Magic Physical Training (VII)

In the same manner as you cannot expect a baker’s job to be done by a carpenter, you cannot demand that an elementary created for a certain purpose will accomplish a second task for which it was not intended. For this particular reason you must never give two or more orders to any of the elementaries, for it will not be able to do either job well. Apart from that, the analogy to the elements is to be considered. It would be quite wrong and illegal if the magician created an elementary that would not be in harmony with the analogous elements.
There are no limits to the shape of the elementary, and it is up to the magician to choose the form according to his liking and intuition. However, avoid picking the form of living or deceased people you have known or with whom you have been or still are connected. By doing so you might easily slip into the reach of the mental or astral body of the respective human being and consequently do him great damage. Apart from that there is a danger that an elementary might turn against the magician at any moment in consequence of its inbred intelligence. It would understand perfectly how to vampirize him or to influence him indirectly when asleep, and to do any possible amount of mischief. Therefore every magician is advised to take this warning very seriously!
Each elementary has to be given a name at the very moment of its creation. It is opportune to choose less common names because the mere utterance of a name will be enough to bring the elementary near the magician at once. Supposing that one has created several elementaries, it is advisable to take notes of the names in order not to forget them. But these names must not be mentioned to anyone else because another magician, being clever enough, could easily seize the elementaries and work with them without any effort.
The power and effectiveness of an elementary depends entirely on its loading. The stronger the willpower of the magician, the projection of the elements to the outside will be all the greater, and an elementary loaded to such an extent becomes all the more pervasive and far more effective of course. Sometimes an elementary can be condensed so much that it is visible even to an untrained physical eye. It is therefore up to the magician himself whether he wants the elementary to work visibly or invisibly as the case may be. The duration of life of an elementary depends on the purpose for which it has been created, and this purpose has to be fixed right at the beginning of its creation. As soon as the purpose is fulfilled, the magician must dissolve his elementary into its original element with the help of the imagination. Never omit this process of dissolution, because, having performed its task, an elementary can easily become independent due to its instinct of self-preservation, and if you forget to do so, it will escape from your sphere of influence and become a vampire. In this case the magician would have to face all the resulting karma caused by such an elementary transmuted into a vampire. Therefore carelessness and conscientiousness are seriously recommended when you are handling elementaries. Many magicians determine, right at the birth-act, the kind of disintegration of the elementary by destroying the name of the elementary in question, burning it, performing a certain rite, a sign r a gesture, or using a formula which they fixed in advance. All this is individual and is left to the magician’s choice. Special attention has to be paid to the act of disintegration. Provided the magician is equal to the task, he will be able to force his elementaries to absolute obedience at any time by threatening them with disintegration. At all events, he should imprint on his mind that he is able to bring the elementaries under his will and to have complete command of them. This is very important if the magician does not wish himself to become the plaything of the beings he created. He will make the experience all the better and the elementary will serve him all the more faithfully and reliably; it will become all the more engaging and he will hate to dissolve it at all. But the magician must never give way to this sentimentalism, because he would get into the thrall of elementaries. For this reason it is more opportune to destine elementaries for a short life, and to create new ones for the same purpose if need be. This does

not mean, of course, that a new elementary should be created every week, but it is a disadvantage to keep the same elementary for years for one affair only.
Should the magician intend to create elementaries for his own use, he had better form them by the projection of elements through his body. Eleementaries destined for other people,
however, should be created by the projection of elements directly from the universe. The magician knows very well that there is an invisible connection between him and every elementary that could be misused very easily if he started to create elementaries by physical projection for other human beings as well. The way to manage it will be quite understandable to every magician without any doubt.
It is necessary to talk about the places where elementaries should be deposited. In the Orient,
elementaries (there called Yidams) are banished into a “Kylichor” where they are preserved. A
kylichor is a diagram built from stone and corresponding to the yidam to which no stranger will ever be admitted. The well-trained magician, however, needs no separate place for it, but he will hide the elementary in a spot in the wall, realizing that an elementary is not limited to time, nor does it claim a special space. Hence it will be quite alright in the wall as well as it would have been accommodated in an open space. It is even more suitable to keep it in a wall or any solid big object, because it is better to avoid banning it to places where other people are about all the time. Should a human being happen to come to the same place where an elementary is kept, the person would suddenly feel restless and other bad consequences might occur.
Furthermore, it has to be fixed right at the beginning how the elementary ought to be called up. This can be done by whispering the name or thinking of it, or by a gesture of the hand, or a ritual. The magician is at liberty to do as he pleases.
Before I particularize the practical part, the proper act of creation, I should like to remark that it is not necessary for the magician to restrict himself to this practice, this being only a small part of practical magic and a hint as to how the magician is to use his power. He should not specialize thereat; on the contrary, if he is able to manage these practices perfectly, further possibilities are at his disposal. This part of magic is to be followed only in the beginning,
and it is up to the magician to utilize it to help himself and other people too. And last but not least, that is the purpose of this theme.

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