Initiation Into Hermetics
Magic of Becoming Invisible
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| 13. Magic of Becoming Invisible In many fairy tales the story goes that a sorcerer has made himself invisible, or that there is a peculiar ring that makes people invisible if they twist it round their finger. Many books describe talismans and gems granting the bearer the gift of invisibility and giving instructions in this line too. But nothing of this kind is reliable nor of any use for real practice. On the other hand, based on the universal laws and on what we have learned up to now, we shall try to prove that making invisible is a matter of fact from the magic point of view. To start with, we have to distinguish between a mental or spiritual, an astral or psychic, and a physical invisibility. Making the mental body, that is the spirit, invisible has no particular value, but it is nevertheless possible that situations will occur in life where this practice could be useful. Suppose the magician wants to transfer himself mentally or psychically somewhere, and he does no wish to be perceived by beings of some kind or by the skilled senses of anybody else, he can utilize the mental invisibility. Take for example a guru who wants to visit his scholar mentally in order to check on him. Thus made invisible, the master will be quite near the scholar without being noticed, even if he had already developed his senses fully. Furthermore, a magician could attend to the evil works of the so-called black magicians in order to learn everything about their doings or, if necessary, to perform a certain influence without being noticed by these black magicians and their beings. There may be other conditions in life where it will be advisable to resort to making oneself invisible mentally or astrally. Becoming mentally invisible is very simple and it is accomplished by filling the mental body with akasa from head to toe. The mental body will instantly vanish out of any being’s sight, since akasa is without any color and without any vibration. If the spirit of the magician should perform any act on one of the mental planes, this would be registered in the akasa principle, and in spite of being invisible, his activity could be found out by means of clairvoyance. To prevent this, the magician has to wrap his whole body with a black cover as soon as he has filled his mental body with akasa. It does not matter whether this cover has the shape of a ball or an egg. He must not forget to seclude himself from all with akasa, underneath his feet as well as above his head. Before going somewhere else in this condition of invisibility, he ought to concentrate on the fact that his activity should be neutralized by the akasa; that means it should not be written into the akasa, i.e, leave no trace at all. This concentration is necessary for otherwise the magician must fear that, though rather illegibly, several new causes might be registered in the akasa. The magician is fully responsible for every action he is carrying out in the mental world, even though invisibly. Fate is no longer able to harm him, because he has become the master of akasa, master of his fate. Henceforth he is subject only to Divine Providence. If he misused his knowledge for evil deeds, it would be Divine Providence that would punish him, instead of fate. Divine Providence would give him, as it were, the cold shoulder and he would have to live on as a lonely individual forsaken in the universe. The only possibility of relying on Divine Providence would be lost forever, which surely would be worse than any curse. Such a magician would be doomed to destruction, and he can easily realize what that would mean from the magical point of view. Provided that one is proficient enough in making and becoming invisible in mental wandering, the same procedure also can be used in sending out the astral body. Here as well the practice of loading the whole personality with akasa is very much in line with the loading of the mental and astral body together. The other measures are the same as previously described. From the magic standpoint, it is also possible to become invisible on the physical plane, but here invisibility is not produced by akasa by means of light. Filling the physical body with light, it must be in harmony with the intensity of the light prevailing at the moment. If the accumulation of light were stronger than necessary, one would not become invisible, but transparent and bright, similar to the sun, shining white without and within. Physical invisibility is very difficult to produce; it requires years of training and practice, and hardly anybody but adepts of the highest ranks can execute such an operation correctly. Supposing he has achieved this great skill of making invisible his mental and astral bodies, and eventually his physical body too, the magician is in a position to bring about the disappearance of any material object. Another way to do this is by the transmutation of an object from the solid into the astral form by means of imagination in connection with akasa. The object vanishes instantly from the sight of any person whose magic senses have not been sufficiently developed. An object transformed into the astral form can be transferred by the astral body of an entity or by the magician himself to any distance. The magician or entity performing this transference also has the task of transferring the object from the astral condition back into its physical form. This kind of object transference often is practiced by creatures of spiritualistic mediums, provided the point is a phenomenon based on an unmistakable materialization, although such things are extremely rare. But whatever planetary and extra-planetary intelligences may be able to perform also can be done by the magician who is acquainted with the universal laws and has made good progress in his development. There is still one more method of making invisible: the deviation of the senses which is practiced in all kinds of hypnosis and in that form of suggestion in which entities produce a number of vibrations corresponding to that of the light in the physical body, thus effecting invisibility. Some more instructions referring to this problem will be found in my book The Practice of Magical Evocation. Download 0.49 Mb. Share with your friends:
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