Summary of Exercises of Step IV

End of Step IV
Step V
The wise Archimedes once said, “Show me one point on the Universe and I shall move the
Earth!”
Very few people probably know that this sentence is concealing a great occult mystery,
namely the secret of the fourth dimension. As we all remember from our schooldays, every thing having a shape, every body has length, width and height, definitions that are familiar to us. If in the middle of a form, for example a sphere, we imagine a double crossing, on the crossing spot we get a point, the so-called depth point. Archimedes certainly had this point in mind because it is actually the point of beginning, the starting point, the nucleus of every form. Regarded from this point, every point is symmetrically objective, meaning that it is in its true equilibrium. This is the base of the mystery of the fourth dimension, hence the concept of time and space, of timelessness and spacelessness, and therefore also the secret of space magic. The scholar is advised to meditate very intensely about this problem, and he will be able to open up profundities he never dreamed of and a high intuition will be his reward. In association with the magical mental training of the Step V, we shall speak about the space magic.
Magic Mental Training (V)
With all the previous exercises the scholar has achieved a certain capacity of concentration and he has learned to transform his consciousness at will or to adjust it to any form, and he will be able to see father and deeper. The instructions of the fifth step shall show us how to transplant the consciousness into the center of any form beginning with the tiniest atom to the highest universe. In this manner, the scholar not only learns to understand and interpret every form from its center, he will also be taught to master it from the center. The faculties acquired by means of the following exercises are of a very great at any time. This mental balance is the specific fundamental property of the akasa or causal principle of the mind.
Therefore let us turn immediately to the practical exercises:
Take up your customary position. Now put some larger objects in front of you, perhaps a solid ball, a die, a cube, etc. It will be profitable at first to select objects with full contents. Fix your eyes for a short time on one of these objects, then close your eyes and transfer your consciousness to the depth-point, that is, to the center. The transplantation of your consciousness has to be so close that you forget your body entirely. This exercise is very difficult indeed, but practice will make perfect! Nobody should be scared away by failures in the beginning, but keep on working diligently. Man being accustomed to three dimensions only, some difficulties will occur at first, but they will diminish from one exercise to the next, and gradually one gets accustomed to concentrate on being in the depth-point of any object. If you have been successful in staying for at least five minutes with your consciousness in the center of the object you choose, you may go on to the next object. After achieving the same good result, select different objects for exercising, but this time use unsymmetrical ones. Each time you must go so far that you transfer your consciousness in the center of any object and feel yourself as small as a poppy seed, even as an atom. If you can manage this without any disturbance, go ahead to the next exercise, seizing the dimension and shape of the object from your depth point. The smaller you feel yourself and the more your

consciousness is shrinking, all the bigger the circumference or the width of the object will appear to you. From your point of view, the selected object represents a whole universe, and you must hold onto this feeling as long as possible. Once you have managed this exercise free from disturbances with a symmetrical object as well as with an unsymmetrical one, you can turn to another object. You may believe this exercise well performed if you can book the same good success with any object whatsoever. After numerous exercises of the depth-point transference you will attain the capacity to look through any object, and you will intuitively recognize the material as well as the mental structure of such an object. At the same time,
you will obtain the faculty to influence every object from the nucleus, to load it magically at will, and thus to impregnate the me ntal sphere of every object with your desire. We have learned in the fourth step to master this problem through the accumulation of vital power,
from outward to inwards, and this step will teach us to do the same, but in a far more impressive manner, from inwards to outwards.
A magician has to obtain the same effect with animals and human beings. He must also manage it with objects that are not directly before his eyes. Consciousness knows no bounds at all, therefore he can practice transference to the farthest distance. As soon as the scholar has reached this point, he can start on transferring consciousness into the fourth dimension in his own body, the microcosm, into the akasa principle of his own being. The practice is as follows:
You are sitting quietly in your familiar position with your eyes closed. Transfer your consciousness exactly into the middle of your body, into the pit of your stomach, the solar plexus. You must feel yourself as a mere dot, as an atom in the center between the spine and the pit f the stomach. This center is the center of gravity of your body. Try to stay there with your consciousness for at least five minutes; you may use an alarm clock to check the time.
Regard your body from his point. The more diminutive you imagine yourself, the bigger you will perceive the circumference of your body, which will appear to you as a big universe. At this point, meditate as follows: “I am the center of my body; I am the determining power therein!” Difficulties in the beginning should not discourage the scholar. Even if he manages it for only a few seconds at first, the seconds will become minutes by constant exercise. The limit for staying in this depth-point is five minutes. Working through this step the scholar should be able to transfer himself at any hour and in every situation into this depth-point, into the akasa principle, from there perceiving and influencing all that concerns his being. This consciousness transference into the akasa principle is the genuine magical state of trance and represents the preliminary stage of the connection with the cosmic consciousness. I shall describe the practice relating to this linking up to the cosmic consciousness in a further chapter.
The magical trance should not be mixed up with the state produced by spiritualistic mediums, provided we have to do with genuine psychical phenomena and mediums of integrity. Mostly a lot of mischief is done in this line to mislead credulous people. The real spiritualistic mediums bring about their trances whether with the help of a prayer, a hymn or some other meditation, or through a sort of passivity (emptiness) of the mind, conjuring up a spontaneous displacement (shifting) of the consciousness. In this state it is possible for elementals, deceased people and certain low beings to induce the astral body together with the material body to manifestations and other undertakings. From the hermetic point of view,
such experiments are to be regarded as a sort of obsession, even if the beings in question should be good ones. The true magician naturally does not doubt the performance of such experiments – if they are to be taken very seriously – but he will feel very sorry indeed about these mediums. The magician himself can consciously form connections with beings in quite

a different way, being fully aware of what he is doing. Particulars will be given in a special chapter.

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