Having spent their entire lives fighting for the right to be themselves, to act according to their own will, and not to be a toy in the hands of “cosmic” predators, magicians see that afterlife is not such a bright “merger with the World Mind.” Their experience shows that many of those who have died do not even understand that they have died, their consciousness - the dream consciousness - continues to function in this mode, gradually collapsing, and individuality, never developed during incarnations, cannot provide support to preserve the “I”, which also dissipates in the world economy, giving its Consciousness as food to the World Predator

As a result, the next incarnation is very weakly connected with the previous one only by the tasks that it must solve

However, it is not only posthumous fate that does not inspire joyful prospects for the Western magician. Only having set foot on the Path and moving away from the initial euphoria, he almost immediately encounters furious resistance from external and internal predators; it seems that the whole world has taken up arms against him and is trying to crush, destroy, or at least force him to leave the Path

And it is not surprising that the number of Magicians who won the battle for themselves, for their selfhood and their freedom is incomparably and disproportionately less than the number of losers who lost the Path, Power and themselves

So, for the magician it is obvious that the chances of changing the situation are scanty. However, they still exist. Therefore, the struggle is not meaningless, although it is almost hopeless. In addition, for a Western magician it is obvious that when choosing - to die in battle or die in his bed in deep insanity - the first option is incomparably preferable