Seek to Desire Nothing by Lord Gryffyn

"Seek to desire nothing". It has taken me a lot of thought to understand the depth of this little statement. First came the realizations that all things, which exist, are transitory and the only true reality is the Divine Creatrix, which is beyond manifestation. Then came the understanding that part of the Divine resides within us. We call this the Divine Spark, the Mabon Child, the Child of Promise, the Child of Light, the Christos, and many other names. We call the infinite by the names of Goddess and God. We can not talk about something that is infinite with a finite language, so we have created these manifestations of the infinite so that we might better understand this part of ourselves.
In the Kabbalah, these two aspects (Goddess and God) are named Binah and Chokmah. They are the primary and first manifestations of Kether (Divinity) and are separated from Kether by a void. In order to reach Kether, a person must travel up the Tree and eventually face and cross this void. They must lose their physical body, leave the world of illusion behind, and become simply their immortal, divine spark. To reunite with Kether, with the Divine, is the singular goal of our Spark and the only true desire then is to desire that which cannot be obtained in a physical body, to be one with the Divine.
In order to do this we must become nothing, or "no-thing"; we must cease to exist in a material sense. We let go of our ego, our personal will, and the illusion of being. We must make of ourselves a "zero", a nil, the AIN. The circle is our symbol for both zero and for infinity. At once both nothing and everything. It is only out of nothing that something can arise. We seek our center; our hearts core where we can, for a moment, touch the Divine. How will you know when you have reached this part of you? When you feel like you are sitting in a dark soundless room with your eyes wide open and attentive ears, waiting to hear the voiceless voice within you sing. Then you will have touched your Divine Spark, the source of all your magick.
Light a candle. The flame is a symbol of Divine Will, and of the Divine Spark that resides in each of us. It is born out of nothingness, for if you look closely at the flame it does not touch its source. The candle is a symbol of Absence. Just as the candle must disappear for the flame to burn, so must you shed your illusions of ego and personal will and allow the flame of the Goddess' Will to shine through. Learn to be as the candle, to become no-thing so your Divine Light may lead others out of their darkness. In the old days a magick circle's boundary was where the Balefire's light ceased and the darkness began. Witches are drawn to the edges of things, to borders and doorways and passages. Be a witch and stand at that gray point, not in the light or the dark, but of the light and from the dark, as a guide to those yet to come.