The greatest secret of succeeding in combat is the control of distance and space. Do not close your mind to the many possibilities. These others practice sorcery and magick. The Way of Sorcery - Magick: There are many other people, on this world and others, who can achieve great acts but do not follow our Way. Nothing is impossible to the Way as long as you accept it can be done and Focus on achieving the goal. Mind, body and spirit are in harmony with each other and the universe and when this is so, a person is capable of great achievement: to leap great distances, to anticipate others as if reading their thoughts, to sunder unbreakable objects and many other feats.

A student of Do is a gifted martial artist with a natural or developed ability to achieve a Way of Being of high order. The Way of Do - Focus: This Way is not magick, though many will call it that. Masters live their chosen Way at all times, whether it is the Way of painting, shooting an arrow or Do. The Way of doing a thing is to do it correctly, so that mind, body and spirit are one and focused on the achievement of the goal. Do is much more than this but you must understand the existence of the Way before you can proceed on the Path. There is a way to move and a Way to move your training in Do teaches you part of the Way of moving, as well as the Way of fighting. There is a way to paint and a Way to paint there is a way to shoot an arrow and a Way to shoot an arrow. The Way: There are things and there is a Way to all things. This would imply an evolution of the Paradigm to its present form. Even Do is a Japanese term meaning 'The Way.' If the Akashic Brotherhood really is as old as they seem, a reasonable explanation for their use of terminology must be the more recent refinements (1500 AD to present) to martial arts that the Japanese have introduced. The Mage books, by the way, are heavily biased towards Japanese terminology (as am I), despite the fact that the Japanese did not develop many of these concepts until far after the mainland peoples did (in fact, many of the concepts were imported). These concepts are found in most Eastern societies and I apologize for my lack of familiarity with the terminology of the other major Eastern cultures. When this is not possible, I have tried to include both Japanese and Chinese terminology. Note: As much as possible, I have used Western terms to describe Eastern concepts.

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