Magic Psychic Training (V)

Something different should be mentioned at this point. Supposing the magician does his exercise in the open air, in unlimited space, he will have to apportion a certain space, no matter how big, for himself with the help of the imagination. There are no bounds for the imagination, neither here nor there. In the same way as the scholar did his exercises with the fire element, he has to work with the other three elements; after fire, he should take up the air,
after that the water, and finally the earth. The termination of the exercises depends on the scholar’s time and opportunities. He can deal with one element one day, with the next one the next day, and so on, or he can accumulate one element in the morning, the second at midday,
the third in the evening and the fourth element the next morning. Scholars who have plenty of time at their disposal and sufficient willpower can go through all four exercises by turns.
These scholars will make enormous progress in mastering the elements. A scholar who controls all four elements in this direction may continue.
The previous exercise has taught the magician how to accumulate the element inhaled through the solar plexus outwards in space. In the following exercise he will learn how to emit an accumulated element into space not only through the solar plexus, but through the whole body pore breathing, thus producing an accumulation of elements in space. This has to be practiced with all the elements. The dissolving and scattering into the universe has to be performed in exactly the same manner as described in the previous exercise. As soon as the scholar masters this exercise as well, he will proceed to performing this exercise not only with the whole body, but with parts of the body. Hands and fingers are usually engaged in magic, so the scholar ought to devote his full attention to them He must accumulate the element by pore-breathing in one hand or both in such a manner that through a sheer motion of his hand, as if in a flash, he emits the element into the selected space, impregnating it instantly. Repeated practice makes perfect here as well. The scholar should practice this exercise on all the elements and master it. Then he may continue.
Sit in your customary position. Inhale the fire element through the lungs and pores of your whole body and accumulate it there until you get the sensation of heat. Now imagine the accumulated fire element forming a fiery ball with a diameter of 4-8 inches in the solar plexus. This compressed ball must be so fiery and shining as to be very similar to the sun.
Now imagine this all moving out of the solar plexus and floating free in the air. The sun ought to be imagined as white-hot and radiating heat. Stick to this imagery as long as you can. If you come near it with your hands, you ought to feel the heat radiating. Conclude this exercise by dissolving the ball slowly in the universe or by blowing it up by a sudden explosion into nothingness. Both methods should become familiar to you. You have to deal in the same way with the elements of air, water, and finally with the earth element. For the sake of a clearer imagination while dealing with the air element, give it a sky blue color while compressing it. The imagination of water will prove much easier for you, Should you have difficulty with it, however, imagine it in the beginning as a spherical lump of ice Think of the earth element as a lump of clay. When you have practiced this exercise with all the four element balls and have surely mastered it, turn to different shapes of the elements according to the same method. At first choose simple forms such as cubes, pyramids, cones, etc. The exercise is fulfilled as soon as you manage to condense any element you have accumulated in your body in any form and project it outward.
Only if the previous exercise can be managed perfectly can the next one be taken up, which is dealing with the projection of elements directly from the universe. The practice is as follows:
Sit in your asana position breathing calmly and without any effort. Imagine that you are drawing the fire element from endless space, the universe, and with it fill the room you are in.
Imagine the universe in the shape of an enormous ball from which you are drawing the fire

element in all directions to your room. Remember that the fire element coming from the primary source is the most etheric and subtle, and the more you pull it to you, the more dense,
material and hot it will become. You are bound to feel the heat on your body during this exercise. The more compressed and accumulated the element is condensed in the room, the stronger the heat will grow. You should actually have the sensation of being in a baking oven.
Now dissolve the element into the infinite by your willpower and imagination.
Repeat the same procedure for the air element, drawing it out of the ball-shaped universe down to you from all directions, filling and condensing your room with it. Performing this exercise correctly, you ought to have the sensation of floating in an endless ocean of air, free from any gravity and attractive power. In a room filled in just the described manner, you should feel as light as a balloon. Afterwards you may dissolve the condensed air element again in its primary substance in exactly the same way you did with the fire element. Do likewise with the water element. Imagine you are drawing this element down to you out of an endless ocean, at first as a sort of cold vapor which you are condensing more and more the nearer you bring it to your body. Fill the whole exercise room with this cold vapor and imagine yourself in the center of this illusory water element. You must feel icy cold. The moment you are feeling this cold, dissolve the water element again to its original form and let t stream away into nothingness. In this manner, the magician is able to cool and refresh his room in a few moments, even in the hottest summer days. Now try the same experiment with the earth element. Draw a gray mass, similar to clay, out of the universe; it is becoming browner and browner the nearer you bring it to yourself. Fill your room entirely with this heavy mass. By doing so you ought to experience the heaviness and cohesive power as well as its pressure on your body. Having gotten the earth element under your control, dissolve it again into its original material, as you did with the other elements.
By now it is quite evident that the drawing down and materializing of the elements is happening exactly where we concentrated it without the element passing through the body;
everything is evidently occurring outside of our body. The magician is supposed to master both methods perfectly because in some magical tasks he will need and element which has been materialized through his body, for example in cases of healing sick people; on the other hand, f he will need the direct, universally condensed element for creating subservient ghosts and elementals. Mastering this practice too, he is qualified to go ahead.
The next exercise will be to draw an element out of the universe, not however to fill a space as described in the previous exercise, but to condense a self-selected form, similar to the exercises where forms of the elements had been condensed in the solar plexus and kept outside the body, floating in the air; the difference being that the formation of the shape does not take place inside the body, but immediately during its floating in the air. Consequently the magician must know exactly how to produce a fireball, a ball of air, one of water, and an earth ball. If he has achieved this performance faultlessly, he has to shape different forms from the elements floating in the space and let these forms dissolve again in the universe after some time. All the time he ought to feel the specific property of the element he is working with quite distinctly; he should be able to induce even a layman or ignorant people to see and feel the element in question. These are high achievements indeed, results of great effort in this line. In short, during the course of these exercises, the scholar should have learned to condense every element of the universe and understand how to compress it into any form he chooses.
Magicians trained in this line can condense an element to such a degree that it becomes a material power. That is why you can light a fire with the help of the fire element at the greatest distance. At first, practice drawing a fiery ball down from the universe directly

without having it pass through the body, and compress it to a small bead so as to grow a glowing spark. Put this spark in a cotton ball that has been soaked in easily inflammable liquid such as ether, alcohol, or petrol. A second spark is to be prepared in the same way with the air element, and the very moment both sparks touch the cotton ball, it will catch fire and begin to burn. Having succeeded in this little trick, the magician can make an attempt with the wick of an ordinary candle, and later on with a paraffin lamp. He can do this near and far.
Apart from it, he can also confine a spark to a glass or a bottle, and fling a water-spark into this container, quick as a flash. As soon as these two sparks touch each other, both elements will explode and the glass or bottle will break into pieces. The magician can compose such artifices himself because he knows and masters the rules. The genuine magician will not waste his time with such dallying. He knows very well that he could produce as well as stop phenomena such as lightning, thunder, and rain by means of the elements. All these forces that strike the layman as wondrous manifestations go without saying for the magician, and it is entirely up to him whether he likes to specialize in the line of phenomena or prefers to continue with his magical development. It is also a well known fact to him that the oriental fakirs accomplish their genuine mango-tree miracle, growing from seed to fruit within an hour, only by mastering the elements.
Besides, the learner has the possibility of controlling the material condensation of an element physically by throwing the condensed form of an element into a glass of clean -- or even better, sterilized – water and repeating this action several times. With fire the taste of the water will appear sort of acidulous, with air sweetish, with water astringent, and with earth,
musty. This can be tested chemically by dipping a piece of litmus paper into the prepared water. If the water has been impregnated thoroughly, one will detect an acid reaction with the litmus paper when the active elements of fire and air are concerned, while the reaction will be alkaline in the case of water and earth.
Who would not be reminded of the wedding at Kanaa where our Lord transformed water into wine? Only such a high adept as Jesus Christ could accomplish this miracle, not by influence of the elements from the outside, but by mastering the akasa principle of the water being transformed from the inside.
At this point I shall finish the mastering of the elements as far as the magical training of the soul in Step IV is concerned. Nobody is expected to advance before he has worked thoroughly through all the tasks and exercises. The exercises are all going hand in hand, inter-depending on each other. I take it for granted that it will not enter anyone’s mind to stick to single exercises and methods only. The result would be fateful to the health of the person and the success would never come. These facts have to be considered very carefully. But he who does perform one exercise after the other scrupulously can proceed with a clear conscience and can work on the magical development at full speed.

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