In the beginning of ritual, ego is host.
At the end of a primordial ritual, ego is seen to be the illusory guest,
subsumed to the celestial realities. In this lies the difference
between modern – especially behavioral – psychologies, and traditional
magic and alchemy. For in nearly all modern psychological models, the
ego is given a preeminent place – the goal is not transcendence, but
merely establishing a kind of balance in which ego is always host.
- Arthur Versluis
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