Initiation Into Hermetics
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- 5. Mass-Hypnosis of the Fakirs
| 4. Hypnosis Another field very similar to telepathy and suggestion is that of hypnosis, by which a person is sent to sleep forcibly and deprived of the free will. From the magical point of view hypnosis is reprehensible and it would be better not to specialize in this line. This does not mean that the magician is not able to lull people to sleep. The practice is imaginably simple. The magician need only suspend the function of the spirit by means of his will or with the help of the electromagnetic fluid, and the person will fall asleep instantly. Here it is less important whether the magician is using telepathy or suggestion. He can use both of them as a makeshift but he does not depend on them. A master of the powers does not need one or the other, because the very moment he paralyzes the will by way of imagination, sleep or unconsciousness will occur instantly, which will set free the subconscious and make it susceptive of any kind of suggestions. Just this act of violence, i.e, the intervention in the individuality of a human being is not recommended from a magic point of view, and the magician will not revert to it unless to give his subject good and noble suggestions with an extremely strong effect. Even though the test subject should insist on being hypnotized by the magician, he should avoid doing so if possible. The true magician will always keep away from satisfying the curiosity of others by hypnotic experiments. At times of great danger, a well-trained magician may induce a sort of shock-hypnosis by paralyzing the spirit of the opponent with a flash of the electromagnetic fluid, a method that is only to be followed in an emergency which I hope will never happen in the life of any magician. It has been proven scientifically that animals can be hypnotized too. If a magician wants to do so, he will hit the instinctive side of the animal, so that even the biggest and strongest animals are immediately knocked senseless. 5. Mass-Hypnosis of the Fakirs The mass-hypnosis induced by Indian fakirs and jugglers that meets with so many admirers is no problem at all to the magician. The fakirs engaged in these performances generally do not know themselves how such phenomena are brought about, their secret being a matter of tradition handed down from one generation to the next. Supposing a certain spot or room is loaded with the akasa principle, all the bystanders are likewise pervaded by the akasa too, and this principle will prevail in all of them. Whatever has been induced in the akasa principle necessarily has to be realized, since akasa is the ultimate cause. In the light of this law, the mass-hypnosis produced by the fakirs performing their shows in front of a crowd can be understood without any difficulty. The magician can do exactly the same things. With a traditional word or a formula, the fakir calls akasa into the room and transfers into this principle the pictures he wants the audience to see. By repeating this experiment so many times, it has already become automatic, so that the fakir has to apply neither the imagination or the akasa or the act the spectators want to see. It is sufficient for him to utter the akasa formula to hold the people spellbound, and afterwards he express the desired occurrence packed into short sentences or tantras in a low voice, in turns, and the audience will perceive one picture after another in the same order. The fact that these formulas are genuine incantations sounds absolutely incredible, since such a secret is handed down traditionally from family to family for hundreds of years. Not even the owners of such a formula knows exactly what sort of powers he is going to release. All he knows is that this or that will happen if he expresses the respective words, and he does not bother himself about the cause of it. Performances like these are very much admired indeed, mainly by people who haven’t got the faintest idea of the higher laws of magic. In India such a performance of an illusionist is nothing else but a matter of mere money. Making a snapshot of an experiment like this would be a disappointment because nothing at all of the marvelous scenes would be seen on the film, except the fakir and his partner sitting there smiling politely. This seemingly miraculous experiment is easily explained in the light of the magic laws and therefore must be left to the individual to work at such things or even to specialize in them. But for the magician’s development and rise, such experiments are absolutely useless. I only mention them to put the magician in the picture and let him find the explanation from the magical point of view. Download 0.49 Mb. Share with your friends:
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