit of change. War is the Necessity of Action.
When a man is guided by Necessity, War remains only progress and there is no unnecessary
destruction and damage. However, when a man turns his back on Necessity and wants, figuratively
speaking, more land than he can cultivate, the greed of the mind arises, and from the mind come
the cruelties, violence, and destruction that we constantly see in the World. Not from the War
itself, but from the human mind.
The Magician sees the hidden - peace is stagnant. War is Action. The Magician is first and foremost
a Warrior - he is in a constant state of War. War against the mind, War against the weeds in the
World, War against the Traps, War against the weaknesses and bad habits. When a person tunes
in to that frequency of vibration in which he seeks peace and happiness, it means that his sad end
is near - he is already tired and he surrendered. The search for peace means stagnation. Spiritual
death. Lack of Energy. Man wants peace when he has no strength to continue forward. Peace is a
swamp. War is a raging river that has rushed to the sea. War is like life, and Peace is like death.
The War is to choose to live Flawlessly every day, every minute. Peace is choosing to give up and
die, neglecting your duty to humanity.
It is for this reason that in many modern spiritual teachings one of the ideals is the attainment of
Peace, Love, and Righteousness. This is an idea that sells very well in the spiritual market. Every
person who is tired of life (because he cannot control it) wants to achieve Peace and is even ready
to donate money and even his most valuable belonging (time) to anyone who dares to promises
the attainment of this Peace. The Magician does not seek Peace, but War. The problem is rooted
in the fact that people live in a dualistic world of good and evil, of white and black, and for them,
of course, Peace and War are opposites. Peace is something good and bright, and War is something
evil and destructive.
The true Warrior is constantly on full alert, always Flawless. He knows that War is the test and he
should not wait for War to reach his doorstep. The Warrior chooses his own battles and chooses
his own battlefield. He created the War. He is the wind that blows through the forest and knocks
down the branches. He brings a test for the World and those who pass this test receive the most
valuable Gift - the Sacred Knowledge.
Ninth Trap: Life. Life is one of the best-hidden traps in the world. Man is so concentrated in the
life of the World that he completely forgets about death. And so he is surprised that he loses his