01-19-2019, 11:12 PM
To address Silvio's original question....
There seems to be an assumption of failure in there. As if without the proper climate for sorcery a student cannot succeed. Naturally everyone's heard the phrase "when the student is ready the teacher will appear". To me, that means that the student is in fact the teacher and when he gets to business and starts trying to learn, he will. If he were trying to learn to play tennis for example, once he starts hitting the ball with the racquet and seeing what happens he's learning. Whether someone else is there with him or not. If he's not prepared to learn that it wouldn't matter who was trying to teach him, he wouldn't learn.
There's good information out there with which a student can start training himself. Many good books have been mentioned in these forums. Be your own teacher. Others may help guide you, but really you're the only one who can teach you, and you might be the only teacher you need. Why bother? Why not bother?
There seems to be an assumption of failure in there. As if without the proper climate for sorcery a student cannot succeed. Naturally everyone's heard the phrase "when the student is ready the teacher will appear". To me, that means that the student is in fact the teacher and when he gets to business and starts trying to learn, he will. If he were trying to learn to play tennis for example, once he starts hitting the ball with the racquet and seeing what happens he's learning. Whether someone else is there with him or not. If he's not prepared to learn that it wouldn't matter who was trying to teach him, he wouldn't learn.
There's good information out there with which a student can start training himself. Many good books have been mentioned in these forums. Be your own teacher. Others may help guide you, but really you're the only one who can teach you, and you might be the only teacher you need. Why bother? Why not bother?