Initiation Into Hermetics
Development of the Astral Clairfeeling (Clairsentience)
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| 3. Development of the Astral Clairfeeling (Clairsentience) Before passing on to the development of the astral clairfeeling, let us take up our magical diary and transfer ourselves to the time when we were engaged thoroughly with the introspection of the various good and bad qualities. According to the magic mirror we could establish then, which of the qualities corresponding to the element in question were predominant in our mind. How important introspection was indeed then is clearly shown by the fact that just this preponderance of the element concerned points to our astral sensory center. If the fire element had been predominant, the sensory element was the head, to put it correctly, the forehead; if it was the air element, it is the heart, in the case of prevalence of the water element, it is the solar plexus, and if it has been the earth element, the sensory center is in the hands or the thighs. Having thus established our astral sensory area, let us pass to the practice: You have to act in exactly the same manner as you did when training the two previous senses. The necessary requisites are: a piece of linen or a cotton wool plug which you moisten slightly with a fluid condenser. This condenser may again be a strong decoction of chamomile flowers. At this performance, you are loading your body once with the water element through pulmonary and pore-breathing and with the desire that this element may produce clairfeeling in you. The term “clairfeeling” means the faculty of perceiving and feeling all the phenomena and powers occurring in the elements and in akasa. To this field also belongs the faculty of psychometry, the clear perception of the present, past and future of any object. Even the power of materialization of any thought, any being, no matter whether the point in question is a self-created being or an entity already existing in the akasa, belongs to this domain. Other faculties connected with sense perception and touch perception also can be registered in the category of clairfeeling. Intuition to originates in clairfeeling. These few examples may be sufficient to explain the clairfeeling power. As soon as you have accumulated the water element in the whole body through the pores and through breathing, load it with the intense imagination of the faculty of clairfeeling. You must be absolutely sure that it is strong enough to arouse this faculty in your astral body. With the help of imagination draw the water element from your body, whether through the solar plexus, the forehead, hand or by breathing out, accumulating it in the cotton ball or piece of linen soaked in the fluid condenser. You may repeat the loading but no more than 7-9 times. When doing this exercise, do not take up your routing posture, but lie down comfortably on a couch, or on the floor, The main condition is to lie rather flat, only the head remaining a little higher. To develop the astral clairfeeling, you need not utilize the water element directly, but only the magnetic attractive power of the water. Before starting the exercise, put he fluid condenser on the predetermined sensory area. This exercise has to be performed with your eyes closed right from the beginning. Now imagine that your entire body is swimming in the universal water element, as if you were in the center of the surface of an endless ocean. You feel nothing but water. Be very attentive, for it is quite possible that you will fall asleep during this exercise in spite of all your carefulness; make up your mind not to fall asleep, for if this should become a habit, you would have great difficulty fighting against sleep while doing your exercises. In the previously mentioned imagination you transferred yourself with your consciousness to the sensory area; now imagine that the magnetic power of the water you have accumulated within yourself will enliven the finest particles of your sensation-field and produce the astral clairfeeling. You must be able to imagine the magnetic attractive power of the water so intensely that it becomes an incontestable reality. If by long meditation you have the firm conviction that you duly enough enlivened this sensory field, dissolve the water element within your body into the universal element again, take off the fluid condenser, and reduce the concentrated element to the universal element. Now the exercise is at an end. In case you would like to use the sensation field practically at one time or another, the transfer of consciousness into this field will be sufficient to put this faculty into action immediately. To further the display of the astral senses of seeing, hearing and feeling, I deem it opportune to recommend that you continue these exercises even if you can spend only very little time on them. The real success will not be far off. We shall omit the development of the other senses (taste and smell) for the time being because they are not important enough for the practical use of any magician. It is up to the scholar now to think out a scheme for himself to develop the other senses with the help of these three training methods. The faculties acquired by this astral development of the senses are so far reaching that there is no need at all to talk much about it. The enjoyment in the success can be compared in a way to a blind person who, deprived of eyesight for years, suddenly is able to see again. Download 0.49 Mb. Share with your friends:
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