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8. Fifth practice. — Let him practice mental concentration during the dance, and investigate the following experiments: (a) The dance becomes independent of the will. (b) Similar phenomena to those described in 5 (a), (b), (c), (d), occur. 9. A note concerning the depth and fullness of the breathing. In ail proper expiration the last possible portion of air should be expelled. In this the muscles of the throat, chest, ribs, and abdomen must be fully employed, and aided by the pressing of the upper arms into the flanks, and of the head into the …
1930 · PDF PAGE 108
13- Ninth practice.—Let him practice the usual forms of Pranayama, but let Kumbhakarn be used after instead of before expiration. Let him gradually increase the period of this Kumbhakarn as in the case of the other. 14. A note concerning the conditions of these experiments. The conditions favourable are dry, bracing air, a warm climate, absence of wind, absence of noise, insects and ail other disturbing influences,1 a retired situation, simple food eaten in great modéra¬ tion at the conclusion of the practices of morning and afternoon, and on n…
1930 · PDF PAGE 119
…esj the extension from a day to the course of his whole life will not prove so difficult as the perfecting of the five minutes. 18. This practice should be repeated at least four times daily, and progress is shown firstly by the ever easier running of the brain, secondly by the added memories which arise. 19. It is useful to reflect during this practice, which in time becomes almost mechanical, upon the way in which effects spring from causes. This aids the mind to link its memories, and préparés the adept for the preliminary practice of the se…
1930 · PDF PAGE 106
(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 …
1930 · PDF PAGE 105
…hysical activity is interdependent with the distance from the nostrils at which the breath can be felt by the back of the hand. 4. First practice. — Let him concentrate his mind upon the act of breathing, saying mentally, “The breath flows in”, “the breath flows out”, and record the results. [This practice may résolve itself into Mahasatipatthana (vide Liber XXV) or induce Samadhi. Whichever occurs should be followed up as the right Ingenium of the Zelator, or the advice of his Practicus, may détermine.] 5. Second practice. Pranayama. — This is…
1930 · PDF PAGE 88
Thus a hostile being may appear clothed with glory ; the appropriate pentagram will in such a case cause him 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 …
1930 · PDF PAGE 65
…st knowledge and skill to perform, and that at the end thereof the closing should be most carefully accomplished. But in the preliminary practice it is enough to cleanse thyself by ablution, by robing, and by the rituals of the Pentagram and Hexagrarm 0-2 should be practised at first, until some réalisation is obtained; and the practice should always be followed by a divine invocation of Apollo or of Isis or of Jupiter or of Serapis. Next, after a swift summary of 0-2 practice 3-7. This being mastered, add 8. Then add 9-13. Then being prepared …
1930 · PDF PAGE 114
…old” — transfer this to the Ajna, “the Ajna is aware”, etc. (5) Pain if very 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 …
1930 · PDF PAGE 104
Nevertheless, forget not that this practice is dangerous, and may cause the manifestation of evil things, hostile and malicious, to thy great hurt. 45. Concerning a further sacrifice. — Of this it shall be under- stood that nothing is to be spoken; nor need anything be spoken to him that hath wisdom to comprehend the number of the para- graph. And this sacrifice is fatal beyond all,unless it be a sacrificium indeed. Yet there are those who hâve dared and achieved thereby. 46. Concerning yet a further sacrifice. — Here it is spoken of actual mut…
1930 · PDF PAGE 64
…seases 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 imprinte…
1930 · PDF PAGE 71
… seconds, in for 15 seconds, and hold the breath for 15 seconds. 4. When you can do this with perfect ease and comfort for a whole hour, practice breathing out for 40 and in for 20 seconds. 5. This being attained, practice breathing out for 20, in for 10, holding the breath for 30 seconds. When this has become perfectly easy to you, you may be admit- ted for examination, and should you pass, you will be instructed in more complex and difficult practices. 6. You will find that the presence of food in the stomach, even in small quantifies, makes …
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…pidis Lazuli. i. 36- 40. o. Be seated in thine Asana, preferably the Thunderbolt. It is essential that the spine be vertical. 1. In this practice the cavity of the brain is the Yonij the spinal cord is the Lingam. 2. Concentrate thy thought of adoration in the brain. 3. Now begin to awaken the spine in this manner. Concen¬ trate thy thought of thyself in the base of the spine, and move it gradually up a little at a time. By this means thou wilt become conscious of the spine, feeling each vertebra as a separate entity. This must be achieved most…
1930 · PDF PAGE 120
…. 25. This being so, without réluctance will he swear the Oath of the Abyss. 26. Second Method. — Let the Exempt Adept, fortified by the practice of the first method, enter the preliminary practice of the second method. 27. Second Method. — Preliminary Practices. Let him, seated in his 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 t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 100
…t that by no means will he travel in the desired direction, or if thy mind be baulkish and éloquent as Balaam’s fabled Ass, then let the practice be abandoned. Let the shrine be covered in sackcloth, and do thou put on habits of lamentation, and abide alone. And do thou return most austerely to the practice of Liber Jugorum, testing thyself by a standard higher than that hitherto accomplished, and punishing effractions with a heavier goad. Nor do thou return to thy dévotion until 400
1930 · PDF PAGE 103
…ing that Philosophy is the Equilibrium of him that is in the House of Love.” 44. Concerning secrecy and the rites of Blood. —During this practice it is most wise that the Philosophus utter no Word con¬ cerning his working, as if it were a Forbidden Love that consumeth him. But let him answer fools according to their folly; for since he cannot conceal his love from his fellows, he must speak to them as they may understand. And as many Deities demand sacrifice, one of men, another of cattle, a third of doves, let these sacrifices be replaced by t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 121
30. This being accomplished, let him trace his own history with spécial reference to the causes of each event. And in this practice he may neglect to some extent the universal forces which at ail times act on ail, as for example, the attraction of masses, and let him concentrate his attention upon the principal and determining or effective causes. For instance, he is seated, perhaps, in a country place in Spain. Why ? Because Spain is warm and suitable for méditation, and because cities are noisy and crowded. Why is Spain warm ? and why does he…
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it is merely normal. It is difficult to describe the nature of the trick, but it will be quite obvious to anyone who has done practices (a) and (b) for a day or two. They become quite easy, and he will think that he is making progress, an illusion which close analysis will dispel. 13. Having begun to train his brain in this manner and obtained some little success, let the Exempt Adept, seated in his Asana, think first of his présent attitude, next of the act of being seated, next of his entering the room, next of his robing, etc. exactly as it …
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
…, and justifies Nothing in its futile folly of pretending that something is stable, by making us aware of a method of Magick through the practice of which we may partake in the pleasure of the process. The Magician should devise for himself a definite technique for destroving “evil”. The essence of such a practice will consist in training the mind and the body to confront things which cause fear, pain, disgust1, shame, and the like. He must learn to endure them, then to become indifferent to them, then to analyse them until they give pleasure a…
1930 · PDF PAGE 109
… competent surgeon. We do not advise this or any similar method of cheating difficultés. This is, however, harmless.) In this manner the practice is to be raised from the physical to the spiritual plane, even as the words Ruh, Ruach, Pneuma, Spiritus, Geist, Ghost, and indeed words of almost ail languages, hâve been raised from their physical meaning of wind, breath, or movement, to the spiritual plane. (RV is the old root meaning Yoni and hence Wheel (Fr. roue, Lat. rota, wheel) and the corresponding Semitic root means “to go”. Similarly spiri…
1930 · PDF PAGE 44
…ck of The Beast 666, and the canon of its proper usage: to destroy the tendency to discriminate between any two things in theory, and in practice to pierce the veils of every sanctuary, pressing forward to embrace every image ; for there is none that is not very Isis. The Inmost is one with the Inmostj yet the form of the One is not the form of the otherj intimacy exacts fitness. He therefore who liveth by air, let him not be bold to breathe water. But mastery cometh by measure: to him who with labour, courage, and caution giveth his life to un…