What I have learned over twelve years of exploring consciousness and radicalizing perspective is that your level of madness or clarity is what determines the quality of magic you are able to transfer into somebody else’s mind and heart. Acceptance of death and depth of love as well as intensity of hate, and thee extent at which you are able to experience bliss and flow are all important factors to keep in mind whence attempting to change someone else’s experience. You wont be able to murder by magic someone or throw them into madness unless you yourself are able to experience that same hate, death and madness with total clear comfort.
Same with joy and love, your levels of such things are what determine the levels of thise things you are able to evoke within another.