Concentration and Visualization
Developing focused mind and vivid imagination.
Hermetic practice requires developed concentration and visualization abilities. The mind must be trained to focus without wandering and to create vivid mental images that serve as vehicles for magical work.
The magician must be able to imagine anything at will and hold that image steady.
These abilities are foundational for all Hermetic operations.
Hermetic Tradition
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- What Hermeticism says about habit and discipline
Two specific trainable capacities: holding attention without wandering, and holding a vivid image steady. Hermeticism treats these as skills on a scale, with a floor that rises through drill, rather than as moods you happen to be in.