Initiation Into Hermetics
Impregnation of the Astral Body with the Four Fundamental Divine Qualities
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| 2. Impregnation of the Astral Body with the Four Fundamental Divine Qualities When the magician has arrived at this stage of development, he will begin to express his concept of God in concrete ideas. The mystic, being trained in one side only, or a Yogi, etc., sees in his Deity nothing else but a mere aspect to which he renders worship and adoration. The truly wise adept, who always considers the four elements in his development, will represent the concept of God in four aspects according to the laws of the universe, namely, the omnipotence, corresponding to the fire principle, the omniscience and wisdom belonging to the air principle, the immortality with the water principle, and the omnipresence with the earth principle. On this level, it will be the magician’s task to meditate about these four divine ideas – aspects – in turn. Deep mediations enable the magician in a way to ecstacize directly with one of these divine virtues, fusing with it in such a manner that he feels himself to be the virtue in question. He has to experience the same will all the four virtues of God. The arrangement of the exercises is his own business; he is allowed to meditate on one of the virtues for so long until he becomes quite certain that the respective virtue has become embodied in him. He may perform the meditations according to this spare time, in the manner that, through meditation he recalls all the virtues in turns, in one exercise. The meditation has to be so profound, so pervasive and so convincing that the astral body becomes, as it were, identical with the virtue. The magician’s concept of God is universal, including all the divine virtues, according to the universal laws. The magician should therefore give his keenest attention to these meditations, because they are absolutely necessary to realize this union with God. As soon as he is able to form an exact idea of these four divine virtues, after long mediation, he has ripened so far as to establish that connection the practice of which will be described in the last step of this lecture. These mediations are producing a kind of deification of the magician’s spirit and soul, and finally they will influence his body in an analogous way, enabling him to establish the union with his God, which is the sum and substance of this training course. Download 0.49 Mb. Share with your friends:
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