““Sigils are the art of believing; my invention for making belief unconscious66 and therefore true belief. A wish to believe something is of necessity incompatible with the existing belief it is to replace, and cannot be realized through the inhibition of the unconscious belief – the negation of the wish. Faith moves no mountains, not until it has removed itself. Supposing I wish to be ‘great’ (nevermind that I am): to have ‘faith’ and believe that I am does not make me great, even if I were to keep up the pretence to the end… it would be ceremonial insincerity, the affirmation of my incapacity. I am incapable, because that is the true belief, and the one imprinted on my unconscious. To believe differently is but affectation. Therefore imagining or having ‘faith’ that I am ‘great’ is a superficial belief. The reaction and denial is caused by the troublesome welling up of the unconscious incapacity. Denial or faith does not change or annihilate it, but reinforces it and preserves it.””
