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shalt thou feel in thy body, which shall shiver and leap with the shock, and that also must both be suffered and overcome. 4. After the lightning flash, resteth in the zénith a minute point of light. And that light shall radiate until a right cône be established upon the sea, and it is day. With this thy body shall be rigid, automatically ; and this shalt thou let endure, withdrawing thyself into thine heart in the form of an upright Egg of blacknessj and therein shalt thou abide for a space. 5. When ail this is perfectly and easily performed a…
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(b) The tendency to perspiration will stop as the practice is continue^ and the body become automatically rigid. Describe this rigidity with minute accuracy. (c) The State of automatic rigidity will develop into a State characterised by violent spasmodic movements of which the Practitioner is unconscious, but of whose resuit he is aware. This resuit is that the body hops gently from place to place. After the first two or three occurrences of this expérience, Asana is not lost. The body appears (on another theory) to hâve lost its weight almost …
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…(Genujlects). Mother, be thou adored! She returns to the Westy -j~ on PRIEST with open hand doth she makey over his foreheady breast and body. Be the PRIEST pure of body and soûl! The PRIESTESS takes the censer jrom the childy and places it on the small altar. She puis incense therein. Let the Pire and the Air make sweet the world! Genujlects. Father, be thou adored ! She returns W est y and makes with the censer -f- bejore the PRIEST, thrice as bejore. Be the PRIEST fervent of body and soûl ! (The children résumé their weapons as they are done…
1930 · PDF PAGE 88
…m to shrivel or decay. io. Practice will make the student infinitely wary in such matters. il. It is usually quite easy to return to the body, but should any difficulty arise, practice (again) will make the imagination fertile. For example, one may create in thought a chariot of fire with white horses, and command the charioteer to drive earthwaras. It might be dangerous to go too far, or to stay too long; for fatigue must be avoided. The danger spoken of is that of fainting, or of obsession, or of loss of memory or other mental faculty. 12. Fi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 78
…ed in the “God” position, or in the characteristic attitude of the God desired, should then imagine His image as coinciding with his own body, or as enveloping it. This must be practised until mastery of the image is attained, and an identity with it and with the God experienced. It is a matter for very great regret that no simple and certain tests of success in this practice exist. 3. The Vibration of God-names. As a further means of identifying the human consciousness with that pure portion of it which man calls by the name of some God, let h…
1930 · PDF PAGE 120
…s Asana, consider any event, and trace it to its immédiate causes. And let this be doue very fully and minutely. Here, for example, is a body erect and motionless. Let the adept consider the many forces which maintain it 5 firstly, the attraction cf the earth, of the sun, of the planets, of the farthest stars, nay of every mote of dust in the room, one cf which (could it be annihilated) would cause that body to move, although so imper- ceptibly. Also the résistance of the floor, the pressure of the air, and ail other external conditions. Second…
1930 · PDF PAGE 105
…still further increase the period. Thus let him investigate these statements which follow: — (a) If Pranayama be properly performed, the body will first of ail become covered with sweat. This sweat is different in character from that customarily induced by exertion. If the Practitioner rub this sweat thoroughly into his body, he will greatly strengthen it. 405
1930 · PDF PAGE 67
…id thine imagination herein. 8. Let this agony grow until it be insupportable, resisting by will every temptation. Not until thine whole body is bathed in sweat, or it may be in sweat of blood, and until a cry of intolérable anguish is forced from thy closed lips, shalt thou proceed. 9. Now let a current of light, deep azuré flecked with scarlet, pass up and down the spine, striking as it were upon thyself that art coiled at the base as a serpent. Let this be exceeding slow and subtle; and though it be accom- panied with pleasure, resist; and t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 112
…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 imm…
1930 · PDF PAGE 113
…ent. (3) Lie fiat on the back with the feet under a heavy piece of furniture. Keeping the spine straight and the arms in a line with the body, rise slowly to a sitting posture, by means of the force residing in the Ajna (i.e. try to prevent the mind dwelling on any other exertion or sensation.) Then let the body slowly down to its original position. Repeat 4i3
1930 · PDF PAGE 99
…before them. For such, is this Method of most use 5 yet let them know that there is this danger therein, that they may mistake the gross body of the symbol for the idea made concrète thereby. 32. Considérations of further danger to those not purged of material thought. — Let it be remembered that in the nature of the love itself is danger. The lust of the satyr for the nymph is indeed of the same nature as the affinity of quicklime for water en the one hand, and of love of Ab for Ama on the otherj so also is the triad Osiris, Isis, Horus like t…
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… slight may easily be transferred to the Ajna after a little practice. The best method for a beginner is to imagine he has a pain in the body and then imagine that it passes directly into the Ajna. It does not pass through the intervening structures, but goes direct. After continuai practice even severe pain may be transferred to the Ajna. (6) Fix the mind on the base of the spine and then gradually move the thoughts upwards to the Ajna. (In this méditation Ajna is the Holy of Holies, but it is dark and empty.) Finally, strive hard to drive ang…
1930 · PDF PAGE 82
… itual is to be performed after the “Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram”. (I) . Stand upright, feet together, left arm at side, right across body, holding Wand or other weapon upright in the médian line. Then face East and say : (II) I.N.R.I. Yod, Nun, Resh, Yod. Virgo, Isis, Mighty Mother. Scorpio, Apophis, Destroyer. Sol, Osiris, Slain and Risen. Isis, Apophis, Osiris, IAQ. < (ÎH)- Extend the arms in the form of a cross, and say “The Sign of Osiris Slain.” (See illustration). Râise the right arm to point upwards, keeping the elbow square, and low…
1930 · PDF PAGE 57
…nant of Résurrection. (The PRIEST offers the Tance to the PRIESTESS, who hisses it; he then touches her hetween the breasts and upon the body. He then flings out his arms upward as comprehending the whole shrine. ) Let this offering be borne upon the waves of Aethyr to our Lord and Father the Sun that travelleth over the Heavens in his name ON. (He closes his hands, hisses the PRIESTESS between the breasts and makes three great crosses over the Paten, the Cup and Himself. He strikes his breast. AU repeat this action.) Hear ye ail, saints of the…
1930 · PDF PAGE 89
in a line exactly perpendicular to the earth’s tangent at the point where his physical body is situated (or to put it more simply, straight upwards). 4. Instead of stopping, let him continue to rise until fatigue almost overcomes him. If he should find that he has stopped without willing to do so, and that figures appear, let him at ail costs rise above them. Yea, though his very life tremble on his lips, let him force his way upward and onward! 5. Let him continue in this so long as the breath of life is in him. Whatever threatens, whatever al…
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…of endeavour, thus be thou nourishment of the Spirit! {He touches the Host with the Tance. ) By the virtue of the Rod! Be this bread the Body of God! {He takes the Host.) TOTTO EUTI TO 20MA MOT. {He kneelsy adores, risesy turns y shows Host to the PE O P LE, turnSy replaces Host and adores. IVLusic. He takes the Cup.) Vehicle of the joy of Man upon Earth, solace of labour, inspira¬ tion of endeavour, thus be thou ecstasy of the Spirit! {He touches the Cup with the Lance.) By the virtue of the Rod! Be this wine the Blood of God? {He takes the Cu…
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…e 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 bac…
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…tice is begun. 4. Next, adore the brain as before, but figure to thyself its content as infinité. Deem it to be the womb of Isis, or the body of Nuit. 5. Next, identify thyself with the base of the spine as before, but figure to thyself its energy as infinité. Deem it to be the phallus of Osiris or the being of Hadit. 6. These two concentrations 4 and 5 may be pushed to the 366
1930 · PDF PAGE 107
…horax. In ail proper inspiration the last possible portion of air must be drawn into the lungs. In ail proper holding of the breath, the body must remain absolutely still. Ten minutes of such practice is ample to induce profuse sweating in any place of a température of 170 C. or over. The progress of the Zelator in acquiring a depth and fullness of breath should be tested by the respirometer. The exercises should be carefully graduated to avoid overstrain and possible damage to the lungs. This depth and fullness of breath should be kept as much…
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…e his own figure (preferably robed in the proper magical garments, and armed with the proper magical weapons) as enveloping his physical body, or standing near to and in front of him. 3. Let him then transfer the seat of his consciousness to that imagined figure 3 so that it may seem to him that he is seeing with its eyes, and hearing with its ears. This will usually be the great difficulty of the operation. 4. Let him then cause that imagined figure to rise in the air to a great height above the earth. 5. Let him then stop and look about him. …