"To restate the attitude expounded in this chapter, I conceive of analytical psychology as the spouse of the ancient system of Magick.  For psychology has succeeded in evolving a system which can be applied to almost any individual who wishes to know the several departments and constituents of his own personality.  Possibly for the first time in the history of civilised thought, there is a technique which is of inestimable value to the average man.  It is of supreme value to the student of Magick and Mysticism, who, too, often, labours under several delusions of what it is that he hopes to accomplish, and in what length of time he will do so.  A study of analysis will prove first of all that he cannot process quicker than his own Unconcious permits him.  This will prevent gate-crashing, and an irrational enthusiasm and desire for speed.  Secondly, through the elimination of erroneous ideas as to himself, the phatasms of wish ~ fullfillment and insensate day ~ dreaming, he will have obained a more comprehensive acount of what magickal and meditation systems can accomplish, and what degree of achievement in these spheres is open to him.  He will be entirely less subject to delusion and deception because his attraction to Magick will not have been caused by the unconcious desire to escape from pressing problems of his immediate existence with which he finds himself unable efficiently to cope.      Morever, he will have familiarised himself with the true extent of his own sense of inferiority.  The compulsive necessity of becoming unduly aggressive because of an imagined or pathological inferiority will no longer urge him to an intolerable sense of deficiency.  Being acquainted with the fundamental problem of insecurity which every thinking individual is bound to have, since man is so apparently insignificant and unimportant when compared to the vastness of the universe, he will not be liable to adopt extreme religious or scientific notions from so-called spiritual experiences or laboratory experiment to buttress up his own desire for some one thing which is secure and reliable.       Analysis is the logical precursor of spiritual attainment and magickal experiment.  It should comprise definitely the first stage of spiritual training.  Were it possible, and were there magickal schools in existence, it would gratify me normously to see magickal training preceeded by six or twelve months of application to reductive analysis, pursued by sympathetic physicians or lay-analysts who and long intimate experience with clinical work.  The magickal schools must open a Department of Analytical Psychology, if their own systems are to attain public prominence worthy of attention and patronage.  Such schools, though offering courses of training considerably prolonged, would eventually develop such a type of individual that the public would eliminate "dangerous" from its association with Magick, and be obliged to take cognisance of the soundness of its technique.  This union of two systems would, for Magick at any rate, build up psychological credit, and a sense of great relability and prestige would accrue to it.  One of the greatest obstacles to success in Magick, to any kind of woth-while result in the mystical sciences, is that the psycho-emotional system of its average student is hopelessly clogged with infantile and adolescent predilections which have not been recognised as such.  The ego is compelled to extreme courses of action, as though by compulsion.  And underneath his every activity lurks the unconcious spectre ~~ fear.  It is precisely with these monsters of phantasy that analytical psychology can deal effectively, and it from such absurd obstacles that the magickal student is confirmed but unconcious sufferer.  By associating Magick with analysis, we should be able to avoid pitfalls into which our predecessors fell so headlong.  The production of genius ~~ more specifically a religious and mystical type of genius ~ ever the goal of Magick, should be more within our grasp than ever before, and considerably more open to achievment."      Regardie, Israel.  "The Middle Pillar."  St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1938.