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(1) Assumption of God-forms.
(2) Vibration of Divine Names.
(3) Rituals of “ Banishing” and “ Invoking.”
These, at least, should be completely mastered before the
dangerous Methods of Chapters V. and VI. are attempted.
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1. The Magical Images of the Gods of Egypt should be
made thoroughly familiar. This can be done by studying
them in any public museum, or in such books as may be
accessible to the student. They should then be carefully
painted by him, both from the model and from memory.
2. The student, seated 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 test of success in this practice exists.
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 him
act thus:
4. (a) Stand with arms outstretched. (See Illustration.)
(6) Breathe in deeply through the nostrils, imagining
the name of the God desired entering with the breath.
(c) Let that name descend slowly from the lungs to the
heart, the solar plexus, the navel, the generative
organs, and so to the feet.
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