The Four Magical Pathways (excerpt from the Rune Course)

The Four Magical Pathways

The four magical paths that a person can follow: the path of faith, the path of service, the path of science, and the path of witchcraft.

The Three Circles Model shows us the mechanisms for a person to naturally exit out of the inner circle into the outer one. For this purpose, we have the projections of the pathways, which are denoted by the straight lines on the diagram. And we can see that there are four of these pathways present that run from the inner into the second circle. They are the so-called traditional pathways of consciousness development. For example, if a consciousness is left to its own devices to develop in a natural way, once it would more or less fill up the proto-foundations, it will want to go further, to the second circle. And thus it has four options, four pathways to follow.

The path number one goes from the proto-foundation Love to the proto-foundation Good. It is quite a direct path. It is chosen by people, and they do choose it quite often.

It is a very wide and established road that basically most people walk. And this path is called the path of faith. Love equals Good. This is what gets deposited to one’s consciousness. And this turns into a wide track. It involves comprehending Good through faith and accepting everything non-critically.Good is learned not from own experience, but from certain algorithms which get preventively uploaded into one’s consciousness.

The path number two goes from the proto-foundation Life towards the proto-foundation Tradition. This one is the path of service. This path is also relatively established, but few walk this path because doing so involves real action and physical hardship. This is the path of warriors. This is the path of the loyal ones. They do it by shaping their life according to Tradition and by investing their life into the formation of Tradition. Basically, proving by their own example what Tradition is. Similar to a founder of a bloodline when he or she invests a piece of their consciousness into the bloodline which then leads to the formation of the bloodline structure. In this case, when a person followed this path, they followed exactly the path of service.

The path number three goes from the proto-foundation Hate to the proto-foundation Evil. Everybody wants to walk this path, but very few can. This is a path of searching, or path of science as we would say it in our time. This is the path that rejects everything that is natural. This is the path that perhaps even rejects itself. There is nothing on this path that one can trust, nothing to be accepted without a doubt. Everything must be questioned, everything must be dissected, everything must be taken apart into small pieces regardless of whether you love it or not. On this path, nobody loves anything. Exactly on this path, on the path of true evil, very few people walk, although many like to say they do.

The path number four goes from the proto-foundation Death to the proto-foundation Freedom. This is the path of witchcraft. Many believe that they follow it, but in reality, very few actually do. Because proto-foundation Death relates to destruction. Destruction of everything that connects one to commonality. Here we are talking about a separation, a leap, the change of elemental nature from Water to Air but here it is the transition from the proto-foundation Death to the proto-foundation Freedom.

Which path to choose?

Here you have the four magical pathways. The Yggdrasil tree will tell us which ones to choose and give us an opportunity to take on these paths through Runes.

The first path – the Path of Faith, from Love to Good. Midgard – Alfheimr. The bond between Midgard and Alfheimr is sort of there, but there is no rune. This means that this so-called bond is not meant for a human. We all remember the information that Odin relayed in the Havamal. Some Runes Odin brought for humans, some – for elves, some – for Aesier, some for Svartalfar, some for Vanier. Basically, every folk had their own Runes. Which means that every folk had their own access keys. This way, the human Runes which we possess, the twenty-four Runes of the Elder Futhark, don’t indicate that humans have a key to this path. Additionally, the Yggdrasil tree tells us that the path of faith is not a Norse path. The one who follows the Norse path doesn’t walk the path of faith. He has some other routes. If a person of a Norse tradition transforms him- or herself, they should probably forget this word, because it is not their path, not their road.

The second path – the path of serving, from Life to Tradition. Midgard – Jotunheimr. This path is depicted for us, with a double bond. And both of these vectors have already been laid within our consciousness. Man has been given the keys to this path, and we know that these two vectors Jera-Jera-Naud and Jera-Dagaz-Naud, they teach us to work with truth, and then the truth teaches us to work with absolute truth and the lies. These two vectors as it turns out are related to the path of service. This path does exist in the Norse tradition, is allowed and supported by Runes. Humans are given a key, not one but two. It is there for them to walk this path and direct the world via these mechanisms, via truth.

The third path – the Path of Search, or Science, from Hate to Evil. Midgard – Svartalfheimr. Here we’re dealing with the same story – we can see there is no Rune for humans. No access for humans from Midgard to Svartalfheimr: humans don’t walk this path. Representatives of other realms do. Gods, for example, walked this path. For Loki this path was obviously open as he used it to go back and forth. An absence of a rune here is a hint that this path is not for humans at all. The path of true Evil, of rejecting all and everything, such science is not very humanly. It’s like doing vivisection – this isn’t very humane.

The fourth path – the Path of Witchcraft, from Death to Freedom. Midgard – Vanaheimr. And of course we have this path, and the Runes are there and the vectors are laid within our consciousness. Jera-Uruz-Inguz and Jera-Pert-Inguz.The skill of working with own desires, the skill of tying all with everything with the understanding of the law of equilibrium. Odin and the Yggdrasil tree tell us that in the Norse Tradition the path of witchcraft is this one here. To work with the law of equilibrium, to work with desires, regulating measures of Chaos, and working with the cycles of nature. And this, in the Norse tradition, is called the path of witchcraft. And by walking this path, one can exit the common world onto the priestship level, into the world of governing.

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