Shocking Third, a special stress is laid upon the Candidate both by the aforementioned action and by the knells during his circumambulation and further with his encounters with the guardians of the East and the West. This process of straining the energies of the Candidate correlates to the initial pulse of energy required, according to physics, to overcome a body s initial inertia to set it in motion. Here we are setting the Candidate in motion upon the path of Initiation. Having begun, that Candidate sets out to explore the Path. First it is necessary to set the limits of ones abilities so as to develop strategies for mapping out the interior territory.
Boundaries define what is inside from what is outside.
This is the nature of systems and essential to knowledge of the self as system. There are two kinds of constraints placed upon the initiate within this grade. One is a constraint placed upon the direction of travel or Vector of activity. The initiate is shown the paths of light and darkness and shown that such extremes are forbidding to ones progress. This balancing of forces and demonstration of the virtue of mildness and equanimity strengthens the magickal will of the initiate by focusing it, unassuaged of purpose, in its journey to the Highest.