Initiation Into Hermetics
The Magic Mirror for Investigation of the Past, Present & Future
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| 14. The Magic Mirror for Investigation of the Past, Present & Future Working with the mirror, one of the most difficult tasks is the exact investigation of the past, present and future of other people. It is comprehensible that the magician can perceive his own past and present in the mirror similar to a motion picture but he will most certainly avoid doing so. Should he be so keen as to satisfy his curiosity to learn all about his future, it would not be difficult for him to concentrate on this problem and inquire into every detail. But there’s the rub: In the same moment, when seeing his future in the mirror, he is depriving himself of his own free will. One could compare him to a pattern that has to be filled in without the possibility that anything could be done for or against it. It would be quite a different matter if the akasa principle in its highest form, let us call it Divine Providence, gave a warning to the magician in one way or another, perhaps against dangers, without him having any intention at al to see or to learn anything. It is quite obvious that the strictest attention has to be paid to warnings of this kind without any exception, because ignoring them would cause severe damage to the magician. Having arrived at this point, the magician will be able to distinguish whether the warning comes from one of the beings irrespective of which plane or directly from the akasa principle. The magic mirror is an excellent aid in instances concerning untrained people or whomever the magician takes a great interest in to investigate their past, present and future. All thoughts, perceptions, feelings and physical actions leave behind them exact records in the akasa or primary source, a fact that enables the magician to read like an open book in the akasa with the help of his magic mirror or directly while in a trance. All he needs to do is to concentrate on it by imagination. In the beginning, when the magician has not wholly mastered this problem, the images will appear almost incoherent and sporadic. By frequent repetition of this exercise, one picture after another will appear on the surface of the mirror in the correct connection with the past as clearly and distinctly a if the magician himself were actually realizing the events. The magician can unroll one occurrence after another, beginning from the present back to the childhood and the day of birth. It is advisable to follow the past only back to the moment of birth, although it is without a doubt possible to investigate the previous incarnations as well. But the magician is warned against doing so, because any investigation of the future as well as of the former life, in his own case or that of another person, is a sort of meddling in the affairs of Divine Providence, and such a curiosity would cause dangerous consequences. To begin with, he would instantly become as old as he was in all the former lives he lived, a fact that would cause a very unpleasant feeling in him and a lack of interest in any further life. Secondly, the magician is entirely responsible for all the blunders committed in his former lives. The only advantage would be that he would become conscious of the experiences in his former life, a fact that would never compensate for the disadvantages. Supposing the magician would like to know something about the future of another person for some really important reason, all he needs to do is to induce a trance. Provided he is quite familiar with this practice, there is nothing at all that will remain hidden. This kind of clairvoyance, where the magician is able to perceive his own and other people’s mental, astral and material planes in the correct connection is the highest point that may be attained through working with the magic mirror. As soon as the magician has arrived there, I have nothing more to tell him with reference to the magic mirror, and he will find out for himself new practices based on the examples I have quoted here. Download 0.49 Mb. Share with your friends:
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