Who Should Save the World?

The idea that our world is heading into an abyss is perfectly obvious and hardly anyone doubts it. Although a Magus’s primary concern is their path, it is clear that when the world falls away from the Great Stream and is flooded by Qliphothic forces, they cannot remain aloof from those processes.

Being warriors, Magi enter into battle with manifestations of greed, falsehood, and deceit encountered on their Way. The fact that the world is sliding into the Qliphoth means only that battles to preserve one’s authenticity add to battles to protect one’s surroundings.

Nevertheless, “global” goals by themselves readily become distractions and scatter the mind, so one must ensure that the desire to “save the world” does not distract from one’s personal struggle. It is easy to hide one’s own negligence behind such grand aims: “I don’t have time for your petty problems — I’m saving the world!”

Moreover, from the beginning of its history humanity has created organizations intended to watch over the balance of powers — after all, this has always been one of the main tasks of Orders and Brotherhoods. Yet for quite some time now these organizations, eroded by the claim of being ‘chosen’, have been far more occupied with settling scores among themselves and with other similar organizations — who is greater, more highly initiated, and who has more followers and money — than with the real work of harmonizing themselves, their members, and their surroundings.

Magic is essentially non-social, but that only means that Magi in their battles are guided not by loud slogans about “the common good,” but by practical considerations to counter mutual consumption.

The disunity of Magi, which in the modern era has reached colossal proportions, is undoubtedly one of the predators’ major victories, since Magi have always been those “hard nuts” on which more than one legion of Demons have broken their teeth.

Magi must not be indifferent; they should avoid pomposity and distraction. Precisely because “the common good” is such a vague notion, it easily becomes a source of personal powerlessness.

Collective vortices formed by Magi, if formed correctly and harmoniously, are powerful balancing forces in the world’s flows.

Thus, for Magi “saving the world,” though not the chief aim, is not irrelevant to them — if a Magus walks his Way steadfastly, refuses to let himself or his companions be consumed, and opposes all forms of consumption on the Way — it stabilizes the world far more than those who foam at the mouth arguing about “light and good,” while failing to notice nests of darkness and powerlessness within themselves.