Initiation Into Hermetics
Magic Physical Training (VIII)
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| Magic Physical Training (VIII) Provide the magician be perfect in all the stages of the magic training of the body, he will not require any special education in this line. I will therefore limit myself to giving some instructions and hints that may become useful in the following chapters. Subsequently there follows an influencing method through the elements, which the magician can use for his own self-influencing or to influence other people. Especially worthy of mention are the following four systems which may be practiced successfully in self-influencing as well as in influencing other people. According to the elements, these methods are as follows: 1. Fire – through combustion 2. Air – through evaporation 3. Water – through mixture 4. Earth – through decomposition. It would be possible to quote hundreds of varieties and opportunities of producing such an influence through the elements, and big book could be written about this problem. I will restrict myself to one example for each element. Every magician can enrich his own practical experiments and elaborate new practices by himself. These four methods exert an influence on the most subtle astral matrix of the material world, inducing the elements to exert their influence wherever the magician allows them to work indirectly. Supposing that the point is to influence a human being, the material elements will act analogously on the connecting link between the astral and the material body. A magician mastering the elements perfectly on ever plane does not require any of these methods; he will reach his purpose by a direct influence just as fast and surely. But now and again even the highest magician will make sue of the lower powers for the simple reason that the highest powers as well as the lowest serve and obey him. On the other hand, as the result of an insufficient spiritual maturity, some magicians like to utilize these means practices in order to satisfy their desires, because these powers blindly execute the will of the person who masters them. One will probably ask, what are these lower powers for, and how can such methods be made helpful? Two examples may serve to answer this question. Supposing a scholar who is not yet quite closely acquainted with magic is asking a higher brother for help, because in spite of all his efforts he is not able to fight a passion, a harmful habit, a heredity or such like by himself, or he would at least lose too much time before overcoming and equalizing this passion. The higher brother has the possibility to influence the element corresponding to the passion according to the respective method and can, in this manner, reduce the negative form of the influencing element with the result that the scholar can fight against it without great effort, or do away with the influence of the element altogether. The second example: Suppose the magician is about to treat a long-lasting chronic disease with the help of the elements. A couple of direct treatments would not be sufficient to fight the sickness, and frequent repetition takes too much time. In cases like these the magician can use the Powers as helping factors. Hundreds of similar cases exist where the elements of this category will be of great benefit to the magician. He may use all the powers he knows about. A magician must be a person of absolute moral integrity, and his mind and his motives must be noble if he will follow the motto: Unit the pure all things are pure. Working with the four elements, the magician has three fields of activity corresponding to: 1. the immediate effect; 2. the timed effect which is limited to a certain time; 3. the permanent effect, which fades as time goes on and finally ceases altogether if the operation is not renewed. Download 0.49 Mb. Share with your friends:
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