An idyllic winter scene with woodgatherers near a castle (1853) by Frederik Marinus Kruseman
Picture by Mele Brown
Wolves were the first fur missiles.
Fix your eyes on the goal and never lose sight of it. Close your eyes. Create an image and look at it. In the dark, learn to discern a light that cannot be seen with physical eyes. This ethereal light carries the first secret of the Work. Become insensitive to good and evil, upright, absolute, naked. Learn to will without yearning, without fear or regrets. Create a power to act without tiring. Let this power be cold, hard, and at the same time labile and flexible. The Secret of the Force consists in willing well, willing long, willing without ceasing—and in never yearning. Cut yourself free from the bonds of sensuality, intoxication, and passion: reduce yourself to a simplicity that wills. Violate every need. Use everything and abstain from everything as you please. Become the absolute ruler of your soul. Create a resistance. What is mobile obeys what is immobile, and the powers of nature become subjected to him who can resist them. Having reached a point when you desire nothing and fear nothing, there will be few things over which you will not rule. However, enjoy nothing until you have first vanquished it within yourself. The Force does not give itself up. Take it. Dare. Being free, well balanced, strong, calm, and pure, and having slain desire, say: “I WANT.“
from Introduction to Magic, Julius Evola