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"Well, I must confess that that is new and strange. So nothing at all about magic can be understood?" [Philemon]: "Exactly, Magic happens to be precisely everything that eludes comprehension."

Every value judgement must fall off from you, equally every other logical judgement, even your taste must be shed before the gate. Get rid of all your knowledge and above all sacrifice your arrogance, even when it seems to be based on merits.,,,what we call knowledge here is ignorance, seeing blindness, hearing deafness, feeling dullness. Enter through that gate entirely poor, pathetic, humble, ignorant.

"A huge task lay before me-I saw its enormous size- and its value and meaning escaped me. I got into the dark, and I groped along my path. That led inward and downward."