One of my students asked me recently what I think about the Law of Attraction. I replied that it is basically watered-down magick. There is nothing wrong with attracting beneficial things and experiences into your life, but once you have them, what then? The Law of Attraction teachings are not a complete path. Will acquiring another six Rolls-Royces bring you liberation or serve to awaken you to the truth of who you are? As I have said before, I see magick as the Western equivalent of the Eastern traditions that have a goal of freedom from the cycle of existence. That said, even those traditions teach that it is fine to experience a prosperous life, particularly if you don’t get hung up on the material world as the be-all and end-all of existence. The physical world is just one level of reality—more about that a little later in this section.

I was having dinner at my favorite restaurant in Harlem one night. I told our friends that I would pay the check if they’d do magick with me. They agreed. When the check came, it was $140. I asked them to do magick, in whatever their preferred way was, for that $140 to return to me tenfold. We then spent about two minutes sitting around the table with our eyes closed, charging the check as a talisman.

Less than a month later a publisher in another country who wanted to buy translation rights to one of my books contacted me. They were offering $1,400.

Another example is my tours of the Met. I had spent a straight month doing hours of ritual work with the focus of having an amazing job in a rich, beautiful environment that I loved, something that would contribute to my completion of the Great Work, something that made me happy. Almost by accident and with no pre-thought, I found myself conducting tours at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. I just woke up one day and announced on social media that “as of today I will be conducting tours of the Met.” Suddenly every time I looked at the calendar, another tour had been booked. The Met became my office and second home. I worked in a place more rich and priceless than any of the offices of the biggest companies in New York. Sometimes I would look around me and think, “This is where you work. You get to spend every day in this epicenter of beauty and magick, a virtual 3D map of the aeons.”

Actually, it all was set in motion when I was with one of the two guys I did magick with at the restaurant. He told me, “If you want fine things in your life, then you should go to places where you’ll be surrounded by fine things.” From then on, I put a great deal of thought into everywhere I went. I never really went into bars after that because they weren’t part of a life I wanted. And I started spending as much time as possible surrounded by depth, history, and beauty.

I started spending time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which holds some of the most priceless and magickal objects on earth. Exploring New York with a new sense of discovery, I visited cathedrals, museums, and places that held the energy of devotion and love of Divinity; places designed to retrain your mind to focus on things above the mundane and mediocre.

Every building starts with a drawn plan with words called “specs” that describe how to construct it.

Everything we see in the physical world began with a thought, or a collection of thoughts.

The mind is the starting point and the connecting link to the manifest and unmanifest worlds.

Nothing can stand between you and the dreams that you choose mentally, and then project outwardly through your spoken and written words or imagination.