THE EQUINOX
according to the powers of attainment, but in all cases these
journeys would be of little use unless method were brought
into the extraordinary chaos which they at first reveal. And,
as in Geography, little information could be obtained of the
configuration of the Earth’s surface unless explorers set out
with a definite object in view, such as Columbus had when he
set out on his great journey of discovery, and equipped with
definite instruments; so in these Astral journeys, little or no
spiritual information can be obtained unless the Skryer pro-
ject, or at least set out with the intention of projecting, his
Sphere to a certain and definite place. This, when applied to
travelling to certain paths or places on the Tree of Life, is
termed Rising on the Planes, and may lead, as above stated,
should the place desired to arrive at be Kether, to the very
highest Attainment.
This Rising on the Planes is a definite mystical process,
and two initiates setting out to attain the same goal would
find the journey, in its essentials, as similar as two ordinary
individuals would find a journey from London to Paris.
Karma and environment have in these Risings on the
Planes to be reckoned with, just as they would have to be
taken into account in the case of the two men journeying to
Paris. The one might be travelling third class, and the
other first; the one might be travelling by a slow train, the
other by an express; the one might see great beauty in the
journey, the other little; yet both would know when they got
to Dover, both would know when they were on the Channel,
and both would in some way, different in detail though it
might be, recognise Paris as Paris when they arrived at their
destination.
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