Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

concentration may bring about Samadhi. This is to be feared and shunned, more than any other breaking of control, for that it is the most tremenclous of the forces which threaten to obsess. There is also some danger of acute délirions melancholia at point I.) III sss “Thou art a beautiful thing, whiter than a woman in the column of this vibration. “I shoot up vertically like an arrow, and become that Above. “But it is death, and the flame of the pyre. “Ascend in the flame of the pyre, O my Soûl ! “Thy God is like the cold emptiness of the utmost heaven, into which thou radiatest thy little light. “When Thou shalt know me, O empty God, my flame shall utterly expire in thy great N.O.X.” Liber Lapidis 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 fully and perfectly before the further practice 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