The path of the sword is the Way of Manifestation; it is the path of magick, ritual and religion, which seeks to draw down the power of the divine and to manifest it upon the earth. The ultimate goal of the Way of the Sword is, perhaps, best expressed in the descent of the New Jerusalem at the end of the biblical book of revelations – the perfection of material existence. On the Path of the Sword the aspirant does not seek to escape from the suffering of the world and attain entrance to an immaterial heaven, but rather to create heaven on earth.
All morality and esoteric religion belong to the Way of the Sword, as their aim is to manifest and ideal, or to manifest the characteristics of some God-Form on earth through the obedience and devotion of worshippers.
Magick, in this sense, does not describe a specifically supernatural event, but rather the art of ‘causing change to occur in conformity with the Will’; this Will being the higher nature of the operator, and not simply whims and egotistical desires. ‘Pure Will, un-assuaged in the lust for results, is in every way perfect’. The purpose of Magick is the material expression of the higher nature of humanity.
The Way of the Sword is in many ways a masculine path (in reference to the divine masculine present in both men and women), concerning itself largely with works of dominion.