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“These loosen the swathings of the corpse; these unbind the 
feet of Osiris, so that the flaming God ma y rage through the firma¬ 
ment with his fantastic spearA Liber Lapidis Lazuli. vu. m. 
o. Be seated in thine Asana, or recumbent in Shavasana, or in 
the position of the dying Buddha. 
1. Think of thy deathj imagine the various diseases that may 
attack thee, or accidents overtake thee. Picture the process of 
death, applying always to thyself. 
(A useful preliminary practice is to read textbooks of Pathology, 
and to visit muséums and dissecting-rooms.) 
2. Continue this practice until death is complété5 follow the 
corpse through the stages of embalming, wrapping and burial. 
3. Now imagine a divine breath entering thy nostrils. 
4. Next, imagine a divine light eniightening the eyes. 
5. Next, imagine the divine voice awakening the ears. 
6. Next, imagine a divine kiss imprinted on the lips. 
7. Next, imagine the divine energy informing the nerves and 
muscles of the body, and concentrate on the phenomenon which will 
already hâve been observed in 3, the restoring of the circulation. 
8. Last, imagine the return of the reproductive power, and 
employ this to the imprégnation of the Egg of light in which man 
is bathed. 
9. Now represent to thyself that this Egg is the Disk of the 
Sun, setting in the west. 
10. Let it sink into blackness, borne in the bark of heaven, upon 
the back of the holy cow Hathor. And it may be that thou shalt 
hear the moaning thereof. 
11. Let it become blacker than ail blackness. And in this 
méditation thou shalt be utterly without fear, for that the black¬ 
ness that will appear unto thee is a thing dreadful beyond ail thy 
compréhension. 
And it shall corne to pass that if thou hast well and properly