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“The trance experience must be vivid, vibrant and intense. The same quasi-professionals will tell you that you cannot be forced by hypnosis to do something against your will. Advertising agencies, religious authorities, political powers and many others find this misinformation very amusing. The fact is that you can be hypnotized to do something against your will, and so one very important goal of magickal hypnotism is to break the magnetic hold these powers and authorities hold over you, and to free yourself.”

“Georges Sorel, to whom fascism is so much indebted, wrote at the beginning of our century that all great movements are compelled by 'myths.' A myth is the strongest belief held by the group, and its adherents feel themselves to be an army of truth fighting an army of evil. Some years earlier, in 1895, the French psychologist Gustav Le Bon had written of the 'conservatism of crowds' which cling tenaciously to traditional ideas. Hitler took the basic nationalism of the German tradition and the longing for stable personal relationships of olden times, and built upon them as the strongest belief of the group. In the diffusion of the 'myth' Hitler fulfilled what Le Bon had forecast: that 'magical powers' were needed to control the crowd. The Fuhrer himself wrote of the 'magic influence' of mass suggestion and the liturgical aspects of his movement, and its success as a mass religion bore out the truth of this view.”