Initiation Into Hermetics
Magic Psychic Training (VIII)
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| Magic Psychic Training (VIII) 1. The Great Moment of Now He who has arrived at this point in his development has to consider the plastical kind of thinking very carefully. The concentration power promoted by many years of experiments is producing very impressive pictures in the akasa by plastical thinking, pictures that are animated to a high extent and therefore seek to be realized. Hence one should always foster pure and noble thoughts and endeavor to transmute passions into good qualities. By now the magician’s should be ennobled to such a degree that he is no longer capable of evil thoughts or of wishing anything bad to other people. A magician has got to be kind, obliging and willing to help at any time, to assist by word and deed, to act generously, considerately and discretely. He must be free from ambition, superciliousness and avoid any boasting. All such passions would be reflected in the akasa and, the akasa principle being analogous to harmony, akasa itself would certainly put the greatest obstacles in the magician’s way to stop his further development, if not make it quite impossible. Any further rising in a case like that would be quite out of question. Just remember Bulwer’s novel Zanoni, in which the guardian of the threshold, nothing else but akasa, sees that the highest mysteries do not come overnight to unworthy people. Akasa will derange a person mentally, arouse doubts of all kinds, or hold him prisoner by vicissitudes and reverses of fortune in order to protect the mysteries in every possible way. These mysteries will always remain hidden from incompetent persons, though hundreds of books should be published about them. A true magician does not know any hatred against religions or sects, since he knows that every religion does have a fixed system that is intended to lead to God, and that is why he respects them. It is a well known fact that every religion has made mistakes, but he does not condemn it because every dogma is serving the spiritual maturity of its followers. In the due course of his development the magician goes through that stage of maturity where he can see with his mental eyes through every idea, every action and deed, no matter whether present, past or future, and it is quite obvious that he might feel tempted to judge and condemn his fellow men. But by doing so he would act against the divine laws and create a disharmony. A magician like that will not be ripe enough and understand the experience, so that akasa will dim his faculty of clairvoyance, and Maya will deceive him. He must realize that the good and the bad are entitled to exist and that each has to fulfill a task. A magician is allowed to reprove or to reproach a person with his faults and weak points only if he is requested to do so, and he should obey such an entreaty with delicacy and discretion. The genuine magician takes life such as it is; he enjoys the good things and learns something from the bad ones, but he will never hang his head. He is aware of his own weaknesses and tries to overcome them. But he ignores any thoughts of repentance, since they are negative thoughts that are to be avoided. It is sufficient to recognize his own faults and never to relapse into them again. For this reason it would be fundamentally wrong to muse on the past and to feel sorry that fate served you with this or that disagreeable thing. Only weaklings complain all the time, expecting to be commiserated. A true magician knows very well that impressions of the past may be animated by recalling them to the mid, thus producing new motives for putting new obstacles in the way. That is why the magician lives, if possible, exclusively in the present, looking back only if the need arises. He will limit any plans concerning his future to the most urgent and keep away from fantasy and daydreaming. Now will he waste the abilities acquired in hard work or give the subconscious any chance to handicap him. A magician works purposefully on his development without neglecting his material duties, which he fulfills just as scrupulously as the task of his psychic progress. Consequently he will always look himself straight in the eye. He is supposed to be modest and discreet as far as his development is concerned. Since the akasa principle ignores time and space, acting permanently in the present time, for the concept of time depends on our senses, the magician is advised to adapt himself as much as possible to akasa. He must acknowledge the great moment of NOW as representative, thinking and acting according to it. The faculty of concentration with respect to the elements depends on the magic equilibrium and is the best standard to check which of the astral body’s elements have yet to be brought under control. For example, if the fire element can still get hold of the magician’s astral faculties, he will not succeed very well in plastical visionary imagination exercises. In the case of the air element, the acoustic exercises probably will become more difficult for him; as for the water element, difficulties will arise from the concentration on the feeling, and in the case of the earth element, the control of the consciousness will be impaired. Mental wandering or trance where a transference of consciousness is required will become rather difficult indeed, and in such a case it would be necessary for him to follow intensively those concentration exercises that affect and influence the respective element. Finally the magician has to permanently perform and deepen the concentration exercises. A sure sign of magical balance will always be to manage equally all kinds of concentration: visionary, acoustic, tactile and conscious ones. Having arrived at this stage, the magician is supposed to keep any imagination in his mind for at least 15 minutes without the slightest disturbance, no matter which of the elements is concerned. He ought to manage all sorts of concentrations equally well without feeling one or the other of them is more in his line. If this is the case, it is a sure sign that the equilibrium of the elements in body, soul and spirit has not yet been established perfectly. Then the learner has to seek to redress the magic balance by assiduous training. If he does not do so, all the shortcomings will delay his further spiritual work. Now follows the psychic magic training. In particular we are concerned here with the OR and OB of the Quabbalists and the control of the electric and the magnetic fluid. Download 0.49 Mb. Share with your friends:
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