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Rice Go left—and you will find yourself married. Go right—and you will find yourself wealthy. Go straight ahead—and you'll go off the rails. At the switch, there are only two paths.¹⁴⁶

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Thus, in the previous chapter, by the exclusive and venerable method of scientific poking about, it was determined that Stalking is Magic performed through the Vishuddha chakra. This kind of Magic is rather different from the well-worn stereotype.147

Therefore, it is worth taking a closer look at this point.

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Rice We’re caaasting, magicking, wraaangling chakras, fiixing those chakraaasss! Faaast! Cheaaap! Special discounts—minus 500%—for pensioners, students, and the mentally overworked, 400 days a year!¹⁴⁸

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Let’s say we take your average love spell – as a Rule, that sort of thing operates at the level of the second Chakra, the Svadhisthana.149

There, as they say, everything is perfectly clear.

You grab yourself a parasite with a muzzle-filter calibrated for the energy of a particular person – no other energy will do, it simply can't absorb or gorge itself on anything else – you tie it hard and fast to the recipient's Chakra via their phantom, and voila – the mechanism is set in motion.150

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Rice And who here is feeling so bold? What do you want? Perhaps you’d like a medal, for braaaavery?сссссссTo give, to hand over? Poooosthumoussslyyyyy…¹⁵¹

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The larva wants to feast, you see, it has nowhere else to go, so it will itch the patient in the most intriguing spot. Until patient number one comes running to patient number two on their own initiative. With the most transparent of intentions. To everyone's satisfaction, including the larva's own.

This is Magic at the level of emotion, at the plane of Astral interactions—it takes effect literally within a couple of hours. However, one’s Astral is in a constant state of flux—the full cycle of renewal, as the Rule would have it, is typically less than forty days.

Thus, most such enchantments—unless one resorts to the likes of Voodoo dolls—crumble after a month or two. By that time, however, clients are generally untroubled by the matter. Their ‘little hankering’, as the Rule foretells, is already sated and promptly fades away.

The most amusing thing is that, under certain special circumstances (a scuffle, a war, a flash of heroism, or that most banal of rituals—a barbecue), this whole process unfolds quite naturally, and by almost the same means…

… Well, almost… Who these days can tell the difference anyway?

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Rice Rails, rails, sleepers, sleepers… Who stands there so tired and weary?¹⁵²

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If one considers magic at the fifth chakra—Vishuddha—the situation shifts: here, the work is done at what is poetically called the causal level.

The causal level bears rather striking distinctions. A love spell at the causal level plays out something like this:

1. Patient number one, for reasons unknown, is in a proper mess. And, of course, it’s precisely that without which, by definition, our poor soul cannot live. For example, his (or her) beloved dog falls ill—a creature as dear as the only being on earth who truly values them, loves them, and bestows deep moral satisfaction, a sense of self-respect, and—remarkably—a steady, not insignificant income in Bonds.

And now, wouldn’t you know it, that very creature pulls a stunt—a sudden ailment, as if perfectly timed. And that’s it—the curtains fall, the family budget collapses.

2. And then suddenly, as if by a capricious whim of Fate (?!), it turns out that the single, absolutely unique chance to restore the pure, kind, radiant—once effortless—life can be granted by only one person on the planet. But really, what can I say? He’s not merely a man—he’s a Man among Men, a Giant of thought, the Father of Russian democracy, and, in fact—Bond, simply Bond.

3. And he sweeps in to save, you see, this creature with a grand gesture from such a mighty and powerful hand… For in his boundless goodness, generosity, and magnanimity… well, and so on—the usual list—just add salt, sugar, and spices to taste—mix, but do not shake…153

4. …and everything, as they say, would have been splendid, and one could have gone on loving and being loved…

But this tailed miscreant, this cunning saboteur… (for in the realm of causative Magic, unlike other branches, new flavors of ‘how and why’ spring forth, since the prior cause has already run its course and does not return for a second round of wool-chewing), is now not ill, but pregnant (or perhaps lost, or abducted by bandits as the sole and unique heir of the legendary dog… and so on—mix well, add salt, sugar, spices to taste…)

5. And, strangely enough, it turns out that only he can help yet again. As it happens, he has some rather eccentric hobbies—like gynecology for dogs he himself has operated on (in his spare time), a classmate in a detective agency, and, just today, those very same gangsters—who, as good acquaintances, promised to gift him a dog, the one and only descendant of a truly unique canine—are coming to his birthday party…

6. … … … and once again!!! … … and again!?! … and again! … and once more!!! … As the saying goes: 'This has never happened before,' and yet—here we go again?!

7. By the third or fourth go-round, patients tend either to gently blend their shared households and bodies, thus sparing themselves from dashing back and forth at every new crisis and wasting precious hours in traffic…

Or else, they start to thrash about terribly in the snares of Karma, savagely ripping away whatever’s managed to stick to them. The especially obstinate and thick-skulled sometimes go so far as to tear off their own heads in the process. But frankly, that head probably wasn’t doing them much good anyway, if they’ve still learned nothing.

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