There is a feeling at large that somehow Magic can be made easy, that there is some kind of secret shortcut to unlimited power and wealth, which can be bought if you can only find someone to sell it. I''m sorry to say that's not the case. There are those on the web who charge a lot for 'secret knowledge' or offer 'astral initiation' for a substantial fee, but knowledge is free.
Knowledge itself is free in financial terms, but makes demands of time, priorities, study, concentration and so on. As Dion Fortune remarked: "All initiation is self initiation - all the initiator does is present you, as ready as possible and with the right ritual to the Lord of the Universe , who works in silence.
All the same, a teacher must sometimes charge to live - venue hire websites and advertising all cost money. The question you must ask is whether the Labourer is worthy of the hire.
Secrecy only arrived as a way of self preservation in a hostile world, of keeping a job in an unfriendly world and of making sure that a seeker is ready for that which is sought. We have an obligation not to pass on skills which will do psychological damage.
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