Lust of Result

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Lust of Result refers to having in mind a specific result of a working, a ritual, or other magickal action such that the pre-conceived result colors what you perceive to be the outcome. If one has a preconceived idea of what will happen from a ritual, for example, one is likely to miss the real outcome of that ritual. (Further expansion welcome).

"For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect" - Liber AL, I:44.

"And I laid my head against the Head of the Swan, and laughed, saying: Is there not joy ineffable in this aimless winging? Is there not weariness and impatience for who would attain to some goal?" - Liber LXV, II:24.

Crowley gives a classic -- if somewhat droll -- example of how the Lust of Result can send the adepts search for the Holy Guardian Angel awry in Liber ABA: Notes for an Astral Atlas:

Each and every man therefore that will be a Magician must explore the Universe for himself. This is pre-eminently the case in the matter of the Astral Plane, because the symbols are so sensitive. Nothing is easier than to suggest visions, or to fashion phantasms to suit one's ideas. It is obviously impossible to communicate with an independent intelligence --- the one real object of astral research --- if one allows one's imagination to surround one with courtiers of one's own creation. If one expects one's visions to resemble those of the Master Therion, they are only too likely to do so; and if one's respect for Him induces one to accept such visions as authentic, one is being false to one's soul; the visions themselves will avenge it. The true Guide being gone, the seer will stray into a wilderness of terror where he is tricked and tortured; he will invoke his idol the Master Therion, and fashion in His image a frightful phantasm who will mock him in his misery, until his mind stagger and fall; and, Madness swooping upon his carrion, blast his eyes with the horror of seeing his Master dissolve into that appalling hallucination, the "Vision of THE DEMON CROWLEY!"