Prav in Man

In our previous conversations about Prav we considered the cosmic aspect of this principle. However, Prav also has a microcosmic application — as the right, one’s own Way.
In fact, the Way to Power is always guided and governed by Prav.
But what, then, is Prav within a person?

Yav predominates in most people’s souls. They are outwardly oriented toward the world of objects and phenomena.

The Yav person at his best is a positive, cheerful individual, smiling at the world and the Sun, a lively sanguine temperament who lives in the concrete world under concrete laws. For such a person everything is more or less clear; his interests lie in what can be known by intelligence and felt with certainty. He can go very far and become a great philosopher, scientist, or artist — but he will never become a Magus.
Because the Way to Magic runs through Nav, through the Chasm of the Unknown, and that lies outside the Yav person’s cognitive field.

Nav predominates in many souls. Such people are gloomy and melancholic, frail and lacking initiative. The passive substrate, although it contains the roots of all things, is itself formless and immobile. At its best a Nav person can become a seer, a medium, or even a Prophet — but he will never become a Magus. The Otherworld, when it predominates in a person, renders him incapable of creativity; he becomes merely a transmitter, a passive instrument of Power.

Only those people whose souls balance Yav and Nav can manifest Prav within themselves, and thus practice Magic, since a Magus is a person oriented to both the manifest and the potential worlds, rooted in both day and night, who believes in everything — and doubts everything, who neither flees nor stands still.

At the same time, Prav does not mean the “golden mean.” That “middle” allows no movement. The Magus, however, is supremely mobile. Prav is not a mere balance between Yav and Nav; it is an autonomous principle, the Crystal Ray of the Cosmos. It is a dynamic equilibrium, and at any given moment the Magus is in the realm of Yav or the realm of Nav, while Prav underlies all his movement, always and invariably forming the other side of his Way. The Magus is always hot or cold, but never “lukewarm.” He is always stern and elemental, passionate, and his love is as untamable as his hatred, and yet the Magus’s self-control is equally complete as his elemental nature.
It is very important for the Magus to understand this duality — on the one hand, the presence in the soul of both Yav and Nav, and on the other — that they do not neutralize each other, and Prav manifests as a distinct balancing principle.