There are a great many ways of acquiring the power. Gaze 
into a crvstal, or into a pool of ink in the palm of the hand, or into 
a mirror, or into a teacup. Just as with a microscope the expert 
operator keeps both eves open, though seeing only through the 
one at the eye-piece of the instrument, so the natural eyes, ceasing 
to give anv message to the brain, the attention is withdrawn from 
them, and the man begins to see through the Astral eyes. 
These methods appear to The Master Therion to be 
unsatisfactory. Very often they do not work at ail. It is difficult 
to teach a person to use these methods; and, worst of ali, they are 
purely passive! You can see only what is shewn you, and you are 
probably shewn things perfectly pointless and irrelevant. 
The proper metnod is as followsi — Devciop the body oi 
Liglil until îî is jiisl ns real to y ou as your otlier body. 
teacli it îo travel to any desired Symbol, and enable it te 
perform ail neeessary Rites and Invocations. In sbort, 
edncate it. Ultimately, the relation of that body with your 
own must be exceedingly intimâtes but before this harmonizing 
takes place, you should begin by a careful différentiation. The first 
thing to do, therefore, is to get the body outside your own. To 
avoid muddling the two, you begin by imagining a shape resem- 
bÜng yourself standing in front of you. Do not say: “Oh, it’s only 
imagination!” lhe time to test that is later on, when you hâve 
secured a fairly ciear mental image of such a body. T'ry to ima¬ 
gine how your own body would look if you were standing in its 
place j try to transfer your consciousness to the Body of Light. 
Your own body has its eyes shut. Use the eyes of the Body of Light 
to describe the objects in the room behind you. Don’t say, “It’s 
only an effort of subconscious memory”...the time to test that is 
later on. 
As soon as you feel more or less at home in the fine body, let it 
rise in the air. Keep on feeling the sense of rising; keep on looking 
about you as you rise until you see landscapes or beings of the astral 
plane. Such hâve a quality ail their own. They are not like material 
things — they are not like mental pictures — they seem to lie 
between the two. 
After some practice has made you adept, so that in the course 
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