Elemental
Magick - Deliberate Creation of Elementals
In contrast to thoughts living
in their forms in the mental or spiritual sphere, the "elementals"
are entities with a certain degree of intelligence deliberately
created by a magician. Such elementals are capable of fulfilling
certain tasks on the mental plane and obviously they may be
looked at as obedient servants of the magician according to
the purpose he aims at. Through the creation of elementals
of the so-called elemental magic type, the magician can accomplish
everything on the mental plane without any discrimination
of his own or a strange sphere. I will quote only a few examples
just because of the great variety.
With the help of the elementals
the magician can influence the mind of any other person optionally,
he can strengthen or weaken man's mental and intellectual
faculties, he can protect himself or others against foreign
influences, transmute friendships into animosities or the
other way around, he can produce a favorable atmosphere in
associating with his fellow men, and he can bring under his
control anybody's will that is not yet developed or profiled.
The businessman can enlarge
the number of his customers, and the elementals can be helpful
to him in many other ways. The genuine magician will always
be inspired by good and noble intentions and keep the altruistic
motive in mind if he is aiming at the highest level of magical
maturity.
The practice of creating elementals
is very simple and an affair of the magician's imagination,
but the following elemental magick rules must be considered:
1. The elemental has to be
given a form corresponding to the desire one wishes to be
fulfilled. The form is to be created by intensive imagination.
2. The form, the so-called
vessel or housing has to be given a name of some sort. Everything
existing, whether in a particular shape or shapeless does
have a name; if it has no name, it does not exist.
3. The task is to impressed
on the elemental with the help of the willpower and the imaginative
faculty; that is, an authoritative order has to be given with
respect to the kind of effect to be produced. Here as well,
the present or imperative form formula must be retained in
exactly the same way as I described it in the chapter dealing
with subconsciousness.
4. The effectiveness is to
be impressed on the elemental regardless whether it be a question
of a permanent or a restricted effect.
These four fundamental elemental
magick rules are to be respected if one intends to work successfully
with elementals. I will render the practice even more understandable,
and an illustrative case may show how it can be done:
Supposing the magician intends
to enforce someone's memory or any other intellectual faculty
with the help of an elemental, the procedure is as follows:
The magician imagines a universal
ocean of light, from the luminous matter of which he shapes
an enormous ball of light, compressing and accumulating it
more and more with the help of his imagination until this
ball has the size of approximately 12-20 inches. By this accumulation
of light, the ball has become similar to a radiating sun.
Now the magician impregnates this light ball with the desire
and the firm conviction that it will exhibit the same power
and quality as is supposed to revive and reinforce the desired
mental faculty such as memory, eloquence, etc., in the respective
person. As soon as the magician has shaped this mental sun
or ball, he must give it a suitable name, say Lucis or the
like. Besides, he is fixing the time when this ball is to
affect the mental sphere of the person with terms like these:
"You ought to work in
the mental sphere until the person concerned has attained
the desired faculty in such a way that this faculty has become
a habit!" Having fixed the time, the magician orders
the elemental to dissolve in and return to the ocean of light
as soon as it has fulfilled its task. Expressing it magically,
the birth and death of the elemental are fixed in exactly
the same manner as Man's or any other being's fate is.
Considering the fact that
an elemental knows neither time nor space, it may be directed
to the mental sphere of the respective person. Its sending
off happens quite suddenly as if the connecting link between
yourself and the elemental were torn. At the same moment,
one turns to another job, one ceases to remember the elemental
that has just been created. One may also accompany the breaking
up with a certain farewell gesture, just as one did while
creating it. All this is left entirely to the discretion of
the scholar who, at this present state of development, should
be quite capable of giving such and similar instructions himself.
The more detached from the magician that such an elemental
is, the more effective it will be in the mental sphere of
the person for whom it was created. It can work independently
in the mental sphere and will not be restricted in any way
by the magicians' mind. Now and again it is advisable to reload
the elemental to give it a greater power of expansion. This
is achieved by calling the elemental by the name given to
it, back from the mental sphere of the person concerned, rendering
it more dynamic through a new accumulation of light, and sending
it of again. As soon as the elemental has fulfilled the required
task, it will dissolve itself in the ocean of light. This
example should suffice to give the magician a rule of conduct
how to create elementals. The experiment described here often
is used by adepts for the purpose of inspiring and strengthening
scholars of low standard.
Let us now turn to another
similar topic that makes us acquainted with the so-called
Larvae:
The difference between an
elemental and a larva is basically the fact that an elemental
is created deliberately by the magician whereas the larvae
form themselves involuntarily in the corresponding mental
sphere as the result of a strong physical excitement, no matter
what kind of excitement this happens to be. The stronger the
excitement is, the more mental material a person is subsiding,
the larva will become all the stronger, denser and more viable,
especially in the case of a regular and frequent repetition
of the same physical excitement.
This involuntary formation
of larvae occurs in any human being, young or old, magically
trained or not, regardless whether the person knows or ignores
it. If the physical excitement is fading due to the fact that
no attention has been paid to the upsetting affair, the larva
too will disappear by and by until finally dissolving itself.
Consequently there will be in the mental sphere a constant
bringing forth and dying of larvae, naturally at the cost
of the mental matter of each human being. We are causing these
events by our own psychic excitement. The reasons can be very
different, usually fear, grief, sorrow, fright, hatred and
envy and such like producing them. The shape that the larva
shows depends on the cause of the psychic excitement and is
always symbolic. Anyone who knows something about symbolism
will be able to get a clear idea about this problem; for example,
a thought of love will always be symbolized by a heart, a
thought of hatred by an arrow or a flash, etc. In spite of
the fact that the larvae, these undesirable mental inhabitants
cannot be seen by the normal human being, they still do exist,
and the well trained magician can see them on the mental plane.
In sensitive or excitable persons, the mental matter is much
more separable and the reproduction of larvae is obviously
easier and more intense. Such people wreck themselves, their
health, especially their nerves, but they also damage their
intellectual faculties and involve other highly suggestible
people too. All kinds of mass psychosis are originating here.
There is no need to describe mass psychosis in detail, because
everybody will have made observations and had experiences
regarding this problem.
The more one returns to the
cause of the psychic excitement and the more attention one
pays to it, the stronger the larva will become. Any larva
that is condensed very strongly will show a great deal of
self-preservation instinct and will try to prolong its duration
of life as far as possible. For this reason, it stimulates
the mind of the given person, trying at every opportunity
to draw his attention to the cause of excitement and to revive
it constantly. Such a well-fed larva can become fatal to a
sensitive or emotional individual, and numerous mental disturbances
such as persecution mania and the like are the result of it.
Many people are living under
the erroneous supposition of being haunted and destroyed by
black magicians, whereas they are in fact victims of their
own fantasies, or putting it correctly, victims of the larva
they have been creating themselves. People like this usually
will not find out about this problem until they leave their
mortal frame. Only a very few persons are actually haunted
magically. Think of the numerous Inquisition victims of the
past! No doubt there is a certain advantage for the average
man in that the old order has changed, yielding to a new one,
for "If a man's belief is bad, it will not be changed
by burning'. But one has thrown out the baby with the bath
water without touching the roots of the matter and without
verifying the higher laws.
Now the magician will realize
why such stress has been laid on the importance of introspection,
control and mastering of the thoughts at the beginning of
the practical part of this work. Supposing he did not get
the thoughts under control of his willpower in the course
of his development, he would unconsciously create larvae that
might become fatal to him sooner or later.
Next I am going to describe
another group of entities existing in the mental sphere, namely
the group of the phantoms or phantasms. The difference between
a larva and a phantasm is as follows: A larva is quite unconsciously
adopting a shape in the mental sphere, appropriate to the
motive of the single or repeated psychic emotion, whereas
a phantom accepts a certain form originating in the fantasy
of Man. Exactly in the same way as it happens to be with the
larvae, the phantom is likewise reinforced, revived and animated
by the repeated evocation of the picture, regardless of whatever
the matter might be, and it will be capable of influencing
not only the mental or astral plane, but also the material
level. Two examples may serve to illustrate this topic:
A very remarkable example
is the so-called magic persecution mania that I shall describe
from two certain points of view, with reference to the phantoms.
There are certain human beings with an innate scowl or with
demoniacal features, and whose outward appearance consequently
gives the impression of black magicians, but who probably
haven't got the faintest idea of any human science, to say
nothing at all of magic. It is sufficient for any easily suggestible,
emotionally excitable or rather conceited person to meet with
such a type of man, whether in business or in personal concern,
and our "test subject", as we shall call it, will
instantly have the sensation of a strong dislike and antipathy
towards the antagonist. It can happen that our type is exhibiting
a whimsical behavior without wanting to do so or even knowing
about it. The first thought entering the test subject's mind
will be that he is facing a black magician. Maybe, for some
reason or other, this test person is to thinking too highly
of this type of man, and the first step toward self-suggestion
has already been done. Sooner or later, small awkward everyday
incidents will never be cleared up, but the blame for them
will be set on our type of man. From now on, the attention
is stirred up, one is watching oneself, and the picture of
the "type" becomes more distinct. Already one begins
to feel persecuted.
The eyes grow more glittering,
his appearance reveals itself in dreams, the picture becomes
more vivid and eventually emerges even in broad daylight.
Finally one constantly lives under the impression of being
persecuted at every turn. With the help of a very lively imagination,
the picture can be condensed to such a degree that it becomes
visible even to other similarly sensitive persons. Feeling
persecuted in this manner, with the picture continually working
on his mind, our test subject may be argued into anything,
even the worst. He looks for help, begins to pray, and does
his best to scare away this terrible influence; he gets a
nervous breakdown, gradually becomes insane, and ends up by
committing suicide or else in a mental hospital for the rest
of his life. The phantom has fulfilled its task.
How terrific is the shock,
however, if such a spirit must convince itself in the mental
sphere that it is committing a well-organized magic suicide!
What a bitter disappointment! Our "type-man" of
course has not the faintest idea of what happened and will
never realize that he was nothing but a means to an end. His
face and his conduct were only the form, the pattern from
which our test subject created the destructive being, the
phantom whose victim he became in the end. Such and similar
sad examples happen more frequently than you would believe,
sometimes faster, more drastically, in other cases more slowly,
furtively, insidiously.
But should you dare to tell
the persecuted person the truth, he would never believe it
because the phantom knows well how to hinder its victims from
escaping. If the guiding hand of Divine Providence leads such
an unhappy persecuted person to a genuine magician who finds
out the phantom's trickery, he will have a very difficult
task to convince the victim, to lead him to the right path,
and to teach him a different, normal mode of thinking. At
certain times, especially if the victim is under the spell
of a phantom, the helper will have to interfere very firmly
indeed, now and again, even drastically to restore the mental
balance of the individual.
The second example shows the
same occurrence but with a different underlying motive:
Here we have to deal with
a phantom of eroticism: the birth of such a phantom - if one
may use the expression of birth at all - takes place in the
face, the beautiful body of a living person, sometimes only
a photo, a pornographic illustration or something similar
with the purpose of provoking the lust, the sexual instinct,
regardless of the person belonging to the female or male sex.
Provided anyone being in love, having no opportunity at all
of satisfying his personal longing, the stronger and more
vehement this yearning will grow, and at the same time the
phantom's insinuations will become stronger, because it is
thriving entirely on thoughts of yearning. The more the concerned
person tries to resist this unsatisfied love, the more obtrusive
the phantom will become. At first it will turn up in dreams
and allow is victim to revel in the most delightful transport
of love. A little later it will provoke the sexual instinct
and allow sexual intercourse in the victim's dreams. The pollutions
produced in this way help the phantom to become denser and
to influence the victim more and more, because the sperm represents
the vital power that the phantom is sucking up like a vampire.
The point in question here
is not the material sperm, but the animal vital power accumulated
in the sperm. The victim is losing the ground under his feet,
his willpower is diminishing, and the phantom gradually wins
the upper hand. If fate is not so kind to such a one as to
have him enlightened in good time and to find the right distraction
for him, the phantom's mode of action will result in more
dangerous effects. The person becomes confused, stops eating,
the nerves are over-excited and such like. The love-phantom
can be condensed to such a degree by unsatisfied passion that
it can adopt bodily forms, seducing his victim to onanism
and other artificial stimulation of the genital organs. Thousands
of people have fallen victims of phantoms by committing suicide
as the result of disappointment in love or unsatisfied passions.
This problem recalls the memory of true occurrences of the
medieval succubi and the trials for witchcraft connected therewith.
A very dangerous pleasure indeed!
In the light of the two foregoing
instances, the magician may observe the activity of the phantasms,
and he will be able to form such specters himself. But do
not forget: sooner or later, he always will run the risk of
being influenced or mastered by them. He knows what is happening
in the average individual, and how to produce these phantasms
consciously in the magic way, but never will he be induced
to execute such practices himself, always remembering the
magic sentence: "Love is the love, but love under a strong
will."
There is one theme left to
be described, that of the phantasms or shadows. Phantasms
are animate presentations of people already deceased. I will
pay particular attention to this theme to avoid many errors
and enable everyone to sift the chaff from the wheat. As soon
as a human being leaves behind the mortal frame, it is at
once in the fourth state of aggregation, usually called the
"world beyond". Without any mediating substance,
it is impossible for a being to operate on our tri-dimensional
sphere, just as a fish cannot swim without water. The same
thing prevails upon beings already passed away to the world
beyond.
Remembering, praising, mourning
the deceased, any memory of or tribute to them will create
and enliven imaginary pictures of the dead, which as a result
of frequent repetition have a rather long duration of life.
We call these pictures, created by the living ones, phantoms.
It is this kind of phantom that manifest themselves in great
numbers to the so-called spiritualists, evokers, diviners,
etc. The spooks and hobgoblins also are nothing else but phantoms
preserving, condensing and thriving on the affection and attachment
of the bereaved ones, as it happens in the case of the shadows.
This can be stated without difficulty by citing a being that
manifests itself in different places at the same minute at
once through so-called mediums, which is nothing but a manifestation
of the dead person's phantom, because phantoms can be created
by the hundreds. It is very sad that these phantoms always
are mistaken for the real dead person by the spiritualistic
mediums. A lot of mischief, self-deception, and fraud is carried
out in this line.
One can observe, for instance,
that one of the mediums is communicating with a famous leader
or general, a second one with an artist, another with a saint,
in a different place with a pharaoh, and immediately again
with an angel. Therefore it is not at all surprising that
this particular field of knowledge will meet with a host of
opponents and mockers, because of its amount of self-deception.
No wonder that a phantom has such a strong instinct of self-preservation
as to present itself as a vampire to the medium or the whole
circle, and indeed becomes fatal to the neighborhood as well.
Of course, all this does not
mean that a genuine magician who masters the fourth state
of aggregation, the akasa principle, would not be able to
communicate with a deceased person or with an intellect that
is not yet embodied. I have already quoted the practice in
the chapter about mediumistic writing. Apart from that, any
magician is able to forma housing, a shape, with the help
of the imagination, transfer it into the fourth state of aggregation,
and to persuade or even to force the true, desired being to
enter this form and manifest itself to the external world.
This practice belongs to the field of necromancy or conjuring
magic and has nothing at all to do with the generally known
spiritualism. The genuine magician will use this practice
only in extreme cases, and he will not evoke a being away
from its sphere, because anything a being of the fourth state
of aggregation has to say or to fulfill in the material or
astral world can be achieved likewise by the magician himself
through his maturity.
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