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performed this méditation that on a sudden thou shalt hear the drone and booming of a Beetle. 12. Now then shall the Blackness pass, and with rose and gold shalt thou arise in the East, with the cry of an Hawk resounding in thine ear. Shrill shall it be and harsh. 13. At the end shalt thou rise and stand in the mid-heaven, a globe of glory. And therewith shall arise the mighty Sound that holy men hâve likened unto the roaring of a Lion. 14. Then shalt thou withdraw thyself from the Vision, gathering thyself into the divine form of Osiris upon h…
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…t!... foot! What is this foot? Surely I am not alone in the Hermitage! ” And this practice should be carried out not only at the time of méditation, but during the day’s work. 2. This méditation is to be assisted by reasoning- as, “This foot is not I. If I should lose my foot, I should still be I. This foot is a mass of changing and decaying flesh, bone, skin, blood, I. If armed with wand and lamp let him extinguish the light with his hand. — N. — 411
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…of silence, and afterward thou shalt perform the adoration that is taught thee by thy Superior. And then do thou compose Thyself to holy méditation. 6. Also it is better if in these adorations thou assume the God-form of Whom thou adorest, as if thou didst unité with Him in the adoration of That which is beyond Him. 7- Thus shalt thou ever be mindful of the Great Work which thou hast undeitaken to perform? and thus shalt thou be strengthened to pursue it unto the attainment of the Stone of the Wise? the Summum Bonum? True Wisdom and Terfect Hap…
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…flessness is Self. For the interplay of the parts hath no action upon the whole. And this contemplation shall be performed not by simple méditation — how much less then by reason! but by the method which shall hâve been given unto Him in His initiation to the Grade. 17. Following which method, it shall be easy for Him to combine that trinity from its éléments, and further to combine Sat- Chit-Ananda, and Light, Love, Life, three by three into nine that are one, in which méditation success shall be That which was first adumbrated to Him in the g…
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…ning 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 wish to meditate ? Why choose warm Spain rather than warm India? To the last question: Because Spain is nearer to his home. Then why is his home near Spain ? Because his parents were Germans. And why did they go to Germany ? And so during the whole méditation. 31. On another day, let him begin with a question of another k…
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… a man, rubbing two dry sticks together for long, suddenly found a spark, so also from time to time will true Love leap unasked into thy méditation. Yet this shall die and be reborn again and again. It may be that thou hast no tinder near. In the end shall corne suddenly a great flame and devouring, and burn thee utterly. Now of these sparks, and of these splutterings of flame, and of these beginnings of the Infinité Fire, thou shalt thus be aware. For the sparks thy heart shall leap up, and thy ceremony or médi¬ tation or toil shall seem of a …
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…ish play in thy depths. 2. Let a Breath rise and ruffle the waters. This also thou shalt feel playing upon thy skin. It will disturb thy méditation twice or thrice, after which thou shouldst hâve conquered this distraction. But unless thou first feel it, that Breath hath not arisen. 3. Next, the night is riven by the lightning flash. This also 362
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…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 Holy of Holies, but it is dark and empty.) Finally, strive hard to drive anger and other obsessing thoughts into the Ajna. Try to develop a tendency to think hard of Ajna when these thoughts attack the mind, and let Ajna conquer them. Beware of thinking of aMy Ajna”. In these méditations and practices, Ajna does not belong to y ou; Ajna is the master and worker, you are the wooden monkey…
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So also shall he who invoketh often behold the Formless Fire, with trembling and bewilderment ; but if he prolong his méditation, he shall résolve it into cohérent and intelligible symbols, and he shall hear the articulate utterance of that Fire, interpret the thunder thereof as a still small voice in his heart. And the Fire shall reveal to his eyes his own image in its own true glorv; and it shall speak in his ears the Mystery that is his own right Name. This then is the virtue of the Magick of The Beast 666, and the canon of its proper usage:…
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…f the holy cow Hathor. And it may be that thou shalt hear the moaning thereof. 11. Let it become blacker than ail blackness. And in this méditation thou shalt be utterly without fear, for that the black¬ ness that will appear unto thee is a thing dreadful beyond ail thy compréhension. And it shall corne to pass that if thou hast well and properly
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…. But let it be protected from the profane. 4. Concerning the Image of the Deity: — Let there be an image of the Deityj first because in méditation there is mindfulness induced thereby; and second because a certain power enters and inhabits it by virtue of the ceremonies 5 or so it is said, and We deny it not. Let this image be the most beautiful and perfect which the devotee is able to procure ; or if he be able to paint or to carve the same, it is ail the better. As for Deities with whose nature no Image is compatible, let them be worshipped …
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… matter may turn his success. 6. Lastly, having drawn ail his being into the highest Sahasrara Cakkra, let him remain eternally fixed in méditation thereupon. 7. AUM. THIRD METHOD. i; Tet the Hermit stimulate each of the senses in turn, concen- trating upon each until it ceases to stimulate. (The senses of sight and touch are extremely difficult to conquer. In the end the Hermit must be utterly unable by any effort to see or feel the object of those senses, O. M.) 2. This being perfected, let him combine them two at a time. For example, let him…
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…ch partakes in no way of the nature of the two. It would seem at first sight that it is of no importance whatever to choose an object of méditation. For example, the Samadhi 401 —
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…ld concentrate his efforts upon obtaining a perfect picture of five minutes backwards rather than upon extending the time covered by his méditation. For this preliminary training of the brain is the Pons Asinorum of the whole process. 17. This five minutes5 exercise being satisfactory, the Exempt Adept may extend the same at his discrétion to cover an hour, a — 418 —
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22. Further concerning méditation. — Moreover let the Philosophus imagine to himself that he hath indeed succeeded in his dévotion, and that his Lord hath appeared to him, and that they converse as may be fitting. 23. Concerning the JVLysterious Triangle. — Now as three cords separately may be broken by a child, while those same cords duly twisted may bind a giant, let the Philosophus learn to entwine these three methods of Magick into a Spell. To this end let him understand that as they are One, because the end is One, so are they One because …
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…golden cross, then a silver cross j or those things which these shadow forth. Herein is silence j for he that hath rightly performed the méditation will understand the innei mean- ing hereof, and it shall serve as a test of himself and his fellows. 9. Let him now remain in the Pyramid or Cône of Light, as an Egg, but no more of blackness. 10. Then let his body be in the position of the Hanged Man, and let him aspire with ail his force unto the Holy Guardian Angel. 11. The grâce having been grantecl unto him, let him partake mystically of the Eu…
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…lthough his aspiration hâve been impure through vanity or any similar imperfections. 5. Let then the Adept who finds the resuit of these méditations unsatisfactory refuse the Oath of the Abyss, and live so that his Karma gains strength and direction suitable to the task at some future period. 1 2 6. Memory is essential to the individual consciousness; other- wise the mind were but a blank sheet on which shadows are cast. But we see that not only does the mind retain impressions, but that it is so constituted that its tendency is to retain some …
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…, let him swear the Oath of the Abyss; yea, let him swear the Oath of the Abyss. I. A brother known to me was repeatedly baffled in this méditation. But one day being thrown with his horse over a sheer cliff of forty feet, and escaping without a scratch or a bruise, he was reminded of his many narrow escapes from death. These proved to be the last factors in his problem, which, thus completed, solved itself in a moment. (O. M. Chinese Frontier 1905-6.) 422 —