Initiation Into Hermetics

i.e., imagine that the light is penetrating everything, seeing everything and looking into everything. Neither space nor time is any hindrance to this light. Your conviction of this quality of the light is to be firm as a rock, and not the faintest doubt is allowed to arise. If you are a religious man, it should be easy for you to believe that this universal light is representing a part of God, who owns all the qualities described here. As soon as you have sucked in the light into your body in this manner, together with the quoted qualities, and if you can feel its tension and penetrating power inside you, accumulate the light with the help of your imagination from the feet and hands towards the head, compressing the light to such a degree that it includes both your eyeballs. You can also fill first one and then the other eye with the accumulated light as described here, if this way is more suitable to you.
There are magicians who develop and enliven clairvoyance in one eye only, leaving the other eye free and undeveloped. It is left entirely to the scholar’s judgment whether this pattern is worth imitating but as I see it, it is far better to prepare both eyes equally for clairvoyance.
As soon as you have performed the accumulation of light in your eyeballs, imagine that your eyes have got all the abilities concentrated in the light. Endure for at least 10 minutes in this exercise, and if you are quite sure that your eyes, which are imaginarily filled with the universal light, have also accepted the quality of this light, allow the light to disperse again with the help of the imagination, whether directly from your eyes into the universal ocean of light, or to enter your body in its original form, and from there to dissolve in the universal light. Both the methods described here are equally good, and the outcome will be the same.
The important point is that the eyes will become receptive again in the normal way as soon as they are set free from the light. This is necessary for the simple reason that the astral eyes of the magician, when developed in this manner, will not become over-sensitive so that they would not be able to discern what normal eyes or the clairvoyant ones are seeing. Supposing that the magician failed to dissolve the concentrated light, his eyes probably would remain clairvoyant and he would hardly be able to distinguish between material and spiritual matters.
Therefore he ought to have his power of clairvoyance well in hand and allow it to become effective only if he thinks it desirable. By frequent repetition of this exercise, the magician will achieve such skill that he can allow his clairvoyant eye, the so-called light-eye, to function in a few moments. Eyes prepared in this way, whether closed or open, can see anything the magician wishes to, whether in a crystal globe or a in a magic mirror; his clairvoyant eye will see everything. The quality of clairvoyant perception then depends exclusively on the purity of his character.
An excellent remedy contributing to a quicker success and influencing the physical eyes very favorably, so that people suffering from bad eyesight or stricken with an eye complaint can profit from not only the magical point of view but from the sanitary one as well, is the preparation of a magical ophthalmic fire-lotion.
The following ingredients are necessary:
1. A large bottle of distilled water
2. Chamomile flowers (dried or fresh)
3. Eyebright (dried or fresh)
4. 7-9 osier or hazel switches which you can find in fields. Strip the leaves, then dry the sticks in sunlight.
5. Filter paper and a small funnel.
Now you can prepare the eye lotion. Pour a half-pint of distilled water into a clean container,
boil it, then add two teaspoons of chamomile flowers and one teaspoon of eyebright. Let them

boil for only a few seconds, then take it off the fire and cover the pot with a lid. After 10
minutes, filter it into another clean container. When the tea has cooled down take a bunch of the osier or hazel nut twigs, set one end aflame, and let them burn. Now dip the blazing ends into the tea. By doing so the material fire element has been transferred into the tea, which one can already regard as a fluid condenser. I will write about this detail in a further chapter. Now filter this fluid condenser into another clean container. The filtering is important to remove any chips or ashes produced by dipping the burning twigs into the liquid. Pour the tea into a bowl and put is in front of you.
Now inhale the fire element through the lungs or pores, or both at the same time, into your body and fill it entirely with this element. At this projection, there is no great attention to be given to the intensity of the warmth, as you will feel it in any case, but do not forget that the fire element has to bear your desire that you transferred to it through your imagination. After transferring to the fire element your desire to have your material eyes strengthened and your astral eye developed, project the fire element in the same way as you performed the experiment of the light accumulation, whether by way of the solar plexus or one of your hands or your breathing, into the liquid. If you get the feeling that the projection is not sufficient,
repeat the experiment several times, but no more than 7-9 times. Thereby the prepared condenser will turn into a strong essence that will not only have a very fine effect on the eyesight, but also strengthens, enlivens and develops the astral senses. Now pour the fluid condenser into a clean bottle and keep it in a cool spot. This ophthalmic fire lotion may be used for strengthening the eyesight or for magical purposes. In the case of weak eyesight, one can simply drop this liquid condenser into the eyes without any hesitation because the two-herb combination is anti-inflammatory and an eye tonic, but for magical practice, i.e.,
the development of the astral senses, it will suffice to moisten a piece of cotton wool wrapped in gauze or a strip of clean linen and to use it as a poultice during the experiment of animating the eyes with light.
Later on, as soon as the astral eyes are better developed, the fluid condenser poultices can be omitted and it will be sufficient to perform the accumulation of light in the eyeballs. After frequent repetition, when the physical eyes are already developed by these light-exercises, one has only to direct the attention to the astral eye with the desire for being able to see with it.
Apart from the duration of the experiment, one might also use these poultices before going to bed to achieve an automatic effect during the night, but there is a slight disadvantage: the eyes and the eyelids would become supersensitive as a result of the intrusion of the fire element from the frequent use of the poultice. It is therefore more serviceable to use the poultices for the duration of the exercises only. The poultice is to be fastened with a scarf during the exercise to prevent it from falling off. This magic operation is to be performed without the presence of other persons. One ought to try to keep the poultice as well as the essence for a certain time, so it need not be renewed from one experiment to the other and does not fall into the hands of incompetent people, not even members of the family.
If the scholar has worked through all the foregoing exercises, he will develop his eye for clairvoyance in an absolutely harmless way in a few months’ time, and will be well talented even after a few weeks, following the method described here, and he will be able to fulfill all the other tasks and operations still ahead of him in the knowledge of Magic. It is quite impossible to quote all the successes obtained with the different methods of clairvoyance mentioned here, because they are so manifold and so reasonably obvious that it must be left to the magician himself how far-reaching he will be able to train his astral eyes. At all events,
he may be warned not to boast of the abilities he has won, or even worse, to misuse them to harm his fellow men. He ought to utilize the solely for the benefit of Mankind. Time and

space won’t be a handicap to him and nothing will remain concealed before him as far as his clairvoyant eyes are concerned.

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