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Money likes silence.

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If you’re reading this, you’ve decided to study Stalking of Denarii.

But before you jump in, it’s worth going through a quick 'safety check.' It’s just a simple precaution, so all your 'hard work' doesn’t end up for nothing.

So, what exactly does safety mean when learning Stalking of Denarii?

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Example one.

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Two living buckets are standing next to each other. Just your run-of-the-mill living buckets. Never seen one? Weird… but okay. Picture this: one bucket’s nearly empty, and the other is taking its sweet time filling up with a trickle from the tap. The water gurgles, and the bucket slowly fills.

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Question. Will the first bucket, just standing there, ever get full? What about the second bucket, the one actually getting water from the tap?

I bet you nailed that question—pretty simple, right? Go ahead, grab yourself a pie from the shelf!

Let’s crank up the difficulty.

Now, the bucket getting filled from the tap has a lively, impatient streak, and from time to time—eager to share the wealth—it hops up and dumps whatever it’s collected into the next-door empty bucket. (Not what you were thinking.)

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Question. How fast does a bucket fill up when placed under a faucet?

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Now the answer isn’t so obvious, but we believe in the power of reason, and we’re convinced it’ll win again this time.

Let’s complicate things even further—and make the situation completely clear.

It turns out it's not just the filling bucket that's got a lively, sociable personality—the empty one does too. It circles around the bucket that's getting filled and gives it a push. It nudges it so the water starts to splash and spill over the edge—just so the empty bucket gets at least something out of it.

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It also turns out the empty bucket isn’t alone—it has plenty of equally empty relatives, and all of them hassle the one bucket actually getting filled, all with the same noble goal: to knock it off balance and snag whatever water it’s managed to collect.

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Let’s get back to the original question. How fast do you think the bucket’s going to fill in this kind of chaos?

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Pop quiz for the truly gifted. Will the bucket actually fill up in these conditions, and if it does, can it hold on to its water?

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So, you might be wondering—what do buckets, water, and us have to do with all this?

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I answer questions with more questions. Call it the Assyrian approach.

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1) What’s the difference between someone learning something and a bucket being filled with water?

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2) And how is someone not learning any of this different from an empty bucket?

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3) How is the random chatter of unconnected so-called ‘like-minded’ people any different from a surreal scene where buckets are fighting over water?

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So, rule number one for safely learning Stalking of Denarii: it’s basically the Hermetic version of the communicating vessels law.

It goes like this: 'Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know.'5

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In other words, anyone who goes around shooting their mouth off quickly loses track of what they're even talking about.

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Here's how the magic supposedly works: as you cram more and more info into your aura, these branching, complicated structures start growing. Give it time, and those structures blossom into principles of wisdom and all the secret cheat codes for life. But if you start spilling the beans to just anyone, those half-baked structures don't even get a chance—they just leak into everyone else's aura, like water sloshing between connected buckets.

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Five or six conversations like this, and there’s nothing left to talk about. That’s what the old saying is getting at: ‘Speech is silver, silence is gold’—which is just a fancy way of saying that talking cheapens silence.

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To see this in action, think about how you keep potatoes from sprouting: you set them out in the sun. Give them some light and they stop sprouting! Only when they’re back in the dark do they start up again.

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Human thought works the same way. It's only when a thought is left in silence that it starts to grow and evolve from one level of understanding to the next.

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Second example.

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At the start of World War II, because there weren't enough anti-tank grenades, militia fighters made widespread use of bottles filled with 'Molotov cocktails.' These bottles were filled with a mix of gasoline and alcohol, and when they smashed against a tank's hull, the mixture would ignite and set the tank on fire. German tanks mostly ran on gasoline engines—which, as it turns out, burned extremely well. Overall, the tank was well-protected, capable of withstanding bullets and shells, but could catch fire like a match from a well-thrown bottle with a 'Cocktail.'

The only requirement for knocking out the tank with such a bottle was hitting the area just behind the turret, on the ventilation grilles above the engine compartment. The flaming mixture would seep through the ventilation grilles into the engine compartment and set the engine ablaze.

Thus, a tank costing around 100,000 Reichsmarks and striking fear on the battlefield could, with a bit of luck and a skilled throw, be taken out by a bottle worth just a few kopecks.

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So, what’s the moral of this example?

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It’s that every creation has a weak spot—you can usually mess it up in a way that’s laughably cheap and simple.

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Which brings us to the second safety rule for learning Stalking of Denarii:

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Even the Sun has its blemishes, but we still look up to it with all due respect.

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In plain English: ANY theory or method—including Stalking of Denarii—has its soft underbelly. If you fixate on those flaws, you’ll talk yourself out of the whole thing and end up achieving precisely nothing.

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It’s not that you stopped with all that self-hypnosis; the real issue is that you started poking at a sore spot.

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Sure, a tank’s a terrifying thing on the battlefield, and the Sun—well, it’s pretty much the ultimate giver of life on Earth. But you know, even the Sun has its blemishes, and a million-dollar tank can still be knocked out by a $5,000 grenade launcher.

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I mean, you don’t just scrub your eyes like mad when you get dust in them—you rinse them out gently, don’t you?

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Third example.

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You walk into a strange warehouse, where thousands of items are piled up in front of you.

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Question #1: How many items are you actually looking at?

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Question #2: Staring at this whole mountain of stuff, how many things do you actually SEE?

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Question #3: What does it take to not just look at an item, but to actually SEE it?

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The third safety rule for learning Stalking of Denarii is pretty much like that biblical line: 'Seek and you shall find—and you’ll find exactly what you’re looking for.'

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So if you’ve chosen to dive into Stalking Denarii, focus on finding your own way out of your situation—instead of hunting for holes in the author’s method.

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Sure, you can go on a wild goose chase for 'mistakes'—like sunspots, you’ll find them if you stare hard enough—but is that really going to help you?

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See, the person searching for an exit from the tunnel looks for the light of wisdom; but if the dim glow from afar isn’t good enough for you, you’ll just end up stumbling around in your own ignorance.

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Fourth example.

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These three rules might seem simple, but try sticking to them and you’ll quickly notice just how often you break them.

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From a conversation with a rather respectable millionaire over a glass of tea:

– You know, money likes silence.

A long pause, a sip of whiskey, smoke from a hand-rolled Cuban cigar drifting upwards.

And after a thoughtful silence, with a slight grimace:

– But BIG money, alas – DEAD silence.

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