Initiation Into Hermetics
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| 8. Memory Suggestion As we know, memory is an intellectual property possessed by every human being whose normal five senses are intact. But at the same time the memory is the receiver of thoughts and ideas from the mental and akasa world as well. We know that all thoughts and ideas are transferred to akasa, and that the memory, thanks to its receptive quality, calls back these ideas from the akasa and the mental sphere to the consciousness. Being quite at home in the akasa, the magician is able to influence the memory in a direct or an indirect way. The direct way is to reinforce the memory by means of the corresponding element or the electromagnetic fluid or by mere influence on the subconscious with the help of imagination. But when working on the memory he can, if he wishes, wipe out or weaken or diminish certain ideas and impressions in the consciousness and consequently in the memory by means of his imagination. The indirect way of influencing the memory is to do so indirectly with the help of the akasa principle. The magician sees everybody’s train of thoughts and pictures in the akasa, and can evidently make them fade away with the help of imagination, destroying the connection between the pictures in akasa and the person concerned. Because the magician has the possibility of depriving every person of the memory in this manner, he may be warned seriously against misusing this strong power. Nobody who is aspiring to ethical development will be persuaded to do a deed like this. The magician will certainly utilize this faculty only when he wants to weaken or to wipe out anyone’s bad experiences or occurrences that left deep impressions on the person’s memory. The magician can do all the good in the world by effacing a deep sorrow or a disappointment a person cannot get over. He can experiment with it in his own life as well, provided that he once suffered from mental shocks or bitter disappointments that keep coming back to his memory. Such pictures will never enter his memory again once they have been wiped out in akasa. But if he does manage to master these remembrances by his will, by self-suggestion or other methods, there is no need for a drastic interference in akasa to have these pictures wiped out once and for all. The pathologic loss of memory can be explained by the fact that the connection with the mental world and therefore with akasa became paralyzed from time to time. But this condition is already a disharmony, an illness, a mental disturbance if it occurred as the result of different causes such as a shock and the like. Download 0.49 Mb. Share with your friends:
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