Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

lymph, etc. while I am the Unchanging and Immortal Spirit, uniform, not made, unbegotten, formless, self-luminous,” etc. _ 3- This practice being perfect for each part of the body, let him combine his workings until the whole body is thus ur.derstood as the non-Ego and as illusion. 4. Let then the Hermit, seated in his Asana, meditate upon the Muladhara Cakkra ana its correspondence as a power of the mind, and destroy it in the same manner as aforesaid. Also by reasoning: This émotion (memory, imagination, intellect, will, as it may be) is not I. This émotion is transient: I am immovable. This émotion is passion. I am peace”, and so on. Let the other Cakkras in their turn be thus destroyed, each one with its mental or moral attribute. 5- In this let him be aided by his own psychological analysis, so that no part of his conscious being be thus left undestroyed. And on his thoroughness in this matter may turn his success. 6. Lastly, having drawn ail his being into the highest Sahasrara Cakkra, let him remain eternally fixed in méditation thereupon. 7. AUM. THIRD METHOD. i; Tet the Hermit stimulate each of the senses in turn, concen- trating upon each until it ceases to stimulate. (The senses of sight and touch are extremely difficult to conquer. In the end the Hermit must be utterly unable by any effort to see or feel the object of those senses, O. M.) 2. This being perfected, let him combine them two at a time. For example, let him chew ginger (taste and touch), and watch a waterfall (sight and hearing) and watch incense (sight and smell) and crush sugar in his teeth (taste and hearing) and so on. 3. These twenty-five practices being accomplished, let him combine them three at a time, then four at a time. 4. Lastly, let him combine ail the senses in a single object. And herein may a sixth sense be included. He is then to with- draw himself entirely from ail these stimulations, ferinde ac cadaver, in spite of his own efforts to attach himself to them. — 412 —