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The choice to be made is not between black magic and white, selfish and unselfish motives, but between arbitrary magic and sacred magic. In this renunciation lies the philosopher’s stone, because you have to attain it before you can understand what it’s good for.
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Should you decide to do so, it will be for a motive that is difficult to imagine until it actually arises. (There is no magic in renouncing what you don’t especially want or believe you can get). To achieve this gesture, two things are necessary: a strong personal desire and the means of fulfilling that desire.
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The gesture that transforms an ordinary magician into an alchemist is the willing sacrifice of all that has previously been attained. This text is inspired by and adapted from the chapter on Radiation in “On Becoming an Alchemist” by Catherine MacCoun.
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