The Magnum Opus, A Step by Step Course Quotes

“We are energy, all of us, everything on this planet is made up of pure energy.

Ancient religions and metaphysical schools of thought have been telling us this for millennia, and physics has been echoing this energetic reality for over a hundred years now.

As these ancient teachings tell us, and as physics now echoes; energy vibrates, it is all connected, it has nonlocal properties (meaning that it can exist in multiple places at once, and as such there is the possibility of instant communication and travel across great distances). This energetic essence can change its structure but it can never be destroyed (which can seem like a paradox). Like tends to attract like, and this energy conglomeration, which is us, has a great drive towards greater complexity and expansion of that very essence.”
― John Kreiter, The Magnum Opus, A Step by Step Course

“Your physical senses, which you may rationally believe pick up energy (electromagnetic energy) from the environment, actually project energy first; they project energy through attention because the physical senses are really attention focusing and modulation organs. And it is this attention that creates your personal world. The energy projected through this attention gives the world substance, thickness, and it is this thickness that you then classify as sight, sound, feeling, etc.

Attention then is an actual force in the world, a type of very specific and powerful energy that is used consciously and subconsciously by all human beings.”
― John Kreiter, The Magnum Opus, A Step by Step Course

“Alchemical Logic on the other hand, takes nothing for granted, even its own perceptions. It seeks the attainment of a deeper kind of direct knowledge, that begins by first letting go of all a priori understanding.

This forsaking of all a priori knowledge is supplemented with energetic practices, until a certain threshold is reached, where a practitioner becomes a true Alchemist, and is then able to perceive the world in a more direct way that no longer relies on any a priori knowledge.

This new way of perceiving is sometimes referred to as the Energetic Way. But calling it the Energetic Way is really an attempt to use words to try and define a new perceptual ability that allows the practitioner to see energy directly. And as a result of this new perceptive possibility, the world completely changes. It goes from being an object-filled place, to a sea of vibrating energy.”
― John Kreiter, The Magnum Opus, A Step by Step Course

“In order to prosper then, in whatever way we choose, we need to regain all of the energy that we were born with, and have created throughout the course of our life; energy which we have lost due to energy predation in one form or another. We need to do this in order to first of all escape the mass of the world and all its memetic traps, and in that way find true freedom, and the power needed to accomplish our life purpose.”
― John Kreiter, The Magnum Opus, A Step by Step Course