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I had first begun to read about psychoanalysis in the writings of Freud and Jung as early as 1926. I cannot say they meant very much to me, save as intellectual stimuli of a fascinating kind. When I first wrote The Middle Pillar, I had just entered psychoanalytical therapy, thanks to the influence of a very dear friend. The tremen- dous value and importance of psychotherapy as a prelude to any serious magical training was just beginning to dawn upon me. My work with Dr. E. A. Clegg of Harley Street, and with Dr. J. L. Bendit,l a Jungian of Wimpole Street in London, led me to realize the importance of psychotherapy to the beginner in mysticism and magic. In fact, thrty-five years later, in 1968, I am more strongly of the opinion than I was then. So fervently do I feel about this that since that time I have acquired some of the qualifications necessary to practice various forms of psychotherapy, particularly that of Wil- helm Reich,l2 whose work I regard as a bridge between conventional psychotherapy and occultism. I doubt if Reich would be pleased to learn of tlus association of mine-but a fact it is nevertheless. Today I will not so much as consider even discussion of the Great Work with a student until he has experienced some form of psychotherapy, I care not which. There is lacking, until then, a common frame of reference, and common medium of communication. In The Middle Pillar will be discovered the first glimmerings of insight I had in that particular direction. It still holds good today. Endnotes 1. The "wheel of existence" or the "wheel of evolution" refers to the wheel of karma or destiny. Karma is a Sanskrit word that means "action." It is a destiny con- saously chosen in life by each person, created by the total life experiences of all previous incarnations. Karma is the spiritual law of cause and effect-a law of consequence that plays itself out in psychic, moral, and physical ways in the life of human beings. One of the fundamentals of karma is that you get back what you give out. Thus evil that you do in one lifetime will come back to haunt you in the next. Likewise, the good that you do in one lifetime will come back to reward you in the next. In this manner, the individual human soul slowly evolves over the course of many lifetimes, gradually learning though its mistakes and growing a little wiser, a little closer to the divine each time. In Buddhism, the "Wheel of Life" or round of births is known as sasara. The mystic seeks to get off the wheel of incarnation as soon as possible, speeding up the process of spiritual
Crowley's teachings, though based on Golden D much more Eastern in focus. 11. John Laurence Bendit (1898-?) was a psydu researcher. Educated at Cambridge University, tice as a psychiatrist from 1923 onwards. From eral Secretary for the Theosophical Society in Lo he was a member of the Society for Psychical Re in medicine was granted for his work in paraps granted by a university in Britain. His specializ tionship between psychic ability and psycholog works included Paranormal Cognition; The Psych and Man Incarnate. In 1939 he married Phoebe D pist herself and a natural clairvoyant. Mrs. Ben and co-authored some of his books. 12. See Part Two, Chapter Six for more on Wilhelm
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CHAPTER FOUR THE MIDDLE PILLAR EXER
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Figure 4: The Middle Pillar.
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method is hit or miss, and does not
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