Magick
1 - Why Magick?
Magick
2 - Subjective Experience
Magick
3 - The Four Worlds
Magick
4 - The Four Elements
Magick
5 - Chakras Meditation
Magick
6 - Thought Forms & Spirits
Magick
7 - Basic Ritual
Magick
8 - Healing & Banishing Rituals
Magick
9 - Astral Projection
Magick
10 - Cabala
Magick
11 - Psychic Energy
Thought Forms & Spirits
Although there are hundreds of kinds of divination, the principle
ones are astrology, geomancy, the tarot, the I Ching, and
direct psychic means (especially clairvoyance). True divination
is more than a mechanical system, for it implies true psychic
interpretation (receiving). Some form of divination is often
used in magick ritual to communicate with the entity invoked.
Since divination operates
through the mind, it is affected and biased by the mind. Our
attitudes and fears may alter it. Sometimes results are very
detailed, and accurate -- but not always. Often the future
is plastic and changeable anyway, and the use of magick may
alter the result. Thus divination shows tendencies only, which
may be helpful, but must not rule us.
DEVELOPING CLAIRVOYANCE
It is possible to improve your natural ability with clairvoyance
through practice. A good start might be to look around you,
then close your eyes and try to picture your surroundings.
This is also good exercise for visualization. And visualization
is an essential talent in magick. Open your eyes again and
check your accuracy. Then close your eyes and try it again.
When you use your physical eyes, look at everything like a
child seeing it for the first time. Let the vividness of color
and form burn into you, until everything takes on a veritable
glow. Try to capture that glow
when you close your eyes now and picture your surroundings.
It's just a simple step to extend what you see with your eyes
closed into what you remember seeing in the next room, or
what you *imagine* seeing in the next building, the next city,
even the other side of the world. Don't expect perfect results,
especially at first. Just try to be even partly right. Another
exercise is to picture a clock face, and thereby tell the
time clairvoyantly.
THE AURA
Under the right conditions, it is possible to clairvoyantly
observe a colored light around other people. This is known
as the 'aura'. Sometimes the aura is seen as multi-colored
emanations around the person, built up of various differently
colored layers and zones. Although many occult dabblers claim
to be able to see the aura easily and under many varied conditions,
I seriously doubt that they do. There are optical illusions
and qualities of sight which can sometimes trick one into
thinking he sees what he does not see. In this area, the quality
of sight known as after image is especially pertinent. Do
this: stare at any solidly colored bright object for a few
moments. Very intense red, green, or blue are especially good
for this. Now look away at a white surface and you will see
a phantom image of the object in its complementary color (a
red object will show green, a blue one orange, etc.). If the
bright object is in front of a light surface, you may observe
a fringe of complementary color around the object after a
few moments. This is all very normal, and is used by some
magical groups as an aid to visualization sometimes called
'flashing colors'. Some silly people will stare at other people
in the same way. And when they see the after image of the
person's clothing, they think they are seeing his aura. What
is more, various meanings have been attributed to the colors
of the aura. A psychic who can see the aura is supposed to
be able to determine that persons emotional state. Thus psychic
frauds can have a marvelous time with auras. One deluded psychic
taught a class I attended in which he performed instant psychoanalysis
on the basis of the supposed aura. It was obvious that he
was actually observing after images from the students clothes!
This brings us to the chart
of aura colors on the next page. It is a general guide, based
mostly on Theosophical material. Various groups may attribute
different meanings to the colors. The colors we show on the
chart are emotional in nature; useful if you plan to create
an artificial elemental or do healing. Surrounding yourself
with a particular color will tend to produce the specific
psychological effect described in the chart. That quality
of color is useful in magick ritual.
COLORS OF THE AURA
BLACK malice
dark gray depression
pale gray fear
BROWN materialism
muddy gray selfishness
dull rust selfishness
RED energy
bright red anger and force
dirty red passion and sensuality
dull red selfish love
rose unselfish love
ORANGE pride
orange cloud irritability
bright orange noble indignation
YELLOW intellect
yellow-green low intellect
earthy yellow selfish thought
lemon high intellect
bright gold logical thinking
brt. red-yel. spiritual thought
GREEN empathy
gray-green deceit, jealously
greenish-brown jealousy
emerald green unselfish resourcefulness
foliage green sympathy & empathy
brt. apple-grn strong vitality
brt. turquoise deep sympathy & compassion
BLUE devotion (religious feeling)
gray-blue fetishism
light blue noble spiritual devotion
dark blue religious feeling
brt. lilac-blu lofty religious idealism
VIOLET spiritual (psychic & spiritual) faculty
WHITE purity/protection
THOUGHT FORMS AND SPIRITS
Whenever we concentrate our thoughts, we draw psychic energy
together. This is called a thoughtform. Usually the energy
dissipates as soon as we break the concentration, but it is
possible to purposely concentrate energy in this way, producing
very strong thoughtforms. Such thoughtforms are vortexes or
centers of psychic energy. They can exist as entities by themselves,
at least for a while. They are basically inanimate, non-thinking
forces. Talking to one is about as logical as talking to a
chair. In this way, thoughtforms are similar to elementals,
ghosts, and spirits. All of these psychic entities consist
of a psychic energy vortex which could be described as a localized
field or as a discontinuity of the physical world.
Psychic entities respond
to certain electrostatic and magnetic fields, and to other
energy vortexes. That is why they respond to magick ritual.
Someday, we may accomplish the same thing with electronic
machines. Psychic entities are sometimes able to affect our
thought processes.
Thoughtforms, elementals,
and ghosts are usually not very smart. If they display any
intelligence at all, it is limited. They are the morons of
the spirit world. Their behavior is usually automatic, repetitive,
robot-like (just like some people). We see that artificial
elementals are little more than astral robots. Spirits and
deities are more intelligent and volitional.
DIRECTED ATTENTION
Your mind follows your attention. Wherever you direct your
attention, there will your thoughts go too. By directing attention
to a specific place or purpose you *focus* mental energy upon
it.
For example: you're having
lunch in a cafeteria crowded with people. It is a large place,
and everyone there is talking at once, so that the room is
a constant jumble of noise. You happen to notice a man accross
the room; he reminds you of someone. All at once he drops
his fork and you hear it hit the table. But would you have
noticed the sound of his fork if you had not been looking?
No. Only by focusing your attention there were you able to
pick out that individual event and associated sound.
It is a dark night. You are
walking and the only light you have is from the flashlight
you hold in your hand. As you move the flashlight around,
the beam of light from it directs your attention first one
way then another. Now, the mind is something like that flashlight
in the dark. And by directed attention, you point the mind
to one place or another. As with that flashlight beam, you
see where the mind is pointed; nothing more. The rest is 'noise'.
And so we could define mental noise as anything not focused
upon. In another way, noise could be considered as negative
emotions, attitudes, and thoughts which make it more difficult
to direct the attention.
Your emotions follow your
thoughts quite easily. Your emotions are not YOU, but are
rather reactions prompted by your model and ego -- like a
performance or an act, while the real you watches. In a similar
way, directing your attention toward a specific emotion will
cause you to experience that emotion.(Much more
on thoughts & emotions
'Aymen's Articles' Section)
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