Initiation Into Hermetics

without feeling the slightest pain or losing a tiny drop of blood or leaving a scar. Fakirs’
insensitivity to pain when lying on a nail-board is brought about to a certain extent by autosuggestion, but a magician produces much the same effect much faster with the help of the earth element. He is indeed able to cure big cuts on his own or another person’s body directly with the earth element without leaving a scar. A gaping wound that normally would require a surgeon’s aid really can be healed in a few minutes. The earth element that he condenses outside of his own person enables him to condense every thought, impression, or being, whether deceased or not embodied, to such a degree that it becomes visible to a completely untrained person and can be photographed.
The magician has the great advantage of being able instantly to paralyze anybody, man or animal, even his deadly enemy, by the extremely quick projection of the earth element. There are some more possibilities of employing this element, but I hope that the above remarks may be sufficient meanwhile.
When projected and condensed very strongly in itself, the water element helps the magician to withstand the greatest heat without his body being scorched or burnt. When projected into the hands, the water element permits the magician to hold red-hot coals or irons without any damage being done to his hands. He could even stand smiling at a burning stake and nothing at all would happen to him. Let me draw your attention to the biblical event where the young man remained unhurt in the red-hot oven. John, the favorite disciple of our Lord, is said to have been immersed in a boiler with burning oil, and no harm was done to him either. The magician will now see that events like these are not only legendary traditions, but they really did take place, and such apparent miracles can be performed by mastering the elements. Every kind of fire, regardless of its extension, can be extinguished with the help of the projected and condensed water element.
Of course, the magician can perform almost miraculous feats with the air element too in the same or similar manner.
With the help of the fire element the magician is able to stand the greatest cold if he accumulates this element in himself. The lamas in Tiber can produce an enormous heat in their bodies with the help of the accumulated fire element, so that they can quickly dry wet sheets wrapped on their bodies in the middle of winter. This experiment is known as “tumo”
in Tibet. Any kind of combustible material can be ignited with the outward-projected fire element. The Bible describes similar occurrences where stakes soaked with water were set on fire by means of the fire element. There is no doubt that a plant, for example a tree, can be made to die through the projection of the fire element. Did not our Lord Jesus Christ make the leaves of a fig tree dry up to demonstrate his power? He considered the same law,
performing the projection with the help of a magic word – Quabbalah – that indirectly caused the fire element to carry out his command. Backed by the universal laws respecting the mastery of the elements, the perfect magician will bring about a number of other magic performances with the aid of the elements.

Download 0.49 Mb.

Share with your friends: