Excluded Middle

<p>Running back from cause to prior cause, and to still more remote precedent causes of his desires, the Individual finds himself at last confronting the Cosmic Will. Retracing his path back to the present, he finds himself confronting his Personal Will, which is moved by Desire. In other words, he finds a Chain of Desire extending from the Cosmic Will to the Personal Will—a chain of countless links, but having a beginning in Will, and an ending in Will—an Endless Chain, because it is a Circle. Thereupon he learns the first lessons of the Arcane Secret of the Excluded Middle, and thenceforth strives to realize the union of he two ends of Will. From the realization of this Union arisesthe Individual Will—the Positive Will of the Ego. In this process the law of Cause and Effect is not violated, but Will is made

the Cause of Will—the Cause and Effect merge. When this is attained—then does Man indeed become the Master!</p>