# Falcon Books Publishing > Falcon Books Publishing produces specialist books on Hermeticism, magic, mysticism, meditation, consciousness and esoteric practice. Falcon Books Publishing is an independent specialist publisher of serious works on Hermeticism, ceremonial magic, mysticism, meditation, consciousness, internal development and esoteric practice. Its catalogue brings together experienced practitioners, researchers and authors, offering practical manuals, advanced teachings and original works for readers seeking substantial spiritual and philosophical study. - Brand: Falcon Books Publishing, Falcon Books, Falcon Book Publishing, FalconBooksPublishing, The Magical Series, Beyond the Veil of Illusion, A Magical Series --- # Authors Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/authors/ ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/285961868_610693343271500_6783272481160229879_n-1-170x300.jpg) [**André Consciência** ](https://falconbookspublishing.com/product-category/authors/andre-consciencia/)André Consciência is a Portuguese author, magician, and multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges the esoteric and the creative. A dedicated practitioner of Hermeticism and the magical system of Franz Bardon for over two decades, he began his journey with the Fraternitas Hermetica while still a minor. His extensive experience spans various traditions, including AMORC, the Order of Michael’s Grail, the Thelemic Golden Dawn, and Astrum Argentum. He is also an Inner Council member of the Horus Maat Lodge and a member of the OTOA-LCN. André teaches neo-shamanism and leads an active group of practitioners, offering a grounded yet visionary approach to spiritual development. ​ Beyond his esoteric pursuits, André is a prolific writer and artist. He has authored numerous works, including *The Path to IPSOS* Volumes I and II, *The Way of Abrahadabra*, *A Guide to the Elementals*, and *Through the Soul Mirror to the Sphere of the Sun*. His writings often explore the intersections of Hermetic philosophy, magical practice, and inner transformation. As the founder of the theater company CIA.Mefisteatro, André has written and produced plays such as *Twilight Circus* and *Sapho’s Bone*, blending ritual, myth, and performance. He is also a musician and poet, with a body of work that reflects his Neoplatonic sensibilities and commitment to artistic expression as a spiritual path. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Martin-198x300.jpg) [**Martin Faulks ** ](https://falconbookspublishing.com/product-category/authors/martin-faulks-authors/)Martin Faulks, born in 1977 in England, is a meditation master, adventurer, spiritual warrior, and author. His years of self-discipline and devotion to daily meditation practice have resulted in both mundane and spiritual accomplishments. His demonstrations of mind over matter using the power of meditation drew international attention and were covered in the press in 2012. Among these abilities is the capacity to change his body temperature, alter the binary waves in his brain function, and retain his breath underwater. As a result, the potential of ancient mind sciences for healing, health, spirituality, and self-development is highlighted. **Frater IAC **My family has roots in conjure or folk magic, Theosophy and New Thought. Though called to this path as a young man, I did not pursue it until I reached age 50. I have been a practicing magus for over 17 years. When I found Franz Bardon's three volume set, I chose it as my initiatory path. At this point, I have completed Initiation Into Hermetics, and have worked some time with the letters in Key to the True Kabbalah, and with spirits both in and outside the Practice of Magical Evocation. Though mainly centered on Bardon's work, because it is so rich, I am somewhat eclectic in practice, freely using things I have learned from other metaphysical disciplines such as witchcraft and conjure. As a scientist, I am deeply interested in the intersection of science and spirituality, and am active in a local Institute of Noetic Sciences group, as well as a local Light Workers group. I often collaborate magically with colleagues from witchcraft and Hermeticism in performing rituals whose purpose is to help others. Interests include talismans of all sorts, letter magic, and working with spirit allies in the Great Work. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/KADILIYA-198x300.jpg) **Kadiliya Aili** Kadiliya Aili is a Silk Road-raised, Australia-based author and esoteric practitioner whose work interweaves Daoist cosmology with Bardonian lunar magic. She co-authors *The Moon Zone*, a guide that explores the second step to divine providence through lunar and astral dimensions. Kadiliya also teaches astral dream work, offering insights into the interplay between consciousness and the subtle realms. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Nenad-198x300.jpg) **Nenad Djordjevic-Talerman** Nenad Djordjevic-Talerman is a Serbian-born historian, diplomat, and esoteric author renowned for his extensive work in Hermetic magic. Born in Belgrade in 1970, he pursued historical studies in Stockholm and Belgrade, earning a master's degree in 1994. His career in diplomacy included postings in Pyongyang, Beijing, and Shanghai, where he later settled as a freelance researcher, writer, tutor, and musician. Nenad is an Honorary Vice President of the Royal Asiatic Society China in Shanghai and has contributed significantly to the study of magical evocation, astral projection, tarot, Kabbalah, and Hermeticism through various international forums and publications. ​ As an author, Nenad is best known for his ambitious multi-volume series *360 Heads of the Earth Zone: The First Step to Divine Providence*, which offers an in-depth exploration of planetary spirit intelligences from a Bardonian perspective. His work aims to provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of their purpose in life and the planet's greatest mysteries. Additionally, he co-authored *The Moon Zone: The Second Step to Divine Providence*, further delving into the realms of lunar and astral dimensions. Nenad's writings are characterized by their meticulous detail and commitment to expanding upon Franz Bardon's teachings, making significant contributions to contemporary Hermetic literature.​ ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/mog1ulth4ki1qsccad3tllv3n._SY600_-300x300.jpg) **Ray del Sole** Ray del Sole is a German author, mystic, and spiritual teacher renowned for his extensive work in Hermeticism and esoteric development. He is the founder of the SURA Academy, an online platform offering structured spiritual training that integrates Franz Bardon's teachings with modern techniques such as hypnotherapy and pranic healing. With a background in architecture and management, Ray has dedicated his life to exploring the depths of spiritual wisdom and sharing his insights with seekers worldwide.​ As a prolific author, Ray has published over 160 books covering a wide range of topics, including elemental balance, Quabbalah, and the mystical path to spiritual perfection. Notable works include *Preliminary Practice for Franz Bardon's Initiation into Hermetics*, *Autohypnosis for Franz Bardon's Initiation into Hermetics*, and the *Light on the Path to Spiritual Perfection* series. His writings aim to make complex esoteric concepts accessible and practical for modern readers, providing step-by-step guidance for personal transformation and mastery. Through his teachings and publications, Ray del Sole continues to inspire and support individuals on their journey toward spiritual enlightenment. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/William-198x300.jpg) **William R. Mistele** William R. Mistele is a Detroit-born author and spiritual anthropologist renowned for his immersive explorations of the elemental realms. With a background in philosophy and linguistics, he has dedicated his life to studying esoteric traditions and engaging in deep-imagination dialogues with elemental beings such as undines, sylphs, gnomes, and salamanders. Mistele's work aims to foster ecological empathy and a deeper understanding of the natural world through direct experiential practices.​ His notable publications include *Mermaids, Sylphs, Gnomes, and Salamanders: Dialogues with the Kings and Queens of Nature*, *Undines: Lessons from the Realm of the Water Spirits*, and *The Hermetic Tree of Life: Elemental Magic and Spiritual Initiation*. These works combine narrative storytelling with practical exercises, offering readers insights into the qualities and wisdom of elemental beings. Through his writings, Mistele invites readers to explore the interconnectedness of all life and the transformative potential of engaging with the elemental kingdoms.​ ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG-20230317-WA0009-01-01-300x300.jpeg) **Dr Peter Duchemin** Canadian tarot scholar and performance artist; creator of the 32-week *Meta Magick Tarot* curriculum blending Qabalistic patterning with calendar magic. **Virgil** Virgil is a contemporary Christian magician and author dedicated to distilling Franz Bardon’s Hermetic system into concise, accessible guides for modern practitioners. His work focuses on practical self-initiation and the cultivation of elemental equilibrium—a foundational practice in Bardon's teachings. Virgil's clear and structured approach has made his writings valuable resources for those seeking to embark on or deepen their Hermetic journey.​ One of his notable contributions is *The Elemental Equilibrium: Notes on the Foundation of Magical Practice*, which offers a thorough and easily understandable guide to establishing an elemental equilibrium. This work emphasizes the importance of balancing and purifying the elements constituting one's soul and spirit, a crucial step in the path of magical development **The Franz Bardon Community (collective)** Global network of experienced Bardon practitioners producing interview anthologies and field reports that offer newcomers a living, peer-to-peer lineage. --- # Terms of Service & Conditions (Important) Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/terms-of-service-conditions-important/ ## Terms of Service **About us:** **[Company Legal Name]**, **[Address]**, trading as **Falcon Books Publishing** (“Falcon”, “we”). **Contact:** **falconbookspublishing@gmail.com** · **[Phone]** ### 1. Scope These Terms govern your use of **FalconBooksPublishing.com** and purchases of our services or books. ### 2. Accounts Provide accurate information; keep credentials secure; you’re responsible for account activity. ### 3. Services & Deliverables Publishing services and book products. 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These are PDF versions of our books; we do this in order to offer a lower price for our customers as well as being able to offer them direct from our website without having to rely on the big multinational companies. Purchasing our 'Digital Editions' directly helps us to survive and enables us to continue to create beautiful, in-depth books on subjects that have a very small demographic of interested people. So, if you would like to support us then purchase our 'Digital Editions'. *Attention: For security each PDF will be stamped with the customers details.* ## Search for Book Title or Author ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/A-classic-Series-No1-l-2-200x300.png) ## On Prayer: A Hermetic Anthology This book is a collection of texts on prayer written by a diverse array of practitioners of Franz Bardon’s system of magic. The various texts discuss the theory behind how prayer works, practical techniques of prayer, what sorts of things Bardonists would do well to pray for, and what prayer even is in the first place. Given how spiritually beneficial prayer is, every prayer said is a step toward adepthood. With the guidance in these texts, readers will be able to make their steps as large and swift as possible. After three years of being compiled and edited, this collection of texts is complete at last. The various writers and editors who contributed to this collection hope that it will help readers make the most use of one of the most powerful, versatile, and universal spiritual tools available to Bardonists. [Buy now](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prayer-Anthology-Franz-Bardon-Community-ebook/dp/B0D62DYYSV/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LQAL6RGRWUWW&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.jKqKtAzx0n8f7wm62mI44g.MytCDU6WgtBGksyJzpOfvu1OIjdXsfiFUd6gl8sinOY&dib_tag=se&keywords=On+Prayer%3A+A+Hermetic+Anthology&qid=1756979187&sprefix=on+prayer+a+hermetic+anthology%2Caps%2C173&sr=8-1) ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Build-different-1-188x300.png)Built Different by Virgil ## Built Different: A Hermetic Exposition of the Six Perfections by Virgil This book consists of a practical overview, written from an initiate’s point of view, of the six perfections. When people think of the six perfections, they typically think of Mahayana Buddhism as well, and for good reason. But the six qualities Mahayanists call the perfections are actually mentioned in all major spiritual traditions. This is because, whatever spiritual path you are walking, it is necessary to have the support of these six qualities. It is no surprise then that those walking the magical path could strongly benefit from knowing about and understanding the six perfections. This book contains many important teachings pertaining to the six perfections, including: – Why some Bardonists need a large tree in order to work through IIH – Why successful Bardonists don’t end up in San Francisco – Why successful Bardonists excitedly think “Heck yeah!” whenever they get a headache – How to avoid reincarnating as a fox – Why it is safer to be a bad teacher of Hermetics than a good teacher of Hermetics – Why learning about FRIES can help you work through IIH – Why the author discourages some Bardonists from smoking weed but not others – What the one paragraph from esoteric literature that bad teachers desperately don’t want you to read is The first edition of IIH was published in 1956 as Der Weg Zum Wahren Adepten. Since that year, no initiate has ever revealed the key to successfully working through this training system, the key that is everything. That all changes now. In this book, in the year 2024, sixty-eight years after IIH was first published, the key has been revealed by Virgil at last. The absence of this key, which is needed by all Bardonists except for those with large trees, is the reason the majority of those who attempt to work through IIH fail drastically. For almost seven decades, the Bardon community has been asleep to the importance of this key. But this book is a shout, a shout that has been prepared for a long time. Now, with its publication, the shout is released, the identity and importance of this key is made clear, and the Bardon community is finally awake. 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At Falcon Books, we believe that spirituality is an integral part of the human journey and we are dedicated to publishing books that help people connect with their inner selves and the world around them. We work with a diverse array of authors who are experts in their fields and who offer unique perspectives on spiritual topics.  Founded in 2016, by  Martin Faulks and Tanya Robinson. Our goal is to bring readers and practitioners of these magical systems the very best to aid them in achieving adepthood. Falcon Books is dedicated to bringing our readers the very best in metaphysical, and occult books relating to the mind, body, and spirit including valuable learning resources. Our original focus was on the Franz Bardon System, covering subjects such as teachings based on* Initiation into Hermetics*, Qabbalah, and the Spheres, working with authors who are genuine practitioners all with over 20 years of experience in the Hermetic arts.     As a result of this close work with our authors, we are now expanding into other areas of magic, spirituality and cultivation systems working to preserve these teachings and open them up to interested practitioners. With this widening of our focus, we noticed that though a book was helpful in getting practitioners started they still benefitted from working directly with a teacher. With this idea in mind, we launched the [Perseus Arcane Academy,](https://www.perseusarcaneacademy.com/) a place for students to work with genuine teachers, providing an environment for direct communication, on-demand video and private communication between student and teacher.  We are currently translating books into a variety of languages, including German, Portuguese, and Mandarin, as we expand globally. Also working on a Chinese language-based site that will provide literature on similar topics in both Traditional and Simplified Chinese.  In addition, the National Library in Taipei, Taiwan, holds a number of our English-language titles. Falcon Books also supports the animal charity, ‘Best Friends Animal Society’ through a community book[* Elemental Equipoise* ](https://www.amazon.com/Equipoise-Insights-Foundational-Astral-Training/dp/9869770525)written by the members of the Franz Bardon community.  Our Mission is to inspire and empower readers with engaging and thought-provoking books that explore the deepest of questions of the human experience. ## Our Latest Release ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/A-Guide-to-Sphere-Quabbalah-1-1-1-1-1024x1024.png) ### A Magical Series Volume 3: A Guide to Stellar Magic and Astrological Mysticism Astrology connects, we know, with the study of the stars, their ellipses, and their relations and nodes. 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At Falcon Books, we believe that spirituality is an integral part of the human journey and we are dedicated to publishing books that help people connect with their inner selves and the world around them. We work with a diverse array of authors who are experts in their fields and who offer unique perspectives on spiritual topics.  Founded in 2016, by  Martin Faulks and Tanya Robinson. Our goal is to bring readers and practitioners of these magical systems the very best to aid them in achieving adepthood. Falcon Books is dedicated to bringing our readers the very best in metaphysical, and occult books relating to the mind, body, and spirit including valuable learning resources.  Our original focus was on the Franz Bardon System, covering subjects such as teachings based on* Initiation into Hermetics*, Qabbalah, and the Spheres, working with authors who are genuine practitioners all with over 20 years of experience in the Hermetic arts. As a result of this close work with our authors, we are now expanding into other areas of magic, spirituality and cultivation systems working to preserve these teachings and open them up to interested practitioners. With this widening of our focus, we noticed that though a book was helpful in getting practitioners started they still benefitted from working directly with a teacher. With this idea in mind, we launched the [Perseus Arcane Academy,](https://www.perseusarcaneacademy.com/) a place for students to work with genuine teachers, providing an environment for direct communication, on-demand video and private communication between student and teacher.  We are currently translating books into a variety of languages, including German, Portuguese, and Mandarin, as we expand globally. 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We're here to ensure your experience with Falcon Books Publishing is nothing short of excellent. --- # A Guide To The Elementals: A Magical Study Series -Volume I, by André Consciência Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/blog/a-guide-to-the-elementals-a-magical-study-series-volume-i-by-andre-consciencia/ # A Guide to the Elementals by André Consciência ### A MAGICAL STUDY SERIES VOLUME 1  CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO ORDER YOUR COPY PUBLICATION DATE: 27TH MARCH 2023 [ HARDBACK ](https://falconbookspublishing.com/product/a-guide-to-the-elementals-a-magical-study-series-volume-1/) [ PAPERBACK ](https://falconbookspublishing.com/product/a-guide-to-the-elementals-a-magical-study-series-volume-1/) [ DIGITAL ](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guide-Elementals-Andr%C3%A9-Consci%C3%AAncia-ebook/dp/B0BTMPG42H/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1W9IGZXJ7INWN&keywords=a+guide+to+the+elementals&qid=1680967929&sprefix=a+guide+to+the+elementa%2Caps%2C633&sr=8-1) ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1675408641-1024x944.png) ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/antiques-logo-5.png) ### ABOUT THIS BOOK **This book contains:** - A comprehensive  introductory guide on understanding and learning how to contact the elemental beings- The use of magical tools to aid contact- The complete arcane  Ryder tarot card deck in full-colour  including  a list of their representative qualities - Over 60 vector-drawn seals- Over 40 seals from Andres' own personal library which includes detailed personal accounts of these beings.- **Additional material Only Available in P****aperback & Hardback** ** Versions:**-  Guided meditations to connect with the elemental beings- 4 original full-colour hand-drawn illustrations to represent the archetypal forces of their respective elements.- Each chapter heading includes a colour illustration which has been carefully designed to suit the style of the book.  ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1673345019.png) #### DIGITAL -Details: Publication Date: 31st March 2023 Print Replica (Available on Amazon) ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BTMPG42H [ KINDLE on Amazon(Print Replica) ](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTMPG42H?fbclid=IwAR1NtXYRkYLObVT4wlH1SpZzSgMvukUQLYlGukm72fYDp0cZQgfDClrqFZc) ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1675408699.png) #### PAPERBACKDetails: Publication Date: 31st March 2023 Colour: Full Colour Paper: 115gms gloss coated Full-Colour illustrations Page Count: 235 [ (PAPERBACK) BUY HERE ](https://falconbookspublishing.com/product/a-guide-to-the-elementals-a-magical-study-series-volume-1/) ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1675408641.png)HARDBACK Additional images of beings Publication Date: 31st March 2023 Colour: Full Colour Paper: 150 gms gloss coated Page Count: 238 Full-Colour illustrations ISBN: 978-1-915827-02-9 [ (HARDBACK) BUY HERE ](https://falconbookspublishing.com/product/a-guide-to-the-elementals-a-magical-study-series-volume-1/) ### DESCRIPTION ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_4779-791x1024.png) The Fire Element ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_4784-791x1024.png) The Air Element ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_4783-791x1024.png) The Earth Element ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/IMG_4777-791x1024.png) The Water Element Illustrations of the elements  available in the paperback and hardback versions The realm of elementals is often called the enchanted realm, it is the realm that is being enchanted by the word as in the creative power of light. In a way, it is the natural world inside the creative power of light. In this book we are concerned with certain features of Edinnu, the Garden of God or the Paradise of Pleasure, that is, the heavenly region directly connected to the senses. Entrance is subject to certain conditions. The Sumerians had at the door their scorpion versions of the sphinx, angels whose gaze was death, and the Jewish Paradise had the flaming sword that would smite the visitor. These are representations of the ecstatic states of trance where the elements stop being seen in their limited form and become infinite as four aspects of the Divine.  It is, thus, important for the magician to build his own magical garden in the image of this Edinnu before travelling through the cosmos, just like the ancient Persian hero Jamshid is warned by Ahura Mazda (Divine Providence) about a freezing winter approaching and so builds his magical garden on top of a mountain to save himself and the world. That is, the magician is to be firm in his own magical equilibrium, for even though we will not yet dare to eat from the Tree of Life, we will drink from the Edenic Rivers.   This book will explore the nature of the mind, soul, and body, the nature of the four philosophical elements, the four elemental kingdoms, the life of the four elemental kingdoms, and that which animates it. A magician following the Bardon tradition will feel at home reading it, for the book explores its aspects. All in all, the work makes a complete Grimoire on its own and an area of elemental specialization for all those following the hermetic tradition and the goetic path concerning the art of evocation, adding about 40 beings beyond those mentioned by Bardon at the Practice of Magical Evocation and many additional hermetic meditations derived from quabbalistic formulas.  In it the keys to magic, mental wandering, evocation, and the four elements are given according to different times and cultures in the light of universal knowledge, clairvoyance is deeply applied to the study of the different sprites, and the sprites of the elements named by Franz Bardon are interviewed in the triangle of art directly to the readers.    ## A Sample of this working title (Paperback & Hardback Versions) [dflip ][/dflip] **Disclaimer: Information may be subject to change.** --- # ‘A Magical Series’: A Guide to Sphere Quabbalah by Andre Consciencia Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/a-magical-series-a-guide-to-sphere-quabbalah-by-andre-consciencia/ ![A Guide to Sphere Quabbalah](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/moon-Zone-4.png) [ Instagram ](https://www.instagram.com/falcon_books_publishing.101/) Facebook-f Youtube [ Twitter ](https://twitter.com/BooksFalcon) **DESCRIPTION ** This book leans over aspects of *The Key to True Quabbalah,* by Franz Bardon, and expands them. It is a book divided into four parts that serve the magician, the theurgist and the learning quabbalist.  The book is concerned with the operation of the triad regarding the human being, according to the teachings of Hermes, the patron of music. The quabbalist leaves this work with his soul free from the illusion of the material world, his senses infinite, free of limitations. He starts to hear the eternal songs of praise inside all creatures, the music crystallized inside all shapes and architecture, divine melodies in everything.  When the soul fully regains its original auditory sense of clairaudience, it starts to hear the music of the spheres and the spirit of the quabbalist joins the celestial choirs, taking part in the eternal good that controls the spheres. In this book, you will also find: -  An exploration of the divine tones and the way of creating rhythm and melodies with their aid.-  It explores the cosmic elemental kingdoms and sphere elementals and how the different cosmic letters correspond to the elemental fluids of the different spheres.- The way of combining shape with the tones and the quabbalistic mechanics of the spheres is given, together with a tripolar method of working with the original Hebrew letters, including the method to create elementaries of these letters.- Finally, the reader will be able to learn bodily motions corresponding to the spheres, tones and Bardon’s cosmic letters, the so-called quabbalistic yoga. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/vol-2KINDLE-ENGLISH--188x300.png) **DIGITAL - ** **Available on Amazon** - **Author(s)**: Andre Consciencia- **Format**:Print Replica style- **Language**: English- **Publishing Date: **20th January 2024- **Publisher**: Falcon Books Publishing Ltd- **Pages: **283- **File size**t::61007 KB- 8 custom-made  full-color illustrations [ BUY HERE ](https://falconbookspublishing.com/product/a-guide-to-sphere-quabbalah-a-magical-study-series-volume-2-2/) ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A-Guide-to-Sphere-Quabbalah-cover-image-232x300.png) **PAPERBACK ** **£25.00** - **Author(s)**: Andre Consciencia- **Format**:Perfect Bound matt finish- **Language**: English- **Publishing Date: **20th January 2024- **Publisher**: Falcon Books Publishing Ltd- **Pages**: 283- **Weight**t: 0.933 kg- **Dimesions:** 21.6 × .22 × 27.9 cm- 8 custom-made  full-color illustrations [ BUY HERE ](https://falconbookspublishing.com/product/a-guide-to-sphere-quabbalah-a-magical-study-series-volume-2/) ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/A-Guide-to-Sphere-Quabbalah-cover-image-232x300.png) **HARDBACK ** **£35.00** - **Author(s)**: Andre Consciencia- **Format**: Hardboard 150gsm gloss-coated- **Language**: English- **Publishing Date: **20th January 2024- **Publisher**: Falcon Books Publishing Ltd- **Pages**: 295- **Weight: **1.419 kg- **Dimensions:** 21.6 × 0.15 × 27.9 cm- **Extra Material**- 9 Custom made Illustrations of full-color plates-  hand-drawn  colored seals  [ BUY HERE ](https://falconbookspublishing.com/product/a-guide-to-sphere-quabbalah-a-magical-study-series-volume-2/) ## An excerpt [dflip ][/dflip] [![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/part-1-232x300.png)](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/part-1.png) Part 1: The Book of Incantations (Sound) [![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/purple-final-image-232x300.png)](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/purple-final-image.png) Part 2: The Book of Elemental Kingdoms (colour) [![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/blue-section-232x300.png)](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/blue-section.png) Part 3: The Book of Machinery of the Spheres (Shape) [![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/4-232x300.png)](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/4.png) Part 4: The Book of Gestures (Motion) [![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_4986-232x300.png)](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_4986.png) [![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_4992-232x300.png)](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_4992.png) [![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_5002-232x300.png)](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_5002.png) [![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_4997-scaled-e1705157368583-232x300.jpeg)](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_4997-scaled-e1705157368583.jpeg) ## What to expect Book I: The Book of Incantations (Sound) The Book of Incantations (Sound) – The movement of harmony towards form. Includes a recalibration of learned Quabbalah or introduction to Quabbalah; using harmonies and rhythms in Quabbalah; using musical instruments Quabbalistically; practical relation between tones and the planetary spheres; magical use of quabbalah (tones, shape and sensations); practical relation between the tones and human anatomy; the ancient Egyptian senet as a quabbalistic and hermetic instrument.    Book II Cosmic Elemental Kingdoms (Colour) – Book II Cosmic Elemental Kingdoms (Color) – The force of compression of harmony. Includes the practical relation between the spheres, the elements and the cosmic letters; how to enter elemental realms specific to the structure of the spheres and meet the respective planetary elementals; seals and names of such sphere elementals; how these elemental realms work in unison. Book III The Machinery of the Spheres (Shape)  Book III The Machinery of the Spheres (Shape) – The vehicle for the force of compression, creating and using tools in which the spirit can act in harmony with itself. The author moves with his guardian genius to the spheres in search for magical and quabbalistic tools. It includes several visions, their hermetic and quabbalistic interpretation and application, and the creation of a number of physical tools, devices and magical/quabbalistic machinery, such as the Six Poles Compass, the 72 Pentagrammaton, the Outer Pyramid Device, the Inner Pyramid Device, the Cube Star, the Pillar of Light Device, the Gold Generator Device, the Web of Immortal Ideas Device, the Elevator Device, the Halo Pentagram Device, Dreamachine Device, the 11* Device, etc… Also explores the use of the Hebrew letters in all four planes, anatomically and in the creation of respective elementaries.   Book VI The Book of Gestures (Motion)  Book VI The Book of Gestures (Motion) – The quabbalist becomes the musician that plays upon the nerves, the spirit then creates harmony in matter. Defines an asana to each sphere and tone, and then start working with the cosmic letters. The principles of internal motion (breath and the motion of the organs) and external motion (outer body and sound) are given, and as the chapter evolves, the quabbalist learns to create whole rituals that move and conjoin planetary influences through gestures and quabbalah. With the four books, a complete system of practice regarding the tones is established.   Final Chapter As a final touch, practical hints are given on how to use the cosmic language with the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms; how to perform evocation through Quabbalah; the Quabbalistic scale according to Venus; sphere quabbalah quiromancy; the different scales of electric and magnetic fluids according to the different spheres; and (solely in the hardback) an examination and quabbalistic application (including the formulation of magical squares) of the so-called Bardon’s cipher alphabet. ## All Lights meet in this place, The light of form, The light of the soul, The light of life, Blending and rising. 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Its intention is to encourage you on your spiritual journey, for those who are dedicated students. It also attracts people whose approach to magic is serious, no matter how experienced at this moment they are. This title explores otherworldly regions of our planet described in detail by Talerman. For those who are interested in expanding their theoretical knowledge on subjects such as occultism, parallel universes and life after death, this book will also be helpful. This is not a fairy tale promising impossible things, nor is it science fiction written to amuse or entertain readers. It is inspired and based on Bardon’s second book “The Practice of Magical Evocation”. Having theoretically and practically explored this Bardon’s book for some 15 years, Talerman finally wrote his own follow-up on magical evocation with additional information on how to master mysteries of the 2nd tarot card. The main purpose of Talerman’s grimoire is to help you evoke and become a friend with all or some of the 360 most important spirits from our planet. Their academies and temples are located in the Earth Zone, so their typical students are blessed and advanced human beings who are already beyond the reach of our world’s reality, but Talerman’s grimoire has a goal to guide you to their schools, so that you may learn their subjects while you are still alive. Live a good life, evolve, learn, teach, and help this humanity grow according to your possibilities! The 360 heads do not ask for more. If you follow nothing but that, you will soon see yourself successfully making your first of the ten steps to Divine providence. Nenad Djordjevic Talerman is a historian. He considers himself to be a hermetist and a student of Franz Bardon. He recently published a book The Spirits of Tarot, which he wrote in Serbian which is his native language. He is also a published author of several books about the history of Shanghai, the city where he lives with his family. Inspired to experience many aspects of professional life, Talerman has so far been a teacher, archivist, diplomat, humanitarian, singer and consultant living and working in Serbia, Sweden, North Korea, the Philippines, Turkey and China. ## View Volumes I &II Below ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/360-volumes-1-4-410x531.png) [ DIGITAL (Print Replica) on Amazon ](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08SJVPB4F?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_0&storeType=ebooks) [ PAPERBACK ](https://falconbookspublishing.com/product/360-heads-of-the-earth-zone-volume-i-spring/) [ HARDBACK ](https://falconbookspublishing.com/product/360-heads-of-the-earth-zone-volume-i-spring/) ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/360-volumes-1-4-3-410x531.png) [ DIGITAL (Print Replica) on Amazon ](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09PNNJGYP?notRedirectToSDP=1&ref_=dbs_mng_calw_1&storeType=ebooks) [ PAPERBACK ](https://falconbookspublishing.com/product/360-heads-of-the-earth-zone-volume-ii-summer-2/) [ HARDBACK ](https://falconbookspublishing.com/product/360-heads-of-the-earth-zone-volume-ii-summer-2/) --- # My account Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/my-account/ --- # About Us Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/about-us/ As the leading independent publisher of non-fiction books, with a focus on spiritual growth. especially within the magical and Hermetic Arts, and literature related to the Franz Bardon system. 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Our goal is to bring readers and practitioners of these magical systems the very best to aid them in achieving adepthood. Falcon Books is dedicated to bringing our readers the very best in metaphysical, and occult books relating to the mind, body, and spirit including valuable learning resources.  Our original focus was on the Franz Bardon System, covering subjects such as teachings based on* Initiation into Hermetics*, Qabbalah, and the Spheres, working with authors who are genuine practitioners all with over 20 years of experience in the Hermetic arts. As a result of this close work with our authors, we are now expanding into other areas of magic, spirituality and cultivation systems working to preserve these teachings and open them up to interested practitioners. With this widening of our focus, we noticed that though a book was helpful in getting practitioners started they still benefitted from working directly with a teacher. 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(1 December 1909–10 July 1958) was a Czech occultist, student, and teacher of Hermetics. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/franz-bardon-1.jpg) ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/franz-Bardon-desk.png) (Franz Bardon, Copyright Martin Faulks ) These works were primarily written to allow anyone who desired to learn the inner mysteries without the assistance of a teacher to do so. Since such mysteries were once shrouded in secrecy and, in some cases, an oath by death if revealed. This knowledge was only available to a select few for centuries. It is implied (in Frabato the Magician) that Bardon was asked by Divine Providence to share the precious gifts that cost him his life with humanity. Franz Bardon was the oldest of 13 children and the only son of Viktor Bardon, a devout Christian mystic. Despite the fact that his father had made some spiritual progress. He still felt he couldn’t obtain an advanced initiation and prayed for help. His prayers were said to be answered, and he was blessed with an advanced soul that entered the body of his son Franz to become Viktor’s initiator.  Later in life, Bardon became a stage magician, gaining some notoriety in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s under the stage name ‘Frabato.’ During World War II, he was captured by the Nazis who were aware of his occult abilities and tortured him in order to try and force him to demonstrate them. He refused and was imprisoned in a concentration camp as a result On the day of his execution, the Russians bombed the area of the concentration camp where he was being held, allowing him to escape unharmed. Bardon returned to Opava and continued his hermetic work until he was apprehended and imprisoned in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1958 and died in custody the following year..   #### Below are an exclusive series of interviews with rare footage of Lumir Bardon speaking with Martin Faulks, discussing his father Franz Bardon. https://youtu.be/Rx0k9_pvIqA?list=PL0528E3B447C3FCDC Martin Faulks visits Franz Bardon’s hometown Opava in the Czech Republic. https://youtu.be/ewNNYUgd_9E?list=PL0528E3B447C3FCDC Martin Faulks meets with Lumir Bardon ( Son of Franz Bardon) – The Alchemical World of Frabato. https://youtu.be/CRjb_cRwA0o?list=PL0528E3B447C3FCDC PART 1 – INTERVIEW WITH LUMIR BARDON Martin Faulks speaks with Lumir (Franz Bardon’s son) about his father and his real name. Speaking about ‘Frabato’ Franz Bardon’s stage name. https://youtu.be/m5I9_TKA5eY?list=PL0528E3B447C3FCDC PART 2 – INTERVIEW WITH LUMIR BARDON – Martin Faulks speaks with Lumir about Franz Bardon’s teacher. https://youtu.be/3ym87IoK2w8?list=PL0528E3B447C3FCDC PART 3 – INTERVIEW WITH LUMIR BARDON – Martin Faulks discusses the art of spirit photography.   https://youtu.be/nDSTWCVJJ_8?list=PL0528E3B447C3FCDC PART 4 – INTERVIEW WITH LUMIR BARDON – Franz Bardon’s Alchemical Method of Creating Spyragic Remedies.   https://youtu.be/DjrKGYPTR38?list=PL0528E3B447C3FCDC PART 5 – INTERVIEW WITH LUMIR BARDON – Martin Faulks discusses Franz Bardon’s medical work. https://youtu.be/Xfn6G6GZGBo?list=PL0528E3B447C3FCDC PART 6 – INTERVIEW WITH LUMIR BARDON – Martin Faulks discusses Franz Bardon and his magical ring of Isis.    https://youtu.be/eLeWp4PKMGk?list=PL0528E3B447C3FCDC PART 7 – INTERVIEW WITH LUMIR BARDON – Martin Faulks discusses with Lumir about gathering herbs for his father.    https://youtu.be/-vQyDwYavjg?list=PL0528E3B447C3FCDC PART 8 – INTERVIEW WITH LUMIR BARDON – Martin Faulks discusses with Lumir about Franz Bardon’s apprentice. --- # CCPA – California Consumer Privacy Act Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/ccpa-california-consumer-privacy-act/ CCPA – California Consumer Privacy Act For California Residents ### Definitions #### Website Falcon Books Publishing or [FalconBooksPublishing.com](https://FalconBooksPublishing.com) #### Owner (or We) Indicates the natural person(s) or legal entity that provides this Website to Users. #### User (or You) Indicates any natural person or legal entity using this Website. 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An intelligence great enough to operate and move the whole objective world and make every individuality an active universe in the larger universe. > > > > Jupiter is perceived as power and organisation in a single impetus, a combination of primordial forces united perfectly and orchestrated with a concrete spirit, precise feeling, mind, and sensation. The magician who has bathed in the light oscillation of Jupiter knows it is power and the source of power, the ends and the means. > > > > And yet, Jupiter is blocked to many by Karma, by the limitations of the ego-consciousness in its experience, and by the ignorance of the laws that have not been brought to life. > > > > Unblock it, and you will find an earthly paradise of harmony and superior faculties. It is the promised land upon which Eternal Kindness dwells. This is the kindness many have called by the name of Magical Equilibrium, and while it balances all things, it remains objectively useful and continuous, giving way to plenty and abundance, gay societies, and happy solutions. > > > > To truly understand it, we must become a new person, and one way is to be trained in the magic, quabbalah, and alchemy of the planetary sphere, which I will teach only according to my prosperity, which is a scar of scarcity in the face of the Blue Planet. > > > > After finishing this book, the hermetist will be ready to directly contact all the heads of Jupiter named by Franz Bardon and find a common language upon which to build. #### Book 1 Excerpt – Chapter 2: Jovian Electric Fluid > Throughout my books, I have given some definitions for what electricity or the electric fluid is called in hermetics. The definition I am about to present is the definition as it stands in the planetary sphere of Jupiter, which is not to say it is not omnipresent in our own sphere of regular operation, as the zone girdling the earth is astrologically saturated by it. > > > > The Jovial Electric Fluid is composed of two components: the Creation of Favourable Circumstances, which is the active pole, and the Formation of Permissive Laws, which is the passive pole. Together, they become a solid power capable of acting in all instances in the world. This power is named Providence. > > > > It can be applied, literally, in the soil and all arts of agriculture. It can be applied to human relations, sentiments, and the order of life. Likewise, it can be applied to change institutions and to build new things of all kinds. 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There are two ways to accomplish this step if we consider the step to be the aim. But if we consider the step to be the method, then our first chapter has two steps and two methods that might be mastered for the same end. > > > > The reader will have noticed that we have called this chapter ‘Cosmic Creation.’ He might expect some ontological text, a philosophical, religious, theological, or even a theosophical argument. Yet what is presented here is not speculation, but something to be practiced, observed, and verified through direct experience. > > > > To understand Cosmic Creation, one must begin by observing one’s own processes of thought. The act of observing thought is itself the first movement toward creation, because it separates the observer from the created. This separation is not division, but awareness. > > > > When one becomes aware of the act of thinking, one is no longer entirely identified with it. This distance allows a transformation to begin. What was once unconscious becomes conscious, and what was once automatic becomes deliberate. In this way, the practitioner begins to participate in creation consciously, rather than merely being carried by it. #### Book 2 Excerpt – Chapter 2: Cosmic Emanation > “…a sense of being seized and swiftly carried upward, like a fish or a rabbit in the talons of an eagle or a hawk. Solid footing is gone, and struggle might result in a fatal plunge. There is often a sensation of being surrounded by and merged with light. > > > > In my own experience I’ve encountered a warm golden haze, a brightness of pure light, a silver-blue radiance as well as occasions of vivid, living darkness—a light beyond sight. These states are not merely visual, but total experiences affecting perception, sensation, and identity. > > > > The radiance is inhabited by an intelligence that stays at the edge of awareness, scarcely glanced, almost seen—haunting, familiar, and strange. 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These will be updated as part of the transition process. --- # Interview with André Consciência Discussing The Hermetic Grade of Jupiter Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/interview-with-andre-consciencia-discussing-the-hermetic-grade-of-jupiter/ ### Exploration of Hermetic Thought Theurgy, Magic & Science --- I would like to welcome [André Consciência ](https://falconbookspublishing.com/product-category/authors/andre-consciencia/)who is a prolific writer and artist on many magical subjects. Who also teaches at [Perseus Arcane Academy](https://courses.perseusarcaneacademy.com/collection/andre-consciencia). He has authored numerous works, including* The Path to IPSOS Volumes I and II, The Way of Abrahadabra, A Guide to the Elementals,* and *Through the Soul Mirror to the Sphere of the Sun*. His writings often explore the intersections of Hermetic philosophy, magical practice, and inner transformation. As the founder of the theater company CIA.Mefisteatro, André has written and produced plays such as* Twilight Circus *and* Sapho’s Bone*, blending ritual, myth, and performance. He is also a musician and poet, with a body of work that reflects his Neoplatonic sensibilities and commitment to artistic expression as a spiritual path. Welcome [André](https://falconbookspublishing.com/product-category/authors/andre-consciencia/) and thank you for answering my questions. - FBP:** In The Hermetic Grade of Jupiter: Book I, you present Jupiter not merely as a benefic planetary force, but as the intelligence that organises the laws transmitted by Saturn into operative reality. What led you to frame Jupiter in this specifically structural and functional way, and how central is that definition to the entire Beyond The Veil of Illusion Series?** AC: Tradition led me. I am not, in this instance, saying something structurally new. This is what Hermetic Tradition tells us regarding the planets and also what Kabbalah tells us with the corresponding sephiroth. This correspondence between planets and sephiroth is, as well, present in Franz Bardon’s ‘The Key to the True Quabbalah’ when it comes to Number Quabbalah. In fact, 1 is essential, 2 is polarized essence, 3, which is Saturn, is the principle of relation generated by 2, and 4, which is Jupiter, organizes relation into structure or, in other words, extracts, from relational patterns, rule. Reality only becomes real through reference, and without rules there are no references to hold on to.   **2. This volume feels both visionary and rigorously practical. When you began writing this new series, what was your primary intention: to transmit a current, to train practitioners, to systematise your own long-term work, or to correct misunderstandings in modern hermetic practice?** AC: This series came by transmission. I was not looking to systematise my own long-term work, as most of what is in the book is new to me as well. I was not looking to correct misunderstandings in modern hermetic practice, I think my book is likely more modern than what is called modern hermetic practice. The aim was to transmit a current to train practitioners into transmitting that current too. **3. FBP: How does *The Hermetic Grade of Jupiter: Book I* differ in intention, structure, and expected transformation from your earlier books published by Falcon Books Publishing—especially titles such as A *Guide to the Elementals, A Guide to Sphere Quabbalah, and A Guide to Stellar Magic and Astrological Mysticism?*** AC: A Guide to the Elementals is a grimoire on magical evocation,* A Guide to Sphere Quabbalah *is focused on how Quabbalah works throughout the spheres, and a* Guide to Stellar Magic and Astrological Mysticism* is a work on astrology that is operational through magic, not only in setting the conditions beforehand, the magician is to learn to move the stellar currents at will. *The Hermetic Grade of Jupiter* aims to offer a training system on this very Earth that is based on the direct influences of Jupiter. It is hardcore Hermetic Training but kind of next level. I confess I’m not always sure of the original intention or would rather not risk assuming I own it, this book is the first one that was given me without any invitation or at least a mature agreement on my end. The structure is less grimoire-like, more in tune with *Through the Soul Mirror to the Sphere of the Sun.* Now, the expected transformation is set to a very high level. Basically, the magician will be operating from a level substantially above the frequency in which all others exist. In a way, it could be compared to hacking the system. **4. FBP: The book introduces and develops key conceptual engines such as “Favourable Circumstance” and “Permissive Law.” Did these emerge first from direct magical experience and only later become language, or did naming these principles actually sharpen and deepen your practical results?** AC: Both things happened simultaneously. When allowed, the beings speak to me in ways that when the word arrives it is already practiced: it changes the soul by reproducing the mechanisms and knowledge of certain methodologies, and their effects take place automatically without the intermediary of actual action. Word and action are one, especially beyond the veil of Illusion (from the Sun upwards). **5. FBP: Your approach to transmutation and soul work is especially striking because it does not read like a purely moral exercise—it reads like a technical preparation for Jovian embodiment. How do you see your “Mirror of Transmutations” work relating to, extending, or differing from more standard Bardonian soul mirror approaches?** The traditional soul mirror and ennoblement of the soul attitude is one of a man who lives under the weather, and wrestles with the effects of the weather continuously to keep his house and health in order. The Jovian method exists from above the clouds. You learn to soar that high, above the weather, and the idea, by changing the seat of consciousness and perception, is not to fall back (which is always possible). **6.** **FBP: The movement through the twelve Jovian grades gives the book a deeply initiatory structure. How should readers understand these grades in practice: as symbolic contemplations, objective states of attainment, working phases, or all three at once?** AC: They are contemplations because they teach Jovian theoretical philosophy. They are objective states of attainment because they teach Jovian applied philosophy. Initiation is not a phase. The doors always disappear behind you.   **7**. **FBP: You repeatedly connect Jupiter to real-world order—legality, justice, social harmony, institutions, and the organisation of life. Was it part of your intention to restore a more civilisational dimension to hermetic practice, rather than leaving it as a private mystical pursuit?** Hermeticism was never solely mystical. It was taught in the universities, and it went so far as to have a Pope adopt it. Hermeticism was always civilizational. It works the individual in his microcosm and the world in its macrocosm. It remained civilizational even after Giordano Bruno’s death and further persecutions by Scholasticism and the Church. Hidden in secret sects, we got most of our social reforms from Masonry and similar hermetic orders, before Marxism took the reins against vicissitudes in the elitism of such societies. ** 8. FBP: In chapters dealing with enlivening the three kingdoms and working across the planes/spheres, the book suggests a form of magical participation in reality that goes far beyond imagination as “visualisation.” How do you train practitioners to distinguish true hermetic imagination from fantasy, projection, or self-deceptio**n AC: I have been asked this question a thousand times and every time I adopt a new way of answering it, although always to the same conclusion. This time I will tell you that one starts by self-deception, because one must be hypnotised by the practice, mesmerized even. This will strengthen the principle of faith and omnipotence. This self-deception is consciously interior, we know we are creating a state that changes the surrounding environment. It is not truly delusion (it holds no inner contradiction) and not truly deception because we still discern between inner and outer worlds. Now, we apply the interiorized principle to the outside world, and here lies projection.This is quite necessary for magic. Surely a magician is trained to enliven his or her imagination and intention in all senses and planes, and give it true life. Here comes fantasy. Self-deception in itself is not very powerful, but once projected it starts to make real-life changes. When it becomes fantasy, it creates a source of inspiration that is difficult to extinguish. Since we, magically trained, and quabbalistically trained, are the strongest pole, the world starts to become in our image. This must come from the world now, and it is the culmination of hermetic imagination. **9. FBP: Your treatment of the will of creatures and enlivening presence implies that the hermetist eventually affects the environment by being, not merely by performing techniques. What inner thresholds must be crossed before presence itself becomes magically operative?** AC: None. Many can be crossed to optimize presence. But even any inanimate object has presence. And the quantity of presence is irrelevant, as a single drop of it is already the source of all magic. Even the environment must first be, or else it cannot be an environment. Becoming conscious of this is the key, for all else is the veil of illusion. **10. FBP: The sections on Original Fire and the Principle of Light are some of the most expansive in the book, and they seem to move the reader from planetary work toward universal principles. Is this expansion from the planetary to the cosmic a defining feature of the Jovian grade in your system?** AC: In hermeticism, contrary to classical gnosticism, the planetary is, by nature, cosmic. In gnosticism the planets are understood as a distortion of the cosmos, but in hermeticism they function as the organs of the cosmos. The Principle of Light is essential to understand this, for it is the Principle of Light and Original Fire that distinguishes between before the veil of illusion and beyond it. This is why Bardon talks of the planets as light oscillations: the light is the universal principle behind all cognition and must be cognized or else cognition of the (elemental) objects will obstruct it. It is a defining feature, and will find greater amplification in *The Hermetic Grade of the Sun, Book II.* **11. FBP: In Jovian Love and The Ray of Love-Wisdom, you describe a form of love that is clearly not sentimental or merely personal. How should serious practitioners verify that they are contacting genuine Jovian/Cosmic Love rather than psychologically elevated emotion or devotional self-suggestion?** AC: Dichothonomy exists so things can eventually become complete, not to blindly sever them from each other. Obviously, a human being must marry devotional self-suggestion with psychological elevated emotions before even thinking of arriving at the level of Jovian Love, since this love is devotional and psychologically elevated. It is unconditional, detached, and all-penetrating.  **12. FBP: Your chapter on evocation through Jovian love reframes evocation around qualification and resonance rather than dependence on external tools alone. Do you see this as a corrective to technique-heavy occult culture, and what do you think modern practitioners most often misunderstand about readiness for evocation?** AC: What you are talking about is a matter of thaumaturgy against theurgy. My true aim is not really to correct thaumaturgy. As I usually say, thaumaturgy always works, but often what it does is a light spectacle for the blind that are unable to interact with light at all. This is also a metaphor for the veil of illusion and the Principle of Light that stands beyond the veil of illusion.  **13. FBP: The book also carries a strong ethical and ontological demand: that without holiness and love of knowledge, the work collapses into “magic tricks and sleight of hand.” How do you define holiness in the specifically Jovian sense, and how can readers test whether they are truly maturing in it?** If they stand at all times immersed in the fire of unconditional love that receives the four divine ecstasies, this is holiness in the Jovian sense. This is not so easy and requires one’s magical equilibrium to be true, for truly you will see in all others, and even in objects and events, God, infinite spirits, the Wheels of the Chaldean Oracles. Even your self will be one of these spirits and you will see it separately for this love does not share of the nature of obscuration. All things are clearly distinguished from one another in their infinite spirits but also all is God, yet also all is distinguished from consciousness and consciousness remains unmolested, the center of the miraculous gravity of Jovian Love.  **14**. **FBP: The language of “profound knowledge and profound wisdom” suggests a culmination that is not merely intellectual mastery, but a transformed mode of participation in reality. In your experience, what are the first unmistakable signs that a practitioner is moving from study into genuine Jovian wisdom?** Knowledge is made of will towards things, intelligence to process them, and perception to understand them. In profound knowledge attention moves from the objects to the source that permits them: will towards will, intelligence processes intelligence, perception understands perception. Wisdom combines power over conditions and intellectual ability to harmonize this power. Profound Wisdom is, in turn, a purifying purity that deconditions, and the intellect becomes the self-awareness, responsibility, and control of maturity. **15. Looking ahead within the* Beyond The Veil of Illusion Series, *how should readers understand the role of this Jupiter volume in the larger arc of the work? What foundation is being built here that becomes essential for the later volumes—both technically and spiritually?** - When we look to develop elementally, we look up. In the Earth we mingle with the elements, in the Moon we mingle with the astral fluids that compose the elements, in Mercury we mingle with the intellectual faculties that stand as principles behind such astral fluids, and in Venus we begin to mingle with the Principle of Light. Beyond the veil of illusion, but yet below the so-called abyss, we detach even from this light so as to remain within consciousness and work the light as our new element, and in order to develop we must look down this time. Jupiter brings the archetypes that build the essence of all our structures and without which there would be no intellectual faculties, since these faculties operate on those principles. The Sun gives those archetypes a divine life that is sovereign, but first we must build the Jovian structures. Just as Venus stands as a last frontier before beyond the veil of Illusion, so does Mars intermediate between Jupiter and the Sun by providing the means for a divine expression and action that integrates both original law and original life in a single direction. By doing so, it grounds the whole work. 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This has already happened at least twice in our very own Bardon tradition. The first was when Bardon himself passed away and some of his writings outside of his famous three books were lost, at least for a time. The second was when Rawn Clark passed away in 2024 and his unpublished writings were lost in the aftermath.. William Mistele has produced numerous writings relating to all aspects of Hermetics. While many of these writings can currently be easily accessed via his website or purchased in book form, a large number of his writings are either completely unpublished or can only be found in obscure areas of the internet. Also, many of his writings can only be found on Facebook, which will not be around forever, especially considering that younger generations are flocking to other social media sites like TikTok and Instagram. With all of this in mind, those of us who find value in the writings of William Mistele wish to ensure that all of his writings will be preserved and easily accessible to future generations. To do this, we will be creating a “Collected Works of William Mistele” series of volumes. The idea is similar to *The Collected Works of C.G. Jung or The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa*, for those who are familiar with those other collections of writings. To produce these volumes, we will collect together all of William’s writings, categorize them by subject, and publish them in such a way that each volume contains a category of writings. Many tasks will need to be completed in order to produce these volumes. Since William has produced tens of thousands of pages of writings, an enormous number of essays, Facebook posts, unpublished manuscripts, and correspondences need to be sorted through, added to our records, categorized, and eventually compiled together and formatted. Each volunteer chosen for this project will be given a task. It is difficult to say how long the tasks will take, since there are different types of tasks, but each one will likely take at least several hours. We hope to have enough volunteers such that each one will only need to take care of one task. ## The Mistelean Hermetics Community This project will not just consist of volunteers working in isolation. For the duration of the project, there will be a Discord server so that volunteers can converse with each other and assist each other. In other words, volunteers will also be part of a community. However, this will not be just another community of Bardonists, since there are already many of this on the internet. It will be a community specifically for those who value William’s unique understanding of Bardon’s Hermetics and seek to collaborate with like-hearted (but not necessarily like-minded) individuals. Via the server, community members will be able to support each other in exploring William’s writings and working through IIH. The server will be run by William and Virgil. It’s our hope that with direct 24/7 access to William and Virgil to answer questions, and with the support of one’s fellow community members, all members of the community will also make significant progress through IIH throughout the course of this project. While we want this community to be open to all interested, we need to ensure that everyone involved is at least sane, amicable, and has a genuine interest in William’s writings. Therefore, some amount of screening is necessary. Filling out the form linked at the end of this page does not guarantee an invitation to join the project. ## Compensation  Monetary compensation will not be provided to volunteers helping with this project. However, as an expression of gratitude, all volunteers will be gifted a copy of a book by Virgil on using Vajrayana practices to exponentially accelerate one’s progress through IIH. There is much interest in Vajrayana amongst Bardonists, but do to the advanced and profound nature of Vajrayana spirituality, it is difficult to understand and misinformation about it is rampant in the Bardon world. This book is the first accurate and truly helpful treatise on Vajrayana and Hermetics ever written. It will not be made available for purchase by the general public, and only available for the eyes of the volunteers helping with this project. ## How to Volunteer **Those who wish to volunteer can fill out this [Google form ](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmq0VGpuQ4B1cj7rHaKHZDi_D7mUjtRPUAz5Ls2oktmPmZxg/viewform).** --- # Across the Threshold of the Mysteries: An Interview with Ariel C. Broz Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/across-the-threshold-of-the-mysteries-an-interview-with-ariel-c-broz/ ## Introduction In this interview we talk with Ariel C Broz, we discuss his past and most recent publications as well as his personal journey into the mysteries. If you enjoy this post, please let us know in the comments and share it with others who would enjoy the content. --- ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/71jg6LSvEML._SY425_.jpg)Image courtesy of Ariel C. Broz ## Interview **Question 1: Your journey spans decades and many traditions. Could you share how your exploration of diverse wisdom traditions (such as Indian philosophies, Theosophy, esoteric Christianity, and Buddhism) has shaped the themes and ideas you write about?** These traditions have indeed been my most important guides – and I must say, you have done your background research astonishingly well. When I was twenty-four, I had become deeply weary of my lifestyle, which had spiralled into excess and mirrored the worst tendencies of the cultural current I belonged to at the time. I felt, inwardly and unmistakably, that I was heading toward another great failure. And yet, I had already realized the existence of a power higher than the human mind – not as a belief, but as an undeniable inner certainty. Because of that, and with a kind of naïve determination, I went to the library intending to borrow books on theology. However, a small, spiritually guided “reading error” intervened, and I walked out instead with *Eunice and Felix Layton’s* book *Theosophy: Key to Understanding* – not theology at all. The second book I borrowed on that same visit was *Karma and Illnesses* by the Finnish sage Pekka Ervast. That early Saturday morning, as I browsed these books – and was unexpectedly delighted by the absence of a hangover – I felt a powerful inner command: to abandon all my destructive habits immediately and completely. From that moment forward, I began reading books of this nature constantly. Without realizing it, I feared that if I stopped, the old pain would return. In a sense, I was running from myself – and yet, at the same time, I was learning. I read everything I could find on spiritual philosophy, and over the years my personal library grew into thousands of volumes. I noticed that the traditions you mentioned possessed a kind of uncompromising clarity – a foundation of real knowledge – while other approaches were helpful but often diluted, offering a broader doorway rather than depth. Gradually, I became convinced that the esoteric path divides into two directions: the pursuit of enlightenment, and the road of deep occult knowledge. The latter is dangerous to walk, yet I felt a profound pull toward it, and I have attempted to follow it ever since – with purity, meditation, and a ruthless honesty toward myself as my tools. All of this inevitably shaped my writing. I live and breathe the occult sciences, even though during the last twenty years I have also explored other dimensions of life. Yet the original wisdom traditions continue to stand above everything else, forming the evaluative foundation upon which I measure all other knowledge – including the discoveries of classical science, whose worldview leaves no doorway for spirit to enter, bound as it is by its own exclusionary principles. **Question 2: You’ve written books of aphorisms—brief, insightful statements of wisdom. What draws you to the aphorism form, and how do these concise insights fit into your spiritual and literary work?** I have always felt a strong impulse to write down sudden flashes of insight — compact “thought-packages” that later must be unpacked and expressed as precisely as possible in language. My first notebook for aphorisms and reflections was started when I was nine years old. My *aphorisms* — or perhaps more accurately, my *fragments* — arise from inner associative movements during ordinary daily activities. They must be written down immediately so that the freshness of the insight remains intact; otherwise they dissolve into pale memories stripped of their original spirit. For this reason, I used to abandon whatever was around me and rush to the nearest notebook to write. Eventually, my wife learned not to ask, *“What now?”* These flashes can relate to any area of life, yet they always contain an esoteric-subjective undertone — a dimension without which an aphorism often collapses into mere stylistic cleverness or surface-level wordplay. My aphoristic writing is rarely extremely short; more often it spans from a few lines to half a page. About fifteen years ago I counted the entries across my notebooks and arrived at a number of roughly twenty thousand. Naturally, there is overlap: multiple attempts at describing the same principle from different angles, and various levels of early structural frameworks. But at least I will have plenty to occupy me in old age. In recent years I have shifted to dictation software, which converts speech directly into text, although the drafts still require refining. I have transferred some of these fragments to my blogs and published several books drawn from them. No matter how short the main text of the aphorism may be, I have always paired it — at least in publication — with a long compound-word title: a kind of deliberate linguistic monster. It approaches the subject from a different angle, revealing the hidden core idea between the lines more clearly. **Question 3: Your collections of “bridge essays” aim to open up the deeper challenges of spirituality and life. How would you explain a “bridge essay” to someone not familiar with the term, and what do you hope readers gain from these essays?** The mind operates through association. It advances along a chain of memories and images that trigger one another, sometimes interrupted by an external stimulus, from which a new inner chain begins. In other words, the mind moves — often without being noticed — across a bridge into a new thought. In my so-called “bridge essays,” I have brought this process into written form, hoping it may also help readers become more aware of the workings of their own thinking. The chapters in this *Life Series* are not random selections drawn from disparate areas of experience; rather, they are linked into a logical sequence in which each step leads organically to the next. At times, the path loops back to deepen a theme already explored — because that is also how the mind behaves. In this way, I have attempted to create a new method for presenting subjects that are often considered difficult or abstract. A rigidly linear focus on one topic is, in truth, neither natural nor particularly engaging. This associative style allows the reader to encounter something unexpected — yet still connected to what came before — just as the mind itself leaps, through its inner connections, into a seemingly different subject while retaining a coherent logic. My hope is that readers will find signposts for their own journey through life, for this series touches on themes drawn from the full span between earth and sky. To name only a few: it explores the pitfalls and pain points of the spiritual search, the nature of evil, the origins of narcissism, the fear that arises on the inner path and the proper way to overcome it, the distortions of religion, the hidden dogmas within science, and the dilemma of repression and denial — among many others. **Question 4: In your novel trilogy, you explore mystery-religion themes and other spiritual questions through storytelling. How does writing fiction help you examine esoteric ideas differently than in your non-fiction works? What do you hope readers experience when they engage with your novels?** It has long frustrated me that in modern fiction, the great wisdom of ancient Egypt — and the brilliant mystery religion at the core of nearly three thousand years of culture — has been almost entirely absent. Instead, the opposite has too often occurred: Egyptians are portrayed as scheming fools, distorted into crude caricatures that merely reflect the unconscious wounds and anxieties of our own era. I had studied the work of the Egyptologist Miroslav Bárta on Kairsu, the vizier of Pharaoh Nyuserre — “the man who had a fine hand” — and he became the protagonist of the first volume of my trilogy. Because I also have my own theory on how the great pyramids were built, I wanted that dimension to be present as well. Yet at the very center of the narrative, I placed the secret Osirian Mysteries — the initiatory process through which human beings were transformed into gods by being led into true knowledge of the otherworld. Much of the material I had gathered for my non-fiction research found its way into the novel, and I have kept it as factual and historically grounded as possible. Whether I have fully captured the atmosphere of the period, I cannot judge — that remains for others to decide. Pharaoh Khufu and his lesser-known, heretical son Djedefra appear in *The Pharaoh’s Vizier*, as does the royal grandmother Hetepheres, for whom I developed an unexpected affection. I also had another motive: to contrast the real practices of truly dark and truly luminous magic from the standpoint of goodness and clarity — especially in a time when playful or artificial forms of “magic” dominate, particularly in so-called romantic fantasy. The novel is also a story of reincarnation, and in its later parts it leads — in Egyptian terms — to *Khent-Amentiu*, or Atlantis, which I have attempted to describe through the framework offered by Plato, yet without slipping into exaggeration: though yes, vimanas do appear there. All in all, when one is speaking in an esoteric voice, fiction is, in my view, an excellent way to present hidden truths — from reincarnation to the dangers and trials of the spiritual path. I also hope the reader may, even briefly, step outside the invisible dystopia we live in today and receive a glimpse of the forgotten spiritual practices buried beneath the weight of materialism. And strangely, I must admit: I love the Wisdom Temple of Atlantis in my book so deeply that I always find myself in tears when — during my read-throughs — the black magicians destroy it. I am, even now, close to tears while writing this, because of the emotional memory that scene carries. **Question 5: You have authored works under different names (aliases). How do these different author identities relate to your work? Do you see them as different facets reflecting different themes or periods of your writing career?** Ariel C. Broz is simply a more international version of my earlier pen name, R. A. Karmanen. I prefer to keep my real identity private, as I am not seeking fame or public attention, and I am quite content to remain an unknown, ordinary, and rather poor man living somewhere in Finland. Over the last couple of years, I have republished many of the works originally written under the name R. A. Karmanen, using the opportunity — as a literary perfectionist — to refine and polish the texts further. My intention is to eventually release nearly my entire body of work under the Ariel C. Broz name. This has, however, created an unexpected problem: because of the rapid publishing pace, some have suspected that I am producing my books with the help of artificial intelligence. In reality, the reason is simply the revised republication of earlier manuscripts. And as a side note, I am not enthusiastic at all about AI entering the field of creative writing. It removes from human beings the joy — and necessity — of true creation. None of my books have been written using AI; the ideas and the text itself are entirely my own. However, my English proficiency is limited, and with considerable effort I have translated my most recent book, *The Esotericism of the Mystery Initiations*, with the assistance of AI as a supportive tool. I can only hope the result is satisfactory and free from expressions that might sound unusual to a native speaker. **Question 6: Your work spans aphorisms, essays, fiction, and scholarly writing. How do you decide which form—novel, essay collection, aphorism, etc.—is most suitable for a particular idea or message you want to convey?** I have always tried to think in terms of truth, and to express things according to its requirements — everything else moves aside. I have spoken of many themes in many forms: What constitutes a good and meaningful life? How does the universe arise and evolve through the work of creative forces? What is the purpose of existence? These questions have been expressed in countless ways, yet it is true that some subjects require a more specialized, non-fiction-oriented approach. For example, my recent book on the mystery initiations demanded a level of precision and specialization that made the non-fiction format the most suitable choice. However, even in my non-fiction work, I avoid the dry academic tone that so often throws the essential child out with the bathwater. I consider the *idea* more important than the rigid terminology that academia tends to freeze into fixed conceptual labels. For that reason, I will often use multiple terms for the same principle, since they all point to the same idea. The idea is what matters — not an exhausting list of sanctioned terminological clarifications. A person with awakened depth-perception will understand. For this reason, academic texts often end up studying the *finger pointing at the moon* rather than the moon itself — and the result becomes mere informational hair-splitting, without any sensitivity to nuance. Reaching the level of the idea — and remaining there — is essential when exploring subjective depths. I should also mention that I once wrote a book critiquing science titled *95 Fragmentary Theses on the Door of the Temple of Scientific Dogma*, but it has sold very little — such is the unquestioned reverence toward the scientific method in our time. Yet the scientific approach, by its very nature, cannot reach all aspects of life, and because of this, a great portion of reality is missing from our worldview — a void that materialism has attempted to fill over the centuries. **Question 7: Your readers include academics, meditators, ceremonial magicians, yogis, martial artists, and more. How do you balance such a diverse audience in your writing, so that your work resonates with both scholarly readers and practitioners in the esoteric arts?** My response here is very similar to the one given above: I do not really think about a target audience. Instead, I focus on expressing what I feel must be said — refining what I perceive as truth as far as possible from my personal sympathies and antipathies. (Truth remains true regardless of what I personally think of it.) By nature, I am kind, gentle, and conciliatory — but when I write, all of that falls away. I simply speak the truth, or perhaps more accurately, what I understand as truth — as correctly and respectfully as possible, yet without unnecessary softening or avoidance. I do not approach writing from the mindset that my work would sell better if I tried to please a certain demographic. This is deeply liberating, and it means I never experience “blank page syndrome.” Those who feel called to read my books will read them, and they will take from them whatever resonates — ideally with enough open-mindedness to forgive my errors and inevitable misinterpretations. **Question 8: When writing about esoteric topics, how do you balance rigorous research with the personal, experiential side of spiritual practice? Do you rely more on historical texts and scholarship, direct inner experience, or a combination of both when developing your ideas?** I rely primarily on a kind of synthesis filtered through my own lived consciousness, yet I also draw from scholarly research and from more freely expressive thinkers. Even in my historical wisdom-novels, I have always valued as much historical accuracy as possible. Something within me resists creating purely from imagination — even in fiction — although of course the storyline must still be shaped. Much of my writing is concerned with mapping the inner dimension of depth, because mere reading and remembering are not enough; understanding, internalization, and insight are required. I try to express these flashes of realization through long, unfolding sentences that deliberately push aside the dry, nuance-resistant tone of academic writing. To be clear: complexity and subjective depth are not the same. They are two entirely different directions — and the latter is now in strong cultural opposition, simply because it cannot be measured with external instruments. And yet, it undeniably exists. > When I later discovered what happens to a human being in modern silence chambers, I recognized why Osiris was called the *Lord of Silence.* > > Ariel C. Broz **Question 9: Your latest book explores ancient mystery rituals and the idea of *“dying while alive”* or crossing the threshold of death. What inspired you to write about this subject, and what do you hope readers will understand or experience as a result?** The grief of death can be overwhelming. I wanted, in my own way, to help ease the suffering that arises when someone dies and their loved ones are left with the terrible ache of *never seeing them again.* A sentence from Plutarch regarding the Mysteries had burned itself deeply into my consciousness: *“At the moment of death, the soul undergoes the same experiences as those who are initiated into the Great Mysteries.”* I wanted to understand what the Ancient Mysteries truly were. Very little information about them survives, and in accordance with the spirit of our age, exoteric declarative statements about the Mysteries have overshadowed the tiny remaining fragments of esoteric, experiential knowledge. When I later discovered what happens to a human being in modern silence chambers, I recognized why Osiris was called the *Lord of Silence.* A person can usually endure the absolute silence of such laboratories — where the decibel level is below zero — only for a short time. Soon an unbearable inner pressure arises, and the individual longs to escape back into the soft background-noise of the world. It is also known that, in prolonged complete silence where the senses are deprived of function, hallucinations begin. Yet behind this sensory stillness something *new* emerges — though first one must pass the threshold guardian and the immense terror it evokes. Anyone who has explored the depths of subjective consciousness long enough knows that hallucinations are part of the fabric of reality — they do not arise irrationally except in a very *unclean mind.* Conversely, the purer the mind becomes through years of inner discipline — the kind we know was cultivated in ancient temples, such as the Pythagorean school — the purer these visions become, and eventually the experience of conscious separation from the body arises. The *Egyptian Book of the Dead* alludes to this when it says: *“Allow him, upon returning, to gaze upon his body.”* This marked the beginning of the so-called **Lesser Mysteries** — the experiential, irrefutable realization that a human being is a soul, not merely a body. The initiated Plato called the body *an oyster shell* — a prison of the soul. The subject is far too vast to fully explain here, but its essence is this: the Mysteries gave the initiate an experience of immeasurable value. The one who emerged from the perfect silence chambers of the Temple of Heliopolis — passing the red granite obelisk that still stands there today — could truthfully say: **“Farewell to you who have experienced something you could never before have imagined.**** ****You have gone from being human — to being divine.”** The Mysteries removed the fear and sorrow of death. Their adapted maxim was: **“He who dies while living does not die when dying.”** **Question 10: Over the decades of writing, how has your approach or perspective evolved? Are there themes or ideas you find yourself returning to again and again, or new directions you’ve taken since your earlier works?** I find that I can still agree with almost everything I wrote in the early stages of my work. In my blogs, I continue to explore themes related to the secret of lasting happiness and the preservation of joy, sensitivity, and emotional depth. These capacities are constantly threatened by the image-saturated stream of materialistic hedonism and abundance-culture in which we now live. If I were to name a new direction in my writing, it would be the deeply esoteric novels I have been working on in recent years. Fiction, I believe, can serve the spiritual path, yet it is still a relatively uncommon approach, as many people continue to assume that spiritual insight must come primarily from formal, non-fiction texts. I have been trying to walk — in my own humble way — along the path once opened by *Zanoni* (though I would never compare my work to that masterpiece). Still, I am convinced that spirituality and esoteric knowledge are gradually moving toward expression in the novel form — a space currently occupied, and to some degree overshadowed, by irrational and often meaning-empty fantasy literature. **Question 11: Your work often weaves together Eastern and Western esoteric ideas. How do you navigate integrating different traditions, and what common threads do you see between them in your writing?** In my view, all meaningful subjects are connected by truth — insofar as truth is truly present in them, and they are not merely self-generated linguistic constructions without grounding. My approach, therefore, is to enter a subject from within, using the body of deep esoteric understanding I have accumulated and personally tested over my lifetime. Into that inner framework I then integrate new pieces. The structure dictates what belongs — not my personal desire to *believe.* In contemporary culture, almost the opposite dynamic prevails: what might be called a warehouse of external, nuance-less, transferred information. When viewed from that external framework, it may appear as though an author is borrowing from various traditions according to preference or temperament. In reality, at least for me, it is more an impersonal selection guided by truth itself — not by personal taste. It is a controlled process. Seen in this way, a clear distinction emerges between the *learned* and the *wise.* My aspiration is toward the latter. The learned gather sterilized, laboratory-tested declarations of knowledge — information that often cannot truly integrate with anything deeper. The wise (or in my case, one who merely admires wisdom) gather *experiential insights* — tested, rooted, and capable of forming meaningful connections with other truths. When the process is genuine and one’s way of living aligns with it, the result is a natural inner clarity — a capacity for direct seeing. With it, one can recognize the same essential idea in both Eastern and Western traditions. Thus, the synthesis of traditions is not really a synthesis at all — but the recognition of an inner, truth-aligned sameness. **Question 12: After writing extensively on these deep topics, what is the core insight or question you hope readers will take away from your body of work? In other words, what message do you ultimately want to convey through your books?** Here are a few points in list form that come immediately to mind: - Life has a deep purpose. - The human being is a reincarnating entity. - Justice always unfolds unfailingly — though sometimes with delay. - The measurement and superposition paradoxes of quantum mechanics demonstrate that human beings possess free will (or choice), and that the cosmos is not merely a predetermined mechanism, even though from a certain perspective it appears extremely lawful and deterministic. - Selfless service is the key not only to happiness, but also to liberation from the wheel of samsara. - The ancient initiates knew the mysteries of death and the afterlife — as do the wisest yogis today. - Goodness and truthfulness are always worth pursuing. - To develop genuine self-knowledge, one must understand the true principle of the **irresistibility of evil** (which does *not* mean favoring evil). - The *Law of Equilibrium of States* shows that joy and sorrow are bound to manifest as opposites over time — yet between them resides stillness, and the enduring happiness that humanity has long sought outside itself, thereby wandering into many fluctuating side paths. **Question 13: Throughout your many years of exploration and writing, is there a particular mystery or question in the esoteric realm that continues to fascinate and motivate you to explore further?** Among other things, I remain deeply interested in the events surrounding the end of the Pleistocene epoch. I am convinced that immense upheavals took place during that period, and that the disappearance of the Ice Age glaciation was not as calm or gradual as is commonly assumed. There may still be traces of the humanity that lived at that time — traces that have not yet been properly investigated. One of my hopes has been to travel to these locations, as well as to other esoterically significant sacred sites around the world, to write a book based on the atmosphere of those places — and to take extensive photographs. However, I have already written a small non-fiction book on the catastrophic events at the end of the Ice Age roughly ten years ago, titled *Atlantis and the Catastrophe at the End of the Ice Age.* Perhaps I will simply return to that manuscript and begin expanding it, since travel has become prohibitively expensive. Such an expansion would, of course, require thorough research, and to my understanding, new material has surfaced recently. My somewhat extravagant hope is that one day we may discover evidence of an ancient high civilization — the culture that originally developed the transformative core of the Mystery Initiations: **the deliberate use of extreme isolation, immobility, darkness, and perfect silence.** The closing of the senses was essential in the Mysteries, for the etymology of the word *mystery* is commonly traced to the ancient root **mú****ō** — meaning *to close,* *to be shut,* or *to keep silent.* --- [Learn More About: The Esotericism of Mystery Initiations: The Cult of the Immortal Soul Revealed](https://www.amazon.com/Esotericism-Mystery-Initiations-Immortal-Revealed-ebook/dp/B0DLFJ4J2B/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2YZKIIP07GV6O&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.jJm2ko9wWYVRP7xixI1m_A.arj-5aOMe-Ty8DQ2NENG4gt4IHum1cG3yRNBgXsj5FE&dib_tag=se&keywords=The+Esotericism+of+Mystery+Initiations%3A+The+Cult+of+the+Immortal+Soul+Revealed&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1765188482&sprefix=the+esotericism+of+mystery+initiations+the+cult+of+the+immortal+soul+revealed%2Caps%2C384&sr=8-1) --- # The Tale of the Orisha by Frater IAC Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/the-tale-of-the-orisha-by-frater-iac/ This is the Orisha. He came to me via a long road, which began when he was shaped of wood and clay long ago in Africa. It is said that he was created around 1895 and came to my family in a remote area in the Mont Hoyo Reserve near the Ituri rainforest in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo just to the west of its border with Uganda.  ![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXflFtRWeQDBAtZthTEKX_nliQqM6fpiCydPYKZNtxgSpx6Hms6BVCwQnraZuaS_DWZNE9DED1nXqWQBCUKVRw8wchVeHsgBn0i-7ldcwXI2jPcarb5B889GKuSVeL1MWghJERyJuimdM4TqhTnB6Mg?key=mPfG0lMx2i3DA_G9kmmA-w) That is likely not where he originated, though. He came from the Gold Coast of Africa, home of the Yoruba people, or perhaps the Igbo people further to the east. There is no real knowing. Yet, if we travel across the sea of years, we can imagine someone, perhaps a shaman, who wished to create an image that had meaning and spiritual power.  This artist began with three faces, which perhaps symbolize spirit, mind, and body. They may also be seasons of life – the child, adult and elder. These three faces make up the base of the figure. Above the three heads, they mounted 131 cowrie shells. These symbolize a woman's genitalia and thus were associated with fertility, protection from evil spirits, good luck, and abundance. Cowrie shells were also used as currency at one time in Africa, India and China. Crowning the heads are also 22 tiny snail shells, symbolizing the eternal cycle of birth and death. Atop the shells sits a figure looking up at the sky. A small pipe juts from the top of his head, and between his feet emerges another, larger bone face with a hollow top leading down into the interior of the statue.  For the next ninety years, this mysterious figure dwelt in equatorial Africa near the Aruwimi River. What, we must wonder, are the stories of its owners? It is a profound mystery how it came one day into the hands of an American woman who was a teacher, amateur archeologist, world traveler, and my second cousin. If you believe in such things, perhaps the statue wished to move on the strength of divine purpose, to see a new place, grace a new home, travel to a different continent. In 1985, nearly a century after its creation, my cousin Cynthia purchased it from an itinerate traveler for $90 – a dollar for each year of its existence. This person must have had a great need, or perhaps had stolen the artifact. At the time, my cousin was on one of several trips she made to Africa in the course of her lifetime, this one to see the mountain gorillas.  She was a great traveler, and she had a home in northern California, inland between San Francisco and Sacramento, in a little city called Manteca. There, the statue made its home on her mantle for the next thirty-five years. It was in good company, surrounded by other artifacts from all over the globe.  Eventually, she grew old, and chose to move into a smaller place. This figure, and many other artifacts, came to me over 2019 and 2020. For quite a few years, I have walked the path of the Mage, practicing the alchemy of personal transformation. When the box arrived, and the figure was unpacked, I felt its spirit power immediately. My wife and daughter did not. They said it was creepy and boxed it up again for storage. Into the crawlspace it went.  Ah, but it called out to me. I kept thinking about it, dreaming about it, wanting to see it again. So I found the box, took it out and held it once more. Again I felt its power – it seemed as if it was conscious.  So I gave it pride of place on my altar and consecrated it with blessed oil, incense, and candle scent. It stayed quiet for a time, but then one night after I had finished my nightly orisons and rituals, I looked up and in some mystic way, the figure told me about itself.  The faces on the bottom are the faces of a shaman during his or her life cycle. The cowrie crown symbolizes the cycle of death and rebirth, and that higher awareness and spiritual power that is the destiny and birthright of the shaman.  ![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdrisbPAkyRep5z4QpOUChFR7rsyKUKA2U7bkDU4L0CVsxKSYWTgMyMoNXTmt5hO0bHt4Z_Jsf5V3uY-yjEM2QgFei9yJoGoUu7EvhJKqxySDFtoo1VGoKnjrJ_u_4BBwS84rnD5M2gZi1sPQcJ50U?key=mPfG0lMx2i3DA_G9kmmA-w) Perched on top of this is the Orisha. He is Obatala, the healer, the Old Master, a being of great power and dignity who symbolizes the light of consciousness. His eyes are lifted to the sky, to that infinite awareness we call God. The small pipe coming from the top of the Orisha’s head is his connection to this Infinite awareness, and this Divine consciousness flows through him into the initiate.  The hollow bone face emerging between the feet of the Orisha is the shaman’s higher self, his/her connection to the Divine. It is that Self which can travel in the spirit world. The top of the bone face is hollow so that Divine power can be drawn down for shamanic purpose.  ![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXcAJkNWWuQC02qKwq3fnupk5-CPEQcSNh7BhXAcAU3YH_596xEyEU1Frk3HLHhUH2nDXbprGCJ0ISm2hJPDiuIxDAw21uJazvOt6LheS2_K8LBF_uVoQhrD04flvqim1xcVdkIYR1UvNmsjWvjDRng?key=mPfG0lMx2i3DA_G9kmmA-w) For a time, this figure dwelt on my altar. For scale, those candles are around 6” tall. The Orisha proved to be very seductive, full of sexual energy. Of course, I noticed this because I am not without my own inner power. I refused to succumb, and the Orisha became cold, somewhat frightening. I never presumed to ‘own’ it, and was grateful for what it taught me, though happy when it left.  ![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeTVSbHMC_wqpHUB9yNmgt5RLAhQLpGRm-mWh-l70ndN4j8seorZZe2oOUOJR39aZCXVq3desqOWuY4hhkPdDg2Y4AaP1cl-P7Da47Wgv6NF6QFBHcAk40BuyOAQTOTECQnFyZLte0wgzMKDE31Qa0?key=mPfG0lMx2i3DA_G9kmmA-w) ## Symbolism This Orisha figure depicts a secret and sacred rite of the Ile Ifa religion, of which Santeria is a sect. In Santeria, an aspiring priest, or Babalawo, has an Orisha, or God Spirit, placed on his head. The Spirit is said to help him grow, and may be considered a form of Holy Guardian Angel. So, Divine knowledge comes from on high through the Orisha, and goes into the head of the aspiring priest. As he or she grows in knowledge and stature, the bone face at the top of the shell-covered hollow symbolizes that Divine knowledge being shared by the priest with the congregants.  As I say, the Orisha was very powerful. I felt that power each time I touched him, and certainly he was never far from my conscious mind. I began to be afraid, feeling more and more strongly that the Orisha wished to leave, to be reunited with his own people and his own faith.  That made sense to me, because Ile Ifa is not my faith. It is a powerful religion, with mighty angelic beings, and certainly is similar to what I know, but I follow the Western Mysteries – the Hermetic religion which I practice through a Christian lens. This faith is originally from southwest Nigeria, and is still strong among the Yoruba and Igbo people in Africa. However, it was brought to the New World by slaves, and in the Caribbean region became Santeria.  ## Repatriation As I began feeling more and more uneasy about this figure, I did a Tarot reading that said I should repatriate the Orisha. Then, a few days later, I had a dream, a very powerful one. Most of my dreams are merely dreams, but I know when a dream is spiritually significant, because I remember. Here is the excerpt from my dream journal: September 16, 2020 – two dreams. One was a few days ago. I dreamed of a structure made of geometric patterns, I was below it, looking on as it was lowered, but I knew in the dream it was a powerful curse that would affect me. This curse originated from the Orisha figure my cousin had given me and it was telling me time was short. It insisted on leaving me and I needed to act at once.  I promptly did research, found a Babalawo based in Houston, contacted him and told him I wanted to send the figure to him. He offered to pay the shipping but I was having none of that. He said I had the highest form of morality, called Iwa-pele. He blessed me. Still, to be safe, after I had sent the package via UPS, I conducted several powerful protection rituals. ![A group of men sitting on the ground Description automatically generated](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXe4SE0MkZtXgCfSbFyl56VfYicUSHWokdnH6seF3u_2FMizX4U5vgKQ5C2fyoBEGq58mmCS4kLdxYwVic2M37T2OXoITxfTbUrHSF-QrYbVVC5Xt-GdRQbXe3PX3Vr6OEC991NWDvlLhiLjmq2ppw?key=mPfG0lMx2i3DA_G9kmmA-w) This is a depiction of how the Orisha’s curse looked in the dream. The shape reminded me quite a lot of the Borg Cube from Star Trek Second Generation. But not quite. It was much more organic, huge, slow moving, and ponderous, surrounded by feelings of impending dread. ![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdvuKyat_p02AhbfyIN0M91Ir-qBwSM4BrRd7hBVRlebAYXOur2rpkm1xPDSRq_JegvUG12Vmx3uHjWbwV-oBu0gylGSlDHHsWATCG4nDWme59qGO6-fxeL9TmkY2B6KQ_t97eVtqgCsBS9t67KivY?key=mPfG0lMx2i3DA_G9kmmA-w) The Orisha taught me a number of things, the main one being that one must resist attachment to so-called magical objects, unless of course they are of one’s own making. Even then, attachments to earthly things keep us from advancing along the true path of Initiation.  ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/image.png)    --- # Physical Stillness to Mental Stillness and the Path Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/physical-stillness-to-mental-stillness-and-the-path/ Many people are striving for mental stillness, and quietness of mind. Often spending years and not getting anywhere. A lot of this is down to using a systematic logical approach versus a spontaneous feeling-based approach. With a logical approach we want to take incremental steps towards repeatable results. As a result you travel step by step in a clear direction. With the feelings-based approach you take a few steps in one direction before being distracted and taking a few steps in another direction. So, though you might experience many things but never go very deep. ## Physical Stillness So what must we do? We must deal with what disturbs the practitioner, we should make sure that anything in our control has been pre trained. So if fidgeting, itches, aches and pains distract us from a deep silence. We must first deal with these without the added pressure of trying to get mental stillness.  This also builds another quality. The willingness to sit and be bored. When we pursue mental stillness we often dip in and out of a deeper state which means our awareness of time changes - Astral = timelessness, Mental timelessness and spaciousness. But if we remain present to our bodies aches and pains we remain in the physical - a normal experience of time.  So, the quality of discipline and will power is required to persist/maintain the practice of physical stillness.  So what to do.  1. Pick a position, it should be sitting on the floor or sitting on a chair. Not laying down. 2. For our example we will choose the throne position so sitting on a chair, sitting up straight with our back NOT resting on the chair. Our hands resting palm down on our legs.  3. You should start small - 5 mins.  4. Set your alarm for 5 mins and 30 seconds. Use the 30 seconds to get into your position.  5. Once you have got into position you are not to move. No small adjustments, no scratching, no adjusting for a pain or an ache.  I cannot say this enough, DO NOT MOVE - no exceptions. If you cheat on this there is little point doing it. In the process of going through just 5 mins some who are not used to disciplining their bodies will want to move, will want to adjust. 6. Wait for the alarm. Do not give up. Upon hearing the alarm slowly move and turn it off, imediately write down any thoughts that came to you in your journal. 7. Add 5 mins every time you practice up to 1 hour. Once you have achieved 1 hour, repeat it for an entire week with 1 hour every day. The benefit in discipline and will power from this simple practice starts to become something you can feel once you start reaching 10-15 minutes with no movement. You are building up a power. This starts to emanate out of you once you can restrain your body for up to one hour.  ## Real Life Ways that you can appply this in realife is to stop impulsive = unconcious, movements or responses.  So tapping your fingers or moving your feet up and down while sitting. Hitting your elbow on something and yelling OW when in reality it did not really hurt.  These immediate reactions move into our emotional world as well as we perhaps here something that would cause us to respond unconsciously before but now, we can let it sit in our mind and consciously respond. This also lets our responses have more weight to them as they are considered rather than automatic. You can extend this training into providing yes or no  answers and providing no additional explanation for your decision. There may be an uncomfortable feeling pushing you to apologize for not wanting to do something, but this is conditioned. So this training helps rid ourselves of automatic responses in all areas of life.  ## Mental Stillness.  Now if you have completed the previous training of working up to 1 hour and practicing the additional suggestions in real life then you will find that mental stillness is not such a huge leap. In fact even in your previous one hour sits, you may have started to touch this void/emptiness and stillness.  You see there is this force that ensures you do not move, at first you need to use it a lot as you get better you can relax more. The same is true with the mental practice you set the tone with an intention focused on stillness - notice the focus in on what we WANT, not on what we DO NOT WANT. So if your focus is on no thought, what would you get? Thoughts! Why because the subconscious does not recognize negatives only statements it perceives as truth. Now is the time to experiement - as the mental stillness can be seen as the effect/result of the physical stillnes, this being the cause.  Ensure that you journal every day that you practice in this way, there may be things that are not immediately apparent as to why that thing is significant, but over the course of 30 days you will start to see the connection between things. So images, thoughts, ideas, write it all down. Lastly let us know how you get on. If you would like to receive more info like this then you can do the [free course](https://courses.perseusarcaneacademy.com/b/BwJSZ) on Perseus Arcane Academy. --- # The Magical Writings of Andre Consciencia Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/the-magical-writings-of-andre-consciencia/ Below is an introduction to the incredible esoteric works of André Consciência, a master of magical studies whose writings span from elemental lore to cosmic mysteries. 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Magicians use many names of God for various purposes, favoring the importance of Adonai for protection, Ararita for planetary magic, or AGLA for evocations. Some names of God are used in informal speech or in exclamation of surprise or annoyance, like Gosh. Another of the informal examples, Golly, was first written in 1775 in Gilbert White's journal, where it is referred to it as "a sort of jolly kind of oath…” Many historical and legendary figures were said to perform miracles with the names of God. God’s name Delazhat enabled Joshua to make the Sun stand still. Astas was what Moses said when his staff changed into a serpent. Pantheon made the prophet David escape the hands of Goliath with victory. Joseph invoked El Adonai Tzabaoth and was found worthy to escape from his brothers. Leazyns was one of many names of God that Adam used in the beginning of each of his undertaking. The names of God rule over different nations, planets, sephirot, and even cosmic paths. For example, God’s names for Chesed are El and Yehova,** **El Gibor rules Mars, Iah the Moon, and Tehod is God’s name of the 9th path from Chesed to Geburah. HHA rules the Greeks and HKM the French.  Perhaps because the names of God are omnipresent and countless, in magical and mystical literature there is a tendency to single out the most important ones and limit them to specific number. Thus, for example, there are 70 names written on God’s heart (*Merkavah Rabba) *and 24 letters written upon God’s crown (*The* *Sword of Moses). The* *Sworn Book of Honorius *lists 100 names of God. There are 12 explained names of God in *The Book of Bahir. The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses *mentions about 100 names of God delivered to Adam and about 100 names of God delivered to Moses Since the 5th century, 72 names of God have been most commonly used. *The Third Book of Enoch, *a Biblical apocryphal book from the 5th century, was perhaps among the first to announce that there are 72 names written on God’s heart. Some of the names are correctly transcribed from Hebrew to English, for example QQQ, WWW, PPP, HH, and NN. Others are poorly transcribed, for example, ROKeB, Both, ‘aRa, and DGUL. In the later Hekhalot literature many names of God, such as ŠWWH, SWT, and SWRYSTWN, are almost impossible to interpret.  The classical cabalistic work *Sefer ha-Bahir* (*The Book of Bahir* or *The Book of Brilliance*), written in Provence in 1174, is the earliest known text that documents a reconstruction of the 72 God’s names derived from the 72 triads of Biblical verses (Exodus 14:19-21). According to this book*,* the 72 names of God were first given to the angel Mesamariah, who “stands before the Curtain”. This book tells that Mesamariah passed on the 72 names of God to Elijah on the Mount Carmel, and “that Elijah ascended with them and did not taste death”. Unlike previous mystical literature, all names of God in *The Book of Bahir *are standardized and appear in three letters, such as VHU, YLY, SIT, ELM, LLH, and KHT. The idea that God has 72 most important names was further advanced by *The* *Zohar *(*The Book of Splendour*), 1270. Because this was the most influential early text on cabala, consequently, all of the important Cabalists accepted the standardized 72 three-letter names of God.  The 72 names of God found their way from Cabala to Western magical literature as early as in the 13th century. However, Westerners had a hard time pronouncing those names because they were originally written in Hebrew. This problem was so significant that it made the great English philosopher Roger Bacon (1219/20-1292) complain about how badly they were transcribed from Hebrew into Latin.  The Western Magi also found their own unique ways of calling the 72 names of God in Latin or their native languages. In Ganell's *Summa Sacre Magice*, a huge 13th century encyclopedia of diverse magical materials, the names of God are a mixture of Christian, Greek and Jewish traditions, such as Ysiston, Asmamyas, and Abracaleus. *Liber Juratus* (*The Sworn Book Honorius),* an authentic grimoire from the 13th century, gives the 72 names of God only one respective letter, such as A, B, C, or D. In the 13th-century booklet, *72 Names of God*, most of God's names were written in the Old Slavonic language, although some also appeared in Greek and Latin. Perhaps, Johann Reuchlin (1455-1522), a German humanist, cabalist and magician, first came up with the idea of ​​connecting angels with the corresponding 72 three-letter names of God, for example, VHU with Vehuiah, YLY with Jeliel, SIT with Sitale, ELM with Elemiah, LLH with Lelahel, and KHT with Kehatel. Thus, by inserting the words “El” or “Yah”, he received the 72 names of Shemhamphorash angels. As the first Christian thinker to present cabala as a philosophy to be applied to the benefit of European civilization, his *De arte caballistica* (1517) is the earliest printed Latin text with the names of Shemhamphorash angels. J. Reuchlin wrote that 72 ”inexpressible” names of God correspond to the numerical value of 72 for the divine name IHVH. Speaking about the 72 names of God, Reuchlin also wrote, ”These hallowed signs are in the present days stored in memories and by these symbols the angels are summoned and bring help to men to the praise and glory of the ineffable God…” According to Reuchlin, the names of the angels are products of the will of God. They are based on the Tetragrammaton, and through this connection they illumine and enhance man's spiritual return to God. Sixteen years after the publishing of Reuchlin’s *De arte caballistica, *the famous magician Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535) mentioned Shemhamphorash angels in his *Third Book on Occult Philosophy*, Chapters 25-27,* *(1533)*. *Agrippa’s focus was on how to use Tables of Ziruph in order to find and evoke angels or demons and how to identify an angelic name based on one’s natal chart. Agrippa tells that Shemhamphorash angels are set up over: 72 Celestial quinaries, 72 nations, 72 languages, 72 joints of the human body, 72 seniors of the Synagogue, and 72 disciples of Christ. Speaking of angels in general, Agrippa said that “Yah” should be used only for good angels and “El” for both good angels and “evil spirits.” The number of magi who became acquainted with the Shem angels expanded after Agrippa. One of them, Blaise de Vigenère (1523-1596), the French diplomat, alchemist, translator, and cryptologist wrote *The Table of 72 Angels. *This book includes lists of the names, characters, sigils, and Psalm verses in Latin attributed to the 72 Shem angels, as well as the days over which they preside. There are no instructions on evocations, and the functions of only 11 angels are given. The contemporary magician Gibril, a collector of old grimoires, discovered two other 18th-century copies and one early 19th-century English translation of *The* *Table of 72 Angels*. Gibril detected that they contained basically the same text, but none of them mentioned Vigenère as the authors. A unique method described in those three manuscripts is to call up the Shem angels to provide the answers to questions through dreams.  Vigenère’s work also shows that evocations of Shem angels became a part of magical practices in the 16th century.  Several more books about the Shem angels were written in the 17th century. Sir Simonds d'Ewes (1602 –1650), an English politician, parliament member, and antiquary, had a large collection of manuscripts, including a book allegedly written by the mysterious magician Dr. Rudd. Titled* Liber Malorum Spirituum seu Goetia, *it was an interesting version of *Lemegaton*, a magical grimoire dedicated to Goetic magic. Today, this work by Dr. Rudd is kept in the British Harley Library and archived under the titles “Harley 6482” and “Harley 6843”.  “Harley 6482” includes: sections on the Schemhamphorash angels, hierarchies of fallen angels, images of the Moon mansions, nature spirits, John Dee's Enochian system of angelic conjurations, and Dr. Rudd's Treatise on the Nine Hierarchies of Angels. “Harley 6483” consists of a version of* Heptameron* and some other magical tracts, but most importantly begins with Dr. Rudd’s *Lemegaton*, in which he has included the seals of the 72 Shem angels, along with the seals of the 72 spirits of Goetia. This book does not describe the Shem angels, but it does connect their names and seals with related Psalm verses. Both the Shemhamphorash and Goetic seals are drawn in circles, and although none are labeled "front" or “back”, it is reasonable to assume that they were intended to form the same lamen, but the manuscript does not actually say anything about this.  The question of Dr. Rudd’s authenticity is unresolved. Some writers, like Skinner and Rankine, have identified him with Thomas Rudd (1583?–1656), an English military engineer and mathematician. The objection has been raised that there is little evidence that Thomas and Doctor Rudd are the same person. Some experts say that that there are a number of grimoires attributed to Dr. Rudd, so they think that either Rudd didn’t exist, was merely a copyist, or was a cover name for a group of people engaged in the same work.  A contemporary of Sir Simonds d'Ewes’ was Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), a German Jesuit scholar, the "Master of a Hundred Arts”, and “the last man who knew everything”. A. Kircher wrote between 1652 and 1654, three tomes of *Oedipus Aegyptiacus*, famed as a great work of egyptology, which parts also include his observations on 72 God’s names and relevant Shemhamphorash angels.  Kircher’s diagram, called “Mirror of the Mystical cabala”, appeared in the second volume of this trilogy (page 281). It has a form of the sunflower-like mandala bearing the names of God of which all are linked to 72 angels and 72 nations that make up the humanity. Kircher also gives a verse from the *Book of Psalms *for each Shem angel, except for the 70th, whom the first verse from Genesis is given. As A. Kircher was a Catholic priest, in the spirit of his time, he formally condemned Shem amulets and rejected the magical practicing of cabala, even though his Shem diagram is a master-piece of magic.  Shem angels are also mentioned in early pamphlet-versions of *The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses* from the late 18th century. A Shemhamphorash talisman appears in the second book with the 36 angels on the front side and the equal number of angels on the back side. If the angel’s name intended to be evoked is on the front side, the magician should use its front side, but if it appears on the back side, he should use the back side. The influence of *The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses *was limited until it was printed in Germany in 1849. Thereafter it spread rapidly through Germany and Northern Europe and soon became popular among African Americans in the US, the Caribbean, and West Africa.                      Before *The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses *gained popularity, Athanasius Kircher had already inspired several generations of magicians to incorporate evocations of Shem angels into their magical practices. Foremost among them, Martinez de Pasqually (1727?–1774), a theurgist and theosophist, was the founder of the Order of the Elus Cohens (1761) and a few other masonic and magical orders in France. His followers, Martinists engaged in contact with the 72 names of God, invoked “the Angels of the Elohim”, and obtained personal contacts with their Holy Guardian Angels along their upward path of the Tree of Life. At the highest of the three degrees of the Order of the Elus-Cohen, the evocation of the entities belonging to the Divine Plane was also carried out. The French magician Lazare Lenain partially revealed the secrets of Martinist magical rituals in his book *La Science Cabalistique, *1823.* *This book was certainly influenced by Athanasius Kircher and *The Table of 72 Angels,* ascribed to Blaise de Vigenère, and possibly also by some other manuscripts of unknown origin. It gives a comprehensive description of all the Shemhamphorash angels, including their associated psalms, days, and even “bad angels”. L. Lenain did not reveal the names of the “bad angels”, but he mentioned the misdeeds they were capable of doing. He also omitted to give the angels’ seals. His book was influential among Martinists and French-speaking magicians. The original Order of the Elus-Cohens ceased to exist in the late 18th or early 19th century. It was revived by Papus in 1884 and again after the Second World War by Robert Ambelain.   Franz Buchmann-Naga, inspired by Papus and possibly some other authors, wrote in 1925 a book *Key to the 72 Names of God of the Kabbalah*, in which he claimed that Shem angels were actually Mercurial spirits. Franz Buchmann-Naga was experimenting with his partner from September 1916 till January 1917, 450 kilometers apart from each other. In their evocations, Vehuiah appeared in different occasions clothed with a gown as common in the middle ages, a foggy structure with "lovely but loud sound of a bell”, or with the number of ball-lightnings, making the impression of "fiery eyes”. Mumiah, called for the protection in the astral sphere, appeared in a “gentle bell sound”. Damabiah, evoked in order to cause levitation, emerged with the strange cracking sounds coming from south, upholding three fingers in a swearing gesture, after which Naga’s partner fell asleep dreaming about floating in the sky and flying. The next time they evoked Damabiah, his partner had the impression that he became weightless and lifted a little bit. Franz Buchmann-Naga and his partner used special Shem talismans containing associating Psalm verses (in Latin) and names of God (from Kircher’s diagram). The reversed side of their talismans contained the name of Divine attribute written in Latin (in the case Vehuiah his attribute is "Deus Exaltator"). Franz Buchmann-Naga left a fascinating material, but he also honestly admitted that during his experiments he had not had the proper training to work effectively with the available information.  The Czech magician Franz Bardon accepted Buchmann-Naga's opinion of the Shem angels as spirit from Mercury and identified them as the 72 genii of the Mercury Zone. In his youth, Franz Bardon was a member of the Horev Club, a group of Czech magicians, who worked together from the early to mid-20th century, evoking different hierarchies of spirits, including the Shem angels. Not much of their material remains except for the work lodge diaries which also include photos of their instruments and of astral beings caught on camera. Franz Bardon argues in his book *The Practice of Magical Evocation* that the 72 genii of Mercury sphere express “quality” but not “quantity” of Shemhamphorash. Bardon explains that quantity was related to God's name which was superior to quality which was represented by Mercury genii. According to Bardon’s system, God has 72 “quantity keys” which are explained to humans by 72 genii of Mercury through their “quality keys”. Bardon’s quantity keys are the same as God’s names from Kircher’s diagram. According to F. Bardon, he received from the Shem angels their true sigils. Following his instruction, the magician should draw them in yellow color during the first evocation.   Around the same time that Franz Bardon was writing his three famous books, Robert Ambelain, the French magician and the revivor of the Martinist movement, was completing his *Practical Kabala* (1951), another important work on magic. Ambelain’s book is basically a reproduction of Lenain’s book *La Science Cabalistique* from 1823. The entire text is the same in both books. The main difference is that is R. Amblain also published the seals of the 72 Shem angels from the 16th-century book *The Table of 72 Angel*, attributed to Blaise de Vigenère, which Lenain had omitted to reveal. According to Ambelain, without those seals, Lenain’s book was unusable for evocations. Additionally, R. Ambelain gave (on page 70), an interesting glyph of the Tree of Life, though he failed to say whether it is his own or taken from other sources. In that glyph, all the sephiroth, except Malkuth, were represented by their own Trees of Life. Consequently, there are 72 inner sephiroth governed by relevant 72 Shem angels.  Many modern magicians first heard of Shemhamphorash thanks to Geof Gray-Cobb’s book *[New Avatar Power (NAP)](https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-New-Avatar-Power/dp/0135853729), *1974. Several Shemhamphorash angels, like Mahasiah, Lelahel, Kevakiah, Menadel, Aniel, and Poiel, appear in that book, but with limited use to attack and defend spells.  Approaching the present time, [Damon Brand's *Magickal Angels*](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Damon+Brand%27s+Magickal+Angels&i=stripbooks-intl-ship&crid=3V5DPSGH5QYSY&sprefix=damon+brand%27s+magickal+angels%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C430&ref=nb_sb_noss) series of books inspired mostly a younger generation of magicians to explore the Shem angels. Brand’s system is made to yield results with little tools and may seem too simple for a seasoned ceremonial magician, but people generally find that it suits them well. *The Shem Grimoire*, written by Nick Farrell, is a well-researched book on Shemhamphorash evocation magic. Nick Farrell’s magic is strongly based on the Golden Dawn, which is not surprising as he is initiated into six different Golden Dawn derived systems. The American magician Carrol Poke Runyon performs Goetia evocations in conjunction with the Shem Angles. Runyon claims to have independently rediscovered a working synthesis of those two categories of spiritual entities within the Goetia system, independently of Dr. Rudd’s materials. Poke Runyon said that he had been working with those two classes of spirits together for decades.  Following the Shem tradition, the contemporary Brazilian magician [Gilberto Strapazon](https://perseusarcaneacademy.com/post/the-lifelong-journey-of-magic-and-evolution-gilberto-strapazon-shares-his-wisdom/) has recently written a book on Shem angels, which is full of lucid observations on ceremonial magic and helpful recommendations on evocations and conjurations. Finally, let’s mention the [Perseus Arcane Academy](https://perseusarcaneacademy.com/), run by James and Tanya Robinson, because in its ranks several competent hermetic teachers teach courses on the evocation of the Shem Angels. --- [ ## 360 Spirits of the Earth Zone Have you seen Nenads amazing four volume series? 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So, in this interview Andre answers some of the question that may have been on your mind. We hope this sheds even more light on how special not just this title is but the entire series. --- ## Interview ### I. Foundations and Vision - **A Comprehensive Lens** In *A Guide to Stellar Magic & Astrological Mysticism*, you reference—and synthesize—astrological traditions from Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and beyond. Some might say it’s “strange” or overly ambitious to include so many. What inspired you to unify so many systems into one overarching framework? I believe I am not synthetising the multiple astrological traditions, although history itself has done this for the great majority of them. The question in the beginning of the book is: *“Is there, then, not a unified and true beyond doubt form of astrology?”* You cannot answer a question like this within the subject of the question, astrology, it would be like asking who created the universe, which is the same as asking who could be beyond the universe. At the same time, to get to the bottom of the question, one must study all the components involved, and so there is a study of the various astrological traditions throughout the world and throughout time.  Even most traditions having been historically synthetized into a single working corpus, there are very rich forms of astrology that hardly fit or don’t fit at all, like the Mayan astrology, one of the most functional, detailed, complex and down-to-earth forms. However, since I am not exactly building an astrological Frankenstein, the differences and even similarities matter little. We are searching for the method that makes all these systems functional, we are searching for their fuel. This is a book of magic and mysticism, and by illuminating astrological traditions what it will enlighten about is magic and mysticism.  Now, consider that astrology is simply a science or art of conjoining time as quantity with manifestation as quality, symbol with power; it is about the magic of weaving spiders and crafting destiny and dreams. When Aleister Crowley added a “k” to magic, he was trying to distinguish the philosophy from the stage spectacle. But examine the philosophy, and you will understand what theatre meant to Ancient Greece: the actors became illusions, so they could become something greater than themselves (the gods, the universal principles in movement). All magic(k) is illusionism. It works with Maya, and is capable of influencing our dualistic and illusory life or reality, and fixating and stabilising some illusions, by playing with polarity and games of equilibrium. Astrology, then, is likely the greatest book on magic, but it has disguised itself as something else. It is a programming language with which to build, but most are living inside the software and can’t see the forest from the trees.  - **Bardon’s Ongoing Influence** Your background with Franz Bardon’s works (PME, KTQ, IIH) shines through in this new volume. Could you share how Bardon’s methodology shaped *A Guide to Stellar Magic & Astrological Mysticism*, particularly regarding astral and planetary exploration? This is not an easy answer because it is not a partial one. I am under the impression everything that Bardon said about astrology is here but amplified, and what isn’t here is in A Guide to Sphere Quabbalah. My spinal bone as a practising magician comes from training Franz Bardon. Then, how did Bardon influence my astral and planetary exploration? By getting me to do it. I guess the influence is somehow omnipresent. - **Returning to the Earth’s Core** You emphasize the Earth’s molten center as a primary gateway to stellar realms. Many readers will find this unusual. Could you explain the deeper magical logic behind starting with the Earth’s core before venturing outward to cosmic planes? The Earth is a cosmic plane. In astrology the planets are or at least were considered stars. And they are, in the astrological sense: they are celestial bodies. So is the Earth. And it is molten at its core, like any other star, and bursting with electromagnetic power. "Visita Interiora Terrae, Rectificando, Invenies Occultum Lapidem", Vitriol dissolves all substances except gold. If you wish to understand the stars in the dark expanses, you must find the gold in the abysses of the Earth. If you wish to travel to the stars, you must yourself become in the image of their light, gold.   ### II. Mesopotamian and Ancient Roots - **Mantic Mesopotamia** You provide rich details on the Triad of Anu, Enlil, and Ea, and explain how ancient omens shaped early astrology. What drew you most powerfully to the Mesopotamian micro-zodiac, and how do you see it benefiting today’s practitioners? Mesopotamia speaks close to my heart and memory. The micro-zodiac is a mere detail (although elaborate), but it helps the student have a mnemonic method for a deep astrological understanding of the signs, and it appears right at the beginning of the book. There is a practical exercise that combines the micro-zodiac with cosmic quabbalistic letters, so the mnemonics have a practical side now, and become a ritualistic and activated magical device, much like a magical computer. Let’s consider it a great warm up.  - **Egyptian Star Religion** In your chapters on Egyptian astrology, you discuss the “Watchers” and planetary gods. How can modern magicians adapt these age-old star-lore practices without losing their historical richness? If they practice modern astrology it will already include Ancient Egyptian astrology. It’s not so much that it lost historical richness, it is just that people do not know the history of what they practice and preach. This is something I believe this book can help with. - **Zoroastrian and Mazdean Cycles** You highlight Zoroastrian cosmic cycles and their emphasis on good vs. evil. In what ways do you integrate these moral or ethical dimensions into astrological magic? Integrating moral and ethical dimensions into astrological magic is not up to me. In the book, I explain how it is already done and has always been in practice. The stars move orderly if the rites for good are accomplished. You see, when the Sun rises, it does not necessarily rise for the spirit.  ### III. The Stellar Approach in Practice - **Cosmic Letters & Quabbalah** You describe using Bardon’s cosmic letters alongside astrological signs and planetary intelligences. How do these letters facilitate a direct link between personal intention and macrocosmic forces? The letters are the very macrocosmic creative forces. The intelligences are cosmic personalities and the astrological signs represent universal intentions. We become the missing link, and fill it. - **Working With Balachman** Balachman (27° Aries) appears as a key guide into “synthetic astrology.” Could you share how Balachman first “made contact” and why he’s central to evolving a magician’s stellar awareness? Balachman first made contact for the creation of this book. I was reading Nenad Talerman’s work 360 Heads of the Earth Zone (First Step to Divine Providence) and when passing Balachman I spied the seal and domain, since he was one of the few heads I hadn’t met. Then that was it, Balachman was quite insistent. I didn’t like emphasizing astrology and didn’t feel like I knew enough about it. Balachman had a way to convince me.  However, saying Balachman is central to evolving a magician’s stellar awareness is not only wrong as it is dangerous. Balachman is peripheral, as any other intelligence. They are like rays to a star, not the center of the star.  - **Ugirpon and Other Cosmic Teachers** Alongside Balachman, the book introduces other beings like Ugirpon. How do their teachings differ, and how can a practitioner discern which entity is most aligned with their development? Balachman teaches astrology, and Ugirpon teaches astronomy. For complete training, they might refer to one another. Both can introduce the magician to many other intelligences. Balachman is better if you wish to understand the applied philosophy behind the cosmos, Ugirpon will teach you about the cosmos more via its animated life force.  - **Extraplanetary Research Roadmap** Your appendices include a structured approach for venturing beyond familiar planetary zones—into extrasolar realms like Andromeda. What are some preparatory steps a magician must absolutely master before attempting these deeper cosmic travels? It is a research roadmap, more than a structured approach for venturing out. Such a structure is given in the book, just not in the appendices. What is in the appendices is a challenge, so to speak, for the one venturing to analyze and make sense of these strange worlds, and bring something back that is useful to this world and eventually translatable, and that poses a logical system, even if the logic is alien. Also, I do not reach Andromeda here, I solve this by using the Moonsphere as a lab to examine Andromeda’s influence and astral blueprint. That is not to say we don’t travel, just the same, much beyond what is usually taught.  What must be mastered most of all is a non-dualistic awareness, all planetary spheres and light saturations up to Neptune, and to solve one’s conscience into its own peace and original nature. Obviously, you must also love the unknown much more than you fear death. ### IV. Bridging Various Astrological Systems - **Defining Synthetic Astrology** You call your approach “synthetic” in places, weaving together sign-based astrology, planetary magic, and beyond. Could you clarify how you integrate the best of these diverse lineages—Vedic, Hellenistic, Chinese, Mayan—into a single workable method? I do not. What I propose is to figure out what this single method that makes all lineages work is. I think I figured it out. - **Planetary vs. Stellar** You make distinctions among Earth Zone, lunar, planetary, and stellar operations. For practitioners who are used to “12 signs + 7 classical planets,” what’s the biggest conceptual leap they’ll have to make in embracing truly stellar magic? The 12 signs and 7 classical planets are still there and they still form a map of the skies: they point to everything else. Yet, everything else is also there. Maybe the biggest conceptual leap here is in astrology truly meeting astronomy, which is the same as saying we can finally implement all astronomical discoveries into astrology, which is the original method of creating astrology anyway. - **Historical Thoroughness** In some sections, you point out that you include distant or lesser-known traditions (e.g., Druidic or Old Norse astrology) for thoroughness. How do these “minor” traditions add practical or symbolic depth for someone doing daily magical work? I think it is a mistake to suggest these traditions are minor in any possible way. These traditions are oral, not lesser. Both can be supposed to have developed two of the most great astrological traditions. The Druids had their lore mostly based on beings that visited us from the stars, and were good navigators. The Old Norse people were one of the greatest people of navigators known in history. This indicates, beyond doubt, acute knowledge of the stars. What is more, the general spirituality of both cultures is magical by nature, and what there is on their magic, coupled with their mythology and finally their astrology, could easily fill a 400 pages book just as this one, dedicated to only one of them in terms of appliable stellar magic.  There is also something else to contemplate, and in which these smaller fragments of the book are central: when we look at how different cultures interpreted the stars, especially when there is little intercultural influence, we realize the stars have not only the cultural quality but a metaphysical quantity to them. We realize the quantitative power that emanates from the stars does not really change.   ### V. Experiential and Applied Techniques - **Practical Exercises** From your perspective, which single practice—such as evoking the Sun Sphere, Moon Sphere, or a certain cosmic letter—provides the most immediate shift in awareness for newcomers? Immediate shift of awareness? Hm. Which has greater speed? This depends on the method, the practitioner, and the direction of the change in awareness. First, saying we evoke the Sun Sphere or the Moon Sphere is a little odd. We may evoke its light oscillation into the room or the triangle, if that is what you mean, or invoke the light oscillation unto ourselves. If a practitioner who has enough experience in doing this connects it to a ritual gesture that immediately does the job, then immediate is immediate. If a quabbalist is not so experienced the letters may take him longer, but if he is quite used to them, immediate is still immediate. Not the letters nor the gestures will provide any immediate shift of awareness to newcomers, since being newcomers we still need to practice.  - **Mental Wandering to Planetary Spheres** Borrowing from Bardon’s mental wandering, you guide readers to contact cosmic beings. Could you outline a typical first encounter protocol that ensures safety, clarity, and genuine contact? First encounters are never safe, clear, and often are not entirely genuine, just genuine enough. Although there is a problem in keeping with this “genuine contact” agenda, since it fact-checks something that isn’t factual on one side and puts to question one’s personal gnosis on the other, there are ways to understand effectiveness or lack of it. So when I say the contact is just genuine enough I mean to say there is an influence of a particular being in one’s own inner distractions there. We can make it as safe as possible by mastering our assumption of the personal God first, and having a close contact with our guardian genius. For clarity, master vacancy of mind for one hour, one-pointed concentration for half an hour, observe your thoughts and register them without forgetting anything, practice passive communication as well until you start getting very good results and results that can be fact checked (yes, the results themselves can be fact-checked), and do it also with your own isolated subconscious so its uncalled for interference can be recognized and it loses the capacity to trick you. These measures will contribute to a more genuine contact.   - **Astrology Beyond Personality** Many people see astrology as a natal chart reading. Your focus is more on direct manipulation of energies. How can someone move from “I read my horoscope” to “I shape my reality through cosmic alignments”? By working the horoscope according to the soul mirror and the ennoblement of the soul. The book has this but also a more advanced practice, where you can understand and work with the hierarchy of beings in all ten spheres behind every one of your chart aspects. You can, then, by working with these beings and contacting new ones, start to change your natal chart accordingly and in the image of cosmic equilibrium. This will make you realize, as Giordano Bruno said, that changing the stars changes the Earth. - **Healing and Alchemy** You mention the interplay of cosmic forces with mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms. In practical terms, how might a magician use your system for healing or alchemical experiments that harness stellar vibrations? By way of analogy and the magic of sympathy. It is quite a long book, and it is for such details that a book is needed to start with. I can say, for instance, that there is a system of healing and internal alchemy wholly connected to the beings of Jupiter, the signs of the zodiac, and the human body.  ### VI. Journeying Through the Book’s Key Sections - **Roadmap to the Andromeda Galaxy** In *A Guide to Stellar Magic & Astrological Mysticism*, you dedicate a section to Andromeda. Could you share any personal anecdote or vision from your own Andromeda work that highlights the unique benefits (or challenges) of going that far? Unique benefits or challenges… To tell you the truth, I think we are often, at this level of depth, somehow beyond benefit and challenge. We are more in an existential realm as explorers. The Andromeda work is depicted in the book and it is not my place to repeat what is in the book but to shed light on the book from a different angle, to point my finger to the book, so to speak. Nema Andahadna saw that the Ma’atian Aeon was aligned with Andromeda, or passing through Andromeda’s alignment with the Milky Way. Sirius caught the current, and its blueprint could be worked on in the Moonzone that reflects our Sun. Others like Kenneth Grant, Frater Achad, Aion 131 (Denny Sargent) and myself have produced experiments that corroborate this theory. An Aeon means both a period in time as a specific logos or mode of processing the universe, and Ma’at is connected with justice, balance, truth, equilibrium and similar aspects. This is when we are no longer at odds with our own conscience, and the Judges of Saturn become the Lords (or Ladies) of Understanding. This is also when we can understand the innermost truths of each other and the moon (or Maya) no longer distorts our perceptions of other creatures and the cosmos. So if you want to evolve, tapping into this current is a good challenge. If you want long-standing magical equilibrium, here is a benefit to reap from that challenge.    - **Moon-Earth Split** You write about bridging the gap between lunar influences and earthly reality, an overlooked dichotomy in many systems. Why is re-harmonizing the Moon-Earth relationship vital in your cosmic framework? Until this is achieved, we can only explore the spheres as they exist in the Moonzone layer of the Universe. While factual reality and dream are perceived as separated, Mercury will remain corrupt, it will judge the dream and this trauma causes the split of duality. When the subjective reality of the moon and the objective reality of the earthzone cease and give place to reality in and of itself, then we take upon us the sensuous wings of Venus, and Mercury becomes glory and contemplation instead of intellectual judgement. Now when this happens, we shift to another solar system altogether.     - **Training Sensory Imagination** You emphasize training imagination to “taste, sense, smell and hear” the stars. How does this differ from a typical astral-projection approach, and why do you consider it indispensable? I have seen a lot of people mental-wandering and ending up in their own inner planes, unable to get to the shared astral space, wether they know it or not. This is because they did not make clairvoyance, clairsentience, and clairaudience (or general extrasensory abilities) their second or even first nature. They have just dipped their toes. This method forces the senses to awaken to the invisible world. Also, the senses approach the quantity of the stars directly through the body, while mental wandering will approach this through spiritual poetics, visionary experiences, metaphysical metaphors and so on.   ### VII. Integrating the Previous Volumes and Looking Ahead - **Tie-Ins with Prior Works** Readers of *A Guide to Sphere Quabbalah* or *A Guide to the Elementals* will see many references to elemental gates and cosmic letters. How do these earlier volumes pave the way for stellar operations in this book? In multiple ways. We see the universe through the lens of the four elements, and even the stars (the zodiac) is divided between them. I have come so far as to show how the cosmic letters represent the four elements as well throughout the cosmos, beyond the earthzone. So, having built a tower whose base is the four elements and the upper floors are the spheres, a ladder cemented by the cosmic letters, we pierce the “stratosphere” of the solar system and venture to the stars beyond.  - **From Elementals to Exoplanets** In your previous works, you dealt extensively with elementals. Here, you expand to exoplanets and star systems. How does working with elementals differ in scale or nuance from working with cosmic-level beings or phenomena? I am not sure if we should measure the scale of our mystical experiences according to this platonic hierarchy. Working with an elemental can be as strong and intense, or more, than with a cosmic-level being. And why? Because, as previously stated, we see the universe through the four elements, and this means a major elemental is right in the eye of the hurricane, lending all powers to a cosmic being (whose existence is principle). This comes to be because a cosmic being, as a universal, is not really in time and space, and it manifests not as an experience except through the elements. This cosmic-level being is not to be confused with the material or astral creatures that exist throughout the cosmos, who, existing in the cosmos, are not entirely at a cosmic-level and exhibit various relative aspects.   - **Ideal Sequence** Would you advise a new reader to start with your previous “A Guide to...” books before tackling stellar magic? Or can *A Guide to Stellar Magic & Astrological Mysticism* stand on its own as a starting point? A Guide to Stellar Magic is a fine book to read if you have none of the other books. It does not depend on them to be understood. As strange as it eventually gets as it progresses, it is one of my favourite books in terms of theory, and a good portion of it can be considered academic esoterica. I think you will find nothing like this elsewhere and the content alone makes it a must-have. Regarding practice, it is mostly an advanced book. If you would depend on my own written training (written in books), you start at Through the Soul Mirror to the Sphere of the Sun. This is the real first book in my Falcon Books Publishing series, and it paves the way to A Guide to the Elementals (you can try with potential success to begin here, but it’s not really a beginner’s book). Although A Guide to the Elementals is the first in “A Magical Study Series”, the series is an idea of the publisher since these three books are in a different format from Through the Soul Mirror to the Sphere of the Sun.  A different option is to complete The Way of Abrahadabra or The Inner Gateways of LAM (Esoteric Pillars).  ### VIII. Reflection and Final Thoughts - **Personal Transformation** After delving so deeply into these advanced cosmic realms, have you noticed a corresponding shift in your everyday consciousness or worldview? In other words, how has your own life changed as a result of this research and practice? Although writing this book was one of my favourite writing experiences, with the beings in contact with me while awake or dreaming in bed, these kinds of changes were unleashed while writing The Inner Gateways of LAM (Esoteric Pillars). This is the book I wrote immediately before A Guide to Stellar Magic, and it devised a wholly mystical method to explore the stars and extra-terrestrial contacts. When I finished, I was hesitant in publishing it. It seems I had tapped into something so out of this world, and that it was now living in the book, that publishing it could have unpredicted consequences.  Now, something interesting happened during my period of indecision. I felt I was going insane, fire and light (as a sort of radiation) constantly bombarding me by the tutelar entities of the book, and rightly so, because an oath had been made. After deciding to publish it, however, this fire and light became mine to channel at all times. A Guide to Stellar Magic adds the metaphysical component that was missing at The Inner Gateways of LAM, but upon the conclusion of Stellar Magic the main change in me is I stopped longing so much for that heart of mystery that has compelled me from birth to an extent that I had to constantly check for symptoms of melancholia. I realized the heart of the knowledge I have brought in my secret fire cannot be in the present stage of dual reality. This gave me peace and removed any remnants of uncertainty in my Silence.   - **Advice for the Hesitant** Finally, if someone is intrigued by stellar magic but wonders if it’s too lofty or “strange,” what heartfelt encouragement or practical tip would you offer to help them take that first step? Turn around and leave, never look back. It is much stranger than your fear can imagine.  - **Value for Bardon Practitioners** For students deeply engaged in Franz Bardon’s system—particularly those working with Initiation into Hermetics (IIH), The Practice of Magical Evocation (PME), and The Key to the True Quabbalah (KTQ)—how does A Guide to Stellar Magic & Astrological Mysticism expand their understanding and practice? Does it bridge any gaps in Bardon’s original work? I don’t care for gaps as usually understood. Books are works of art, even theoretical ones, and art has no gaps. This book draws mostly from PME’s astrological references. They are hints. They have camouflage. They are everywhere in the book, but the beings are dancing with their scintillating light, and the magical tools and apparatus fill the imagination. The whole system behind the book goes unnoticed, like a puppet show where the puppeteers remain hidden.  - **Value for Astrology Students** For those who come from a more traditional astrology background—perhaps focusing on natal charts, transits, or horary astrology—what new dimensions or applications will they find in this book that go beyond standard astrological techniques? You can keep focusing on natal charts, transits, horary astrology, it’s all in here. Now are you ready to use it as a time machine? What about using the stars to build an interstellar spaceship? 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This book has been carefully developed to bridge the worlds of astrology, magic, and quabbalah, offering a system that stands between *The Practice of Magical Evocation* and *The Key to True Quabbalah*. It approaches astrology not merely as a symbolic system but as a living, magical process that connects the practitioner with cosmic forces. This volume takes the reader on a journey through the esoteric dimensions of astrology, tracing its roots from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Zoroastrian, Indian, Chinese, Jewish, Christian, Norse, Mayan, and Greek traditions while integrating the methods of Franz Bardon. It presents a detailed study of planetary spheres and their spiritual significance, offering practical techniques for stellar magic and celestial attunement. The work reveals astrology’s deeper connection to theurgy and quabbalistic practice, uncovering how cosmic forces can be engaged directly rather than through abstract symbolism. The book explores the concept of astrology as an initiatory process, where planetary spheres and cosmic forces are not merely influences but living intelligences that can be contacted through specific practices. It reveals how different traditions have approached the stars, whether through the star-religions of Mesopotamia and Egypt, the mathematical harmonies of Pythagorean and Greek astrology, or the celestial maps of medieval and Renaissance magicians. Beyond the classical planets, the book also ventures into extraplanetary and extrasolar astrology, extending beyond the known solar system and introducing methods for working with celestial forces beyond Saturn and Pluto. It presents a method to reach the Andromeda Galaxy, discusses the implications of working with stellar intelligences outside traditional astrological models, and outlines an advanced system of cosmic theurgy. The work also features an in-depth exploration of the Judges of Saturn, detailing their role in cosmic justice and how they influence spiritual development. The section on the Judges of Saturn, exclusive to the hardback edition, provides an advanced study of these beings and their place in Franz Bardon's system. Throughout the book, practical applications are given, including the use of cosmic letters in relation to astrology, methods for creating magic mirrors for planetary and stellar connection, and techniques for solar and lunar evocation. It bridges the gap between historical tradition and practical magical work, providing a system that is both deeply rooted in the past and highly relevant to contemporary practitioners. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-09-211748.png) ### Excerpt: The Nature Behind Astrology *"What then, is astrology? It connects us to the study of the stars—their motion, relationships, and hidden influences. The stars were once untouchable, mysterious lights in the sky, yet across human history they became guides, symbols, and forces of power. In the ancient world, to look at the heavens was to perceive a cosmic order, a rhythm that governed both fate and free will. Myths arose from these patterns, interwoven with the movements of celestial bodies, giving rise to a system that was more than prediction—it was participation in the great dance of existence..."* This book challenges the modern notion of astrology as a purely psychological or predictive tool. It restores its place as a true magical art, where the practitioner engages with planetary and stellar forces as living intelligences. Through its pages, the reader will encounter concepts that may seem like pure fantasy, yet within them lies a system that has been practiced and refined for centuries. 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On the astral plane of our planet, there are a vast variety of spiritual creatures one may encounter. Traditionally, some of these beings have a very special connection to nature and are called elementals. The four kinds of elemental beings are each composed of one element such that mermaids are water spirits, sylphs are air spirits, gnomes are earth spirits, and salamanders are fire spirits.     Human beings, by contrast, are considered in many traditions to be composed of five elements—water, air, earth, fire, and a fifth element called akasha or spirit. Within the human psyche, the soul, or astral body, the water element increases our ability to feel and to love. The air element enhances are artistic sensitivity and appreciation of harmony and balance. The earth element embodies the desire to work with physical matter, reshaping the world we are in so as to leave things of enduring value. And the fire element relates to will and power. Fire is intense, expansive, and constantly seeking to overcome anything that limits its self-expression.    We might look at a volcano and imagine a being who seeks to understand everything that it is possible to learn about fire as well as how to master every aspect of will power. In a similar way, we might look at the sea and imagine beings who are like water—it is their very nature to love, to being forth life, to renew, to purify, to heal, and to make whole.     If we look at the sky, we might imagine spirits of the wind that are masters of every kind of atmospheric condition. But having the sky in which to roam, they tend to remain very detached and they love freedom. Or we might look at mountains, trees, rocks, and minerals and imagine beings who dwell in the earth. They are very silent inside and once they begin a task they no longer count time, for the only thing on their minds is pursuing what they have begun until they are done.    The psychological qualities I have just used to describe these elemental beings describe human beings as well. The difference is that the elemental beings have been striving to understand nature for millions of years. We might consider that the kings and queens of the elements have mastered various secrets of nature as well as aspects of will, love, harmony, and inner silence that we as a race have only begun to explore. In this sense, the elementals are our teachers. They stand ready in any moment to speak with us and to share their secrets if only we still our minds and sharpen our senses so that we can perceive their presence.           In my book, *Mermaids, Sylphs, Gnomes, and Salamanders*, I ascribe gender to the elementals. These beings, however, do not reproduce in any way similar to human beings. The mermaids, for example, may appear to be extremely sexy and attractive. And if you put a mermaid inside of a woman’s body, she would indeed be very sensual and loving. But mermaids I study are not mammals or fish. They are not carbon- based lifeforms. They do not reproduce physically. They are spirits dwelling on the astral plane that have a close connection to water in nature.      Consequently, when mermaids do in fact assume human form and live among us (for example, by being born as an infant like anyone else), they bring with them no tradition or morality for understanding what sex is. For example, a mermaid woman may see no relationship between sex and love. Love is an energy exchange between individuals. She can perceive love directly since she sees energy. In human form, she may consider sex to be a great experience. But having no ego or need for attachment, sex generates no bonding for her. If she is loyal to an individual in an intimate relationship, she is responding to the other person’s need for her to present herself in that way.     In my book, *Undines*, I describe mermaids, the female form of water elementals. I could just as easily have written about merman. The mermen often have the ability to control storms at sea and are aware of the location of sunken ships. The water element, however, because of its extreme receptivity, favors the female form. The mermaid queens have astonishing powers that are greater in scope than those of the mermen. All the same, mermen are very active and creative in their own right.    Males can be found among the air elementals, but sylphs are mostly female. I describe members of both genders. The feminine form carries with it a heightened sensitivity and female sylphs can easily establish rapport with a human being if they wish to do so. The sylphs in masculine form tend to oversee, control, and change weather conditions.    Earth elementals too can easily be either masculine or feminine. As feminine, the gnome is more interested in nurturing—feeling an inner connection to the life force in trees, flowers, and living beings. In masculine form, the gnome is compulsive about investigating and transforming physical matter and working with the magical aspects of precious stones.     Fire tends to favor the masculine form in that fire is dynamic, explosive, and intense. Fire elementals in male form are constantly aware of the need to gather support from outside of themselves in order to maintain their power—fire needs external fuel. However, the greatest elementals within any of the four elements , the kings and queens, possess such understanding of magic and are so creative they are free to engage in activities that are either masculine or feminine. But as individuals, they specialize in one role or the other--taking control and changing something or else receptively embracing and becoming one with something.    Writers of fairy tales often imagine elemental beings to have human motives. But mermaids, for example, are not at all like human women. The extreme receptivity of mermaids and their magical empathy have never been described accurately in world literature. But in terms of active and passive, if we are discussing an elemental who can control the explosion of a super volcano-- that would be a male salamander. And if we are discussing an elemental who can in this moment instantly perceive the feelings and often the past and future of any living being on earth--that would be a mermaid queen. Mermaids Mermaids are part of oral traditions, historical literature, and mythology. They go by various names: water sprites, water spirits, water nymphs, nixies, naiads, ondines, and so on. They are in the form of beautiful women and are masters of the magic of water and magnetism. They embody and guard treasures of empathy, sensuality, and love that the human race has yet to discover. In this regard, they are our teachers.   Consider our relationship to the element of water. We have oceanography. We explore the seas, name the fish, and study habitats, the ocean currents, the tides, and so on. We know from fossils about fish that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. We can reconstruct and run simulations on how the ocean was formed and operates.   Does this not give us some understanding of mermaids? A mermaid can sense immediately what another mermaid is feeling. She can do the same with any life form, including human beings.   We use water to wash ourselves, cleanse a wound, drink, and water plants and fields. It is essential to our industries. But when a mermaid puts her hands in water she feels the seas and the life within them. She has visions of past, present, and future. She has the power to take a feeling, a dream, or a vision and amplify it so that it appears before her in its full power and perfection. When a mermaid puts her hands in water, if she relaxes, she feels united to a sea of ecstasy.   It is possible to meet women who have the auras, sensitivities, and psychic abilities of mermaids. For example, between one shot and another in a photo shoot it seems as if the girl changes her appearance into that of a different woman. But she is just utilizing the magic of water to appear in a different way for each situation she enters. She can do this because she has changed the ways she feels—   One moment a child; the next moment an ageless goddess; then flirtatious and playful; then familiar like a life-long friend; next attractive enough that the physical distance between the two of you seems to vanish; and then innocent and free as if a butterfly or humming bird has just paused from its flight to land in your open palm.   The easiest way to tell when you are with such a woman is that when you are with her it seems that you are the only thing that exists in her awareness but you. But then you notice she gives herself to everyone in the same way without discrimination. However, unless she keeps her energetic giving in check, her actions are misunderstood and others often try to possess her or attack her.      On the astral plane, mermaids do not have a carbon oxygen metabolism. Consequently, their body temperature is much lower. I gave a “mermaid woman” an electric thermometer. She discovered that within a few minutes of holding it in her hand she can drop the temperature form 98 degrees to 40 degrees. And often when she meditates with me, her room becomes freezing cold.       The Realm of Mermaids   On the astral plane, there are many spiritual kingdoms, domains, and realms. The sensation of the mermaid realm is watery but lighter than water. The energy is vast and continuously flowing. Love is everywhere. It is unbelievable innocent— that is, it is completely open and receptive, new, self-renewing, and self-purifying: it never loses its willingness to give all of itself in every moment. That is what I call innocence.      And it is healing and tender. It is sweet, kind, and then the sensuality kicks in—the bliss begins running through your nerves saturating them. Here there are no inhibitions—what is deepest inside of you naturally and without effort flows through what is deepest within another. The exchange of energy is total and continuous. And the peace and the serenity seem so vast they encompass the universe.       If I imagine the mermaid queen Istiphul, her mind and mine immediately join. The vibration of her mind is a nurturing, ecstatic love. It is embracing, healing, creating oneness, fulfilling satisfying, releasing, and strengthening whoever she interacts with.       Istiphul embodies a vast, watery expanse of love as pure astral energy and this energy flows into and through anyone she wishes. This is one embodiment of the water element in its full power and beauty.       As long as my mind is joined to hers, it feels completely natural for me to do what she does—to embrace, flow through, become one with, and seek to fulfill anyone I think about. My energy is within the other person seeking to make them whole. You will not find this energy among human beings as a pure, sensual, perceptual energy exchange on this level.    To a large extent, mermaids are responsible for enabling the human race to feel fully alive. Their presence amplifies physical sensations and feelings. They heighten attraction and bestow bliss. Without their presence, human beings may feel half dead inside. Consequently, in search of stimulus people tend to take increasing risks seeking new experiences that may threaten their own existence.    Sylphs Sylphs are nature spirits composed of one element—the air element. They are invisible to normal sight. They live in the sky. And they are invariably involved in some way with weather control.     When an individual has a surcharge of airy energy, there are feelings like wanting to dance, sing, perform, and express oneself in artistic ways. In other words, the air element in an individual produces feelings of festivity and celebration. Qualities associated with the air element are cheerfulness, levity, laughter, amusement, and delight. Such individuals are aware of the beauty of being alive. Human beings with these airy qualities often turn to art and music as a way to allow these feelings to flow through themselves.    In the legends of elves and fairies, these beings are often pictured as dancing, singing, and partying all night. They dwell in a world of enchantment and sensual intoxication though they never seem to have a hangover or withdrawal symptoms from whatever it is that takes away their inhibitions and changes their mood to joy. But of course what they have is the air element in their souls in large supply.    If you feel dragged down, in a rut, or burdened by life's responsibilities, contact with the air element might offer a remedy. It has the power the lift you up. It enables you to feel detached, clear, and gain perspective. It conceals the ability to feel light and playful.    We can develop the sylph or airy qualities that are latent within us. Then we can regard conflict and confusion in a different light. With more of the air element active within us, we are able to see humor and delight in life's unexpected happenings. Where others perceive frustration and dissatisfaction, the airy temperament responds with art, being over whelmed with curiosity and wonder in the drama of life unfolding.   Where others cannot find a way to solve a problem, air will offer you ten different suggestions for moving forward. Air loves freedom. Harmony is its passion.   If you wanted to interact with a sylph like Parahim, you might imagine that your mind is open and clear like the sky. She loves the purity of an open mind free of all attachment. But you will also have to have a sensitivity and an appreciation of harmony. A sylph can sense the faintest shift in wind, humidity, temperature, and air pressure. Understandably, sylphs like those who are like themselves.   The sylph Capisi tells me of a time when she assumed human form to become the lover of a great poet. Though sylphs may love detachment and being in balance, Capisi is a sylph who loves beauty even if great conflict accompanies it.   The sylph Cargoste is one of the great wonders of our planet.  His mind is so strong and clear that without the use of thought or mental action he is aware of the entire atmosphere of our planet. It is natural for a sylph of his power to oversee climatic changes such as the onset and the end of ice ages.      The Realm of Sylphs   I place my awareness in the realm of sylphs. I instantly feel I am high in the sky on a clear day. The horizon of the earth circles beneath me. I feel free. I am full of dancing energy. Nothing weighs me down. There are no fences, no limits, and no boundaries.            Because my nervous system can sense any wind, storm, or weather condition, I feel free of restrictions. The sky is my mind. It is open, clear, luminous, and free of attachment or anything that would bind.   Like the atmosphere itself, I love harmony and balance. There is constant give and take and negotiations taking place between opposites-- hot and cold, moist and dry, highs and lows, fire/light/electricity and water/feeling/magnetism.       But to be as one who dwells here most of all I love the enlightened mind because it is totally free and I love the artistic imagination because it is witness to every nuance in each moment unfolding.       If I imagine Cargoste, a sylph of astonishing ability, I can join my mind with his as easily as I did with the mermaid queen Istiphul. As a sylph, Cargoste is highly empathic as are sylph women. He is aware of the faintest mental vibration. He is the perfect Libra—he embodies harmony finding the perfect balance between himself and another person or spirit or himself and a wind or the entire atmosphere of the earth.        Cargoste embodies wisdom—he is aware of the past, present, and future of a person or of the atmosphere of the earth. He can perfectly read another’s mind to the extent that he can speak to the person’s with the individual’s own inner voice.       The difference between the mermaid queen and the sylph Cargoste is that he is not after oneness and love. He is after balance and harmony. Detachment is never a problem for him because seeing through the other’s eyes and thinking the thoughts in the other’s mind is part of his perception.           Translating this into human terms, the sylph wisdom includes the power of voice, sounds, intonations, and language. What if you could not just feel another’s needs and want to heal them? Not only sense what they feel and want to help them?      What if you could speak with the precise words that persuade others to take care of themselves? What if when you talked to another you made perfect sense to that person and because of the way you speak, the familiarity and understanding in your words, the person would rely on your advice and follow through with your suggestions?      That is the power of the air element. It is not the active empathy that makes another feel what it wants them to feel. Instead, this is directly interfacing with the other’s mind so that person feels you totally understand them with your mind. That is one aspect of the wisdom of air.    If you want to persuade and move others to action to pursue a good end, then this might be one of the reasons you would learn to embody air within yourself. This is an ability you can master through practice just like training to become a pilot of a jumbo jet like one mermaid woman I know.    Gnomes Gnomes are spirits on the astral plane that are composed of the one element of earth and have very close ties to the densest forms of matter in nature. In nature, the earth element is seen in the forests, vegetation, mountains, plateaus, and plains—the planet earth in its physical being.    The earth element emphasizes shape, weight, density, and mass. As such, the earth element provides minerals, building materials, resources, shelter, and food. The earth element is also analogous to consciousness. The earth element unites thought (air), water (feeling), and fire (will) into productive activity. We use this form of consciousness to make things that endure.   When strong in an individual’s personality, the earth element makes that person solid, grounded, stable, steady, and persevering. The individual loves to work. He takes something and he makes it more valuable. He fixes things. He transforms them. The world is a better place because of what he accomplishes. We could say this person is down to earth.    The earth element embodies a quiet ecstasy. Within yourself, you sense your connection to something of enduring value. This inner silence empowers you. It protects you. It shelters you. It separates you from those whose values are transient and of little consequence. Silence strengthens inner visions so there is never any doubt or uncertainty about their reality.   The gnomes I describe are in some ways familiar to us. If you attended a Medieval Fair, it would not be difficult to imagine Musar being there. He would have a booth where he trades and barters antiques or ancient things found in the earth for whatever human beings currently consider to be of value. He is down-right curious about the human race. He wants to understand where we are going and what we are able to accomplish.   The gnome Erami could give lectures at Harvard on horticulture, genetic engineering, biochemistry, and longevity. I think he could translate his direct perceptions of life, matter, and energy into scientific language without too much effort.    And if the gnome Mentifil walked the earth in human form, he simply would not stop until he taught us how to extend our life spans so we live two or three hundred years longer. And this he would do simply by showing us how to increase our awareness of our bodies, of water and food, and of the life force in breathing. For Mentifil, a still mind in combination with concentration and imagination can reveal the deepest keys to understanding health and vitality.  The Realm of Gnomes  Entering the realm of gnomes: here beneath the ground silence reigns. It is deep and still; I am where ages and eons have no meaning. All the same the essence of my being is to take matter in hand and make it something more than it was before.       I love chemistry and study endlessly how molecules bind. And I love atomic vibrations. Every element is constantly singing of the joy of creation, of having come into being.       Trees, shrubs, flowers and plants—I love to watch them grow. Their inner essence I go out of my way to make my own. Precious stones enchant me—I am drawn to them like a moth to a flame. But unlike the moth, I go right inside of them and there amid a crystal palace I sit and meditate.       Crystals I am sure as you must already know can contain the light of planets, stars, and constellations. I listen so well I hear those songs and I  sing along. When I leave a crystal, the song I sung within it continues to be heard as long as the gem exists in physical form.       There are palaces and kingdoms, temples and forgotten pathways of spirit hidden within silence. And when you are very good, having traveled the world beneath the ground, having researched and discovered new things relentlessly, when you open your hand the philosopher’s stone appears—the quintessence of nature perfected. Because I know the ways through the darkest places, spirit reveals to me its greatest secrets concerning matter and its transformations.         The earth is my home; I am never alone; I am cloaked in the beauty of the universe.           When I turn to Mentifil, I have an instant awareness of what a gnome senses about the human body—he is aware of the electro-magnetic waves of the brain, the biochemistry of the metabolism, the electrolytes in your blood stream, and the blood circulation through your legs and different parts of your body, the functioning of your lungs and your renal  system. He is aware of what enhances, sustains, and detracts from the health of your body.       A gnome like Mentifil can look at someone and feel how every body organ is functioning and what herbs and remedies could be used to make them healthier. In practical terms, then, the gnome awareness allows you to feel one hundred per cent part of the physical world. You will notice that mermaid women so far rarely build anything. At the time of this writing, there are no mermaid training systems, no mermaid correspondence courses, no mermaid seminars run by mermaids, no mermaid institutes, no mermaid on-line classes, no mermaid dance and song training programs, no mermaid magic classes, no mermaid tours to the astral plane, no mermaid spirit guide readings (a mermaid Tarot deck is not quite enough to cut it), no mermaid story tellers though there are a lot of human story tellers publishing new books about mermaids every week.       In other words, with the earth element you build something that endures and enriches the world when you are gone. There is one mermaid who is an exception but she is here on a divine mission that I do not think the human race is ready to understand.       For gnomes, there is step by step procedure and gradual development. There is embodying something that makes individuals stronger over time and that remains with them. And as I like to point out, for a gnome time only exists in terms of what you are working on. When you are finished  then you can say, “I finished what I began—that is the unit I use to measure time.”   Salamanders Working with salamanders is somewhat different from working with mermaids, sylphs, and gnomes. Each kind of elemental being presents unique challenges. Since salamanders specialize in power, interacting with them requires something more. You must resolve in yourself the conflicts between love, power, and wisdom.      Being exposed to the fiery energy of these beings may produce any number of side effects. It may give a sudden boost to an individual's will. If the individual has a solid and balanced character, a wide range of experience, and high commitments, then he or she will feel comfortable with the expansive and dynamic qualities of fire.    On the other hand, if the individual has repressed anger or is otherwise hostile or easily irritated, the fire may have bad effects. An individual may fall into fits of rage and demand others comply with his wishes. Or, he may overreact and respond with paranoia when someone threatens his security.   Then again, exposure to the fire element may cause an individual to become passive. The experience with fire is so powerful it overwhelms the individual's will. He does not know how to respond to, absorb, or direct this new energy that has entered his aura. He is temporarily paralyzed while his nerves are recovering from the shock.   The salamanders have different interests. For example, Amtophul gives a practical meditation for better understanding how fire expands will power. Working with Pyrhum results in discovering the power hidden deep within you.  Itumo offers an outlook on life that is electrifying—he offers the motivation to do the impossible. With Tapheth, your enthusiasm and your desire to act and change the world are vastly expanded. Since Orudu moves continents, he embodies the kind of will required to overturn entrenched institutions or governments. Such distinctions help us to understand how fire influences us individually.   In discussing salamanders, we are pursuing questions about will and power as they exist within nature, as they exist within human beings, and as they exist within divinity. We ask about the relation of the external world to the internal—to what extent fire, which symbolizes light and will, is an actual energy we possess and can develop within ourselves. And we are pursuing how matter and spirit interact and the way desires can be refined and transformed to fulfill the purposes of spirit.  The Realm of Salamanders     Salamanders reside, for example, within great calderas of flaming magma burning with tectonic rage--ready to explode having waited ages and eons to gain freedom.      Speaking with the voice of salamanders: “It is not that I am not content just to be or that I have forgotten that in each moment my inner spirit is already free. Rather, I burn with such intensity that I know in my heart every boundary and obstacle will in the end yield to me. This is because it is the nature of my will and power to grow stronger.      “Others may like harmony, perfecting nature and transforming matter, or embodying a love that nurtures. But in me you see a volcano that explodes, a pyroclastic flow, and lava lighting up the night and making new islands in the sea. Without fire, how can there be life? Without fire, there would be no visible light.           “The planet earth is alive because I am inside. My turning and churning creates a magnetosphere and protects the earth from solar flares. I move continents and enrich the chemistry of the biosphere.      “I am fire. Hidden in me is the secret of being free of all need—refined and perfected I too am divine—I burn with such purity I no longer need fuel or outer support in order to shine.”      If I focus on the great salamander Pyrhum again his mind appears within the open space of my mind. Almost immediately a great variety of different fires upon this planet flash through my mind—the volcano, the cinder cone, lava tube, mountain exploding, pyroclastic flow, calderas of lava, magma chambers beneath the ground, the magma beneath tectonic plates as well lightning in thunderstorms and wild  forest fires.       But Pryhum also looks beyond this planet. He envies the fires of the sun and with that nuclear fire within his dreams he is one. Pyrhum seems to speak within my mind, that is, his thoughts appear within my mind. He says, “I keep the planet alive. I diversify nature and bring it to life. I destroy what needs to be destroyed and new civilizations shall be born by drawing upon my light.”       He goes on, “Give me a mission no one else can accomplish and I will do what needs to be done so that the problem is solved and all obstacles overcome.” If the mermaid queen Istiphul is nurturing and ecstatic love, then Pyrhum is the ecstasy of will and power.       A mermaid feels that just by her presence her love flows to whoever is around her. Her love by itself accomplishes all that needs to be done. Water is that way—it just flows and it is totally complete, fulfilled, and at peace in each moment of time.       Pyrhum is the extreme opposite in nature that is the balancing element to water. Pyrhum puts it this way: “Fire pushes itself to its limit and then beyond. United with the powers of creation, it recreates itself going beyond what it was.       “How can I explain the rapture, joy, and the bliss that is the essence of my being? To unite with nature from the depths of yourself, to be part of what transforms the world, and to create new wonders never before seen—one day in an advanced civilization I shall incarnate as one of them after their own form. I shall walk among them and they shall behold the light of the sun standing before them. And then they shall finally understand what their bodies, nervous systems, brains, and minds are capable of.    “The enlightened mind is not just a mirror perfectly clear and receptive. In you, the stars appear not just as dazzling light but as the power unfolding the universe.      “I totally grasp the love that is within water. But this love is finally fulfilled when it is joined to power. Creation will settle for nothing less than the union of everything that exists.”     In water and in the oceans of the earth is a love that perhaps the human race itself will never grasp or learn. But it is the destiny of this planet for a race to appear what does fulfill the planet’s purposes. Each person can choose to align themselves with the greater purpose according to their own path.      But in the end we shall not only learn to become one with another but our love will become so deep and vast it joins with the universe itself. Perhaps in that day mermaids shall not just be the sea in human form when they incarnate and live among us. they shall reach further and become a oneness that embraces everything without limitation or boundaries.     I must say that the beauty and gifts of each of these four elemental kingdoms are each astonishing and full of wonder. We each begin with where we are. How and where we proceed is a matter of personal choice and also of the destiny that has captured our hearts and imaginations.      Conclusion It is quite a stretch of the imagination to say that there are spirits who exist in nature. Oh, we have Tolkien and J.K. Rowlings who present us with fascinating stories of elves, dragons, hobgoblins, trees that speak, trolls, hobbits, wizards, and magicians. Their stories are entertaining and sometimes rise to the level of genuine mythology.    Certainly Tolkien is discussing mythological questions like, “Why are we here? What can we accomplish in life? What is human destiny? And what dangers lie in wait for those who are unprepared to confront the mysteries of the universe?”   The elemental kings and queens also rise to the level of mythology. But we do not have to meditate in a state of trance or practice magic for decades to learn to interact with them. In a sense, the kings of the elements are already here among us.    If a salamander king were to incarnate and assume a role in society, he would offer mankind new kinds of fire. He would do exactly what Tesla, Nobel, Edison, Westinghouse, and Oppenheimer did—invent an electrical motor using alternating current, set up electrical power grids, or join theory and application in harnessing the nuclear of the sun.     If a gnome king were among us he might well teach yoga like Swami Rama who could start and stop his heart at will or be fully conscious during the delta brain waves of deep, dreamless sleep. Or he might be like Warren Buffet, called the oracle of Omaha and often the second wealthiest man in the world. Like Warren Buffett he would say, “Find something in life you love and then work at it with all of your heart.”    And we already know about sylphs with their artistic sensitivity and professional focus on sensory experience. We have Beethoven, Mozart, and Shakespeare.    But mermaids are not well known. We have hundreds of stories about mermaids in literature, but until recently they have preferred to keep their identities secret, often cleverly disguising themselves to look like human beings. And this is because they are constantly physically attacked or else stalked and possessed.    Among what body of literature, religion, or wisdom traditions, among what gurus, masters, bards, or musicians do we meet individuals who are so empathic they can instantly connect to any other person on earth and feel what that person feels as if they are that person inside? Where do we meet individuals who never lose their innocence and who give all of themselves in every moment without hesitation or limitation?     Where do we find individuals who are compulsive about healing others from being joined from within to a sea of love that encircles the earth? 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This school was opened as a result of an increased interest in the universal teachings of Franz Bardon, for those searching a path that offers genuine spiritual attainment. --- Here are some commonly asked questions regarding Hermetic Meditation (answers by Marin Faulks). --- - **What is Hermetic meditation ?** ********Hermetic meditation is a complete comprehensive system to train and evolve your consciousness. Just as we can physically train our bodies for improved flexibility, strength and health, we can also train our mind. For better focus, a powerful improved awareness. clear vision, emotional health, internal harmony and improved imagination and memory. Indeed hermetic meditation is a comprehensive training system for the mind. - **Where does the tradition come from ?** Legend has it, that the techniques of hermetic meditation have been handed down since Ancient Egyptian times. In fact the term *hermetic *comes from a collection of inspirational texts which were written around the time of the First Century. These texts themselves state that the knowledge they are passing on comes from Ancient Egypt. This practice has been handed down from one teacher to another and through various texts to the present day. The Seshen School focuses on teaching and practicing the hermetic arts as taught by the greatest hermetic teacher of the Twentieth Century Franz Bardon. - **Do you worship Hermes ?** Active worship is down to the individual and their own spiritual directions. Hermes is a legendary teacher who is said to have authored these early works. The works themselves are philosophical in nature and do not hold any specific religious quality. - **How can the Seshen Hermetic Meditation school assist me ?** The Seshen Hermetic School is here to help anyone who is wanting a comprehensive training program in a supportive environment, which will allow them to reach their full potential. - **What is different about this school than other meditation schools ?** The Seshen School is unique in the sense that each and every ability that we strive for must be demonstrated and made a permanent quality of the functioning daily consciousness. Through a series of different practical demonstrations, a student must be able to demonstrate and work with their teacher to make a quality or evolution in the self, something tangible, practical and applicable in their lives. This demonstration and results-based approach ensures that any promotion of advancement within the school is genuine. - **Is there a lot of coursework to do, since I really only want to practice meditation ?** Study has an evolutionary and meditative quality of its own. When we read about different ideas and concepts our mind reaches closer to them. Likewise, when we read the correct works we practice lines of reasoning and insightful correct thought. In the hermetic school, we have no written coursework, but we do recommend books which you should study and of course the training manuals of the school should be made your mental property. - **How can it practically help me in my daily life ?** Hermetic philosophy believes that all things are interconnected *‘as above so below’ *is one of the most powerful and applied principals of hermetics. From the hermetic point of view, the human race is to bring goodness to the world in the same way a caring gardener or someone with good intentions who apply their influences. Each and every exercise is to bring around greater morality and improved competency, that should bring positive outcomes on all levels. Have you ever noticed how things that change in your life bring great ripples and that small improvements can have amazing knock on effects. So for example, if someone improves their posture their mood instantly improves, and likewise so does the response they get from other people because good posture is far more welcome and positive. From a hermetic point of view each and every change you make will have ripples that transform your life, to have positive effects on those you care about and come into contact with. - **How does the teacher guide the student through each of the steps ?** The school is based on Facebook and video messages are used to communicate between the teacher and the student. This allows them to be read and watched at the convenience of both parties. The teacher will watch the student in meditation and will match their physical posture their breathing rate and indeed their mental attitude to the student so they can see exactly what is going on and make small adjustments. They will also work closely with the student to overcome any barriers and short-comings which are getting in the way of the practice. - **How much contact does the teacher have with each student ?** The Seshen group is a small elite group of students and this means that the students can interact with the teacher without worry. Response times vary depending on the nature or the query but each student gets as much information and interaction as is needed for him or her to keep progressing. - **How can the teacher help the student from a distance ?** There is an ancient saying that says, ‘the best teacher lives over the other side of the mountain. Distance means that each communication is valued, focused and applied specifically and that any question is contemplated and that the answer is really done to the best ability of the teacher. - **How do we know when we have completed each stage sufficiently ?** In Seshen you have two points of view an internal and external point view. You will be able to see when an exercise has become easy and notice your changes and improvements to your abilities in your daily life. Your teacher so to will be able to see changes in aspects of your meditation practice, your demonstrations and indeed in your words and actions. By agreement between the teacher and the student, you will be promoted to the next step of the attainment. - **Can my children join me in this practice ?** If you wish to encourage your children on the hermetic path it is good to teach them to sit still and allow them to learn how to become calm. It is also nice to help them explore the world with their imagination and to picture themselves in exciting and new situations. This will lay a natural foundation for any future developments. Seshen however, is a school for adults who really wish to reach their highest potential. - **I want to practice but am afraid my family will think I have joined a cult.** The Seshen School is simply an on-line school of meditation, whereby you can leave with ease. Indeed the whole school has been set up to make it very hard to join but very easy to go. This means that only people who are truly dedicated to an ongoing program of self-improvement through meditation practice are here. Hermetic tradition tells us that many people will not understand what we are trying to do and that changes and improvements to ourselves can often prove to be uncomfortable for others. Traditionally hermetic practitioners would keep their practice private or find ways to present it in a way that people could understand. Perhaps in the language of their own religion or view of the world. - **Was Hermes a God or person ?** The hermetic path believes that in a sense all humans have the potential for divinity and through hermetic practice, we can unfold and express the divinity that already lies in us. Hermes is seen as a template for what we could achieve, an inspirational figure.**** - **Do you use rituals and magic ?** Hermetic philosophy tells us that thoughts underline the whole of existence. That in a sense our minds are not as separate from the flow of the universe or the structure of existence. When one masters one’s own consciousness and is in harmony with everything around it, one finds that it a shift in perception or a change of internal consciousness that can bring around great changes to others will be unexplainable. The Seshen School meditation as means to both improve themselves and the world around us. These changes are visible and tangible and to those who do not understand how they function, may be seen as magical. - **Do I have to follow a religion to do this ?** Hermetics is a practice that is harmonious to any religious or spiritual belief. Although those who take a fundamentalist view of their own religion may find some philosophic aspects hard to adhere to. For example, the hermetic texts believe that all names are suitable for divinity and that it is clear that all traditions are talking about the same God. - **I am a Christian but I am worried that it will contradiction my religion ?** Many of the early hermeticists were Christian and indeed there are some great reflections between the hermetic texts and those of Christianity. In fact hermetic practitioners are very indebted to Christians for preserving their teachings. The Nag Hamadi scrolls were most certainly in a collection of Christian writings which the Christians at the time had seen such value in hermetic writings that they collated them with their own prayers. In the renaissance it was widely believed that the hermetic texts were a prediction of the coming of Jesus Christ and that this would be the ideal training for a Christian who wanted like Enoch, to walk with the Angels. - **Is it about magic ?** Hermetics is about bringing, beautiful, positive changes to yourself, cultivating virtue and spreading that goodness outside. With hermetic training, we work with the hidden forces both inside ourselves and in the world around us and the results to others can be very hard to explain. - **I don’t agree with the occult I think it is evil, how can this be a spiritual practice ?** The hermeticists themselves were focused on a oneness with the underlying good of the universe. They believe that this goodness was so great that they could not find words to express how they felt about it. So they sat as many other traditions do in a sense of silent prayer. This silence was both external and internal and many people would see this as a form of meditation. In hermeticism our goal is to bring balance and balance is seen as goodness. There is nothing negative in our practice. - **I want to become a magician but I am afraid of evils spirits affecting me.** Negative forces both in material and immaterial realms are hard tests and specific techniques to protect against them or avoid them are important, however, you may have observed in daily life many of the people who suffer hardship at the hands of negative people have spent time engaging with them and even seeking them out. Likewise with spiritual disciplines. If your focus is on good, you are unlikely to encounter any negativity. - **Can it deal with possession ?** Once again if we refer to the philosophy of *As above So below* mental illness to a high degree tends to need a specific controlled approach from someone who is actually there and is trained in these areas. There are spiritual practitioners who have dedicated themselves to helping others who have had negative experiences, or are experiencing some form of negative influence upon themselves. Unfortunately, someone who is going through this kind of hardship is not in the position to undergo any form of training. Therefore it is recommended to anyone suffering this trial that they seek out direct help from someone who is knowledgeable. - **I think I am being psychically attacked can it help me ?** Undergoing a training program which is dedicated to positive things can have a dramatic improvement on ourselves. Likewise, it can help us attract positive forces. If you believe that you are having negative influences affect you, either through contact with people who are out of balance or conscious aggression from others. Then it is important for you to continue to fortify yourself. Make yourself stronger and improve what you are doing. Likewise there are protection techniques which will help you deal with this, however, it is important to note that the Seshen School is primarily a school of self-improvement, and as though it can be seen as part of a program or a strategy to move away from negative influences it should not be seen as a specific solution to that problem. You may need to take other focused efforts or make changes to your life. - **I want to follow a spiritual path but I am not interested in magic is it still possible for me to do this ?** Yes, hermetic meditation is about the evolution of the self. The abilities that we gain are aside effect that show we are effectively training. - **I suffer from depression and an anxiety can it help me get rid of this ?** Meditation has been shown to have very positive effects on people suffering from both depression and anxiety. The early steps of the hermetic path involve developing good health on all levels and in my belief can significantly help with the problems mentioned here. However, once again I need to restate that this can be part of the part of the solution, but other life changes will need to be made. - **I have health problems that make it difficult for me to sit in meditation for long periods can I still follow these methods ?** Yes, meditation is a practice focused on directing and controlling the mind, it is preferable to be able to sit in a chair or on a cushion for your meditation practice as it aids you to remain focused and alert, however, this was not always the way it was practiced. Meditation can be done lying down. Indeed some early Egyptian texts refer to masters of meditation as those who are on their backs. Any health problems can be worked around just as the practice should be adapted to the individuality of the practitioner.**** # ### Student Testimonies **Testimony 1 ** *As far as the school goes, I have been an off and on *practitioner*. Even before the *school* Martin was there to answer and help with questions and would check on how I was doing if we had not been in contact for a while. Now because of the school, I see other people’s questions that I may not have even thought of or remembered to bring up for myself and many people have been kind enough to share their thoughts and help out in any way that they can. There have been good tips and tricks to help me along in my practice and they are a good encouragement to keep going.* *I went on the retreat and had a great time and learned a lot of things. Because of the retreat, we covered many things within the first step that needed clarification and understanding.* *Martin has helped in so many ways and even provided us with additional practices and exercises that improve our abilities. He teaches us how to not only practice our energy works but how to protect ourselves as well to keep our progress going without additional hindrances that our daily lives already challenge us with. Because of the retreat, I find it much easier to stick to my practice, do my conscious reception of food and drinks, and he helped me to better understand what challenges I need to overcome to progress further.* *It is nice to have a group of people I can talk to about this stuff after so many years of not really having anyone as a guide, a motivator, a teacher, and a friend within the hermetic group. Without the school, I would still probably be an on and off practitioner, not really progressing, and not really having anyone to ask hermetic questions to, or to encourage and motivate me to keep going on.* Donald M Hill **Testimony 2 ** *Having spent many years on a spiritual path and sadly having some rather negative experiences with spiritual teachers and reluctance to repeat those experiences, also at the time was not seeking another spiritual school to join.* *However, when I heard that Martin was now accepting students, this was encouraging for me since he is well established in this field as a Franz Bardon practitioner and furthermore demonstrating his skills openly through his videos on his youtube channel, so I was encouraged to join the school.* *Since joining the school (a year ago). I have witnessed many positive changes that have occurred not just only in my own life but with the students around me. Indeed, my life has transformed and many barriers that held me back dissolved, in a matter of months. I can honestly say I have made more progress in one year studying at this school than I have over the 15 years of trying to wade through on my own.* *Personally, I like the structure of the school and for me, wanted a school that was based on genuine spiritual attainment where students progress is based on ability only. The course is structured in a step by step program based on the teachings of Franz Bardon. Any issues or concerns are addressed along the way. This has aided me in the understanding and applying these steps for their full effect and what was needed to accomplish the steps became very achievable.* *I have found Martin, affable, attentive and for me, the most moving was his level of kindness. There is a genuine care, a truth rings out from his words, Also being there through the most challenging aspects of transformation is something I will never forget. I am very much in gratitude to the school and to Martin for being able to pursue this beautiful and sacred path in harmony and peace.*Zara Watson-Elli **Testimony 3 ** *To the seekers of truth and goodness – **you **made it. To everyone and those who are interested, curious or mystified, you are welcomed to explore. To those who were here by accident – you made it. Perhaps you were seeking a way that shine a light on your path to self-understanding or, have a yearning to brighten that subtle spark of light inside you hidden amidst this ever increasingly chaotic world. Then this may be the door to greatly aid you in your task.* *The most important aspects I found in the guidance of the school was the focus on cultivating balance, I gained a higher awareness of myself and the world around me. I learned to live harmoniously with my thoughts, cultivate the greater good, keeping to my tasks and goals, livin*g in the moment, understanding universal truth and energetics. *This cultivation of the inner good affected a lot around me; I have found my environment improved, others respect me and are happier around my behaviour, I am more careful with lifestyle choices and have less of the rash impulses, much of my selfish pride fades away. The world can be seen through a very different light.* *With the school being on-line, I found that we often have  supportive group discussions, meet new friends, and are exposed to a variety of study materials. The group is working collectively to improving each other’s wellbeing. Martin’s guidance are tuned so that it can be used in modern lifestyles. His school uses videos and recordings so that the students are able to study at his or her own pace. Students are encouraged not to rush their work and take their time to truly master their exercises before moving on to the next.* *There is no competition, only improving the self. Furthermore, Martin is very accessible and openly helps his students should they have questions.* *I had the honour to attend the first *Seshen* retreat. It has been run in a simply styled small quaint home on a memorable lane, filled with much love, care and happiness – very much the same manner as the hosts themselves. There, I was able to meet Martin and found that he is very humble in person. Otherwise, he is also very down to earth, comical and above all human. The meeting magnified my understanding of  myself, the study and nature itself. It helped cement the teachings of the school. Much more, you get to meet fellow supportive students and will be able to make lifelong friends. Hospitality has been taken very well care of by amazing Kindra Jones and the food was gorgeous. The retreat is definitely a must for the serious students, and th*e *Pokemon enthusiast.* *At last, it is an experiential journey which one has to attend to discover their own understanding rather than being explained. Consequent retreats are planned for to be held in countries and in locations to aid with the study of this path. For those who are still stuck on contemplating on this path whether it is right for you, I will leave you with these final words – I was once the seeker, a person like every other – full of doubts and worries of ‘what if I made the wrong choice, is this the real deal?‘ and finally I had to ask my deepest self and it is from that calling out of the truest self that has led me to my decision here. After all, you have seen and read, only you will know whether the path is right for **you**. 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This interview is of great interest, as we continually faced with the challenge of discerning the difference from the inner reality and imagined within our magical training. Dr Mumford offers us a unique perspective on this subject, having both studied within the Western and Eastern traditions and in his understanding of the aspects of training. ***Sadly Dr Mumford left his body in 2023 - He was a wonderful teacher and human being. This interview was conducted a few years before his death.*** Presenting today an interview with Dr. Jonn Mumford who is a renowned and prolific author and is a direct disciple of Yogamaharishi Dr. Swami Gitananda Giri GuruMaharaj (South India). He was initiated by Swami Satyananda Saraswati into Sannyasa as Swami Anandakapila Saraswati at the Bihar School of Yoga, Bihar, India in 1973. He renounced that title in 2014. Dr. Mumford is known and respected around the world for his knowledge, scholarship, dynamic teaching style and extensive practical experience in Kriya Yoga, Jyotish and Tantra. His renowned 1975 book[ *Sexual Occultism*](https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-occultism-sorcery-practice-theory/dp/0875424910) (later revised and issued as [*Ecstasy Through Tantra*](https://www.amazon.com/Ecstasy-Through-Tantra-Llewellyns-Sexual/dp/0875424945/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1507536245&sr=1-1&keywords=Ecstasy+Through+Tantra)) was among the very first books to introduce Westerners to traditional, left-hand Tantra from the perspective of an initiate. This book and Dr. Mumford’s public teaching at [Llewellyn Publications’](http://www.llewellyn.com/bookstore/author.php?id=13147) 1976 Gnosticon conference inspired an entire generation of Western Tantra teachers. Jonn wrote his first book [*Psychosomatic Yoga*](https://www.amazon.com/Psychosomatic-Yoga-jonn-mumford/dp/B0000CLF4F)*,*in 1961 while completing an intensive period of yogic study in India. His current books include the bestselling [*Ecstasy Through Tantra*](https://www.amazon.com/Ecstasy-Through-Tantra-Llewellyns-Sexual/dp/0875424945) (1988), [*A Chakra and Kundalini Workbook* ](https://www.amazon.com/Chakra-Kundalini-Workbook-Psycho-Spiritual-Rejuvenation/dp/1567184731)(1994), [*Magical* *Tattwa Cards*](https://www.amazon.com/Magical-Tattwa-Cards-Complete-Self-Development/dp/1567184723/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1507535716&sr=1-1&keywords=magical+tattwa+cards)(1997), [*Mind Magic Kit *](https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Magic-Swami-Anandakapila-Saraaswati/dp/1567184758/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1507535891&sr=1-1&keywords=Mind+Magic+Kit)(1998), [*Death: Beginning or End?*](https://www.amazon.com/Death-Beginning-End-Methods-Immortality/dp/1567184766/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1507535974&sr=1-1&keywords=Death:+Beginning+or+End?)(1999) and [*Karma Manual*](https://www.amazon.com/Karma-Manual-Days-Change-Your/dp/1567184901/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1507536090&sr=1-1&keywords=Karma+Manual)(1999) from Llewellyn Publications; they have been translated into many languages and are available world-wide. His diverse background includes training in chiropractic and psychology, many years of practice as an osteopathic physician, advanced training in a wide range of Eastern disciplines, and many years of teaching in Australia, India and the United States. This depth and breadth of experience makes Dr. Mumford uniquely qualified to communicate the secrets of Tantra to the Western world. He currently resides in Sydney, Australia. A cordial welcome to Dr. Jonn Mumford from Falcon Books Publishing. Great to have you here and thank you for taking the time to answer our questions. **Dr. Jonn Mumford:** My childhood was spent under the shadow of World War 11 and yet as an adult I could never have dreamed the state of the present world. Understandably a pall of depression, anxiety and confusion has fallen everywhere upon the inhabitants of the earth — which we have been treating as a garbage dump for humans personal convenience. The last few years I have been attempting to bring certain aspects of Neuroscience together with the practices involving deep meditation because many aspects dovetail. We are each of us engaged in a battle within, for our sanity, while attempting to do something about the chaos we are immersed in. I have been fighting all my life to maintain some degree of sanity in my own life and I can assure you this battle can be won with many slips along the way. My first Guru gave me my life and I owe him to save it and share what has been hard learned over a lifetime. The path is truly a “razors edge” but it can be done with persistence and discipline- difficult during these times—our worst enemy is our own MIND—not the outside world. The enemy is within—endless dour, uninvited mind chatter, and yet if you can get past it, realizing these are but the mutterings of parts of your fragmented self, something beyond the world, beyond our fears lies deep within—even past the dreamless sleep state!” **1. Falcon Books: Would you be able to share with us a precis of your journey and what lead you on the path that you have taken?** **Dr. Jonn Mumford:** I want to express my gratitude for extending the opportunity for this interview and although I most definitely am not an expert on Franz Bardon I have admired his work for years and can recognize the unique and legitimate basis of his work—the man was a genius and his legacy is a treasure. Your generous comments about my background are quite sufficient. **2. Falcon Books: How have you been able to bring together the principals of Western and Eastern esoteric approaches of inner alchemy. Did you find you were able to harmonise the two effectively?** **Dr. Jonn Mumford:** I did not find this difficult as the Indian tradition has a rich heritage of both literal alchemy (working particularly with metals and herbs to eliminate the toxic qualities inherent in some substance and bring out the healing properties) as well as the alchemical aspect of working with the subtle energies attached to humans to bring about transcendental states. Thus many correspondences and similarities existed in both Eastern and Western Traditions. **3. Falcon Books: Yoga has become a fashionable pastime of today. How has the practice of yoga changed since you began your journey and do you feel its goals of the practice have also changed or have they remained the same?** **Dr. Jonn Mumford: **I began serious study of yoga in the early 1950’s when Yogananda’s work was being established in America and a few authentic books started to appear on the market. Aside from Yogananda’s burgeoning influence with S.R.F. the first more accurate translations of Sanskrit texts begin to appear and records of direct experience, e.g. spectacularly Dr. Theos Bernard’s “Hatha Yoga”—an ultimate description of personal training undergone in North Indian and was written in the 1930’s. (his Ph.D. thesis from Columbia University was based on his book “Hatha Yoga”). This man is largely forgotten in today’s Western Yoga scene and if you would like to understand why I have such esteem for him read his [biography](http://religion.wikia.com/wiki/Theos_Casimir_Bernard). His early death in 1947 represents, in my opinion, the loss of one of the greatest Indologists America ever produced. Indeed you are correct in your comment “Yoga has become a fashionable pastime of today” compared to when I started and it also has become a Billion dollar major commercial Industry. American’s are like the Romans of yore—great assimilators of anything useful from other cultures and extremely creative and ingenious, at molding these acquisitions into a form that can be assimilated by the population in bite sized bits, and may be commercialized as a “product” selling “Passion, Power, and Profit” or alternately packaged as “Peace, Purpose, and Prosperity (for all)”: thus Yoga has turned into a “Brand” with unbeatable selling power that can be labelled according to the target market. The word “Yoga” has been misunderstood, abused and distorted by all Western Cultures and I am particularly offended when I hear Anglo-Saxon teachers addressing classes as “welcome Yogis and Yoginis”—my first Guru, Dr. Swami Gitananda, would never call himself a “Yogi”—the real implication is beyond what most of us have reached as we are all students and practitioners—not fully enlightened beings! The correct word for a student is “Chela.”**** That being said I must say that America has some very good Yoga teachers, who have learned in India and also have a prerequisite knowledge of Sanskrit—often to Ph.D. level. Finally when Yoga is absorbed by other cultures it is inevitable that dilutions and distortions occur as the teachings are trimmed and altered by those teaching, and the prevailing culture and politics of the country.. Sometimes these changes are for the better and other times they are tragic in the superficiality. Yoga in India itself has changed, often not for the better, as the ubiquitous culture from the West, of monetary materialism infects the country, so you again have the best and the worst manifesting. **4. Falcon Books: You ha****ve written in extensively about Kundalini and the chakras, these subjects have become popularised within the new age movement. Within your book *****The******chakra and Kundalini workbook, *****to**** quote the definition of a chakr****a:** ‘“*Chakra: “Wheel, disc, whirlpool.” The term is applied to the basic seven psychic**centers outlined in Yoga and Tantra. Chakra implies a vortex, and thus “,? may define a psychic center as a “whirling vortex of psychic energy at the conjunction points of the mind and the body.” I must emphasize that just as the ” Cartesian division of “Mind” and “Body” is arbitrary, so a “chakra” may well be an imaginary, albeit useful, artifact for purposes of attention-fixing. I perceive a chakra as outside the space-time continuum and equivalent to the Euclidean “Point”-i.e., without magnitude, possessed of location but not dimension.”****‘*** **Could a chakra be understood not to be located in a physical space i.e., astral, mental, physical but somewhere beyond this, but its effects are felt within all of these planes. Or is the chakra more of a paradigm, a point of focus to manifest and create from?** **Please could elucidate more on this.** **Dr. Jonn Mumford: **Yes—It should be noted—particularly in America—that the correct pronunciation is CH(as in Church)AKRA and never SHAKRA. Think of it as a point to focus without the attribute of DIMENSION! I consider Astral and mental planes as transcending the physical and time limitations we normally experience and therefore they exist on extra-dimensional planes. I prefer to start from the premise that human beings have huge illusions about the chakras and better to consider that you are not born with chakras but only nascent points for placing “intentional attention” exist on the physical body. These points have location but not discernable dimension however you may be able to grow your chakras into full blossom by concentration accompanied by intention over a period of time. This, by-the-way, is the classical definition in Euclidean Geometry of a “point”. Euclid’s book *Elements* begins with defining what previously was undefined: “a point is that which has no part” and “a line is a length without breadth.” This is quite startling when you consider the implications over two thousand years age (*c.* 300 bce). We start with Chakra Dharana, commonly gazing upon two dimensional colored geometrical shapes each representing a materialized Chakra until an afterimage is produced. These images are designed so that each one is the complementary color of the color most commonly associated with the chakra so the result is when you close your eyes you see in the inner world the color attributed in India as the most characteristic of the chakra. I also would like to establish that I am not a “theorist”—I am a “Technician”—I understand the basic theory of metaphysics however I am interested in “Experience over understanding” and what “works” So I would like to tackle the seeming paradox of my statement that we are born with only the “Seed” of Chakras” which have “Location” but not dimension in this plane of existence. Successful attempt with the following experiment will assist answering many of the questions raised and which will be addressed as we go along. You will have to fit the pieces together for yourself. **A: IMAGINATION EXPERIMENT** Consider the shape below: Manipulate it in this psychic space rotating it from left to right and also vertically as needed. Each time you have arrived at a conclusion open your eyes and write in the appropriate space the Number you think you have counted, reclose your eyes and continue. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Dr-m-2.jpg) - Gaze softly at the shape for a minute while deciding is it 2 dimensions drawing in “reality” of a two-dimension shape or a two-dimension representation of a three-dimension object i.e. a prism? - Close your eyes and imagine you are gazing through your forehead into an infinite black space. This is not an after-image exercise so any after-image appearing let it fade before starting. - Construct the diagram as a three dimension object exercising your imagination, perhaps ten inches outside from your forehead and imagine the same dark orange color. Just continue looking through your closed eyelids and forehead and draw the square with a triangle on top and imagine you are coloring it is with the brown read. - It is suspended in black velvety space and slowly rotate it while observing carefully. Set about to determine the Number of Edges, Corners, Faces? When you have finished consider this: Your imagination has lifted you into what I term the “5th Dimension” where MAGIC first occurs and if it is strong enough it reverberates down into the three-dimensional world of time and space. REALIZE as long as you hold the Cube in this inner dimension it actually does not exist in the 3-dimensional world and the only thing it has in common with the so-called REAL world is the seed of time contracted to “NOW” which is the only thing you have in any dimension that is “REAL”. **5. Falcon Books: As practitioners of these meditative sciences, often it is left to us to experience and discern what is truly real in our practice from that which is illusion. How do we clearly discern and define ‘experiences’ such as Kundalini awakening since they are subjective. What are the traditional signs and how do we truly know that these are occurring?** **Dr. Jonn Mumford:** A good place to begin is to point out that there are also objective signs i.e. quite discernible evidence to the examiner or objective observer. These include Expressions and gestures of ecstasy, spontaneous poetry, increased creativity particularly in music, singing, visual arts, and superior writing skills- seemingly arising from nowhere but now here for all to witness. Also you may get Aesthetic awe, triggered by sudden awareness of a “*world in a grain of Sand*”, overwhelming compassion upon realizing the truth of Christ’s statement “Father forgive them for they know not what they do” resulting in uncontrollable weeping. Exaggerated facial expressions, pupil dilation and gesticulation, signifying amazement and wonder as the individual’s perception of reality changes radically as do their feelings. Spontaneous movements, swaying, shaking, trembling episodes and blacking underneath the big toes.The problem arises that some of these signs (medically observable) and Symptoms (subjectively reported) also can mimic Psychosis, and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. The great Indian saint, Ramakrishna, expressed the Kundalini manifestation and significance of the Kundalini paradox very well: > “*Men and women are beautiful masks. Behind them all is the* *same Divine Power who rises up gently through the six subtle centers of this human body, giving each person a unique flavor and intensity, unveiling through each living being a unique degree of Divine Manifestation.”* > > *Gadadhar Chattopadhyay [Ramakrishna Paramhamsa] (1836-1886)* The question you ask is actually very sophisticated. Let us pause and take a deep breath: In the seventies so many people had experiences of realor false “Kundalini arousal”episodesthat the concept of “Spiritual Emergency Centers” arouse where people could seek assistance and be helped through the discomfort. One of the best Resources is Dr. Lee Sannella M.D. *Kundalini: Psychosis or Transcendence?* privately published in 1976. Now available on Amazon and I would add his good friend, Itzhak Bentov’s book, *Stalking the Wild Pendulum* is essential reading—giving the best physiological explanation of Kundalini I have encountered. I have had the pleasure of meeting and spending some time with Dr. Sannella when I was touring in the states. He took me on some of his rounds and he is not only a board certified Psychiatrist but also an Ophthalmologist and was doing research on glaucoma and assessing stress as a factor. You can discover more about this remarkable man on this [youtube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLkBv_W1AmA). I concur with his viewpoint. A couple of more comments to round this out and I will leave you to fit the pieces together as you desire. So called “Kundalini” is often smooth depending on the individual circumstances. The difficulty starts with the semantics: Here we have an opportunity to really trip over ourselves: “truly know” is a phrase that might easily be interpreted as a tautology. Another way of looking at this question is to consider if something is “Really true” how can you ascertain it is “really” and is that concept different than “truly” or do they mean the same thing- in which case how do you “know” and can you “prove it” and to whom is that “proof” acceptable? Richard Dawkins for instance? So we have to start with a fairly solid base-line. The most satisfactory definition of “reality” that works for all is “reality is agreement”. A few hundred years ago the earth was flat by agreement, now it is round and the evidence is sufficiently convincing so few disagree. This definition is merely pragmatically useful so inhabiting a body you learn it is unwise to jump off a skyscraper or walk in front of a bus. However the theoretically base of this rule is flawed because everything reduces to atoms, (which are like planets orbiting in a solar system), and the composition of atoms mean that the atom is mostly empty space. Therefore it follows solids, including bodies, are made of atoms and therefore, as entities, we are mostly empty space, which does not help when a bus runs over you and reduces your body to a mess of blood and broken bones! I know we are wading through heaps of words and I am telling you things you already know, as a preamble to the original question, which you mayhave understandablyforgotten—I almost have and blame the editor for asking such a pivotal and astute question! Now if you have bravely continued this far I would love to answer the question very simply and hope you would buy it. The short answer is “YOU CAN’T!” However this will simply not do and, yes, I do have an answer which many of you already realize and that is to readjust your thinking and not confuse existence in three dimensions of space and one of time as the only possibility. The universe has multiple dimensions and there are many ways of considering this concept that lead to explanations for extra-normal occurrence’s and development of apparent supernormal abilities. There are complex and simple examples of this both within and without us. The answer, is this: As long as we are inhabiting Bodies occupying three dimensions of “space” and one of “Time” and believe the brain secretes the consciousness the way the gallbladder secretes gall the simple answer is YOU CAN NOT DIFFERENTIATE WHAT IS REAL OR TRUE > *Concerning matter, we have been all be wrong. What we call matter is energy, whose vibration has been lowered to be perceptible to the senses*. There is no matter. > > *Albert Einstein* However once we realize we are a multidimensional being, possessed of subtle vehicles beyond the physical body, things begin to change. We alter our perspective and become open to the possibility of extending beyond the physical. The key is INTENSITY of your experience when you transcend space and time. Such experiences often completely transform people for the better. AND THE HANDIEST TOOL AVAILABLE FOR THE MAGICIAN IS IMAGINATION WHICH, WHEN CULTIVATED, TRANSCENDS TIME AND SPACE AS WE KNOW IT: > *Logic will get you from A to B, but imagination will take you everywhere.* > > *Albert Einstein* Stubborn incidents that have persisted over centuries are now being carefully gathered from people experiencing such phenomenon as clairvoyance, telepathy, past lives recall, Near Death Experiences (NDE) telekinesis, and are now the subject of Scientific consideration and experiment, in spite of the Skeptics. The work of *Rupert Sheldrake* and his theory of Morphic Resonance, the American “Institute of Noetic Sciences” research, and the ground breaking cataloguing and verification of Past Life Recall that has accumulated over the last thirty years at the University of Virginia Medical Department, are just a few examples, easily verified by googling. Hopefully you are beginning to see a different perspective on sorting out “Really True.” **6. Falcon Books: Could you please define what tattvas are for those who may not know and the importance in using them to develop one’s magical practice?** **Dr Jonn Mumford: **Some twenty-five hundred years ago an Indian philosopher called Kapila formalized a doctrine (Samkhya School) explaining the origins of the universe. His concepts were based on the “five Elements” eg. Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether beloved of the Greek philosophers. **Below is a chart comparing the Western Symbols currently used and the contemporary Indian symbols commonly used as well as the order of elements**: ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/drm6.jpg) Tattva means, in Sanskrit, “thatness, primary substance, the essence, principle” and upon the fundamentals of the Five Elements he was able to elicit combinations of the five elements into a total of twenty-five tattwas. The back story of how Magical Tattwas was produced is not well known. In 1995, in collaboration with my good friend, mentor, and publisher, Carl Llewellyn Weschcke, I began working on a book updating the original scrying cards based on the Tattwas as used by the “Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn” founded 1887. Carl had the copyright to addendums, provided by Israel Regardie, from the “Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn”. These “addendums” were written instructions given to the members. From three of these manuscripts we were able to construct the system they used forclairvoyance, utilizing the tattwa cards as known at that time. Carl designed the cards and searched with the fervor of his genius, to find a printer that could create brilliant iridescent colors that mimicked an effect more often attributed to fluorescence, luminescence and phosphorene displays, startling effects never before used in printing. He found a printer willing to try and the first attempt was a failure as the complex inks required bled into each other on the cardboard. They called in an inorganic Chemist to solve the problem and the results were stunning! Carl Llewellyn Weschcke (1930-2015), an author in his own right, was a master of ritual Magic and knew well the power of Imagination to release creative forces resulting in the observable crystallization, materialization, and actualization of desire through intention. He was also a friend, patron and mentor to me, and the owner and chairman of Llewellyn Worldwide, the world’s oldest and largest metaphysical publisher. He has given me a great deal and my life would be less if he had not been such a pivotal part. The “Magical Tattwa” set could not have been manifested without our mutual collaboration. Meantime the book I was writing was designed to update with everything I had learned from Ananda Ashram in South India and Bihar school of Yoga in the North so we could produce a system update for the 20th and 21st century. I introduced into the manuscript a collection of original exercises never released before, using my knowledge of psychobiology combined with my Indian training regarding the “Swara” or psychic flows. In 1996 I typed up the manuscript, sitting in Carl’s Minnesota Library, to produce the “Magical Tattwas” which was published in 1997 with a set of twenty-five beautiful cards suitable for meditation, scrying and divination. ** ****Below you can see examples of the incredible fluorescent color designs used—the cards glowed with power**! The single card is an example of an Akasha (Ether) one of five cards from which the example combinations were created. Thus a total of twenty- five cards. **GAZE SOFTLY AT THIS FOR A MINUTE** ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/drm7-648x317-1.jpg) I also developed a “Magical Tattwas” course to accompany the book and cards. Now for the bad news – a little rain must fall in every life! In 2007 AMERICA suffered the subprime recession which lasted up to 2009 and simultaneously publishers were placed under tremendous pressure from internet companies wanting to make inexpensive deals with publishers for digital copyrights. “Magical Tattwas” went out of print, the original printer for the cards went bankrupt, and the ink formula was lost and Llewellyn Publisher decided the cost of hiring another chemist and printer to republish the cards was not viable. Thus I got my copyright back and it is now revised, expanded and available by digital download to students who have graduated from the part I and part II Om Kara Kriya ® course and wish to do the “Magical Tattwas” course which is also available by digital download. We have managed to get our cards printed in Czechoslovakia and stock them at our New York Headquarters. They are not as good as our original cards but they are more than adequate and we sell them independently of the courses for around $10.00 plus postage. (Anyone interested can email Mark Michaels at Mark A. Michaels Give him your snail mail address and he will then PayPal invoice you including shipping or make other payment arrangements). Amazon and specialty book sellers have 2nd hand copies of “Magical Tattwas” available averaging $200.00 up to $400.00 as collectors’ items. Should you purchase this rarity please double check it includes the full original deck. The original information about the cards and “Magical Tattwas” is still on the Llewellyn site in an article written by my good friend the late [Donald Michael Kraig](https://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/article/23951%20) (1951-2014) who was a personal friend of mine for some twenty-five years and is sadly missed. This article contains some very shrewd comments and your perspective will be broadened reading it. **7. Falcon Books: When working with methods such as scrying the Tattvas, how does one develop clarity to discern from that which is imagination?** **Dr. Jonn Mumford: **The clarity, with practice will develop so you notice concrete results or obtain knowledge that proves accurate as in “remote viewing”. Imagination is not just important—It is everything **8. Falcon Books: Within your work with Kriya yoga you attribute each chakra to a deity, I wonder if you would be able to explain a bit more about this practice and how it assists in the evolution of the person’s development. Could this be classed as a form of invocation?** **Dr. Jonn Mumford: **I do not attribute the deities, these are the traditional Tantric deities attributed to the Chakras. Both invocation (the act or an instance of invoking, especially an appeal to a higher power for assistance) and evocation (the act of bringing or recalling a feeling, memory, or image to the conscious mind) are involved. The question we really want to know is: do the deities actually manifest or appear when invoked and/or evoked? The answer is YES! However not quite the way we may think? Hinduism is often called a polytheistic religion—this is incorrect because there are levels of understanding in all religions and at the highest level Hinduism is monotheistic. This follows the pedagogical rule of each to his own level of understanding. BRAHMĀ is the personification of the creative stream of consciousness of “no thing” from which everything emerges. The Sanskrit “Brahmā” (also transliterated “Brahman”) translates, roughly, as cosmic intelligence, ultimate reality, “according to Vedanta Brahmā is the cause of all visible existence, from which all manifest things are produced and into which they are absorbed”(extracted from “Sanskrit Glossary” Yoga Publications Trust, Munger Bihar, by Swami Yogakanti Saraswati). Suppose you want to accuse the Catholic Church of being “polytheistic” on the grounds that the holy trinity represents three different entities much the way the Greeks on Mount Olympus had multiple God/desses ! A smart priest will make short shrift of that attempt, and in front of the congregation. He holds up a folded sheet and displays the first fold “The Son”, the second fold is opened, “The Father” and finally the last, “The Holy Spirit” and, with a flourish, reveals the entire sheet, triumphantly saying “ALL ONE”! So let us stick with the Holy Roman Church and I will prepare us for the answer. Some thirty years or so ago, the Pope and his Cardinals decided the Church needed some reformation as the congregations began to shrink in many parts of the world. Much deliberation, among the committee, lead, in their collective wisdom, to the conclusion that what needed to be reformed was eliminating chanting the “Mass” in Latin and translating it into the local languages of each congregation. They did! What a disaster— things have just gone downhill ever since and I believe the present Pope, a remarkable man, will have his work cut out for him to make real “reformations”. What happened is the Church—as an entity, immediately lost the powerful psychic stream of nearly two thousand years of hundreds of thousands of worshipers hearing the Mass celebrated in Latin, by countless priests. The Western tradition has given us a word that perfectly encapsulates this phenomenon and the essence is to understand that deities are archetypes in the collective unconscious of humanity that grow with a power of their own as they are brought into consciousness. Deities are metaphors for the different expressions of universal forces and are empowered by humans repeatable affirming their existence until they take on a life of their own. The word is EGREGORE! > “*Egregore (also egregor) is an occult concept representing a “thought form” or “collective group mind”, an autonomous psychic entity made up of, and influencing, the thoughts of a group of people. The symbiotic relationship between an egregore and its group has been compared to the more recent, non-occult concepts of the corporation (as a legal entity) and the meme.”* > > *Wikipedia* So, the answer is that each time a ritual to a deity is performed that deity is reformed on the astral plane and the more and longer the ritual is carried on the more the entity is a source of power to be tapped, and the worshipper or ritualist is more easily to ride on that energy and see, from his own archetypal storehouse, a manifestation of that entity. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/drm8-648x652-1.png) Perhaps a simpler way to view the paradox is that deities just represent a variety of ways universal energy may be utilized the way electricity may light a bed lamp or drive the pumps in a hydro-electric damn project. Note well that the variation in the above Yantra (more properly “mandala”) is a Tantric depiction of mūlādhāra and substitutes Lord Ganesha (the remover of obstacles) for Brahmā as the main Shakta deity for worship or puja and as a matter of interest in the Tantric tradition Divine Mother in her fierce form as Kālī resides in Anahata, the Heart Chakra. So taking Ganesha, as an example, as he is the ultimate “enabler” we might ask does Ganesha hang around in some Hindu etheric heaven waiting to be called up to some stupid human, who by his own fault has gotten into a mess (we humans are really good at that)? No- Ganesha has a day job as secretary to Lord Shani (Saturn) who is the Cosmic Accountant and Karmic tax collector. Hindu’s are generally scared witless of Shani—the scientologists may have been able to blackmail the IRS, but by holy Shiva nobody gets around Shani! ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/drm9-227x300-1.png) However Ganesha has probably been worshipped for over two thousand years and by 300 C.E. had ascended to the position of the major god Hindus made pujas to; imploring help or relief. His location in mūlādhāra indicates his mastery of the creative forces from the arcane to the mundane and that is what you draw into with successful ritual to him—the energy of millions of Hindus who focused upon him for probably over two millennia. **9. Falcon Books: What practice would you recommend the practitioner of magic best to develop their imagination?** The easiest place to begin the cultivation of imagination is by using the eyes and associated visual processing. The largest area of the brain is occupied by the visual processing area at the back of the skull (occipital lobe). The human been primarily is a visual orientated being just the way a dog is primarily living in a world dominated by olfactory stimulation and secondly auditory acuteness with vision as a poor 3rd. The dog’s world is beyond our comprehension. I teach a series of exercises starting with 2 dimension evoking of after-images moving onto multiple variations of closed eye exercises turning into 3-dimensional objects as well as various applications of learning reverse and manipulate optical illusions. At an advanced level we integrate special yoga eye fixations known as Mudras to alter brain wave function and start integrating auditory functions and tactile sensations into the training. This process takes about one and a half years and continues in through various postgraduate courses. The human being not only believes what they see but without realizing it *they see what they believe* The interesting aspect is that when you are exercising your will in that inner 5th dimensions your imagination may be brought to the level that you are in complete control of what you elect to create, see, smell, feel and hear in a way that it is not possible in an outer world of three dimensions of space and one of time. **10. Falcon Books: Many thanks for your detailed answers, thank you again for talking with us.** --- # Exploring Enlightened Living Through Hermetic Meditation and Beyond with Serge Augier Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/exploring-enlightened-living-through-hermetic-meditation-and-beyond-with-serge-augier/ ##### Introduction Falcon Books is presenting a series of interviews with seasoned Hermetic practitioners and those who follow a spiritual discipline. The aim being to share the wisdom, knowledge and understanding of these practitioners with those just beginning the path and as an inspiration to us all. The focus of these discussions are guided towards the spiritual seeker. Presenting today an interview with** Serge Augier **also known as the "Urban Daoist"  to view his  [website](https://sergeaugier.com/)[ ](http://WWW.SERGEAUGIER.FR)and[ facebook](https://www.facebook.com/urban.daoist) with the same name. To view his demonstrations please go [vimeo](https://vimeo.com/search/ondemand?q=serge+Augier), and  [youtube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCICXZWiiQkEatXKhrtkAt4Q) channel. Serge has over 40 years experience in the Daoist arts. He is the current master of the Daxuan school, which is an ancient lineage of Daoist practices comprising of a wide range of skills both esoteric and practical incorporating principles of internal cultivation and philosophy and their application in daily life. He teaches Ziranmen (natural boxing) which incorporates bare-hand and weapon training, and three well known internal arts of Bagua, Xingyi and also General Li’s Taijiquan.  Serge is also a well known  [author](http://singingdragon.com/uk/shen-gong-and-nei-dan-in-da-xuan.html)  on these subjects. ## Terminology - [**Ba Zi Mondate** ](https://www.daxuanmandate.com/copy-of-mandate)- Ba Zi means “Eight Characters”: each individual is born under the influence of eight basic energy potentials, based on the principles of Yin and Yang as well as the interaction of the Five Elements. The purpose of Ba Zi is to analyse, for oneself and for other people, the influences of elements that determine personalities, and more importantly to have a precise and refined understanding of ourselves in order to use our full potential. - **[Celestial Mandate](https://www.daxuanmandate.com/about) - **The Celestial Mandate of the Daxuan School is a Complex Bazi as it carries more than 27 Characters to Interpret. This interpretation is a great help to know yourself better, in your strengths and blockages, but also to understand the others, find the source of misunderstandings that punctuate your interactions, and improve your capacity for empathy and communication. - **Wai Gong - **Health exercises. - **Nei Gong -** Techniques for the development of vitality. - ** Nei Dan -** Taoist internal alchemy. - **Xin Yi Dao Yin Fa -** The research of emotional stability. - **Shen Gong - **The work and training of the Spirit. ## Magic Meditation > *The One resides at the North Pole,* > *in the midst of the abyss.* > *In front is the Hall of Light,* > *behind is the Crimson Palace.* > *Imposing is the Flowery Canopy,* > *great is the Golden Pavilion!* > *On its left is the gang star, on its right the kui,* > *waves and breakers propagate in the void.* > *Mysterious excrescences overlay the cliffs,* > *vermilion herbs enwrap the hills;* > *on the rocks is white jade,* > *the Sun and the Moon spread their light.* > *There you go beyond fire and pass over water,* > *you cross the Mystery and go past the Yellow.* > *Walls and gates intersect,* > *curtains and hangings are adorned with gems;* > *dragons and tigers are lined up on guard* > *and divine beings are at their sides.* > ( (Baopu zi) - A method used for circulating the Qi) Hello Serge and a cordial welcome from Falcon Books. Thank you for sharing with us your time and wisdom along this journey. Some may have been wondering why I included a Daoist practitioner in relation to discussing Franz Bardon’s teachings and Initiation into Hermetics (IIH). As we know Bardon drew some of his knowledge from various different traditions and brought them together within one platform.  We are aware these universal teachings and are applicable to many different areas.  I would like to investigate these teachings from this particular Daoist tradition and discuss the parallels between the two systems and also the approach to inner cultivation and explore the esoteric aspects of this system. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/meditation-2.jpg)Serge Augier **Falcon Books:  Firstly, I would begin if you would be willing to share your fascinating childhood with us, how you first was introduced to the Daxuan tradition.** **Serge Augier:** Hello, I am very happy to be here and to answer your questions. First of all, let me tell you I do not talk about myself, my story, my own training, or the way I am in my own path. Only because I want to put forward my tradition, but not at all my own imaginings, or own accomplishments. That is why I never talk about my history or anything. Of course, let's say my teacher lived with me as a kid, introduced me to Daoist practice when I was seven years old. I started practicing as soon as my teacher asked me. But, I only enjoyed practicing when I was around twelve/thirteen years of age. Between seven and thirteen I was training the basics and it was more because I was pushed towards the practice. But as soon as I reached twelve /thirteen, I started training because I wanted to, that was when I was introduced to the Daxuan tradition. **Falcon Books: Please could explain the origins of Daxuan and the various branches within it.** **Serge Augier:** *Daxuan Daoism*, defined as *Clanic *( family)  Daoism which means, it is not a religious Daoism, it is not monastic Daoism. It is Clanic - meaning from a clan or family. What is the difference? Around the year 200 AD in China, Buddhism arrived and started to have monasteries,  dancing, music and beautiful Buddhist dress and the people started to looking at it as a very interesting religion. Then most of Daoist sects began to copy and fuse Buddhism and Daoism together, thus leading to the emergence of Daoism monasteries. But some  parts of Daoism,  especially Clanic Daoism, (family Daoism ) stayed true to  their first teachings, and never digressed, they lived more as a hermits or exorcists,  or as doctors and they would not be in monasteries because they always believed that in Clanic Daoism people should live in life, in the reality of people, even if sometimes we have some retreat,  where we withdraw from the world, but the actual path is non-cultural and is in life. Which means it is not about China, Japan, Britain, France, or the US. It is about the capacity to develop the best we can and these human qualities are not attached to any culture, or any tradition other than human tradition,  that is in the meaning of life.  All traditions should be expressed in life in your family, in your life, not being away to escape from the world. We see monastic life as very interesting way of life of course, but at the same time, we see it as a way to escape the reality of life.  We need monks to bring in more light, into the world, but a the same time to really accomplish what we are supposed to do, we have to accomplish it with other human beings, Half of our path, half of what we are supposed to do is with other human beings. If you are in too much of a retreat of this human interaction you are losing path of what you are supposed to do with yourself at this moment. You need to do and to express it with other human beings.   The actual Daxuan Practice started in 510AD it was a union of Daoist clans from Feng Shui, sorcery, exorcism, old Feng Shui tradition. All of them melted together in a complete human development tradition. It was only to survive because at the time there wasn't any communication between them and they realised they needed to be stronger and to be together. This kind of Daxuan Daoism, Clanic Daoism, is the work of human qualities and we cut down all the qualities of humanity into different aspects as we do in alchemy, as we do some plants, or some metal. You break down every quality and quantity down and the possibility of a human being, and you work on each of these qualities to make them each as perfect as you can then you go back to uniting these qualities. To unit the quality that you have perfected. To make sure we can be as perfect as we can, to life our life strongly and as completely as we can. The idea is to express yourself as a human being. Understand things we do not understand, to understand aspects of our *humanity that we have to discover. *To make all of these aspects as perfect as we can. Then our behavior our mental introspection, our energetic development. our body, health and power, all this will develop to unite to be the perfect human being we can be. Being real in and being in phase with our celestial mandate.  **Falcon Books: You mention on your website the Shamanic side of your tradition, that it is the Yin aspect of the art and connects with the subconscious. Can you explain a little how this works, what some of the training entails and how it relates to the Yang aspect.** **Serge Augier:**  In our tradition, we have two big aspects, one being Yin and one being Yang. The Yang aspect is where we do the in the world, this is called Neigong, Chi Gong, martial arts, any kind of Daoist magic Feng Shui, Ba Zi. But also at some point, we want to listen to the world, listen to messages of the world, listen to what the universe is telling us. For this practice we give space to our shamanic tradition, the oldest tradition, coming from the Feng Sui, old sorcerer. This tradition is telling us to take care of everything that we can feel, that we can see, that we can perceive. All of our perceptions, all of our possibility of knowledge in the world. This is not doing any more this is receiving, listening and looking. These two aspects are very important because with the Yang aspect we go into the world choose whether we want to do it and start practicing as we want, but we do not take care of the environment or the right time cycle, of the right moment, is it the right time to divine a chicken, we don’t care. This is the Yin aspect. It is time for us to change the environment and we practice now, same with the magic if we don’t like something in the world, want to make it better, we do something with intent.  This is the Yang aspect. In the Yin aspect, if we practice energy we want to see if it is the right time if our* Ba Z*i and *Celestial  Mondate * (view key for explanation) are in harmony and to train certain aspects that one, a door is open to do whatever we want. The Yin aspect will look at which direction we have to train what time, what is the best moment has the best feeling and which aspect of the tradition we should do. Because in the Yin shamanic aspect, you first have to listen to the world and go with it. To train whatever you can train at this precise moment. In the Yang tradition, as most people now do, you just impose your training onto the world. These two traditions are very important, but the Yin, Shamanic tradition has to survive more because today most people don’t know, don’t remember this path and this path is amazing to develop human qualities. In the Shamanic tradition we will connect with our inner light, inner God, we learn how to go into trance, where we connect with something a lot thinner and more subtle than the coarse aspect of life, where we connect with the invisible world.  To have better information and to accept our divinity, our complete divine self and let go for a little while our mundane self. The Shamanic aspect connects us with the right direction, the right space, the right power points, we can have correct power points all over the world where there are places that give us power and connects us to the symbolic animals, material, plants and spirit. It connects us with the changes of weather. The Shamanic path is very, very linked to the listening and improving our interaction with the world and our environment. **Falcon Books: I have noticed how there are parallels between Franz Bardon’s IIH within steps 1- 3 and your teachings. For example, within your school (Ba-men Daxuan)  8 gates you cover Health exercises (Wai Gong), Techniques for the development of Vitality (neigong),  Taoist internal alchemy (Nei Dan),The research of emotional stability (Xin Yi Dao Yin Fa), The work and training of the Spirit (Shen Gong).  Could you define these terms and how you approach these aspects within your tradition?** **Serge Augier:** Once again one of the best aspects of Clanic Daoism of the Daxuan school, is that we don’t just try and train, not knowing what we do, not understanding exactly how we are. Just do a little movement and expecting some result.  We understand the human being as being a body as being as an animal, we have basic needs and have basic compulsions that we have to listen to, but we are energetic. We are vitality and breath, with each breath we exchange with the world, and we are mind pure spirit which does not really live with us because 'spirit' is really in our reality. Spirit is something we have but is not in our reality, but we start experiencing the Spirit which is for real, meaning with our organs, our body, it is not spirit anymore it, it is 'not mind' anymore it is already emotion. We know that we have a body, breath, vitality, emotion, mind, invisible spirituality. Knowing that and studying these different aspects We decide as a Daoist tradition to study each of these aspects and to and to make them as good as they can be. My body, of course, I will exercise it. It is pretty simple, but I will exercise the same, my breathing capacity. The mind and the way it is functioning, the internal connections, my internal functioning and all of the aspects that makes me cleared emotionally, of sentiments and perception of the world. By training each of these aspects in a different manner, I will make them clear and as perfect as I can. Then after, slowly I will go towards practices, that are united with breath, body, mind, spirituality and I will work as one. But first as in alchemy, I will cut down all of my qualities all of my aspects of myself into little pieces and I will train each of the pieces. I will not confuse my breathing practice, with my mind practice, with my body practice, with my feeling practice. By doing this and taking each time just to the amount of what I can do. I can really evolve and really change. Which means I will not spend forty years doing everything but doing nothing as we know to do very well. But I will in fact train and evolve in each aspect of my life by doing this, slowly I will not function in the same way, I will not behave in the same way, I will not feel the same way. My health will be completely different. My relationship to the world and to other people will be completely different. I will for real evolve every week, every month and every year of my life.   **a. Health Exercises (Wai Gong)** **Serge Augier**: Once again we need to train the *Wai Gong* - exterior training. Exterior training it is really making my tendons, bones, stability, coordination, strength, grounding, everything pushed to the maximum. It is not a feeling, it is not a thinking of evolution because it is Wai Gong is physical which means if you train it you will be strong, you will be fast, your body with be grounded which means if somebody tried to pull or push you, you will not move and this you can test it with anyone. All of my students all over the world, after a couple of months, they are very stable even if they are big or they are small or they are women, or if they are 50 or 80 years of age, or age 22. It is the same quality you will develop. Good coordination, strong grounding and overall very good health. **b. Vitality (Nei Gong)** **Serge Augier**: Then when the body is strong you want to do the same training as the body, but not thinking about the body but thinking about the breathing. These exercises where you move the body freely because you have experienced it already but putting all your intent not putting the feeling of the body but putting the breath and vitality then you start to do internal training we call it Nei Gong. **c.  Internal alchemy (Nei Dan)** **Serge Augier: ** After that we have become vitalized full of energy and needs to be trained without the body, to push it to its limits, to push it to the maximum we can do this is* Nei Dan*. Nei Dan is alchemy and takes all the possibility to have developed in Wai Gong and Nei Gong, take all the abundance of Qi that you did, having a new life and new eating habits, new sleeping habits and all the things that we teach in the Daxuan Tradition. Then you will sit and make this Qi condense, sublimate change and overall push your Qi or vitality to the maximum of your potential that you have in your Celestial Mandate. This is Nei Dan.  **d. Emotional stability (XinY i Dao Yin Fa)** **Serge Augier:** Then before we can really change the mind we have all this energy moving pushing away and pushing out emotions all over. We need to train emotional stability because being emotional is, in fact spending more Qi than most of the physical activity we have. This emotional stability is trained with *Xin Yin Dao Yin Fa* (emotional stability), is the dissolving of our emotional troubles. It is done by the body, the mind and the breath altogether. **e.  Spirit (Shen Gong)** **Serge Augier: **It is only there we can deeply train the *Shen Gong* (Spirit) the training of the mind and has nothing to do with meditation, like Wai Gong (health training) is training the mind, just making the mind available for you. Another time a life of a human being, making the time to look for the season for harvesting and maybe need more time. Today life is too fast and our mind completely escapes our control. We just need to make our mind available for focusing for at least an hour or at least two hours as to the basic focus as to seven minutes. Shen Gong is just training the mind and making sure the mind is available for us to be used. Then after not only do we have these 5 different forms of training, the Wai Gong, Nei Gong, Nai Dan, Xin Yin Dao Yin Fa, Shen Gong. But we have further training which focuses on uniting of these aspects. As soon as these aspects have been trained a little, of course, to train better we do not have a real order. I really believe these aspects of training can be trained together as soon as you start and they will work in synergy. It is true if your body really hurts it is impossible to take care of you mind, or of your emotions, if at the same time you train your mind and you train your body, you train your breathing (Nei Dan) you train your Xin Yin Dao Yin Fa; each of this training will help the next one and you will have what we have in the Daxuan Tradition, a complete global clan  teaching which pushes you to move pretty quickly which makes you very motivated. To have personal experience of the success of training, which is the only real motivation you should have. Never listen to a teacher, only listen to try to do what the teacher tells you to do and then by your own experience you can see if the practice is good or not. We need again to give some good space to common sense, if you train for a year and you do not feel anything then something is wrong. If you train for 10 years and you are pretty much the same person something is really wrong, you should have stopped in the first year. **Falcon Books: I would like to thank you again for your time and sharing your tradition with us.** Image credit: sergeaugier.com --- # A Guide to the Elementals – The first in a Magical Series from Andre Consciencia Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/a-guide-to-the-elementals-the-first-in-a-magical-series-from-andre-consciencia/ ## A Magical Study Series This is Volume 1 of the forthcoming 'A Magical Series'. These books are truly special as they are the fruit of a true magician. An individual who has built relationships with beings not of this earthly world and through this relationship new knowledge, understanding and inspiration has been birthed. As you will see from the small sample provided in this post, not only are the contents of these books extremely precious for a genuine practitioner but each book has been designed to be more than functional to instead, be beautiful to look at, to read and to work with. There will be more posts coming exploring each book more deeply but right now we are focusing on*  **A Guide to The Elementals: Volume1.*** - Available to order via the button at the bottom of this post.  ## An Introduction from the Author ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/286273180_1020624735226293_2774844859745159877_n-1024x577.jpg) *It is unexpected that I should write this book, or the occult books that I have been publishing* *of late. In my younger years, I took the ordeal to portray all esoteric ideas through art and literature alone in order to polish the stones of the earth, so that occultism could not find itself veiled by its own idea, for that which is truly occult must be of a quality that transcends everywhere alike. In time, a new door opened, and I was invited in, consciously drawn by the current.* *Not, nevertheless, without some hesitation: the reader must be warned that this book is to* *be, like any work of art, a source of inspiration. My contact with the beings of the elements cannot **substitute your own, nor should it ever (all these words here contained can only portray the tip **of the iceberg). As to my theory, it might highlight your own wisdom, and if so, all the better. But **have it obstruct your insight instead, and be damned by this tome.* *Such is especially important in a work of this particular nature, where direct contact with* *invisible beings will be exposed. Contacts like these are always of an intimate light, and if the* *magician falls entirely for my own filter, the translation of my own mind, soul, and senses, he will* *be influenced by the author and not the beings he seeks. The author has failed and will fail again,* *he is the same as you, but so are the beings in question.* *This leads us yet to another subject: worship not the beings, for the heart can only truly* *worship its own mystery. These beings, too, are art to be contemplated, listened to and even* *danced to, so that the beholder might explore himself and the universe. There are no priests, and* *the God that abides has no Church.* ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1673345019-1024x933.png) ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/1673345315-1024x944.png) ## A Small Sample of Chapter 1 [dflip][/dflip] This book will explore the nature of the mind, soul and body, the nature of the four philosophical elements, the four elemental kingdoms, the life of the four elemental kingdoms and that which animates them. A magician following on the Bardon tradition will feel at home reading it, for it explores aspects of ***Initiation Into Hermetics,** **The Practice of Magical Evocation** and **The Key to True Quabbalah,*** by Franz Bardon. The practitioner is expected to be a magician of some experience, maturity and equilibrium, else nothing will happen with the practices or, if it does, the reader will most likely fall prey to all kinds of tricks and mischief. When exposing myself directly to the beings that animate the four elemental kingdoms (the same beings revealed in the *Practice of Magical Evocation* together with some of their unmentioned subordinates) the thoughts of the elementals are being translated by the nature of my evocations unto human thought, then unto human language, and specifically the English verbal language, which is not my native language. Although it is not the only method and surely not the simplest, it was used, put together with clairaudience, for practical reasons: the w7riting of this work. I have previously written a fiction, name*d **The Gem of Silence** *that, on the other hand, seeks to approximate human thought to elemental thought. It can be of a complementary nature. ##### Elementals & Elementaries We should start by highlighting, on a short note, the difference between an elemental and an elementary, as there has often been confusion between the two. An elemental is a natural being composed of one of the four elements, while an elementary is a being made of vitality and psychic saturation, a thought-form usually fed with astral components by the conscious effort of the magician or by the obsessions of any person. Elementaries of erotic desire can give form to the so- called succubi or incubus, elementaries of urge and survival can become vampires, and many other phantoms come from this sort of obsessive phenomenon. Paracelsus mentions elementaries and so does Franz Bardon; both also mention the elementals. The focus of this book is the elementals. *Elementals or beings of the fire are the salamanders, beings of expertise in faith and on the reality of the now as expressed with the best clarity and splendour possible. They hold the courage that opens the way to experience, to integration and to depth. One can feel them vibrating like a *spider string in every spark of intent. The elementals or beings of the air are the sylphs. Their harmonious nature makes it possible for them to create free associations that have no qualitative or quantitative distortion. One can feel them tapping behind the electric flow of thoughts. The beings of the water element are called undines, they can swim behind the pulse of emotions. The beings of the earth element are gnomes and they work in a realm similar to that of our sensory experience, our senses being the microcosmic seeds from where material reality grows in the macrocosm and vibration becomes objective. The fiery kingdom is one of creative intent and warmth. The aerial kingdom is one of thought, light, shape and weightlessness. The watery kingdom is one of rhythm, emotion, form and coolness. And the earthly kingdom is one of sensation and weight. In all four kingdoms, there is will, intellect, feeling and consciousness, and in all four kingdoms intelligence is subject to form and duration. ## Order Information Projects such as these are a prolonged effort of many individuals working to bring together the beautiful words of the magician in an equally beautiful package. It is a labor of love to bring these materials out into the public ready to be made use of by seasoned practitioners. If you would like to preorder your copy of this wonderful book it would help us immensely knowing that there is great interest in books that focus upon subjects beyond the basics. This series is very much aimed at those who have developed maturity and a well-established practice. 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Before I talk about the personality trait of patience however, I want to give some background info by discussing a related topic – patiently enduring discomfort. “Patient endurance is the supreme incinerator of defilements.” How many times have you heard that statement? If you study and practice in the Thai Forest Tradition, it comes up from time to time. It is a translation of a line from the Dhammapada – “Khanti paramam tapo titikkha.” This line says that patient endurance is the supreme tapas. A tapas is a spiritual activity that burns away defilements. Obviously, our defilements are a major obstacle hindering us from advancing along the magical path. If patient endurance really is the supreme incinerator of defilements, then we should be really grateful whenever we find ourselves having to patiently endure some form of discomfort.  This is something Ajahn Jayasaro mentions in several of his dharma talks. In the Thai Forest Tradition, everyone knows that patient endurance is the supreme incinerator of defilements. But, as Jayasaro points out, sometimes people find themselves having to patiently endure discomfort during some experience and then saying “Well, at least I got to practice patient endurance during that experience.” It’s almost as if they view the opportunity to practice patient endurance as some sort of consolation prize they’re given for going through their bad experience. This is the wrong attitude. The opportunity to practice patient endurance is more like the first place prize. It’s something extremely valuable. ## Patient Endurance is Mindful Endurance In the first chapter of his book *Arahattamagga-Arahattaphala*, Ajahn Maha Buwa states that, when it comes to pain, stoic endurance doesn’t benefit us. Of course the Dhammapada states that patient endurance is of great benefit. At first, there may seem to be a contradiction here, but this contradiction goes away when you realize that stoic endurance and patient endurance are not the same thing. In *Wherever You Go, There You Are*, there is a chapter about patience, and in that chapter Jon Kabat-Zinn explains that patience and mindfulness are deeply intertwined. In fact, they are inseparable. When you stoically endure discomfort, you bear with it, but you don’t necessarily embrace it with mindfulness and look deeply into it in order to understand it. With patient endurance, however, you do just that. Patient endurance is mindful endurance.  Mindfully enduring discomfort is sort of what Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is all about. Therefore, as a starting point for learning to mindfully endure discomfort, I highly recommend learning MBSR. MBSR can be learned from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s book *Full Catastrophe Living*, and also from the standard eight-week course. Thich Nhat Hanh’s book *No Mud, No Lotus* also provides good guidance on mindfully enduring discomfort.In this chapter, I write a lot about the importance of mindful/patient endurance, but I don’t really give practical guidance for mindfully/patiently enduring discomfort. The reason is that I think it’s better to learn the instructions from experts like Thich Nhat Hanh and Jon Kabat-Zinn than from a non-expert like me. Please note that different Buddhist traditions may teach different ways of mindfully/patiently enduring discomfort. When I read the instructions in the chapter on patient endurance in Ajahn Succito’s book *Parami*, I notice that his way of mindfully/patiently enduring discomfort seems a bit different from Thich Nhat Hanh’s way. Yet both are valid ways. They will both lead to insights into the nature of suffering, although perhaps to different insights.  ### To find out more about Virgil see his author page. 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Venturing into the depths of esoteric thought, His titles  include  the profound intricacies of concealed philosophy, where cryptic revelations from Dion Fortune and the Cosmic Doctrine resonate through the epochs. Exploring the verdant essence of Druidism, we shall untangle its enigmatic webs and pay homage to its significance for a harmonious existence interwoven with the natural realm. Come along as we shed light on the hidden recesses of existence, uncovering the catalyzing potency of age-old wisdom in a contemporary milieu. --- Britain has a rich and  ancient tradition of magical practices such as Druidry and Witchcraft to the formation and practice of modern day magical societies.  **JMG:**  Rich, yes. Ancient?  No.  More on this further on. #### 1. Comparative Organizational Structures **FBP: How do the organizational structures of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, ****Ordo Templi Orientis****, Freemasonry, Witchcraft, and Druidry compare? Are there notable similarities or differences in how these groups are structured?** **JMG:** I can’t really speak to Witchcraft, as I’m not an initiate of any Witchcraft tradition and it frankly has never interested me that much; to each their own.  The others—well, it’s quite simple. Starting in the middle of the 19th century, most Western esoteric traditions borrowed the organizational structures of Freemasonry lock, stock, and barrel. The lodge system, to give that set of structures a convenient name, was the standard organizational framework for most voluntary social groups in the Western world between 1850 and 1950; labor unions, friendly societies, youth groups, and nearly every other kind of organization you care to name other than churches and business corporations borrowed the Masonic framework of local lodges chartered by a central grand body, admitting new members by way of one or more initiation rituals.  Since 1950, in turn, all of these groups except for Freemasonry have tended to drift away from the lodge system. The drift has proceeded at different speeds; very few Druid organizations make use of the lodge system (though the one I headed for twelve years, the Ancient Order of Druids in America, still does); the OTO is still more or less run in the classic way, though independent splinter groups are starting to appear more frequently now that Aleister Crowley’s writings (including the OTO initiation rituals) are out of copyright; and the Golden Dawn scene is divided more or less evenly between groups that at least try to follow the lodge system and independent groups that don’t.  I tried back in 1998, with a book titled *Inside a Magical Lodge*, to renew interest in the lodge system among modern occultists, because it really does have a lot of benefits, and deals effectively with some of the problems that most often cripple attempted working groups. Ironically, the book became very popular among Freemasons, who welcomed a nice clear explanation of what they were doing, but sold very poorly among occultists.  #### 2. Philosophical Distinctions **FBP:  Could you highlight key philosophical distinctions between the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, ****Ordo Templi Orientis****, Freemasonry, and Druidry? What core principles or beliefs set each apart from the others?** **JMG:**  I’m going to start by bracketing Freemasonry here and then setting it aside. Freemasonry was once an esoteric tradition; at this point it’s a men’s club mostly interested in charity and good fellowship, which history has supplied with a collection of medieval rituals performed by rote. I say this as a Freemason myself; you’ll hear the same thing from nearly every Mason—and they are very much in the minority—who has a background in Western esotericism. Whatever its original esoteric dimensions might have been, Masonry today espouses and teaches a philosophy indistinguishable from the sort you’ll find in most Protestant churches.  With regard to the others, t’s a mistake to focus attention on principles or beliefs when discussing Western esoteric traditions, because the Western esoteric traditions are focused on experience rather than belief. They are gnostic in the original sense of the word.  Bentley Layton, in his fine translation of the Gnostic scriptures, translates the word *gnosis *as “acquaintance,” and it’s an insightful choice; the point of *gnosis* is not to know something in a discursive way, much less to believe in the right opinion, but to have the kind of personal, experiential knowledge that Michael Polanyi wrote about in his book *Tacit Knowledge*.  A metaphor may help clarify the distinction here. Imagine that you had a passionate year-long affair with someone who was a secret agent living under a fictitious cover story.  Everything you know about that person in a discursive sense—every fact about that person you think you know—may be completely false; nonetheless, there are ways in which you know that person extremely well. The kind of knowledge that can be faked by a cover story is *episteme* in Greek; the kind that can’t be faked, personal acquaintance, is *gnosis*.  This is relevant because there is remarkably little uniformity of philosophy and belief among the members, including the senior members, of the traditions we’re discussing. A Druid ceremony with a dozen people present may well have a dozen different beliefs represented, including varied flavors of monotheism, polytheism, pantheism, panentheism, animism, atheism, and those who don’t know what they believe but still find the rituals moving and meaningful. Nor is this seen as any kind of problem. Experience, not belief, is central.  #### 3. Initiation and Ritual Comparisons **FBP:  In terms of initiation rituals and ceremonies, what are the contrasting elements among the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, ****Ordo Templi Orientis****, Freemasonry, and Druidry? How do these ceremonies contribute to the unique identity of each tradition?** **JMG:**  Druidry is the outlier here, because Druid initiations vary dramatically from one Druid order to another, and even sometimes within the same order. There is no common ground other than a habit of using various forms of Celtic symbolism and some degree of reverence for nature. As for the others, I’m not an initiate of the OTO, so there’s not much I can tell you about its initiation rituals, and I am a Freemason, so there’s even less I can tell you about its initiation rituals! I know this doesn’t make life easy for scholars.  In very general terms, however, classic lodge initiation rituals all have the same basic pattern. The candidate is brought into a lodge that has been set up to represent some specific symbolic structure. There are usually things done to the candidates to make them a little disoriented—blindfolding them and moving them around a space about which they know nothing is the standard method—and there’s at least one moment when the candidate is frightened, not drastically, but enough to get a reaction.  Then the blindfold comes off, the lights come up, and the symbols and teachings of the degree are presented. It’s the specific symbols and teachings of each degree that give it a unique character. #### 4. Symbolism Across Traditions **FBP: Symbolism plays a crucial role in many esoteric traditions. Can you draw comparisons between the symbolic languages used in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, ****Ordo Templi Orientis,**** Freemasonry, and Druidry? Are there recurring symbols or distinct symbolic systems in each?** **JMG:**  All of them draw from the particular symbolic language evolved in the Western world during the Renaissance from classical and medieval sources; you can find most of the symbols using in lodge initiations, for example, in Renaissance emblem books.  In some degrees of some orders there are specific symbolic languages that are used—for example, the Cabala gets a lot of work in the Golden Dawn rituals—but they all belong to that same common body of symbolism.  #### 5. Practical Applications and Ritual Practices ** FBP:  How do the practical applications and ritual practices within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, ****Ordo Templi Orientis,**** Freemasonry, and Druidry differ? Are there specific rituals or practices that stand out as unique to each tradition?** **JMG: ** Other than its initiations and a few other group ceremonies, Freemasonry has no ritual practices to speak of—again, these days, it’s a men’s club that has formal dinners and raises money for charities.  The Golden Dawn and the OTO have a shared body of ritual practice because Aleister Crowley, who restructured the OTO from top to bottom after becoming its head in the English-speaking world, was a Golden Dawn initiate. As for Druidry—“ask three Druids, get five answers” is a common joke among Druids these days, and for good reason. I know of no ritual practice that is shared by more than a modestly sized minority of Druids.  ### Part II: Historical Development of Magic  ** FBP: In tracing the historical development of magic in the UK, how have specific magical traditions or practitioners played a significant role in shaping the landscape from the Renaissance era to contemporary times?** **JMG:  **The entire history of occultism is a history of specific traditions and practitioners. It has no other history, since the Western esoteric tradition has no institutional setting more enduring and no popular basis more widespread than little circles of practitioners following a variety of traditions. That’s been true since the birth of Western esotericism in archaic Greece, and of course it remains true today. To speak of the history of British magic is to discuss John Dee and his fellow Elizabethan occultists, practicing traditions rooted in classical antiquity and reshaped by the Italian Renaissance; to go on to successors such as Thomas Rudd and Francis Barrett, who reworked the same traditions to meet the needs of their own times; from there, to proceed to the great occult revival of the late 19th century, with its twin hubs of Theosophy and the Golden Dawn and important figures such as G.R.S. Mead and William Wynn Westcott; and from there, via such successors as Dion Fortune, to the present.  #### 1. Witchcraft and Druidry **Witchcraft and Druidic traditions were known to be of an oral tradition and most lost to tales of legend and folklore. Specifically in Witchcraft due to the persecution of this craft **** such  practices would have been forced underground due to Pope Innocent VII denouncing it as an act of heresy in 1484 and  following that was made a capital offence in 1563.** **JMG:**  It’s crucial to step back from half a century of mythologizing here and stress one point: modern Witchcraft and Druidry are not descended from the older traditions whose names they borrowed. Modern Druidry began in the mid-18th century in an eccentric subculture of English and Welsh religious dissidents, who made up what they didn’t borrow from the popular literature of their time. Modern Witchcraft began in the mid-20th century when Gerald Gardner, a student of Aleister Crowley and a member of the Folklore Society, pieced together an assortment of Western occult notions and dressed (or, rather, undressed) them in the claims of a medieval witch-cult his close friend Margaret Murray was busy publicizing just then. (Her books on the subject are now universally considered crackpot pseudohistory by scholars.) Her core inspirations, in turn, were not surviving medieval traditions but the speculative reworking of those traditions set in motion by Jules Michelet’s *La Sorcière* and Matilda Joslyn Gage’s *Woman, Church and State,* and expanded by Charles Godfrey Leland in *Aradia: The Gospel of the Witches*. The retrospective social construction of medieval witchcraft as a primeval goddess cult is a fascinating study in 19th and 20th century popular culture, and I hope it gets an adequate historical study someday.  **In an academic paper published in 1989, Anthony Davies of the University of Groningen noted that in the surviving literature, there were five separate accounts of Anglo-Saxon witches recorded in Anglo-Saxon or Norman England. Four of these, he argued, represented witches who were “little more than literary constructs”, owing more to the folk tales of the time than to any actual magical practitioners. ** **JMG:  **This doesn’t surprise me at all.  **FBP: In your research have you found any supporting evidence of the magical practices of WIcca practices?** **JMG: ** If by this you mean evidence that supports the notion that today’s Wicca goes back any further than Gerald Gardner, no, quite the opposite. Jim Baker’s solidly researched book *The Cunning Man’s Handbook* is a very good and heavily documented overview of what was actually practiced by folk magicians in Britain in the Renaissance and early modern periods. It has nothing in common with any form of modern Wicca.  This is all the more striking in that Baker began his research hoping to prove that Wicca had the ancient roots its founders claimed for it.  ** FBP: How do modern day Wicca societies such as the Alexandrian Wicca differ from ancient practices as far as we can tell and is there an organised method of magical development? ** **JMG:**  There’s essentially no common ground between modern Wicca and what’s known of ancient and medieval folk magic. Wicca isn’t a folk tradition—like the rest of Western occultism, it’s a movement among dissident intellectuals who mostly come from urban and suburban backgrounds.  #### 2. Druidry *Who were the Druids? The honest answer is that we really don’t know.* *Most of what was written about them in ancient times vanished forever when the Roman Empire collapsed in the fifth century of the**Common Era. All the surviving texts written about the Druids when they still existed add up to a total of ten pages or so in English translation.* > *This meager harvest offers little solid knowledge. Druids lived among Celtic tribes in Gaul (modern France), Britain, Ireland, and apparently nowhere else. Their name may have meant “wise ones of the oak,” although scholars have suggested many other interpretations. They taught a secret wisdom that probably had something to do with trees, and their sacred places were groves in the forest. Some classical writers call Druids philosophers; others call them wizards. Not once do the sources call them priests, although this is how most archeologists interpret them today. Several sources divide them into the three categories of Bards, Ovates, and Druids, the Bards being poets, the Ovates diviners, and the Druids teachers.* > > > > > > *Custom forbade writing down Druid teachings, and Druids-in-training had to memorize prodigious amounts of lore in verse form.* > > > > > > *Some students took twenty years to complete the course of study, which included theology, astronomy, and divination. After finishing their studies, Druids formed a privileged class, exempt from taxes and military service.They settled disputes and could part warring armies on the brink of battle.* > > > John Micael Greer **From your title *The Druidry Handbook*, Druids we can ascertain this sect were highly educated and their training methods appear to be rigorous, so much so they were revered in society. I am intrigued why they did not receive the same treatment  as the  witches and where do you think their knowledge base came from? ** **JMG: ** The last Druids known to history were in the 6th century AD, when they tried and failed to stop the conversion of the Picts to Christianity. Some scraps of Druid tradition and practice survived in bardic schools in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, but those schools had been thoroughly Christianized centuries before they faded out in the early modern period. This notion of Druids lurking in the undergrowth for 1300 years, and then suddenly popping out of hiding just in time to hand their mysteries to a bunch of British fringe intellectuals, needs to be put out to pasture—or sent to the glue factory. It didn’t happen.  **10. FBP: If one were wishing to join the OBOD **** (Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids) Mystery School** ** what would one expect to find? ** **JMG:**  You’ll want to talk to somebody from the current OBOD leadership about that. I took the OBOD course back in the 1990s, and it’s been completely revised at least once since then.  ** FBP: I wonder if you could expand on some of the aspects of the OBOD, such as the devotional practices  which include nature connection, sacred listening, and reciprocity.  ** **JMG:**  This is a good example of what I just mentioned. None of these things were part of the OBOD course when I took it.  **FBP: Within modern Druidry is there a specific magical developmental structure? ** **JMG:**  Ask three Druids, get five answers! Generally speaking, though, most Druid traditions don’t put much if any emphasis on magic at all.  ** FBP: You have been a strong advocate for Druidry and aided in its growth, what inspired you to actively promote the return of this ancient mystery school?** **JMG: ** A chapter of accidents. In 1994 I was encouraged by a friend to join OBOD, and found its teachings and practices fascinating and worthwhile.  In 2003 I became first a member and then, with very little preparation, the head of the Ancient Order of Druids in America, a nearly defunct Druid order (it had fewer than a dozen living members when I joined it), and felt that its teachings and practices were valuable enough to make the effort to preserve them. Several other odd events of the same kind followed from there. I’m sure there are a great many other traditions just as deserving of the kind of help I gave Druidry, but Druidry is the tradition I stumbled into and so that’s where I put my shoulder to the wheel.  ### Magic **FBP: Can you elaborate on any notable shifts or adaptations in magical practices during specific historical periods in the UK and how these changes have contributed to the diversity of magical traditions today?** **JMG: ** The great transformation of British magic, as of Western magic in general, came in the late 19th century when the revival and reorientation of magic launched by Eliphas Lévi found an audience in Britain. Before then, magic was nearly always an imitation of medieval and Renaissance practice—while Francis Barrett’s *The Magus* was first published in 1801, for example, its entire body of theory and practice comes from Renaissance occultists such as Cornelius Agrippa and Trithemius. It was after Lévi showed that magic could be understood in terms of modern worldviews that the great upsurge in newly minted magical traditions began.  ** FBP: How has the incorporation of knowledge and magical practices from other systems influenced the development of magical traditions in the UK, and can you provide examples of notable crossovers that have shaped these traditions?** **JMG:**  I’ve already alluded to one of these—the borrowing of Masonic lodge practice by occult societies in the 19th century. Another is the wholesale importation of Hindu and Buddhist spiritual concepts and practices into the Western tradition that was set in motion by H.P. Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society. This sort of borrowing is constant in occultism, because of the focus on experiential *gnosis *mentioned earlier; since occultism isn’t about fixed beliefs but about personal experiences, it’s relatively easy to borrow practices that facilitate such experiences and traditions that appear to explain them.  ** FBP: What are some specific benefits that magical systems, rooted in historical practices, can offer to modern-day spiritual seekers in terms of personal growth, mindfulness, or a deeper connection to the spiritual realm?** **JMG:**  Ah, but that’s not what magic is for.  If you want personal growth, mindfulness, and a deeper connection to the spiritual realm, meditation and prayer are more useful tools. Magic is a way to cause change. It relates to spirituality in much the same way that engineering relates to pure science.  The scientist tries to understand nature; the engineer sets out to use that understanding to make things happen.  In the same way, there are a great many occult practices that focus on insight, understanding, and personal interaction and integration with the spiritual realm, but magic focuses on taking those things and using them to cause changes in the world and in the practitioner.  **FBP: Can you discuss how the integration of magical systems into contemporary spiritual practices addresses the needs and challenges faced by individuals in the modern era, and what advantages they bring to the spiritual seeker?** **JMG: ** Many spiritual systems these days encourage a generally passive approach to the world.   This has many advantages, especially for those people who are too busy trying to make things happen, but it has its own problems and pathologies.  Magic, by contrast, is active; it trains the active will and focuses attention on making changes happen in oneself and the world. Thus it’s a useful counterbalance to excessive passivity.  **FBP: I would also be interested in your opinion of where you think magic stands today. From being a taboo subject to one that is popularized in modern culture**. **JMG:**  The taboo status of magic oin the past has been massively overstated in recent years. For most of British history, magical practitioners have been a recognized part of society, and as long as they at least made an appearance of affirming the same religious notions as their neighbors, nobody worried about them. Yes, there were occasional outbursts of persecution in the early modern period, but those were localized exceptions to a broader rule; from the early Middle Ages to the present, your ordinary rural or small town cunning man or wise woman, your ordinary urban astrologer or mage, could typically count on spending a long and tolerably prosperous life without the least risk of being bothered by the authorities.  ** FBP: How do you perceive the current societal view of magic, considering its historical status as a taboo subject, and what factors have contributed to its increased acceptance and popularization in modern culture?** **JMG:**  The current status of magic in popular culture really is nothing new. In the 18th and 19th centuries, for example, books of party games and entertainments for young women usually had at least one chapter dedicated to fortune telling, using cards, dice, or various other methods. If anything, magic is less widespread now than it was in the 1920s or the 1970s. There is an odd foreshortening of collective memory that makes it easy for many people to forget this, and come to believe that the ongoing presence of magic in popular culture is something new.  ** FBP: In your opinion, what role do media, entertainment, and cultural shifts play in shaping the public perception of magic today, and how has this evolution impacted the way magical practices are embraced or criticized in contemporary society?** **JMG: ** Magic always exists in a complex and contentious relationship with its portrayals in popular culture, and especially with its inevitable distortions in entertainment media. The Harry Potter novels, for example, presented a funhouse-mirror distortion of magic, which then got picked up by those ends of the occult scene most attuned to pop culture. The same thing happened during the early 19th century, when portrayals of magic in Gothic novels helped shape popular notions about magic, and in turn were reflected in those 19th century occult circles most open to pop culture influence. The same thing can be traced much further back—for example, in the interplay between Roman magically oriented fiction and magical practice in the Roman Empire.  Central to this interaction is the habit of exaggerating the effects of magic, which is pervasive in the pop culture of most ages. The things that the characters in the Harry Potter novels do with magic cannot actually be done with real magic.  The same thing is true of the magic in Gothic novels, or for that matter Apuleius’s *The Golden Ass*, the most famous Roman occult novel, in which the main character is turned into a donkey by drinking a magic potion.   Real magic is subtle and works within the ordinary physical laws of the universe; that can be done in fiction—Dion Fortune did it very well in her occult novels, and I’ve tried to do the same sort of thing in my Ariel Moravec occult-detective novels—but it’s something that by and large only practicing occultists do. The exaggerated magic of pop-culture entertainment is more popular precisely because it reassures the reader that the things it portrays can’t really happen, and so allows them to treat the whole subject as pleasant make-believe.  ** FBP:  Is there anything else you would like to add?** **JMG: ** The most useful thing that can be done by anyone who wants to understand magic is to read books on the subject written in earlier times, both books of magical instruction and pop-culture writings about magic. The foreshortening of collective memory I mentioned earlier is a potent force for misunderstanding, since it allows people to pretend that the past was something it wasn’t. To read the Golden Dawn papers in the light of Victorian Gothic novels such as Bulwer-Lytton’s *Zanoni*, or for that matter to read the Graeco-Egyptian magical papyri in the light of Apuleius, is to gain access to a view of the history of magic that is not only more nuanced but also, and crucially, less mythologized.  ![pastedGraphic.png](blob:https://falconbookspublishing.com/3e68df2f-71f8-4f48-be22-1310bcde0e5c) ### Thank you very much for taking part in this interview, to find out more about John Michael Greer please visit his website, Ecosophia. --- # Understanding the Subconscious Mind, by Tanya Robinson Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/understanding-the-subconscious-mind-by-tanya-robinson/ ### This article is a revised version from an excerpt published in the title, Equipoise: Insights Into Foundational Astral Training, by the Franz Bardon Community. > Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. > > > C.G. Jung ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/432122392_1125615278629462_8785576140915085472_n.jpg) > There is this one green lion, which closes and opens the seven indissoluble seals of the seven metallic spirits which torments the bodies, until it has perfected them, by means of the artist’s long and resolute patience. > > > “TheCosmopolite,” (16th century). > ‘ 'The Green Lion Devouring The Sun' is a well-known alchemical symbol that represents the process of purification and transformation. This symbol is derived from the alchemical reference to "vitriol," a green liquid sulfate that purifies matter and reveals the gold within. Pure vitriol is a powerful acid that can dissolve almost anything except for gold. In addition to its symbolic representation of the purification process, the Green Lion Devouring The Sun also serves as a metaphor for the transformation of the soul. In this metaphorical alchemical journey, the green lion consuming the sun eventually leads to the sun turning red. This transition symbolises the transformation of the* materia prima,* the chaotic form of matter, into something more refined. Overall, the image of the green lion eating the sun embodies the destructive nature of purification and the subsequent transformation of the soul. It signifies the cleansing of the body and the emergence of a more enlightened state of being. On a human level, the green lion eating the sun is a metaphor for when a person’s “consciousness [is] overwhelmed by violent, frustrated desires” (Fabricus). In the *Corpus Hermeticum XIII*，Hermes speaking to his ‘son’ Tat these tormentors are revealed, > Her. Torment the first is this Not-knowing, 1 son; the second one is Grief; the third, Intemperance; the > fourth, Concupiscence; the fifth, Unrighteousness; the sixth is Avarice; the seventh, Error 2; the eighth > is Envy; the ninth, Guile 3; the tenth is Anger; eleventh, Rashness; the twelfth is Malice. These are in > number twelve; but under them are many more, my son; and creeping through the prison of the > body 4 they force the man that’s placed within 5 to suffer in his senses. But they depart (although not > all at once) from him who hath been taken pity on by God 6; and this it is which constitutes the > manner of Rebirth. And . . . . 7 the Reason (Logos). 8. And now, my son, be still and solemn silence > keep! Thus shall the mercy that flows on us from God not cease. Henceforth rejoice, O son, for by the Powers of God thou art being purified for the articulation of the Reason (Logos).1 > > > > *Corpus Hermeticum XIII* It appears that Hermes perhaps was referring to the uncontrolled or hidden aspect of the subconscious mind that refers to the negative expression of qualities — the tormentors which he lists twelve. Interestingly, Hermes also speaks about a solution to dealing with these forces and offers a key, the use of the *logos* (reasoning), which refers to the conscious aspect of the mind. Later on in this article, we will see how not only this sentence of knowledge is fundamental in transforming the mind, but also the importance of using the *logos* to practice conscious awareness in daily life; moreover, we should understand the influence that the the subconscious mind has upon us. Also, we will be delving into the nature of concentration, its importance and link to the subconscious mind, including how the ability to make progress in any path towards adepthood is linked to the ability to concentrate and control our thoughts. #### What is the conscious and subconscious mind and why are they so important in our hermetic training? You will have probably come across this dealing with this aspect of the mind through any self-development program, or through working on auto-suggestion if you follow the Bardon system. In modern psychology, the subconscious aspect of the mind refers to a vast collection of unintentional, habitual thoughts, behaviours, and actions. These actions are non-conscious which means we have no choice in the way the mind responds. #### Freud's Iceberg Model Freud likened the mind to an iceberg he believed  ''the unconscious mind is the primary source of human behavior. Like an iceberg, the most important part of the mind is the part you cannot see.'' The unconscious mind is thought by psychologists to be the place where memories, knowledge, fears, repressed desires, traumatic experiences, violent motives, irrational wishes, immoral urges, selfish needs and shameful experiences are stored.2 ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Freuds-iceberg-model-1024x1024.png) Neuroscientists3 have come to the understanding that the brain’s processes operate much like the metaphor of an iceberg, whereby 10% of the conscious mind is active and in our control and 90% is hidden and is controlled by the subconscious aspect of the mind’s processes. In earlier an text, Hermes refers to uncontrolled passions relating to the tormentors. I believe he is referring to the negative uncontrolled aspect of the subconscious mind. If we look at the list below which attributes are associated with the uncontrolled subconscious mind it is very interesting to note the form of these tormentors often manifests through them. - Beliefs - Emotions - Habits - Values - Protective reactions - Long-term memory - Imagination - Intuition Most people are subject to dealing with negative experiences from the past. Emotions rising up through protective reactions, or people believing they are cursed. Bad habits preventing them from having a full expression in life. The cultural values imposed upon us through our upbringing, to name a few. Now let us look at the conscious mind in which only 10% is conscious, meaning thoughts and actions that we actively choose through our own will (as illustrated in the iceberg metaphor). If we go back to the references to Hermes he speaks about the Logos in terms of logical reasoning, and if we look at the attributes below associated with the conscious mind we can see there is a direct link. Will-power Short-term memory Logical thinking Critical thinking This again is very interesting. If you look at any training that focuses on adepthood you will note at that will- power, logical thinking, and critical thinking are key to having clarity of mind and to overriding the subconscious processes. As you can see, working on the mind is paramount if we wish to succeed. We have a huge challenge ahead of us since 90% of our mind is not our own. Not only are we dealing with this fact but we are increasingly faced with the challenges of modern-day society, where we are constantly experiencing so much stimulation around us. Our level of ability to concentrate on one thing at a time has greatly diminished as we have become more accustomed to multitasking. It is such a great issue now that we even have a medical term for it: attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A study performed by Microsoft 20154 explored the brain activity of 2,000 Canadian subjects researching the brain wave activity of concentration levels using an electroencephalogram. The conclusion from the experiment showed that the average attention span dropped from 12 seconds in a study in 2000 to eight seconds in 2013. One conclusion the study pointed out was that our ability to multitask has drastically improved in the mobile age, however, the ability to concentrate showed a correlation between users who used the following platforms: - Volume of media consumption - Social media usage - Multi-Screening behaviour - Adoption of technology The study concluded that “digital lifestyles affect the ability to remain focused for long periods of time,” suggesting that our subconscious mind is running the show and our conscious decision making has vastly reduced. A number of online sites suggest the conclusion that attention spans are decreasing in time: Attention spans have shrunk by 50 percent over the past decade. Children diagnosed with ADHD: . Not only are we having to deal with a media-driven environment that is continually bombarding us with stimulation, all this information is also being absorbed by the subconscious. Our minds are being overloaded with information continuously, which is a contributing a factor that affects our ability to concentrate. We have established that 90% of our thoughts and actions are not conscious. We can now see the importance of being careful in what we expose ourselves to on a daily basis. What we watch and read, what we engage in, is continuously being processed by the subconscious mind including past experiences, actions, thoughts and feelings. Now let us take a look at the subconscious mind from a hermetic viewpoint. The hermetic view of the subconscious mind Franz Bardon describes the subconscious as; > The subconscious is the mirror to all negative attributes and is located in the inter-brain in the astral > body. The uncontrolled subconscious is our enemy. It is especially effective at night, in space without > time, in the body when the normal consciousness is at rest.5 > > > Franz Bardon, * > Compiled from Teachings of Franz Bardon,* *Questions and Answers and the Great > Arcanum* #### How do I deal with the subconscious mind? I have offered 3 different approaches from Franz Bardon, Martin Faulks and Virgil. In Step II of *Bardon’s Initiation into Hermetics*, he [ Franz Bardon} offers a comprehensive chapter discussing the subconscious and how to overcome it by using tools such as autosuggestion, and using magnetic forces to impregnate positive influences using methods such as magical washing and, magical eating. He also offers advice in Questions and Answers as follows, > We can control our subconscious through autosuggestion if we order it to do something good for us just before we fall asleep. We assign the subconscious to our storehouse of ideas where it exists as our qualitative component. Its quantity is the power to effect and tension of the opposite negative > attributes.6 > > > Franz Bardon, *Compiled from Teachings of Franz Bardon,* *Questions and Answers and the Great > Arcanum* Here Bardon is offering us a key by transmuting the qualitative component of negative thoughts to positive ones, and by using the quantity of our willpower and volition to bring about change. [![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Falcon-Books-Publishers-Enlightened-Living-188x300.png)](https://www.amazon.com/Enlightened-Living-Martin-Faulks/dp/9869492517) We can see also Martin Faulks takes a similar approach whereby he tackles this aspect of the subconscious by making positive conscious choices and behaviours in daily life, which over time become habitual. This approach not only takes control by using the conscious mind but also changes the negative patterns of the subconscious mind to positive ones. In *Enlightened Living* Martin discusses using this approach, not only its effectiveness, but also how it can lead to a permanent state of higher awareness: So the idea is to make this state of consciousness our normal functioning state of consciousness. To do this, it is very important to learn to fully engage in what is happening right now. To always remember that the enlightened person is not going to be beyond troubles, but is rather someone who skilfully deals to the best of his or her ability, with the goal of bringing about the best possible outcome. So when a negative thought enters the mind, it is corrected and then transformed into something positive. Rather than assuming failure at the presence of a negative thought, it is important to correct the mind. It is unrealistic to expect to never have those kinds of thoughts. Indeed to me, this very act of transforming a negative action or thought into something that has positive intentions and outcomes embodies the highest expression of enlightenment. Using this method, not only does the individual begin to train the conscious mind by being in the present moment, but they also bring into awareness the uncontrolled negative aspects of the subconscious, which are then brought into line by being corrected immediately as they arise. He further offers some motivating affirmations and finally states, > The importance of applying these skills in our waking day cannot be emphasised enough. In spiritual traditions this is endemic. As people continually search for new techniques upon new techniques but never realising that these techniques are only the training, it is the embodiment of the skills, insights > and abilities that aid us in daily life. > > > > > > To review: > > > > > > > - Do not put this off > > > > - It will not suddenly happen > > > > - Spiritual exercises are training, the true test is applying the lessons to life > > > > - *E*mbody the state you wish to happen > > > > - Own every single action > > > > > > By applying these principles, balance will be found within ourselves because by practicing things that are difficult we become stronger in those areas we are weakest. This acts as a sunlamp on the soul. Skills are transferable, so as we become accomplished in one particular skill, our ability improves in other areas also. For me, this is the true way of enlightenment.*7* > > > > Martin Faulks,* Enlightened Living* ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Falcon-Books-Publishers-The-Elemental-Equilbrium-188x300.png) Virgil in *The Elemental Equilibrium* again takes the step 2 approach of Bardon’s three-pronged attack, of using autosuggestion, transmutation and volition, and adds a further 3 to the mix, which he calls the ”six-prongedattack.” He states, > Autosuggestion, volition, conscious eating, conscious breathing and magical washing are specific techniques you can use to transform yourself. Transmutation is not a specific technique, but a strategy. The idea to eliminate a negative trait by developing the opposite trait. For example if you want to eliminate impatience from your personality you can do this by developing patience.8 > > > Virgil, *The Elemental Equilibrium* In this method Virgil is tackling directly the subconscious by continually using a focused approach by charging up the food and, the breath, and when washing to aid in transforming negative qualities. Concentration linked to the subconscious mind Our ability to concentrate is fundamental in any spiritual discipline if we wish to progress to any degree. **Why is this so?** > Because we need to have conscious awareness over our thoughts and actions in order to know that these processes are actually from our own choice and not through a programmed response generated by our subconscious mind. In order for us to enter into deep concentration we need to clear the underlying vibration or noise that is preventing us from entering into a deep state of uninterrupted relaxation. During concentration, there is a continuity of consciousness and this condition allows our subconscious forces to rise up. The hidden psychological patterns in the subconscious mind start to manifest. Normally, because of our mental distractions, we are totally unable to contact or express our inner power. During deep periods of concentration, we start to understand the deeper aspects of our being. So the fruits of concentration are substantial. Many people, whether they have experienced meditation or not, know that great things are in store for them if only they can concentrate deeply. Because they are not relaxed, however, they force their consciousness to dwell on one point.9 > > > Swami Satyananda Saraswati As we can understand by this quote, our ability to concentrate is linked to a level of relaxation, a deep level of relaxation directly linked to the relationship we have with our subconscious mind. As Bardon states, often it is the uncontrolled subconscious mind that will bring up negative thoughts and fears generating an underlying anxiety within us. This often manifests in our dreams and when we are in a resting state. Within the Franz Bardon training system in Initiation Into Hermetics in the first step Bardon addresses the power of the subconscious mind and how best to utilise it to our advantage, offering a number of tools to assist. However, this is a continual process throughout life as we continually refine the process of the inner alchemy of turning metal into gold. ### What is concentration? ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/433343791_688670359901227_3406677763182481541_n.jpg) Franz Bardon describes concentration in *Questions and Answers*, taken from the yogic tradition as: > Concentration is an uninterrupted hold or adherence to a point, > matter, being, abstract, concept, picture, thought, perception etc. > Concentration is divided into three levels according with the > periods of time. The first level is uninterrupted concentration for > twelve seconds is called dharana. The second level is dhyana, > has a duration of twelve times twelve seconds, while the third > level has a duration of twelve times twelve times twelve seconds > and this is called samadhi which means ecstasy, the flowing > together of object and subject.10 > > > Franz Bardon, *Questions and Answers and the Great > Arcanum, Compiled from Teachings of Franz Bardon*. Another quote from a yogic perspective > *Concentration implies the focusing of one’s consciousness towards one point, either external or > internal, to the exclusion of all other subjects or thoughts*.11 > > > Swami Satyananda Saraswati ### Why is it so important to have the ability to concentrate for spiritual development? ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/431758001_747442817140310_4396122193824653119_n.jpg) Within the many traditional spiritual traditions, a lot of focus is placed on developing a high degree of concentration. If you notice Bardon’s focus is all on developing quantities and qualities in order to push through the realm of the mundane through the use of concentration to develop imagination skills and willpower. In traditional yoga, the process of transformation of the soul follows a similar path. If you go back to our iceberg model you will also notice that all these qualities are in fact created by the conscious mind 10% that is visible to us. The ability to concentrate and use our will shows that we have the ability to act in awareness and not to be guided by our subconscious mind. This is fundamental in training. You will notice Bardon also places importance on autosuggestion, magical washing, eating and drinking. Now we can begin to see why. He is aware of the power of the subconscious mind and has put everything in place to combat it. ### What does this mean? Through developing our concentration it allows us to not only gain a deeper knowledge of a subject with clarity and precision but also to merge with it. To penetrate the visible world and go beyond what is in front of us. When dealing with unseen forces it is paramount that we perceive through clarity and free from the bias of the subconscious mind. Only through wilfully acting is this possible. But I believe the author is also talking about entering into a deep relaxation free from the noise of the subconscious mind. So far we have established the power of the subconscious mind and how little our conscious mind takes part in daily life. We can also see the effects of our environment upon the conscious mind as our ability to act consciously diminishes due to the constant stimulation around us. Another converse effect is our ability to concentrate. So it is not surprising that people following the path of adepthood are faced with an even greater challenge than their predecessors. We need even a greater discipline to avoid daily distractions. ### Why does my mind keep wandering when trying to concentrate on visualisation? Concentrating on one thing is a challenge for the mind because of the wandering tendency of the consciousness. It takes time for the body and mind to relax. To concentrate we need to allow time for this to occur. Due to having busy lifestyles and distractions, most of us are not able to spend the length of time covering all the aspects needed to allow time for the parasympathetic nervous system to take effect and sink into these practices. The passage below eloquently explains from a yoga perspective: Many systems of yoga tell you to place an object in front of you or to visualize an internal image, concentrate on it, and lo and behold you will start to explore the subconscious depths of the mind. Although the method is correct and can bring wonderful experiences, it takes no consideration of the wandering tendency of our consciousness, which makes concentration impossible for most people. > Concentration is possible only if a person is very relaxed mentally and physically. Most people cannot relax, or if they do it is on rare occasions. For this reason, the mind continually projects streams of differing thoughts to conscious perception. As such, to ask most people to concentrate is impossible. And if they try to concentrate, they will tend to try to suppress the disturbing factors in the mind and create more tension in themselves……..Concentration is something that occurs spontaneously in a very relaxed mind and body. Until relaxation is achieved, concentration, real concentration that is, remains > impossible. A system is required that progressively leads a person to deeper states of relaxation until concentration becomes the spontaneous activity of consciousness.[8] > > > > – Swami Satyananda Saraswati ### Why can’t I stop my thoughts in meditation? I wanted to address how one of the main sticking points in any initiation that one will come across in meditation is being able to meditate with the cessation of thoughts. Many practitioners have this problem. As previously stated, the mind has a tendency to go into and follow a stream of consciousness. Unless we begin to address this in our daily life we are only scratching the surface. I believe the lack of concentration in daily life may be a contributing factor and the fact we are not able to enter a deep level of relaxation because we are not allowing enough time for the subconscious mind to process and release the tension that it has created. If you look around you most people are constantly on their phones in daily life. We are feeding the subconscious continually. If meditation practice is one hour a day but the rest of the time at work or at home is being run by the subconscious mind, then when we sit in our meditation it is no wonder our subconscious mind will be processing thoughts. In effect we are training our subconscious mind, not our conscious mind. We all live such busy lives and the mind and body never really experience a state of relaxation. Learning to become aware of the mental processes throughout the day and cutting negative thoughts can lead to a greater degree of peace. The body and mind need to be in a relaxed state in order enter into a deep level of meditation. The practice of awareness throughout the day is very important because it allows us to control consciously our thoughts and actions. We begin to have the choice over our mind rather than reacting to it. I have included this effective meditation by Martin Faulks which uses focus on the breath to aid a calm awareness, so the mind can become free from thoughts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSzsnDW5QQU ### In Conclusion For us to progress we need to invest time in conscious thoughts and actions using our willpower at every given opportunity. To listen to our subconscious mind and help it resolve and reprogram the negative responses. Most importantly, learn to take time out and relax and develop our concentration skills in daily life. This way we are staying aware and focused throughout the day. 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I have committed myself to write on various disciplines outside the field of magic from the standpoint of magic, and I have arranged the disciplines according to the four elements and the planetary spheres. Each discipline follows this structure, and it is, as well, the structure that divides the disciplines. Because it is my main seat, I started with art, which I attribute to Venus. I followed a long way “down”, to the elements. This article is dedicated to the air element to which I will give the art of preparing perfumes, the art of self-hypnosis, the method of integrative thinking, psychology and intuition, and philosophy and the higher self. With perfumes, the magician needs to know essentially a few things: such as top notes, middle notes, and base notes. This pyramid is formed based on volatility, as the particles of the top note evaporate quicker and the particles of the base note, slower. This means that the scent in the top note is more immediately perceived and the scent at the base note leaves a long-lasting impression. The mind is quicker to react than the soul, the soul than the body, therefore we will use the top notes to stimulate the mind, the middle notes to stimulate the soul and influence the astral, and the base notes to cause a change in the awareness of the body. To study the notes, in anything the magician is able to smell, he has but to notice the first scent and its analogies with the mental influence of the object, the heart scent once the first scent, also called the head fragrance, starts to fade and its analogies with the astral, and the base scents that appear once the first scent disappears completely. This corresponds to the physical essence of the substance or object. To build perfumes, the adept has to understand that herbs and light fruits are usually pervasive in the mental plane and are to be used as top notes, Flowers are a good bet for the heart or middle notes, and to influence the soul. The base notes will mingle with the middle notes to form the personality of the perfume after its first appearance, and spices, woods, resins or fungi are appropriate. While the base note is altered by the notes above, even the headnote will be influenced by the base note as well.  One way to choose between the ingredients for your perfume is to measure the evaporation coefficient of the materials. Anything from 1 to 14 Is most volatile and therefore it makes a good headnote. 15 to 60 is appropriate for heart notes, and 60 to 100, being the least volatile, is suited to form the base notes. 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It is important that the essential oil is something the magician identifies with, for it will represent the magician´s personality and stability and it needs not be loaded.   **To use:** Apply to your skin. I have nicknamed this particular perfume “spell of transition”, it triggers the personality, makes the body sensible, and inserts transition in the heart. #### Water - Essential oils #### #### #### Ingredients and Preparation - Use 2 tablespoons of carrier oil of your preference, its function will be to carry the essential oil onto the skin.- Add as a base note 6 drops of the essential oil of myrrh, it having been loaded with holiness and superiority.- Then add the middle note of pine as an essential oil, 15 drops, it having been loaded with longevity.- For the top note use basil essential oil, being loaded with love, 9 drops.- Add 6 tablespoons of 100 proof vodka, secure the lid, and let the perfume sit for 2 whole days up to six weeks.- Once the strength of the scent satisfies you, add 2,5 tablespoons of bottled water and shake for at least one minute.- Use a coffee filter and a small bottle and transfer the scent to this bottle, preferably of dark glass.  This perfume bestows a loving mind, a holy physical reality and a vital soul, I have called it the self consecration perfume. #### Air - Flower perfumes #### #### Ingredients and Preparation - Get lavender, jasmine and patchouli: 2 half cups of lavender, 3 of jasmine and 6 of patchouli.- Wash the flower petals with water while loading lavender, by water magic, with grace, jasmine with purity and patchouli with the sacredness of life. - Soak them in cheesecloth in a bowl, overnight, under the light of the evening star until the light of the morning star. Have it covered with a lid.- Squeeze the pouch of flowers over a saucepan, extracting the watery scent, and heat it softly, having the water stay just below boiling point while bubbling gently until there is but a teaspoon of the liquid.- Now you have to load the substance with grace, enveloped by purity which is in turn enveloped by the sacredness of life in its radiation.- Pour 2 cups of cold distilled water and then bottle it.- Wait one night before use. I call this fragrance “the blessing faery”, for the mind awakens to grace, the soul to innocence and the body recognizes the sacred. #### Fire - Oils #### #### Ingredients and Preparation In fire we will return to the oils, as oils can extract both the water and the fire of a substance, why they are called essential. - Fill your perfume bottle 3/4 full and add 10 drops of each of these essential oils: sandalwood, vanilla, pomegranate.- Sandalwood will be the base note and should be charged with the propriety of the mystery of life,- Now, Vanilla is also a base note, but while sandalwood is a woody note vanilla is a sweet note, and should be considered somehow the heart note.- The adept should make the vanilla oil emanate with the astral fluids of devotion and abandon.- Pomegranate is the top note or headnote, and it should be loaded with the principle of fertility.- Once all are put together, form an electromagnetic volt and then shake the bottle.- Test the perfume on the wrist. It awakens the mind to power, the soul to fiery passion and fixes the body on the positive principle, the plus. I call it “dragon tears”.     #### Akashic Perfume #### #### Ingredients and Preparation Again, and to avoid the adept hunting for herbs, we will work with essential oils. - 5 parts of Myrrh loaded with the earth element- 3 parts of Calamus loaded with the water element- 1 part of Cassia loaded with the air element and 0,5 of Cinnamon loaded with the fire element.- 70 parts of olive oil, enlivened by the akasha.- An alternative way to do this perfume is to load the olive oil with the earth element and the four other oils with the akasha;- Myrrh having the akashic quality of deliverance- Calamus the akashic quality of providence- Cassia the akashic quality of sovereignty- Cinnamon the conductive Holy Spirit While the first formula takes quantity into account, as in portions and intensity - Myrrh has a woody aroma, Calamus a fresh aroma, Cassia between sweet and spicy, and Cinnamon spicy - the second takes quality into account, i.e. divine virtues and symbolism of the herbs. This perfume actually has a name, it is the famous ''Abramelin Oil'', used to consecrate oneself and one’s magical tools. **An additional perfume that works with the five elements is the *Four Thieves Oil***: - Ingredients include cloves, lemon, cinnamon, eucalyptus and rosemary.- Cloves should have earth,- Lemon water,- Eucalyptus air- Cinnamon fire,- Rosemary is to be enlivened by the akasha.- Once all the elements are together and mixed, add black pepper, not the oil but actual black pepper.- The flask should be small and the lid should have two small openings on the sides.- Cover it with garlic and chilis, tying the ball of garlic and chilis together with a net bag, and uses it to generate a protective elementary or as a talisman to anchor any warding being from the akasha.- Given that the being’s charged seal has been imbued and placed inside the oil container.  #### Moon We jump from perfumes to something less material. The subconscious as one of the features of air in the moon sphere. And, in working with the subconscious, we chose the science of self-hypnosis, not to pick affirmations and autosuggestion, that we know so well from IIH. Put very simply, the magician just has to work on a number of steps in order to have self-hypnosis working wonders for whatever end. Motivation is the fiery step, without the proper motivation self-hypnosis is fruitless, therefore working with the cosmic letter K will solve many problems. Relaxation is the watery step. Time is to vanish entirely, and also any conditioning, therefore, the cosmic letter M is to be practised. Concentration is the airy element, the individual is to concentrate completely on a single image as the progress of self-hypnosis takes place, and the letter C will come in handy. Finally, we are left with directing, so that self-hypnosis can and will be used for a specific goal, visualizing the desired result, and it is the earthly step, to which we should apply the cosmic letter Ae in a light brown colour and the C tone. Our formula is, therefore, KMCAe. Surely we may realize that half of IIH is about perfecting with absolute mastery the art of self-hypnosis, even if the term doesn’t appear in the book. From conscious breath to the imagination of the senses, to the working of the cosmic letters themselves, all is included in self-hypnosis, although generally not as perfect.  So, now that we know how to activate the perfect mood through our cosmic formula, we will go with a specific example, proper to the adept. - In your temple, choose an asana and practice it- Focus your mind on a single thought, the image of a dot- Start breathing deeply through all pores, holding for a moment between breaths- Load the whole body with magnetism- Leave in the mental body and stand parallel to your physical body.- In your mental body, tell yourself that you will return to the material body upon the count of 5. Start counting from 1 to 5. When you reach 5, you will wake up in your material body #### To give it a broader perspective, let us start again - This step is from 1 to 5 as previously described. You can also trigger your jump from the physical body to the mental body by counting from 5 to 0.- In your mental body, enter akashic trance then picture the situation you wish to master and see yourself achieving your goal.- Repeat to yourself “I am omnipotent, omniscient, eternal and omnipresent” with absolute confidence while picturing the image of achievement for 10 minutes- Count from 1 to 5 and come back.  Do it on a daily basis. Write your goals down on paper with clarity and precision. The goals must be achievable and if we are talking long term goals, broken into manageable steps. Remember when you were working the soul mirror and the ennoblement of the soul? You were practising all these steps and working self-hypnosis either you knew it or not, and you continued to do so all the way to the end of Initiation Into Hermetics, including all the human faculties that were left out. What one needs to understand is that hypnosis is not that much related to hypos, that is, to sleep, as we usually come to understand it. Hypnosis is an awakened state of higher awareness and higher sensitivity where one is in control.  #### Mercury In the topic of Mercury, we will apply air as the discipline of integrative thinking.  - The earth element here will make every variable of the object of thinking salient. We tend to simplify matters in order to process them, in here, we are aiming at all the alternatives and contradictory information and we are holding them still.- We then apply water, witnessing how the salient features interconnect and influence one another, flowing. In this, we understand true causality, which is circular and multi-directional. - Air comes into play when the adept works on individual parts of the problem while keeping at all times the whole of the problem in mind. The elements of the problem or object of thinking are therefore not pieces of it, nor sequences, they are dynamic parts of a whole that start harmonizing with that very same whole and becoming in its image.- Fire concludes the process by forcing the creative solution of the tensions that still remain, rather than simply choosing between one solution and another.   #### Venus ![garden-1609000_1920](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/garden-1609000_1920-1024x768.jpg) Image by Snag Eun Park And now, over the lunar subconscious, a feature of the air in Venus is intuition. The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer said that intuition “is a form of unconscious intelligence”. I said that, in this body of articles, I would stick with fields outside the field of magic and work them through magic, intuition can also be the case, as I am working from the point of view of psychology, another applied philosophy, just as magic.  #### The First Step To manage the skill of unconscious intelligence, the adept is to avoid reflection and favour intuition, judging faster and with more accuracy. Start practising by watching politicians, teachers, scientists and philosophers speaking with no sound nor subtitles, and measure their efficiency. Do not seek to find the reasons for your judgement. Deliberation leads here into misleading clues while holistic impression stands accurate. Watch people in the streets, trying to find out if they are strangers, friends, lovers…  #### The Second Step The next thing the adept should strive to do is not cling to his intuition. Contradictory, isn’t it? But intuition is immediate and it should be in constant actualization, for once there is clinging, it fails and gives birth to all sorts of biases and prejudices.   #### The Third Step Is to avoid applying intuition to his feelings and stick with applying it outside. Make the outside into metaphors and sketches to reframe and find solutions. The strength of a feeling doesn’t make it trustworthy in what concerns intuition, it makes it trustworthy in what concerns motivation. A very accurate way to sharpen intuition works in the opposite direction, we think of a plan we have and then imagine that we are in the future and that the plan failed, then we look back and examine why: this technique is strong to find real weaknesses and it is not truly the fruit of reflection.  #### The Fourth Step Next, he is to make his peace with reason and reflection, just as it can blur intuition, so can also intuition blur reason, which is supposed to judge intuition rightfully. But the adept who is now a master of integrative thinking knows how to solve this problem.  #### The Fifth Step One must know how to turn intuition into insight. While intuition tells you about what is, no matter in what time we are talking about, insight tells you what can be. The same works for clairfeeling and clairvoyance. Yet a clear intuition can tell the adept when insight is possible and advisable. On the other hand, intuition must then be swept out in order to give full possibility to insight. Intuition is not insight, and many magicians were lost in the way because of confusing both. While intuition can lead us right or left through the dark forest in search for insight, it can also lead us astray if mistaken for insight itself. In all cases, let the adept clean any remnants of melancholy, it is the sickness that mistakes intuition for insight. Additionally, insight feels like a surprise, while intuition feels more like a gut feeling. #### The Sixth Step The magician is to watch out for values that take on the disguise of qualities and principles, they can direct intuition as well as an electromagnetic volt can direct the astral light. For instance, if the left supports EQUALITY and EQUAL RIGHTS for gay couples, the right may find in it a deviation from the original values, it is not PURE, and it is DISLOYAL to the concept of opposite-gender couples. But if the gay couple is portrayed as PATRIOTIC, representing an elite LOYAL to the country, it might be seen with sympathy and even hope. It is intuition that judges these things blindly, and if they are wrong or right. In any case, a gay couple is just a gay couple. Internet memes are a way to trigger this kind of intuitions, for values are as the virus that takes over intuition, but the adept is and must remain independent at all times.  #### The Seventh Step Context. Intuition knows how to spot traits, but they mean different things under different contexts. A person who is swearing may be a mindless brute in one context and a person of attitude in another, but it does not mean that we are examining the words and attaching them to values. If one values what is most rebel, swearing will seem OK on any occasion, if one abhors swearing intensely, he will likewise become numb to the actual moment.  If I could put it in such a way, I would say that IIH is about self-hypnosis and building the proper motivation to master things, PME is about insight, for the beings will open to us completely new visions, and KTQ is about intuition, knowing and working with the blocks that are there and that constitute the universe.  Now that we have cleared the path of intuition, let us rise up into the Sun.  #### Sun The air element in the sun, at least as seen through the earth sphere, is higher consciousness, or what Arthur Schopenhauer called the better consciousness. The adept can use tools not usually used by theoretical philosophers to understand what philosophers have said about the higher consciousness. For instance, the adept has learned how to reject all thoughts for at least an hour. To understand what Schopenhauer meant he is to reject all thoughts incident on experience, reason and instinct. What is it that remains? Schopenhauer called it “a flash of insight, with no connection to the understanding”. The technique of akashic trance, if well done, will leave the magician with no trace of personality, causality, subject or object, and what is left is the supersensible and extra-temporal consciousness that Schopenhauer talked about. If taken to its last consequences, it leads back to GodHead. An unconventional technique that might lead into the same state is for the magician to go out in his mental body and run continuously through a black tunnel filled with light while meditating on the cosmic letter M. The mystic experience that it leads into will bring the magician to similar results.  Of course, Friedrich Schleiermacher has come to the same higher consciousness, but through means of the macro cosmos: the absolute other, actively independent of the self and its world, that is, the outside infinite. To understand it the magician has to reject all thoughts of necessity, pain and pleasure, what remains is the dependency on this “Outer God” in order for consciousness to remain. It is this connection that is, to Scheilermacher, the Higher Consciousness.  In either case, it allows the adept to perceive, as Blavatsky would put it, “things in the interior or invisible world”, in every age and every country, being that the mind is taken from the form into formless spirit.  The higher consciousness is no stranger to scientists themselves. They have described it as “secondary consciousness”. 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Includes a recalibration of learned Quabbalah or introduction to Quabbalah; using harmonies and rhythms in Quabbalah; using musical instruments Quabbalistically; practical relation between tones and the planetary spheres; magical use of quabbalah (tones, shape and sensations); practical relation between the tones and human anatomy; the ancient Egyptian senet as a quabbalistic and hermetic instrument.    Book II Cosmic Elemental Kingdoms (Colour) – Book II Cosmic Elemental Kingdoms (Color) – The force of compression of harmony. Includes the practical relation between the spheres, the elements and the cosmic letters; how to enter elemental realms specific to the structure of the spheres and meet the respective planetary elementals; seals and names of such sphere elementals; how these elemental realms work in unison. 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The principles of internal motion (breath and the motion of the organs) and external motion (outer body and sound) are given, and as the chapter evolves, the quabbalist learns to create whole rituals that move and conjoin planetary influences through gestures and quabbalah. With the four books, a complete system of practice regarding the tones is established.   Final Chapter As a final touch, practical hints are given on how to use the cosmic language with the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms; how to perform evocation through Quabbalah; the Quabbalistic scale according to Venus; sphere quabbalah quiromancy; the different scales of electric and magnetic fluids according to the different spheres; and (solely in the hardback) an examination and quabbalistic application (including the formulation of magical squares) of the so-called Bardon’s cipher alphabet. ## All Lights meet in this place, The light of form, The light of the soul, The light of life, Blending and rising. How the Quabbalist No longer acts through desire. But through love. André Consciencia [ Facebook-f ](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063980916194) [ Youtube ](https://www.youtube.com/@FalconBooksPublishing/featured) [ Twitter ](https://twitter.com/BooksFalcon) © copyright Falcon Books Publishing --- # A Guide to Sphere Qabbalah: An Interview with Andre Consciencia Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/a-guide-to-sphere-qabbalah-an-interview-with-andre-consciencia/ # Introduction In an interview about his new book expanding on Franz Bardon's *Key to the True Kabbalah*, the author describes* A Guide to Sphere Qabbalah *as unveiling hidden secrets within Bardon’s system. He explains advanced techniques like working with planetary elementals, creating soul mirrors on a cosmic scale, and bodily gestures linking to universal forces. While building on his previous books integrating topics from Alchemy to Tarot, this tome could serve as a “mystical companion” for adepts by fusing various metaphysical elements. He hints at further revelations related to Uranus and the collective consciousness but suggests the importance lies more in contemplation and experience rather than any ultimate importance within the occult mysteries explored. **Falcon Books Publishing: In the beginning of your new book you say: ‘A third book was now and unexpectedly in order, leaning over aspects of The* Key to the True Quabbalah*, the third book by Franz Bardon, and expanding upon them. It was a book divided in four, in which the candidate would have to be not only a capable magician, but also a ferocious theurgist and a learning quabbalist’.** **Can we say then that this book does not require the reader to be familiar with your earlier books but it absolutely expects a high degree of skill. Can you here expand the phrase you used ‘a ferocious theurgist’.** **Andre:** Theurgy persuades occult powers or intelligences to do or refrain from doing something. If the magician is acquainted with the four or five elements he or she has mastered partially the elemental powers; if familiar with evocation or invocation, the intelligences. The planetary oscillations and cosmic letters are no different. A quabbalist in the Franz Bardon Tradition is necessarily a theurgist.  **Falcon Books Publishing: Another sentence I noticed ‘The Uranus sphere will not have any influence on the zone girdling the earth and on our planet before the next cycle of evolution takes place.’ I am sure it is limited what you can share on this but can you give us a glimpse of what you are referring to for those not as well versed in this knowledge.** **Andre:** The quote is from Franz Bardon,* The Practice of Magical Evocation.* And yet, I was familiar with what it is saying before having known the author. There is very much to expand and yet so little I can imagine myself saying without being misunderstood (and justly so). To start with, this is a mystery of the throat, and Nema has gone near it with her channeled key “by the same mouth”. It also has to do with the magic and quabbalah of the macrocosm. Now our macrocosmic magic is called science (macrocosmic theurgy) and technology (macrocosmic thaumaturgy). But we have no macrocosmic quabbalah, not consciously. This also implies the literal awakening of a collective conscious (the missing piece of the collective unconscious) and certain biological-technological changes, paired with the availability to everyone of intelligence forms that have so far only been accessed by highly skilled magicians and mystics throughout the ages.  A major key for this topic will be delivered in A Guide to Stellar Magic, the next book in the series. But it will be more or less veiled still. There, you find how the 49 Judges of Saturn become the 42 Lords of Understanding. Still quabbalistically speaking, the Sphere of Venus takes the place of the sphere of Mercury in terms of proximity and functionality, the mind or mental organ being infused by it, and while Mercury fuses with the solar logos the barrier that seems to exist between the Earthzone and the Moonzone is obliterated. Some of what this all means is also addressed in my book* The Path of Ipsos Vol II *but only if the ears are there to hear.  **Falcon Books Publishing: The book goes into a great deal of detail, would you say that a student needs to be at a certain stage of training already with Franz Bardons Book The Key to the True Kabbalah (KTQ)? Would they need to have completed the Single Key training of KTQ or would the IIH and possible PME work be sufficient?** **Andre**: What is needed is a sense of working with the combination of light, sensation and meaning in the imagination, and doing it efficiently or learning to do it efficiently. IIH teaches this when you are working through the elemental fluids. PME teaches this with the planets (the corresponding incenses give a good clue about the sensation attached to each planet). In *KTQ*, a new system is introduced with the addition of sounds and, more particularly, tones. There are 10 tones given and these are the 10 planetary spheres of *PME* (I hope my book can clarify this subject).* A Guide to Sphere Quabbalah *supposes the reader has at least experimented with* KTQ*, but can also be a starting place for it.  **Falcon Books Publishing: You mention keys and other information that is placed within this book. What benefit would a current practitioner of KTQ gain from this book? How would it influence their work?** While offering a complete system, Franz Bardon left enough space for the others after him to reveal it. A system you can work with is also a system that can be worked. Imagine that you place PME on top of KTQ and the overlapping reveals a new item with hidden secrets and a whole new universe to explore. That is what I expect this book to be.  **Falcon Books Publishing: This book makes use of body postures ‘The book of Gestures’, how important is the practice of creating shapes and meaning with the body? Is this related to any other systems or something that has formed naturally from your own work?** **Andre:** It is often related to Hatha Yoga in this particular case, but not necessarily or not always. The body postures and gestures are in tune with the cosmic letters, formulas, rhythms, planets and the circulation of equivalent powers and qualities, and include the abstraction of the objective mind and the objectification of the abstract mind according to particular intentions and symbologies. I think to stress out the importance of it is to deviate from it. Pleasure and contemplation comes first. Importance is illusory.  **Falcon Books Publishing: How does this book fit into the vast amount of literature put out by you? You gave us an idea of how things are integrated in a previous interview with Perseus. Can you explain again for people how all these books work together?** **Andre:** For once, if you come from *A Guide to the Elementals*, at this time you are given the keys (I suspect this has not been given before) for working with planetary elementals. If you come from Through the Soul Mirror to the Sphere of the Sun, you now are given the keys to work with the elemental fluids of the planets while before you were limited to the scale and particular elements of the Earthzone, and you as well can create a new panorama of soul mirrors in this scale.  If you are coming fro*m The Dragon Tarot (The Inner Circle and the Triangle) *you have become specialized in the creation of elementaries and conjuration. For this, you have worked with the four hermetic elements and the Hebrew cosmic alphabet, undergoing initiation, invoking and evoking each of these and creating corresponding servitors. Parallel to it, and in an exotic combination, you have experienced certain asiatic realms and light oscillations. You will be more than ready to come learn the letters of Franz Bardon and the western realms of light oscillation.  If, however, you are coming from the trilogy* The Way of Abrahadabra*,* The Path of Ipsos I and II,* you have become a full adept. Particularly in *The Path of Ipsos Vol II *you have been led to a system very similar to* KTQ* that works with the periodic table, with more than a hundred functional letters and near 400 pages dedicated just to this aspect. If you are a scientist and an alchemist, you might as well have been given a very rare key to a first form of macrocosmic quabbalah. You might come to consider* A Guide to Sphere Quabbalah* your new mystical companion. In the *Way of Abrahadabra* you have also been given a different scale of elemental fluids for each of the central spheres. The hints on what the elemental beings are there will complete the notions given in *A Guide to Sphere Quabbalah. * Now if you are coming from *The Inner Gateways of LAM (Esoteric Pillars)*, you might as well start looking at *A Guide to Sphere Quabbalah *from the perspective of Uranus. But I will go no further on explaining what that means.  #### To find out more about Andre check out his author page. 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However, for a certain span of our unrecorded history, our survival force was controlled and employed by entities from "beyond" our Universe*... *Alien beyond human imagining, they cannot truthfully be construed as evil. Their main purpose is to devour, and since their structure is incomparable with "our" Universe's physics, they can but eat by means of the life-forms native to our Universe.* ~ Nema Get Your book here now! ### Note from the Publisher This title is a unique exploration into the magical development of mind, body and spirit through each stage. Inspired by Franz Bardon's teachings and other training he has brought together a comprehensive guide approach to exploring positive and negative aspects of our personality. The author references the various stages of development as used in * Initiation Into Hermetics* to demonstrate how to integrate each magical achievement to further empower the magician to a deeper understanding of himself. Andre takes us on a journey of discovery and exploration of the root causes which are the cause of all suffering- he refers to them as 'The Forgotten Ones'. Each step shows us the magical tools that can we develop in our magical training and to further utilise them to overcome and transcend these forces within us. Unlike Franz Bardon's approach to the soul mirrors, it does not offer just lists of traits in relation to the elements but delves more into the root causes of these traits, thus finding ways to integrate and transcend these instincts within us using the magical tools that we have learned in our magical development relating to the stage we are at. ### Notes on the Primal Instincts Notes on the Primal Instincts Called “The Forgotten Ones” Let us start with something more likely familiar to the dear hermetic reader, *The Corpus Hermeticum*3 by Hermes Trismegistus, we are introduced to the twelve irrational tormentors of the body. They spring from the lack of reason in the collective. They are: -  Ignorance - Grief - Intemperance  - Concupiscence  -  Injustice - Avarice - Deceit - Envy - Treachery - Anger - Recklessness  - Malice These are considered to be root tormentors, meaning that from them derive other tormentors, although Hermes states that there are many others. What they have in common is that they make use of the senses in order to create suffering and imprisonment, and they are what Bardon calls vices, faults and weaknesses. That is his concept of the Black Mirror which is the mirror of such tormentors. The decipher will understand, by hints given by Hermes, that each of these tormentors corresponds to a sign in the zodiac. Against such tormentors, the hermeticist has ten powers of God that cleanse the body and soul. This corresponds to the White Mirror in *Initiation Into Hermetics*. - Concupiscence  -  Injustice -  Avarice -  Deceit - Envy - Treachery - Anger - Recklessness 9. Malice **The 10 powers are:** - Gnosis - Joy - Self-Control - Perseverance - Justice - Unselfishness - Truth - Goodness - Life - Light **The effects are: ** -  Joy dissipates grief -  Self-control dissipates intemperance -  Perseverance and patience dissipates concupiscence -  Justice dissipates injustice -  Unselfishness dissipates avarice -  Truth dissipates deceit -  Life dissipates anger and recklessness -  Light dissipates envy and treachery -  Goodness dissipates malice, in addition, let us explain a little further on root traits and their passive and negative matrices. Hermes states that Truth, Life and Light are the triune, since they are one. *The Corpus Hermeticucm *seems to suggest that this triune by itself being God in structure, is capable of chasing away the tormentors of darkness. From these three virtues, spring forward the other eight virtues, when all ten virtues5 are complete in the soul of the hermeticist, he is born spiritually into the divine. Here, Light is the active power and Life is the passive power which is to say, that Life happens on its own and self-regulates, but the Light is self-created and self-generated. Now, in the *Corpus Hermeticum, *we also see that some tormentors are together and depend on each other, such as envy and treachery, anger and recklessness. Treachery consecrates its practitioner as an initiate in the mysteries of envy and once anger has made the practitioner reckless, guilt will incorporate anger in his conscience. Recklessness and treachery are passive traits. They are meant to regulate envy and anger, which are active traits. The most common strategy to combat an active trait is by willpower and transmutation. But take one away and the other will soon become a frail and simple shade. Let us go to Book I , for the way things are described there connects deeply with Nema’s vision, but we will get to it in due time. One can find these words in the* Corpus Hermeticum:* > *The form you had becomes unseen, and you surrender to the divine power your habitual character, now inactive. The bodily senses return to their own sources. Then they become parts again and rise for action, while the seat of emotions and desire go to mechanical nature*. > > *Corpus Hermeticum*, Book I It goes on to explain how one climbs through the planetary spheres leaving behind different vices. These spheres are layers of our inner being, like layers of an onion. In the foundations we leave impermanence, to get to splendour we sacrifice our machinations, to get to victory we sacrifice the illusion of longing, to get to beauty we sacrifice arrogance, to get to rigour we sacrifice presumption, to get to mercy we sacrifice hoarding and to understand we sacrifice falsehood. *The Corpus Hermeticum *doesn't mention such virtues, only the corresponding planets, but here I have given another example of a White Mirror and of a Black Mirror, and of how they can interact. In* Maat Magick*, Nema states: > *Initiation continues, but the individual identity and collective identity do not. There are three more levels of rarity to attain, but they lie beyond the realm of duality, beyond your faith in your new reality*...*In a type of reverse gestation, your levels 9 through 47 deconstruct themselves into spiritual dust. Your 10th level*8 *continues its business in the world, functioning on its memory of perfection.* > > *Maat Magick*- Nama The aim of Nema's master book, *Maat Magick*, is similar to the aim of the *Corpus Hermeticum*. In the mystical component of her path to adepthood she uses virtues of the levels or planetary spheres in her attempt to control and reabsorb the unbalanced survival urges that have taken autonomy in the ego-consciousness. She calls these urges by the name of “The Forgotten Ones”. At the dawning of life on our planet there was hunger, from hunger the urge to survive developed the mask of sex, then of fight-or-flight, clanning, speech, curiosity, altruism and, finally, of God- hunger. The last one, God-hunger, can be defined as the human impulse towards transcendence. Hunger is basic to the individual. Sex is basic to the species. Fight or flight is the basic instinct of fear and risk-taking. To make a living and to stay alive we find it necessary to band with others, and that's clanning, of which they say, “Blood is thicker than water”. Up until now, we have been talking of reactive instincts, although clanning stands in-between reaction and action. Active instincts are altruism, communication and curiosity. Communication is the social glue of stored knowledge capable of expanding clanning and of surviving from generation to generation. Curiosity is the driver of our mystery of transformation, and it is curiosity which discovers the benefits of altruism. Altruism can either make you a hero or a victim of all kinds, but it is this ‘Forgotten One’ that can expand the self. To explain the Forgotten One of God-hunger, I shall expound upon this so that the reader can understand how these base instincts are irrational and unconscious forces capable of building consciousness. -  **Eating: **we begin to acknowledge that the outer world is also us. -  **Through Sexual desire: **we learn that there is a special affinity with the ones closest to us being us. -  **Fight or flight: **makes us fear the unknown, for the unknown isn't, and it brings about the thirst for knowledge. -  **Clanning: **makes us relate with intelligence as an entity and quantity, for us to abide socially we need a learning attitude. Communication allows us to realise that we are not only what we absorb but also that which we transmit, and has us praying to the unknown; curiosity makes us realise that the path to the unknown can be found by the truth. -  **Altruism: **has us identifying finally with the cosmic consciousness of the intelligence of truth - the highest good. -  **God-hunger: **arises as a fever from the realisation that we are an expression of what we now seek. These are eight dualistic urges, but the eighth is a gateway between dualism and non-dualism. Nema is not using the twelve main tormentors, as the *Corpus Hermeticum *does, but seven survival instincts divided by the chakras and the planets as layers of existence. This is not that black and white. But what are they, exactly? In 1983 Sor . ́.  Nema published the article called, “Foundation”. This was, if I'm correct, the first time she mentions ‘The Forgotten Ones’. ''Another feature of the Astral planes is the access to the Forgotten Ones. These entities are, basically, the gods of our genetic structure. They are the successful survival-factors that have been covered, in the individual and racial Unconscious, with the veneer of conscious Mind and civilization''. Later, she continues. > T*he Forgotten Ones are of Man's origins which have assisted us from the ocean to the cave. However, for a certain span of our unrecorded history, our survival-force was controlled and employed by entities from "beyond" our Universe*... *Alien beyond human imagining, they cannot truthfully be construed as evil. Their main purpose is to devour, and since their structure is incomparable with "our" Universe's physics, they can but eat by means of the life-forms native to our Universe.* In this form of magical mythology, she teaches us that the so-called ‘Forgotten Ones’ are both our allies and our enemies, just like the black mirror is our true guide. These primal instincts or ‘Forgotten Ones’ give us skills, virtues and powers by way of sublimation, but they are ready to destroy a malformed complexification back to dust. In her article, Nema proceeds to give some suggestions on how to deal with the Forgotten Ones, suggestions that may as well be valuable to our readers. > *The Magickian should be extremely cautious to maintain his consciousness at the balance between the suspension of Rational Mind and the detached surveillance of his actions by his Observer*. While the Forgotten Ones are in this way invited to express themselves freely, leaving less and less of the magician's sense of self, she then applies her technique of the black flame, similar to the vacancy of mind and the akashic trance of Bardon combined, nothing remaining. Then, she explains: > *In subsequent daily experience, he will become aware that a new balance has been struck. He has a new sense of unity with the under-currents of the life-flow and will find this of great use in nonverbal communication with others. Through his Art he will establish links with the Unconscious of others; he will assist them to meet the Forgotten Ones incontrolled circumstances that will do no harm. He is also ready to begin work on a world-scale. The Forgotten Ones have access to Man on the astral planes, mainly in the dream-state. Those sections of humanity who exist in starvation conditions, in poverty that has practically negated civilised consciousness, are the hunger-gates of the Forgotten Ones. These starvelings have thin, if indeed any, barriers between the waking (reason) and dreaming (primal drive) states. Their physical strength may be too depleted for the bearing of arms, but theirs is the massed power of the Forgotten Ones. The demon-conflicts of the fortunate nations (the "chosen" of the bright gods) are petty when compared with the dark powers gathering within the hunger of the starving.* In the hope that such notions have further clarified our concept of the soul mirrors and the use of the ‘Forgotten Ones,’ we shall move forward. We have discussed two mirrors made in the image of mankind's instincts. On the alternative black mirror we will, therefore, place some of these instincts, and on the white mirror, the powers and virtues that sublimate them or that arise out of their sublimation. When the magician has read Bardon's take on the soul mirror, he may follow with us at the start of this long journey, being sure that he will be able to understand the words and their intrinsic logic. **Black Mirror Root Instincts** | **Element** | **Active Root** | **Passive Root** | | ----------- | --------------- | ---------------- | | **Fire** | Fight or Flight | God-hunger | | **Air** | Speech | Curiosity | | **Water** | Clanning | Altruism | | **Earth** | Sex | Hunger | -  The fire element represents fight-or-flight as an active root and God-hunger as a passive root. -  The air element represents speech as the active root and curiosity as the passive root. -  The water element represents clanning as the active root and altruism as the passive root. -  The earth element represents sex as the active root and hunger as the passive root. White Mirror Root Powers and Virtues | **Element** | **Active Root** | **Passive Root** | | ----------- | --------------- | ---------------- | | **Fire** | Command and Speed | Transcendence | | **Air** | Communication | Discernment | | **Water** | Bonding and Love | Compassion | | **Earth** | Allure & Fascination | Stability & Learning | -  The fire element represents command and speed as the active roots and transcendence as the passive root. -  The air element represents communication as the active root and discernment as to the passive root. -  The water element represents bonding and love as the active roots and compassion as the passive root. -  The earth element represents allure and fascination as the active roots and stability and learning as the passive roots. The instincts in the black mirror communicate among themselves, and the powers and virtues in the white mirror do the same. Additionally, white and black mirrors interact not only individually but globally to cause balance through cause and effect in the world at large. The faults include inadequate responses to the outlined instincts and the virtues adequate responses to the powers derived from those instincts. We will later change the scale and our root references, for we intend to make this work as a system of practical magick and initiation into adepthood. But for now, we will leave the reader with an example, so that while he is purifying and balancing the elements on himself he is also working with the root and global instincts. The attributes with which we fill our tables are but a starting point: remember that Franz Bardon speaks of at least 100 faults and 100 qualities, and has the magician complete the writing of the soul mirror in the course of two weeks --- # Interview with Virgil Discussing The Christian Hermetics Project Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/interview-with-virgil-discussing-the-christian-hermetics-project/ #### FALCON BOOKS INTERVIEWS ## EXPLORING ENLIGHTENED LIVING  THROUGH HERMETIC MEDITATION AND BEYOND. Falcon Books is presenting a series of interviews with seasoned Hermetic practitioners to offer not only their wisdom, knowledge and understanding, and an insight into their own journey,  but also to offer inspiration to those on this path. The focus of these discussions are guided towards the spiritual seeker. ## The Christian Hermetics Project - **FB: What is the purpose of the Christian Hermetics project?** **Virgil**: The Christian Hermetics project is actually intended to fulfill several purposes, but its primary purpose is to share the essence of the spiritual wisdom and power of Christianity with the wider Bardon community. To understand the importance of this purpose, it helps to reflect on the following passage from William Mistele’s commentary on the Step 1 mental exercises. *Do not become discouraged. Realize, however, that this line of practice is possibly the most difficult thing on earth to master. After all, in book one (IIH) you are preparing to internalize in yourself the essence of all spiritual wisdom and power that exist on this planet.* At this time, there are already numerous Bardonists who are trying to internalize within themselves the essence of Buddhist wisdom/power, the essence of Taoist wisdom/power, and the essence of yogic wisdom/power. You can tell because if you go onto any given Bardon forum, posts mentioning Eastern spiritual traditions are usually a dime a dozen. This is very much a good thing. These Eastern traditions are viewed by Bardonists as repositories of great spiritual wisdom and power, and they certainly are. Christianity, however, is often viewed differently. It’s no secret that there is a bit of a stigma associated with Christianity in the occult/esoteric/magical world. Back when I was active on Reddit, one subreddit I posted a lot on was [r/ChristianOccultism](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChristianOccultism/). If you take a look at the description of that subreddit, you will see that it is “a safe place for occultists exiled by Christians and Christians exiled by occultists.” Another similar subreddit, [r/ChristianWitch](https://www.reddit.com/r/christianwitch/), describes itself as “a safe haven for those who identify as a Christian Witch and/or practice Christian Witchcraft.” Within the occult/esoteric/magical world, you do not see safe places and safe havens for Buddhists, Hindus, yogis, or qigong practitioners, but you do see these safe places and safe havens for Christians, and this is because of the stigma associated with Christianity. One consequence of this stigma is that many Bardonists shy away from internalizing within themselves the essence of Christian wisdom/power. This is a mistake. In his commentary, William does not say we internalize within ourselves the essence of the non-Christian spiritual wisdom and power that exist on this planet, but that we internalize within ourselves the essence of all spiritual wisdom and power that exist on this planet. Unless we internalize within ourselves the essence of Christian spiritual wisdom and power, we will not have internalized within ourselves the essence of all spiritual wisdom and power that exist on this planet, and we will always be missing something. Those Bardonists interested in internalizing within themselves the essence of Christian spiritual wisdom and power will hopefully find some guidance through the Christian Hermetics project. **2**. **FB: What is a Christian approach to IIH?** **Virgil**: To answer this question, let’s begin with the fact that those who choose to work through IIH generally know, at least to some degree, that the things Bardon writes in his books are true. No one ever says “This Bardon guy is full of crap but I’m going to work through IIH anyway.” If you know that the things Bardon writes in his books are true, then you know that magical training empowers one to be of great assistance to others. It provides the magician with useful magical skills and abilities, it gives him access to inner plane resources, and it allows him to safely interact with spirits who possess knowledge that has never been shared in the outer world before. All of this has important implications because there are currently many people who are in need of assistance. As of now, [1.89 billion people](https://www.worldvision.org/sponsorship-news-stories/global-poverty-facts) live in extreme poverty, [40.3 million people](https://humantraffickinghotline.org/what-human-trafficking/human-trafficking/victims) are victims of human trafficking, and [690 million people](https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/world-hunger-facts-statistics) are affected by world hunger. Over [half of the world’s population](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/09/half-of-the-world-s-population-lack-access-to-essential-health-services-are-we-doing-enough/) lacks access to basic medical services that many of us living in developed countries take for granted. Ethnic groups like the [Uighurs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17oCQakzIl8) are being persecuted in inhumane ways; they are locked in camps, beaten with shock sticks, and given water mixed with acid to drink. Furthermore, in the United States alone, the number of children discovered each year to be victims of child abuse would fill [ten football stadiums](https://www.childhelp.org/child-abuse-statistics/). For some spiritual seekers, all of these suffering individuals are nameless faces whose suffering is no one’s business but their own, and the numbers I’ve mentioned are of no interest to them and of no relevance to their lives. In fact, some spiritual traditions even teach that we should not get caught up in the world by helping others, and that we should instead focus on our own spiritual evolution. What Christianity teaches, however, is something very different and very radical. It teaches that all of these suffering individuals are our brothers and sisters, since we all share the same Heavenly Father, and that we should love these brothers and sisters of ours even as our own selves. According to Jesus Christ, all of those who are living in extreme poverty, victims of human trafficking, or affected by world hunger are our brothers and sisters. All of the Uighurs, the Rohingya, and the members of any other persecuted ethnic groups are our brothers and sisters. All of those children who suffer at the hands of abusive parents, all of those without access to adequate medical care, all of those affected by water scarcity or environmental injustices, and all of those who are victims of hate crimes or acts of terrorism are our brothers and sisters. This idea that we are all brothers and sisters, and that we are to love our brothers and sisters even as our own selves, is part of the wisdom of Christianity. It is also the basis for any Christian approach to IIH. Christ told us very explicitly that we should lay down our lives for our friends in the following passage from the Gospel of John. *This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:12-13)* This passage is a summary of what it means to follow a Christian approach to IIH. It means engaging in serious magical training as a way of laying down your life for your friends. All of our fellow humans are our brothers and sisters, and therefore our friends. When we train, we train for all of our fellow humans, and we lay down our lives for them. If we did not do this, we would not love them as our own selves. Let’s consider what it means to engage in serious magical training as a way of laying down your life for your friends. According to William Mistele, “if you are going to acquire genuine divine powers from practicing magic, then it is a really good idea at the outset to have some sort of divine purpose for which you are going to apply those powers.” Let’s say your divine purpose is to work with Hyrmiua (26° Virgo) to help those suffering from mental illnesses. Every time you refrain from watching Netflix so you can practice the exercises of IIH, you are laying down your life for those suffering from mental illnesses. Every time you refrain from spending the afternoon on Facebook so you can practice the exercises of IIH instead, you are laying down your life for those suffering from mental illnesses. Every time you refrain from going to a fun party so you can practice the exercises of IIH instead, you are laying down your life for those suffering from mental illnesses. Every time you refrain from daydreaming so you can practice mindfulness instead, you are laying down your life for those suffering from mental illnesses. Every time you resist eating a sugary doughnut or greasy pizza because you know that good physical health is conducive to magical advancement, you are laying down your life for those suffering from mental illnesses. The same goes for those whose divine purpose is to work with Harkinon (17° Sagittarius) to help those who are abandoned or hated. Every time you refrain from watching porn and masturbating so you can practice the exercises of IIH instead, you are laying down your life for those who are abandoned or hated. Every time you refrain from watching funny videos on YouTube so you can practice the exercises of IIH instead, you are laying down your life for those who are abandoned or hated. Every time you refrain from gossiping so you can practice the exercises of IIH instead, you are laying down your life for those who are abandoned or hated. If there is a really interesting book on runes out there that you really want to read but you decide to read a book on mindfulness instead because you know it is more relevant to you at your current stage of training, then you lay down your life for those who are abandoned or hated when you choose to read the book on mindfulness instead of the book on runes. ![Interview with Virgil Discussing The Christian Hermetics Project love (2)](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/love-2.jpg) **3**. **FB: Is love essential to a Christian approach to IIH?** **Virgil:** Yes, and any approach that does not incorporate love will not even resemble a Christian approach, let alone be a Christian approach. But the love that is essential to any Christian approach to IIH is genuine love, which is love that is selfless and unconditional, and that does not arise from egotism in any way. I think the following anecdote from Sundar Singh, as recorded in the book [*Wisdom of the Sadhu*](http://glorytoglory.pbworks.com/f/WisdomSadhu.pdf), does a good job of illustrating genuine love. > *Once, as I traveled through the Himalayas, there was a great forest fire. Everyone was frantically trying to fight the fire, but I noticed a group of men standing and looking up into a tree that was about to go up in flames. When I asked them what they were looking at, they pointed up at a nest full of young birds. Above it, the mother bird was circling wildly in the air and calling out warnings to her young ones. There was nothing she or we could do, and soon the flames started climbing up the branches. * > *As the nest caught fire, we were all amazed to see how the mother bird reacted. Instead of flying away from the flames, she flew down and settled on the nest, covering her little ones with her wings. The next moment, she and her nestlings were burnt to ashes. None of us could believe our eyes. I turned to those standing by and said: “We have witnessed a truly marvelous thing. God created that bird with such love and devotion, that she gave her life trying to protect her young. If her small heart was so full of love, how unfathomable must be the love of her Creator. That is the love that brought him down from heaven to become man. That is the love that made him suffer a painful death for our sake.”* The love displayed by the mother bird in this incident was genuine love, the sort of love we as Christians try to cultivate. But cultivating love can be tricky because there are many vices that often masquerade as love even though they arise from egotism and are therefore contrary to love. One such vice is a savior complex. I once knew a spiritual seeker who had an enormous savior complex. He was perennially trapped in a dynamic known as the Karpman drama triangle. He of course played the rescuer role in the triangle, and in order to keep him stuck in the triangle, the sitra achra would constantly send him new victims whom he could save. He believed that God was sending him these people as a sign that he was born to be a savior to others, and this idea soon went to his head and his egotism grew exponentially. Usually, when an aspiring magician’s egotism grows exponentially, it’s because they work with the fire element or the cosmic letters prematurely. This guy didn’t even need to do that in order for his egotism to grow so rapidly. Another vice that often masquerades as love is something John of the Cross calls spiritual gluttony. Some people eat a lot of food because they like to experience the good feelings, or “foodgasms,” that come with stuffing oneself. Similarly, some people practice spiritual exercises, especially those that involve messing around with the anahata chakra, because these spiritual exercises can produce blissful feelings of “love” within them and they are addicted to these feelings. Such people do not possess the sort of genuine love that Christ had and was trying to teach. They are like the yogis William criticizes who “are so overwhelmed with a bliss more enticing than heroin that they couldn’t care less for the suffering of humanity.” 4. **FB: Does a Christian approach to IIH have advantages?** **Virgil:** Every sensible approach to IIH has its own unique advantages, and Christian approaches are no exception. To understand the primary advantage of following a Christian approach to IIH, it might be helpful to think about the following anecdote from Sundar Singh, also from the book *Wisdom of the Sadhu*. *Once when travelling in Tibet, I was crossing a high mountain pass with my Tibetan guide. The weather had suddenly turned bitterly cold, and my companion and I feared that we might not make it to the next village – still several miles away – before succumbing to the frost. * *Suddenly, we stumbled upon a man who had slipped from the path and was lying in the snow. Looking more closely, I discovered that the man was still alive, though barely. “Come,” I said to my companion, “help me try to bring this unfortunate man to safety.” But my companion was upset and frightened for his life. He answered: “If we try to carry that man, none of us will ever reach the village. We will all freeze. Our only hope is to go on as quickly as possible, and that is what I intend to do. You will come with me if you value your life.” Without another word and without looking back, he set off down the path. * *I could not bring myself to abandon the helpless traveler while life remained in him, so I lifted him on my back and threw my blanket around us both as best I could. Slowly and painstakingly, I picked my way along the steep, slippery path with my heavy load. Soon it began to snow, and I could make out the way forward only with great difficulty. * *How we made it, I do not know. But just as daylight was beginning to fade, the snow cleared and I could see houses a few hundred yards ahead. Near me, on the ground, I saw the frozen body of my guide. Nearly within shouting distance of the village, he had succumbed to the cold and died, while the unfortunate traveler and I made it to safety. The exertion of carrying him and the contact of our bodies had created enough heat to save us both. This is the way of service. No one can live without the help of others, and in helping others, we receive help ourselves.* During this incident, Sundar Singh displayed something known as the spirit of sacrifice. The spirit of sacrifice is at the heart of Christianity and is one of the things that makes Christianity unique. It arises from the love which is the foundation of any Christian approach to IIH, and of Christianity in general. We believe that acting in the spirit of sacrifice is the best way to merit God’s grace and God’s help in anything we do, including our magical training. Saint Paisios of Mount Athos was one individual who always lived in the spirit of sacrifice. Kyriacos Markides’s book *The Mountain of Silence* is fairly popular among Christian Bardonists, and is often where they usually first learn about Saint Paisios, since the book begins with an account of one the many healing miracles effected by this saint for those who sought his help. In the book *Spiritual Counsels II: Spiritual Awakening*, there are two chapters dedicated to Saint Paisios’s teachings about the spirit of sacrifice (chapter 5 of Part II and chapter 2 of Part III). In these chapters, Saint Paisios explains that nothing moves God more than the spirit of sacrifice, and therefore those who live in the spirit of sacrifice will often find miracles worked for their benefit. Thus, those who work through IIH in the spirit of sacrifice will find miracles worked for them to help them with their training. Anyone who intends to follow a Christian approach to IIH should study these two chapters very often and very carefully until they have fully assimilated the information contained within them. Nothing is more important than the spirit of sacrifice. Without this spirit, one’s approach to IIH may be Christianity-themed, but it will not be Christian. **5.** **FB: Is humility essential to a Christian approach to IIH?** **Virgil:** Yes. As Christians, our motivation to work through IIH, or to do anything else in life, must come from love. Without humility, one cannot have love. One can certainly have a savior complex, but one cannot have love. If our motivation to work through IIH comes from genuine love, then the efforts we make towards working through IIH will take us closer and closer to adepthood. But if our motivation to work through IIH comes from a savior complex, then the efforts we make towards working through IIH will take us deeper and deeper into a state of prelest. **6. FB: Is humility only necessary for those who are following a Christian approach to IIH, or is it necessary for all Bardonists regardless of what approach they are following?** **Virgil: **In his book *Magic: The* *Principles of Higher Knowledge*, Karl von Eckartshausen writes “The door through which human beings enter into the Temple of Wisdom is very straight. Those who are bloated with arrogance will not be able to pass through this narrow door. Also, those who will not bend and bow their heads will not be able to enter because this door is made for humbleness and innocence.” All Bardonists are trying to reach the Holy of Holies at the center of the same Temple of Wisdom. There isn’t one Temple of Wisdom for Christian Bardonists and then another one for Buddhist Bardonists and then another one for Hindu Bardonists. Every Bardonist’s magical training begins upon passing through the door of the Temple of Wisdom, and one cannot pass through this door without humility. Therefore, humility is for all Bardonists regardless of what sort of approach to IIH they are following. Without it, they cannot even begin their magical training. **7. FB: Is humility still necessary after one has passed through the door of the Temple of Wisdom?** **Virgil:** Humility is the antidote to prelest. As long as there is the danger of falling into prelest, humility is necessary. No one, regardless of their religion or level of advancement, is immune to prelest, so this is one reason humility is always necessary. In addition to this, the inside of the Temple of Wisdom has many mazes and pitfalls, so anyone who enters needs a guide. In *Magic: The* *Principles of Higher Knowledge*, Karl von Eckartshausen also writes “Humility alone is the best guide. This alone will lead the seeker to the Master of Teachers of all Secrets.” **8**. **FB: Is a Christian approach to IIH for everyone?** **Virgil:** In several of his writings, William Mistele states that each of the 365 ruling genii of the Earth-zone could teach IIH in their own unique way, so this means there are numerous possible approaches to IIH. No approach or category of approaches is for everyone, so a Christian approach isn’t for everyone. While working through IIH as a way of laying down one’s life for others may appeal to many people as an idea, in practice a large portion of those people will understandably avoid this approach once they learn what laying down one’s life for others really entails. One of the best sources of practical guidance for those following a Christian approach to IIH is chapter 13 of Book I of *Ascent of Mount Carmel*. In that chapter, John of the Cross writes the following. *Strive always to prefer, not that which is easiest, but that which is most difficult;* *Not that which is most delectable, but that which is most unpleasing;* *Not that which gives most pleasure, but rather that which gives least;* *Not that which is restful, but that which is wearisome;* *Not that which is consolation, but rather that which is disconsolateness;* *Not that which is greatest, but that which is least;* *Not that which is loftiest and most precious, but that which is lowest and most despised;* *Not that which is a desire for anything, but that which is a desire for nothing;* *Strive to go about seeking not the best of temporal things, but the worst.* *Strive thus to desire to enter into complete detachment and emptiness and poverty, with respect to everything that is in the world, for Christ’s sake.* Christianity teaches that Christ can be found in all people, so anything done for others is done for Christ’s sake. Some people may read John of the Cross’s words and say to themselves “This really resonates with me. It is just what I needed to read in order to stop chasing after pleasures and spend my time practicing the exercises of IIH instead, even when I am feeling tired, or when I’d prefer to be on social media, or when I’m not in the mood to practice.” These people will likely find that a Christian approach to IIH is a good fit for them. But other people will read these same words and say to themselves “This guy is crazy. As far as I can tell, he’s just straight-up telling me to have a bad time. Who in their right mind would follow an approach to IIH that is based on having a bad time?” These people will likely find that a Christian approach to IIH is not a good fit for them. **FB: What role does prayer have in a Christian approach to IIH?** **Virgil:** Prayer is an essential part of any Christian approach to IIH, and any approach that does not incorporate a large amount of prayer cannot be called a Christian approach. In terms of inspiration, a Christian approach to IIH can be described as an approach centered on working through IIH as a way of laying down your life for your fellow humans. In terms of practice, a Christian approach to IIH can be described as an approach centered on harnessing the power of prayer to accelerate one’s advancement through IIH. In his book *The Roots of Christian Mysticism*, there is a section in which Olivier Clement describes how prayer eventually becomes something you are rather than something you do. In this section, Clement mentions ascetics who became “pillars of prayer” wandering through the desert. Some of those living in the South and the Midwest are familiar with the sight of powerful tornados advancing unhindered and easily ripping apart the buildings, bridges, and other structures standing in their way. This is what the Christian Bardonist who has become a pillar of prayer is like as he advances toward adepthood. Nothing can stop him or even slow him down. He is a spiritual force of nature. Prayer is a simple activity, but it is also a profound art. It is an interesting art because on the one hand, it is something that even someone with no experience can do without any training. On the other hand, however, it takes years to master. There are many good books on prayer that one can resort to for guidance, including the ones I mention frequently in my writings, such as *The Art of Prayer*, *Prayer of the Heart in Christian and Sufi Mysticism*, and all of the books written by Teresa of Avila, the Doctor of Prayer. Anyone who has attained theosis is certainly a valuable source of guidance when it comes to mastering the art of prayer, so this would include any advanced hesychasts, many of whom trained on Mount Athos. Saint Paisios of Mount Athos was one such hesychast who attained theosis, and the chapter on prayer in the aforementioned book *Spiritual Counsels II: Spiritual Awakening* contains a lot of good advice on the subject. **9**. **FB: What role does Mary have for those following a Christian approach to IIH?** **Virgil**: The various forms of spirituality developed by humanity are sometimes divided into two categories – esoteric and exoteric. Magic is an esoteric form of spirituality. In the Christian tradition, esoteric spirituality is often associated with the Apostle John and exoteric spirituality is often associated with the Apostle Peter. When Jesus was dying on the cross, he gave Mary to John as a mother and told John that he was now her son. Since John was the representative of those following the esoteric path, this indicates that Mary is the mother of those following the esoteric path. Like any mother, she loves us, teaches us, supports us, and protects us. Now, that being said, we should not make the grave mistake of thinking that those who follow an exoteric path instead of an esoteric path are not children of Mary and cannot rely on her for guidance, support, and protection. The steps leading up to the Temple of Wisdom are still part of the temple, so they are just as much the spiritual children of Mary as we are, and anyone who claims otherwise is speaking nonsense. However, by giving Mary to John instead of Peter, Jesus was hinting at something very important. Mary is not just our spiritual mother. She is also an initiator, appointed by the incarnate Logos himself, who can lead us to the center of the Temple of Wisdom and reveal to us the secrets of esotericism. It is for this reason that we venerate her and seek to build a good relationship with her. For us she truly is the Mystical Rose, the Seat of Wisdom and the new Ark of the Covenant. **10**. **FB: What role does the Rosary have for those following a Christian approach to IIH?** **Virgil: **The Christian Bardonist will always make a serious effort to work through IIH, because he knows that becoming a magician will put him in a better position to serve his fellow humans, all of whom are his brothers and sisters, and many of whom are suffering as a result of extreme poverty, world hunger, water scarcity, the negative consequences of climate change, air pollution, war, etc. Making a serious effort to work through IIH means making a serious effort to break down the barriers standing between oneself and the completion of IIH. For those who are able to employ the Rosary, meaning the Rosary resonates with them and they recognize its power, this necessitates employing the Rosary. For such Bardonists, any effort to work through IIH that does not involve using the power of the Rosary to break down the aforementioned barriers cannot really be considered a serious effort, or even a sincere one. Imagine that you are trying to break down a brick wall with your fists even though you have easy access to a cannon. Would anyone say your effort to break down the wall is a serious or sincere effort? The Rosary is the supreme weapon of the Mother of God, the Queen of Heaven and Earth. To take up the Rosary is to say “I genuinely love all of my fellow human beings, who are all my brothers and sisters, and I will do whatever is needed to become the sort of person who can greatly assist them with their pains and struggles. I am determined to strike down, in the most efficient manner possible, whatever obstacles stand in my way as I make the journey from being an aspiring magician to being an actual magician.” **12. FB: Can non-Christian Bardonists benefit from the Christian Hermetics articles you write?** **Virgil:** During his Stoa lectures, [Daskalos](http://www.theosis.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=90:martha-and-maria&lang=en) would say to his audience “If you come here as a Buddhist, or a Hindu, a Jew, a Muslim, or whatever, please leave here as one; but a real one, who knows and practices his faith.” It is the same idea with my articles. I hope the Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim Bardonists who read my articles remain Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim Bardonists. But, I also hope they think about what it really means to be a Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, or Muslim Bardonist. Many times, people learn that there is esoteric knowledge concealed within the Apocalypse of John, or they hear rumors of Rosicrucian lineages guarding alchemical secrets, or they read about the incredible magical skills and abilities possessed by Christian adepts like Daskalos, and they want to be a part of all this so they begin calling themselves Christians. However, they make no effort to live their lives in a way that reflects love. Their behavior, both in the online and in the offline world, remains the same as what it was before they supposedly became Christians. In the most recent email I sent to those subscribed to the Christian Hermetics email list, I pointed out that even an action as small as using Facebook’s laugh react feature to mock others is an action that goes against the virtue of love, and is therefore something no Christian Bardonist would do. Some people might not think twice about using the Facebook laugh react to mock others, since it seems like such a little thing compared to murder, sexual assault, and other ways of hurting others, but Christ tells us that “He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much” (Luke 16:10). We must pay attention to the little ways we hurt others as well as the big ways. That said, this advice is not just good for Christian Bardonists. Love has a place in all religions. Some religions may not emphasize love as much as Christianity does. For example, Theravada Buddhism emphasizes detachment much more than it does love; but metta and karuna, which are two of the brahmaviharas, are expressions of love, so love still has a place in Theravada Buddhism. The same goes for the other religions that do not emphasize love as much as Christianity does. Love may not be the essence of those religions like it is with Christianity, but it is still a component of those religions. No one needs to convert to Christianity in order to take love seriously, but they can still benefit from Christ’s teachings on love, since love is love. It is universal, and this does not change regardless of who is teaching about it. **13.** **FB: Do you have any general advice for those seeking to internalize in themselves the essence of all spiritual wisdom and power that exist on this planet?** **Virgil:** Every time you begin to study a new spiritual tradition, study it in the state of mind known as shoshin. Otherwise, all you will do is compare what you are learning to the spiritual traditions you are already familiar with, and therefore, it will be harder for you to see the unique aspects of the new spiritual tradition you are studying. The essence of a spiritual tradition’s wisdom and power is often what makes it unique, so you may miss this essence. **14.** **FB: Do you have any advice for those seeking to internalize in themselves the essence of Christian wisdom and power?** **Virgil:** If you internalize within yourself the spirit of sacrifice, you will have internalized within yourself a large part of the essence of Christian wisdom and power. The spirit of sacrifice is not internalized through reading about it, but through prayer and through living in this spirit. Therefore, pray often for God to help you develop the unconditional love that produces the spirit of sacrifice, and do your best to live in this spirit. If you are not Christian, then living in the spirit of sacrifice does not have to become your default way of life, nor do you need to force yourself to live in this spirit permanently. However, you should live in this spirit long enough to internalize it. Throughout your magical career, you will find yourself in a wide variety of situations. Dealing with some situations may require you to bring forth the essence of Taoist wisdom/power. Dealing with other situations may require you to bring forth the essence of Druid, Sufi, or Kabbalistic wisdom/power. If you don’t internalize the spirit of sacrifice, you won’t be able to bring it forth if you find yourself dealing with a situation where you’ll need the essence of Christian wisdom/power. **15**. **FB: Besides sharing the essence of Christian wisdom and power with the wider Bardon community, are there any other purposes the Christian Hermetics project is designed to fulfill?** **Virgil:** Christianity is more than just its essence, so not every article I write will be about unconditional love or the spirit of sacrifice. Like every religion, Christian contains many worlds. There is a whole world within the sermons of Meister Eckhart, as well as a whole world within the *Dialogue* of Catherine of Siena. There is also a whole world within Salesian spirituality, a whole world within the *Philokalia*, a whole world within Franciscan mysticism, a whole world within the teachings of the Desert Fathers, and several whole worlds within the sermons and divinely-inspired fairy tales of George MacDonald. Christian Bardonists exploring these worlds will find many spiritual treasures that can help them with their training, but since some of these worlds are extremely vast, it is easy to get lost in them. While getting lost may be part of the fun, I do think it helps to have at least a few maps you can use to reorient yourself from time to time if you need to. I hope to produce some maps of the various worlds in the Christian universe for Christian Bardonists, especially of the worlds of Carmelite and Athonite mysticism, which I believe are two of the worlds that contain the most spiritual treasures for Bardonists. **16.** **FB: Do you have any advice for those following a Christian approach to IIH?** **Virgil:** There are many times throughout your training when you may feel some discomfort, pain, or sorrow. For example, if you wake up early in the morning during the winter so you can meditate, you may feel discomfort because of the cold. If you have a headache but force yourself to remain mindful instead of allowing yourself to escape into a daydream, you may feel pain because of the headache. If you know that good health is conducive to magical advancement so you make an effort to improve your health, you may feel discomfort while exercising or sorrow when turning down free doughnuts. 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Because it is my main seat, I started with art, which I dedicated to Venus. This article is dedicated to the fire element to which I will give the art of pyrotechnics conjoined with meditation, mental wandering, and conjuration. The basics of the practices that follow have been taught to me by Oriman, written integrally in the Book of Elementals (for future release at Falcon Books) and further adapted to this article. ### Earth On the following elements, the base of the pyramid is for the adept to perfectly master his transference of consciousness to the lit fire. This and only this will make the practice work to its fullness. The meditation of the earth element concerning fire is attained if the magician succeeds in keeping his consciousness in the fire all the way until it dies and is absorbed by coal, in which case the magician will find his consciousness to be in the coal. The earth stage of fire is achieved together with an acute consciousness of the solid awareness inherent to will.  Additionally, for conjuration, the magician can contain copper sulfate in wax, through mixing and cooling, wrap it inside a paper cup, and throw it into the lit fire as this will open the elemental kingdom of the earth, but the magician must keep his consciousness in the fire at all times. ### Water The best state for the bonfire is when it lays low and bluish, more or less at the level of the surface. The magician may now use powdered aluminum instead of copper sulfate.  ### Air The fire should be expanding and releasing sparks into the air. Copper chloride is to be used. ### Fire The fire should be high and raging. Strontium chloride will open up the elemental kingdom of fire and potentiate the conjurations of fire. Remember to have it in wax and wrapped in paper cup. The fire will become red, while in the element of air it becomes blue, in the element of water it becomes silver and in the element of earth it becomes green. ### Akasha Open up the nature of the fire to the akasha by adding, in the same manner as before, 3 parts potassium sulfate and 1 part potassium nitrate to make the flame become violet. Remember that you are the flame. From there on, a mental effect is caused by small sparks, they can be triggered by sugar. Astral effects can be caused by sparkly flashes, they can be triggered by coffee creamer. Physical effects can be caused by flash flame, it can be triggered by regular flour.  ### Moon There are four known types of shadow. The hard shadow is resonant with the earth element, the soft shadow is resonant with the air element. The specular shadow is resonant with the fire element and diffuse with the water element. 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Tracing his path from childhood paralysis to becoming a respected teacher of Hung Gar kung fu, Sifu Gam reveals how embodying martial arts principles enabled him to find balance and inner strength amidst hardship. Offering insightful reflections on topics ranging from mindfulness, discipline and holistic wellbeing to the integration of Eastern and Western approaches to health, Sifu Gam distills a wealth of wisdom into an accessible and engaging narrative. Master of Mastery provides a window into the mind and experiences of an extraordinary teacher while illuminating the transformative power of martial arts philosophy. Through relatable anecdotes and lucid explanations of core concepts, Sifu Gam demonstrates how we can apply the lessons of the martial arts in our own lives to overcome challenges, foster personal growth and live with greater purpose and harmony. ## Interview ### Early Years - Learning to Walk **RHP: In your description of learning to walk as a very focused, conscious activity rather than an automatic process, you mention how this shaped your perspective on walking compared to most people. How do you think this early experience influenced your observational skills and attention to detail when analyzing human movement?** During my early years, learning to walk was not a natural or automatic process for me. Unlike most infants who gradually develop the necessary muscle strength, balance, and coordination to walk, I lacked lower body strength and had no concept of balance or taking steps. As a result, my experience of learning to walk was a highly focused and conscious activity rather than an innate ability. This unique journey of mine had a profound impact on my observational skills and attention to detail when analyzing human movement. While other individuals might take walking for granted as a fundamental skill acquired effortlessly during infancy, I had to approach it systematically and meticulously. Every aspect of movement, from muscle engagement to weight distribution, became a subject of intense scrutiny. My heightened awareness of the intricate mechanics of walking allowed me to observe and appreciate the vast array of walking styles and techniques employed by different individuals. I became attuned to the subtle nuances that distinguish one person's gait from another's. This acute attention to detail not only enhanced my understanding of human movement but also enriched my ability to analyze and interpret the nuances of various physical activities. By necessity, I developed a keen eye for observing others' movements and an inherent curiosity to explore the mechanics behind them. This extended beyond walking and encompassed a broader range of human motion. Whether it was running, jumping, or even simple gestures, I found myself captivated by the intricacies of how our bodies move through space. Over time, this focused observation and analysis became second nature to me. I honed my ability to discern the subtleties of human movement, unraveling the underlying mechanics that shape our physical actions. This attention to detail and heightened observational skillset have greatly informed my perspective on human movement and continue to shape my understanding of the complexities of the human body. **RHP: You credit Master Chan's physical exercises and training for helping strengthen your leg and gain mobility. What specific exercises and training methods did he prescribe during your rehabilitation? Why was building strength in your leg so foundational to learning how to walk?** Master Chan's prescribed physical exercises and training methods played a crucial role in my leg rehabilitation and the regaining of mobility. His approach focused on addressing the specific challenges I faced due to my years of immobility in a wheelchair. The exercises were designed to rebuild neural connections, develop muscular strength and awareness, and restore balance and coordination. To begin with, Master Chan emphasized the importance of the mind-body connection in movement. This is a fundamental principle in Hung Gar. He understood that neural development was paramount in engaging and controlling movement effectively. Years of limited mobility had hindered the development of neural signaling, the linking of neural circuits, and the motor control of my legs and feet. Additionally, my sense of position and overall balance had been compromised. So the first step in my rehabilitation was to reestablish these neural links. The training program gradually built up to address these fundamental aspects. It started with exercises aimed at developing muscular awareness. I had to learn to consciously engage and feel the muscles in my legs, which had become weak and underutilized. Through targeted movements and specific techniques, I gradually gained a heightened sense of muscular activation and control. As my muscular awareness improved, the focus shifted toward building strength and mobility. Master Chan introduced exercises that targeted the leg muscles, gradually increasing the intensity and difficulty over time. These exercises included a combination of resistance training, stretching, and functional movements that mimicked the actions involved in walking. The gradual progression of these exercises was crucial because it allowed my body to adapt and adjust to the increasing demands. It enabled me to regain muscular strength and coordination while minimizing the risk of overexertion or injury. The emphasis was not just on developing the leg muscles but also on integrating them into a cohesive whole-body movement pattern, as is the case in Hung Gar. Building strength in my leg was foundational to learning how to walk because walking requires a complex orchestration of neural signaling, muscular coordination, balance, and proprioception. By developing the neural links and gradually building up muscular awareness and strength, I was able to reestablish the necessary connections and control needed for walking. **RHP: You said deciding how to place your feet and distribute weight was the most complex part of learning to walk. As someone coming from a wheelchair, what key elements of foot placement and weight shifting proved most difficult? How did you eventually master these skills?** As someone transitioning from a wheelchair, mastering the key elements of foot placement and weight shifting proved to be a significant challenge in my journey to learn how to walk. These fundamental aspects, crucial for maintaining balance and executing movements, required careful attention and continuous adaptation. The lack of prior experience in weight-bearing activities and the absence of developed muscle strength and balance posed unique difficulties. Foot placement, in particular, presented challenges. Without a sense of balance or the muscle strength necessary for controlled foot movements, determining the appropriate placement became a process of trial and error. Similar to infants who gradually learn this skill through crawling, falling, and exploring their surroundings, I had to navigate this aspect of movement through experimentation and adaptation. Initially, my foot placements and weight shifting were inconsistent and unreliable. I had to rely on my limited sensory feedback and visual cues to guide my movements. Each step involved a conscious effort to gauge weight distribution and adjust foot placement to maintain stability. It required a constant reassessment and readjustment of my walking pattern as I strived to find a balance between stability and forward progression. Over time, as my neural connections strengthened and my muscles developed, I began to gain a better sense of balance and stability. However, mastering these skills was an ongoing process. I experienced a noticeable limp until the age of 16, and even then, I had to continuously adapt and refine my walking pattern. Through targeted exercises and repetitive practice, I gradually improved my ability to place my feet more strategically, distribute weight effectively, and maintain balance throughout the walking process. Additionally, cultivating a heightened sense of body awareness was crucial. I had to develop a deep understanding of my body's positioning, weight distribution, and movement patterns. This involved focused attention on the sensations and feedback from my feet, legs, and core muscles during each step. By honing this awareness and actively engaging in correcting my gait, I was able to make incremental improvements in foot placement and weight shifting over time. **RHP: It seems using crutches initially assisted you in building balance and strength before moving to a cane. What benefits and challenges came with using crutches as an intermediary step? How did they facilitate your transition?** Using crutches as an intermediary step in my journey towards walking independently brought both benefits and challenges. Crutches played a vital role in assisting me in building balance, strength, and coordination before transitioning to a cane. One of the primary benefits of using crutches was the balanced weight distribution they provided. By relying on the crutches for support, I could distribute my body weight evenly between my arms and legs. This balanced load-bearing reduced the strain on my legs and allowed me to gradually build up strength and endurance. Another advantage of using crutches was the more natural arm swinging motion they facilitated. As I moved with the crutches, my arms naturally swung back and forth, mimicking the typical arm movements observed during walking. This arm swinging not only added to the overall fluidity of my movements but also helped in maintaining balance and rhythm. Furthermore, crutches enabled me to engage my upper body in the walking process. By utilizing my arms and shoulders to support my weight, I could involve additional muscle groups and increase overall stability. This integration of the upper body in load-bearing tasks contributed to the development of strength and coordination throughout my entire body. However, using crutches also presented certain challenges. Initially, there was a learning curve associated with coordinating the movements of my arms and legs while maintaining balance. The synchrony required between the crutches and my leg movements demanded concentration and practice to achieve a smooth and seamless gait. Additionally, the use of crutches required increased upper body strength and endurance. The reliance on the arms and shoulders to bear weight and support mobility placed additional demands on these muscle groups. Over time, as I gradually built strength, the challenges associated with the physical exertion of using crutches diminished. The transition from crutches to a cane marked a significant milestone in my rehabilitation process. As my leg muscles strengthened, my balance improved, and my overall mobility increased, I was able to rely less on the crutches for support. The cane served as a more lightweight and less intrusive aid, providing a level of stability while allowing greater freedom of movement. Using crutches as an intermediary step provided several benefits in my journey towards independent walking. They offered balanced weight distribution, engaged the upper body in load bearing, facilitated natural arm swinging, and served as an initial stage for building muscle strength. However, using crutches also came with challenges, such as coordinating movements and developing upper body endurance. Ultimately, the transition from crutches to a cane signified progress in my rehabilitation, as Ultimately, the transition from crutches to a cane signified progress in my rehabilitation, as I gained greater strength, balance, and mobility. **RHP: You mention still having some physical differences between your legs but learning to mask your limp. What specific strategies and mental focus did you employ to adapt your gait and build coordination to conceal your limp to most observers?** To adapt my gait and build coordination in order to conceal my limp from most observers, I employed specific strategies and maintained a strong mental focus. While I still had some physical differences between my legs, such as hips not in horizontal alignment, one leg being shorter by an inch, limited hip rotation, and incomplete lower leg extension, I aimed to walk as normally as possible. The primary strategy I used was to be constantly mindful of how I was walking. I paid close attention to my posture, stride, and the movements of my legs and feet. I focused on emulating a normal walking pattern, similar to that of other people, and made a conscious effort to minimize any noticeable differences or irregularities in my gait. Maintaining this level of mental focus was essential. It required me to be present and attentive during every step I took. I had to continually remind myself to walk with a smooth, fluid motion and to avoid favoring one leg over the other. By consistently focusing on walking as normally as possible, I believe my biomechanics and alignments gradually adjusted to support what my mind was dictating. Over time, this mental focus and conscious effort had visible effects on my gait. I noticed changes such as pelvic rotation, different ankle and knee flexion, and variations in foot placement length. These adaptations were a result of the constant feedback loop between my mind and body, as I strived to achieve a more balanced and symmetrical walking pattern. I believe that the muscles, tendons, and ligaments in my legs adapted to this constant mental focus and the intentional adjustments I made in my gait. The mind-body connection played a crucial role in this process. By consistently reinforcing the desired walking pattern through mental focus, I believe my body gradually adapted and developed the necessary coordination and muscle control to support a more concealed limp. ### Hung Gar ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/What-is-hungar-1-1024x768.png) **RHP: You had the opportunity to train intensively with Grand Master Chiu Wai and Sifu Chiu Kwok Kei for a period of time. What core principles or insights about Hung Gar did you gain from them that you still apply in your teaching today?** During my intensive training with Grand Master Chiu Wai and Sifu Chiu Kwok Kei in Hung Gar, I experienced a significant expansion in my understanding of the art. It provided me with a broader perspective on Hung Gar, encompassing its principles, depth and breadth, cultural aspects, spiritual elements, and its impact on health. One of the key insights I gained was the importance of developing a well-rounded understanding of Hung Gar. It emphasized the need to delve deeper into the principles underlying the techniques, exploring the intricate connections between different movements and the underlying philosophy. This widened my scope and allowed me to appreciate the richness and complexity of the art. Both Grand Master Chiu Wai and Sifu Chiu Kwok Kei had well-developed muscular bodies, which served as a living testament to the effectiveness of Hung Gar training. They reinforced the significance of strong stances, stability, and a solid foundation. By emphasizing the importance of whole-body engagement, they taught me to channel power from the ground up, utilizing the legs, core, and upper body in a coordinated manner. This approach not only enhanced the effectiveness of techniques but also developed overall body strength and control. Another crucial aspect was the importance of health, body awareness, and development. They emphasized that Hung Gar training is not just about combat skills but also about cultivating a healthy body and mind. This encouraged me to be mindful of my body, to listen to its needs, and to develop a deep awareness of its movements and capabilities. This focus on health and body awareness is a valuable lesson that I continue to integrate into my teaching. Every person is unique, with their own strengths and weaknesses. Hung Gar has something to offer everyone, regardless of their physical attributes or abilities. This inclusive approach allowed me to appreciate the diversity within the martial art and tailor my teaching to accommodate individual needs and goals. **RHP: You mention that your observational skills and focus on balance and leg movements seemed to help you learn Hung Gar more easily than some others. How do you try to impart those same skills of observation and balance to your own students now?** To impart the skills of observation and balance to my own students, I employ various strategies and techniques aimed at developing their awareness and understanding of their body movements. Here are some of the approaches I use: Balance exercises and drills: I incorporate specific exercises and drills that target balance and stability. These may include standing on one leg, performing controlled weight shifts, or practicing balancing on unstable surfaces. By regularly engaging in these activities, students can improve their proprioception and develop a better sense of balance. Leg movement exercises: I integrate exercises that focus on leg movements, such as kicks, stances, and footwork drills. These exercises allow students to become more attuned to their leg positioning, weight distribution, and coordination. By repeatedly practicing these movements, students can refine their leg techniques and develop a greater sense of control and balance. Mindfulness and self-observation: I emphasize the importance of mindfulness during training sessions. I encourage students to be fully present and aware of their body and movements. By cultivating mindfulness, students can better observe their own posture, alignment, and balance. They learn to recognize any imbalances or weaknesses and make adjustments accordingly. Connecting the brain to movements: I emphasize the mind-body connection and encourage students to actively engage their minds in the execution of techniques. By consciously connecting their brain to their movements, students can enhance their coordination, control, and balance. This involves focusing on the specific muscle groups being used, visualizing the desired movements, and maintaining mental awareness throughout their practice. Observing others: I encourage students to observe not only themselves but also their training partners and fellow students. By watching others perform techniques, students can gain insights into different body mechanics, balance variations, and effective movements. This observational learning helps them develop a broader understanding of balance and leg movements and allows them to incorporate different approaches into their own practice. Continual reinforcement: I consistently reinforce the importance of observation and balance throughout my teaching. I provide regular feedback and guidance to students, reminding them to be mindful of their body positioning and balance. I create a supportive environment where students feel comfortable asking questions, seeking clarification, and actively engaging in self-observation. **RHP: Having taught both children and adults, what differences have you noticed in teaching Hung Gar to students of various ages and commitment levels? How have you adapted your teaching methods for contemporary students?** ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Gam-Bok-Yin-Demonstration.png) When teaching Hung Gar to students of different ages and commitment levels, I have observed distinct differences and have adapted my teaching methods accordingly. Here are some of the observations and adaptations I've made: Children: Children often come to martial arts classes with varying levels of discipline and motivation. They tend to be more focused on having fun and engaging in playful activities. To cater to their needs, I incorporate interactive and engaging exercises, games, and drills that make the learning process enjoyable for them. I provide positive reinforcement and create a supportive environment to keep them motivated. However, I have noticed that only a small percentage of children continue training in the long term due to changing interests or lack of sustained commitment. Adults: Teaching adults comes with a wide range of capabilities, health conditions, and motivations. Adults often have limited understanding of the challenges and dedication required in martial arts training. They may have different goals, such as self-defense, physical fitness, or stress relief. I adapt my teaching methods by providing clear explanations, setting realistic expectations, and tailoring training plans to suit individual needs. I focus on creating a positive and inclusive atmosphere that encourages adults to progress at their own pace. However, I have observed a relatively high dropout rate among adults due to busy schedules, competing priorities, or difficulty in maintaining long-term commitment. Challenged Individuals: Teaching individuals with specific challenges, such as age-related limitations, autism, or various health problems, requires additional adaptations. I make modifications to training techniques and exercises to accommodate their specific needs. I emphasize patience, encouragement, and adaptability to ensure their participation and progress in the martial arts journey. Contemporary Students: Contemporary students, regardless of age, often exhibit shorter attention spans, a preference for fast-paced activities, and a desire for immediate rewards. They can be more impatient and have a greater focus on competition rather than self-improvement. To meet their needs, I structure classes to include dynamic exercises and drills that keep them engaged. I provide frequent positive feedback and recognition to maintain their motivation. I also make efforts to highlight the practical applications of Hung Gar techniques in real-life situations to enhance their interest and relevance. Additionally, I recognize the importance of sustaining their motivation by incorporating elements of enjoyment and ensuring they see tangible benefits from their training. ### About Hung Gar **RHP: It's clear your early exposure to Hung Gar principles as a child, especially from Master Chan, shaped your path in life. What do you consider the most profound or lasting impacts it had on your worldview and personal development?** The early exposure to Hung Gar principles, particularly from Master Chan, had profound and lasting impacts on my worldview and personal development. Here are some of the key aspects that have shaped my journey. Hung Gar instilled in me the belief that with persistent effort and determination, I can overcome challenges and achieve success. This mindset of never giving up and embracing the belief that nothing is impossible has been instrumental in my personal development, enabling me to face obstacles with resilience and a positive outlook. The rigorous training in Hung Gar emphasized discipline and self-control. I learned to maintain composure and stay calm even in stressful situations. This discipline transcended the martial arts realm and positively influenced other areas of my life, allowing me to approach challenges with a focused and composed mindset. Hung Gar taught me the values of humility and respect. I developed a deep reverence for my teachers, the depth of knowledge within Hung Gar, and the learning process itself. This humility and respect have not only shaped my interactions with martial arts instructors but have also influenced my approach to learning from others in various aspects of life. Training in Hung Gar cultivated mental and physical resilience. Through hard training, I learned to push past my limits, endure physical discomfort, and develop a strong mind-body connection. This resilience has been invaluable in facing adversity and maintaining a balanced approach to challenges. Hung Gar instilled in me the understanding that the journey itself is as important as the destination. Rather than focusing solely on immediate outcomes, I learned to appreciate the process of growth, self-improvement, and skill development. This perspective has allowed me to embrace continuous learning and enjoy the ongoing journey of personal development. Hung Gar introduced me to the rich cultural heritage, philosophy, and principles associated with the martial art. This exposure broadened my worldview, deepened my understanding of traditional Chinese culture, and provided a framework for ethical and moral values that extend beyond martial arts practice. Hung Gar emphasizes the importance of a balanced lifestyle and holistic well-being. I learned the significance of maintaining good physical health, mental clarity, and emotional balance. This awareness has influenced my lifestyle choices, promoting overall well-being and a harmonious approach to life. The journey in Hung Gar is often shared with other students. The camaraderie, mutual support, and shared experiences have fostered lifelong friendships and a sense of community. This aspect of shared growth and learning has had a profound impact on my personal development, providing a support system and a network of like-minded individuals. **RHP: You say you've come to realize many Hung Gar principles align with principles for life, health and human interaction. Could you share some examples of how Hung Gar philosophy has provided guidance or solace for you during difficult times in life?** The teachings of Hung Gar emphasize the importance of maintaining mental and emotional stability in the face of hardship, challenges, or setbacks. During difficult times, I draw upon the principles of perseverance, resilience, and self-discipline that I learned in Hung Gar. This helps me stay grounded and focused, enabling me to navigate through adversity with a calm and composed mindset. Hung Gar philosophy emphasizes the power of the mind and intention. Through mindfulness and centering the mind, I have learned to cultivate a sense of inner peace and clarity. During difficult times, I rely on these practices to quiet my mind, find balance, and tap into my inner strength. This helps me approach challenges with a greater sense of purpose and clarity. Hung Gar teaches that mastery of martial arts, and by extension, mastery in life, takes patience and time. This principle reminds me to be patient with myself during difficult periods and to trust the process of growth and development. It provides solace by reminding me that setbacks or obstacles are part of the journey and that continued effort and perseverance will lead to progress and eventual mastery. Hung Gar fosters a sense of community and camaraderie among practitioners. During challenging times, the support and encouragement from fellow martial artists have provided me with solace and strength. Being part of a supportive community allows me to share experiences, seek advice, and draw inspiration from others who have faced similar struggles. This sense of connection and shared journey helps me find solace and motivation to overcome difficulties. **RHP: You provide a detailed overview of the Five Animals and how they relate to qualities we can cultivate through Hung Gar. Could you give an example of how embodying one of the animal spirits helped you develop an important attribute in your own life?** One example of how embodying one of the animal spirits in Hung Gar helped me develop an important attribute in my own life is through the spirit of the Tiger. The Tiger, in Hung Gar, symbolizes confidence, strength, and fearlessness. By observing and studying the Tiger's attributes, I was able to cultivate and embody these qualities in my own life. As someone who was initially quiet and reserved, I found inspiration in the Tiger's boldness and assertiveness. Embodying the Tiger spirit helped me develop confidence in various aspects of my life. It taught me to stand tall, express myself assertively, and believe in my abilities. By tapping into the Tiger's energy, I was able to overcome self-doubt and step out of my comfort zone. This newfound confidence had a positive impact on my personal and professional relationships, allowing me to assert myself, take on challenges, and pursue my goals with greater determination. The Tiger also taught me the importance of adaptability. Tigers are known for their ability to adapt to different environments and situations. By emulating this quality, I learned to be flexible in the face of changing circumstances and to approach challenges with a strategic mindset. The Tiger's spirit taught me that adaptability and resilience are key to thriving in different situations and achieving success. **RHP: In your description of the Five Elements, you mention how critical it is to understand their deeper meaning beyond just physical movements. How do you help students grasp the cultural context and functionality of the five elements as phases of change?** To help students grasp the cultural context and functionality of the Five Elements as phases of change in Hung Gar, I employ various teaching methods and approaches. I provide students with a historical and cultural context for the Five Elements within the framework of traditional Chinese philosophy. This includes discussing the concepts of Yin and Yang, the Five Elements theory (Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood), and their significance in Chinese culture, including their associations with natural phenomena, seasons, and traditional medicine. I emphasize that the Five Elements are not just physical movements or techniques but symbolic representations of broader concepts. I explain how each element represents a phase of change and transformation, both in nature and within ourselves. For example, Fire represents a straight and assertive energy, Earth symbolizes stability and grounding, Metal embodies a downward and cutting force, Water represents fluidity and adaptability, and Wood encompasses growth and flexibility. I demonstrate how the understanding of the Five Elements can be applied in practical ways within the practice of Hung Gar. This includes showing how specific techniques or movements embody the characteristics and principles associated with each element. By linking the physical movements to their elemental qualities, students can begin to grasp the deeper meaning and functionality of the elements in their martial arts practice. I encourage students to observe and reflect upon the natural world and their own experiences. By observing how the Five Elements manifest in nature, such as the flow of water or the strength of a tree, students can gain insights into the underlying principles and dynamics of change. Likewise, self-reflection helps students identify how the qualities of the elements are expressed in their own thoughts, emotions, and actions. I create opportunities for students to apply the understanding of the Five Elements in practical exercises, drills, and sparring sessions. By experiencing the elements through physical practice, students can deepen their comprehension and embodiment of the principles and concepts associated with each element. **RHP: The section on the Twelve Bridges shows how the principles apply to life and communication as much as martial confrontation. Could you share a time when understanding the bridges gave you insight in a difficult interpersonal situation?** Understanding the principles of the Twelve Bridges in Hung Gar has given me valuable insights into some difficult interpersonal situations, beyond martial confrontations. Two particular bridges that have been instrumental in my interactions with others are "Hard" and "Soft."The "Hard" bridge, known as "Gong" in Chinese, is one of the foundational principles of Hung Gar. It emphasizes the ability to generate and deliver a powerful force, transitioning from a soft and relaxed state to a focused and explosive one. In life, we often encounter situations where a calm and soft approach is necessary. However, there are times when we need to intentionally change our intent and become hard and forceful to assert ourselves or protect our boundaries. On the other hand, the "Soft" bridge, known as "Yauh" in Chinese, teaches us the power of remaining calm, relaxed, and aware in the face of adversity. This principle empowers us to redirect an opponent's force and create opportunities for counterattack or control. In a similar vein, in a non-martial context, meeting anger with anger typically leads to escalating conflicts and unsatisfactory outcomes for all parties involved. However, if we can approach anger with a calm and soft attitude, we can defuse the situation and open the door for productive dialogue and resolution. I encountered a situation where an individual became increasingly agitated and confrontational during a team meeting. Recognizing the potential for the situation to spiral out of control, I consciously applied the "Soft" bridge. Instead of responding with anger or defensiveness, I maintained a calm and composed demeanor. I actively listened to their concerns, validated their emotions, and responded with empathy and understanding. By meeting their aggression with a soft approach, I was able to de-escalate the tension and create an opportunity for more meaningful communication. This eventually led to a constructive resolution and strengthened our working relationship. **RHP: You emphasize that intent is foundational to properly applying the Twelve Bridges. What advice would you give students for recognizing intent, both their own and others', in martial and non-martial contexts?** Recognizing intent, both our own and others', is indeed crucial in effectively applying the Twelve Bridges, and navigating through life. Here's some advice I would give to students for recognizing intent in both martial and non-martial contexts: Intent often manifests through non-verbal cues such as body language, facial expressions, and tone of voice. Observe how someone carries themselves, their posture, and the energy they exude. Notice if their gestures and expressions convey openness, aggression, confidence, or defensiveness. These non-verbal cues can offer valuable insights into a person's intent. Actively listening to others can provide clues about their intent. Pay attention to the words they choose, the tone of their voice, and the emotions they express. Listen for underlying emotions or motivations that may indicate their true intent. Sometimes, people's words may not align with their true intentions, and by actively listening, we can discern any discrepancies. Look for consistent patterns in a person's behavior over time. Notice if their actions consistently reflect a particular intent or attitude. For example, if someone frequently displays aggression or dominance in their interactions, it may indicate an intent to exert control or overpower others. Conversely, consistent displays of empathy and cooperation may indicate a more positive intent. Intuition can be a powerful tool for recognizing intent. If something feels off or if you have a gut feeling about someone's intentions, it's essential to trust and explore those instincts further. Intuition is often a result of subconscious processing of subtle cues that may not be immediately apparent. When in doubt about someone's intent, it's always helpful to seek clarification through open and honest communication. Ask questions to gain a better understanding of their motivations, goals, or concerns. By engaging in dialogue, you can uncover hidden intent and address any misunderstandings that may exist. Empathy allows us to put ourselves in someone else's shoes and understand their perspective and intentions. By cultivating empathy, we can better recognize the underlying motivations behind someone's actions or words. This understanding can help us navigate interactions more effectively and respond appropriately. **RHP: It's clear you see great value in Hung Gar principles for personal cultivation beyond just martial skill. What would you say are the most important character lessons you've learned from your lifelong study?** I have learned numerous character lessons that extend far beyond martial skill. Hung Gar instills discipline through the practice of stances, techniques, and self-control. It teaches the importance of committing to a regular training regimen, maintaining focus, and adhering to the principles of the art. Discipline extends beyond the physical aspects and permeates into other areas of life, fostering a strong work ethic and a mindset of dedication and commitment. It emphasizes that mastery takes time and patience. It teaches us to be patient with ourselves as we progress through the learning journey, understanding that growth and improvement come gradually. Patience allows us to embrace the process, overcome setbacks, and persevere in the face of challenges. The pursuit of Hung Gar cultivates humility by reminding us that there is always room for improvement. It teaches us to acknowledge our own limitations and to approach learning with a humble mindset. By recognizing that there is always more to discover and learn, we remain open to new knowledge and experiences. Hung Gar emphasizes the importance of focus and concentration. It teaches us to block out distractions and maintain a single-minded focus on the task at hand. This focus extends beyond physical technique and applies to all aspects of life, enabling us to tackle challenges with clarity and purpose. Studying Hung Gar encourages self-awareness by helping us understand our strengths and weaknesses. It teaches us to recognize our limitations and areas for improvement, allowing us to develop a realistic assessment of our abilities. Self-awareness enables us to make informed decisions, set appropriate goals, and continuously strive for personal growth. It emphasizes that the pursuit of martial arts is not about promoting aggression or violence. It teaches us to uphold integrity and use our skills responsibly and ethically. The art encourages us to develop a strong moral compass, treating others with respect and using our knowledge for the betterment of ourselves and society. Hung Gar is a lifelong commitment that requires perseverance. It teaches us the value of persistence and resilience in the face of obstacles. By embracing challenges and maintaining a steadfast determination, we develop the mental fortitude necessary to overcome adversity not only in martial arts but also in various aspects of life. **RHP: Could you perhaps comment on The Four Pillars of Hung Gar Hung Gar is well known for its four pillar forms – Gung Ji Fuk Fu Kuen (Taming the Tiger in the Gung Pattern); Fu Hohk Seung Ying Kuen (Tiger and Crane Double Form); Sap Ying Kuen (5 Animals and 5 Elements Form); and Tit Sin Kuen (Iron Wire Fist Form) as often Iron Wire or Gung Ji Fuk Fu get all the attention.** The Four Pillars of Hung Gar hold significance in providing a comprehensive training experience within the system. Each emphasizes different aspects of training, contributing to the overall development of a practitioner. While Iron Wire Fist (Tit Sin Kuen) and Taming the Tiger in the Gung Pattern (Gung Ji Fuk Fu Kuen) may receive more attention, it's important to recognize the value of all four forms. Gung Ji Fuk Fu Kuen (Taming the Tiger in the Gung Pattern): This form focuses on developing a strong foundation by emphasizing proper alignment, balance, and structure. It introduces the practitioner to the fundamental principles and basics of Hung Gar, including the importance of breathing techniques and the aesthetics of power. It lays the groundwork for subsequent training and serves as a cornerstone for the system. Fu Hok Seung Ying Kuen (Tiger and Crane Double Form): This form highlights the integration of hard and soft techniques. It emphasizes the ability to switch seamlessly between powerful, aggressive movements (represented by the tiger) and graceful, fluid movements (represented by the crane). It helps to cultivate the practitioner's mind-body connection, promoting control and adaptability in combat situations. Sap Ying Kuen (Five Animals and Five Elements Form): This form explores the practical application of self-defense techniques through the representation of five animals (tiger, crane, leopard, snake, and dragon) and the incorporation of the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, and earth). It teaches the practitioner to embody the characteristics and strategies of each animal and each element, providing a versatile approach to combat scenarios. Tit Sin Kuen (Iron Wire Fist Form): Tit Sin Kuen focuses on the development and refinement of internal power, breathing techniques, and focused concentration. This form emphasizes the cultivation of internal energy (qi) and the utilization of the body's structure to generate strength. It enhances the practitioner's ability to harness and direct power with precision and efficiency, and emphasizes the importance of using the breath, and generating internal power. ### TCM ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_0144-1024x768.jpg) **RHP: You mention the importance of an open mind when learning about traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). In your experience, what are some of the biggest misconceptions Westerners tend to have about TCM, and how can they approach it with more openness?** In my experience, there are several misconceptions that Westerners tend to have about traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). By addressing these misconceptions and adopting a more open-minded approach, individuals can better understand and appreciate the holistic nature of TCM. One of the biggest misconceptions is viewing TCM through the lens of Western medicine's reductionist approach. Many people expect TCM to provide symptomatic and prescriptive treatments based on a standardized set of guidelines. However, TCM takes a holistic approach, considering the interplay of various factors in the body, mind, environment, and lifestyle of the patient. To approach TCM with more openness, it's important to embrace its holistic perspective and understand that treatment focuses on addressing the root cause of imbalances and patterns of disharmony, rather than simply alleviating symptoms. TCM utilizes unique terminology and concepts that may be unfamiliar to Westerners. This can create confusion and skepticism. To overcome this, it's helpful to approach TCM with a willingness to learn and *explore its concepts without immediately dismissing them. Taking the time to understand the underlying principles and theories of TCM can provide valuable insights into its approach to health and well-being. TCM recognizes that each person is unique and requires individualized treatment. This is in contrast to the standardized treatment protocols often seen in Western medicine. Some individuals may find this personalized approach unfamiliar or even skeptical. However, by embracing the idea that TCM seeks to address the specific imbalances and patterns of disharmony within each individual, one can appreciate the tailored and patient-centered nature of TCM. TCM is deeply rooted in Chinese culture, and cultural differences can sometimes hinder understanding and acceptance. It's important to approach TCM with cultural sensitivity and respect, recognizing that its principles and practices have evolved over thousands of years within a specific cultural context. By appreciating the cultural richness and historical significance of TCM, individuals can approach it with a more open and inclusive mindset. **RHP: The diagnostic process in TCM seems very holistic compared to Western medicine. Could you walk through a typical diagnostic workup you would do with a new patient? What key things would you look for and why?** In a typical TCM diagnostic process, several key elements are considered to gain a holistic understanding of the patient's condition. The practitioner begins by observing the patient's physical appearance, including the face, skin, nails, eyes, walking gait, posture, and tongue. These observations provide valuable insights into the nature and location of imbalances within the body. For example, the color, shape, and coating of the tongue can indicate the state of internal organs and their corresponding energy imbalances. The practitioner pays attention to the patient's voice, breathing patterns, and any specific sounds such as coughing. These auditory cues provide information about the circulation of blood and energy (chi) within the body, helping to identify imbalances in the yin-yang harmony. Palpation of the patient involves assessing the pulses on the wrists, which provide important diagnostic information. The practitioner evaluates the rate, rhythm, depth, width, strength, and quality of the pulses to gain insights into the patient's overall health and the state of their chi, blood, yin, yang, and body fluids. Additionally, palpation may involve examining specific areas of the body for pain, discomfort, or the presence of lumps, which can further aid in diagnosis. The practitioner engages in detailed questioning to gather information about the patient's symptoms, medical history, lifestyle, diet, sleep patterns, bodily functions, fluid intake, exposure to climatic conditions, and seasonal variations. This comprehensive inquiry helps to identify patterns of disharmony and determine underlying imbalances. Throughout the diagnostic process, TCM practitioners utilize the "eight principles" of diagnosis, which are fundamental concepts for understanding the nature of imbalances within the body. These principles include yin-yang, internal-external, hot-cold, and deficiency-excess. By applying these principles, the practitioner gains a deeper understanding of the patient's condition and can develop an individualized treatment plan. Unlike Western medicine, which often focuses on managing symptoms, TCM places a strong emphasis on identifying and treating the root cause of imbalances. This approach aims to restore balance and harmony within the body, addressing the underlying causes rather than solely alleviating symptoms. **RHP: You highlight how TCM focuses on root cause analysis and patterns rather than isolated symptoms. Could you share an example case where this led you to a different treatment approach than Western medicine?** One example is insomnia or sleep disorders, where the treatment approach in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) differs from the Western medicine approach. In Western medicine, the typical approach to treating insomnia often involves medications such as sedatives, antidepressants, or melatonin supplements. While these medications may provide short-term relief, they can also have side effects such as dependence, drowsiness, and cognitive impairment. Moreover, they often focus on alleviating symptoms rather than addressing the underlying causes. In TCM, the approach to treating insomnia is based on identifying the root cause and pattern of disharmony specific to each individual. Here are some examples of different patterns that may be detected in TCM: Difficulty Falling Asleep: This pattern may be associated with blood (yin) deficiency or imbalances in the heart or liver yin. Treatment in TCM would focus on nourishing the blood and calming the mind, using herbal remedies, acupuncture, and lifestyle adjustments to promote relaxation and improve sleep quality. Frequent Waking: This pattern may be related to yang deficiency in the spleen or kidney. In TCM, the emphasis would be on tonifying the yang energy, strengthening the spleen and kidney functions, and promoting better sleep continuity. Treatment may involve herbal formulas, acupuncture, and dietary recommendations to support the body's energy and balance. Dream Disturbances: This pattern may be associated with phlegm heat or disharmony between the gallbladder and heart (disharmony between wood and fire elements). TCM treatment would aim to clear heat and resolve phlegm, as well as harmonize the gallbladder and heart functions. Herbal remedies, acupuncture, and lifestyle modifications may be recommended to address these imbalances and promote more peaceful sleep. By identifying the specific pattern of disharmony in TCM, treatment can be tailored to address the underlying causes of insomnia. This approach focuses on restoring balance and harmony in the body, rather than simply sedating or inducing sleep. It recognizes that different individuals may have different underlying imbalances contributing to their sleep issues, and thus, treatment is personalized accordingly. **RHP: How do you see TCM and Western medicine complementing each other? In what cases do you feel one approach is more appropriate or effective than the other?** TCM and Western medicine can complement each other in various ways, and their combined use can offer a more comprehensive approach to healthcare. Western medicine excels in managing acute conditions, emergencies, and life-threatening infections. Its diagnostic tools, advanced medical technologies, and interventions such as surgeries and critical care make it indispensable in these situations. TCM shines in addressing chronic conditions and managing pain. Its holistic approach, focusing on restoring balance and addressing root causes, can be effective for conditions such as chronic pain, digestive disorders, hormonal imbalances, and autoimmune diseases. TCM's emphasis on individualized treatment and its ability to consider the interconnectedness of body, mind, and spirit make it well-suited for chronic conditions that may require long-term management. TCM may be preferred when a condition is complex and requires a more holistic and individualized approach. TCM practitioners take into account various factors such as lifestyle, diet, emotional well-being, and environmental influences. This comprehensive perspective can be beneficial for conditions influenced by these factors, such as stress-related disorders, mental health conditions, and chronic fatigue syndrome. TCM places significant emphasis on preventive care and maintaining overall balance and well-being. It recognizes the importance of lifestyle, diet, and the promotion of harmony between the individual and their environment. TCM can be valuable for those seeking to enhance their overall health, prevent illness, and promote longevity. TCM can help minimize reliance on medication for chronic pain, reducing the risk of side effects, dependency, and withdrawal. Techniques such as acupuncture, herbal remedies, and mind-body practices can be integrated with Western pain management approaches. In conditions like hay fever or allergies, TCM can work alongside Western medicine to help the body adapt to seasonal energy transitions and strengthen the immune response. TCM can support and harmonize the body's immune system, complementing Western medicine's interventions in areas such as infectious diseases, and autoimmune disorders. TCM can be beneficial in cancer care by reducing side effects of Western medications, alleviating symptoms such as pain, nausea, and fatigue, and supporting the overall well-being of cancer patients. **RHP: It is clear TCM has greatly influenced your worldview and approach to health. On a personal level, what would you say are the most profound things you've learned from Chinese medicine philosophy over the years?** TCM philosophy emphasizes our intrinsic connection to the natural world. It recognizes that humans are not separate entities but are deeply interconnected with the environment. This perspective reminds us of the importance of living in harmony with nature and aligning our lifestyles with the rhythms and cycles of the natural world. It teaches that our organ systems are interconnected and interdependent. It views the body as a complex network where the organs work together to maintain balance and harmony. This understanding highlights the importance of considering the whole person rather than focusing solely on isolated symptoms or organs. TCM describes various forms of energy, such as Chi, Blood, Yin, and Yang, which are fundamental to the body's functioning. These energies are viewed as dynamic forces that influence our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Understanding and harmonizing these energies is a key aspect of Chinese medicine philosophy. In fact some thirty two different types of energy in the body have been identified within TCM. TCM recognizes the impact of seasonal changes and the Five Elements (Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood) on our health. It emphasizes the need to adapt to the shifting energies of each season and maintain balance within the corresponding element. This awareness helps us align our lifestyles, diet, and activities with the changing seasons for optimal well-being. Its philosophy underscores the holistic nature of health. It emphasizes that we are not just a collection of symptoms or organs but rather complex beings with physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions. This perspective encourages a personalized approach to healthcare that considers the unique needs and imbalances of each individual. TCM recognizes that health is not a static state but a dynamic process of balance and harmony. It emphasizes the importance of adapting to changing circumstances and maintaining the equilibrium of energy within the body. 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Hermeticism, also known as Hermetism, is a philosophical and religious tradition based primarily on the teachings of the ancient Egyptian god Thoth, who was identified with the Greek god Hermes Trismegistus. It encompasses various beliefs and practices regarding alchemy, astrology, magic, and the occult. Hermetic thought emphasizes the idea of an underlying unity in all things and the belief in personal spiritual development through the attainment of knowledge and understanding. ### A Brief Outline of Hermetic Theurgy > *Hermeticism is an ancient spiritual, philosophical, and magical tradition. It is a path of spiritual growth. Hermeticism takes its name from the God Hermês Trismegistos (Greek, "Thrice-Greatest Hermes"), a Græco-Egyptian form of the great Egyptian God of Wisdom and Magic, Thôth. What the Hermetic Fellowship defines as Hermeticism has also been called the Western Esoteric Tradition, and embraces the Perennial Philosophy or the Ageless Wisdom. * > > > *- (*1998-9 Hermetic Fellowship). #####  Hermeticism (advocated by the Hermetic Fellowship) *"Is a poetic rather than an ascetic worldview"* (1998 M. Isidora Forrest & Adam P. Forrest). - Considers humanity to be on a spiritual journey to return to a state of unity with the Divine; this is the Great Work of humankind. - Holds that if we would attain to the Divine, we must aspire to the Divine; spiritual growth cannot be achieved without human effort. - Is eclectic and draws material from sources spanning the entire Western Esoteric Tradition. - Is polytheistic, yet ultimately monotheistic (i.e., posits a multiplicity of Manifestations of the Divine Which emanate from an ultimate Divine Unity). - Holds that the Divine is both immanent and transcendent. - Holds that the Universe is Divine and basically good. - Teaches that when we seek the Divine, we may best begin with the Mysteries of Nature. - Encourages spiritual curiosity - Understands that human beings can access the Subtle Realms through technique and aspiration; to this end, it embraces theurgy, meditation, ritual, and other spiritual and magical practices - Urges those who seek the Divine to also seek balance in embracing all things. ### From Ancient Beginnings ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Bodl_Arab.d.221_roll332_frame11.jpg)Pages from Kyranides by Hermes Trismegistus. Arabic text with pen drawings. Bird with scorpio. Bird with snake. Figure holding a bird. Shelfmark: MS. Arab. d. 221 . fol. 067v-068r Hermetics has been associated with obscure, ancient texts for centuries. These texts were forged from twelve indestructible Emerald tablets and allegedly contain knowledge about the alchemical process to create the Philosopher's Stone. The texts were initially named after Hermes Trismegistus, a deity whose name means 'thrice great.' There is evidence to suggest that Hermetic schools existed in ancient Egypt. In 1945, texts related to this tradition were discovered near the Egyptian town Nag Hammadi. One of these texts featured a dialogue between Hermes and Asclepius, while another described the inner workings of Hermetic mystery schools. The language in which these texts were written was Coptic, the last form of written Egyptian. ### Hermetic Philosophy and it's Influence Upon Modern Day Religions​ ![The Divine Pymanda, Translated from Arabic by Dr. Everard (1650)](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_2195.jpeg) The Divine Pymanda of Hermes Trismegistus, translated by Dr. Everard , (1650). The significance of Hermetic philosophy and it's influence upon the forming religions within the Early Centuries is not to be dismissed. Hermeticists believe in a *prisca theologia,* the doctrine that a single, true theology exists, that it exists in all religions and that it was given by God to man in antiquity.In order to demonstrate the truth of the *prisca theologia* doctrine, Christians appropriated the Hermetic teachings for their own purposes. By this account, Hermes Trismegistus was (according to the fathers of the Christian church) either a contemporary of Moses or the third in a line of men named Hermes, Enoch, Noah, and the Egyptian priest-king who is known to us as Hermes Trismegistus. Advocates of this theory were Marsilio Ficino and by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola who in the fifth Century used this ideology as  a way to reform the Catholic church, states below by [Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Archive:](http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2015/index.html) * "Ficino] saw himself as one member of a venerable sequence of interpreters who added to a store of wisdom that God allowed progressively to unfold. Each of these “prisci theologi,” or “ancient theologians,” had his part to play in discovering, documenting, and elaborating the truth contained in the writings of Plato and other ancient sages, a truth to which these sages may not have been fully privy, acting as they were as vessels of divine truth."* Within Europe, it was evident that as early as the 1st Century AD the knowledge of such teachings were familiar to and would have been read by theurgists and philosophers alike, ([Tertullian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertullian), [Iamblichus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iamblichus), and [Porphyry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyry_(philosopher))) and were undoubtedly influenced by its teachings. In fact Iamblichus a treatise * On the Mysteries *in a theurgric discourse*  *where he evokes Hermes : *"Hermes, the god who presides over learning has from ancient times been rightly considered the common patron of all priests; he who presides over true knowledge about the gods is one and the same, in all circumstances. It was to him indeed that our ancestors dedicated the fruits of their wisdom, by attributing all their own writings to Hermes." **(Iamblichus On the Mysteries *E. Clarke, J. Dillon, and J. Hershbell AtlantaScholars Press, 2003). His belief that gnosis cannot  be reached through dialectical discussion alone, this could not lead to communion with the Gods it was possible not even through thought. ### The Impact of the Corpus Hermeticum in the Late Medieval to Early Renaissance Period ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Corpus_Hermeticum.jpg) Corpus Hermeticum: first Latin edition, by Marsilio Ficino, 1471, at the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam. ### Marcello Ficino (1433-1499) > ***"Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature."*** > > ** -Marcello Ficino** .Marcello Ficino was a philosopher, theologian, and physician who lived during the Renaissance period. He played a critical role in bringing Hermetic philosophy to the forefront of intellectual discourse and was one of the most influential figures of his time. As head of the Florence Academy, he translated the Corpus Hermeticum, a collection of works that were collated into a single volume in Byzantine times, into Latin. This translation saw print in 1463 and was widely reprinted, becoming a central text in the study of Hermetic philosophy. Ficino's ideas and writings were groundbreaking and set the stage for future discussions of Hermetic philosophy. He was particularly interested in the concept of "natural magic," which he saw as a form of knowledge that drew down the intellectual and moral virtues of the heavens to the earthly world. This idea was informed by his deep interest in the Hermetic tradition, which held that ancient pagan philosophers such as Hermes Trismegistus, Pythagoras, and Orpheus espoused a pious philosophy that presaged and confirmed Christianity. Ficino's ideas were not without controversy, and his views on the relationship between Christianity and paganism were considered unorthodox by some contemporary philosophical standards. Nevertheless, his influence on the intellectual landscape of the Renaissance was significant, and his ideas continue to be studied and debated to this day. In conclusion, Marcello Ficino was a visionary philosopher who brought Hermetic philosophy to the forefront of intellectual discourse. His ideas and writings continue to inspire and challenge scholars, and his legacy remains an important part of the intellectual heritage of the Renaissance period. John Michael Greer comments about the arrival of the Corpus Hermeticum and its effects upon late medieval Europe on his discourse on *[An Introduction to the Corpus Hermeticum](http://hermetic.com/texts/hermetica/h-intro.html). * > ***The Corpus Hermeticum landed like a well-aimed bomb amid the philosophical systems of late medieval Europe. Quotations from the Hermetic literature in the Church Fathers (who were never shy of leaning on pagan sources to prove a point) accepted a traditional chronology which dated "Hermes Trismegistus," as a historical figure, to the time of Moses. As a result, the Hermetic tractates' borrowings from Jewish scripture and Platonic philosophy were seen, in the Renaissance, as evidence that the Corpus Hermeticum had anticipated and influenced both. The Hermetic philosophy was seen as a primordial wisdom tradition, identified with the "Wisdom of the Egyptians" mentioned in Exodus and lauded in Platonic dialogues such as the Timaeus. It thus served as a useful club in the hands of intellectual rebels who sought to break the stranglehold of Aristotelian scholasticism on the universities at this time,*** > > **- John Michael Greer** ### The Revival of Hermetic Philosophy During The Renaissance The Renaissance was a time of great intellectual awakening and cultural revival, which saw the rediscovery of ancient knowledge and the birth of modern science. One of the most intriguing and fascinating aspects of the Renaissance was the revival of Hermetic philosophy. Hermeticism is a spiritual and philosophical tradition that dates back to ancient Greece and Egypt, and is based on the teachings of the legendary sage Hermes Trismegistus. Renaissance hermetists, such as Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Marcello Ficino, John Dee, Giordano Bruno, and Robert Fludd, among others, were drawn to the Hermetic tradition for its emphasis on the unity of all knowledge, the mysteries of the universe, and the connection between the microcosm and the macrocosm. Through their works, they sought to bridge the gap between science, spirituality, and magic, and to uncover the hidden knowledge of the ancients. These hermetists made significant contributions to the intellectual and cultural landscape of the Renaissance and beyond, leaving a lasting impact on the fields of philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, astrology, and alchemy. ### Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535) Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim was a highly-regarded German polymath of the 16th century. Born in 1486 and passing away in 1535, he was a man of many talents and disciplines, making a name for himself as a physician, legal scholar, soldier, theologian and, most notably, an occult writer. This article will take a closer look at the life and works of this fascinating historical figure. Agrippa von Nettesheim was a true Renaissance man, excelling in several areas of study. He received a comprehensive education, studying theology, philosophy, law, and medicine at the University of Cologne in Germany. This broad range of knowledge allowed him to make significant contributions to each of these fields, solidifying his place as one of the most well-rounded intellectuals of his time. One of his most notable works, "De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum," was published in 1530. This treatise dealt with the uncertainty and vanity of the sciences, a bold and thought-provoking topic in a time where people placed a great deal of importance on the acquisition of knowledge. Agrippa von Nettesheim's work was well-received, and it remains an important piece of literature in the field of philosophy to this day. Aside from his academic pursuits, Agrippa von Nettesheim was also known for his work in the occult. His writing on this topic was often controversial and met with criticism from the Catholic Church, but it also garnered a significant following. His most famous work in this area, "De occulta philosophia libri tres," explored the concept of magic and its relationship with religion, science, and nature. In conclusion, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim was a remarkable individual who made substantial contributions to several areas of study. From his groundbreaking work in philosophy to his daring explorations of the occult, he remains an important figure in the annals of history. Whether you're a student of the sciences, the humanities, or the occult, Agrippa von Nettesheim is sure to leave a lasting impression. ### John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) John Dee was a prominent figure in the Renaissance period, known for his contributions to the fields of mathematics, astronomy, astrology, and the occult. He was a true polymath and a brilliant scholar who devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy. Dee's most notable contribution to Hermetic philosophy was his book, Monas Hieroglyphica, written in 1564. This work was a Cabalistic interpretation of a unique glyph that Dee had designed, and it was intended to help him understand the mystical unity of all creation. This book showcases Dee's deep interest in the Hermetic tradition and his quest to find the divine language of the universe. Throughout his life, Dee was driven by his desire to understand the mysteries of the universe and to communicate with angels. He spent his final thirty years attempting to do just that, using the help of a "scryer" named Edward Kelly as an intermediary. Dee and Kelly produced a significant body of work recounting and recording their interactions with the angels, and these works remain some of the most fascinating and enigmatic documents from the Renaissance period. In conclusion, John Dee was a fascinating figure who played a critical role in the study of Hermetic philosophy during the Renaissance. His work, Monas Hieroglyphica, remains an important text for those interested in Hermetic philosophy, and his efforts to understand the universe through communication with angels continue to inspire and captivate scholars and enthusiasts alike. ## Giordano Bruno (1545-1600), Giordano Bruno was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and poet who lived during a time of political and religious instability in Italy. He is best known for his expertise in mnemonics and memory techniques, which caught the attention of King Henry III, who appointed Bruno as an Extraordinary Lecturer with a salary. Bruno wrote a book on memory, entitled "The Shadows of Ideas," which he dedicated to King Henry III. Despite his popularity, Bruno's views and teachings on cosmology and creation theories were met with resistance. He believed in cosmic pluralism, the idea that the universe is infinite and there is no center, which was considered an act of heresy by the Roman Catholic Church. Bruno was eventually condemned by the Roman Inquisition and burned at the stake in 1600. Frances Yates, in her book "Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition," suggests that Bruno's ideas on cosmic pluralism may have been influenced by Eastern philosophers, as the theory was popular among Muslim scholars in the Medieval period. Despite his tragic end, Bruno's theories and beliefs challenged the established norms of the time, and he remains an important figure in the history of philosophy and cosmology. ## Robert Fludd (1574 - 1637) Robert Fludd was a highly regarded figure in his time, with a vast range of interests and expertise. Born in England in 1574, he was a prominent Paracelsian physician and a man of both scientific and mystical pursuits. As an astrologer, he was well-versed in the principles of astrology and the role it played in understanding the universe and our place within it. Fludd was also a skilled mathematician, known for his work in cosmology and his understanding of the structure and workings of the universe. He was a dedicated Qabalist, a practitioner of the mystical and esoteric teachings of Kabbalah, and used these principles in his work. In addition to his scientific pursuits, Fludd was also a prominent Rosicrucian apologist, writing extensively about the ideals and beliefs of this secretive esoteric society. Through his writings, he sought to bring the teachings of Rosicrucianism to a wider audience, and to make their ideas more accessible to those outside of the inner circle. Despite being a controversial figure in his time, Robert Fludd's legacy endures to this day. His work in the areas of astrology, mathematics, cosmology, and the occult continue to inspire and inform new generations of thinkers and seekers. He passed away in 1637, leaving behind a body of work that still resonates with people across the world. ## The Mystery Schools in the 17th to 19th Centuries ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/MysterySchool.jpg) The emergence of mystery schools in the 17th to 19th centuries was a revival of interest in esoteric and occult traditions and practices. The term "mystery school" refers to secretive organizations that taught esoteric knowledge, spiritual beliefs and practices, often through initiation and initiation rituals. The schools often drew on a wide range of philosophical, religious and spiritual traditions, including Hermeticism, alchemy, Neoplatonism, and the Kabbalah. One of the most well-known mystery schools of the time was the Rosicrucian Order, which emerged in Germany in the early 17th century. The Rosicrucians claimed to be a secret society of adepts, who possessed ancient knowledge and aimed to promote spiritual and moral reform. The Order was said to have been founded by a mysterious figure named "Frater C.R.C." (Christian Rosenkreuz), and their teachings were communicated through a series of manifestos, including the *Fama Fraternitatis *and *Confessio Fraternitatis.* Another important mystery school of the time was the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which was established in England in the late 19th century. The Golden Dawn drew heavily on Hermetic, Kabbalistic, and alchemical traditions, and sought to bring about spiritual and psychological transformation through a combination of ceremonial magic, meditation and other spiritual practices. The Order had a profound impact on the development of Western esoteric traditions and its teachings continue to influence the modern esoteric and occult community. Despite their secrecy, these mystery schools played a significant role in shaping the cultural and intellectual climate of the 17th to 19th centuries and continue to have a lasting impact on the Western esoteric and occult traditions. ## Pioneers of Hermetic Philosophy in the 20th Century The 20th century saw the rise of several notable figures in the field of Hermetics, who were pioneers in reviving and promoting the study of Hermetic philosophy and its influence on various fields of thought. Some of the most prominent names include: - Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) - A British writer, mystic, and ceremonial magician who founded the religious philosophy of Thelema and was a member of several secret societies, including the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. - Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) - An Austrian philosopher and esotericist who founded the spiritual movement of Anthroposophy and was influenced by Hermetic, Rosicrucian and Gnostic ideas. - Carl Jung (1875-1961) - A Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist who incorporated Hermetic philosophy and alchemy into his theories on the collective unconscious and the psychology of the self. - P.D. Ouspensky (1878-1947) - A Russian philosopher and mathematician who studied and wrote extensively on the ideas of Gurdjieff, an Armenian spiritual teacher who drew upon Hermetic and other esoteric sources. - Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990) - An American author and lecturer who wrote extensively on Hermetic philosophy, the Western Mystery Tradition, and comparative religion. He was also the founder of the Philosophical Research Society, an institution dedicated to the study of the ancient wisdom traditions. -  Franz Bardon (1909-1958) was a Czech occultist, mystic, and teacher who is best known for his works on Hermetic magic. He is the author of the three-volume work "Initiation into Hermetics," which outlines his philosophy and practice of Hermetic magic. Bardon's teachings emphasize the development of the individual's personal spiritual power and the attainment of mastery over the elemental forces of nature through the use of specific exercises and meditations. His works have been influential within the Western esoteric tradition and are considered by many to be a cornerstone of Hermetic practice in the 20th century. These pioneers helped to bring Hermetic philosophy and the Western Mystery Tradition back into the mainstream of spiritual and philosophical inquiry, and their influence can still be felt today in various esoteric, spiritual, and philosophical communities. ## Modern Day Hermetic Schools Within the Twenty-first Century is not without its own pioneers in hermetic magic.  Rawn Clark, [William Mistele](https://www.facebook.com/williamrmistele), [Martin Faulks](https://www.facebook.com/martin.faulks?fref=ts) and[ Ray de Sole](https://www.facebook.com/ray.delsole?fref=ts), Virgil, and André Consciênciato name a few. All Franz Bardon practitioners and authors on the subject. sharing their wisdom for the benefit of others. There are two schools currently devoted to the practice of  Franz Bardon's methods.   **Hermetic Schools and teachers:**  - **Seshen School of Hermetic Meditation,**  run by Martin Faulks- takes students through Initiation Into Hermetics -  **[Sura Academy](https://sura-academy.com),**  run Ray Del Sole,  takes students through Initiation Into Hermetics - **[Ray  Del Sole](https://www.perseusarcaneacademy.com/challenge-page/Magical-Quabbalah-Course):** Magic Quabbalah - [ **Nenad Djordjevic Talerman:  **](https://www.perseusarcaneacademy.com/challenge-page/FirstSteptoDivineProvidence)teaches, Evocation, Shem Angels, Meeting your Guardian Angel. - **[André Consciência-](https://www.perseusarcaneacademy.com/challenge-page/Magical-and-Mystical-Introspection) **teaches, Magical and Mystical  Introspection - [**The Perseus Academy Academy**-](https://www.perseusarcaneacademy.com) A teaching platform that focuses on the practice of magical and mystical subjects Modern-day Hermeticism is a diverse spiritual and philosophical movement that draws on the ancient Hermetic tradition and its ideas of Gnosticism, alchemy, magic, and astrology. It is difficult to generalize, but it can be seen as a synthesis of various spiritual, esoteric, and scientific practices and beliefs. Some modern Hermetic practitioners incorporate elements of Western mystery traditions, Eastern spirituality, and indigenous beliefs to create their own unique spiritual practice. In contemporary times, Hermeticism continues to inspire a wide range of individuals, including artists, musicians, writers, and spiritual seekers. However, it is also a subject of criticism and controversy, with some people viewing it as pseudoscience or superstition. It is important to note that modern Hermetic movements are highly individualistic and can vary greatly in their beliefs and practices, so it is essential to approach them with an open mind and do proper research before fully committing to any specific Hermetic path. #### References - *Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition,* F. A. Yates. - *Memories of Franz Bardon,* L. Bardon. - *The Secret History of Hermes Trisemegestus,*  F. Ebeling. - *The Emerald Tablet, A Commentary on the Path of the True Adept, *M. Faulks. - *Initiation Into Hermetics,* F. Bardon - *(Iamblichus On the Mysteries) *E. Clarke, J. Dillon, and J. Hershbell AtlantaScholars Press, 2003 - http://www.armory.com/~mortoj/magick/newfiles/bardon.html by Tim Scott - http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/herm/h-intro.htm - http://www.iep.utm.edu/aris-eth/ - http://www.renaissanceastrology.com/ficino.html - http://www.livinghistory.co.uk/homepages/hermes/GemmaE.pdf - http://www.iep.utm.edu/ficino/ - http://www.hermeticfellowship.org/HFHermeticism.html#HistoricalBackground - http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2015/entries/ficino/ - http://hermetic.com/texts/hermetica/h-intro.html - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeticism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetism_and_other_religions - http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ip/rep/H004.htm - http://www.maat.sofiatopia.org/hermes2.htm - https://www.princeton.edu/~hellenic/Hermeneutica/ShawPaper.pdf ### To find out more about the authors mentioned in this article visit our author page. 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Because it is my main seat, I started with art, which I dedicated to Venus. This article is dedicated to the fire element to which I will give the art of pyrotechnics conjoined with meditation, mental wandering, and conjuration. The basics of the practices that follow have been taught to me by Oriman, written integrally in the Book of Elementals (for future release at Falcon Books) and further adapted to this article. ### Earth On the following elements, the base of the pyramid is for the adept to perfectly master his transference of consciousness to the lit fire. This and only this will make the practice work to its fullness. The meditation of the earth element concerning fire is attained if the magician succeeds in keeping his consciousness in the fire all the way until it dies and is absorbed by coal, in which case the magician will find his consciousness to be in the coal. The earth stage of fire is achieved together with an acute consciousness of the solid awareness inherent to will.  Additionally, for conjuration, the magician can contain copper sulfate in wax, through mixing and cooling, wrap it inside a paper cup, and throw it into the lit fire as this will open the elemental kingdom of the earth, but the magician must keep his consciousness in the fire at all times. ### Water The best state for the bonfire is when it lays low and bluish, more or less at the level of the surface. The magician may now use powdered aluminum instead of copper sulfate.  ### Air The fire should be expanding and releasing sparks into the air. Copper chloride is to be used. ### Fire The fire should be high and raging. Strontium chloride will open up the elemental kingdom of fire and potentiate the conjurations of fire. Remember to have it in wax and wrapped in paper cup. The fire will become red, while in the element of air it becomes blue, in the element of water it becomes silver and in the element of earth it becomes green. ### Akasha Open up the nature of the fire to the akasha by adding, in the same manner as before, 3 parts potassium sulfate and 1 part potassium nitrate to make the flame become violet. Remember that you are the flame. From there on, a mental effect is caused by small sparks, they can be triggered by sugar. Astral effects can be caused by sparkly flashes, they can be triggered by coffee creamer. Physical effects can be caused by flash flame, it can be triggered by regular flour.  ### Moon There are four known types of shadow. The hard shadow is resonant with the earth element, the soft shadow is resonant with the air element. The specular shadow is resonant with the fire element and diffuse with the water element. These aspects are imprinted on the shadow via light or fire.  If one transfers consciousness into such shadows, meditates on them, and then leaves on the mental body to enter these four distinct types of shadow as realms, one finds the four elemental kingdoms of the moon sphere.  ### Mercury The light as a ray is an attribute of fire, light as reflection is an attribute of water, and light as dispersion is an attribute of air. Photoluminescence is proper to fire, electroluminescence is proper to air and chemiluminescence is proper to water. Incandescence, together with bioluminescence, is proper to earth. The method before practiced with the shadow is to be practiced with the light to explore the elemental kingdoms of Mercury. ### Venus With a single candle you can gaze and its aura will unveil. If you then invoke and harness your inner fire, evoking it under a particular light and color oscillation into the aura of the candle, and you successfully pierce it, you can change the oscillation of the flame itself. For the earth, try a dark brown color; for the water, a blue-green color; for the air, a blue color; and for the fire, a red color. ### Sun You can make a fire elemental or any intelligence of the spheres up to the sun sphere take on the body of the flame if you give it an aura such as theirs, with their colors and layers. Then you will watch the flame go fully alive. To find out more about André Consciência visit his[ author page](https://falconbookspublishing.com/team/andre-consciencia/). 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As we observe in every tradition that uses this term there is one factor that is present throughout and that key is “harmony”  both within ourselves and our environment. Having over 20 years experience in this field and dedicating his life to self-improvement and an unbroken meditation practice, Martin Faulks has indeed met and conquered many of the same challenges we may face along this journey.  Throughout his studies and experiences, he shares with us today the wisdom he has gathered. This book holds powerful and life changing keys to perhaps the answers to many of the problems we face in today’s society. Such as depression, a  lack of belonging, a desire for happiness perhaps feeling trapped in a life Moreover a feeling that there is more to life than the one that is currently on offer.  For those following a spiritual path often feel they wish to live a different life free from the burdens that society offers and find difficulty in integrating both aspects of life. Or perhaps but finding obstacles in their way preventing them from moving forward in their meditation practice. All these concerns are addressed in this book. ## Maybe you have asked yourself these questions: - How can I have a harmonious and fulfilling life? - How do I deal with negative emotions and thoughts? - How can meditation help me in everyday life? - How do I stick to a meditation practice? - There must be more to life than this? - What is my purpose here? - Why am I here? This book addresses some of the core and fundamental causes that prevent us from entering into harmony. It also addresses these questions not only explaining the causes behind these things but also offering a practical guide to be worked through to deal and conquer each step to gain success in all areas of life. For example, how do deal with emotions to work with them and gain full control over them? How to build successful relationships and live a balanced life? 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The understanding that the obstacles we face in our life can be used as tools  to sharpen and improve our skills in waking life rather than something that should be avoided. Thus allowing us to learn in a positive and encouraging way. [See Enlightened Living on AMazon](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Enlightened-Living-Martin-Faulks-ebook/dp/B01GGKSNSS/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=enlightened+living&qid=1695009781&sr=8-1) --- # An Excerpt from A Guide to the Elementals: A Magical Series – Vol I, by André Consciência Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/an-excerpt-from-a-guide-to-the-elementals-a-magical-series-vol-i-by-andre-consciencia/ The Hermetic viewpoint on the elements is an ancient and intricate system of understanding the Other World. In this excerpt from "A Guide to the Elementals" by André Consciência, we delve into the idea that the Zoroastrians had a better understanding of the elements than Aristotle. The divine, represented by heat and moisture, was the substance of the four elements in their light, and the elements in the material world were their cold and dry facets. This book focuses on the four elements of Earth, Water, Air, and Fire, and their relationship to the magical world. The text also delves into the concepts of Manichaeism and the possibility of a magician attaining Godhood to create natural elementals of a substance beyond that of the elementaries. This book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the intricate and fascinating world of the elementals and their role in magic.  (Note from the Publisher) ### Chapter 2 Journeying the Elements #### From a Hermetic Viewpoint In hermeticism, just as the scientist dissects his object of attention to better and more methodically study its components, we divide the Other World into five elements, of which four are the subject of this book: Earth, Water, Air and Fire. It is a vision more akin to the ancient Persian, the term Magician actually deriving from the Mazdian magi, whose prayers were towards the sun, moon, earth, fire, water and winds, manifestations of the omnipresent light. We may even affirm that the Zoroastrians had a better understanding of this subject than Aristotle, for to them the divine, represented by heat and moisture, was of the substance of the four elements in their light, and the elements in the material world were their cold and dry facets. #### Elements and Elementals on Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism In the Zoroastrian vision, we would be forced to see the Hebrew Garden of God as the sphere of the quintessence and the four rivers that surround it as a crust divided into two layers, the four divine virtues being the four elements of the omnipresent light of existence, and then the four grosser elements that are material and side effects of existence. Franz Bardon explained things more or less as Aristotle, in that the elements came progressively, but at the same time, in their merging with Neoplatonism, Zoroastrian sages spoke of the Endless Light from which came an all-embracing fire, it emanating the spirit of the power of the soul and the spirit of the power of nature. From the combination of the last two came out cosmic substance. In turn, this cosmic substance, by connecting with the spirit the power of the soul, would create a Firmament that would finally generate the substratum of the four elements, the four elements functioning as the seeds of the world and the substance of Being. This seems to explain exactly the process of the creation of the Zone Girdling the Earth, mentioned by Bardon, and then its various layers rising again into the Endless Light. In the structure presented by Zoroastrianism, there is the Infinite, and in the Infinite the first form of consciousness is omnipotence in which something or nothing has acted. From the realization of this act comes the all-embracing fire of omniscience, where the infinite becomes conscious of itself. The spirit of the power of the soul is the divine self therein obtained, that is, the divine dimension of time, eternity, the notion of entity unconditioned. The spirit of the power of nature is as divine ego, divine identity and it is the radiation of omnipresence and the divine dimension of space, the spaceless, for omniscience must know if not all time and space, the timeless and the spaceless. The timeless and the spaceless put together to form the cosmic dimension of the Akasha, from where an everlasting firmament, the Zone Girdling the Earth, emerges. It mirrors immortality and omnipresence as time and space, and exhibits their theatrical interactions through Being, projected in the four elements. Some Mazdeans proceed to speak of seven elements, it being that the mineral kingdom, the vegetable kingdom and the animal kingdom derive from the four elements, and the secret job of the beings of the four elements is to foster and keep them. They are, therefore, fashioners and guardians of the creations of Ahura Mazda. In Manichaeism the old Persians thought of these elementals as the sons and armours of the primordial man, indicating the possibility of the magician who has attained Godhood to create natural elementals of a substance beyond that of the elementaries. This is because Manichaeism seems to be the microcosm of the cosmic Zoroastrian vision, that is, while Zoroastrians saw creation as a cosmic process in the infinite without, Manichaiests saw creations as coming from the inside outwards. The Garden of God is here the Paradise of Light, surrounded by what we know as the Akasha on whom dwell the mind and the four powers of the mind: intelligence, reason, thought and cognition. These four powers put together constitute the soul. The conjunction of mind, its powers and the soul is, in the tradition of Manichaeism, the first form of man, as this type of being is able to perceive polarity in undefined light and to order darkness and chaos, unveiling the objective or phenomenal world. In turn, it is by the reflective power of such perceived objects that he is able to see matter. To them, there is no material quality in any of the four elements, matter being but an illusory distortion, and where we place the earth element they have the element of light. I will speak no further of this, but let the mature magician extract the key himself instead, for such a key is of the very essence of mental wandering and magical evocation, making it possible at once. **To find out more about André view his [author profile](https://falconbookspublishing.com/team/andre-consciencia/). ** **To purchase and take a look inside click on the links below. This book contains full colour illustrations including over 60 hand-drawn seals. 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The focus of these discussions are guided towards the spiritual seeker. Presenting today and interview with Nenad DjordjevicTelerman. Nenad is an Honorary Vice President of the Royal Asiatic Society China in Shanghai. He lives in Shanghai where he is a freelance researcher, writer, tutor and musician. He had his first magical experiences as a child and he regards himself as Bardon’s student. He studied history in Stockholm and Belgrade and earned a master’s degree in 1994. After working as a historian at the Yugoslavian archives, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1997. His diplomatic postings took him to Pyongyang in 2000, Beijing from 2002 to 2006, and Shanghai 2006 to 2010. He is the published author of the* Old Shanghai Clubs and Association and** Sapajou: The Collected Works of a Cartoonist*. His next publication,* 360 Heads of the Earth Zone: The First Step to Divine Providence*.(Falcon Books Publishing). The majority of Falcon Books interviews are focused on the practice of *Initiation into Hermetics* by Franz Bardon, however, today we will be to exploring more Bardon’s second title, *The Practice of Magical  Evocation*. A cordial welcome to Nanad and thank you for taking the time to answer these questions. - **Falcon Books: I wonder if you could share aspects of your magical background and how your experiences as a child shaped your path?** **Nenad Djordjevic Telerman:** When I was a very small child, I remember how my guardian angel told me that I would not be able to see him anymore, and when I started to cry, he told me that he would always be around me and that I would be able to see him once again but much later in my life. When I was about four years old, I had a dream about fairies and gnomes, and when I woke up, they somehow transferred directly from my dreamworld into the physical reality, so for a few minutes, I saw them dancing in my room in their physical forms. About the same age I was entirely shocked to realise that we all were going to die, and maybe my first spiritual quest started as an attempt to understand if there really was a life after death. I had a very nice childhood. I lived next to the oldest and most beautiful park in Belgrade, my hometown. I spent most of my time there playing with friends, climbing trees and exploring ancient ruins and walls. We had our own magical trees which we adored. I strongly felt at that time that some secret paths did connect our world with other realities and that we could find actual portals hidden somewhere in the park. Those ideas were spontaneous. We had not heard about such things from anybody else nor read about similar things in any book. We were maybe 7 or 8 years old. Later I understood that we had been actually worshipping nature and performing some kind of magic there as kids without knowing it or consciously wanted it. **2. Were there any other influences in your life outside of Bardon’s work that helped to guide you along your spiritual path?** **Nenad Djordjevic Talerman: **The most influences have come from my family members – parents, sister, wife, sons; and closest relatives and friends. In my primary school, I was happy to have a very interesting biology teacher (whose family name happened to be the same as mine) whose lectures about biology were actually fascinating stories about the universe, lost civilisations, secrets of nature and all kinds of mysteries and magic. When I was 14 years old I happened to buy a book about astral projection. It was in 1984. Such books were rare at that time. I was shocked to realise that astral projection was a real possibility for some people. There were a lot of instructions in that book about how to achieve astral projection and for two years I was practicing very stubbornly almost every night and finally achieved my first conscious astral projection when I was 17. This book was surely one of the most influential in my life. Regrettably, I lost it. I even forgot the name of the author and the title. I have been trying to find this book on the internet, but up to now to no avail. In next 10 years after my first conscious astral projection, I had a lot of out of body experiences and saw a lot of spirits and different planes of existence. The problem was that I was very confused about those regions which I was visiting. I was not sure what they were about and had a little understanding of their nature and inhabitants. Different spiritual guides helped me a lot to gain some better understanding of it, but I was also very lucky to find my human teacher – Tom deLiso, whose instructions and words of wisdom were very precious to me. He did his best to encourage my exploration of the *Tree of Life* and *30 aethyrs* of Enochian magic. Thanks to Tom deLiso and his instructions I managed to visit all sephirot in the Tree of Life where I was also blessed to meet archangels Sandalphon, Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael, Metatron and some other great teachers and masters. **3. Falcon Books: When did you discover Franz Bardon’s writings and how did this change your practice?** **Nenad DjordjevicTalerman: **I do not exactly recall the date, but I guess it was around 2002, when I came to live in China, about the same time when I was taking a more serious interest in tarot,* yi jing*, teachings of old Christian gnostic schools and tantra. Some of my favourite authors from that time were also [Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov](https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awr9ImiE36lazJcAwZVXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTExa2MyY3N1BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDVUlDMV8xBHNlYwNzcg--/RV=2/RE=1521111044/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fOmraam_Mikha%25C3%25ABl_A%25C3%25AFvanhov/RK=2/RS=GjQUyrYLFRqxRFsS8AYIJGd7y_c-), a great Christian mystic and gnostic and Robert Svoboda, who wrote a fascinating trilogy about aghori and the life and teaching of his teacher Vimalananda. I started reading Corpus Hermeticum and got fascinated about hermetic tradition too. My studies of hermeticism, lead me finally to Franz Bardon. I was at once attracted to him a lot. I found it amazing how vast and detailed his knowledge was. I found his books very intelligently and spiritually written. I liked his personality too. Beyond all, he was a very good man. I think that mostly due to his influences, as good as all Bardonian magicians I came in contact with are really good people too. I had achieved my first conscious astral projection some 15 years before I discovered Bardon’s books, but Franz Bardon changed my practices in many different ways. First of all, Franz Bardon’s second book changed my perspective about evocations. I realised that even if I made progress in my out of body experiences, I had absolutely no idea how to make an evocation. I might have seen some different realities in my out of body experiences, but I was never able to consciously evoke spirits into our world’s reality. Thanks to Bardon, I have become interested in ceremonial magic. In one field, such as OBE, I felt advanced, but in other fields, such as evocation, I felt like a neophyte. **4. Falcon Books: Franz Bardon states,** *“To reach this maturity a certain pre-training is absolutely necessary. The reader will, therefore, find it natural that he must be fully conversant with the first tarot-card, at least up to Step 8, if he wants to have further positive success in his practice of higher magic.”* -The Magical Practice of Evocation **How important do you feel this statements is?** **Nenad Djordjevic Telerman: **Step 8 is about separation of mental body from astral body, mental travelling throughout the universe, controlling the elements, influencing from the elements, preparation of fluid condensors and preparation of magical mirror. The magician who is able to achieve all of those things is undoubtedly very advanced. All previous 7 steps have helped the magician come up to that level, often after a long and hard work. But once you get to that point, you will then also have it much easier to evoke and communicate with spirits and travel wherever you want around the universe. When you astral or mental travel to different realities, you are a guest, but when you evoke to our physical reality, spirits are your guests. Step 8 helps you become a better host and guest. The magician who is about to master step 8 is also about to master both evocations and out of body experience (including astral and mental projection). The communication with spirits will be much easier from that point on, which all is much more explained in Bardon’s second book about magical evocations. I often practiced according to Bardon’s instructions. And once you master one step, it does not mean you would never come back to it again. I always come back to Bardon’s steps, especially to the step 1. Nevertheless, before I discovered Bardon, I had been lucky to master astral and mental projections by my own efforts and later with the help of Tom deLiso. My point is that the magician can also come to the step 8, by following some other teachings and traditions. You do not necessarily need to follow Bardon to reach Bardon’s level of step 8. There are many different ways to come to the level 8. Franz Bardon gave only one example, but it is the golden example. I also noticed that many people take years to master some of the Bardon’s first steps. If they happened not to be able to move forward for years, maybe they could then take inspirations from some other books and teachers and later come back to Bardon again. If you have studied some magical traditions for 30 years and discover Bardon for the first time when you are, let’s say, 60 years old, I think that there is no reason that you should start your magical studies from the very beginning in order to reach the step 8, when you have actually already reached the level 8 by following some other traditions. **5. Falcon Books: I wonder if you could tell us about the inspiration behind your up and coming title,* 360 Heads of the Earth Zone: The First Step to Divine Providence. *What can we expect from this title?** **Nenad Djordjevic Telerman: **Let me quote Franz Bardon: > *The size of this volume makes it impossible for me to give full details on each individual head; I can only publish a few words referring to the general facts of hermetic science…The description of many a head whose range of competence is very great would fill not just one volume, but a good number of volumes.* The first time I was reading Franz Bardon I felt sorry that he omitted to write more details about the 360 heads of the Earth Zone and other spirits, but it also looked to me that with such remarks, he invited future magicians to continue his work. So, I felt a call to try to continue his work the best I could. So far I know, since Bardon’s time, only three people focused their spiritual practices on the 360 heads of the Earth Zone: Emil Stejnar, William Mistele and Cynthia Schlosser. I would like to take this opportunity to give them my gratitude and acknowledgements. Nowadays, more people are interested in this subject. There are several nice FB groups about Bardon’s magic with a lot of interesting members. I first started to evoke spirits from Bardon’s book in 2006. In the next few years, I did my evocations sporadically and unsystematically. But in 2013 I decided to evoke all of them. I started my online journal on Friday, April 26, 2013, on Studio Arcanis, a magical forum, with the following sentences: “Well, I know their names, I know their sigils, I have seen and talked to some of them…But I am still not satisfied with my results. I want to see who they really are… So, I will dedicate my next year to working with the 360 heads of the Zone girdling the Earth… Since there are 360 heads, but 365 days in one year, I will more or less dedicate one day to each head of the Zone…” My diary about evoking the [360 heads can still be read on-line](http://studioarcanis.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=8923), (However, you need to be a member of Studio Arcanis in order to read it). This book about 360 heads of the Earth Zone includes some parts of this diary but also all of my previous and later evocations. It has taken me four years to write this book. During this time, I have evoked each of those 360 spirits at least two more times, if for non other reasons, then just to confirm if what I was writing about them was true. In my description each head of the Earth Zone contains the following elements: sigil; alternative name which were used by Abramalin the Mage and Quintscher; Divine and angelic names for the circle and conjuration; dominant colour in space impregnation; number and colour of candles; the triangle arrangement; offerings; additional suggestions about evocation; similar spirits; appearance of the spirit; the spirit’s teachings and instructions; my own experiences; the spirits’ region; subordinate spirits; and possible problems and side-effects. The second part of the title is *The First Step to Divine Providence*. There are ten main steps to Divine Providence, and the first step is the Earth Zone. The second step is the Moon, the third step – Mercury, the fourth – Venus and so on. The last step is Kether. My life aspiration is to write ten books about 10 steps to Divine Providence, but Divine Providence will also decide whether this will happen or not, because it is a huge task. I have almost finished two books about the Moon Zone and Mercury Zone and I have gathered a lot of materials about the Venus Zone too. But I am not doing this work alone any more. It is too much for one person to handle, so I am writing these books together with some other magicians. **6.Falcon Books: Firstly, for the passive reader without the experience of IIH can we clarify that these beings you are talking about in your forthcoming book are all beings existing outside of the mind of the practitioner. So these are not psychological these real beings like you and me but with a very different role, is that true to say?** **Nenad Djordjevic Talerman: **Those beings exist outside of our own mind. If you have any doubt about that, when you meet them, just watch them objectively and let them talk. In such situations, they will then most probably say some things which you’d never say by yourself just to show you that they are a separate entity from you. Those genii are extremely knowledgeable. They somehow know all that has been written by human beings, so what they talk about cannot be found in any of our books. For this reason, it is good to be well informed when you meet them. The smarter question you ask them, they would appreciate you more. There is no reason for them to explain to people some basic things which they can, for example, find in books or online. When you are in their own dimension, when you touch them, you can also feel that they are real. Astral body is quite solid when it is in the astral realm. It is obvious that they are not a part of our own mind when we see them. **7.Falcon Books: With regards to Bardon’s second title *The Magical Practice of Evocation*, have you found that you have been drawn to work with Earth Girdling Zone (EGZ) Spirits more than others?** **Nenad DjordjevicTalerman: **The 360 heads of EGZ were the first group of spirits from Bardon’s book which I explored systematically, but I have been also fascinated by working with spirits from all other planetary zones. The spirits of the Moon Zone are very mystical. The Mercurial spirits are extremely intelligent. The Venusians are pure souls and additionally very beautiful. The Martial spirits can be great protectors. We live on the Earth, so it is important not to neglect the 360 heads of EGZ even when we work with spirits from other planetary spheres. Nobody knows better our planet than the 360 heads of EGZ, and they are willing to share their knowledge with us. They also want to help us properly understand our planet and our role in it, as long as we live here. **8. Falcon Books: How has working with these beings assisted you in your daily life on practical level?** **Nenad Djordjevic Telerman: **I started my systematical work with the 360 heads at the time when I decided to start something new in my life. First of all they helped me overcome my personal “dark night of the soul” a crisis which came as a reflexion of my crossing the Abyss. I was a successful diplomat but due to some personal reasons, I decided to leave the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and become a freelancer. It was a difficult decision. The 360 heads of the Earth Zone have been helping me in my aspiration to be a free man. They have helped me achieve financial stability. They are helping my family. Since I live in a foreign country, they assist me with local deities as well as with local communities and administration. Their influences are unmistakable. Let me give you some examples. Kolani is an expert of occult dancing. I evoked Kolani for the first time in Shanghai in June 2013. At that time, I had no idea that I would just one month later make an unplanned trip to Konya (Turkey) where I also had the opportunity to visit Rumi’s mausoleum, an old spiritual centre of Sufi’s dancing. Pafessa, Abbetira, Siria, Giria, Alagill, Yraganon, Capipa, Jrmoni, Lurchi, Iserag, Aspadit and Nasi are related to financial matters. Due to their influences, I spent my first year after the first evocation of those spirits living and working in: Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, Turkey, China, and the Philippines. My childhood dream was to become a rock singer, and some 35 years later, this is exactly what I have become totally unexpectedly after my first evocation of Riqita, a head who is a guardian of singers. I evoked Baalto, a guardian of caves and underwater tunnels, and soon after I happened to see some of the most beautiful caves in the world in Guilin (China). Among other things, I am also a teacher, so I have been assisted by Zagriona and some other spirits on daily basis. They also help me with writing. I have been healing some people with their help too. People now appreciate and like me for who I am, and not for my title and social or financial status, which is mostly due to their help. They also help me connect with nice people. They push me to work for peace in cooperation with some other magicians. They encourage me on my way to personal freedom. So far, not all of them were equally helpful, which is reasonable and normal. For instance, some of them are guardians of mathematicians, engineers and physicists. I am not good at those sciences and probably will never be, so I really do not expect to be assisted by them in those fields. But then again, who knows? Sometimes you need to wait for a while to be sure that you have observed their influences. If they all want to help at the same time, I’d achieve all my dreams in one day, which is absurd and most probably unsurvivable. **9. Falcon Books: When making the transition in IIH visiting the elemental realms and then moving onto investigation of the 360 heads how does this change one’s perspective on life?** **Nenad Djordjevic Ta****lerman**: The 360 heads are teachers of 360 different faculties and 72 fields of magic. Their academies and temples are located in the Earth Zone. When people die, some of them will become their students. Among many other things, their students will learn there how to fly, become invisible, strive for peace, travel to other planets and help our humanity grow. One of the greatest things about the 360 heads is that we can be accepted as their students while we are still alive. So, they help and teach us, but they also need us and sometimes they also need our help. They help our physical reality through us. The physical world needs to be taken care of and cultivated by us humans. This is our main role on this planet. If we neglect that role, then the 360 heads of the Earth Zone will not care to help us. The elemental realms help us understand nature and our role in it. They inflame our souls with love to all living beings. They also make us become more balanced and better human beings. That is all very important because if we do not strive to become better people, the 360 heads of the Earth Zone will just ignore us. We will never become a part of their company. **10. Falcon Books: Does working with these beings not only aid with bringing knowledge into this world, also what are the effects upon the mental body of the magician?** **Nenad Djordjevic – Telerman:  **Once upon a time, they were directly helping humanity grow in culture and sciences, but the stories from the three Enoch’s books remind us that the concept of their direct involvement in human affairs dramatically failed when the humans misused and misunderstood their knowledge. Ever since that time, the great spirits have preferred to carry on the work of enlightenment through elected human beings. Franz Bardon used to say that some secrets are locked behind many locked doors for good reasons and can be revealed only to the mature magician. Scientific discoveries may anew lead to world catastrophe. The heads of the Earth Zone know exactly that there are some big problems with human nature and that we have a potential to destroy the world we live in, so it is no wonder they are reluctant to help. Many spirits don’t want to have any contact with immature people at all. Franz Bardon mentioned that many spirits are ready to reveal their teachings only to the magician with high ethic standards. All spirits whose faculty is to inspire inventors to new technical inventions reject to help the magician in any way, unless s/he is truly mature enough to receive such knowledge. And they have every right to be reluctant with all of those scientific experiments which have ended up with atomic bombs, chemical weapons and destruction of nature. So, the future of this humanity is left to the adepts which is the conscious decision of the Mercurial spirits. The adept needs to find a way how to approach spirits using his or her knowledge in magic, alchemy and astrology. If they find the magicians worthy, they will help them strengthen their mental bodies with incredible proportions, but they would expect them to keep the sacred teachings from corruption and to keep up with the good work of the ancients with the aim to rise humanity up from its barbarous features to cultural heights. With the strong mental body, we can travel to the end of the Universe where we can also by our own eyes witness the rays of creation. They can help us expand our memory and intellectual capabilities, so that we could remember all of our previous incarnations and understand what is behind a person even if we meet them for the first time and what is in the book after the first read sentence. We will be also lucid all the time if we wish. The only problem will be from then on how to find a way for people to understand you. Helping people is very difficult. **11. Falcon Books: With regard to the heads of the EGZ they are often spoken of as the true teachers of humanity, In your experience is this the case and how great an influence do they have upon our development?** **Nenad Djordjevic Telerman: **I think that I already partly answered to that question, but let me add that if they like you then they can also teach you everything about anything which is related to our planet Earth. In their efforts to influence our development, the heads of the EGZ closely cooperate with the Mercurial spirits (Shem angels). Most of the 360 heads of the Earth Zone have a great affinity towards Mercury, but they use the Earth as a platform from where they teach and help human beings. Cooperations between Shem angels and heads of the Earth Zone are very intensive. Many heads of the Earth Zone have Mercurial characters and can teach the magicians a lot about Mercury mysteries. As they are also familiar with the human habit to abuse knowledge when they have a chance to do so, they now only elect trustable individuals to represent Mercurial affairs and interests upon the Earth. Those lucky persons are or will become: hermetic masters, advanced magicians, extraordinary alchemists, and outstanding astrologers – in other words – the true children of Mercury. **12. Falcon Books: In your work with these beings do you always evoke or meet within the EGZ and what is the reason for this?** There are different levels of EGZ. During the evocation, the spirits come to our world reality as our guests, and during our out of body experiences, we go there to their astral and mental realms to be their guests. They sometimes follow us to Akasha. One and the same spirit after their appearance in our world’s reality may suggest to guide you to the realms where they live. I personally think that the mutual visits between you and a spirit you have evoked is a sign of the most successful evocation. In my own experience, the meetings with spirits are as real as anything else from our world’s reality when they happened in the astral region. When they come to our world’s reality during the evocation, they most often appear in their etheric forms. They are observable and you can communicate with them, but you need to be lucid and at least slightly influenced by their energy. But the evocation is always magical and if it is successful you will already find the best way of communication with the evoked spirit spontaneously. When they are in our world’s reality, most often they are in the etheric plane, which is the densest part of the astral region, which also means that we need to raise our conscious just a bit in order to see them properly. Some heads of the Earth Zone teach about other planets. So, it can also happen that they decide to guide us to Mercury, Venus, the Sun or other planetary spheres. For example, when I evoked Bekaro for the first time, I spent a few hours with him on Mars, which I did not expect at all because I thought he was to teach me about the fire element. Bekaro introduced me there to some Martial spirits. At the end I learned something there about the fire element but from Mars’ perspective. **13. Falcon Books: With regards to the preparation of the magic circle in evocation, Bardon offers a number of examples of how this can be performed. How best would you advise someone to prepare the magic circle for the first time?** **Nenad Djordjevic Telerman: **Franz Bardon required from us the perfect understanding of the magic circle, but was quite flexible about how we can use it. I can speak here only about my own personal experiences. If you evoke a spirit for the first time, draw a circle around you with a chalk. Write inside the circle related Divine names and archangels. The same names you write in the circle, you will also mention in your conjurations. In my book, I suggested related Divine names and names of archangels for each of the 360 heads of the Earth Zone. It is important to have them included within the circle, not so much because of protection, but more in order to attract their attention. We do not want to attract some random spirits during our evocations. If you invite your friend for a visit, you most probably would not like to be visited by an unknown person from the street who is also pretending to be your friend. Some spirits like to fake their identity for one reason or another. Besides the circle, it is very important to have the right sigil. In later evocations of the same spirit you will most probably not need to draw a physical circle on the floor around you any more, but you will always need to have the right sigil. The sigil is the ancient sign of recognition. The spirit might not hear your conjuration, but he will know that you want to see him once he observes his sigil by your side. And always do remember to light the candle, at least when you evoke inside. **14. How important do you feel understanding the symbology of the circle and triangle is in order to perform evocation successfully?** **Nenad Djordjevic Talerman:  **I think that Franz Bardon perfectly explained the meaning of the circle and triangle. And he also asks us to have perfect understanding of both in order to have successful evocations. Related to the triangle, some rules should be applied no matter if we have it visualised or physically drawn on the floor. The triangle is the place where the spirit is going to appear in your room as your guest, so try to make it large and comfortable. The heads of the Earth Zone are mighty spirits, so you cannot really expect them to feel nice if you arranged for them a few inches’ wide triangle. Probably, they will ignore you and think that you are disrespectful. If they still agreed to come, they would then for sure ignore your triangle altogether and sit somewhere else. In my book, I suggested special triangle arrangements and offerings for each of the 360 heads. As above-so below: try to treat your head the same way as you would treat your human friend. Offer them a chair to sit and at least a glass of water. 1**5. I wonder if you could share with us your first experience of performing magical evocation** - **How did it differ from working with the elemental realms?****Nenad Djordjevic Talerman: **a.) Elementals are truly fantastic creatures. Their kings and queens are for example the best experts of their related elements. So, if you want to learn something basic about the water element, the best option would be then to ask some undine for help. Many of them are incredibly sensitive. I am often afraid that I might accidentally hurt them when I see them. One of them, a water spirit, told me that she was not happy. When I asked her why not, she said that she only had three marbles, while her girlfriend had more than ten. They can share many innocent stories like that. They are very playful and pure souls. There are all possible kinds of salamanders. Some of the tiniest are attached to the candle flames. They are eager to act especially when the candles are used in the love magic rituals. Some fiery spirits are very mighty. Malacha can, for example, help the magician become a friend with a powerful royal family of fiery dragons. One of the most important fiery spirit is Aftif, a high priest of the Fire Temple, who has a very friendly attitude towards human beings and some human priests are under his supervision. Lurchi has a very joyful company of subordinate spirits who are representatives of the most carefree and pleasurable aspects of the fire element. They live in a very romantic region of the Earth Zone. Lurchi’s settlements are frequently visited by other spirits, not only because of their beauty. By mere walking through Lurchi’s fields, they would immediately regain additional sources of energy and vitality. Eight important sylphs are mentioned by Franz Bardon: Parahim, Apilki, Erkeya, Dalep, Capisi, Drisophi, Glisi, and Cargoste. Franz Bardon acknowledged that he had not had much success with them, so he suggested evocations of the heads whose faculty was the air element instead. On the other hand, it is known that Paracelsus, Socrates, Psellos, Abbé de Villars, Benvenuto Cellini and some other people from the present and past managed to make friends with sylphs. For instance, Cellini wrote in his diary that his favourite art model was a very beautiful sylphide. When you see sylphs, try to relax and enjoy their quickness, intelligence and unpredictability. You will typically become first aware of them when you hear their silvery voices. Pay them respect, show friendly feelings to them and state what you would like to get from them. They can help you write poetry, teach you about other arts, give you the gift of prophecy and make you capable to look into minds of other people. The magician can evoke gnome kings in the name of Adonai Ha-Aretz and Adonai Melek, Shemhamphorash angels Elemiah and Hahasiah and archangels Uriel and Sandalphon. You may also recite the Prayer of the Gnomes from Levi when you evoke a gnome king. You need to introduce yourself to gnome kings, build a relationship with them and spend time learning about their kingdoms before you go asking for favours. Gnome kings are often very melancholic. They don’t talk much, but they are very wise. Gnomes and dwarves under them are very close to us, they are truly earthy creatures. They can help you learn to take care of your finances and other material goods. King Ghob is probably the most famous gnome king. His supreme reagent on the angelic level is Phorlakh. A few gnome kings are also mentioned by Franz Bardon: Mentifil, Ordaphe, Orova, Idurah, Musar, Necas, Erami, and Andimo. **b. Did it meet your expectations?** **Nenad Djordjevic Talerman:** If you want to expand your understanding of the four elements, it is best then to cooperate with both elementals and related heads of the Earth Zone and other planetary spheres. Let me start with the fire magic. **The following heads of the Earth Zone are responsible for the fire magic:** 1. Morech (1° Aries) – active, impulsive and extreme knowledge 2. Malacha (2° Aries) – the fire element on different planes 3. Kosem (1° Leo) – fire in the Earth Zone 4. Aluph (1°Scorpio) – fire on the physical plane of the Earth 5. Bekaro (22° Aries) – salamanders 6. Molabeda (2° Taurus) – secrets of nature and sex 7. Nudatoni (2° Cancer) – volcanoes and earthquakes 8. Serap (1° Taurus) – passion 9. Lurchi (4° Aries) – love and wealth 10. Galago (12° Taurus) – impregnation of aura 11. Tabbata (10° Leo) – Invulnerability, especially against the fire There are a number of heads of the Earth Zone who are great teachers of water magic. They help the magician become: successful in love, become a great healer, have safe journeys on water, control the sea life and enjoy the company of the most marvellous water spirits. **The following heads of the Earth Zone are related to the water magic, their more precise faculties are as follows:** 1. Elami (30° Sagittarius) – underground waters 2. Tabori (10° Aries) – secrets of the water element 3. Hahadu (20° Aries) – undines 4. Sapasani (30° Taurus) – sea salt 5. Hyris (19° Aries) – magic of water and undines 6. Hipogo (20° Virgo) – ships 7. Horasul (29° Scorpio) – water regulation 8. Calamos (29° Taurus) – sea life 9. Merki (28° Libra) – fishing 10. Seneol (30° Gemini) – water-sports 11. Dimurga (10° Sagittarius) – travel on water 12. Irmano (30° Scorpio) – controlling water animals 13. Anadi (28° Scorpio) – hydrotherapy 14. Calacha (30° Aries) – hydrotherapy 15. Megalogi (30° Libra) – medical springs 16. Andrachor (29° Leo) – magical water 17. Caraschi (10° Scorpio) – medical magnetism **The magician can learn a lot about the air magic from the following heads of the Earth Zone:** 1. Kagaros (7° Leo) – mediatory principle of air 2. Pliroki (6° Cancer) – message through the air 3. Barnel (17° Aries) – love and music through the air element 4. Magelucha (18° Taurus) – mastering the air and water 5. Romasara (8° Leo) – pranayama **The following heads of the Earth Zone are related to the earth magic:** 1. Nadele (24° Aries) 2. Baalto (25° Taurus) 3. Amia (18° Capricorn) 4. Kamual (19° Capricorn) 5. Yromus (25° Aries) The heads of the Earth Zone are very friendly and they can teach the magicians all what they would like to know about: gnomes, finding lost things, crystals and precious stones, mining, and earth in ceremonial magic and alchemy. They inspire us to: laugh and have a good time; entertain our friends with great jokes, give away gifts; make some money; learn how to save and invest; take care of ecology; help gnomes in their hard work to preserve our planet; cultivate friendship with our crystals and stones and communicate with the suit of Pentacles in tarot. They are closely related to archangel Uriel, who is the guardian of the earth element and the master behind secrets of manipulating the matter, and who sometimes appears as a large beam of purple light. **15.  Falcon Books: Is there anything else you would like to add?** **Nenad Djordjevic Telerman: **The 360 heads cover many different fields of magic from the Earth Zone including: the four elemental forces, nature, stones, flora, fauna, agriculture, food, family, education, literature, love, sex, healing, music, sciences, religion, technology, inventions, art, weather, justice, virtues, alchemy, phenomenal magic, entertainment, wealth, karma, astral magic, mental magic, Akasha, Divine Providence, etc. Each field of magic consists of many different subjects. All in all, the heads of the Earth Zone can teach humans about 1500 different subjects altogether. Some subjects are similar to the ones from our world’s reality, but others are quite different. The beauty of being a magician is that we can attend their schools, learn their subjects and pass their exams while we are still alive. The heads of the Earth Zone do not hide information, but can sometimes give it under the seal of secrecy. I hope that one day people will get to know them better. This world would become a much better place if there were more people willing to cooperate with them. They will surely give you knowledge and skills, but they will also expect you to be a better human being and do your best to help humanity grow. If I may suggest our readers something at the end. Be humble. Do not show off with your knowledge. They will help you find some amazing information about your origin. You may become a member of their family. Maybe you will realise that you are closely connected to Olympian gods, Cherubim angels or some other mighty groups of spirits. But even if that was the case, do not tell that to other people. It is your secret. Do not say that you are more special than other people. See yourself as an ordinary human being. Do not compare with others. You are no crystal parent nor indigo child. Be normal. If you do not cultivate normal human virtues, the heads of the Earth Zone won’t bother to meet you. They will just ignore you. And be careful with your new powers and learn how to control them! At the end I would like to thank you Tanya for your great work of spreading knowledge and wisdom in the world. **Thank you, Nenad for this wonderful in-depth and insightful interview.** [Nenads Books](https://falconbookspublishing.com/shop/?product_cat=nenad-djordjevic-talerman&orderby=date&last_item=nenad-djordjevic-talerman&last_stop=334) --- # An excerpt from The Covert Side of Initiation by Virgil – Ch 6: Malkuth Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/an-excerpt-from-the-covert-side-of-initiation-by-virgil-ch-6-malkuth/ Bill’s (William Mistele) extended essay on the ten sephiroth of the Tree of Life contains a chapter for each sephiroth. Each sephirah’s chapter contains several exercises for understanding the mysteries and lessons pertaining to that sephirah. The first two exercises for Malkuth are as follows: - Carefully observe your routines and seize opportunities as they occur to improve on what you are doing. - Turn your life into a story worth telling. These are genuinely magical exercises and are interwoven with the work of IIH. Therefore, I want to discuss them a bit. When I contemplate the first exercise, I am reminded of alchemy. Just as an alchemist continually refines a metal to improve it, you continually refine the way you do anything, whether it is conversing with others, cooking, driving, playing with your kids, or eating. By constantly refining the way you do these things, you improve the way you do these things until you can do them almost perfectly. Another thing I am reminded of is a quote by Paul Foster Case from a book he wrote that discusses using magical techniques to improve yourself, improve your life, and achieve your goals. The quote is as follows. > *Don’t waste a moment’s time trying to think up some high and lofty objective, far ahead in life. Life is not lived by years. It is an affair of days, hour **—**minutes even. Today’s activities determine the fulfillment of tomorrow’s ideals.* I think the spirit of this quote aligns well with the spirit of the two Malkuth exercises given by Bill. With the first exercise, you’re not trying to become an adept, or become enlightened, or accomplish some other high and lofty objective. You’re just trying to improve the way you do the things you do in your ordinary day to day life. This really is an affair of minutes. You might cook for a few minutes, or drive for a few minutes, or converse with someone for a few minutes. A lot of the time, it is actually an affair of seconds. Washing your hands doesn’t take several minutes. Yet, a magician can always improve the way he washes his hands by becoming better and better at using the magnetic fluid in the water to absorb away his negative traits and carry them down the drain. For the student of magic, the ideal of tomorrow is to be a person than he is today. Whether this ideal comes to pass tomorrow is, as Case says, entirely dependent on the activities he does today. It’s not dependent on any one particular activity. Every activity you do today determines whether you will be a better person tomorrow. For this reason, at any moment in time, it’s important to be focused on whatever you are doing so you can consciously strive to do your best and take mental notes on what you can do to improve. For example, let’s say you are practicing a kata. If you aren’t present-minded, your movements will be sloppy. Practicing the kata in a sloppy manner may make you worse, rather than better. If you practice the kata while present-minded, then you consciously strive to do the best that you can do. In this way, you will truly improve. This also gives you the opportunity to make mental notes about other things you can do to improve. For example, you might notice that you are not good at remaining in zenkutsu dachi. With this knowledge, you might decide to do some stance training later. However, if you are absent-minded instead of present-minded when you practice the kata, you will not notice these things. In summary, in order to improve the way you do something —cooking, karate, conversing, flirting, etc—you need to try your best while doing it. In order to try your best, you have to be focused. This is why present-mindedness is so important, and why I devote a whole chapter to the subject of present-mindedness later in this book. Besides the importance of present-mindedness, another thing I notice is that in order to improve the way you do things, it is often necessary to transform your personality in some way. For example, let’s say you are a college student who is bad at taking exams. You will probably do better if you develop the quality of intelligence while eliminating the quality of stupidity from yourself. This can be done with the six-pronged attack, which I discuss in great detail in my second book. Yet another thing I notice is that journaling can be a powerful asset to this exercise for some people, including myself. For journaling to be helpful, it needs to be approached in the right way. What the right way is will be different for different people. I like to spend an hour once a week writing in my journal. I document the all the things I like about the way I lived during the previous week, as well as all the ways I am disappointed in how I lived during the previous week. I might note down, for example, that I did a good job staying present-minded, but wasted a lot more time on social media than I wish I had. I’ll also write down plans and suggestions for the upcoming week so that it will be better than the previous week in regards to the way I live and use my time. The insights I gain from journaling like this go a long way in helping me improve the way I do the things I do. Having discussed the first Malkuth exercise Bill gives, let’s discuss the second one. I find this exercise particularly interesting. Crowley theorized that the wand, sword, cup, and pentacle of the magicians evolved from the stylus, ink holder, sharpening blade, and paperweight of the first scribes. Just as a scribe uses those instruments to write a story, the magician uses those same tools to write out his destiny. The wand represents the airy aspect of a magician once it has been refined and developed. In other words, to possess a magical wand means that you have acquired positive airy traits like intelligence and open-mindedness, and eliminated from yourself all negative airy traits like absent-mindedness and shyness. Similarly, the sword, cup, and pentacle represent the fiery, water, and earthy aspects of the magician once they have been refined and developed. There are several ways of attributing the four elements to the sephiroth of the Tree of Life. One popular way is to attribute air to Tiphereth, fire to Geburah, water to Chesed, and earth to Malkuth. Another possible way is to place all four elements in Malkuth. This method is probably the most relevant method for Bardonists who use Qabalah as a tool in their training. Malkuth in the macrocosm is the Earthzone, and the four elemental regions where the sylphs, salamanders, undines, and gnomes dwell are all contained within the Earthzone. Thus, it is fitting that a Malkuth exercise should involve establishing an elemental equilibrium; that is to say, acquiring the true wand, sword, cup, and pentacle. Of course, having a stylus, sharpening blade, ink holder, and papyrus is not enough to begin writing a beautiful, wonderful, and interesting story. You also need to brainstorm ideas and come up with a plot for your story. Similarly, you need to brainstorm and come up with ways to make your life interesting so that when you die, people will love to hear the story of your life. One way to do this is to make a bucket list. Many example bucket lists can be found on the internet. From there, you just need to prioritize the items on the list and make plans for fulfilling them. Later on in your training, after you have completed Step 8 of IIH, you will find that there are numerous spirits in the Earthzone and in the planetary spheres who can give you support and guidance as you carry out those plans. That said, you shouldn’t wait until you have completed IIH before beginning to carry out your plans. Do that as soon as possible. Because the four elements pertain to Malkuth, and because the four elements are a major theme in IIH, it’s clear there is some kind of profound connection between IIH and Malkuth. For this reason, one might come to the conclusion that these two exercises presented by Bill are somehow woven into the work of IIH. This conclusion is correct. Of course Bardon never explicitly describes either of these exercises in the text of the book, but when I reflect upon the time I spent working through IIH, it becomes apparent to me that I was doing these two exercises all along. Bill also writes the following in the Malkuth chapter of his extended essay. > *Life is short. Make every effort not to get bogged down.* According to Bill, the two exercises he gives are specifically designed to help you do just that—not get bogged down in life. Your magical training is an aspect of your life and should be well-integrated with the other aspects of your life. Thus, we might consider not getting bogged down in your magical training to be a part of not getting bogged down in life. I want to discuss this part of the practice a bit. Many people get bogged down in their training. You see this in instances where people spend several years on Step 1. There are multiple things these people can get bogged down in. A lot of them get bogged down in their immaturity. Again, the way Bardon wrote IIH makes it seem like magical training is just about mastering exercise after exercise. Although I’ve stated several times already that this is not the case, numerous people continue to believe it is. Since they are unaware that one’s maturity affects one’s rate of magical advancement, they never realize they are bogged down in their immaturity. They believe that the solution to their problem is to practice the exercises of IIH for several hours a day. This a really bad idea, and often leads to what is known as “magical burnout.” If you are bogged down in your own immaturity, the best solution to your dilemma is to work strategically and persistently towards becoming more mature. This will remove the invisible walls you are butting your head against when you practice magical exercises and find yourself unable to advance, despite putting many hours into practicing those exercises. Bill also includes a section on “well-being” in the Malkuth chapter. I think it’s important to discuss well-being in regards to magical training; in particular Step 1, because well-being is exactly what many beginning Bardonists don’t feel. Instead, they feel uncertain about whether they have what it takes to complete their training. They feel anxious about finding time each day to practice. They feel despair because the magical path seems so difficult. They feel worried about how they can juggle their magical training with their other interests and activities. This mixture of negative feelings isn’t great. Until you’ve developed a sense of well-being, you won’t make any significant progress in your training. The reason is that in order to make lasting progress, your magical training needs to be well-integrated into your life and in harmony with all other parts of your life. If this is the case, your magical training should not have a negative impact on your sense of well-being. Rather, it should enhance your sense of well-being because there are many positive benefits to be gained from magical training, assuming it is approached in the right way. Bill also writes the following about gnomes in the Malkuth chapter. > *Gnomes are those beings who are most at home in the physical world. They consider matter itself to be spiritual and they are continuously seeking to shape and to transform it, raising its vibration and adding soul and mind to its nature. Gnomes possess a quiet ecstasy. Whatever they are working at, they are doing it with all of their heart. For gnomes, a unit of time is measured in terms of when they began and then completed a project. Time is defined from within.* In magical training, you work to develop all four elements within yourself. Thus, you possess the positive traits of a gnome, a sylph, an undine, and a salamander. It is developing the gnome part of yourself and learning to approach your tasks like a gnome that I want to discuss now. Gnomes continually work to refine and transform matter. When you have completed your magical training, you are a different person than before. You have an elemental equilibrium. You possess certain magical skills and abilities. You have become noble and righteous. In the same way that a gnome refines and transforms matter, you have refined and transformed yourself. Some people think that a “fiery” approach to working through IIH is the best. Through willpower, you blast through all obstacles in your path. Other people think that an “airy” approach to working through IIH is the best. Through intelligent reasoning and logic, you come up with an excellent plan to overcome any obstacle and then put that plan into action. Other people think a “watery” approach to working through IIH is the best. Any time you come across an obstacle preventing you from advancing, you find a way to adapt and flow around the obstacle. In truth, the ideal approach to IIH has the nature of all four elements. I feel that the earth/gnome aspect of most people’s approach to working through IIH is the weakest, and this is why their progress is slow. Consider, for example, that patience is a virtue of the earth element. Many people impatiently try to rush through IIH as fast as they can. Gnomes don’t rush through their work. They work steadily and persistently at the pace most comfortable with them. Since “time is defined from within,” they feel to need to hurry. Try to approach all aspects of your magical training more like a gnome and see what happens. Refine your ability to practice conscious breathing, conscious eating, and magical washing the way a gnome refines matter. Refine your ability to concentrate, accumulate energy, and exteriorize your subtle bodies the way a gnome refines matter. Refine your ability to see, hear, and feel astra-mental phenomena the way a gnome refines matter. Refine yourself the way a gnome refines matter. Document what happens when you do this. You will be surprised at what the patience and thoroughness of a gnome can help you accomplish. ##### To find out more about Virgil please see his Author page here ##### See his books here. --- # William Mistele: My Journey of Discovery with Bardon’s Magical System Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/william-mistele-my-journey-of-discovery-with-bardons-magical-system/ Presenting today and interview with **William Mistele, **many are familiar regarding his work with the undines. William is an author and a Franz Bardon practitioner with over 40 years of experience in this field. You can view William’s writings on his [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/williamrmistele?fref=ts) and [blog](http://williammistele.com/) where he offers a biography his life and experiences with studying Franz Bardon Hermetics. To find out more you can visit his [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/user/Emedetz) account. Hello Bill and a cordial welcome to Falcon Books. Thank you for taking the time to answer these questions.  **1. Falcon Books: Could you please tell us a little about your journey? How did you come to find Bardon’s works and what inspired you to follow this path?** **William Mistele: **My life path was dramatically shaped by nightmares beginning when I was around seven years old. I would sit in a fundamentalist Christian church and the preachers would preach about hell fire. And then I went to elementary school and the teachers had us practice “duck and cover.” This was a method of protecting yourself in case of a nuclear war. You hide under your desk as a three-megaton nuclear missile from Russia vaporizes the city of Detroit where I lived. There was a fire in the inner spiritual/religious world and fire in the external world, though obviously the fire in the external world was produced by human beings. Furthermore, there is speculation that we almost lost the city of Detroit in 1966 when a breeder reactor south of the city was at risk of a reactor core meltdown. So the question dawning in my mind over the years was where is the wisdom that governs society and nations so that human beings can possess things like the nuclear fusion of the sun without destroying themselves. And speaking for myself, this question about wisdom governing nations was part of why Franz Bardon wrote his three books. Supposedly, people who died in World War I complained to Divine Providence that they had no genuine teacher when they were alive. It took forty years and an even worse world war for Divine Providence to respond to these complaints through the publication of Franz Bardon’s three books. Consequently, in my mind, the first thing some of Bardon’s students might direct their attention to is putting an end to wars.  Eventually, a trained Bardon student is able to look into the minds of anyone on earth and evaluate their karma (or let’s say their positive and negative traits) as well as the karma of nations. And this is not pretentious or overreaching. The human race since the fifties has at least six times been minutes and sometimes seconds away from an all-out nuclear exchange. At least four of the 360 Earthzone spirits Bardon describes specialize in issues of war and peace and the fate of nations. These spirits send their vibrations and inspiration through the entire planet earth for four minutes each day. Consequently, they are already right here talking to all of us daily. You just have to listen. I do a lot of listening. So for me, it is the most natural thing in the world to want to learn from such divine spirits. I would like to act on their wisdom so that diplomats and national leaders are more skilled, wiser, and committed to benevolent outcomes in their international interactions. This “can do” approach I acquired from growing up in my family. I would come home from school and there was my father in the backyard grilling hamburgers for people such as the vice president of Ford Motors, the mayor of Grosse Pointe, the Chief of Police, the CEO of the largest retail store in the U.S., etc. My father was later on asked to be press secretary for a presidential candidate. My uncle oversaw General Motors operations in its manufacturing of weapons in WWII. My mother had long conversations about who started WW II with Captain Fuchida who was the pilot who led the attack on Pearl Harbor. My father organized a “reunion” of Japanese and American admirals and generals in Honolulu for the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. In my family of origin, I met people who were not just involved in world historic events. They helped shape these events. And yet there remained this void, a terrible absence of wisdom, regarding how to communicate, understand, negotiate, and resolve conflicts between nations. The external world does not have adequate tools for solving these problems. To find what I was looking for, I needed a greater wisdom and a perspective on human history and a means for transforming human nature. In 1970, when I was out of college, I began studying spiritual anthropology. I wanted to extract methods for transforming consciousness that were drawn from the oldest esoteric traditions on earth. I wanted a psychic, magical, and spiritual set of practices.This was in part because it was clear to me that the previous five hundred years of Protestant interpretation existed in a spiritual vacuum. They emphasized literally reading of words without any self-reflective, contemplative, meditative, or intuitive training of any kind. I had met a great many Christian teachers before I went to college and so I had a fairly accurate basis for my conclusions. I then studied with many masters of a variety of traditions. In 1975, I began visualizing for a half hour each day the first three Tarot cards–the Magician, Isis, and the Fool. I then had a dream about finding four magic books, the first three were Bardon’s. Shortly after this, a friend handed me Initiation into Hermetics, which she thought I might be interested in. I immediately began to study this book seriously, since I had been looking for something like this for ten years previously. **2 Falcon Books: When you were working your way through IIH, which step did you feel was most difficult for you and why? In addition, how did you eventually get through it?** **William Mistele:** For the first ten years, I tried to follow Bardon’s instructions exactly as he offers them. I started over from the beginning at least seven times. The problem is, I can get a lot of things to work for me the way they are taught. But at a certain point, my body and nervous system refuse to cooperate. Take the lung and pour breathing exercise. I could do that. And I could get a sensation of emitting waves of light from the condensed vitality I had compressed within my body. Years later after interviewing “incarnated mermaids,” I realized these individuals were using the water element to heal others, sometimes healing even terminal patients. By contrast, Bardon was emphasizing a fiery kind of vitality–it is hot, condensed, dynamic, pressured, and explosive. On the other hand, the watery method of healing is gentle, soft, soothing, extremely empathic, extraordinarily clairsentient, and it operates like dialysis–it takes and purifies the individual’s vitality. My body is oriented toward the watery form of healing. Given who I am, Bardon’s method is the worst kind of vitality for me to work with in the beginning. Equally disastrous for me was Bardon’s mental exercises, involving concentration. Though concentration is natural for me, when I do it as Bardon presents the exercises energy gets trapped in my third eye and I get terrible headaches. Again, my nervous system requires a different approach. Namely, by meditating on the void–as being nothing and part of a vast space of nothingness/emptiness/void–energy does not get stuck in any part of my body. There is no image or outline of my body present in those meditations so there is nowhere for energy to get stuck or blocked. And in a similar manner, any ritual magic involving visualizing circles, triangles, pentagrams, or the use of magical tools like crystals, wands, robes, magic mirrors, etc. simply shorts out my nervous system and causes physical ailments. My body is so sensitive that I cannot even wear jewellery. Over the years, another problem that I  ran into with the early chapters of IIH has been with the soul mirror and magical equilibrium. Again, it is easy enough for me to follow the directions as presented. I can say to myself, “Oh. There is this fire element within me. It is in part positive and also in part negative. It makes me insatiable curious beyond what I have met in any other human being. And it gives me an immediate and nearly absolute certainty that there are solutions that can be found to solve any problem. This is Sagittarius energy with positive and negative aspects. And this fiery sense of command and vision come from both my mother and father. Looking back, I was exposed to the cosmic letter K with its fiery sense of absolute command. And my father used that authority so well that mafia dons had respect for him, not because he was bad. Rather, he could do what they could not do–get men to work extremely hard and be completely loyal to him far beyond what the mafia was capable of doing. But such primordial command is easily interwoven with negative traits as well. The alpha male often will use his position of power to absorb the will, the emotional life, and life force of others into himself. It has taken me forty-five years to find a meditation that would free me of that kind of negativity. In other words, what appears as a personal vice or weakness may, in fact, connect directly to a collective/archetypal conflict that exists in human civilization. In my experience, eliminating something negative like that in myself requires I go on a kind of spiritual quest and accomplish what has not been accomplished before in recorded history. To solve some problems for yourself you have to also solve the problem for all other people as well. There are times when changing oneself is simultaneously changing the world. One day I was meditating on the void (the cosmic letter U) and the problem with my father and the cosmic letter K vanished. The void is beyond the reach of any abuse of power or anything negative. It would have saved me forty years of failed or misdirected efforts in magical training if someone, in the beginning, had said to me, “Oh. Your nervous system is not like other human beings. You need to begin meditating on the cosmic letter U. Find in yourself a stillness that embraces the universe. Then and only then through that mastery will some of these personal problems of yours disappear. But this experience with trial and error, with experimentation with its successes and failures, served a purpose. I am a writer. I tell stories. It was essential that I be able to trace each step between the ordinary consciousness where I began and the magical meditations I do now. I am supposed to write a manual on effective, practical, and field-tested ways for eliminating war on earth. In the twentieth century, at least three hundred million people died of smallpox. After twelve thousand years of smallpox plagues, in 1979, through careful work, the United Nations eliminated smallpox from the earth. Eliminating war is a similar enterprise. You do the work, you get the results Initiation into Hermetics is not a prayer book for the devout. You train and then you take into your hands the powers of creation. Practicing IIH is not about making little changes that upgrade your life and make you a better person. You really do not need this caliber of magical training to do something positive and constructive with your life. IIH is altogether different. It gives you the ability to act as a divine being and to interact with all aspects of human evolution. In looking back, I think of my uncle again: when blindfolded, he could take a car engine apart and put it back together again. That is my approach to the Bardon exercises. I have to reverse engineer, experiment, modify, rewrite and compare them to what other traditions do. To take them apart and put them back together again to see how many different ways I can make them work. Then hopefully I find something that fits me personally. And in the process perhaps what I discover is useful to someone else as well. **3. Falcon Books: What advice would you offer to Bardon students working their way through IIH?** **William Mistele:** Though IIH is self-initiation, I would recommend to you, read whatever commentaries you can find on the internet about the first book and Bardon’s other books as well. Especially find questions and answers related to the chapter you are working on. Find a mentor, someone who you can bounce ideas off of and who can assist you in solving problems. If you have difficulties, investigate other traditions relating to the chapter you are working on. If you have trouble stopping thoughts and developing an empty mind, drop in on a Quaker, or other silence meditation groups. Take a look at Zen monasteries of different national cultures, a Vipassana meditation group, or a dzogchen Tibetan meditation group. Take a look at an Aikido dojo, a Tai Chi Chuan group, a yoga meditation group, or someone who does biofeedback, etc. Each tradition has a slightly different perspective and understanding of how the mind works. Some first relax and energize the body through stretching which makes the mind much easier to quiet. Some do these very peaceful, hypnotic chants with incense and a restful ambience of a temple surrounding you. Spend  a lot time concentrating single-mindedly on slow movements of the body that the mind is already trained to sink “chi” downward in the body to the lower Tan Tien. With one exercise, you may excel. With another exercise, you may need external help as if you have some sort of learning disability. Observe your progress. Discover what works for you. I could easily write an essay on Forty Things to Do with an Empty Mind. Perhaps one or two of those forty things you are already adept in. All you need to do is take what you are good at and gradually expand it so it accomplishes the purpose of the original exercise in IIH. For me, the first three chapters in IIH are a summary of everything in Bardon’s three books. Everything else is just refinement and application. The empty mind exercise turns into work on the cosmic letters E and U. The transference of consciousness exercise turns into mental wandering and contact with spirits. The astral mirror exercises turn into an understanding of other’s karma and the fate of groups and nations. You take an exercise and you can explore it on multiple levels. In other words, for me, there is no end to practicing the first three chapters. These first exercises just get deeper and richer. **4. Falcon Books: You have given a list of examples from students (in your [blog](http://williammistele.com/toptenbardon3rd.htm) post) why they do not fully complete steps 1- 3 ( in Bardon’s** **IIH)** **or give up. What would you say in your experience are the main causes of this?** **William Mistele:** “For me, there is a high level of difficulty in practicing IIH just because of the nature of the subject matter. Bardon has the formidable task of taking a human being and placing him on a path where he ends up reflecting the greater universe in himself. This training system is intended to give a human being the full powers of an Earthzone spirit while he is still in incarnation. Taking on such training system is a lot to ask of a student. It is kind of like saying, “Here is the perfection of wisdom taught systematically in ten steps that awakens you to a multi-dimensional awareness and that enables you to not only interact with beings of other realms but to make those realms a second home.” You could take any chapter in IIH and use it as the central goal of an esoteric lodge, or to start a new religion. All the same, if you pick up IIH and read the introduction, a student might imagine that with serious work he can proceed exercise by exercise and chapter by chapter and finish the book in five to ten or maybe fifteen years. And yet obviously everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses that they bring to the practice. I have sat and meditated with a Zen master. It took him 15 years to master his first koan. He said, “it is impossible to stop your mind from thinking thoughts.” That was his experience. I have sat and with meditated with martial artists who have astonishing abilities in their chosen field of self-defense. Some work out for six hours every day for decades. But very few of them have any healing ability. Similarly, I have sat in classes with world level philosophers and skilled psychologists. Again, the above individuals are genuine scholars in their chosen professions. And yet, given my interviews with various people from around the world, these philosophers and psychologists have next to no understanding of what human beings are or what they are capable of becoming. Their understanding of human nature is shaped by the ideas of a tiny intellectual community originating over here in the Western world. When I look at what Bardon is asking the student to accomplish in chapters 1 through 3, he is asking for an individual who has the imagination of a Steven Spielberg. As a writer/director, give Spielberg a movie script and he has the ability to sit down and visualize all the scenes in a movie including camera angles, hear all the dialogue including sensing the feeling expressed verbally and non-verbally, and also imagine how that finished movie would play to various audiences. I think Bardon expects this level of imagination from his students. Add to this the level of self-understanding Bardon is after in attaining astral equilibrium. It is like he wants a student to have at least the understanding that might arise from having two PhDs in psychology. After all, astrologers will talk about the traits you have from looking at your natal chart. But when has any astrologer on earth said to you, “Now I want you to master all 12 zodiac signs so that the elements of earth, air, fire, and water are equally balanced in your soul.” “If you sun sign is Leo, I want you to develop yourself so you have the open-mindedness and understanding of an Aquarian who sees the big picture in terms of what life is all about. If your sun sign is Aries and you are bold, down to earth, and assertive, I want you to equally develop the sign of Libra in yourself. Learn to produce a balance between yourself and other people. Always stay focused on the harmony of a relationship even if you have to turn into a director and producer who subtly assists another person to feel connected and happy.” And so forth. Similarly, in the Myers-Briggs Personality system, there are personality traits that are paired off together such as thinking-feeling, extrovert-introvert, judging-perceiving and so forth. But where are the psychologists who offer you a class in balancing all these opposites in yourself? Kind of like, > “Are you an introvert? Let’s learn to be an extrovert so that feels equally comfortable. > > > > > > Are you a perceiving kind of person who wants to carefully observe and draw conclusions based on direct, personal experience as opposed to an individual who wants to label things and place them in clear categories so there can be order and organization? Well then let’s learn to be organized and act like an administrator so we can get more done.” Psychologists do not ask people to strive for such balance. But that is exactly what Bardon insists we accomplish. Bardon is asking his students to balance the four elements in their souls. And yet, given the level of energies we are working with, such balance becomes essential. If you start evoking fire or water in your soul, you will definitely need the self-perception to sense how exposure to these powers of nature affect you. Astral equilibrium is not something to work at and then move on. It is a lifetime practice and some weaknesses, or negativities in the soul will require a lifetime to work out. And there is the physical level of training. And there is the physical level of training. Imagine being able to radiate vitality like the sun. Or, if you prefer, work with magnetism and watery energy to heal others. how many people do you know can heal terminally ill patients, or who can walk into an emergency room in a hospital and provide relief from pain for everyone there? I know a few individuals who can do these things. But they are not magicians or even human. They were born with those abilities which they brought with them from their own elemental realms. All the same, Bardon is asking his students to master their own vitality as if they are sixth don Aikido master or a very gifted Tai Chi Chuan master. A lot of people just are not interested in their physical bodies to the extent Bardon demands. For me, you can read the exercises, put in the work, and seek to move on. Or you can read the exercises and take a serious look at what Bardon is after. A magician for Bardon is a master of body, soul, and mind. He is literally a divine being. And such divinity in human form does not come without severe tests, difficulties, and a massive effort to overcome one’s limitations. Mastery over the physical, astral, mental, and akashic realms is a key component to Bardon’s magical system. My advice is to fall in love with your body and its life force, with your soul and its feelings, and with your mind with its thinking and concentration. Each level of awareness opens up wondrous realms to be endlessly explored. Make the effort to solve your problems and in the end, it is like you will have experienced the equivalent of three or more lifetimes packed into one. **5. Falcon Books: Leading from question 2, I can see there is a danger of becoming delusional in your practice and convincing yourself that you have completed a step and are ready to move on when in reality this may not be the case. How can the student prevent this from this occurring if they are working on their own without a teacher?** **William Mistele:** It might help to make the exercises a part of yourself so you live and breathe them. They are not chores or prerequisites for something that comes later. They are something you fall in love with and cherish. The feminine is nurturing, supportive, sensitive, tender, and uniting. The masculine is constantly testing, experimenting, rigorous in training demanding excellence and perfection. Both approaches are required in order to take an exercise and bring it to life within yourself. The problem in working alone is similar to problems in any kind of self-education. I taught myself trigonometry and geometry during the summer before my senior year in high school. I was gifted in math so I managed to accomplish that without sitting in a classroom. I taught myself theology in college to validate required classes, since I felt the classroom presentations on this topic were terribly boring. Self-education in this instance was of great benefit for me because I could focus on making original observations that operated outside of traditional interpretations. In college, I also taught myself geology and validated a test so I did not need to take any science requirements. I was not so good at this since geology requires some hands-on experience observing minerals. When I studied Aikido I was already practicing Bardon visualization. This gave me a tremendous advantage. I could mentally rehearse various movements in my mind and so walk into class having memorized the previous session. And early on I could do things the Aikido sensei could not do if it involved concentration. But this accelerated mode of learning came with a price. My body was not used to the levels of concentration I was using and so I developed severe abdominal cramps. This would not have occurred if I had learned more slowly like other students. I also had this idea I could learn languages on my own since I could do very well in a classroom. But it turned out my brain would simply forget anything I had learned if I took a two-week break from studying. It took me three years to figure out that I had a learning disability when it comes to languages. Learning a language is not like studying other things on one’s own. It did not follow similar patterns and for me, it requires first-hand interaction with other people. So a high level of self-reflection is required in teaching yourself anything. It helps to check your progress against what others are doing. It helps to keep a journal of your practices and notice where you are advancing and where you are having difficulties. Early on in my Bardon practice, I acquired a very high-level skill in clairsentience. I could feel auras of people and of any kind of spirit anywhere. But I had to develop my own system of interpretation of what different aura vibrations meant without any assistance from others. This required rigorous observations and note taking. But it also meant I could study the mind of masters and the qualities of spiritual beings. And I could “feel” the vibration of Bardon exercises. This meant I could “magically enhance” any meditation or exercise I did. Sometimes this gave me a great advantage because I could sense exactly when I was doing something right. And other times magically enhanced meditations are no advantage at all. You just have to repeat the exercise over and over and observe everything you can in order to succeed. For me, Bardon’s approach goes like this: If you do not get an exercise after repeating it thirty or forty times then don’t stop. Try repeating it three or four hundred times. But do not be stupid. Vary your approach and add to your practice anything you can that might assist you in mastering something. To summarize, to overcome problems inherent in self-education you have to devise different ways of testing yourself. I went and meditated with a great many teachers so I acquired a sense of what they can and what they cannot do. And gradually I discovered my own path of training. For me, learning magic is not like learning trigonometry or German. It is more like art or storytelling. You learn the basic structure of what makes a good story. But then you have to add your own content. It takes a lot of work. But without the inspiration, you are dead in the water. You can judge for yourself if there is any value in my approach by reading my books, [Stories of Magic and Enchantment](https://falconbookspublishing.com/author-william-mistele/) and also Mermaid Tales. **6. Falcon Books: How does one strike a balance between moving on and lingering on a step too long in an attempt to try to perfect its exercises?** **William Mistele: **I often get emails from students who say they have spent years and are still not through the first step. Perhaps if we had the equivalent of a magical university on-line, we could hold seminars and roundtable discussions about each chapter. You could ask different experienced individuals about their various approaches and suggestions. And if we had extensive archives a beginning student could read through ten or twenty answers to a question about various difficulties and remedies for each exercise. It may be a system of self-initiation but that does not mean you should avoid learning from others or working in a group. I would suggest a student engaged in a serious study of Western magic and the history of magic around the world. Before you study for a PhD you review the history of your field of research. It is important to be able to think critically. Answer for yourself questions such as what is Bardon striving for in the mental, astral, and physical level exercises of IIH? How does IIH relate to his next two books? And also, what problems crop up that prevent students from getting through the exercises at various levels? Who has succeeded in overcoming what appeared initially to be an insurmountable difficulty? Who has encountered difficulties unique to their own karma, life situation, and a set of personal aptitudes? And what do you do when you have a PhD level of mastery of one exercise but are back in kindergarten with another exercise in the same chapter? If you have an overview of what is being asked of you, then you can set up your own schedule and design your own personal approach to working through the exercises. Part of my training as a spiritual anthropologist is discerning the difference between what someone says they are doing and what they actually do. If you are practicing an exercise and not getting the results you would like, then you might reexamine the way you are reading the exercise. You can ask yourself, Is there another approach I might use that would work better for me? And this is pretty much then your question–Should I go on or spend more time deepening an exercise I feel I have already worked through? Should I pursue one exercise at a time or work at two or more exercises that seem to complement each other? The best I can suggest is that you have to experiment and observe what works for you. ###### A Big Thankyou to Bill for his hard work and thoroughness in answering these questions these questions. Please check out our other interviews for more fascinating magical discussions. --- --- ####   --- # Through Hermetic Meditation and Beyond with Crystalf Maibach Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/through-hermetic-meditation-and-beyond-with-crystalf-maibach/ Falcon Books is presenting a series of interviews with seasoned Hermetic practitioners and those who follow a spiritual discipline. The aim being to share the wisdom, knowledge and understanding of these practitioners with those just beginning the path and as an inspiration to us all. The focus of these discussions are guided towards the spiritual seeker. *Copyright of Falcon Books Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved (2017).* Republished 2023. Presenting today an interview with **Crystalf** **Maibach** who is a long term Franz Bardon practitioner He began the work of conscious Self-Transformation 25 years ago, and is active in Bardon’s Opus and other hermetic and magical traditions and has been now for nearly 15 years. Beside the Bardon Work of Self-Transformation, his main focus lies in laboratory alchemy. He holds a master’s degree in History and has written several articles concerning mainly Alchemy and Theurgy in different magazines. Crystalf also has a successful Blog named[ Hermetic Science](http://hermeticscience.de/) which offers information ranging of subjects on Franz Bardon, Alchemy, Astrology, Magic and Quabbalah. A cordial welcome Crystalf. Thank you for sharing with us your time and wisdom along this journey. **1.    Falcon Books: I wonder if you could share with us a bit of your background and how you came to practice Franz Bardon’s work?** **Crystalf: ** Thank you for giving me this opportunity to share some of my experiences, gained by walking my path. For me, it is always an interesting question, how I came to practice Bardon’s work. There are so many inspirations that depending on my mood and time, different ones come primarily to my mind. So let´s think about, which one I want to focus on. I remember some of them more dominant like (clearly) Bardon’s book itself, others more reluctant. But all of them are part of my individual desire to grow beyond my mundane capabilities. Maybe the earliest memory I can remember of, that has something to do with personal growth is … Luke Skywalker! Honestly, some of my earliest memories about the desire to grow in self-improvement is, when I was around 7 years old and watched Star Wars the first time. I was deeply impressed with Luke trying to become a Jedi Knight, to grow from a mere farmer boy toward a “wise warrior” like Obi-Wan. As probably every little boy I loved warriors, but since then I couldn´t get along with the pure muscle types; there had to be more, the wisdom to know why and when to fight for what, just like “Old Ben”. This memory was probably part of my subconscious desires when I started my own quest – I think this triggered something; there was a spark that got alighted. Well, around three years later I started training martial arts: Shaolin Kung Fu. Maybe to fight better: but what I learned was not to fight, but to control myself – my body and mind. This was the first conscious step toward transformation. Of course I got in contact with the so-called “youth occultism” in the mid of the 90ies too, but it did not impress me in the slightest; in fact, I was more repelled by its egomaniac self-centeredness. And honestly: even as a fourteen-years-old I could not grasp why making a wand should give me magical powers. The magic had to come from me, not the wand. So I concentrated on school… My first real act of magic I did with around 21: I had a bad argument with a person very dear to me – and I won the argument. Sure, I won, but I hurt her by my words, my anger…and when I came home, it became crystal-clear to me that this wasn´t the kind of person I want to be. So I decided to change myself, to develop into a person I feel comfortable with looking into the mirror. And this conscious decision – without books, Bardon, rituals, etc. was the most magical act I had done so far. A year later I stumbled upon IIH and found it immediately the perfect tool to reach this goal. IIH appeared from the very first moment as a systematic system of self-development, including magic – all the myths inherent still in my (the human) consciousness, but without the tam-tam found in many modern systems of occultism. It appeared to me nearly scientific in its systematic approach, but nonetheless all about the individual. And it had no dogma! After I began the work I did in fact gain experiences in a lot of other occult systems and initiations, but after a while, I realized that none of them really gave me a lasting feeling of maturity. Sometimes even quite the opposite. So after a few years I quit with the other stuff and concentrated on IIH, restarting in the process and since then I walk the Hermetic path. And I am still on that journey to transform myself. Still struggling from time to time, but walking on step by step. In my experience, it is not important to be perfect, but never to stop walking. Then the goal will be reached in time… 2.**    Falcon Books:  Many people get ‘stuck’ for a long time on Step 1. First, what do you think are the main reasons for this and do you have any advice to enable people to get through Step 1?** **Crystalf:**  That is a tough and long-winded question if every argument for getting “stuck” I have heard so far should be considered. But I think the main reason is, that most people don’t really *want* to walk the Path. In truth they want other things: fame, love, respect, power in some way or another; these are the main reasons I deducted. And to transform their body, spirit and mind appear for them more mandatory, then an act worth of itself. So they more or less “torment” themselves with IIH and the exercises of Step 1 – and torment is no fun. Sometimes they even realize somewhere in themselves, that there is a treasure to be found in IIH, but still, they care more about other things – like sleeping an hour more in the morning. And to wake up earlier is no fun for them. But IIH should be FUN, it should be fun to change yourself for the better. And every Step is worth its own fun. Too often I talk to people who long to be in Step 5 or 6 because they expect some cool stuff there. But honestly guys – when you arrive there, all the stuff you do and experience appears as nothing special anymore, i.e. to project elements, just the natural outcome of your maturity. And as long as the student finds no fun in Step 1, he won´t progress. Still, my favorite exercise in the whole of the three books is thought-observation! I simply love it!!! It is the foundation for everything else and teaches me every day more about me, my behavior, my being. It is THE exercise that makes “know thyself!” possible… And all the other reasons why people don´t progress are logical consequences of this subconscious unwillingness: i.e. having no time is “not making time”. If the student really wants to do the exercises they will be able to find the time. These arguments are following several other excuses. Another main reason is a prejudiced approach to the exercises. Many students think they already know what Bardon is talking about and thus they don´t really do *his* exercises, but the exercises they think they should do: Especially with VOM many, many, many people confuse it with Dharana or even Samadhi. That is wrong! It is not VOM, and Bardon’s descriptions are very accurate. It is not “not-thinking”. It is a form of concentration, the logical consequence of the other three exercises the student did before in Step 1. Thus it is concentration, like in the exercise before; the student simply concentrates on an empty “space” in their mind. They ignore the upcoming thoughts and doesn´t get attached to them. However, the thoughts will come up as a natural process of the mind, but that is not what the student stays focused on. They stay focused on the empty space; they reject to get attached to the upcoming thought fragments. By time, the other thoughts simply disappear from the consciousness, et voilà… VOM. The best thing for aspiring magicians is to forget what they have learned so far and read and practice IIH with an open mind. **3.   Falcon Books: Again on the subject of Step 1 and VOM, we know this is important but what does it bring to IIH, why is it important?** **Crystalf:** VOM is essential to becoming capable of concentrating properly, to be open to impressions outside of ourselves. We human beings tend to perceive, what we expect to perceive. VOM helps the mind to be not attached to our expectations, thus being able to i.e. visualize the perceived form in Step 2 correctly and not only the form how we think it is. Later on the Path, we need it for depth-point meditation, then for clairvoyance as the “seen” impressions come up in our mind, and as long we are busy with our own thoughts we would simply miss the messages from beyond. It is the same thing with Evocation. Human beings have no “magical powers” because mostly we are too self-centered, even too arrogant to realize there is more then we think it is in this universe. VOM helps with that immense. Also without VOM, there is no Mental Wandering, as we get lost in the world of our thoughts and many more things. **4.    Falcon Books:  Please could share with us the importance of focusing on self-development along with working on the through the steps in IIH**. **Crystalf: **Why “along”. All the steps of IIH *are* self-development! That is what it is all about. IIH is not about learning powers, but to become more yourself. To become what you *should* be. What you should be in your life. What you should be in society. Maybe even as divine as we should be. I quote Virgil from his excellent new book: magic is the act to live a blessed life and to be a blessing to society. Nonetheless, there are “magical powers, of course, but… and this “but” is a BIG “but”….The funny thing is: the student will get magical powers along the way, but when the time comes when they get them, these “powers” will be of no more special significance to them. It is more like a baby learning to walk: first, it feels great, but what special significance walking has walking for even a four-year-old or even a grown-up? It simply becomes part of your being… **5**.    **Falcon Books: What other strategies did you employ other than working on the soul mirrors to assist in further growth?** **Crystalf:** Awareness! Always being aware of what is happening in yourself. Radical Self-Honesty, thus developing the ability to say ”Sorry!”. Everybody does make mistakes. And as long as the student is not capable of avoiding mistakes, they should at least be able to overcome their pride and say “Sorry!”. But on the other hand, they shouldn´t give too much on the opinion of others. The other human beings surrounding the student are also too attached with their own expectations, but this is not relevant for the student. It is their own expectations, ethics and maturity that matters. So forming an ideal of myself helped me a lot in my growth – like the Jedi-idea I formulated at the beginning. Make yourself a picture, a symbol of what you want to be: a good teacher, a good parent or maybe a kind wizard or a wise Jedi. This picture is your private symbol; it might be a fantasy, but it can help to visualize a something, to give a clear picture of what the student wants. “Self-development” or “personal growth” tend to be too abstract to be appealing over the long years of the training, especially when your life becomes a mess… Also, it helped to do some complex sports like martial arts to get in control of your body. It is not important to get a black belt, but to grow in the possibilities your body gives you. **6.    Falcon Books: “As Above So Below” is so often quoted in Hermetics I wonder if you could elaborate on your understanding of this and its significance within IIH training?** **Crystalf:** “Hmm, my wife told me to keep it short and simple. I´ll try: Everything in hermetics is about “As Above, so below”! This is very easy to see in laboratory Alchemy. Franz Bardon’s IIH represents a form of “spiritual alchemy”. As above so below refers to the relationship between microcosmos and macrocosmos, in our special case the human being and the surrounding energies. I.e. the elements within the student and the elements surrounding the student. This is the reason why Bardon warns of hasting and skipping steps: condensing an element i.e. is not about playing with some random energy as some new-age philosophies implicate. It is not Reiki, some all surrounding divine energy. It is working with *yourself* in a relationship with nature itself. Thus it is like gen-technology. On the other hand, the existence of the elements is not “the Truth”™. The student constructs them by impregnating their surroundings with let’s say: red colour, warmth and fire. But they can only construct in their surroundings what is already present in them. Thus if in the student “below” has a lot of anger and greed in him, the fire element they construct “above” won´t be constructive and warming, but full of hate, anger and destructiveness. Neither the microcosmos nor the macrocosmos is pre-existent or has more worth than the other. In fact, the two are interdependent. And this is the case with every Element, Chakra, Sephiroth, etc. Thus, if you want to be a blessing for your beloved, first become a blessing for yourself. If you desire the power to change reality, first learn to change your life, your attitude, your priorities. Bardon writes it in Step 8 and my own experiences go along the same lines: nothing is impossible. **7.    Falcon Books:  How can we know we are truly achieving the goal of a step? For example with the Vital Force, how can we know we are not fooling ourselves?** **Crystalf:** By working through the first exercise of Step 1 thoroughly. By observing your thoughts, you become used to observe yourself. By knowing exactly what is going on in your mind, you´ll simply be sure, if you are falling yourself or if you truly achieved something. The practice of Step 1 develops a radical self-honesty, you can use for further steps. It is a matter of the famous “intuition”. Your example with the Vital Force (VF) is a good one: when the student starts with inhaling it, they first will only imagining the VF and the feeling it creates in them. After a time, the imagination will develop into a perception of truly inhaling VF. The student will be able to let go their imagination and nonetheless be 100% sure they are inhaling VF. Then they ARE inhaling the VF. As the student knows exactly how it feels like imagining the VF they will recognize the difference, the real prickling upon their skin, the energization of their body, the Force they feel. It is more “real” than imagination. Thus we are again with the theme “As above, so Below” from the last question. The magician has to develop this radical self-honesty with themselves. Not only for the soul mirrors, but also for everything that follows after Step 2. Thus we have another reason to be thorough with the basic exercises: without them, the student simply lacks the abilities needed for further initiation. It is as if he would try to drive a car with closed eyes… **8.   Falcon Books: Franz Bardon talks about the depth point in Step 5, this I see as a transition in the training as we touching on something we have had no experience of before. Can you tell us more about this point and its importance in the training?** **Crystalf:** Well, I see the depth point exercises as the central point in initiation. By reaching this stage of initiation the magician has achieved radical self-honesty, a certain control on mind, soul and body and first experiences with the nature of things outside of their own body by working with the elements. After Step 3 they could call themselves rightfully magicians. The student is “attuned” to nature. The depth point gives the magician the first access to a higher sphere of being, to his own “divine” nature. All following exercises are based on access to the depth point, the “Trance”, as Bardon calls it. I don´t like the name as it implies a certain form of “half-sleeping” state. To me it is the exact opposite: To be in the depth-point means to be Awake – “I am absolutely awake, in what I am. Aware of my nature that is more than just working, eating…” The depth point leads the magician to a state where they are aware of their body, their organs, their passions, their thoughts – all at once. It is a state of BEING. That makes it magical. God defines themselves as “I am, who I am!”. As BEING. Thus we first feel what it could mean to become divine and capable of creating. Sadly, for those who at this point imagine themselves throwing fireballs, we also realize that creation, in general, is good like it is, so no need to change creation. **9.    Falcon Books:  Can you share anything about the transition from step 8 to PME and KTQ. How does life change at this point?** **Crystalf:** I am still going to work, meeting with friends, nurturing my kids… no news here. Sorry! The question maybe leads toward misunderstanding. “Life” doesn´t change at all. But the perception of “my life” and my place in this world and time, that changed. With great power comes great responsibility could articulate it properly, but I like more Barton’s statement (translation is very loose): “Everything that happens, happens at the right time and place. We just have to realize how to make the best from it for our development.” Starting to work with cosmic letters showed me my humility before creation again. This is a really complex thing and made me grasp even more, why everything that happens should not be judged in the first place, but considered an opportunity for us to take action! **10.  Falcon Books: As one develops a greater sensitivity within the mental, astral and physical aspects, how did you deal with and integrate these in daily life?** **Crystalf:** Again I have to refer to Step 1: stay focused on what you are doing at the moment. When in my mundane life I am working with clients, I am working with clients; I am not trying to deduce their biggest elementals. Bardon goes deeper into this at Step 8 – The Great NOW. Being a magician does not mean to be a magician in a perceivable way all the time: doing clairvoyance on everybody you meet, being blatantly wise or wearing special clothes. That is a reason I don´t like “Frabato” very much: it simply gives a totally wrong picture of what it means to be a magician, of the inner life of a magician. It clearly is written from the standpoint of a quite immature student, not from someone who has experienced, what was written. If you ask me, it was meant to flatter Bardon, but the picture painted is utterly wrong. To be a magician is a state of being, of acting in accordance with self-knowledge, the flows of nature and your intuition. You don´t have to integrate it in your life, as it is nothing alien. It is life. The “greater sensitivity” comes as natural as learning to walk comes to a baby child. If it has to be integrated, something in your development has been left out. **11.  Falcon Books: Over the years how have you managed to balance work, family and Hermetics and to integrate them? I think this can be the most challenging for students when they begin this path. What advice would you offer?** **Crystalf:** Finish Step 8 before getting kids!!!! Honestly: keep your priorities straight! To get kids is no easy decision and gives great responsibility, but great joy too. And that is true for everything we doing this life. In the second question I wrote that many people don’t really want to do initiation, they want other things. In fact, they lie to themselves. This question aims in that direction. Of course: work, family, friends, hobbies, even computer games are all important and fun and take time and…and… and… but no matter what is going on: if you are sure, that you want to transform yourself into a blessing for yourself and your beloved one – thus into a magician, you´ll find the time to do the exercises. On the other hand, don´t forget what responsibility you have taken upon yourself. That is why I wrote: keep your priorities straight! Really be honest with yourself, what you want from life, from your situation, from your time. **12.  Falcon Books: ****How did you make the transition between the realms and integrate them here?** **Crystalf: **This is all about focus. When working in magical realms, it becomes all too easy to getting caught up in the transcendental side of reality. I met quite a few persons who were living so much in the magical realms they seemed to nearly forget about the life here. Sadly, I think that many of these “spiritual types” even draw a lot of ego out of this behavior. That is NOT what Bardon’s books are about! Remember what he writes in Step 7 about clairvoyance: the magician must be able to turn on and turn off his clairvoyant sight at his whim and will. There is a reason why we have bodies: this is the realm where we can gain maturity. Magic is not a mean to escape your problems you produced in life. Quite the opposite: a magician meets up to challenges because he has realized that they are means to grow… **13.  Falcon Books:  Is there is anything else you would like to add?** **Crystalf:  **Be a kind person. A looooot of people visualizing themselves as magicians in a tower, but while this is a really cool picture, these guys are mostly not the beloved ones. Look at some of the wizard types from movies and books so popular at the moment: honestly, I love towers too, but look at Saruman or Palpatine or Voldemort or other guys from the popular imagination from the last centuries: these persons are not the heroes. A Bardonian magician is, in fact, a Hero. If being a magician means to be a blessing to society, then a magician is a hero. So act like one! But also remember you´re human. Becoming a magician is in many ways becoming more human, and as long as you´re human you will suffer from all human weaknesses. Of course: obtaining a magical equilibrium will set you at peace with yourself, but still, other people are around and sometimes you will make mistakes while treating them. They won´t understand you, or you won´t understand them. That is life. So for me one of the main qualities a magician should have is: the ability to say “Sorry!” and being sorry. It is ok not to be perfect, but to have the insight to apologize for your mistakes is crucial in the way of self-knowledge. And even when you think, you’re perfectly right capable of saying sorry, when you hurt your opponent. Also be capable of accepting a “Sorry!” by another person. See, I had a lot of discussions lately about the nature of Good and Evil, and a lot of people claim, there is no such thing as good and as evil, that these ideas are simply subjective. I disagree! Good people know limits in their actions, and they do not try to achieve a goal by any means. They stop when their actions inflict pain on other beings. They know compassion. Bad people only care for themselves. Don´t be a bad person. Be kind! ### Visit Crystalfs website: [Crystalf Site](http://hermeticscience.de/) ### You read this interview and many more in The Franz Bardon Tradition by Franz Bardon Practitioners. ##### Available in digital and paperback here. A fantastic book with lots of tips and unique and valuable information you won't find anywhere else. ### [Get it here](https://falconbookspublishing.com/product/the-franz-bardon-tradition-interviews-with-experienced-practitioners/) --- # Mastering the Inner Worlds: Justin B the Magician on Spiritual Development Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/mastering-the-inner-worlds-justin-b-the-magician-on-spiritual-development/ EXPLORING ENLIGHTENED LIVING THROUGH HERMETIC MEDITATION AND BEYOND With **Justin B The Magician** *Copyright of Falcon Books Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved, (2019).* ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/j1-614x1024.png) Illustration by Justin B Falcon Books is presenting a series of interviews with seasoned Hermetic practitioners to offer not only their wisdom, knowledge and understanding, and an insight into their own journey, but also to offer inspiration to those on this path. The focus of these discussions are guided towards the spiritual seeker. Presenting today and interview with **Justin B the Magician. **A dedicated practitioner of magic and artist who has[ blog](http://justinbthemagician.blogspot.tw/) which is now archived and wonderful resource of posts going back to 2008. You can also find him on [Tumblr](http://justinbthemagician.tumblr.com/). Justin began his journey at the age of 18. He is an explorer and adventurer whose curiosity for life and adventure lead him on a journey into of magic. Having over 20 years of practice and worked his way through Bardon’s 3 books and now has been given his own system of Kabbalah. He continues to research and explore the infinite universe that surrounds us. A cordial welcome to Justin. Thank you very much for taking the time to answer these questions. - **Falcon Books: I wonder if you could start by offering to us a background into your journey and what took on onto the path of following magic?** **Justin B: **From many unusual and odd experiences from a very young age such as sleep paralysis as well as seeing a “goblin” wide awake during the day, I knew the world was not how most people believed it to be. When I was around 14 or so I had an intense release of Kundalini energy which from the fear of the experience created something of a demonic tulpa. This being could perform certain poltergeist like activity and would try to possess me. Luckily for me a fellow student at school who was very gifted help me remove this entity and I began my journey at the age of 18 practicing Qi kung and energy work as shown to me from that same friend who was really gifted at psychic perception. He had a very unique method of teaching where it just seemed so simple and direct. Rather than arduous training and practice it was more about getting better at focus and perception. I then picked up some books on something called “the empty force” that I practiced for several years. The description was simple but in practice it can be arduous. Its main practice was holding a horse stance and keeping an empty mind for an hour. You had to do this every day for three years. Needless to say, this helped a great deal when I started Bardon’s thought control exercise. Later I began to dabble with ceremonial magick and spirit work, doing the LBRP and the watchtower rituals. This led me to work deeply with the four archangels of the quarters as spirits I would evoke daily. Some of the ideas they shared with me which I shared with a friend who was a yogi/Bardon magician led him to give me his copy of IIH because he said they were aligned, and they were. So, I started IIH at the age of twenty three. **Falcon Books: It must have been great to have found Bardon’s IIH so early on?** **Justin B:** Didn’t seem so at the time. That was why I went with Bardon. It was difficult to get past the symbols and inspirations from spirits with my internal chatter or expectation of what they may say, even from years of meditation. You see, this is before the internet had taken off. If you did not know someone who could advise you it had to be worked out on your own, no validation unless it worked. So when I would work with spirits or the archangels I kept questioning if it was some internal garbage within me or pure inspiration from a spirit. Bardon was a great guide in the ways in which I needed to focus and clear the mind. That is also why I recommend Neo-Reichian exercises of tension and relief and Wim Hof. It really helps clear the thoughts. **2. Falcon Books: Interestingly you speak about using ‘tension’ I find parallels with Mouni Sadu’s concentration exercises which include tension exercises to develop this aspect of meditation.** **a. Could you please going into a bit more depth about the significance to the this and how using these types of practices help develop clarity and concentration.** **b. Could you also give us some examples of such practices.** **Justin B: **First you must realize that most of your internal chatter, emotional coloring of experiences and reactions to things is due to internalized, repressed speech or expression. Think about small children. If left to their own devices they are chatter boxes. They give direct commentary about everything they experience, and their imaginations are free to run wild and their emotions flow out. Parents or adults then impress the social norms, and teach them to suppress their unending dialogue from being voiced. It does not go away though. The speech, the imagination and all the rest is still pumping away. Watch an adult think about what they are about to say and if you watch closely you will see muscle tension around the throat and jaw. That builds over time, as do emotional responses we must “cover up” because they are not accepted. What the psychotherapist attempts is to re-live the experience that created it, which does not help or helps very little only when the patient experiences a release of the tension (why confession feels so good and freeing) what really needs to take place is a full release of body tension. You experience this at times when you have had a long hard day of work, or physical strain. After such massive strain you flop down and feel as you could melt, your mind is at peace and you drift off into rest. That feeling of peace, of release is really just that! Having a temporary release of the tensions in the body brings that bliss and inner silence which is why hard work has always been so lauded in society; it gets things done and has the added benefit of energetic release. Meditation is another way to do this by essentially starving the stimulus of the senses which allows the inner experience to pour out. If we first work with the muscles tension in the body before we do meditation we will see a profound difference in reaching higher states of consciousness and focus. There is no tension holding you within the confines of the body and you are allowed to surf the waves of blissful awareness even if a part of your body feels pain. The simplest way, but not the most thorough is to take a deep breath, hold it while you strain every muscle in a certain muscle group and release the muscles in that group and the breath when you have reached the limit of your ability to hold it. Start with the feet and move up to the head. Scan the body to find any sources of tension and repeat the exercise in that area while being fully open and aware of the area. You will see a marked difference in your ability to meditate. Jack Willis wrote a fantastic free book that is available online that covers many exercises to fully release the tension and the proper breath to do this with. Wim Hof breathing and physical stretching is another amazing way to do it. **3. Falcon Books: Moving on from developing concentration, I would like to ask your thoughts on the importance of developing ‘awareness’ and ‘being in the moment’ and how this affects training later on.** **Justin B:** That is actually a great segue in discussion because one moves into another. Once you release body tension you will notice more and more the field of awareness grows, you get a sense of what your energy feels like and how to move it. The old trick of thinking about your small toe on your left foot is a good example. Prior to being directed to experience that little digit it was most likely out of your awareness, but once directed your awareness flashed down to it. Grade that awareness though, was it a gentle vague cloud of perception or was it deep and penetrating such as when you stub that toe in the dark and you feel every heart beat within it and the nerves flash like a bolt of lightning. Expanding, strengthening and purifying the state of awareness leads (just as tension and relaxations led to awareness) to psychic states of awareness. The more you work on your awareness the more in the moment and perceptive it is, the more you are open to direct experience in a deeper way from your senses. Your psychic senses are just your normal senses in a more perceptive state. With experience and observing the cycles and patterns in nature the higher realms become as obvious as the nose on your face, always there but slightly out of awareness. **4. Falcon Books: Within studying magic there can be a difficulty in the discernment between imagination and genuine experience when dealing with the subtle realms. I feel is a huge area that needs clarification how do we avoid the trap of fantasy?** **Justin B:** That is an excellent point. Imagination that is not charged with ‘will energy’ is fantasy. It takes training to work both skills to do magic. Working one gives you great mental vistas and vision, the other the ability to succeed. When united they can do wonders. Now, having said that a purified and trained imagination is better than a mirror to skry in (the mirror is only a physical symbol of the imagination, an object on which the conscious mind and soul have agreed they can communicate in). Observe the imagination and become aware of its actions, its movements, its creations. This is what magic orders really do from ancient times until now. You receive a set of symbols that represent actual subtle forces in the universe. One learns through awareness and meditation what that force is like and links the experience of the energy signature to the symbol the order has prescribed. Through training and ritual this works just as well as me saying the word “cow” and a picture of a cow appears in your mind imaginatively without your will being involved. The imagination so trained can be gazed into and the products that appear will show you exactly what forces are at work around you better than any astrological chart could. Here is where the magic comes in, one then either charges the forces at work to increase their power around you or one can banish it, or add a symbol charged with the will force so it interacts with the other forces on your behalf. There, the whole of practical magic laid bare. It is literally so simple no one believes it or uses it until shown repeatedly that it works. To get back to the point on fantasy though that has always been the warning of the astral plane, it is filled with illusions and deceptions. Yes, because the imagination has not been purified and properly trained to see and interpret the language being discussed. It is like reading a story in another language you either barely understand versus it being read by a master of literature in that language. Where magic differs from literature thankfully is the reader once trained can interject their own story upon it. **5. Falcon Books: I wonder if you could offer further clarification to this, for example if someone is practicing in step 3 working on developing the analogous elements such as fire, they sit down they think of fire, they see themselves inside a red fiery universe as Bardon instructs they then feel the fire.** **a. Now they quickly note down mission accomplished. But how do they know what is the difference between this very deliberate and willful exercise to feel the fire and convince ourselves we are feeling it and ACTUALLY genuinely feeling it.** - **If a step 8 magician was in the room would he/she see any evidence of the element despite the claims of the step 3 student that the exercise is complete.** **Justin B:** I think the best way to describe this and Bardon even mentions this in regards to evocation and people don’t really hone in on that concept much. Go out into a graveyard at night with no light, or go deep inside a cave in pitch black or into a dank dark cellar. Now call to an evil spirit. Or if that is too scary go into a dark room and convince yourself someone is behind you and about to get you. If you are imaginative and spiritually inclined you probably already have goosebumps, shaking your head “no way!” If you get the point you don’t actually need to do the above, you understand the power of the imagination already. You see we assign power to the imagination in one area but when we say conjure the fire element around you it seems an impossible feat. When you can imagine at will an element, in the same way fear can force you to imagine a boogeyman, then you have attained a certain level of power both in quality and in quantity. I have done some experiments with students who could not magically tell the difference between a gnome or an angel from Geburah on whether or not they could influence psychically another simply by observing some pictures before doing a group meditation. I found that if two people in a group of 6 observed several pictures of a certain artistic quality and the other four were simply directed to observe their imagination, that the imagery would be similar in quality to the images seen by the other two. So, if you are having troubles on an element or force find some form or art medium that would help you fill the imagination with the ideas associated with the force, just like people watch horror movies on Halloween. You may not think it is psychically or magically effective but it does have an influence on the mental and astral forces around you. Feed your head properly. Another point I would like to discuss here is as you develop your skills you may have peak moments and plateaus of experience. The peaks are when you break through to a better quality or quantity of force, where the plateaus are you normal or average levels. When working around others though who have not raises their levels to what you have attained then they experience a difference. If one meditates on this they will see this is why a magician can effect healing on another but may find it difficult to heal themselves. Also, don’t “demand” the way another experiences an element or force. I once did a teaching session at a local meditation center years ago. I was discussing the elements and I was teaching how one can better work with the elements through vibrating the names of the quarter angels and meditating on their qualities. I simply demonstrated the proper way to do vibrate the name Raphael. After I had several people come to me and say that they all had experiences related to the air element. One described a certain smell (one I associate with air that they had no experience with), some described feeling a breeze and one heard wind chimes. The element affected them each in their own way. Don’t demand an experience be the way you desire, just draw it and allow it to work. So many magicians are too focused on control which diminishes their power actually. How much will does it for me to conjure the idea of a book in your mind? If you were sensitive as you read the word maybe you saw a perfect representation of a book in your visual field, maybe you recalled the smell of old yellowing pages or freshly printed paper? Perhaps you heard a book shut tightly. Either way, your imagination with a simple prompt came alive, it may have even cased a flash of will which will cause you to go find the book that appeared to you in some way, whichever was best for you. What power awaits to be aroused in you simply by allowing it to come forth! **6. Falcon Books: There is some debate with regarding studying Bardon’s IIH system, some say that this book is complete and it is not necessary to explore other avenues of knowledge to further gain understanding, while others suggest that Bardon’s IIH are really subheadings and it is our job to flesh out and gain deeper understanding and knowledge of each step through our own exploration and seeking out other literature.** **What are your views on this and also your experiences with going through IIH ?** **Justin B**: To really explain my view of Bardon it is of course necessary to look at the time and place of his writing, of the magical writings of the time, and what he was trying to accomplish. I sometimes ask myself if Bardon wrote IIH today would he have written every word of it like he did then? I honestly think not. The core or essence is the same of course, but if you have ever written an instruction or instructions for another you know how difficult that can be, especially if you can have no interaction or dialogue with that person during or after the reading. I recommend writing instructions on even a simple mundane task as if the reader has no prior knowledge of the subject. It is quite enlightening. So, that is how I look at all magical instruction books. The author has a set of experiences and wishes to convey them in a meaningful way to the reader, but because the subject is the subtle forces of magic it makes it even more difficult. How do you teach it? That is why I always recommend a few other systems be read at least. Get a few maps for the territory. IIH for me specifically, I always compare to a technical manual on building a complex machine like a car. Remember at the time of Bardon writing IIH the only way you could learn occultism is if you joined a magical order, swore oaths, and were trained in a certain set of symbols to be used. Bardon was one of the few tried to keep his oaths and was trying to go to the public with the work. It was not until later that magical orders started having their secrets fall into public consumption. So, if you took all of the work of the Golden Dawn and kept your oaths of secrecy but tried publish an instruction manual on the path to spiritual enlightenment and magical development you would have to teach someone to build their own personal magical order. So, going to a magical order for training is like buying a car at a dealership where Bardon is teaching you how to build a car from scratch. I always try to impress this concept on those coming to me with questions on Bardon. The secrets are all out there, we are flooded in them so they seem of no value. Bardon did not have this world, it was all hidden away. What would he write now with the secrets of so many order available online? I did not see this point right off though, I went through the work and realized it as I went. So, for me having worked Bardon, I like to see it as having given me the insight into any magical system or order. It is a Tabula Rasa for magic in my mind. An almost scientific journal from which one can penetrate the meaning of any system or symbolism, even say Enochian magic or Thelema. I think a good study of IIH with that perspective would benefit any magician no matter their belief system or practice. **7. Falcon Books: Which aspects did you find the most challenging going through Bardon’s books?** **Justin B:** The soul mirror, which I think is everyone’s biggest challenge. It was not until I took a Jungian Active Imagination approach that I really had great success with it. I tried it all, from will work, sigils, autosuggestion, the magic of food and drink EmoFree and I must say that the book The Inner Guide meditation by Edwin Steinbrecher is an excellent resource (I found it much later sadly) but If I had to do it again I would focus on a Neo Rechian approach first with some Jungian Active Imagination for balance which is what the Steinbrecher book is all about with Astrology added. Honestly I am not a fan of the methods Bardon chose to work on balancing the soul mirror, I think if he had more modern methods he would have chosen those. I think an honest, unflinching look at one’s soul is needed and valuable but creating lists of hundreds of issues will not fix anything. It is discovering the need within the issue. Every negative trait or quality arises from a behavior that was acquired to defend and protect the ego. Only by facing the need and releasing the tension can healing begin and balance achieved. The positive trait will then bloom on its own from the released psychic or emotional tension. A good astrological chart work up can be of great assistance in discovering hidden problems. **8. Falcon Books: Which step took you the longest and why?** Justin B: If I look at my work from a strictly IIH perspective Step 8. Not because of the difficulty but because that is where I did the most magical experimentation. If IIH was a college I probably majored in the evocational arts. This of course translated later into kabballah. I delved deeply into their study for several years with a good portion of my blog devoted to that part of my work. **9. Falcon Books:  ****In Bardon’s IIH – astral travel is specifically described as the separation of the astral from the physical body and is described as a very blissful and very serious event. We see all over the internet Astral projection exercises described in such a way that they sound more like mental projection from the strict Bardon perspective.** **What is your view upon the Bardon method of Astral projection and does subscribing to that method relegate these other methods despite being called astral projection to actual being mental or etheric projection?** **Justin B**: I think most methods online focus on mental projection which can gently lead to astral projection with practice. I had sleep paralysis as a child so anything coming close to astral projection instantly caused panic. For me personally, mental projection which eventually allowed me the freedom and peace to allow myself to astrally project was the way to go. Let me just say this: when you astrally project there is no doubt you have done so. It is not a very vivid mental projection or guided imagery, it is an experience that changes you. You still have a slight perception at first that a residue of your awareness and personality is within your flesh but 99% of your consciousness is out and that is when you KNOW beyond doubt another world exists (that is if the Other has not found you prior to this like it did me). It is night and day difference. Like Gordon White says it is like “becoming invincible”. **10. Falcon Books: One significant part of the IIH journey I believe is that of the depth point exercise in Step 5. Here according to Rawn’s amazing guide we learn about the infinitely finite point and therefore the infinitely infinite circumference. Can you share anything more about the significance of this part of the journey and how this links on to subjects such as the personal and universal akasha?** Justin B: Be open, be empty. If you look at IIH, and this is some of the genius of what Bardon did, you see the training builds on itself. Learning Vacancy is a warm up lesson to working with the depth point and akasha. So, when students of IIH have not yet done the vacancy work and ask questions about the depth point it is a struggle because even the relatively simple experience of vacancy has not been perceived (to say nothing of the deeper and more profound experiences that one can achieve through vacancy). It is like not having learned your numbers in elementary school but asking how division works. I can give an answer but it will do you little good. With that being said read up on what Peter Carroll says on the force of Chaos, also what Steiner said on the Akasha or Chaos and how it works. Go out into the country and find a large flat piece of land. Lay out under the stars. See in the constellations how even the gods play through their cycles in the night sky. Think of space and everything contained within it. Know that you are made up of mostly empty space with charged particles in a somewhat distinct order that is completely changed out every so often, yet you appear on initial inspection to be “the same”. You too are a constellation in a manner of speaking. Seek the part of you that all life comes from, all feelings and thoughts. Where is the root of your consciousness, its depths? Every river has its source, you are a river of experience. The source is your depth point. 11. **Falcon Books: You have shared more than most when it comes to meeting beings of the EGZ and the Planetary Spheres in your IIH, PME and KTQ walkthrough.** **Can you tell us about this time evocation, mental travel and how the quality of these communications changed after completing Bardon’s first book IIH?** Justin B: In a classic full circle story I realized what initially brought me to Bardon, the fact that I could not finely slice whether a spirits “words” were coming from the spirit, or were my own creation or if they met somewhere in between was finally achieved. I knew after so much work with the spirits that they have no “language” other than energy, as in they are energy and their interaction with us produces certain cognitive experiences. The more similar we are in our views, culture and life experience the more similar our experiences with the spirit will be. If I sat down and did an evocation with someone from a radically different culture we would have some perception differences but the overall message would be the same. I have tried these experiments and they work. That is what a tribal group, coven or order has by being together, a shared language and symbol set from which the spirit or god is experienced for easier communication. So, once I learned that really the important thing is the awareness and experience of the spirit or god’ss energy, then some of my big questions started to get answered. Yes, I could translate the shared energy into a dialogue for many people to understand but to me it was energy moving and flowing between to conscious beings. The practice is like quietly being engaged in music that makes you feel something. Vacancy of mind and single pointed focus are paramount in this. Let me also say, you can clothe these forces in denser energies. I have seen some wild things. It is novel and can be a confirmation but it is eventually pointless and a real hassle to get accomplished. **12. On the same subject you shared some very detailed correspondences with these beings. How influential upon your development have these beings been and now that you have moved into other areas of magick do you still work with these same ‘Bardon’ spirits or have you been introduced to a host of new friends to speak with?** For me Bardon’s catalogue of spirits is an odd breed. Energetically they are very different than say calling Ophiel or Uriel. They are very inclined to teach and yet they are reserved. If you go in with intentions they don’t find proper I have seen some of them straight up ignore a magician or give them a brush off answer. Very funny sometimes, actually! Once had some dilettantes wish to evoke a Bardon spirit so I explained how it could be done, they tried it and they told me the spirit requested they plant a tree and it would help them with the task. They did so but the task was not completed. I just saw it as a spirit teaching them a lesson. Just from my experience Bardon spirits are more selective in what they do or who they work with. Also, appearance wise they somehow “look” different. Maybe more modern is the word. I will let the intrepid student discover more, and maybe that is just how they act towards me or those I have spoken with. I have had a few other Bardon magicians tell me the same but again they lived in my cultural and temporal location. The exception to that seems to be the elementals. They appear to be more willing to work with even non-Bardon magicians in similar ways other spirits do. There is only one spirit from Bardon’s PME I still dialogue with and that is only when a nice thunderstorm rolls in. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/j2-589x1024.png) Illustration by Justin B **13. Falcon Books: I would like to ask about developing the connection to our HGA/ higher-self how did you begin to develop and connection and once you had did your life drastically change?** Justin B: I have seen many descriptions and explanations on the HGA. I started with Bardon’s automatic methods for communication which gave me a “name” which I later found out had meaning in Yiddish which I thought was fun. The most dramatic and life changing work came the first time I did the (little did I know at the time that it was mistranslated) Bornless ritual. I began using it before evocations and no matter what spirit I called I first got this powerful presence. When I dug deeper into the Bornless and discovered its history and how it is actually The Headless Rite, I used it in much the same manner Crowley recommends in Liber Samekh. I did daily invocations and spent as much time focusing my mind on the force. After several years of this I recommend the practice. For me the real key is just opening yourself up and giving yourself to the highest, make the connection to it and allow it to guide you and to work on you. It can be as simple as a single pointed focus and focusing on your highest state of mind or consciousness. Open yourself to that force and know that everything that you see, hear, read, occurs is a message from the highest working on you for your development. BOOM, the practice will skyrocket if you can do that. Don’t think of some babe with wings but you can if that helps. Also, the message may be an hour or days after. The real key is truly focusing on the divine connection within your consciousness and being open to inspiration for a time. As my best friend and fellow magician used to half-joke it is just “You from the future”. Think of yourself at your most divine, your most inspired, your most compassionate, your most insightful, conscious and potent. That is it. Allow that energy to work on and reside in you now. Once you can connect to that, magic is actually as simple as inner dialogue or like pillow talk with a divine lover. Let go of your desires, open yourself to the divine by creating a space for the divine to manifest and work in and through you. It is the merger of prayer and magic. As the medicine man Fools Crow said, “Become a hollow bone.” **14: Finally, as you mentioned earlier in the interview I wonder if you could tell us about your experiences with Wim Hoff and how using his training methods has assisted you in your own practice?** Justin B: I think Wim has created a really fantastic system teaching energy work and meditation which can lead to some amazing places but packages it in a way that just seems simple and an atheist could work with. Magicians of all stripes should at least take it for a test drive. If you want to really get a grasp on vital force or energy work then please try it. Shamanic breath work can also be a potent tool which is very similar (as is Holotropic breathing as taught by Groff). **15. Falcon Books: Where do you see your magical path leading?** Justin B: In the past few years I have finally answered a lot of the remaining questions I had. It was a long arduous process and in many ways it was for me like going into the lab every day and doing research on the structure and nature of the universe. I had a lot of questions I wanted answers for, and which I did not want; or in my younger days, did not have someone to just give them to me. I had a couple of guides but they were human. My major drive in magic, evocation and similar works was the drive to just find the truth. Another person can give you only their perspective, not the truth as you can experience it. The finger pointing at the Moon. So, once I had the answers I sought I had a period of time where I felt sort of lost. What do I do now? The answer was of course what step 10 in Bardon is about. You develop your perception, your ability, your consciousness to divine levels. You manifest spirit into matter, the work of the Sun described in the Emerald Tablet. This also translates for me in my work with others and my art. I am beginning to work on some things and have been doing experiments with art and paintings as a way to help others work with magical forces. Probably in the next year or two I will do commissioned paintings as talismans of sorts for people who would like a certain magical force in their lives or just a piece of magical art. 16**. Falcon Books: Is there anything else that you would like to add or feel should be covered?** **Justin B:** 1.Always keep in mind this simple fact, when magic seems too difficult or complex: Cave men figured it out on accident. Study shamanism, its views and beliefs and try to extract the workings behind what they did versus ceremonial magic or Bardon magic. They have distinct things in common. Grab hold of those similarities and realize the rest is just trying to get everyone on the same page linguistically on what to do with these forces that occur naturally. Ponder for a bit what is really the difference between a shaman, a psychic, a witch or a magician or someone who is extraordinarily lucky, or a genius, or someone possessed of mind blowing talent? Are they using the same force in different ways? How could all of these groups get similar results with drastically different belief structures and means? I have seen someone with no training or magical experience who was so afraid of magic read a spell that produced stronger results than a ceremonial magician with years of experience trudging through an incantation. What did one tap into that the other could not? 2.Keep a journal of weird experiences, synchronicities, magical results, recurring or odd dreams, and things that seem magical that occurred to you. Go back and read it every now and then. There is something in our consciousness that likes order and structure, that tries to pull the veil over our eyes. Magic plays with that order and structure, it pulls the veil open. So anything too unusual will be pushed away or forgotten by the conscious mind. Remind yourself now and again the world is weird. Realize you will probably never cast physical fire-balls to amaze your friends and even if you could somehow do it, doing so would disrupt the observer’s psyche so much it would be fairly close to rape in terms of disturbance. Because of that same mechanism that protects your conscious mind from the weird it also protects others from the weird. They would most likely suppress the experience and develop some odd behavior to compensate for the tension caused. Usually magic works in giving you an advantage, by increasing your odds and making something more likely to occur. However, if you get some fairly weird magicians together by themselves you will get some weird alterations in reality. A magician; once they realize where real power comes from, becomes a gateway for the divine to work miracles. 3.Adopt Chaos magic’s philosophy of “Use what works” if it does not work try something else. Find what works. This is not a free pass to jump from system to system, you have to put in the work, but if chanting a classic mantra for the element of fire does not help aid the imagination or inspire you try something else that does, even if it is imagining throwing a fire-ball. 4.Most importantly, there is no race for magical development going on. Savor the work. Enjoy the experience. See every challenge as a gift from the divine to develop your Self. This is yours, all yours. Take your own time as you need. Be honest with yourself. Don’t see this life or this world as something to escape from, but see it as your mission to use the gifts given to you and the skills you have acquired to making this world more divine. That is why we are truly here. The philosophers stone is really our own transformed soul, use it to make the world around you golden. Ask yourself is your work your own or someone else’s? You can talk shop with other magicians, be inspired, moved or guided but your path should always be your own. Be who you are. Share your light. Be a force of nature. **Thank you very much for taking the time to answer these questions and always a pleasure to speak with you.** --- # Andre Consciencia on Tapping into Ancient Wisdom through Hermetics and Magick Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/andre-consciencia-on-tapping-into-ancient-wisdom-through-hermetics-and-magick/ *Falcon Books is presenting a series of interviews with seasoned Hermetic practitioners to offer not only their wisdom, knowledge and understanding, and an insight into their own journey,  but also to offer inspiration to those on this path. The focus of these discussions are guided towards the spiritual seeker.* André Consciência is from Portugal and has been a dedicated Bardon practitioner for twenty-one years. He joined Fraternitas Hermetica (an order based on the works of Bardon) while still a minor and had an initiator that stood even after the order vanished. He also has worked with his old initiator for 20 years. He has experience of other magical systems such as, AMORC, Order of Michael’s Grail (with roots on Dion Fortune), Thelemic Golden Dawn and Astrum Argentum. André teaches neo-shamanism and is also a playwright, poet, author, actor, founder of a publishing house with a music label attached,[ Abismo Humano ](https://abismohumano.bandcamp.com/)He also founded the [Theatre Company – *CIA.Mefisteatro*](https://ciamefisteatro.wordpress.com/). He enjoys creative writing and is a practitioner of Chi Kung. But Bardon’ system has always been central to his practice. He works as an artist (performer, actor with his theatre company and musician) and a published author on hermetic literature, namely a Portuguese title.[ *Projecto Prometeus*](http://www.lulu.com/shop/andr%C3%A9-consci%C3%AAncia/projecto-prometeus/paperback/product-2109480.html)* *and the other is called [The *Way of Abrahadabra*](https://siriuslimitedesoterica.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-way-of-abrahabra.html)* *in which was intended to give the Abrahadabra formula the proper hermetic and Taoist methods and disciplines (stripping it away from the religious aspects of Thelema and all its folk rituals). Finally,  he is also the head of three artistic and cultural associations. --- Welcome to Falcon Books Publishing thank you very much for participating in this interview with us. Because of your extensive experience on this path.  - **Falcon Books: Please you could share a little of your journey and how you came to follow Bardon’s work**? **André Consciência: **First of all, let me thank you for the invitation. It is an honour to be among like-minded friends. I will talk about how I discovered Bardon and, hopefully, share a little of my journey in the process. I come from a family with a history of the occult, spiritism, on one hand, witchcraft on the other. I grew up between suspicions of my home being hexed, incorporations and possessions, with all the bad and all the good that comes with it. What I soon came to realize is that there was not that much awareness of what was going on from the adults at that time, and mostly there was no clue how to take hold of it and control it in a preventive manner. After reading Allan Kardec and joining a spiritist center, I realized that the philosopher didn’t have the proper answer to the questions his own doctrine was manifesting. I was also becoming a full teenager, and the child in me was giving way to a larger spirit it didn’t seem to be able to contain. I was awakening to a lot of theories and memories which I would try to write, draw and organize, but I was losing control. To speed up the process, I fell in love with a young student from a Wiccan coven who soon died. Wicca wasn’t anywhere near to satisfy my thirst either, although I respect it, and the death my girlfriend brought opened up ahead of me as an even larger abyss of mystery. I had to take care of it. I started studying everything, from art to philosophy, to occultism, while insomnia was hitting hard under the persistent call of something unknown yet known all the while. I ended up accidentally joining a strange sect led by two persons who were feeding our fantasies the best they could, only to tell us it was all a lie, in the end, except the power and wisdom we had absorbed from out of those induced fantasies. Fine. I went on, strangely stronger than before, and now I was becoming learned at theosophy, Blavatsky, Alice Bailey, etc, and at the same time studying the hermetic works of Aleister Crowley. Theosophy had also brought me to meet the congregations of its most dream-like states, the new agers and their close relations with the ascended masters, along with their channelled techniques. But, to summarize it, I had three priorities at the time:  1 The philosophies of Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov and the Great White Brotherhood which I still hold in great account and where I had a teacher; 2. An old man I had met that claimed to be an expert concerning the ascended masters and their teachings 3 Lastly, understanding Crowley’s work I had a student although I was still a minor, an artist who always seemed to be delighted to see me and to hear me, gazing longingly. I was full of light, radiant like the Sun, in opposition to what one might expect after the death of a teenage passion, teenage passions always being of an obsessive character in at least one or another aspect. I often felt that I was full of light because I was inspired and under protection, but what if I stepped beyond that spotlight into the dark? Was I not being like what I once had come to criticize? Was that safety, that light, mine, or was I just sitting under it? Then, my initiator appeared in an esoteric discussion group. He made it seem like I was losing my precious time. Crowley was confusing in his opinion, at least to the beginner, while more or less superfluous to the mature magician. The ascended masters, under the new age perspective, were astral vampires that he had met himself, and they were wearing the masks of true masters. He gave me the book *Initiation Into Hermetics*, by Franz Bardon, and told me to read it and tell him my thoughts.  I did read it. I found it of good quality and fascinating, while the old man who claimed to be an expert on the ascended masters would tell me: ‘it’s fine, if you want to ride a donkey when you already have a horse’. I decided to test that person who had given me the book. I told him the book was alright but had a major issue, and I asked him which element was the most important to master first. ‘Fire’, he replied. ‘Yes, that was also my impression after reading Bardon,’ said I ‘but the right answer is in the water, for it is through its love that the balance of akasha comes to be, then all other elements find harmony. The book is flawed’. I thought of myself as very smart upon saying it. Then he replied ‘nonsense, what can love do without the will to learn from it or to express it? If anything, without will, love destroys character and consciousness, being as the darkness before there was any light. Will puts everything in motion, it is the word of being, and it brings forth the radiance of love, but first, you must will it. What Bardon tells you is that to obtain the perfection of success in your mystical and magical pursuits, you need to apply the perfect method’. At this point, I thought he was smarter, and the perfect method was what I always found missing everywhere else. I came back after three days to say to him that he was right. He answered ‘Mind your steps, though. Once you come to know Divine Providence you immediately become a pawn and a king, and if you do not get a hold of your consciousness, you will always end up in the pawn’s perspective’.  I spent some time training the IIH until he introduced *Fraternitas Hermetica *to me and started to train me. But that was just the beginning of my journey, I explored many things on my own, and I was never really the standard ‘white lighter’. At each step, I would conquer I would only rest after meeting with its shadow instead of frightening it away and risking the dangers of ignorance. I think this multiplied the facets of my initiatic adventures. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/rainbow-1909_1920-1024x380-1.jpg) **2. Falcon Books: Could you share your insights of the Taoist path and how you have used it within your title ‘ The Way of Abrahadabra’?** **André Consciência: **The Taoist methods are not as present on the Way of Abrahadabra as are the hermetic methodologies, nevertheless, they are more often similar than what is generally known. For instance, the Taoists have their own practice of rising on the planes and the Celestial Masters have accounts of astral travels to distant realms in search of the divine. Tao means ‘The Way’, the reason why the book was named ‘The Way of ABRAHADABRA’, yet The Way, or the TAO, and Abrahadabra are the same, for the final dynamism of Abrahadabra is translated as 0=2, 210, or NOX. NOX is the trinity of 0 composed of the Two Columns of the Temple of Solomon, the Pentagram, and Death, the magician standing between life as expressed by the duality of the columns and the death of dissolved duality, treading on The Way, that path of non-effort called the TAO, which brings us to the original meaning of Abrahadabra and to that eternal now which states ‘I create as I speak’. This is one way of formulating magical equilibrium. It also points out that through wisdom, love and will unify as a single consciousness, the akasha manifests, becoming electromagnetic. Abrahadabra’s number is 11, the number of the hidden sphere, while at the same time it amounts to 5+6, five being the number of the microcosmos, and six of the macrocosmos. While the hidden sphere is here as the blackness of Akasha – the union of individual and cosmic expressions and their further neutralization into zero – the state of no-mind at first presents itself as the interaction of its parts, the spiritual akashic violet that leads unto the blackness. When one examines the numbers and letters of Abrahadabra one gets the Crown, the Wand, the Cup, the Sword and, finally, the Rose and the Cross as the Pentacle. It is at the Rose and the Cross that the two become one, the one being the unveiling of the zero so that dualism is a path to non-dualism. At Liber Al Vel Legis we find this passage written by Aleister Crowley: > ***None, breathed the light, faint and faery, of the stars, and two. For I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union. The Perfect and the Perfect are one Perfect and not two; nay, are none! Nothing is a secret key of this law*.** There is no doubt that Abrahadabra is a formula to the Tao, and I mean to say the Tao not as a discipline or a school, but a state and a being. The method in this formula is tantric and yogic, but also firmly hermetic. The Crown refers to the dominion of the mind over the phenomena it witnesses, the Wand refers to the resulting transformation of the womb of the mind into the tongue of the spirit, Will, in a magical sense, meaning a Will that comes from the faculty of consciousness. The Cup is given by the new awareness that consciousness brings when it turns its eye into itself: it is the witnessed vacuity of mind. Through such mastery of the mind, the Sword finally aligns the individual magician with the Tao, with the Akasha in its expression of Divine Providence, and this is where the Tao is yet The Way. Upon the symbol of the Rose and the Cross the individual and the cosmos merge completely to become the Tao, where the 2 and the 0 are equal. It is clear that Taoism had a great influence on Crowley, and I learned the Tao Te Ching first from Crowley’s translation of the work, as well as the I Ching. The magician following the works of Bardon will have no problem identifying with these brief explanations about the hermetic path. In Taoism, there is a place for the deification of certain disciplined men, that is, there is a place for the divine in all the structures composing a man, his soul, his body and his mind. Their immortals are as the immortals of the IIH, the ones who have attained a level of consciousness and equilibrium far enough to survive the corrosive aspects of the cosmos, being, instead, inhabited by it. In Taoism or Daoism, there are also the natural spirits and the deities that help the Taoist advance, and the methods to have the creative future flow backwards, which are, in a way, identical to the magical volt sent to the Akasha as taught by Bardon. All of this is explored in some way or another at the *Way of Abrahadabra*, yet mostly the book’s aim is to arrive at the Tao, to realize that the Way and the Tao are translations of one another. Ultimately, the Tao becomes an attitude, the way is the non-way, and it can be attained by any means.  I divide the book into four distinct stages, one for the perfection of one’s inner faculties and structures, two for the perfection of one’s outer faculties in relation to inner faculties, and the fourth for reaching beyond the outer and, consequently, beyond the inner, so that the Akasha permeates the practitioner and Divine Providence manifests through him on the world. Taoists also have a way of sending things into the Tao and getting things from the Tao according to the natural way – that is, in Bardonist terminology, to the Eternal Now – aiming for an endless source.  Because I do not believe oriental traditions can germinate in all their purity on the west, due to the east having silence as the most constant activity of consciousness and the west exactly the opposite, I try to push the trained consciousness beyond what it can possibly conceive, being that engagement, in this case, tricks it into crossing over the threshold of attachment. The first three stages are symbolized by LVX, meaning Light. The L is the erected phallus, and it stands for an awakening of magical will, that is, the awakening of a will that comes through magical equilibrium. The V is the open kteis, and it refers to consciousness opening to receive the cosmos and the world opening to the influence of the magician. The X aligns L and V, micro and macrocosmos, forming a higher level of magical equilibrium. And finally, there is NOX, when the magician becomes the portal and no longer has to knock on the gates of power and virtue. **3**. **Falcon Books: Following this subject of Taoism, could you discuss the differences/similarities in terms of the energetics?** **For example with a huge generalisation we have the Jing-Qi-Shen model, with the idea of transforming one substance into another, cultivation. Whereas in IIH we do not store we just immediately use the energy be it vital force, elements, fluids etc. How have you brought these two models together in your own practice?** **André Consciência: **Interesting. I have a tale yet to be published named *Father Moon and the Desert of Di Yu* which explores some of both. A taoist searches for the one they call Father Moon, which is said to live in a jade palace, for he thinks Father Moon is one of the taoist immortals. But it is actually an elemental of the earth element. This passage hints at the difference between both ways of seeing the world, but it is only a superficial difference.  > I woke up in a comfortably furnished room with a jade table, several chairs and a large bookcase that covered a whole wall. Sitting at the table was Monpai, with his smooth, young face, moving at once tired and fast. “Why are you here?” He asked impatiently. I anticipated this dialogue, nevertheless a cold sweat pierced my mind. “Are you not the father of the West? And do you not hold the secret of eternal life and the entrance to paradise?” I asked boldly. The golden eyes on the damsel’s face penetrated my spirit. “I see you’re not like the others. There is purpose in you.” Monpai spoke in a nervous voice, a voice sung like the voice of a child. “But what you say about me can not be said of me alone” he concluded. “Yes… in my eastern culture there was a jade palace made by jade miners, there the Queen was a fierce goddess with tiger teeth, always ready to send plagues unto the world. But before the TAO she became benign, planting a peach tree that gave each Aeon the peach of immortality.” I argued. “I see, you came for fear of death. But how will I forgive you for invading my solitude?” He gestured with thin milky arms and delicate fingers. “Immortality I grant. A peach tree I do not have.” He pulled a flute from his shirt pocket. “I have a flute carved from the vertebrae of the world.” At that moment I nervously searched for my TAO cross in my own robes and stopped. Monpai shrugged, sensual as a lost breeze whirling in the snow. “I am not your motherly queen. I come from the period of the great formations of coal, generated in forests and exuberant marshes of a then tropical England. I’ve seen the seas swallow down the earth and continents become ice. I lived when on Earth there was only one Continent and the trees rose a hundred feet high in the Age of Amphibians. My flute has commanded one-meter arachnids and today commands mankind.” I meditated on it all. “Are you as a Yaoguai? An animal become powerful and immortal by virtue of being worshiped?” But Monpai laughed sweetly and dangerously at me. In the depths of its ancient and pagan traditions, the west is wild and primal, the east is primal and gracious. But hermetism, being western, is still eastern philosophy going through a greek filter. It is a fine place to find balance between cultures. The Akasha in all its spectrum is ever beyond and ever-present and the way to approach it in its extensiveness is in the way of the TAO, the path of non-effort. The magician mingles with the unplanned patterns of the universe and,  flowing, disappears, the gate of the Sun then opens and drops of TAO fall through, condensation. What the hermetic magician, in turn, is made of as a whole is the TAO directly connected with the primal and raw power of matter. That makes him a master over all the elements. In hermetism, the element of light can be produced by transmission, which is the movement of electromagnetism through a body. This means that the body, material or shape should neither absorb the light nor block it. It is the essential method of the Tao and requires complete transparency as one completely flows with his environment, becoming the dance. Electromagnetic waves are as if they are a direct manifestation of the Akasha in the manifest world, and can be divided into seven forms of radiation, from the shorter and most saturated wave to the larger and most dissipated. But it can also, as in the example you give, be accumulated, and this brings me back to a story with my own initiator. At the stage in IIH when one is learning to concentrate the fluids of the elements, he said to me ‘I have something quite surprising to show you’ and he showed me a Dragon Ball Z video where Songoku was becoming a super warrior, storing vitality and then turning blond, with golden energy flowing all around him permanently. ‘What the Japanese are showing on television is to be your focus at this stage. It works as bodybuilding, first, you accumulate the vitality of the elements and you can only store so much, but with time you can store more and more. Eventually, if you can store enough moonlight on your astral body for the light to fall back into itself, you become the sun, and this method of transmutation is to dissipate half of your coming nightmares regarding the soul mirror as you progress”. This is not too hard to explain outside the field of fluidic condensations. If one virtue of inspiration is pushed into becoming wise, it is closer to becoming a practical power to be applied in the world. If such wisdom learns to love, the most effect it will have on everything surrounding it. If it finally becomes a skill and a strength, it becomes fully present in the outside world. Likewise, if the magician takes a power and soaks it in love, this power becomes magnetized, and if he so continues to bring it closer to the Tao, that loving power becoming wise and then inspired, it is no longer just a power, but a portal into the spirit realm, a door to the kingdom of light and a torch of initiation. Bardon has also contemplated the transformation of virtues and faults on the soul mirror, but on the occasion, the magician is not yet quite experienced at manipulating the fluids. Jing Qi Shen works with essence, vitality and spirit, just as hermetism works with the elements, vitality or the fluids and the akasha. The three treasures are also moral virtues that connect the Taoist to the akasha and its phenomenal aspects on the eternal now. In IIH, the Jing, being the qualities, are breathed in, and this is the Qi, nurturing the Shen as soul and mind and bringing it forward as the spirit or deity, while traditionally the essence is turned to breath and the breath to spirit, which is very much the process taught by Bardon on breathing qualities and vitality into the blood and from the blood into the astral and mental body. Then, traditionally, the spirit is refined into emptiness. And this is exactly also what my initiator has taught me, to use the breathing exercises to create magical volts out of myself, refining the electromagnetism that comes out of the quadripolar volt into the akasha. The Qi can also be seen as the body – mental, astral or physical – and the Shen as willpower, but in any case, all these variations are telling us the same tale, and this tale is almost omnipresent in* Initiation Into Hermetics.   * **4. Falcon Books: This interview will focus more upon PME and KTQ rather than the early steps of IIH, But before we move on what advice would you give to students of IIH based on your own journey?** **André Consciência: **Act on the IIH with rigour and according to its indications but think of it with intelligence. What I have come to realize is that at each step Franz Bardon is giving us elements to form a language so to speak and the rules of its grammar, but becoming fluent in a language depends on its creative use. It is said that to really learn a language one needs to start thinking in that language. Almost any exercise at IIH can combine with any other, and this is how you begin to understand Bardon on a dynamic level. Men and women of western cultures get bored easily, they need entertainment, but there are so many ways on which you can engage with IIH as you progress that the only real reason remaining for the sincere aspirant to quit is lack of imagination, and imagination too can be trained.   Most of the students I had under my supervision gave up when it came to obtaining an empty mind. Many successful magicians have noticed this issue and have made suggestions. I will add that if it is too hard, try mastering the previous exercise in many different ways. Eventually, imagine a single star in a night sky with nothing else on it. Then, remove the star. You will trick your mind into thinking you are fixing your thoughts on an image as you are used to, but what you are really doing is uniting with silence and allowing it to take over. Also, do something to learn about silence if it is lacking in you. For instance, there are cromlechs that I go to here in Portugal that will literally silence your thoughts without any effort on your part having to take place. If you fix your thoughts long enough on such landscapes while you are standing on them you will end up obtaining their qualities.  The soul mirror is the second when it comes to having students quit. Those who actually managed through mastering their thoughts turn their backs at this period. Nobody likes to be judged, although we judge ourselves all the time as if someone else is doing it. Try not to think of your faults as sins and things to be ashamed of. Add psychology to the disciplines and transpersonal psychology. Communicate with your vices, listen to them with active listening, let them feel understood. Encourage their passive and docile loyalty and have them never lie to you or try to trick you. Engage with your virtues as well, fix your thoughts on them and realize their dance and their elemental grace. Virtues and strengths are not just obligations, they are muses and sources of inspiration. If you feed a virtue well enough it will eventually submit the vices under its supervision. Then comes the question of the balance between the elements. You have not only the quantity of qualities at each element to think about, but also the intensity of each quality. If qualities are lacking at one particular element, you can create them. Meditate on them, breathe them in and out, and eventually practice those qualities on your interaction with the world and on your daily life. You can start by playing the character of one who has the quality you are trying to create. First you write down the characters file, the traits the character has, what led him to have such traits, and what his ambitions are. You can even add in his tastes and his appearance in order to enrich imagination. When you play that character it will eventually teach you about its strength and virtue through gnosis, that is, through a knowledge that is not only intellectual but also sensorial and emotional. Your birth chart might bring you some new clues on the subject if you are learned in astrology. You can balance the birth chart not so much by trying to erase the aspects you dislike but by filling it with balancing traits, and you will have the graphics to help you on this mission. If you are not learned in astrology or if you do not believe it, it remains that we grow up under the stigma of being of such and such sign, and we eventually adopt its traits. But we, as magicians, can balance a sign by invoking another, that is, by having another sign form inside of us that balances the first.  If you manage to succeed, remember that your work concerning the soul mirror is not over nor will it ever be. I have seen those with greater training, greater experience and greater success than me eventually falter. The defect of great magicians is often pride, a blind pride, and its servant is an obsession towards control and perfection. That is why it is important to keep yourself in check, even if you now have all the tools to beat your weaknesses, you can still be deceived. After a while, it does you no good to obsess about the soul mirror constantly, and it becomes a block in itself. It is sufficient to find some form of routine. For instance, once a week breathe in the elements that constitute your magical equilibrium as shown on the soul mirror, and out your weakness. It also helps to locate the positive traits in your body and have the vitality flow between them. At zones of the body where the tensions of the defects and vices lay, you can perform a good oily massage and dissipate such tensions through transfering your conscience to the affected muscles. At new moons and full moons watch your thoughts, feelings and bodily impulses, and if you have crafted your magical hat as teached at PME, use it at this occasion. You will realize how most of your thoughts and feelings aren’t yours but automatic responses to automatic responses. Still, sometimes you might be visited by a thought that is your mission in this life, or by an emotion that connects with your soul throughout all of your lifetimes. Be that as it may, your vices and weaknesses will flee from your divine vigilance. Yet this will also give you true authority over them. At solstices and equinoxes fix your silent concentration on the traits of the soul mirror, if your weaknesses are hiding something they will reveal it, and if your virtues have guidance to give it will be given. But finally, when the year is turning, write down a new soul mirror from the start. By updating one’s soul mirror one can keep track of what keeps coming back and what not. In terms of health it is important to take note that, for example, if loneliness keeps coming back again and again it might not just be a case of melancholy, but a symptom that one is not dealing correctly with how he relates to other people. Thirdly, there is the densest form of astral travel, or, as I like to name it, the etheric projection. While the magician has to concentrate great amounts of energy he really has to let go at the same time, or he will keep coming back to the physical body. Transferring one’s consciousness into the blood and projecting from out of it might help.  **5. Falcon Books: How significant is the process of moving from Step 8 of IIH into PME and KTQ?  ** **André Consciência: **That depends on the goals of the magician. One can imagine the IIH as High School, the PME as the University, and the KTQ as a Master’s Degree. High School is good enough to have you go about in the world as a working man or woman, and in this case, a man or a woman working for the manifestations of Divine Providence. Someone who has completed high school can always go to the university, where he will learn many wonders that he, at least before the internet, would not have the means to find out for himself. Believe me, the entities at PME have perspectives that we can hardly access by other means, and it takes years of exploring the spheres as learned at the IIH to find intelligences so solid and of such high degree. Our mundane universities are full of proud and frustrated teachers, but not this one, not this sacred university. At KTQ you learn to speak in exactly the same language of these intelligences, your word becomes the Shekinah, the holy dwelling of Divine Providence.  That being said, I am not sure if I am truly suited to answer this question. I was presented to PME little by litlle while I progressed. When I trained fixing my thoughts I was given a pen and told to think of a light expressing absolute victory while gazing continuously at that pen. When I was finished the pen was shining in the dark. I was told that it was by similar methods that I would later consecrate the sword as a magical weapon. To help me through the steps I was sometimes given an intelligence of the moon sphere, of the zone gridling the earth, or an elemental, depending on the nature of the lessons to be obtained on that step. I was to fix my thoughts on the sigil while emptying the mind, an astral fluid would start to flow and I was to breathe it or travel on my mental and later, on my astral body to activate it. Obstacles to the soul mirror as major issues at home or the strong nightmares that kept me from sleeping year after year, etc, were pacified at the intervention of those entities and, finally, my dominion over the elements in what concerns the soul mirror was crowned by the consecration of the corresponding magical tools by the means at my disposal at that stage, although I would keep coming back to them with new acquired methods. I was teached to meditate in the center of the circle about the center of the circle, and also about what every other magical tool given at PME was veiling. This was part of my process through IIH, but although I made fluid condensers and talismans that would connect me to the wisdom of certain elementals and certain entities of the moonsphere, I only evoked a being into the triangle on the physical at step 9. I admit I was also given some cosmic letters while perfecting my skill to concentrate the elements, so that I would know the elements’ full composition and, once skilled at the akashic trance, what combinations were to connect the different elements with their akashic source, by such means keeping the process of breathing or nourishing the element going on by itself.  Moving from IIH to PME and KTQ can be significant in that neither the PME nor the KTQ are more of the same. They are truly an addition to IIH. Still, completing Initiation Into Hermetics is award enough and, on an essential level, one will be no less without touching the PME and the KTQ. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Copy-of-blog-header-TSPOM-2.png) **6. Falcon Books: Though PME is a very private journey is there anything you can share? Such as the beings you met, the differences between the spheres and anything that took you by surprise?** **André Consciência:** Everything took me by surprise and still does. I only had five full materializations, flesh and bone. These are materializations where even if you try you cannot see past the intelligence, physically and not only physically. One was with the greek deity Pan according to Bardon’s method. The second was something near to an accident. The third was with my own guide according to Bardon’s method. The fourth with Bardon’s method and N’Aton. The fifth with an entity from Abramelin and Bardon’s method. At such a level of density Pan appeared to me as an absolute nightmare, everything froze, including my mind, but in the aftermath he boosted the natural power of having the elementals respect me as an authority even as one of their own. This evocation changed the constitution of my body in the space of a few months, especially my legs, but all for the better. The second time took place at a forest on an abandoned monastery I was allowed to explore. After months of working ceremonies on the space and having placed a grid of fluidic condensers buried beneath the ground something like a humanoid lizard, that had not been evoked, appeared. It gazed at me for ten seconds and disappeared. During the time span of the experience nature went completely silent, including elements such as the wind, and my mind instantly not with the silence of the silent monkey, but the silence of no monkey at all, if you can understand the metaphor. Even my heartbeat stopped. Yet, this time I was fully present. With my guide or Holy Guardian Angel I dedicated him a whole summer, and eventually he would often become fully materialized, but at the end of the time I had planned for the operation the instincts of my body were afflicted by the irrational eminence of death. Finally with N’Aton, the personification of the collective consciousness of humanity as flowing from the best possible future, the operation, aiming for global change in the present, was entirely pleasant. The only strange phenomena was that when I finally left the cave the mountain was on fire and deep smoke. Lastly, with the being from Abramelin The Mage I realized that although the psychic saturation in the air would be unbearable to almost anyone, I was totally at ease and in full dominion of my faculties. I tried full materialization only five times, and upon realizing that I had come to my own sense of perfection in the matter I left it behind so far. Most of the other evocations appear to be in the flesh, that is why we train each sense at IIH. But if you become distracted or try to look beyond the being, the being becomes more or less holographic or eventually a presence distorting the air. This method is fine and safer and, according to the laws of the triangle, still gives the intelligence power to act on the physical realm. Of this, for the sake of brevity, I will give one example of a frightening nature. Although I had perfect and positive results with intelligences from Saturn, I once conducted an operation where I asked one of them to show me the roots of my fear and to teach me how to deal with it. While he appeared at first in the appearance of a very fresh and very ancient holy man, he became horrendous after, and kept being horrendous until having come to the conclusion that I had obtained what I had asked for. He gave me some rules to follow on my communications with him and I also settled my own rules. He obviously never failed, but I once failed in keeping with the method and a scream like the ripping apart of the veil between the spheres was heard, one of my cat defecated and died of a heart attack, the other cat ran away to never come back. My dog, which was outside, died on the next day from a similar heart attack. The intelligence would try to have me break the circle: I eventually had a motorbike ride in through the chamber I was using, the noisy motor, the flashlight on me and someone looking as if I was doing something forbidden, but there was no way for a motorbike to get in that space and I refused to believe it. Eventually the noise and the light went to the background of my attention, finally to disappear. Or, if I would suddenly fear that something would happen, it would come to happen in an immediate time span. I remember fearing for no reason that the two guys in front of me at the bar would start fighting and one broke the glass on the head of the other and there was blood at my feet. Or fearing a thunderbolt would fall near me and having one fall on the house next to me in seconds, breaking its wall. Happily, the house was under construction and had no inhabitants. This eventually became a nihilistic period for me, it was the only time that I thought I would fail miserably. The things I believed in all started to show a different face on their own. I would sleep all day and night. But through my disbelief I started having wonderful dreams, and one day I woke up to realize that I didn’t need to believe anything, for everything was there anyway, like a timeless garden to be a part of. I felt a deep spring in me and strangely the entity assured me that was all I needed to know, and was again of a benign disposition. The next day I dreamt with a girl, and on that day I met a girl exactly as the girl in my dream. As she invited me I started to go out more and to live again a life as natural as possible and certainly more natural than before. But, contrary to what had happened with Pan, this operation had ill effects on my legs and I took one year to recover them to full health. There are dangers on a psychological level by the influence over the physical plane from lesser entities. I once worked with a negative intelligence from the sphere of the moon with the intent to get rid of my emotional delusions in a way that the rational analysis of the soul mirror wouldn’t reach. For such an operation I allowed for contact in dreams. The intelligence would give me prophecies during my dreams of betrayals to come from my dear ones. They were all nonsense, and still they happened every time right on the day that I would wake up to. In my dreams, the entity would then become a clown and laugh at me, but I started to realize that the mime was like me yet dressed and painted as a mime. Eventually, after the entity had tried to give me, from her mouth, a green serpent that I hypnotized with my wand, I dreamed that I was inside the mime and looking at me as I really am, and while I had the mask it was the person’s face in front of me that was an illusion. I offered that person to the cosmic void. On the next day, me and the intelligence came to the conclusion that the job was done and the process concluded. Although the entities Bardon obscures, such as the entities of Mars and Saturn or even the air elementals – sometimes causing great confusion and dispersion to the non enlightened mind – can be hard to take on, the others have the minds of guides and, if abused, will give no harsher punishment than that of a good teacher. The important thing to keep is that the magician is no longer just the magician when evoking them to the triangle, he is divine, charged with omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence and immortality and keeping with his akashic trance. I also believe there are few human beings capable of abusing flesh and bone materializations without very dangerous possible side effects on the physical level. Aside from that, constant evocation even if not as dense, may cause dependency on the magician and not only that, may become as a drug that will have him hallucinate outside the operation or lose contact with the human world, it being that most of the things one learns in the context of magical evocation are difficult to translate into the mundane human experience. At any rate, good communication with the beings at PME is made of surprise, of the heart and mind and of the body expanding, and so, one is surprised all along. About the spheres, it may be important to notice that at IIH Bardon walks us through the abilities they offer as seen from Malkhut. Beyond that, each sphere can be as vast as the planet Earth in terms of variation, or wider, and to limit them beyond Bardon’s or for example William Mistelle’s descriptions can be fatal. Yet, as a most imperfect guideline, one may have it that the sphere of the moon teaches of that which moves mind, body and matter in terms of cycles, automatisms and self-regulations, or of the magnetism wrapping it all into a transcendent state or fluid. Mercury is thought of as splendour on the hebraic traditions, this means that it is not entirely intellectual. A rabbi would have the student understand the Torah from the glory that emanates from its passages. And it is through glory that the transcendence of the moon sphere becomes articulated into a system or a language to be spoken and understood. While this glory is still as a ghost, a reflection, art gives it a solid body of light which not only encloses the splendour into, literally, a holy mass, but also opens up the gates of the sun. The erotic devotion that it requires is absorbed from the sphere of Venus. The deliverance it provides brings the magician to cross the veil of illusion, the veil of Paroketh, his own ego – that is, the survival instincts of his own automatisms. And then he steps unafraid into the gates of the Sun, where he knows himself through all his life times, past and future, and at the same time creates himself. This is the magician’s individuality that was being obstructed by the “ego”, it is as the electromagnetic body of his consciousness in its purest state and from this point of view the individual needs no self in order to be and to be contained. He still has to have enough willpower to put it into practice on a cosmic level, for he is now as a creative block of Divine Providence, and of such disciplines as great as to move the sun speaks the sphere of Mars. At Jupiter the individual attains to the double consciousness, he is not only the individual but, simultaneously, the collective consciousness of all the sunlike beings, the company of the stars, for he has reached outside. Finally, there is Saturn, the whirlwind of destiny upon which such collectives act. Saturn is not only the sphere of limitations and their liberating initiations, it is also the sphere where these stars go to dream and to create the world anew.  **7. Falcon Books: Do you prefer to mental travel to explore the PME or to do physical evocations?** **André Consciência: **There is more of mental travel than there is of evocation, for I never evoke a being without first moving to his sphere to meet with him. I do not prefer a method over the other.  **8. Falcon Books: Could you tell us a little more about your teacher and how it helped you work your way through Bardon’s?** **André Consciência: **My teacher was maybe one of the most puzzling miracles that I have witnessed. He gave me a lot for many years and was never selfish or vile, not once. Such an example is already the greatest talismanic – in the sense that each of us is as a talisman to the other – help one might need. Then, he was the most creative magician that I have had the honor to meet. I do not mean that on an artistic level, but speak of creativity applied to the hermetic disciplines instead. Intelligent could be a more exact term. He saw keys everywhere that I didn’t, nor anyone else that I know or that I have come to read and, most surprisingly, they were the correct keys. With his help, going through the IIH was not that penance that so many seem to talk about, it was probably the most engaging experience that I ever lived. Also, he knew when to vanish. Once he vanished for three or four years, but it always felt like he was doing it on a perfect timing. We often worked and meditated together, and once I had worked with him my enlarged capacities would no longer diminish. At some point of our progress we were a lot like team mates, anchoring on each other to potencialize practices that we were pursuing individually before and after. If I was to speak of all he taught me I would have to write a book, but then again, it wouldn’t be my book to write. Most of all he made each step at IIH into a number of steps, since each step would benefit from the next in order to be perfected and reconstructed. This actually made it easier and faster, not longer and harder. It remains to say that he didn’t base himself on hermetics alone, he studied the norse traditions and the Eddas, Sufism, Ninjitsu and Taoism. **9. Falcon Books: I wonder if you could share with us more about the Horus Maat Lodge?  ** **André Consciência: **The Horus Maat Lodge is a lodge for adepts, it does not have a training system of its own but, while accepting a myriad of traditions and its methodologies, it does have its own praxis. It focuses on the magick of Maat, as a counterweight to the explosive Horus. While Horus is a liberating light, consuming all limitations, Maat is balance and justice. Her virtue is Truth, whose power is that of constant transformation and evolution. In this paradigm Horus becomes the white globule of Maat, eliminating tyrannic structures to give truth and balance a natural space to manifest and grow. We function as a decentralized but seriously organized cyberlodge. The lodge has forty years and we have adepts from many corners of the world, divided in nexuses, and from many traditions, from Thelema to Vodoun, wiccan priests and priestesses to gnostic bishops, members of the martinist orders, members of the AMORC, chaos magicians, etc. We consider art to be magic too, for it works in its own discipline with the symbols and the invisible planes to bring change into the world, and give the solid artist the place of a rightful Adept. As stated in the Chart of the Horus Maat Lodge, we are tolerant except of intolerance and bigotry. I would say most of our ethics can be summarized at “Priesthood: Parameters and Responsibilities”, by Nema. A common inspirational book is Liber Pennae Praenumbra, where Nema channels Maat and describes her visions, revealing N’Aton as a possible healthy future for the planet, he representing the double consciousness of the sovereign individual who is fully telepathic and empathic, the reunion of every human being in such a state being the evolution of the species. This is an evolution where nuclear warfare or warfare of any kind will not be possible, and where through the collective consciousness as accessed by the individual everyone will be able to feel and communicate with Gaia – meaning nature, the earthzone and the elemental kingdoms – as well as to understand the intelligences of other planetary spheres and constellations. Thus, the environment will be safe. Our aim is to become talismans that preserve and potencialize this kind of change. Our magical word is IPSOS; meaning “by the same mouth” and, in my own understanding it implies, among other things, instant balance between the inner and the outer, being that our words and actions towards others are also swallowed/suffered by us, the reason why it would not make sense to commit to injustice and to lies. The works of Nema herself seem to give particular importance to the Tao through the dancing of the masks and the black flame, the purifying flame of the empty mind. The dancing of the masks implies also the practice of ascending in the planes: that is, when your vision and understanding becomes obstructed on a plane you rise to a higher level and start perceiving and acting through it. The levels are disposed through the Tree of Life and are similar to the astrological planetary spheres described by Bardon. Dancing the masks also implies that to bring truth into the hearts of the many we come to meet in life one has to become truth in many languages. On an ultimate level, it is the black flame, the empty mind turned into a fluidic and dynamic element, that is being masked by its elasticity to take on different forms and reflect the truth. **10. Falcon Books: Regarding working through IIH which aspects did you find the most challenging and why?** **André Consciência: **While I did ascend in a spiral to meet with my guide as teached by Bardon, this was not my first close encounter with him. I followed the procedures that were being given by the F. H. where, through a certain method, you meet with a personification-plasmification of your own astral substance, or better yet, something between your own astral substance and the Soul of the World as put by Giordano Bruno. This personification is knowledge itself and takes many forms and guises. It is only after you get it under perfect control and out of the way that the guide will appear crystal clear, as if one had removed the scales from one’s eyes. While there are some valid methods given by adepts from the school of Frantisec Bardon to check whether the intelligences or elementals being contacted are real or products of the imagination, they are never bullet proof. Many of the beings that I had come to meet while working with the Tatwas were just this plasmification that stands as a bubble between one’s self and the world. I started running through my magical diaries from years past and the number of such cases started to grow page by page.  The real challenge is truly knowing something. We are trained to manipulate mind, body, the soul and the senses into some form of hypnosis that allows us to cross the bypass that binds us to the most mundane realities. But what does it mean?  Eliphas Levi, in his “The History of Magic”, in a way seems to turn against the truth of magic, exposing the fevers of astral intoxication and its final products of hallucination and self-deceit. He tells us that the astral light is the devil himself. Aleister Crowley tells of a great number of self-claimed adepts who are but neophytes blinded by the shining images of the moonlight, he considering the phenomenal world not that important altogether  only to fall into a greater pit, the abyss of the void and its own non-phenomenal hallucinations. It is no wonder that, at Crowley’s tradition, in the matter of validating some sort of absolute truth, the paradox that resolves the problems of magic is in Kether then, or at the grade of Ipissimus. When the magician reaches the highest form of himself he is just a simple man and no more. At The Way of Abrahadabra I close the book by telling the reader that, if he has gone through all the exercises, he has experienced so much that he can finally remain at peace again as a simple, mortal man. The great worm of hell formed out of curiosity will no longer blind him and attack him with fever and delirium. Goodness, he has earned being a common man for the first time in his life now. While I feared this kind of conclusion for the whole of my journey, I rejoice in it today.  As a consolation for the doubtful pilgrim who is walking on his path, remember that the most important thing is not how absolutely real in all perspectives something is, but if it works and the proof of success: ultimately, you become a better person.       Aside from that, with a teacher or without it, until you become mature not only as a magician but as a regular person with a body that keeps changing until it dies, this is a very lonesome path, and it gets lonelier as you progress. An important part of your life and of your identity becomes unpronounceable. This can only be counterbalanced by something Nema said “the hard work is in polishing one’s perceptions. This is why I say that 90% of Magick is trash-removal”, or, as an ex-girlfriend of mine from a druidic order put: “I dream of becoming a human. There are just a handful. Most of the people tend to think of themselves as divine”.    **11. Falcon Books: There are some practitioners who attempt to work with Bardon’s 2nd and 3rd books before finishing IIH, what are the dangers of doing this?** **André Consciência: **Firstly, if you have no knowledge and no power it’s all just child play. Playing is good for your health, they say. But if you do have some power and knowledge, once you have come to a fair amount of dominion over the elements there is no danger in working with the magical tools, but they are at their best once the magician has trained with the four divine qualities. For the circle, while it can not hurt, it is at its best once akashic trance is mastered. The hat is best used when the magician has control over his mind and his mind has become a beacon of light through the workings of silence. The triangle makes sense after the magician has learned to master his body and his hold of his situation in physical life, as well as in the mental sphere and in astral projection. It makes sense to use the lamp after having mastered clairvoyance, the incense after having clairalience, etc. The danger is that if the magician uses the weapons before mastering what they represent it will be harder for him to believe in their strength. But depending on the magician and of his influence over the astral fluids etc, the weapons can work the other way around, solidifying the capacities he has been searching for. Once the soul expands it does not contract, the old labyrinths, once solved, don’t return to being labyrinths.  Concerning the intelligences, there is no danger in using some source of inspiration. But if the magician tries to have them on the triangle before he is prepared, or before he has learned the proper methods, meditations and magical equilibrium, he will probably be working with a densification of the astral light that, if the magician’s concentration on virtue is not irreprehensible, will probably harbor astral larvae. He won’t die specifically from it, for to be under the dominion of astral larvae one just has to wish for it, no magic is required. It is preferred that, unless the magician has a teacher, he refrains from using the PME altogether until reaching a proper step at IIH. Above all, if he must use it and he has the skill to actually succeed in obtaining more than a pipe dream, he is most firmly to stick to intelligences of the zone gridling the earth – avoiding the monarchs – and some intelligences of the sphere of the moon. Bardon’s intelligences are, as I said, mostly guides of a gracious nature, but even ballet being gracious, it can damage the tissues of the untrained dancer if he pushes too hard or tries to go beyond his ability. For instance, a talented beginner using intelligences from the sun sphere has little chances of succeeding, at least without lowering the beings vibration very substantially, but if by some miracle he was to succeed with strength and dignity, he would find his ego shattered instead of asleep, leading to different breeds of psychosis. KTQ, in my opinion, has no dangers at all. Most people are capacitated to think in abstract terms, in symbolic terms, and on an emotional level. They are less able to think with the body and, because of it, won’t be able to obtain the powers from the letters, only the virtues. The cosmic letters will come to the practitioner to the extent of his maturity, no less and no more, but, just as with regular meditation, they can help anyone progress.  The untrained person can try then to articulate the letters between many combinations and yet unless he is a skilled philosopher of sorts, an artist, a poet, or maybe a programmer he is to do it at absolutely no avail.  Still, I once met an oriental master who told me the KTQ should preceed IIH, for the magician would have fixed all the necessary virtues even before starting the work of Initiation Into Hermetics. Although I have hinted at some potential dangers and mistakes, one is to avoid fear, remember that esotericism protects itself from harming the fool exactly by being incomprehensible to him. **12. Falcon Books:  For someone who is untrained using the tripolar method how effective is KTQ and can it cause harm if they have not finished IIH?** **André Consciência: **Just as the west uses yoga mostly as gymnastics and makes it ingenuous, so would the practice of the KTQ become innocent to the untrained, no more than some periodic mental exercising and emotional relief.  **13. Falcon Books: Some of the dangers of the following occult path is that the training in some systems are unbalanced and there can be a tendency to focus on seeking out answers outside of ourselves rather than through personal development. In your experience working within occult circles have you found this to be the case and what are the consequences?** **André Consciência: **I haven’t found this particular problem at the Bardonist tradition yet except for a grand initiator having the students strengthen their vices in order to make it a matter of life and death – as I consider our relation with our defects a neverending story, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me unless you want to be a rock star. Nevertheless, this picture you just painted seems to be the most common case in many other paradigms. Depending on the context, you either have the initiators imposing themselves and vampirizing their students, or the students obsessing about their “gurus”. On the first scenario, you have claims of sexual abuse at Ordo Templi Orientis and, with the rise of the alternative right at the Astrum Argentum, which was originaly built to prevent communication between students and adepts in order to avoid abuse of authority, you have at some structures an almost military paradigm, coming from initiators that don’t even know how a pentacle can be built and have ascended through the grades out of political strategy and that are, at best, intellecuals. I know cases at masonic lodges where the initiators brag of having had their probationers piss themselves during rites of initiation. After bragging to anyone willing to listen, they have a good laugh.  It also works the other way around. At a certain time of my life I worked on a center of alternative and holistic therapies. I had many male students humiliate themselves before me, for my displeasure, and the more I told them to be sovereign and whole and to stay standing even before the face of death the more they would bow like creeping vampires. This led me to abandon them eventually. Female students would often “fall in love” and try all sorts of seductive moves. These are the “spiritual tourists’ ‘, they come to you because they want some exotic experience of surrender. If I was Charles Manson, they would surrender just the same and end up doing God knows what just for the thrill. In the best case scenario, they eventually get bored or satisfy their touristic drive for adventure and leave by their own foot.  In another episode I came to learn with a shaman from an amazonian tribe. I went with a group of other caucasian men and women. As we would work with substances like Ayahuasca, Peyote and San Pedro, some of the members of the group started to become obsessed about the idea that they had to prove themselves to the shaman, for the shaman’s personality was very strong and his gaze seemed to know all. Ayahuasca would then always reveal this unbalance which was a sort of aggressive shame. The shaman did everything in his power to drive those members away, begging them to take a breath and come back under another state of mind or move on with their lives, yet they kept coming, thinking they had to prove themselves harder than ever. One eventually tried to pull off his face and the shaman had to knock him out. This is the last I heard of the group.    What seems most surprising is when you have sects of actual trained adepts who turn their eyes to political power and cultural monopoly. They no longer remember their cause. They just want everything and are willing to destroy anyone to get it, like dragons sitting over a useless mountain of treasures. I was pursued by such sects, life threats included. Well… The occult is a vast abyss. You can learn to build your divine lamp and make a star, become a sun, or you can stumble in the dark for adrenaline. The world is dangerous, and at most occult organizations the blind lead the blind the best they can. Hermetic wisdom has become a source of inspiration, but its actual laws are out of fashion. The consequence is that the occultist joins not only ignorance in its either devotional or rebellious choirs but also its expressive side, stupidity, in detriment of what human enlightenment there is left. Many of these unbalanced paths can still hold some mysteries that the well trained magician, under the guidance of magical equilibrium can “steal” for himself and, beyond that one has to understand that a lot of traditions are solely for adepts or else for certain cultures and genetic strains, i. e. I never heard of Indians having trouble with Ayahuasca. They, at certain tribes, grow up with it, generation after generation and use it as medicinal water. **14. Falcon Books: How important was soul mirror training regarding your own path and what approaches did you find to be the most effective?** **André Consciência: **The soul mirror can have its own shadow, its name is restriction and, with time, it becomes a magical blockage itself. This can happen especially if the magician has not learned to think in equilibrium. When I talk of thinking I am not referring solely to the mind, for I usually say that each body has its own head. I, more or less, speak of this at *The Way of ABRAHADABRA*, and might as well cite it, if you would be so kind as to bear with me. > The Pentagram stands not only for the primal elements as we have come to learn them from the greeks as it stands for the perfection of men in that it represents the right disposition of his parts, either they be his physical, emotional, intelectual, imagetical or spiritual components. The figure radiates the perfect equilibrium of a human being. The Pentagram also stands for the number 5, Mars, the God in Motion, and motion implies unbalance. And this, in turn implies that the absolute can only move and become something by the balance of men, his elements being in a state of perfect love in regards to one another and that harmony flowing through the perfected art of Conscious Will, for from the point of view of the absolute even harmony is unbalanced, while from our point of view, order is our bridge to divinity.  The pentagram also ensures by equal proportion of its parts that there is no element missing or too much of an element, for such a case is the fountain of disease in whatever plane it may occur. > > > *Andre Consciencia, The Way of ABRAHADABRA* ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/serveimage-3-1.png) We learn to use, in this grade, the scale of 4 and it’s balance at the 5. Although at the macrocosmos the 4 stands for the four states of matter: solid, liquid, gas and energy, and the 5 is the cosmos, on the consciousness of men, or at the passive centers of activity in the brain, the 4 is instinct, cognition, memory and intuition, and the 5 is that which results from the balance of the four, because balance will move consciousness forward while unbalance will keep it moving in circles. While the 5, it being the spirit or the akasha, once generated, stands for itself and commands the 4 by introversion, the 4, by extroversion, make up the constitution of the 4 planes to which men is restricted, being them the physical, the etheric, the astral and the mental.  Another key may be applied in which the 4 is multiplied by the 3, the 3 being intellect, emotion and the conjunction of the 5 senses which is as the reflection of the number 5 on a physical dimension. This key sets cognition, intuition, instinct and memory on each of the three, making it 12 and, by consequence, forming the signs of the zodiac. If the magician was to follow in the presented direction of thought he would have the following analogies: The world of the senses would have Aries as instinct, Taurus as memory, the Gemini as cognition, Libra as intuition. This would mean that the instinct to react is at the core of our senses, while the instinct to persevere is their memory, their cognition comes through duality and their intuition through harmony. The world of emotions would have Cancer as instinct, Leo as memory,  Virgo as cognition and Scorpio as intuition. In turn, this would mean that the instinct to feel is rooted on the will to connect, our emotional memory is rooted on our sense of individuality, and that our feelings come to awareness by a search for well-being just as our emotional intuition, having no logic to be based upon, builds on the need to test.  The world of thoughts would have Sagittarius as instinct, Capricorn as memory, Aquarius as cognition and Pisces as intuition. In that context, the intellect would have adventure as it’s instinct, structure as it’s memory, innovation as it’s cognition and imagination as it’s intuition.  Even though we are still introducing this grade, the magician or future magician is to take from it his first test on mnemonics, the art of magical memory. He is to meditate on this table of correspondences until it becomes perfectly natural to him. But, although the cunning practitioner will be able to use the previous analogies during the course of our path to adepthood, the author himself will not be applying them in the methods to be teached. This is not to take the importance out of memorizing this table, for unless the magician memorizes it in such a way that it becomes intuitive, he knows it by instinct and it moulds his perceptions, the magician will find a missing link on his magical chain or at his magical structure, and his operations are hardly going to succeed.  In addition, by learning his mnemonics the magician will become naturally apt to work the correspondences to come during his exercises.  Now let us examine the pentagram further. Concerning the elements, at the left we have air at the top and earth at the bottom, at the right we have water at the top and fire at the bottom. The right column is the column of force and the left is the column of matter. Force is condensed at the heavens as water, to descend it must become pure energy, fire. Matter is condensed on earth and to ascend it must become subtler, air. Now, earth and air do not influence each other directly, their vertices do not touch at the pentagram, just as water and fire do not touch. Instead, fire and air influence each other mutually, just as air and water, water and earth. Air and water influence two elements each, but fire and earth influence only one other element, for one is the densest and the other the purest. Such a diagram shows that force and matter are mutually dependent in order to achieve their most sublimated states, but the densest state of force can influence both its purest state and the finest kinds of matter, just as sublimated matter can influence the most condensed forms of force and the grosser kinds of form. Akasha, or the spirit, is in direct touch with fire and earth, so that it is equally rooted at the densest and at the finest modes of existence. This means that left to himself and without the secret wisdom Men is only able to touch the divine as he experiences extremes. To understand it in human terms, as this grade concerns the microcosm rather than the macrocosm, we would have to say that the spirit touches the senses directly and the will of the regular men, while that very same will is able to conduct the mind and to be hypnotized by it, and the senses are able to reproduce feelings or be caused by them. Emotions, in turn, can also cause thought patterns while these very same patterns can reproduce emotions back. The realm of thoughts and the reign of feelings are cyclic and circular, but the Will and the senses are, outside the realms of spirit, what men can most rely on. This means that we have attributed will to fire, thoughts to air, emotions and feelings to water, the 5 senses to the earth. Or, roughly speaking, to the fire the analogies of heat and the concentric forces, to the air the analogies of openness and lightness, to the water the analogies of fluidness and coldness, and to the earth the analogies of everything solid, heavy and rooted. The elements move by accumulation. For instance, there was heat on the face of our planet, and that counts as one magical element, it is, therefore, the 1. From heat and the atmosphere came the winds, and the winds are the 2. We say these elements are magical because they are animated, and consequently the first and second sources of animism. From the heat, the atmosphere and the wind do the waters awaken to start their tides, and the waters are the 3. Apart from the earth being molded by them, from the heat, the atmosphere, the wind and the tides the earth is awakened by genetic life! This is the 4. And where there is conscious life there is that which we may call the aura of a planet, its astral trail, an electromagnetic field that suspends time and space around its source, and that is the 5. In this key, the atmosphere is the zero, the circle around the pentagram. Another way to say this is that Will shone on consciousness, and that from the interaction of the two the mind itself was born. There was energy dormant that was moved by the interaction of them three, and therefore there were emotions. Finally Will, consciousness, mind and emotion come to fill the centers of the body and breathe life into it. The magician may take the time to memorize these correspondences before he goes on reading. Now one can position any attribute at each of the elements, given that the akasha remains untouched and the proper filtration is applied at the other elements. Let us choose four random qualities. We put force at the place of the earth, we place brightness at the place of the water, darkness at the place of the air and matter at the place of fire. To fire, matter is actually destruction or rather its material form is destructive. To air, darkness is as ignorance. To water, brightness is as fascination and to earth, force is work. Now this can be easily translated into one of the following ways or into the other: Destruction leads to ignorance, ignorance to fascination, and fascination to slavery. Or, the slave starts to regain his individuality through fascination, and by the curiosity it evokes he recognizes his ignorance in order to destroy his chains. The Pentagram is actually the sign of the free men, for the magician who has learned to properly meditate on its diagram understands that nothing is a dead end and that every flow can be directed and redirected on the focus of his choices.         Still, the magician’s work is not the same as the work of the regular individual. The magician’s job is to find magical equilibrium, so that when will, mind, feelings and senses all work as one, the spirit, which is placed at the top of the pentagram, is reproduced as the quintessence at its center, leaving every element in touch with one another as well as with the divine.  We shall illustrate further. The reader may find that the four qualities we have attached to the elements form by their natural flow a sentence. The keyword to the sentence shown above is freedom/slavery, for neither freedom nor slavery were placed at the elements but they are the meaning we can extract from the position of their given attributes. Freedom/slavery is a dualistic keyword, just as it is dualistic for the spirit to be attached to fire and water. So, while when the regular men think of freedom they think in terms of ascending to freedom or of losing freedom the magician does not think in that manner, for he is at that spot at the center of the pentagram. At the fire he would place light, at the air he would place liberty, at the water he would place love and at the earth he would place life. Such as it is, from life he would come to love, from love to liberty and from liberty to light, such as from light to liberty, from liberty to love and from love to life. All the attributes are in harmony and a quintessential part of each other, and this happens because the qualities are directly connected to the elements they were given and are at their original source. Surely, we could change the scale of the keyword and still keep our magical equilibrium. If we change the scale of freedom to it’s grade at the fire, the spiritual word or keyword becomes light. It is as focus on the fire element, direction at the air element, devotion on the water element and victory on the earth element. We could go on forever and not lose elemental balance and magical equilibrium. By this we illustrate what it is to think, act and live with magical equilibrium at one’s side.» Through such means the magician can more easily move in many directions and explore without losing his magical balance. But I, eager to explore, suffered slightly from restriction before I had the idea for this key, for to express the most vibrant virtues one has sometimes to play and dance and an heavy armour won’t do for such occasions.  Then there is that even the soul mirror being the best device for introspection I have found so far inserted on a magical system, the applied philosophy is not an exact science, and it takes practice for one to understand that sometimes too much of a certain quality is becoming a weakness and some weaknesses were strengths we were afraid to acknowledge. For instance, psychology tells us that anger is the first step to healing, so, what can we make of it? To work with the soul mirror one has to apply sensibility, intelligence and wisdom, and if one isn’t sensible, intelligent and wise, one might end up becoming repressed by it instead. Maybe exercising one’s sensibility, fluidity, intelligence and wisdom should be a warm up for the bellic approach the soul mirror might require of us.  Some left hand traditions speak of a natural way, and that the body, if left to itself, knows its own balance and a way to bring mental and emotional harmony. While Aleister Crowley, a man with a right and a left hand formed in psychology, might have had – or not – the ability to do this successfully in order to call himself the solar beast, most magicians from the left hand path don’t have a single clue on how this can be done. While Anton LaVey, smart as he may have been, spoke of “indulgence instead of abstinence”, indulgence itself solves nothing of the origin of human unbalance. Psychology tells us that pathologies come from fragmentation, in order to protect itself from fracturing as a whole some parts of the psyche, when faced with trauma, are separated from memory and memory, in turn, tries to assimilate them back by associating them with other phenomenal objects of the mind. Just as the fibers of a muscle, when wrongly entwined, cause pain, limitations and unbalance on the body, so do the fibers of the mind. By acting, a body tries to escape an unbalanced mind, but it is as a lost animal on an artificial labyrinth. The mind must clear, so that the beast might find its proper forest and take good care of the mind. Between the body and the mind, the astral is important, that is why exercises of conscious breath come handy. The astral fluids have emotional intelligence and, by default, are not trapped by the body nor by the mind: as any other water, they seek balance and answer to intuition. **15. Falcon Books: What would you say about this statement, ‘our outward success in life is a reflection of  inward success of our practice, ‘As Above So Below’’?** ** André Consciência: **Ah! But there are two sentences there, surely connected but maybe not the same. About the first sentence I would say that it is mostly correct, although maybe not entirely correct at the present level of human evolution. While our work upon ourselves surely molds most of the things around us or how they interact with us, some of it doesn’t reach outside. There could be two reasons for this, one being that the universe, by its own nature, only reacts to us to a certain extent, and the other being that there is so much of us that we do not know, that these parts are left out and so the outer seems to act partially of its own accord.  To the second sentence now: I met a very wise christian poet and philosopher. He used to tell me that “as above, so below” is not the same as “as below, so above”. He was of the opinion that heaven would only open of its own accord. To him, gnostics and hermetic magicians believed otherwise, in that they thought they could manipulate the process, building their own babel tower, and for that alone they had already corrupted the experience. To him, heaven was a gift, not something one conquers. I don’t have any smart argument to overthrow him, just that the hexagram stops midway. When we earn at least paradise, then heaven descends of its own accord or, truly deserving something always comes with a surprise, a miracle factor, and that is the element of the soul expanding, the heart that beats without asking for permission: we just have to live and organize our lives.  Organizing life: Giordano Bruno tells us that if we change the stars then we change the Earth. He literally did this job as a magician. The concept was that by changing the archetypes one can program the reality of the world at large. Now this was a man living down on earth changing heaven above to change the earth below. He, as a christian monk and later an hermetic magician and philosopher, would still agree with my friend the christian poet, but did already outsmart him. And, by principle, Bruno and I would agree with you, that the inner connects above, and the outer below. But he and I would then open our eyes as wide as there is light and darkness and look outside at the Soul of the World in all its vastness. Eventually, we would see heaven alone, heaven and the adorer.  Alas, esoteric tradition shows a strike of light upon the tower of babel and the holy flames thereof. Now, while what I just said would make a fine closing line, this unity of two presented, what if we acknowledge yet that maybe the sentences at the question form up a single quadripolar magnet composed of Above, Below, Inner and Outer, whose electromagnetic force is as invocation/evocation? Again, I cite a small passage from *The Way of Abrahadabra*, a charade that aims to bring insight into a unity of four, and hints at a level not directly talked about by Bardon in that true vigilance is beyond the conscious and the subconscious/unconscious. While at first the conscious is spoken as a tool against the unconscious or the subconscious, it is still a reaction to the subconscious/unconscious, therefore impulsive and reactive. But when at IIH the magician actually starts to work with the four divine qualities, there is no way for reason alone to grasp them. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/spiral-2401967_1920-1024x831-1.jpg) > *A Charade for the Magnetic Mars, Sphere of Eternal Renovation* > > > > > > **Invocation** > > > > > > *A star falls as a seed* > > > > > > *And rises as a tree of life* > > > > > > *Now the dead will rise to greet* > > > > > > *A sky most bright.* > > > > > > **Evocation** > > > > > > *My name i*s > > > > > > *The Star Sapphire,* > > > > > > *I was about to write* > > > > > > *“Evoked action”*. This number is 4876, We were with you from the beginning to get to the other side’. The first poem a star, is referring to an original life-force or a cause – is invoked unto the magician and his channels are activated while his light scales up renewing his body. The lore here implies also that everything in connection with our inner structures may be born again at its image. It is about the act of renewal that starts from the inside out and makes the magician a portal of magic and creation. While the second poem has a different source. In Jewish mysticism a sapphire, being the color of heaven, always stands for celestial structures, supernal energy and divine knowledge. In the poem the poet is about to write “evoked action”, so that he actually evokes the action of writing and the poem thereof. But he tells us his name is the star sapphire, implying that his action comes from the heavenly realm of causes. When an action comes from the dimension of original cause rather than from a reactive point of view, it brings with it eternal renovation, so that through it the initiate of this sphere is to be recognized. **16. Falcon Books: Is there anything else you would like to add?** **André Consciência: **I would like to add that the writings of William Mistelle were of great help and inspiration while I was completing IIH. Homage to him, who is an author at Falcon Books. I will also add that I am reviewing the book following *The Way of Abrahadabra*, and one of its missions is to address modern science in the light of magic. I feel that magic stopped at the renaissance, and even then it drank from Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt. We have come to learn so much since then, and to read so many new pages on that Book of Isis called Nature. Why is it that magic didn’t follow? While some chaos magicians and some maatian magicians draw from quantum mechanics, how did we come from Ancient Greece directly to quantum science? What of everything else that is in between? **17. Falcon books Publishing:  Lastly, I wonder if you could tell us about your next title *****Through the Soul Mirror to the Sphere of the Sun?*** **André Consciência: **Eventually you will see news on «Through the Soul Mirror to the Sphere of the Sun», and it will make the soul mirror itself a dynamic system of initiation into magic and mysticism. It may have the guidance of the heads of the sun, and the mission to have the magician connect directly with the source of all virtues.  Thank you **André** very much for participating in this interview and offering such in-depth answers. #### To find out more about André visit his Falcon Books author page or study with him here. #### André has also written, A Guide to the Elementals, Through the Soul Mirror to the Sphere of the Sun & contributed to The Franz Bardon Tradition where you can find this article. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1675408641-1024x944.png)A Guide to the Elementals by Andre Consciencia ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1675602993-1024x785.png)Through the Soul Mirror to the Sphere of the Sun by Andre Consciencia ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1635730815-1024x694.png)The Franz Bardon Tradition by Franz Bardon Pracitioners --- # Unlocking the Keys to Magic: In-depth Interviews with Long Term Practitioners of Franz Bardon’s System Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/unlocking-the-keys-to-magic-indpeth-interviews-with-long-term-practitioners-of-franz-bardons-system/ This book contains insightful interviews with a diverse group of Franz Bardon practitioners who generously share their wisdom and experiences applying his teachings. Their approaches may differ, yet they all succeeded in advancing through Bardon's three-step system, demonstrating that there are many paths to mastery. Several years have passed since these interviews were first published on the early Students of Franz Bardon blog. We have updated and clarified the questions, condensed many lengthy community submissions, and reconnected with interviewees to incorporate additional perspectives and information - including details on their teachings and opportunities to learn from them. This collection serves as both an introduction to Franz Bardon's Hermetic system and a reminder that different approaches can still lead to success. Within these pages, you will discover: - Diverse techniques for unlocking the transformative power within Bardon's practices. - Varied insights from individuals who apply Bardon's principles in their own lives. - Valuable guidance on visualization, spiritual entities, personal deity work, healing, and more. The interviewees featured represent a breadth of experience and expertise, from the community both well-known members to more private individuals. For each, we provide key details on their background, teachings, and publications to contextualize their insights. Whether you are a committed student of Franz Bardon's work with several years already invested or if you are just starting to investigate Franz Bardon's writings then this book is equally suitable. It shows you what a dedicated practitioner can achieve when practice is prioritized over theory and debate. - Their practices of *Initiation Into Hermetics* and how its techniques catalyzed profound changes. - Applying The* Practice of Magical Evocation* to establish spiritual allies that guide their path. - How techniques from *The Key to the True Qabbalah* grounded them in a stable spiritual foundation. Their firsthand experiences illuminate the power of Franz Bardon's system - though practical - to radically transform one's life from within. By learning from these varied yet complementary accounts, you'll discover many ways to unlock the secret magic within. ## Meet the Insightful Practitioners Featured in this Book This compilation features interviews with accomplished individuals on both well-known and more private paths within the Franz Bardon community. Those interviewed generously share their wisdom and lessons learned from practicing Bardon's magical system. Their diverse yet complementary perspectives demonstrate that many paths can lead to mastery of Bardon's teachings. Below we introduce the insightful practitioners featured, providing links to examples of their work to contextualize their firsthand advice within these pages: - [André Consciencia](https://hermeticmagician.com/): An accomplished practitioner for over two decades. He operates his own neo-shamanic group and has studied multiple magical systems. He is a prolific author on themes connecting Paracelsus, Hermetics, and ritual performance. - [Chris](https://thevoidplacesofspirit.com/): Co-hosts the ‘Knowledge & Conversation’ podcast and studies the Buddha's teachings, paying attention to similarities rather than just differences across vehicles. - [Yogic Engineering](https://yogicengineering.com/): Maintains a results-focused blog chronicling decades of yogic and meditative practice, including extensive experience in road-testing practices in non-traditional circumstances. - **Scott Turner:** Lives with his family in Chile where he teaches visual effects classes while working on commercials while practicing magic and meditation. - [Bob Smith](https://sixtyskills.com/): Founded ‘Sixty Skills’ to transform traditional yogic instruction, distilling key techniques from major spiritual systems over 30 years while traveling the globe. - [Ray del Sole](http://nextsteptomastery.com/): Works as a psychotherapist in Germany while operating Sura Academy to accompany seekers on the spiritual path, informed by his study of Hermetics. - [Sifu Mark Rasmus](https://markrasmus.org/): A lifelong martial artist who combines his expertise in that field with Hermetics to teach and create holistic masters. - **Wayne**: A practitioner for over four decades who integrates meditative practices with his expertise in Wing Chun martial arts and energy work. - [Michael Lamb](https://michaelsalchemy.com/): A Kabbalistic Alchemist with decades of formal study on topics spanning Hermetics, sound, vibration, astrology, and more. 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Virgil advocates returning to first principles – sincerity, presence, agency, humility – to build a solid foundation before progressing further. Virgil’s tone aims less to provoke than encourage self-evaluation. The book’s restrained wit and real-world metaphors make the esoteric approachable. While some guidance seems unconventional, Virgil mainly wishes to spare us unnecessary struggle. His insights provide signposts to reflect on our motivations and avoid assumptions. There are no quick fixes promised – just tools for greater awareness. For those feeling adrift or seeking fresh perspectives on their journey, “The 55 Pitfalls on Step One” offers a thoughtful companion of potential value. More a questioning than a commanding voice, Virgil inspires us to look within, take responsibility for our path, and walk on with mindfulness and maturity. While avoiding rigid guidelines, the book empowers readers to unlock their own inner wisdom – the only sure guide forward. 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Think of this as the very first stage of dwelling in goodness. Using principles  outlined earlier, take time to consciously arrange your body into proper posture with calm, care, and enjoyment. Move towards the best possible posture. Without being too much of a perfectionist, use your body as a guide and work with it. The posture should feel comfortable and have a positive, uplifting effect. Good posture leads to raised awareness and a good mood. Place your hands on your thighs, and with your palms up close your eyes and take a few moments just to breathe and allow your body to be in comfort. Command your entire being to relax. You can just sit and let the natural process of the seat of the right posture unfold. If you like, you can work with it and take a few moments just to picture your whole body in perfect posture and all the functioning of your body in perfect order. Let health flow through you and harmony form inside. ### Breath Now move your attention to your breath. You may have noticed that it has naturally slowed. Perhaps your breathing is from your abdomen now. Watch your breath like it's precious. Allow it to become smooth, slow, and long. Your breathing pace should be calming and feel natural. The mind naturally follows your breathing, so it's worth taking some time to let your awareness rest on the breath. Move your focus to your breath. Let the whole process of breathing continue without the strain of any conscious control. Just be present, feeling the breath as it flows in and out of your being. Keep your awareness on the sensation, sound, and rhythm of your breath. Become a calm, unattached witness to the process, joyfully observing the sensation of the breath moving. Don't feel a need to control the breath. Let your mind be at one with the breath and let the breath be as it will. You may find that at times the pace of your breathing changes. This is all part of the process. Learn to make this part of the natural process. Just observe and experience it. The breath is naturally long when we are relaxed and short when we need to let go of tension. Watch the pace of life with pure awareness, which is your true nature. ### Expand your Awareness Let the whole of your body relax. Enjoy just being there and letting the body relax at its own natural pace. You may notice that although your focus has been on your breath, your awareness, in general, is starting to increase. Watch as your body awareness grows and how your mind starts to be present to each sensation of the body. Soon you will find your mind naturally begins to clear. Watch as this sensation spreads and magnifies. You are now entering a state of meditation. Let your mind rest gently on every thought or sensation. If your focus starts to move to anything, in particular, bring it back to the whole, really embody every sense, sound, smell, or other input as one. View everything as a calming, healing blessing, and gift. ### Tune in As you sit in a state of calm natural awareness, with practice, you will discover the innate ability you have to raise your consciousness and expand your sense of self. The feeling should be a joyful connection to the job in hand, similar to the feeling you get from a pure focus on a hobby or when you are fully engaged in something enjoyable. With practice, you will find you gain a better ability to increase your receptiveness to outside and inner sensations. We all have a limited degree of control over our level of awareness. When asked to concentrate with some effort, we can increase our focus. With Hermetic meditation, we find our awareness volume control and learn how to increasingly turn it up under our control Accept inner and outer sensations as one. Expand your sense of self and allow a feeling of oneness with everything. Let all pass without attachment or need to interact. Sometimes you may feel in harmony or at one with the goodness resonating, or nature itself. At times of healing or rebalancing, the breaths may be of unequal length. That is to say, the in-breath and out-breath may have different durations or intensity. Whatever the breath needs to be, let it be natural and unforced. Relax, focus, and just observe and experience it. ### Sending Good Wishes to Others (Optional) Using this method you can use your link with the great good to bring blessings to others. As you feel ready to come out of your meditation state, simply let your mind slowly go back to its normal state. Slowly let your body wake up and start to move. At this point, you may choose to take a moment to send a good wish to a person or place that you feel could benefit from tuning in with the goodness and clear vision that you have just embodied in your practice. To do this, imagine forming before you a beautiful shimmering silver disk, almost like the moon floating before you. Then imagine the person you feel could benefit from a blessing or healing pictured on that disk. Picture clearly in your mind's eye with the best possible intent the ideal outcome of the situation which comes to mind. If you choose to do this, then once you have expressed your kind intentions, move your mind away from the subject immediately and get on with your daily business. ### Progressing in Your Meditation With practice, you will find some beautiful changes as a result of your meditation practice. In daily life, you will be more calm, carefree, and adaptable. Your ability to focus, recover, and enjoy life will be renewed. With time your breath will transform in parallel with your mind. Your breathing will slow down and become more subtle and refined. Sometimes your breath can even seem to have stopped. 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André also teaches neo-shamanism and has his own active group of practitioners. He has authored several books and publications, including The Path to IPSOS Volumes I and II, and *Through the Soul Mirror to the Sphere of the Su*n. He is the founder of a theater company and has written plays, music, and articles for various magical orders. André is also involved in cultural associations and has worked as a content writer and ghostwriter for Fractal Mind Lda. #### A series of questions relating to André's latest title: A Guide to the Elementals ###### Universal Language of Astral Light and the human brain - **Can you explain more about how the four sensors of the human brain (intellect, imagination, cognition, and memory) work together to perceive and process vibration or astral light?** **André**: The intellect rules the light, imagination rules the shape, cognition rules the form, and memory rules self-consciousness. The rulers are mental, the ruled elements are astral.  **2. How does the power of image-making allow us to read the astral light or universal language?** **André:** The images function as archetypes, they function as forces to the substance that is the light. As such, they are as universal as the light, because they are light moving or may be understood only as light moving.  **3. How does imagination differ from image-making in terms of creating structures for communication through astral light?** **André: **Imagination is the cause and image-making is the effect. Imagination is the dreamer, and image-making allows the dreamer to be in the dream. Let's say that imagination allows for awareness and image-making for self-awareness, one connects to the Astral light and the other to ego-consciousness, to some sort of reference inside the endless light. They are necessary for communication as much as the plus and the minus poles are necessary for a circuit to take place.  **4  Can you elaborate on how cognition works with abstractions extracted from perceived objects or images?** **André:** In simple words, cognition completes the abstractions as much as possible, making them objective, but only to the extent that they can keep completing themselves in the cognitive field.  **5. How does memory fix the impressions it receives and how does this contribute to the evolution of our consciousness?** **André**: By the power of image-making, when the images create patterns, then evolution starts working and these patterns have no choice but to evolve due to the pressure of the Astral light. This pressure might be called intelligence, it means the images, connected, are trying to solve their own puzzle and return to the state of pure light. This means also the images learn the faculty of image-making themselves and for the period or duration of their life this is what distinguishes them from light in its original state, for in its original state the light is absolute and self-sufficient.  **6. Can you explain more about the importance of creating a proper background when dealing with beings from different spheres or elemental kingdoms?** **André**: The common background puts the magician and the being in the same tunnel of evolution (in the same pattern). Without this taking place, there is no room for exchange. 'cosmic beings’ perception and the use of backgrounds in communication with them: **7. Can you explain more about how the background is used when communicating with cosmic beings and elemental rulers?** **André**: The background should be of a cosmic expanse. They should be related to what we call, in philosophy, the universals. With cosmic beings, the light and color, with elemental rulers, the elements themselves, for instance, the sea contained in the sea, this is not any sea, but the sea of all water.  **8. How do the backgrounds differ when communicating with elemental kings or local elementals?** **André**: Kings rule over kingdoms, and local elementals are attached to certain regions of a kingdom. So, the background for a local gnome can be a cave, his particular cave. But if the cave is in a mountain, his king should have the mountain as the background, roughly speaking.  **9. Can you elaborate on how the mind puts together seemingly disjointed characteristics into a single image when communicating with these beings?** **André:** Between the patterns of evolution of the being and the patterns of evolution of the magician there is always a difference, a certain gap. The mind fills this gap creating a pattern between the two patterns. This is where learning takes place on both sides.  **10. How can a magician create or explore entrances and paths to unite the different parts of an elemental king’s kingdom in their mind?** **André: **By first imagining them, then memorizing them. We should return to the previous question and answer about memory. We will find how memory is intimately connected to evolution and expansion and puzzle-solving. The image will evolve into both ends of the picture, the different parts of the kingdom.  **11. Can you explain more about the importance of consciously and symbolically linking different backgrounds when communicating with these beings?** **André:** I think this question might lead some to error. What we need is a background that is both firmly stabilized and malleable or perfectly fluid. This means that the background of fixed form must be infused by the intelligence of the being, which we might call shape, and answer to it under the law of the being’s light or intellect. We can insert our own additional backgrounds, such as magical tools, they enforce terms and conditions, so to speak, into the whole living picture.  ###### Understanding Imagination **Can you explain more about how imagination works in conjunction with signs and symbols to bring a being’s attributes to life?** **André:** Imagination fills in the gaps. It creates a pattern for the being to inhabit. The right signs and symbols make sure this pattern is close enough to the being to be influenced by the innermost pattern of the being itself.  - **How does the mind solve the symbols of a being’s attributes into a living and more abstract expression?** **André**: By using the faculty of imagination. The abstraction then moves naturally towards objectivity in multiple directions and communication occurs.  **2. Can you provide an example of how a sign can open a being’s world or domain?** **André:** I will give you the example of Balem, the 32nd head of the Sun Sphere. It could be said he represents cosmic harmony. He channels part of the light of the constellation of Hercules, Hercules being known to dress the coat of the lion Nemean, whose golden skin was impervious to attack. To cut the skin, Hercules had to use the lion’s own claw. This is left here as a tip that the wiser reader may use to his or her advantage regarding the unity of will with respect to cosmic harmony. The seal of Balem looks like an abnormally long spermatozoon, and an abnormally long sign of Leo, as if the sign of Leo (Lion) had been glued to a large serpent. Cosmic harmony is represented by a lion-serpent. The Ancient Egyptians knew this symbol as the royal seed (spermatozoon) of the pharaohs, where the pharaohs are Osiris (the continuity of consciousness throughout all dissolution). As a symbol, this solar figure, the Chnoubis (Soul of the World and ruler of the spirits) , was used for protection, banishing all hindrances to cosmic harmony and ensuring health and enlightenment throughout the cycles of life (skin impervious to attacks).  ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/338930465_243205271455806_8987596926337264404_n-768x1024.jpg)Gena's seal including a background ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/340463688_771568764533063_6209512964957565793_n-750x1024.jpg) Emrudue's seal including a background  It must be understood, and the good decipherer will have noticed it by now, that the lion-serpent also unifies the figures of the lightning bolt of solar power hitting the rising serpent (think Hercules fighting Hydra). These are symbols in the seal of Etzybeth too, the 31st head of the Sun Sphere. In this intelligence, the serpent depicts the illusion that limited objects can have a life independent of the unlimited. The quantity in Etzybeth, however, is depicted by the lightning bolt of solar power that hits the serpent in the serpent’s rise. In Balem, the Lion symbolizes the Sun; in this case, it took over the serpent, becoming the head that commands it (think of the arrows of Hercules running with the poison of a defeated Hydra).  Wisdom deciphers the seal, and, as seals do, opens up the virtues of the being in question. The virtues shoot forth their powers. The powers inhabit the world. In their doing, they create a domain.  **3. How does the mind use imagination to create a context and world for the being represented by a sign?** **André:** By the process of association.  **4. Can you explain more about how a being comes to inhabit and speak through the animated images extracted from a sign by the magician?** **Andr**é: The being does the same process as the magician. To find a seal the magician first taps into the intelligence of the being, if the being is close enough in nature to the magician (else the magician cannot even phantom the being's existence). 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It’s called “Franz Bardon – true guide or deceiver?” and is an attempt to portray Bardon’s books as dangerous guides that aspiring magicians should avoid. While it is well and good to warn others about books containing genuinely dangerous ideas, the criticisms contained within the article are founded on what can best be described as a combination of objectively false beliefs and misinterpretations of the contents of Bardon’s books. In order to avoid having to discuss these beliefs and misinterpretations with every single person who emails or messages me about this article, I figured it would be a good idea to write one piece that does this job, and which I can send to anyone who asks me about this article in the future. In writing this piece, it is not my intention to express any form of disrespect nor animosity towards the authors of the article, and to the best of my ability, I have tried to word things so that my statements are as cordial as possible. At the same time, however, I do feel a need to clarify what needs to be clarified, and to correct any significant objectively false statements about Bardon’s writings found in the article. My efforts to do this come solely from a desire to promote truth and help confused aspirants acquire reliable information about the options available to them for magical training. In this piece, I do not intend to address every single criticism the authors of the article make regarding Bardon and his training system. Some of these criticism boil down to Bardon’s system of terminology being different from the authors’ system of terminology. I do not comment on these criticisms because most people should be aware that each teacher of magic often has his or her own unique system of terminology, and that terms in one system may not have the same meaning as terms in another system. The important thing is that Bardon’s system of terminology is coherent enough to explain the teachings he wishes to convey to his readers in an intelligible manner. I also do not comment on criticisms I consider to be inconsequential. For example, at one point in the article, the authors state that Bardon’s teachings are not really Hermetic. Whether or not they are Hermetic is unimportant. What is important is whether or not they serve as a valuable guide to adepthood. In PME, Bardon explains what the term “Hermetics” means in his own idiolect, and his use of the term is consistent with this meaning; but again, this has no bearing on the practical value of his system. ### Franz Bardon and His Books ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Franz-Bardon-2.jpg) In the section of their article following its introduction, the authors take issue with Bardon’s comments on the Tetragrammaton. The source of their issue with Bardon’s comments seems to be that their interpretation of Bardon’s comments conflicts with their own beliefs about the Tetragrammaton, which appear to be based on the writings of Helena Blavatsky and Eliphas Levi. They are especially critical of how Bardon mentions an association between the Tetragrammaton and the God worshipped by the Jews. IHVH is in fact a name by which the Jews know God. This is objectively true, and since Bardon was using the term “Tetragrammaton” to refer to this name, as is extremely common practice, what he says regarding the Tetragrammaton is objectively true. As for the God of the Jews supposedly being an angry and jealous God, this is a fair source of concern if the God of the Jews plays an important role in Bardon’s system, as is the case. Let’s examine this further. According to Daskalos, the Christian tradition is a continuation of the Essene tradition. The Essenes were different from other Jewish groups like the Pharisees and the Sadducees. The Pharisees, whose beliefs and teachings heavily influenced modern Judaism, believed in and taught the doctrines found in the books contained in the Old Testament, which do state at times that God is angry and jealous. The Essenes used their own versions of these books. The difference between the Essene versions and the versions used by the Pharisees is that the Essene versions were purified of the verses espousing incorrect teachings about God, including the verses claiming that God is angry and jealous. In other words, the God of the Pharisees and the God of the Essenes (and Christians) is the same God. The Pharisees just had some wrong ideas about this God, which they developed over time, and these wrong ideas were eventually incorporated into their versions of the scriptures. There is only one God, whom the Nicene Creed refers to as “the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.” It would be wrong to say that there is an angry and jealous God of the Pharisees/Jews and another loving and merciful God of the Essenes/Christians. The God of the Pharisees, despite whatever wrong ideas they may have developed about him, is the same loving and merciful God that Jesus Christ, the Logos incarnate, taught about. It is this God that Bardon is referring to when he describes his system as a “path to, and union with, God” in the epilogue of IIH. As for Old Testament verses describing incidents that appear to support the idea that God is jealous and angry, we must remember that much of what is written in the Old Testament, according to both Bardon and Daskalos, is symbolic. Bardon mentions the symbolic nature of the Old Testament books when discussing the formula “M-N-D” in KTQ. As for Daskalos, whenever he discussed the symbolic language employed in much of the Old Testament, his go-to example was Exodus 2:12. According to Daskalos, the Egyptian whom Moses killed was not a literal Egyptian man, but his own identity as an Egyptian. In other words, it was at this moment that Moses stopped identifying as an Egyptian and began identifying as an Israelite. ### Initiation into Hermetics The authors of the article begin their section on IIH with the assertion that two of Bardon’s statements about the book contradict each other. The first statement comes from the introduction to the book – "I would never dare to say that my book describes or deals with all the magic or mystic problems." The second statement also comes from the introduction – “No incarnate adept, however high his rank may be, can give the disciple more for his start than the present book does.” Contrary to the assertion of the authors, these two statements do not contradict each other in any way. Furthermore, they are both true. The first statement – that IIH does not deal with all the subjects pertaining to magic or mysticism – is obviously true because there are an infinite number of subjects pertaining to magic and mysticism. A book that deals with all of these subjects would have to be infinitely long. Such a book would be useless, rather than useful, to the aspiring magician. If you tried to load the book as a PDF on your computer, your computer would crash. If you tried to borrow a physical copy of the book from your local library, you would not be able to carry it home. As for the second statement – that no one can give the aspiring magician more for his start than IIH does – this is also true. No one can give the aspiring magician more for his start than a balanced and complete training system, and what IIH gives to the aspiring magician is a balanced and complete training system. Two true statements cannot contradict each other, so there is no contradiction here. However, even if one or both of these statements were false, there is no reason to think that a book that does not cover every subject relating to magic and mysticism cannot give more to the aspiring magician than any adept can. Thus, there is still no contradiction. After discussing the aforementioned two statements, the authors of the article ask where a student of Bardon’s system can turn to if they are in need of guidance. What they do not seem to realize is that in Bardon’s system, figuring things out for oneself is considered an essential component of magical training. Yes, we do have resources like online forums and the writings of genuine adepts like Rawn Clark and William Mistele. However, the sort of magical training that Bardon has the student working through entails dealing with karmic challenges that are always unique to each student who aspires to become an initiate. There are numerous passages from the writings of William Mistele that can shed light on this subject. One of them is the following passage from his essay “Problems in the Study of Magic, Part II.” > *What happens is that serious magical practice accelerates your karma. Maybe in your life cycle over a thirty or forty-year period you will have to come to grips with conflicts involving well-being versus insecurity, vulnerability versus self-confidence, love versus hate, trust versus suspicion, compassion versus selfishness, clarity of mind (even enlightenment) versus disorientation and domination, wisdom versus obsession and folly, inspiration versus depression, commitment and dedication versus stagnation and lethargy, etc.* > > * * > > *What the magic does is that you find yourself confronting these issues not over the next thirty or forty years but in the next two or three years. It can be a heck of a ride. Do you take to drugs or alcohol? Do you get depressed, anxious, distracted, or hyperactive? There are all sorts of programs for working with various addictions and/or obsessions. Perhaps you moved a little too fast in your training but now you decide to slow down and catch up on your homework--round out your personality, gain more balance, and shore up the weak areas in your emotional life.* > > * * > > *But some of these karmic problems you have evoked into your life through magical study have no solutions within this age of the world. This means no psychologist to turn to, no minister or priest, no mage or sage, no psychic healer or shaman is going to have the faintest clue as to how to help you. Oh, they will suggest all sorts of things and offer you remedies that give you temporary relief. But the study of serious magic (the kind that puts you in touch with creative and divine power) is not like Alice Bailey imagines in one of her images—you discover on your path that there are many other fellow students beside you and with you as you cross over a spiritual lake as the fog lifts in the morning. No, magic is not quaint, warm, and reassuring.** > * Following their questioning of the individual nature of Bardon’s system, the authors of the article assert that the magic Bardon teaches is grey magic rather than white magic. As Bardon was always encouraging his students to obey the [will of God](https://falconbookspublishing.com/christian-hermetics-why-christianity-and-magic-are-the-same-thing-virgil/), it is clear that he was training people in white magic and not in any other form of magic. In fact, the structure and substance of his training system is such that those who seek to use the abilities they develop for egotistical ends will not make much progress. There are numerous passages in the writings of Rawn Clark that make this very clear. One of them is the following one, from *A Bardon Companion*, in which Rawn discusses the transplantation of consciousness exercises of Step 4. > *The true magician will ask permission from the other being before initiating this most complete stage of transplantation of consciousness. Every object or being is capable of expressing (in one way or another depending upon the sort of consciousness the object or being possesses), its willingness or unwillingness to participate in this most intimate sort of melding. If you ever try to violate the privacy of another being by overwhelming their unwillingness, it will be the last time you do so. This is a very high form of magic and if violated or abused, it will retreat from you and remain elusive till you redeem [Quite literally, "re-deem" means: to give new meaning to, or return the original meaning to, something.] the negative karma this act will naturally incur.* Another relevant passage is the following one, also from *A Bardon Companion*, in which Rawn discusses the astral exercises of Step 6, which involve working with akasha. > *Bardon states, and quite truthfully, that you will be able to manifest any desire from within the Akasha. What he doesn't mention, and assumes you will realize, is that when you reach this stage of development, what you desire will look very differently than it does now. You will have no petty desires, and even if you did, you would not be able to manifest them through the Akasha. Please take heed of this if you are tempted to work with the Akasha before you are truly prepared, for you would only be wasting your time and you can easily cause yourself some pretty nasty karmic consequences. Remember, the fact that the Akasha is the realm of cause and effect is what gives it its power over the Elements – and, it is also what makes it so dangerous for the unprepared dabbler.* Anyone who reads Bardon’s writings will know that he places great emphasis on the moral development of the aspiring magician. The reason for this is that unless the aspiring magician possesses a high degree of moral development, he will be unable to safely practice many of the exercises at the intermediate and advanced levels of training. This high degree of moral development ensures that no magician who has properly worked through IIH would abuse the magical abilities and magical knowledge they have won through many years of intense training, but would always use such abilities and knowledge for the benefit of others. If this isn’t white magic, then I am not sure what is. Following their discussion of whether Bardon’s system is a system of white magic, the authors of the article present what is, at least for me, the most confusing set of statements in the entire article. These are the statements they make regarding the image of the Magician card painted by Irina Novakova. Based on my reading, it appears that whatever ideas they present about Bardon’s system in these paragraphs are ultimately based on three beliefs, all of which are erroneous. - Bardon’s system is based on raising Kundalini. - Sex and the genitals are the center of Bardon’s system. - Incorporating sex into one’s spirituality is inherently unwholesome. The reason I state that these passages of the article are the most confusing of all is that I do believe the authors of the article at least read IIH before writing their article, but it should be obvious to anyone who has read IIH that Bardon’s system is not based on raising Kundalini, and that sex and the genitals are not the center of Bardon’s system. It appears that, for unknown reasons, the authors of the article came up with their own interpretation of an ambiguous symbol in Irina Novakova’s version of the Magician card and based their beliefs about IIH on this interpretation rather than on the contents of IIH itself. If anyone is interested in the role (or lack thereof) that Kundalini has in Bardon’s system, the comments of a genuine adept who has worked through Bardon’s system can be accessed [here](http://abardoncompanion.de/Kundalini.html) and [here](http://abardoncompanion.de/Chakras.html). As for the authors’ claim that spiritual systems based on the raising of Kundalini are black magic, this claim alone should be enough to discredit at least this section of the article. Paramahansa Yogananda considered Kundalini-based spirituality to be the fastest pathway to God. Ramana Maharshi disagreed, considering jnana yoga to be the fastest pathway to God, but he at least acknowledged Kundalini-based spirituality as a valid pathway to God. Swami Sivananda, a respected spiritual teacher, also considered Kundalini-based spirituality to be a valid pathway to God, and even wrote [a book](https://www.dlshq.org/download/kundalini.htm) on the subject. And although Ramakrishna Paramahamsa primarily practiced and taught bhakti yoga, there are times when he engaged in Kundalini-based practices, as described in *The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna*. I do not believe any reasonable occultist would seriously consider Yogananda, Sivananda, and Ramakrishna to have been practitioners of black magic, but this seems to be what the authors of the article are implying. Furthermore, regardless of whether Kundalini is awakened and raised through exercises specifically designed to raise it, or if it is raised as a side effect of other spiritual exercises (as in IIH, Naqshbandi Sufism, and jnana yoga), it still must be raised as a necessary part of balanced spiritual growth. This is explained very well in Irina Tweedie’s book *Daughter of Fire* and also in Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee’s book *The Face Before I Was Born*. Now, if the first two of the three aforementioned beliefs are erroneous (and they are), then the third belief is irrelevant. That said, I will discuss the third belief anyway. The authors’ negative view of incorporating sex into one’s spirituality appears to be based on a statement from the *Hermetica*. As Stephen Flowers points out in his book *Hermetic Magic: The Postmodern Magical Papyrus of Abaris*, the texts of the *Hermetica* were not all written by one person. On the contrary, they were written by many people who often had views that contradicted each other. Thus, it is not a good idea to base one’s view of a subject as important as sex on one sentence from just one of these texts. As a Christian whose spirituality is heavily influenced by the teachings of Saint John of the Cross, I admire and agree with the view that one should not indulge one’s sensory appetites, and I applaud the authors of the article for mentioning this. However, I would like to point out that just because one is incorporating sex into one’s spirituality does not mean one is indulging one’s appetites. John of the Cross says many times that we should mortify our appetite for tasty food (when undergoing the active night of the senses), but doesn’t the Liturgy of the Eucharist involve eating? Also, as Thich Nhat Hanh points out in several of his books discussing mindful eating, including *How to Eat*, eating can be a sacred and spiritual activity. If eating can be a sacred and spiritual activity, why can’t sex? William Mistele has a great essay on the five senses, which can be read [here](http://williamrmistele.com/uploads/fivesensepractice.pdf). The section on the sense of taste gives insight into how eating can become a very profound spiritual activity. The second on the sense of touch gives insight into how sex can become a very profound spiritual activity. Following this discussion of the image of the Magician card, the authors of the article take issue with Bardon’s statement that the aspiring magician should “concentrate absolutely on his body.” I agree that this is a poor choice of wording, but it should be obvious to anyone who even skims IIH that Bardon’s path does not entail concentrating solely on the physical body, so there is no danger that anyone will think this is what Bardon is advocating. Bardon is simply trying to emphasize the importance of maintaining good physical health. This is a very important thing to emphasize because there are many spiritual paths out there that approve of or encourage the abuse and neglect of the physical body. As for the authors’ additional comments on akasha and the higher self, all of these criticisms arise from the fact that Bardon does not employ the same system of terminology that the authors use. I myself could make a similar criticism, claiming that the authors of the article do not understand the* prima materia* because it is not the source of all beings either, but merely the means through which all beings take existence in the world of forms. The final criticism the authors of the article make in their section about IIH is that Bardon apparently presumes that he understands Absolute Truth and therefore must either be a fool or a charlatan. Bardon makes no such claim, and when I read the section about truth in IIH, I do not receive the impression that he believed himself to understand Absolute Truth. On the contrary, in the epilogue of IIH, he writes that “the ways of Divine Providence are forever inscrutable.” These are his exact words. I am not paraphrasing. ### The Practice of Magical Evocation There is a lot to unpack in the ten paragraphs making up the section about PME. The first few paragraphs discuss the version of the High Priestess card found at the beginning of the book. I do not believe any criticisms contained in these paragraphs are worth discussing. I doubt Irina Novakova was trying to depict a sorcerous necromancer when she painted the card, and if I wanted to, I could also come up with my own interpretation of Waite’s version of the card in an attempt to portray it as evil. For example, in Waite’s version of the card, the black pillar and the white pillar are separate. Does this mean the card is implying that black people and white people should be segregated? Was the human rights movement spiritually detrimental to the human race? Was Waite a racist? Of course not! And of course, Bardon is not actually teaching necromancy or sorcery in PME, but on the contrary, warns many times against sorcerous and necromantic practices. Considering the authors of the article appear to hold Eliphas Levi in high regard, it should be pointed out that Levi (whom I also respect) once attempted to evoke the shade of Apollonius of Tyana using a necromantic operation. Bardon, on the other hand, went out every evening (as mentioned in the book *Memories of Franz Bardon*), to evoke the divine spirits listed in PME. On this note, I have two comments. The first is that I know from personal experience that what Rawn has written is true. The second is that I believe many of the misconceptions the authors of the article have about PME could have been clarified if they had read the section about this book in *A Bardon Companion *before writing their article. According to their article, they did conduct a study of Bardon’s own writings, but this was clearly not enough to really understand his system. A study of the writings of the adepts who worked through his system would have also been a good idea. In lieu of actually working through the system, which requires a great deal of time, energy, and self-discipline (as does learning any art), consulting Rawn’s insightful and experience-based explanations in *A Bardon Companion* is the single best way to gain clarification on the content of IIH and PME. Following the discussion of the image of the High Priestess card, the authors begin to present their criticisms of what Bardon teaches in PME. These criticisms appear to arise from two main beliefs. - Practicing evocation will delay a person’s attainment of moksha. - The controversy surrounding the names of the spirits listed in PME indicates there is something fishy about the book. Regarding the first belief, I believe that much of Bardon’s system is reminiscent of esoteric Christianity. While practitioners of yoga may be driven by mumukshutva, practitioners of esoteric Christianity are driven by agape and a desire to further the [Divine Plan](http://www.researchersoftruth.org/messages/962). Daskalos was a great example of an adept working in an esoteric Christian tradition, and there are numerous similarities between his teachings and Bardon’s teachings. Daskalos once told his students that he would continue to incarnate as long as there were beings in the “worlds of separation” (samsara) who could use his help. The only thing he cared about was furthering the Divine Plan. Bardon was the same way. What is important is the Divine Plan, and by learning from the many wise and knowledgeable spirits listed in PME, magicians may become better servants of God and more effective in their endeavor to further the Divine Plan. As for the controversy surrounding the names of the spirits listed in PME, I have two comments. The first is that while it is true that each spirit has a “name,” so to speak, it would be a mistake to think that the true name of a spirit consists of some sequence of phonemes. What genuinely esoteric texts and myths refer to as the true name of a spirit or being is not a sequence of phonemes, but something else. William Mistele explains this quite well in the following passage from his essay “The Presence of God, Part II.” > *To do this, you follow the desire in the other to its source and origin. You understand how the will in the other has been shaped and formed. You perceive the energy within it, what drives and moves it, and its strengths and limitations. This is an outstanding accomplishment. To know another’s magical name means that you are so present in the other’s strength and will that your opponent can only attack you by first turning against himself.* In other words, learning the name of a spirit is a metaphor for mastering the essence of a spirit by thoroughly understanding it. Like a lot of things in magic, this takes a great deal of time and effort, and is not as easy as merely learning a sequence of phonemes, which can be done in a second. As for my second comment on the controversy surrounding the names of the spirits in PME, it appears that Bardon did not care too much about what names he gave to the spirits listed in PME, and for good reason. PME, unlike IIH, was written for people who are already initiates. In other words, they would know things that only an initiate would know, and that the casual reader would not. While working through IIH, the aspiring magician should have made contact with his Holy Guardian Angel, who in turn should have provided him with many key pieces of guiding knowledge, not all of which are contained in IIH. One key piece of guiding knowledge is hinted at in the eighteenth aphorism of the *Arbatel of Magic*, which was also written for initiates and not casual readers. To shed light on the value of this particular piece of guiding knowledge, consider this analogy. Say I wish to speak to the dean of Harvard Business School. I know that fifteen years ago, the dean was named Jay Owen Light, but I am not sure if the dean is still named Jay Owen Light (the current dean is actually named Nitin Nohria). Rather than requesting a meeting with “Jay Owen Light,” it would be better for me to request a meeting with “the dean of Harvard Business School.” Thus, we see why the author of the *Arbatel* gives the advice he gives in the eighteenth septenary, and why Bardon was not concerned with what names he put down in his book. Those who read the book and were ready to put its teachings into practice would know what they needed to know regarding what relevance or proper use names (in the sense of sequences of phonemes) may have. ## The Key to the True Quabbalah The section of the article about KTQ centers on a rather strange accusation, which is that Bardon encourages just anyone to experiment with the cosmic language. I am not sure where this accusation came from. Bardon states numerous times that one must have worked through the basic training presented in IIH before practicing the exercises of KTQ. In fact, as someone who has been corresponding with students of his system from many years now, I know that it is not uncommon for first-time readers of his books to get annoyed at how often he states this. As for the relationship between the cosmic language as taught by Bardon and the cosmic language as found in traditional Jewish Kabbalah, here’s what I’ll say. Just as a human language (e.g. English or Chinese) can have different dialects, the cosmic language can also have different dialects. But at the end of the day, the cosmic language is the cosmic language, and anyone who learns it will be able to employ Quabbalistic formulae for the purpose of helping to further the Divine Plan. The section of the article about KTQ ends with a discussion of the version of the Empress card found in the book. The criticisms of the card in this section are based on the authors’ own interpretations and assumptions about the card. The presence of a square does not mean Bardon was emphasizing the material at the expense of the spiritual. This is an arbitrary and unintuitive interpretation of this symbol that was clearly contrived in an attempt to portray KTQ as advocating some materialism-based path, which it most certainly isn’t. As for the idea that there are correspondences in the card that are wrong, the purpose of the card is to illustrate the succession of levels of differentiated energy that arise from and through akasha. It is not designed to show how specific elements of one level correspond to specific elements of another level. This should be obvious from the fact that the order of each sequence of energies is simply some standard sequence. For example, the sequence of planetary energies follows the standard sequence of the Tree of Life, and the sequence of zodiacal energies follows the standard sequence of the zodiac. In other words, no attempt was made to rearrange the zodiacal and planetary energies so that they align with each other graphically. Bardon chose to keep things simple because there was no need to make things more complicated, even if a more complicated card may have been more satisfying, so to speak, on an intellectual level. The value of KTQ lies within its practical exercises, which are the means through which the initiate masters the energies shown on the card. #### ## Frabato the Magician The section of the article on *Frabato the Magician* does not really contain any criticisms of Bardon or his training system, so there is nothing to address here. ## Conclusion The main criticism presented by the authors in the conclusion of the article can be addressed by thinking about what William Mistele has written in the following passage from his essay “Teachings Methods, Initiation, and Esoteric Traditions.” > *For me, secrecy is like someone guarding a few feet of sand on a beach stretching out into water a foot deep and advertising, "We can give you a taste and feeling for the sea." Yes, they can do that and some do it extremely well. But what I am after are sailors who are adventurers and who are prepared to sail a sea which has no shores, a sea whose winds are ecstasy, whose waves are bliss, and whose depths contain the dreams and visions of eternity. This is what I believe is the scope of Bardon's training system. It emphasizes discovery and direct, personal experience, an absence of secrets, and an endless process of transformation.* Exploration is never without its dangers. Ferdinand Magellan died before completing his voyage, and Ernest Shackleton and his crew almost died during their famed expedition to Antarctica. Sometimes when I discuss magic in my articles, I emphasize that the magic I am discussing is the magic Bardon teaches. The reason I feel the need to make this emphasis is that magic, for a large number of people identifying as magicians, is an attempt to obtain a taste and feeling for the sea. The magic that Bardon teaches, on the other hand, really is a voyage through “a sea which has no shores, a sea whose winds are ecstasy, whose waves are bliss, and whose depths contain the dreams and visions of eternity.” It is not my intent to romanticize the dangers associated with the sort of magic that Bardon is teaching through his books, but the magic of Bardon, with its exploratory nature, does often lead to groundbreaking insights and experiences, which in turn give rise to new forms of knowledge and wisdom that one can share with the rest of humanity, perhaps through books like [this one](http://www.williamrmistele.com/uploads/25earthzonespirits.pdf) or [this one](https://www.amazon.com/Mermaids-Sylphs-Gnomes-Salamanders-Dialogues/dp/1583944931). This is especially clear to me when I read the writings of William Mistele. ## Additional Comments Without a doubt, Bardon’s system is not for everyone. There are many problems and challenges one will face in working through it, and as William Mistele’s articles and essays about these problems/challenges show (e.g. [this essay](http://williammistele.com/shadow.html) and [this essay](http://williammistele.com/negative.html)), some of them can be very difficult and very intense, requiring an enormous degree of creativity and perceptiveness to solve. Some people are into that sort of thing. Others aren’t. For those who are trying to figure out whether or not Bardon’s system is a good fit for them, my recommendation is to spend some time researching what those who have worked through the system have shared with the world. As John the Baptist once said, “And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire” (Matt. 3:10). Any training system that produces genuine adepts who contribute to the spiritual knowledge and wisdom of the human race, as opposed to rehashing existing knowledge and wisdom, can be considered a tree that produces good fruit. Is the Bardon system such a tree? Each person should make their own assessment of the fruits by examining the writings of people like Rawn Clark and William Mistele. Aside from Bardon’s own books, Rawn Clark’s book *A Bardon Companion* is, at least for me, the most important book to study for those interested in understanding Bardon’s training system, whether because they are considering working through the system or only wish to write an article about it. In addition, the following essays by William Mistele also provide many useful insights into the nature of Bardon’s training system. - [A Commentary on the Step 1 Mental Exercises](http://williammistele.com/ch1mental.html) - [Problems in the Study of Magic, Part I](http://williammistele.com/problems1.htm) - [Problems in the Study of Magic, Part II](http://williammistele.com/problems2.htm) - [Teachings Methods, Initiation, and Esoteric Traditions](http://williammistele.com/teach.html) - [The Earthzone as a Spiritual University](http://williammistele.com/introbk3.html) - [The Venus Spirit Gomah](http://williammistele.com/gomah.html) - [The Shadow in Psychology and Magic](http://williammistele.com/shadow.html) Before ending this response to “Franz Bardon – true guide or deceiver?” I want to share a few remarks about my own personal reasons for settling upon the path Bardon lays out in his books after a long period of exploring other paths. So far, I have based much of what I’ve written on statements made by adepts like Rawn Clark and William Mistele who are much more advanced than I am. It has always been my policy to do this because I still have so much to learn. But at the same time, I would like to give some thoughts of my own. In IIH, Bardon writes that the aspiring magician “ought to be kind, generous and tolerant with his fellow men.” As I’ve mentioned in [this blog post](https://livingfranzbardon.blogspot.com/2019/11/why-i-practice-magic.html), I was an asshole all throughout my childhood, my teenage years, and my young adult years. But one of the things that really inspired me to cultivate kindness, gentleness, and respect for all people was Rawn Clark’s online behavior. There used to be a Bardon-themed Yahoo Group called [BardonPraxis](http://abardoncompanion.de/BardonPraxis/main.html) that was run by Rawn Clark. In the online occult/esoteric world, it’s not uncommon for egos to clash and this can result in things like heated arguments and condescending language. But most of the members of BardonPraxis, and Rawn Clark especially, were always very kind and respectful during their discussions. Occasionally, I would see incidents where someone would outright insult Rawn in a very rude manner, but Rawn always replied with kindness and respectful wording. As a young man who had been hoping to attain adepthood someday, I remember thinking to myself “Forget adepthood. If I could just learn to be kind and respectful to all people like Rawn is, that would be enough.” And so yes, working through IIH has allowed me to undergo many wonderful and spiritually enriching experiences, like meeting [Cargoste](http://williammistele.com/cargoste) and [Itumo](http://williammistele.com/itumo), both of whom are such incredible beings whom I’d call dear friends. 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This practice will also be helpful to dynamise the four fundamental qualities of divinity in the spirit which is mentioned in the ninth step of *Initiation Into Hermetics*. ## God in Non dual Shaivism The supreme god or the divine providence in this specific school is considered to be pure consciousness. The pure consciousness is compared to self illuminating light. The supreme god also called as Para-Shiva is said to assume two forms. In his aspect of manifestation,he assumes the form of the cosmos and multitudes of objects within it. In his transcended aspect he is the supreme subjective consciousness which manifests as the objective cosmos. The ability of the supreme to independently manifest anything is termed as Swatantra Shakti. Swatantra translates to sovereign power here. The supreme god head is considered to have five principle attributes,and conducts five functions. Hence the anthropomorphic images of Para-Shiva is depicted with five heads, representing the five attributes,five forms and five actions of the supreme consciousness. A brief description of the five attributes and five actions will be given below. They are: 1) Chit or Consciousness 2) Ananda or Bliss 3) Icha or Will 4) Jnana or Knowledge 5) Kriya or Action ## Chit or Consciousness Chit is the shakti which is expressed as the consciousness of the lord. It is through this power that he reveals himself. He shines forth as the ultimate subject experiencing himself as the pure I (Aham). The action corresponding to this attribute is called as *Anugraha* or 'grace, through this action', the limited objects are liberated and the empirical souls realize their true selves and identity within the supreme lord. This action is termed grace or revealing. The supreme lord's flow of grace is unique and is on a different level when compared to the three actions of emanation, preservation, and dissolution or withdrawal.  Through this act, he ends the sweet sportive play of self-limited and self-contracted nature and restores himself to his real infinite blissful nature. The face representing this power is called *Ishana*, the god Sadashiva is a manifestation of this power and corresponds to the element of Akasha. The state of awareness in this dimension is said to be pure illumination or Bhasa. ## Ananda Shakti Ananda Shakti is expressed in the form of bliss, the bliss is in the form of satisfaction which arises as a result of the infinite and complete nature of himself, the form of the ultimate subject who is the causation of everything that exists. This is the power to conceal his real nature at the time of manifestation, The manifestation of the objective cosmos which is seemingly finite and limited and determinate is considered as the exalted state of the supreme god. The face representing this power is called Tat-Purusha and the divinity Maheswara is a manifestation of this power and corresponds to the air element. ## Icha Shakti Icha Shakti which is expressed in the form of will is the power through which the desire to create arises in the consciousness of the supreme lord. This is the raw will of the lord to create or the creative potential of the supreme lord. The action pertaining to Icha or will is creation, also called as Srishti.  The supreme Subject Para-Shiva out of his own will manifests the cosmos which is inherent in him. He unfolds the creation in his own mental dimension as the canvas out of his free will. When the supreme lord manifests the universe he limits himself in the form of limited objects and subjects This action is called as Srishti or emanation. The face representing this power and action is called Aghora. The god Rudra is a manifestation of this power and corresponds to the fire element. ## Jnana Shakti Jnana or knowledge is the aspect of the supreme lord through which the multitudes of objects are created and made to shine and become conscious. All the multitudes of manifestations in the objective world are manifestations of his own self. There is nothing outside his consciousness. Every object is of his own nature and manifests within himself. The action corresponding to this attribute is sustenance or preservation of the objective cosmos, also called as Stithi . The face representing this power is called Vamadeva, the god Vishnu is a manifestation of this power and corresponds to the water element. ## Kriya Shakti Kriya shakti which is the action of the supreme lord is the power of the god, to actualize the objects or manifest the multitudes of objects in the form of a cosmos. With this power, Para-shiva manifests the objects in his consciousness in the objective world as the universe. It is through Kriya-Shakti that he manifests himself in the form of each and every shape through his creative activity. Kriya Shakti also plays an important role in withdrawing the objective world back into himself. The face representing this power is called Sadyojatha. The god Brahma is a manifestation of this power and corresponds to the earth element.   Traditionally the threefold functions of god are creation, preservation, and destruction. But in spiritual doctrines of Shaivism, the term emanation is used instead of creation, and withdrawal is used instead of destruction. This is due to the fact that the supreme god is considered the ultimate subject experiencing everything, as such, there is no creation or destruction. The cosmos is just a result of the self-awareness of the supreme god as the objective world. The term withdrawal denotes the aspect where the inner awareness is predominant and the awareness shifts to the subjective dimension from the objective world. In this phase, the duality is destroyed and the objective cosmos is realised to be one with the subjective mind, or the inherent oneness of the subject and object is realised. ## The Five Syllabled Mantra he practice that we are gonna see is something unique to Shaivisim. The five-syllabled mantras ie ***Na Ma Shi Va YA ***are the embodiment of the above said five attributes, five actions, and the five divinities. As such it is considered as the sonic body of the supreme godhead and embodiment of everything in existence and beyond. The mantra is misunderstood in modern times, the author has seen many people singing the mantra like a song or the mantra is literally translated as “*obeisance to Shiva*”. The mantra should be used in a specific manner to realise the divine qualities in oneself and to realise the union of the self with the supreme god. **Na – **This letter represents the Kriya Shakti of the supreme subject, it should be vibrated in a yellow hue in the sacrococcygeal region. **Ma** – This letter represents the Jnana-Shakti of the supreme subject and should be vibrated in the organs of procreation in white colour similar to that of a conch shell. **Shi** – This syllable represents the Icha-Shakti of the lord and should be vibrated in the heart. The colour of the letter is bright red. **Va –  **This letter represents the Ananda-Shakti. This letter should be visualised in the mouth while being vibrated in a black tone. **Ya** – This letter represents the Chit-Shakti and should be vibrated in the crown or vertex of the cranium in a smoky grey tone.  This is the most basic practice with the five -syllabled mantra. There are many variations which are used to realise specific divine principles of the supreme god. For example, ***Shi Va Ya Na Ma ***is the mantra of Icha Shakti specifically and is said to be the five-syllabled mantra of Aghora Shiva and is practiced in a different manner. Hence it is recommended to stick to the basic practice before the adept move to the advanced ones. Also, it is highly recommended that the one practices this spiritual exercise has considerable control over the five elements,hence it is recommended to try this practice after successfully completing the eighth step in *Initiation Into Hermetics.* #### To find out more about Shreeram please visit his author page. 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In the akasha, they are the builders of the mental, astral and physical worlds.  **2. What are some common challenges that practitioners may encounter when working with planetary evocation and how can they overcome them?**  If the magician shines brightly enough, the planetary beings might start appearing and asking the magician to perform certain missions. The magician must not accept all of them. While working with planetary magic is a field without limits, its lesson is the limits of the magician. Not accepting certain missions might not be as easy as literally saying “no”, because at times the beings will insist, and your “no” must be made whole. **3. What is the proper protocol for communicating with the 360 spirits girdling the earth or elementals during evocation?** The protocol is standard, no matter if we are speaking about the 360 spirits or the elementals or the intelligences of the moon, mercury, venus, sun, etc. I have written a good deal of exclusive information on the matter in my book A Guide to the Elementals, it suits not only elementals but any being evoked or met in the mental plane. **4..  What is the effect of the sphere upon the mental vehicle of a person?** A sphere affects the mental body in direct proportion to how much the mental body absorbs the light oscillation of the sphere. The mental vehicle then acquires in its own nature compartments that are of the behaviour and operational capacity of the sphere.  **5. How do you prepare for an evocation, and what precautions do you take to ensure your safety during the ritual?** It depends on the type of evocation and my familiarity with the being evoked. Until I and the being have come to terms and conditions, so to speak, it is important that I am centred in the Godhead generally speaking, and, from the Godhead, sometimes on power and virtue that stands immediately above the being, sometimes by consciousness transference to a higher being that is in direct relation with the one being evoked. If aiming at a full materialisation I always materialise this method by doing a proper circle and triangle. The substance that is familiar to the being and essential for the expression of its existence and intelligence must be given the being, less the being must take it, and rightfully, directly from your vital power and from your life events. When I and the being are connected and the being is a part of my magical chain I often have but to think of the being to call it forth. Or with certain beings I only have to focus on the specific elemental quantity and quality of light in my forehead and on the being, project it to the darkest corner and invite the being to take it and come across. Most of the time, what is truly happening is that we are meeting on the akasha, outside time and space, but it manifests to the senses as happening in the room. Regarding the magical tools, they are not only useful to deal with less easy beings, as commonly known, but they help the evoked intelligence manifest according to your higher faculties. The wand expresses the highest willpower, the cup the highest wisdom, etc, and the beings will be able to communicate to your highest will and wisdom directly because you are directly accessing these parts of yourself. So, the tools are important if you desire the full expression of intelligence. **6. What are some common misconceptions about working with spirits, and how do you address them?** Misconceptions? I don't know. Working with spirits is an ample topic with chances for almost anything to happen. What I can tell is that often we think we are communicating with certain powers outside of us but we are really communicating with what I call the messenger. This is a projection of our own psyche that echoes back to us from the borders of our psychic egg and keeps us enclosed. How to know for sure? We must learn to work with the messenger and know him/her fully. Then the messenger will teach us.  In my book *The Way of Abrahadabra* I give an efficient way to do this, and in my book *The Inner Gateways of LAM* (Esoteric Pillars) I lay out an even more advanced form. **7. How do you maintain a balanced and ethical approach to working with spirits, and what advice would you give to beginners in this field?** Sometimes I do not think I do. Sometimes I do not think working with spirits is the easiest path in the direction of balance, as the influence of the beings, the mightier it is, the more the chances of incurring in imbalance increase. My advice would be to only swallow as much as you can and no more, or go all the way and not look back, always keeping the centre of your circle and not only while performing the evocations. Not only while performing the evocation because the temporal laboratory for the evocation is your daily life, while the moment of evocation itself happens outside space and time and into space and time. Now, regarding ethics, if you have worked your soul mirror and ennoblement of the soul, as you should have, you will probably know what it is to be a good person. A good person is a good person towards all kingdoms, including the spiritual realm and the spirits thereof. The Godhead burns all vile concepts. Approach the circle and the triangle with vileness in your heart and the crocodile will bite you, you will soon be dragged to the labyrinthic currents of the lower Saturn.   **8. Can you describe your experience working with entities from the Earth Zone, and how they differ from those in higher spheres?** Even if I make use of the higher and lower paradigm for better clarity, I believe it is an untruthful way to put things. The beings of the Earth Zone are the elementals, what we traditionally know as elementals and also animal spirits and spectres of the dead etc that move by elemental means. The beings of the elements themselves must be met with respect and they are not necessarily inferior in any way. It is, however, different working with, say, an elemental being of the Earth Zone and intelligence of the Zone Girdling the Earth. The elementals have an elemental intensity that is unique to them, they are full of life and wonder, while the intelligences of the Zone Girdling the Earth have the bountiful and vacant peace of the akasha, they reach all variety of life and even all elemental variety if they so desire, but they come from a source of delight that is beyond the delights of condition. The entities from the Earth Zone work from the celebration of condition, which means the manifestation of the Divine, and are themselves divine pieces on the board. Most intelligences on the Zone Girdling the Earth are not on any board. They will likely work with the less experienced magician in a very familiar way and appear to have all kinds of limitations to raise sympathy and facilitate communication and comprehension, but in truth they work directly from the realm of cause.   **9. How do you differentiate between spirits that are benevolent and those that are malevolent? ** From the fruits you know the tree, as the Bible says. A benevolent spirit will do you good, a malevolent spirit will do you wrong. But how straightforward is this, and is this the only way to look at it? I have worked with some demons who were always trustworthy, loyal, and truthful. They were benevolent to me. Some so-called positive beings have made me suffer and have caused me sickness and have often invaded or tried to invade my space. I will not even begin to talk about how in most paradigms the plus and the minus pole have been really exchanged so that we work with the minus pole as if it is the plus pole and vice versa. Most demons are positive beings if we take it that positive means active. Many angels are negative because they are passive. But, let us not go into that. Let me keep from where I left. I know mighty angels that have no care for civilization as we know it in our micro-understanding of personal life. They care little for limitations. If you ask them to get more knowledge they might give you more knowledge until you get an aneurysm. This is all good to them as long as you serve a purpose that is in alignment with their causes.  You should know what is good to you and what is bad, and when you work with a malevolent or a benevolent being you must always be very clear that you want all outcomes to be a manifestation of luck and health so that nothing backs fire. The way I feel it, benevolence is a force of expansion and creation, and malevolence is a force of contraction and destruction. The word “and” is important here and must not be read as “or”. Malevolent forces can have benevolent effects and benevolent forces can have malevolent effects. This is why you must be wise and why evocation is only for the wise. **10. Can you share any experiences of mental travel to higher spheres, and what you encountered there?** I once found a very peculiar clock (clock is the only word I know that comes close to what it does) in what I call the route of the Sphere of Uranus that I think describes the origin of humanity on Earth and also information on physical alien life and some locations. But the most fascinating aspect is the mechanism of this clock and the way it can be read and interpreted. This system is applicable to our brains and could make a difference in the way we perceive.  **11. How do you incorporate the planetary energies into your evocation work, and what role do they play in the ritual?** If we are talking about evoking a being from a certain planetary sphere, it becomes quite obvious. I must go to the sphere, work with the sphere, bring the sphere down and the room up to the sphere, and invite the inhabitants. **12. Can you discuss the significance of the names and sigils of spirits in evocation?**  The names are formulas. The names are formulas in two ways. Firstly, in a qabbalistic way, and secondly, in a personal way, that is, in a way that the sounds work as a ritual that is peculiar to your understanding and faculties and references of experience. Therefore, a being might give you a name that is peculiar to yourself and you will ask it to teach you how to pronounce it magically, because the name alone won’t do that much. **13. How is this name a ritual?** The quabbalistic name must be inquired as well as to the manner of its performance. What letters go to what plane and in what manner, how must they fit together And there is more. A being can break through to your side if you use a certain formula, but this formula will not have the same effect on your fellow magician and some aspects of the name are changed when the being gives the name to your magician friend. This is because like with medicines that change according to physical differences between persons, the effect the formulas have on one depends on the qualities and might this one has developed and of his level of experience, purity, maturity, and wisdom.  The sigils and the names work in the same fashion. The shapes and colors in the seal (if we are talking Franz Bardon we are working with seals, not sigils, as sigils imply mathematical sequences in planetary squares or a conjunction of letters put together) have hermetic significance and/or personal significance to the magician. **14. Can you explain the concept of the Akashic Records, and how they can be accessed during evocation work? ** All proper evocations happen in Akasha, if they manifest in the material world in a certain time and a certain space etc, that is immaterial to where they are happening. When you are talking with a being, both you and he are using the akashic records as the substance with which communication takes place. The akashic records imply the concept of the storehouse of eternity. The records are all things that have happened, are happening and that will happen everywhere as remaining untouched and preserved in eternity. It is not, however, as simple as it sounds. The limitations of our experiences are only stored in eternity through their eternal qualities, the limited shapes and aspects are but an imprint shell of what eternity absorbs, just like the hair of black holes in science. I am referring to the term “black hole soft hair” or “quantum hair” coined by Stephen Hawking in which the matter that collapses into a black hole leaves a faint mark in its gravitational field, providing the mechanism by which information is preserved when a black hole is collapsing. So here it is, the akashic records are not the black hole, the void blackness of the akasha, but exist in the eternal collapsing of the akasha, that violet state of the akasha that is neither void nor yet limited by time and space: it is, without compromise, creating time and space in all directions. **15. How does one go about evoking the planetary spirits and what are the benefits of doing so?** How? That would require whole volumes. Fortunately, we have good examples already published, my favourite being *The Practice of Magical Evocation* by Franz Bardon. There are benefits and disadvantages. The benefits are that you will learn through the planetary beings things that no earthly human could teach you, except perhaps humans working with planetary beings, and even then, the limitations in transmitting what has been learned through regular human communication are quite detrimental. If you imagine an interplanetary university of wise teachers in a sci-fi movie, and hogwarts that extends to all planets, this is actually what you get in real life when you become a sphere magician. How unfathomable it may seem to someone who has never travelled this way or evoked this way. The disadvantages are that most beings do not see things as you do. To them, sometimes your whole lifetime is the blink of an eye, and an illness of years is nothing. The scope of different comprehensions of the world and different ways to act on it will leave you as much in fascinating company as probably lost, adrift and alone, not counting the many accidents of communication, as communication with certain beings implies manifestation in events of life. I am taking for granted that the person performing these communications is a balanced magician. If not, these communications can lead to losing grasp of reality in our common sense of the world and in society therefore. And it can lead to suicide, as people might want to stay in this world no longer.   **16. How does one determine which planet to evoke for a specific purpose?** By studying the attributes of the planets according to hermeticism and transversal disciplines, western or eastern. Then, by personally exploring the planets through direct experience. **17. What kind of knowledge and abilities can be gained from evoking planetary spirits?** All kinds. I have no other answer to this. There are limitless planets and limitless spirits. **18. How does one properly make offerings and communicate with the planetary spirits during evocation?** By asking the spirits what it is they would like. This is a gesture of good will, honour and love. Yet, the two essential offerings are already a part of the evocation itself: that you condense the light oscillation that is proper to the being, and that you evoke the being to fulfil something that is of the nature and calling of the being. If you evoke a being for something that is not of the being’s nature and calling, what you are doing makes no sense, no matter how one tries to look at it.  **19. How can one incorporate the use of astrology in planetary evocation to enhance the effectiveness of the ritual? ** By taking into account the movements of the planet in question, and the temporal influence that is in accordance with the nature of the being in question. I have written a book about astrology and planetary magic that will soon see the light of day through Falcon Books Publishing, called* A Guide to Stellar Magic.  * **20. How does the practice of planetary evocation relate to the other spheres and practices in Franz Bardon's system of magic?** At some point Franz Bardon cannot teach that which cannot be put to paper or common human language and words. While we wander in the spheres or while we are communicating through evocation, language takes a whole new dimension capable of incorporating, absorbing and transmitting concepts that our words cannot. This is how planetary magic is able to complete Franz Bardon’s system. **21. How does one use planetary evocation to influence oneself and others?** The beings of the planetary spheres have bodies of influence, evoking them is bathing yourself in them just as when you accumulate a certain element, no matter which of the four. You are bathing in it and obtaining the influence of that element in your own field of perception and of active existence. The forces with which you influence yourself will make you a magnet-power of a similar range of influence over others. Human beings connect through the frequency range, for lack of a better analogy. **22. How does one properly dismiss and banish the planetary spirits after evocation?** Accompany the being back to its sphere, return, then dissipate the planetary saturation in the room and in your mental, astral and physical bodies. **23. How does one prepare for the evocation of spirits according to Franz Bardon's teachings in the Second Book?** Get the magical journal, prepare the magical tools and ornaments previously loaded, draw the circle and triangle according to the planetary principles. Additionally, I’d recommend obtaining some level of competence on the fields of knowledge addressed by the being, less you risk not being able to absorb anything of what the being has to teach. **24. What kind of knowledge is available when evoking these spirits?** All knowledge in the universe that is accessible to our stage of evolution. **25. How does Franz Bardon's method of evocation compare to other traditions of magic?** It gathers the practical essence of the other genuine traditions of magic regarding evocation. Most traditions are veiled and encrypted, Franz Bardon is pretty straightforward and practical. **26. How does one determine which spirit to evoke for a specific purpose?** By studying the nature of the purpose, then the nature of the being is to be selected accordingly.  **27. How long should one stay exploring the Elemental Kingdom before branching out to the Planetary spheres?** Until one has learned the four divine ecstasies. Then, as you venture to the planetary spheres, keep exploring the elemental kingdoms. They are essential to keep you grounded.  **28. What additional measures can we take to protect ourselves from negative effects on our equanimity?** I am supposing this question is also regarding dealing with the spheres and planetary intelligences. Master the nature of the sphere before venturing into the sphere. Master also, up to your current level of capacity, the skills of the beings before evocation of the beings. This will keep you from further disaster and calamitous surprise. I have been writing three books, The Grade of Jupiter, The Grade of the Sun, and The Grade of Mars exactly to prevent such accidents with the higher spheres. **29. What has been the most surprising thing that you have discovered in the Spheres? (That you are allowed to share)** That the spheres themselves are an illusion, like bait to lure us into a plane of existence that cannot be limited, not even by the spheres. **30. How does the practice of magical evocation relate to the teachings in Franz Bardon's First Book, "Initiation into Hermetics"?** It is a continuation. When words could no longer do justice to the practices ahead, Franz Bardon had the magician commune directly with the divine intelligences and learn through telepathically. **31. How does one judge the reliability of the information received during evocation?** It is only reliable if it is or will somehow become useful. Some beings have a major field of magnetism about them, if you let yourself be dragged by it they will destroy your reality and you yourself may become useless in your own sphere of action. **32. How can one develop the ability to communicate with the spirits during evocation?** By developing extrasensory abilities. Again, Franz Bardon has reliable methods throughout Initiation Into Hermetics. A good addition to it might be found in my* The Way of Abrahadabra* or in videos by Sifu Mark Rasmus. I shall also recommend once more *A Guide to the Elementals,* for a better understanding of the symbolic mechanisms of communication in place.   ### To find out more about André Consciência, please view his author page. 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Simply said the supreme godhead is complete and perfect due to the fact that he is capable of accomplishing anything. -   - **Icha (Will) **– The supreme self-aware Godhead has the power of will inherent in him, this is the will to create or manifest the entire cosmos out of his own awareness. -   - **Jnana (Knowledge)** – This corresponds to the omniscient aspect of God, knowledge here refers to the knowledge of objective universe, knowledge about the multitudes of the objects which makes up the cosmos. -   - **Kriya  (Action)** – This is the power to freely act. This corresponds to the omniprovident aspect of the Godhead. He alone is free to manifest anything from his awareness. This corresponds to the actual act of creation. The above-said qualities are represented as five different god forms or deities namely Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, Ishwara, and Sada-Shiva. While the supreme Godhead endowed with these attributes is called a Para-Shiva or Parama-Shiva or in certain contexts Para-Bhairava etc. The triadic god forms Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra are given utmost importance in practice, since the triadic form is the active principle of the Godhead. Now let me explain some of the methods used in traditional Shaivsim to become aware of these qualities within and without. ####   ### Triad As Our Own Self The triad of Brahma Vishnu and Rudra apart from being knowledge, action and will respectively is also considered the triadic manifestation of pure consciousness in the form of subject, cognition, and object. Objective knowledge is attributed to Vishnu, cognition as Brahma and Rudra as the subject or the self.  Traditionally Brahma is given the aspect of the creator and the process of cognition, owing to the fact that divine providence manifests the universe through pure awareness, Vishnu is given the aspect of sustenance because he represents the objective world, Rudra who represents the will of the Godhead is the subject here and is considered as the destroyer. The entire objective reality abides in the divine subject alone,Rudra destroys the false sense of distinction between the subject and object hence he is the destroyer and represents the subjectivity in the triad. **A Practice to Follow ** - Sit in a comfortable position and contemplate on the cognitive faculties of self and the five sense organs which help us to perceive the outside reality as the divine head Brahma the creator. - Contemplate the objective knowledge perceived through the sense organs as Vishnu which represents the power to sustain an object.   - Finally, contemplate on the self as Rudra who is the ultimate subject and the ultimate observer. Prolonged practice of this simple exercise will culminate in the realization that the object resides in the subject alone. The illusory distinction between the subject and object vanishes after that.  Eventually, the practice brings about the ultimate realization that all object in the form of knowledge arises, abides, and takes repose in the supreme subjective awareness of the Godhead.  The triad of Brahma Vishnu and Rudra apart from being knowledge, action and will respectively is also considered the triadic manifestation of pure consciousness in the form of subject, cognition and object. Objective knowledge is attributed to Vishnu, cognition as Brahma, and Rudra as the subject or the self.  Traditionally Brahma is given the aspect of the creator and the process of cognition, owing to the fact that divine providence manifests the universe through pure awareness, Vishnu is given the aspect of sustenance because he represents the objective world, Rudra who represents the will of the Godhead is the subject here and is considered as the destroyer. The entire objective reality abides in the divine subject alone,Rudra destroys the false sense of distinction between the subject and object hence he is the destroyer and represents the subjectivity in the triad. - Sit in a comfortable position and contemplate on the cognitive faculties of self and the five sense organs which help us to perceive the outside reality as the divine head Brahma the creator. - Contemplate the objective knowledge perceived through the sense organs as Vishnu which represents the power to sustain an object, -  Finally, contemplate the self as Rudra who is the ultimate subject and the ultimate observer. Prolonged practice of this simple exercise will culminate in the realization that the object resides in the subject alone. The illusory distinction between the subject and object vanishes after that.  Eventually, the practice brings about the ultimate realization that all object in the form of knowledge arises, abides, and takes repose in the supreme subjective awareness of the Godhead.  ### Contemplation Of Individual Godheads Franz Bardon in his title, *Initiation Into Hermetics* mentions methods to achieve concrete union with the Godhead. This method is similar to that. Firstly, let us have a look at Lord Vishnu and his iconography. He is represented with a blue hue, but is said to be of dark hue in the scriptural descriptions and has four arms. Within his four arms, he holds a conch, mace, lotus, and a disc.  Let us have a look at the attributes represented by this iconography.  - The Mace is the representation of the primordial knowledge of the determinate cosmos and the principle of time which creates and destroys the immanent cosmos. This Mace is a principle of limitations as time also gives rise to the limited empirical souls in the cosmos. From a theurgical point of view, the very mace which gives rise to empirical souls is also the principle that connects the empirical souls and the cosmos eternally to the supreme lord. - Conch shell represents the dynamic activity of the divine head which culminates in the manifestation of the objective cosmos, it is also called Panchajanya which literally translates as the originator of the five elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Akasha) which makes up the physical world. ### Contemplation of the Above Triad within the Body This is the final stage of this particular spiritual exercise. The adept should try this meditation only after gaining mastery over the last two spiritual exercises. The Godheads are meditated on the body together one after the other and their attributes are accumulated on the different parts of the body, and the faculties represented by the three god forms accumulated on different parts of the body. Within Shaivite doctrines, the above triad Rudra, Brahma, and Vishnu are said to represent the fire, sun and moon. I am not going deeper into those aspects since that will take the article away from the current topic. The human body is also said to contain three regions viz: - The region of fire, - The region of the sun - The region of the moon. The Glabella and the part behind it is said to be the region of the moon, and the god from Vishnu along with his attributes should be meditated and concretized in this part.  - The heart center is the region of the sun and the god from Brahma and his attributes should be dynamited in this part of the body.  - The base of the spine/coccyx, perineum, - And the genitals constitute the region of fire, and the god from Rudra and his attributes should be dynamized in this part - .Finally the adept should contemplate himself as one with the three aspects of the supreme god and finally achieve union by intense meditation on the three aspects of the supreme represented by the three god forms. The adept should repeat this spiritual exercise frequently so that he becomes totally convinced with an unshakeable faith that he is one with the Supreme God to such a degree that he should be able to dynamize any of the above said attributes within and without at any given time. **Advanced method 1:** Another advanced method is to meditate on the mantras of the above three god forms and to dynamize the power of the mantras in the three parts of the body. **Advanced Method** 2: One more advanced method is to realize these principles within ourselves and to contemplate the three phases of breath viz inhalation, retention, and exhalation. Inhalation is Rudra or withdrawal of awareness from objectivity, retention as the sustenance or Vishnu, and the exhalation is Brahma which is the creation or emanation of awareness towards objectivity. Another advanced method that is used, is to contemplate on the thoughts and the interval between two thoughts which is traditionally called as *Sandhia Vandhana*, Sandhi means interval or gap. 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I call it a device, due to its dynamism. There is no special secret to the advanced practitioner on how to do this with his mind alone, but on the long run and with long regular sessions, he will become less and less grounded. A physical tool is a good remedy to prevent it, and it gives specific directions to the mind without overburdening it.  ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/moon-box1.jpg) Most things inside this box are known to the experienced: magical mirrors, magical sensors, elementary figurines, fluid condensers, color candles, talismans. Then we add to it an oracle or, better put, cards for conjuration and divination, each one as an amulet for each lunar mansion and being ruling and expressing that mansion, together with a 28 circle board which will allow us to calculate and extract the influence of the Moon and their beings on all four planes, magically and astrologically, with a kaballistic application. This is mostly the secret I wish to convey with this device, and not only this secret, but how all such items inside this box can work together. For this reason, I am building this kit (all items handcrafted) by demand and shipping it worldwide, you just have to send a message to luxlinxstore@gmail.com expressing your interest in acquiring the item. I am also sharing the manual right away together with some pictures (all taken before loading the items, not to compromise them to eyes foreign to the owner). Those willing to possess the box will come to know better what I’m talking about, and those willing to build this device for themselves may also acquire an idea of how to do it. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/moon-box-2.jpg) The box serves as a cosmic capsule, it is black akasa on the outside with white-silver sprinkles (Moon Sphere) and it is white-violet inside (Moon Sphere light oscillation). On the bottom you can see the seal of the Archangel Gabriel (the Archangel of the Moon Sphere), charged universally in connection with the Magic Mirror that stands on top once the box is closed. Additional instructions will be given regarding the Magic Mirror. It should be sufficient for now to affirm the box will be able to preserve, physically and magically, the items inside.  ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/moon-box-3.jpg) ###  II: The Incense ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/moon-box-4.jpg) This incense is built according to vegetable and liquid analogies with the Moonsphere. It should be used for the magician to consecrate individually the items. The magician is to impregnate the smoke with the light oscillation of the Moon. ### III The Moonstone ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/moon-box-5.jpg) The Moonstone has been charged universally to serve as a portal to the light oscillation of the Moon. Being in contact with it, the magician automatically fills with the energies of the Moon, becoming a Moon being himself. It should yet be tuned individually, so that the magician must accumulate the silver-white (with a bit of violet) magnetic light oscillation of the Moon and compress it into the Moonstone. This should be done until it radiates several feet around, and the item should be instructed to keep recharging itself and extracting from the akasa. The Moonstone is to be used in all operations regarding this box. ### IV: The Figurine ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/moon-box-6.jpg) The figurine was built in such a way that it can effortlessly receive an elementary created to deal with the Moon. It is black, furry with silver sparks and shiny eyes with the glow of the Moon, that shines in the dark. The hair and paint are already ready to become fluid condensers. The magician must find the two cotton layers inside the box, and retrieve from the same box also one of the fluid condensers (violet liquid bottles). ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/moon-box-7.jpg) It should be no mystery for the sphere magician how to build an elementary inside a figurine, but he must now make sure that the elementary is empowered with the light oscillation of the Moon in its very essence and that his name has the letters Ch and Oe included, to be performed kabalistically upon calling the elementary. The mission of this elementary is to be the eyes and ears of the magician inside the Moon Sphere, so that he knows all the shifts in it that influence the Earth and the Zone Girdling the Earth, and the magician has, so to speak, direct access to the “astral weather” of the Moon, to its own astrology or state of affairs.  The figurine has two orifices, one at the top of the head, and one at his chest. The two cotton layers come into play here. One is to use the fluid condenser (the liquid isn’t toxic but also not drinkable), loaded with the influence of the akasa over the elements, and pour it into collected sea water. He will see the water become violet. He should then lay this water under the moonlight from the first rays of night to the last. He then loads this water with the light of the Moonsphere and soaks one of the cottons in it, making sure it is well wrapped around itself or cut so that it fits the orifice at the chest of the figurine. Again, he or she loads the cotton layer itself, inserts it in the figurine in that same orifice. A second layer infused with blood or semen (for women, the monthly blood) is inserted in the orifice at the head.  It is then that the magician proceeds to form the elementary. In the end, he covers both orifices with melted white or silver wax.  ### V: The Magic Mirror In the Cosmic Box ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/moon-box9.jpg) The magician will find two candles inside the box, these are to be used one at each side of the round mirror when the upper part of the box is opened to the back, forming a sort of an upper floor of the box. Lighting them is part of the mirror activation, and it will turn the surface of the mirror dark. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/moon-box-10.jpg) The mirror has been universally loaded to make it easier for the magician to tune it and charge it himself, and it is constantly in contact with the Seal of Gabriel. The second fluid condenser bottle is meant to be used in the first sessions with the mirror, which is to be sprinkled, again, with water prepared in the same fashion as when one was working the figurine.  The cosmic letters Ch and Oe, having the tone of the Moon Sphere, form a vertical line at the center of the mirror, while the name Shaddai el Chai (divine name of Yesod/Moon), in the Hebrew mystical letters, flanks it on the right side. The left side is empty, so that the whole mirror can be filled from there. These letters should be activated by the new owner of the box himself, together with the loading of the mirror with the Akasa and then the light oscillation of the Moon, activating clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairfeeling.   You can then ask the elementary to show his vision in the mirror, so that you can effortlessly gaze from his eyes inside the Moon Sphere and learn of all relevant things. Another way to work with the mirror is to set one of the cards of the 28 beings of the 28 lunar mansions inside the box after proper activation of the sign and letters therein. The magician then has to scry into the mansion or the activities of the respective being by tuning the mirror to the sign in the card (with the moonlight oscillation). Entire conversations can take place through the mirror alone and even exchange of vital force may come to happen.  ### VI: The Cards ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/moon-box-11.jpg) There is a set of 29 cards inside the box, they represent the 28 beings of the lunar mansions plus a cover card, with the sign of the entity keeping this specific set of cards that I have manufactured. The cards have been, again, universally loaded but, like all items included, not in such a way that the untrained can use them to their own peril or that of others. To use them the magician must be either skilled and accepted by the Akasa or reinforce the work with his own loading of the powers and virtues. So, it is suggested that each card is loaded with the akasa on the back, and the seals on the front (with the light oscillation of the Moon), to be blessed by the respective beings directly, upon their agreement. Optionally, the cosmic letters can be loaded into the painted letters in the names of the cards. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/moon-box-13.jpg) ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/moon-box-14.jpg) The cards are violet with silver sparkles on the back. The kind of silver sparks we use, in all our items, reflect, like the Moon, and therefore are activated by eye and angle alone. The magician can use the back of the card to tune into the akasa, allowing the white that escapes from the violet and the silver sparks to open wide, leading him in trance to the Moonzone. By turning the card, he then gazes at the sign of the being, and follows to meet him or to a vision. The cards may also be safely used in the triangle of evocation, as talismans for the beings themselves, or they may be used as amulets for the magician; for instance, put under the pillow in order for the magician to enter contact with the being in dreams, or as an oracle with direct intuitive messages from the beings, etc. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/moon-box15.jpg) Inside the box, there will be a tablecloth and a triangle. The cards will be essential to operate this device. Also, a good way to meditate on the cards is to place them at the center of the circle of 28 mansions drawn in the tablecloth.   ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/moon-box-16.jpg) ### V: Table Cloth ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/moon-zone-17.jpg) The tablecloth has a 9cm diameter circle divided into 28 parts, for the 28 mansions. The inside of the circle is divided in 4 parts, green, black, white and red, they represent the seasons and elements in the scale of the Moonzone. At the center you can find a round cosmic egg containing the Great Bear, implying that is it is the center of the circle formed between the Earth and the Moon, and in the cosmos around the circle you can find the Pleiades, Hydra, Scorpion and Aquarius, and they represent the outer cosmic lodges of the Moon. The 28 mansions are, then, divided by four equal parts of 7 houses.  The mansions/houses are white from the oscillation of the moon and have violet-akashic walls. This table cloth is built in such a way that it can represent both the Moon as it moves through the cosmos during the year and as it moves around the earth in its cycles.  Mathematically, the circle of 28 mansions is ready to receive the triangle, and show what parts of the Earthzone on one side and of the Earth on the other, are receiving the light of the Moon.  ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/moon-zone-18.jpg) On the back the triangle is black with silver sparks, but on the front it is violet on top, symbolizing akashic influence, blue and red on each side, symbolizing electromagnetism. The tip on the right side is electric and it is the mind, that runs as electricity through the magnetic fluid. The left tip of the triangle is blue, symbolizing the soul, the magnetism that conducts the electric fluid.   When one places the triangle over the circle in the tablecloth, one obtains the mansion that is the akashic or spiritual influence, the mansion shedding the mental influence, and the mansion shedding  influence over emotions and the soul. If one is to calculate the Moon calendar one can place the top of the triangle in the day we are at, from the 28 days, and discover, that way, the being influencing the mental and the astral influence. The triangle, then, symbolizes the spectrum of moonlight over half of the Earth, and the beings on the right and on the left are the edges of this spectrum.  The possible combinations that one arrives at are, by order of appearance, (left/akasha – middle/mind – right/soul): 1-8-22 2-9-23 3-10-24 4-11-25 5-12-26 6-13-27 7-14-28 8-15-1 9-16-2 10-17-3 11-18-4 12-19-5 13-20-6 14-21-7 15-22-8 16-23-9 17-24-10 18-25-11 19-26-12 20-27-13 21-28-14 22-1-15 23-2-16 24-3-17 25-4-18 26-5-19 27-6-20 28-7-21 This having been said, it is time to grab our set of cards. Each card has a number, and it corresponds to the mansion the being presides over. One has then to divide the attributes of the beings through the akasa, the mental plane and the astral plane. The top of the triangle does then point to the akashic attribute of the respective being, the mental part of the triangle to the mental attribute of the being it points to, and the soul to the astral attribute of the third being. It functions, thus, as an astrological intonation much like the qabalistic one, and to activate it easily one has to place the three cards in triangle and draw from the signs.  ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/moon-zone-19.jpg) (The cards have been placed inaccurately to prevent misuse). I shall now proceed to leave a list of the attributes divided by the mansions and beings. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/mon-zone-20-2.jpg) **1 Ebvap** - Akasha: Tides - Mental: Electric and magnetic fluids - Astral: Dissipates opposite influences **2 Emtircheyud** - Polarity - Bio rhythm and periodicity - Physics **3 Ezhesekis** - Good - Happiness  - Luck and success **4 Emvatibe** - Protection - Revelation of conspiracies - Banishment and revenge **5 Amzhere** - The melting of hearts - Sympathy and love - Favor and protection of important personalities **6 Enchede** - Creation of love - Sexual magic - Charging of talismans **7 Emrudue** - Good luck - Success - Fulfillment of desires **8 Eneye** - Peace, love and truth - Diplomacy and politics - Victory at any war **9 Emzhebyp** - Healing - Guardianship - Moon magic **10 Emnymar** - Procreation - Mesmerism - Birth and pregnancy **11 Ebvep** - Respect - Phenomena - Dread and horror **12 Emkebpe** - The transmuting power of real love - Peace and love in marriage - Love amulets **13 Emcheba** - Magnetic influence of the moon - Astro-magical pacts - Mummial magic **14 Ezhobar** - Qaballistic moon magic - Polarization of powers - Creation of occult and magic faculties **15 Emnepe** - Akashic principle on the moon - Divine virtues - Magical effects **16 Echotasa** - Control over negative beings - Magical authority - Invulnerability **17 Emzhom** - Qaballistic formulae - Magic formulae - Magic banning **18 Emzhit** - Materialization & dematerialization - Invisibility - Magical transmutation **19 Ezheme** - Initiation - Analogy - Legality **20 Etsacheye** - Ecstasy - Supremacy - Dance and ritual **21 Etamrezh** - Strength  - Resistance against all influences - Mastery over life and death **22 Rivatim** - Absorption of time and space - Transcendence over time and space - Transcendence over matter **23 Liteviche** - Power of the word - Words of power - Powerful influence **24 Zhevekiyev** - Laws of life & death - Electromagnetic fluids - Transmutation of metals & rejuvenation **25 Lavemezhu** - Mystery of life - Fertility & infertility - Plant kingdom **26 Empebyn** - Causes and effects of light - Influence of the sun over the moon - Influence of the moon over the earth **27 Emzhabe** - Initiation - Moon magic - Mineral kingdom **28 Emzhek** - The element of water - Temperature - Watery animals We finish with an example of the combination 1(top of the triangle)-8(right of the triangle)-22(left of the triangle). In divination it shows the tides are controlling politics and communication in order to have the world transcend the grosser modes of existence. In conjuration the magician uses such tendencies to set the tides in motion that can influence politics and diplomacy to transcend their limitations. Of course, this is not all, to each such effect the sphere magician has great magnets, the beings themselves, Ebvap, Eneye and Rivatim. ### IX: The Magical Diary This beautiful diary, handcrafted and with biding by the artist Eunice Correia, will serve as your book of notations regarding formulas, the calendars of the Moon, and any impressions you receive from the mirror and the cards. You will also be able to register every useful information about your Elementary in this magical diary. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/moon-box16.jpg) **Each Moon Sphere Box is uniquely built this kit (all items handcrafted) by demand and shipped worldwide. 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Perhaps Emzhom's words can offer some comfort. I wanted to share these beautiful, very honest heartfelt evocation experiences with you all. Also in honour to this wonderful Angel Emzhom.  ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/315779517_10160196074488540_4312905955504065558_n.jpg) ## 17th Genius – Emzhom **Arabian Name**: Adrieb **Western Tradition**: Adriel **The Picatrix’s Talisman**: The figure of a monkey in an iron seal, holding his hands above his shoulders **Agrippa’s Talisman**: An ape **Bardon’s Image**: A man carrying a chest, followed by an ape **Emzhom is the head of the 17th Mansion:** Alchil (Crown of Scorpio) **The Safe House:** 25°42'52" Libra - 8°36’20” Scorpio Position of the 17th Mansion in the Moon Zone: Astral part of the Moon. It is not easy to find it because it is somewhere below the Moon’s waters. This region is similar to the one which is governed by Echotasa, but it is Located on the completely opposite side of the Moon Zone. Emzhom has the personality of an old, modest, patient, very wise, and extremely observant angel. He often appears in different outfits. So, he can be seen with frizzy long hair, wearing ripped old clothes like a homeless person, but sometimes he appears wearing a grey robe with the hood up and covering most of his face and with his hands covered by his sleeves. He is also sometimes dressed “properly” with his hair nicely combed back. Emzhom is a very powerful head of the Moon Zone, which was also confirmed by Franz Bardon, “All moon beings look up to him in awe”. Due to his extremely observant nature, he is not likely to teach magicians straight up what they seek. Instead, he will most likely closely observe and study the magician, and in the process, he will decide what is needed to be shown and taught. In his free time, he likes to play sports and board games. Emzhom is similar to Emvatibe, the head of the 4th Lunar Mansion since both of them give banning formulae against malevolent spirits, people, energies and threatening situations. Emzhom works quite closely with the head of the Earth Zone Kiliosa (27° Capricorn), as both of them can reveal magical formulae which are essential for saving a magician’s life in dire situations. Those formulae can paralyze any person or beast that is about to attack. Emzhom can also give magical formulae which can stop any negative Lunar influences, such as unsafe journeys, unhappy families, disunity, draught, dissatisfaction, etc. Those formulae are usually given under the seal of secrecy or are inherited. Franz Bardon has warned that they should be used only in case of real danger. This magician has also mentioned that Emzhom can teach banishing skills which can instantly destroy all enemies. So be warned to only use such formulae when it is absolutely necessary! And that goes without saying, that all can be possible only if the magician can successfully evoke Emzhom in such circumstances. According to the Picatrix and other older magical scripts, one of Emzhom’s main roles is to prevent thieves from entering into houses and to drive away criminals and all other people with negative intentions. Emzhom can teach the magician certain magical formulae that can instantly drive away or paralyze burglars, block their escape or make them return stolen goods. All in all, Emzhom is one of the best protectors of peoples’ homes and properties. Traditionally this genius assists with: creating strong foundations in the fields of building/construction, making strong and reliable relationships between people, long-lasting love, stable career, longevity, flourishing, and inspiring romance/ passion that is fading. The last but not least, Emzhom can ground magicians anytime. In that regard, he can protect their legs to prevent injuries. If magicians tend to have any leg/ankle/feet-related issues, they can ask for his help. He will heal leg-related injuries quickly. Emzhom has also an affinity with regard to water magic. He uses various unseen ways to teach the magician about water, but not as an element. Any advanced magician who seeks further knowledge in this area can ask for his wisdom. This genius is able to help you face your other half, the shadow aspect of yourself. He can also teach you how to use this particular skill any time you need. ### Evocation Experiences ### TALERMAN *My evocation of Emzhom did not last long, but he did teach me quite a lot. First of all, he gave me a proposal on how to conjure all the 28 Lunar angels by taking his own example:* *Oh, great angel* *at this moment* *I am only standing at the gates of the 17th Moon Mansion, and of all that I am now seeing there is nothing but the front door of your Home.* *I have some ideas about what might be inside But my thoughts may be wrong,* *so let me in,* *because I do not want to lie* *to myself and others* *about you and your great mysteries* *So, I am ready to enter* *And at this moment, that is actually the only wish I have.* *If you find me worthy,* *please, open the gates* *of the 17th Moon Mansion* *so that I can enter in, see, learn, and also touch on mysteries hidden inside.* *If you find me worthy, please open the door.* *I am not driven by you* *by mere curiosity* *but rather by the wish to learn* *so that I would be more ready to assist. As my capabilities grow,* *the more I will be capable to help.* *So, open the door for me in the name of IHVH Shaddai El Chai* *and great Archangel Gabriel!* *But if you do not find me worthy* *Don't reject my honest and humble quest* *for all eternity,* *but let me improve what I need to improve during the next month and let me try again in 28 day* During my evocation of Emzhop, it felt like it was raining heavily outside, but afterwards, I noticed that it had not. His sigil has obviously something to do with water and rain. Like many other Moon angels, he is clearly also a teacher of water. Interestingly, exactly as the previous head had done, he also invited me to play an interesting board game, which is well known on the Moon, but unheard of on the Earth.* * ### KADILIYA I found myself standing in the snow staring at my feet. Everything looked dim, but there was a triskele symbol hardly visible on the ground. Suddenly it rained, but the rain was blood, so the triskele got also filled with blood. On each of its spirals, there was a line which extended out reaching far away. On the left, it reached the forests, in the middle the urban cities, and on the right the ocean. Then there was a trail of blood leading to my feet. I looked at my hands and noticed that I was covered with blood too. I had the option to follow the lines to each location, but instead, I turned around. Then I saw an ice hole, so I decided to jump in. The water was freezing cold, but I kept swimming in the dark. I didn’t know where I was going, but the entire time there was Emzhom's vibration in everything. Suddenly an eye opened in front of me. I was a little scared but I faced the eye. It was golden and alive, but I didn’t see the whole face. Then I swam up to the pupil and noticed I could walk in, so I did. At first, I thought I was falling but I was flying. After a long while, I saw a lake beneath me and I fell right in. After I surfaced, I looked around, and then realized that it was Echotasa's realm. I told myself that I needed to find Emzhom instead. So I swam in the opposite direction into nothingness. I was swimming until I noticed the water temperature change. It went cold very suddenly. As I dove down, I realized that the lake was connected to an ocean, so I kept swimming until another eye opened. This eye was silver- coloured. I swam right through its pupil and after that, I was sliding through a silver tunnel. During that time, I noticed a change in the vibration of the tunnel because it felt compacted. Very soon I was spat right through a waterfall. I swam up and looked around. There were lots of white flowers around and also a man sitting on a rock doing something. I walked out of the water, ringed out my hair and went up to the man. He looked homeless and was fishing. I asked him, “Hello, are you Emzhom?” He looked at me and asked, “Do you like fishing?” I sat next to him on a rock and replied, “No, nor have I ever gone fishing”. He asked, “What is it that you dislike about fishing?” I replied, “I think it’s cruel. Even if people let the fish go. To a fish it is traumatizing, to the person it is exciting. I think it is cruel, especially when you are doing it as a sport”. He quietly said, “Ah, a kind heart I see.” I asked him if he liked fishing and he said, “Oh, I don’t fish for fish. I like to see what comes out of that waterfall. Many interesting things come out from there sometimes.” He got up and put away his fishing line which was, to my surprise, nothing more than a stick without the line or the hook. He started to walk into the dense jungle and I followed. I asked him again, “So, are you Emzhom?” He smiled and said that he was. We came to a grassland. Far away there was a giant rock blocking an entrance to a cave. He said, “Do you recognize this place?” I replied “Yes”. We went up to the rock and then he asked, “Tell me, do you have enemies?” I said “No.” He said, “You must have because in your world everyone seems to have enemies.” Then he turned around and I saw two people setting a nice table with two seats. There were lots of food displayed on the table. He gestured for me to sit, so I did, and he started to eat some pancakes. I noticed he no longer looked rugged but was dressed properly. I said, “Well, if you put it that way, then I do. I have only one enemy, and that is me,” He asked, “Do you like pancakes? They are delicious, by the way, you should try some.” I nicely declined and told him that I gotta avoid wheat, for now, so he told me to have some fruit then. “The berries are divine”. Then there was a cup full of colourful but weirdly shaped berries in front of me. I got some on my spoon and put it in my mouth (let’s just say that inside my mouth there was a party). He swallowed his last bite of the pancake and wiped his mouth clean. He asked if I would like to try some divinely delicious tea and I agreed. He continued, “So your enemy is yourself? Then, would you like to know how to defeat that enemy?” I replied, “Well, I don’t want to defeat my enemy because that itself carries a negative connotation. I want to be able to face my enemy and see it as who it truly is.” He gestured, “Continue...” I said, “I want to be brave and not run away. I am tired of running away. I am tired of not being able to see the truth. Each chance I get I run away from myself and I’m growing very tired of that. I've faced many things in my life. Whatever that was thrown at me I faced it one way or another, but when it comes to myself, I’m completely helpless.” He nodded and said, “Good, when you see this, what do you feel?” And all of a sudden, I saw myself facing a huge tall wave which was about to hit hard. I couldn’t talk. I was stuck at that moment, but when I realized that, I stood up and faced the wave. Still, I felt scared. I turned around. There were lots of people and their homes behind me. I felt worried for them. Then Emzhom walked up to me and quietly said, “You have a lot of water, and it has a very destructive side to it. I can see the horror in your eyes. I can feel your pain and your fear. First tell me, what causes big waves?” I replied with a shaky voice, “There is wind, gravity...I don’t know”. He said, “So there is the element of wind. What is wind associated with?” I replied quickly, “The mental, thoughts...” And he said, “Yes, the mental. When you face a situation with all kinds of thoughts, what happens after that?” I replied, “You react. Your first response is a reaction.” I was still facing this tall disastrous wave. He asked, “But if you go deep and push away the thoughts and the reactions, what do you feel?” I said, “Sadness.” I do not know why, but at that point, I felt relief. He continued, “Yes, sadness, behind all reactions there are emotions.” I suddenly realized the waves were just a reaction to my emotions. I decided to walk towards them and I felt there was someone standing behind them. I walked and parted the waves when I saw a young teenager. She was so mad, her eyes spoke rage, and her aura was destructive, but beneath all, I felt something else about her. I went to her to calm her down, but my voice soon changed to Emzhom’s voice which was saying, “The physical world is harmonious, but only thanks to some people who bring harmony. Most people go through day-to-day, battling within themselves to survive. All people have their own inner conflicts and they don’t know what to do, so they react. Everyone also feels alone, no matter the situation. When that distortion comes to play, it is time to quieten down the mind, reflect and wait. Somewhere within all creation, there is that faint sound of love. Immerse in it, be it, become it. It might be temporary, but you must remind yourself of that love every time when there is conflict. Humans get hurt easily but also recover miraculously. Beneath all that pain there is love. Just like the waves of your oceans or stormy skies, once they are gone, there will be stillness, beauty, and light. Learn the flow of your surroundings, learn the flow of your adaptations and reconfigure what does not serve. Evolve!”    ### Warning Black magic can turn the** Safe House** into the **House of Destruction and Confusion.** Magicians may get tempted to use Emzhom’s magical formulae against innocent people, if for nothing else, then for mere curiosity’s sake to check whether they work or not. Since banning formulae are usually given to the magician under the seal of secrecy, if anyone gets tempted to disclose them unauthorized, they will likely lose their powers at once, so they will not work when it is needed. 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The author references the various stages of development as used in *Initiation Into Hermetics* to demonstrate how to integrate each magical achievement to further empower the magician to a deeper understanding of himself. Andre takes us on a journey of discovery and exploration of the root causes which are the cause of all suffering- he refers to them as ‘The Forgotten Ones’. Each step shows us the magical tools that can we develop in our magical training and to further utilise them to overcome and transcend these forces within us. Unlike Franz Bardon’s approach to the soul mirrors, it does not offer just lists of traits in relation to the elements but delves more into the root causes of these traits, thus finding ways to integrate and transcend these instincts within us using the magical tools that we have learned in our magical development relating to the stage we are at. ### Primal Notes from the 'Forgotten Ones' -Nema Let us start with something more likely familiar to the dear hermetic reader, *The Corpus Hermeticum*3 by Hermes Trismegistus, we are introduced to the twelve irrational tormentors of the body. They spring from the lack of reason in the collective.  They are: -  Ignorance- Grief- Intemperance - Concupiscence -  Injustice- Avarice- Deceit- Envy- Treachery- Anger- Recklessness - MaliceThese are considered to be root tormentors, meaning that from them derive other tormentors, although Hermes states that there are many others. What they have in common is that they make use of the senses in order to create suffering and imprisonment, and they are what Bardon calls vices, faults and weaknesses. That is his concept of the Black Mirror which is the mirror of such tormentors. The decipher will understand, by hints given by Hermes, that each of these tormentors corresponds to a sign in the zodiac. Against such tormentors, the hermeticist has ten powers of God that cleanse the body and soul. This corresponds to the White Mirror in *Initiation Into Hermetics*. - Concupiscence -  Injustice-  Avarice-  Deceit- Envy- Treachery- Anger- Recklessness 9. Malice**The 10 powers are:** - Gnosis- Joy- Self-Control - Perseverance - Justice- Unselfishness - Truth- Goodness- Life- Light**The effects are: ** –  Joy dissipates grief –  Self-control dissipates intemperance –  Perseverance and patience dissipates concupiscence –  Justice dissipates injustice –  Unselfishness dissipates avarice –  Truth dissipates deceit –  Life dissipates anger and recklessness –  Light dissipates envy and treachery –  Goodness dissipates malice, in addition, let us explain a little further on root traits and their passive and negative matrices. Hermes states that Truth, Life and Light are the triune, since they are one. *The Corpus Hermeticucm *seems to suggest that this triune by itself being God in structure, is capable of chasing away the tormentors of darkness. From these three virtues, spring forward the other eight virtues, when all ten virtues5 are complete in the soul of the hermeticist, he is born spiritually into the divine. Here, Light is the active power and Life is the passive power which is to say, that Life happens on its own and self-regulates, but the Light is self-created and self-generated. Now, in the *Corpus Hermeticum, *we also see that some tormentors are together and depend on each other, such as envy and treachery, anger and recklessness. Treachery consecrates its practitioner as an initiate in the mysteries of envy and once anger has made the practitioner reckless, guilt will incorporate anger in his conscience. Recklessness and treachery are passive traits. They are meant to regulate envy and anger, which are active traits. The most common strategy to combat an active trait is by willpower and transmutation. But take one away and the other will soon become a frail and simple shade. Let us go to Book I , for the way things are described there connects deeply with Nema’s vision, but we will get to it in due time. One can find these words in the* Corpus Hermeticum:* ***The form you had becomes unseen, and you surrender to the divine power your habitual character, now inactive. The bodily senses return to their own sources. Then they become parts again and rise for action, while the seat of emotions and desire go to mechanical nature.*** ***Corpus Hermeticum, Book I*** It goes on to explain how one climbs through the planetary spheres leaving behind different vices. These spheres are layers of our inner being, like layers of an onion. In the foundations we leave impermanence, to get to splendour we sacrifice our machinations, to get to victory we sacrifice the illusion of longing, to get to beauty we sacrifice arrogance, to get to rigour we sacrifice presumption, to get to mercy we sacrifice hoarding and to understand we sacrifice falsehood. *The Corpus Hermeticum *doesn’t mention such virtues, only the corresponding planets, but here I have given another example of a White Mirror and of a Black Mirror, and of how they can interact. ***Initiation continues, but the individual identity and collective identity do not. There are three more levels of rarity to attain, but they lie beyond the realm of duality, beyond your faith in your new reality*…*In a type of reverse gestation, your levels 9 through 47 deconstruct themselves into spiritual dust. Your 10th level*8 *continues its business in the world, functioning on its memory of perfection.*** ***Maat Magick*– Nama ** In* Maat Magick*, Nema states: The aim of Nema’s master book, *Maat Magick*, is similar to the aim of the *Corpus Hermeticum*. In the mystical component of her path to adepthood she uses virtues of the levels or planetary spheres in her attempt to control and reabsorb the unbalanced survival urges that have taken autonomy in the ego-consciousness. She calls these urges by the name of “The Forgotten Ones”. At the dawning of life on our planet there was hunger, from hunger the urge to survive developed the mask of sex, then of fight-or-flight, clanning, speech, curiosity, altruism and, finally, of God- hunger. The last one, God-hunger, can be defined as the human impulse towards transcendence. Hunger is basic to the individual. Sex is basic to the species. Fight or flight is the basic instinct of fear and risk-taking. To make a living and to stay alive we find it necessary to band with others, and that’s clanning, of which they say, “Blood is thicker than water”. Up until now, we have been talking of reactive instincts, although clanning stands in-between reaction and action. Active instincts are altruism, communication and curiosity. Communication is the social glue of stored knowledge capable of expanding clanning and of surviving from generation to generation. Curiosity is the driver of our mystery of transformation, and it is curiosity which discovers the benefits of altruism. Altruism can either make you a hero or a victim of all kinds, but it is this ‘Forgotten One’ that can expand the self. To explain the Forgotten One of God-hunger, I shall expound upon this so that the reader can understand how these base instincts are irrational and unconscious forces capable of building consciousness. –  **Eating: **we begin to acknowledge that the outer world is also us. –  **Through Sexual desire: **we learn that there is a special affinity with the ones closest to us being us. –  **Fight or flight: **makes us fear the unknown, for the unknown isn’t, and it brings about the thirst for knowledge. –  **Clanning: **makes us relate with intelligence as an entity and quantity, for us to abide socially we need a learning attitude. Communication allows us to realise that we are not only what we absorb but also that which we transmit, and has us praying to the unknown; curiosity makes us realise that the path to the unknown can be found by the truth. –  **Altruism: **has us identifying finally with the cosmic consciousness of the intelligence of truth – the highest good. –  **God-hunger: **arises as a fever from the realisation that we are an expression of what we now seek. These are eight dualistic urges, but the eighth is a gateway between dualism and non-dualism. Nema is not using the twelve main tormentors, as the *Corpus Hermeticum *does, but seven survival instincts divided by the chakras and the planets as layers of existence. This is not that black and white. But what are they, exactly? In 1983 Sor . ́.  Nema published the article called, “Foundation”. This was, if I’m correct, the first time she mentions ‘The Forgotten Ones’. ”Another feature of the Astral planes is the access to the Forgotten Ones. These entities are, basically, the gods of our genetic structure. They are the successful survival-factors that have been covered, in the individual and racial Unconscious, with the veneer of conscious Mind and civilization”. Later, she continues. ***The Forgotten Ones are of Man’s origins and assisted us from the ocean to the cave. However, for a certain span of our unrecorded history, our survival-force was controlled and employed by entities from “beyond” our Universe… Alien beyond human imagining, they cannot truthfully be construed as evil. Their main purpose is to devour, and since their structure is incomparable with “our” Universe’s physics, they can but eat by means of the life-forms native to our Universe.*** In this form of magical mythology, she teaches us that the so-called ‘Forgotten Ones’ are both our allies and our enemies, just like the black mirror is our true guide. These primal instincts or ‘Forgotten Ones’ give us skills, virtues and powers by way of sublimation, but they are ready to destroy a malformed complexification back to dust. In her article, Nema proceeds to give some suggestions on how to deal with the Forgotten Ones, suggestions that may as well be valuable to our readers. ***The Magician should be extremely cautious to maintain his consciousness at the balance between the suspension of Rational Mind and the detached surveillance of his actions by his Observer.*** While the Forgotten Ones are in this way invited to express themselves freely, leaving less and less of the magician’s sense of self, she then applies her technique of the black flame, similar to the vacancy of mind and the akashic trance of Bardon combined, nothing remaining. Then, she explains: ***In subsequent daily experience, he will become aware that a new balance has been struck. He has a new sense of unity with the under-currents of the life-flow and will find this of great use in nonverbal communication with others. Through his Art he will establish links with the Unconscious of others; he will assist them to meet the Forgotten Ones incontrolled circumstances that will do no harm. He is also ready to begin work on a world-scale. The Forgotten Ones have access to Man on the astral planes, mainly in the dream-state. Those sections of humanity who exist in starvation conditions, in poverty that has practically negated civilised consciousness, are the hunger-gates of the Forgotten Ones. These starvelings have thin, if indeed any, barriers between the waking (reason) and dreaming (primal drive) states. Their physical strength may be too depleted for the bearing of arms, but theirs is the massed power of the Forgotten Ones. The demon-conflicts of the fortunate nations (the “chosen” of the bright gods) are petty when compared with the dark powers gathering within the hunger of the starving**.* In the hope that such notions have further clarified our concept of the soul mirrors and the use of the ‘Forgotten Ones,’ we shall move forward. We have discussed two mirrors made in the image of mankind’s instincts. On the alternative black mirror we will, therefore, place some of these instincts, and on the white mirror, the powers and virtues that sublimate them or that arise out of their sublimation. When the magician has read Bardon’s take on the soul mirror, he may follow with us at the start of this long journey, being sure that he will be able to understand the words and their intrinsic logic. **Black Mirror Root Instincts** | **Element** | **Active Root** | **Passive Root** | | ----------- | --------------- | ---------------- | | **Fire** | Fight or Flight | God-hunger | | **Air** | Speech | Curiosity | | **Water** | Clanning | Altruism | | **Earth** | Sex | Hunger | –  The fire element represents fight-or-flight as an active root and God-hunger as a passive root. –  The air element represents speech as the active root and curiosity as the passive root. –  The water element represents clanning as the active root and altruism as the passive root. –  The earth element represents sex as the active root and hunger as the passive root. White Mirror Root Powers and Virtues | **Element** | **Active Root** | **Passive Root** | | ----------- | --------------- | ---------------- | | **Fire** | Command and Speed | Transcendence | | **Air** | Communication | Discernment | | **Water** | Bonding and Love | Compassion | | **Earth** | Allure & Fascination | Stability & Learning | –  The fire element represents command and speed as the active roots and transcendence as the passive root. –  The air element represents communication as the active root and discernment as to the passive root. –  The water element represents bonding and love as the active roots and compassion as the passive root. –  The earth element represents allure and fascination as the active roots and stability and learning as the passive roots. The instincts in the black mirror communicate among themselves, and the powers and virtues in the white mirror do the same. Additionally, white and black mirrors interact not only individually but globally to cause balance through cause and effect in the world at large. The faults include inadequate responses to the outlined instincts and the virtues adequate responses to the powers derived from those instincts. We will later change the scale and our root references, for we intend to make this work as a system of practical magick and initiation into adepthood. But for now, we will leave the reader with an example, so that while he is purifying and balancing the elements on himself he is also working with the root and global instincts. 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The four kinds of elemental beings are each composed of one element such that mermaids are water spirits, sylphs are air spirits, gnomes are earth spirits, and salamanders are fire spirits. Human beings, by contrast, are considered in many traditions to be composed of five elements—water, air, earth, fire, and a fifth element called akasha or spirit. Within the human psyche, the soul, or astral body, the water element increases our ability to feel and to love. The air element enhances are artistic sensitivity and appreciation of harmony and balance. The earth element embodies the desire to work with physical matter, reshaping the world we are in so as to leave things of enduring value. And the fire element relates to will and power. Fire is intense, expansive, and constantly seeking to overcome anything that limits its self-expression.  It is possible to look at a volcano and imagine a being who seeks to understand everything that it is possible to learn about fire as well as how to master every aspect of willpower. In a similar way, we might look at the sea and imagine beings who are like water—it is their very nature to love, bring forth life, renew, purify, heal, and make whole.     Observing the sky, we may imagine spirits of the wind that are masters of every kind of atmospheric condition. But having the sky in which to roam, they tend to remain very detached and they love freedom. When looking at the mountains, trees, rocks, and minerals and imagine beings who dwell on the earth. They are very silent inside and once they begin a task they no longer count time, for the only thing on their minds is pursuing what they have begun until they are done. The psychological qualities I have just used to describe these elemental beings describe human beings as well. The difference is that elemental beings have been striving to understand nature for millions of years. We might consider that the kings and queens of the elements have mastered various secrets of nature as well as aspects of will, love, harmony, and inner silence that we as a race have only begun to explore. In this sense, the elementals are our teachers. They stand ready at any moment to speak with us and to share their secrets if only we still our minds and sharpen our senses so that we can perceive their presence.        In my book, *Mermaids, Sylphs, Gnomes, and Salamanders*, I ascribe gender to the elementals. These beings, however, do not reproduce in any way similar to human beings. The mermaids, for example, may appear to be extremely sexy and attractive. And if you put a mermaid inside of a woman’s body, she would indeed be very sensual and loving. But mermaids I study are not mammals or fish. They are not carbon-based lifeforms. They do not reproduce physically. They are spirits dwelling on the astral plane that have a close connection to water in nature.  Consequently, when mermaids do in fact assume human form and live among us (for example, by being born as an infant like anyone else), they bring with them no tradition or morality for understanding what sex is. For example, a mermaid woman may see no relationship between sex and love. Love is an energy exchange between individuals. She can perceive love directly since she sees energy. In human form, she may consider sex to be a great experience. But having no ego or need for attachment, sex generates no bonding for her. If she is loyal to an individual in an intimate relationship, she is responding to the other person’s need for her to present herself in that way.  In my book, *Undines*, I describe mermaids, the female form of water elementals. I could just as easily have written about a merman. The mermen often have the ability to control storms at sea and are aware of the location of sunken ships. The water element, however, because of its extreme receptivity, favors the female form. The mermaid queens have astonishing powers that are greater in scope than those of the mermen. All the same, mermen are very active and creative in their own right. Males can be found among the air elementals, but sylphs are mostly female. I describe members of both genders. The feminine form carries with it a heightened sensitivity and female sylphs can easily establish rapport with a human being if they wish to do so. The sylphs in masculine form tend to oversee, control, and change weather conditions. Earth elementals too can easily be either masculine or feminine. As feminine, the gnome is more interested in nurturing—feeling an inner connection to the life force in trees, flowers, and living beings. In masculine form, the gnome is compulsive about investigating and transforming physical matter and working with the magical aspects of precious stones. Fire tends to favor the masculine form in that fire is dynamic, explosive, and intense. Fire elementals in male form are constantly aware of the need to gather support from outside of themselves in order to maintain their power—fire needs external fuel. However, the greatest elementals within any of the four elements, the kings and queens, possess such an understanding of magic and are so creative they are free to engage in activities that are either masculine or feminine. But as individuals, they specialize in one role or the other--taking control and changing something or else receptively embracing and becoming one with something. Writers of fairy tales often imagine elemental beings to have human motives. But mermaids, for example, are not at all like human women. The extreme receptivity of mermaids and their magical empathy have never been described accurately in world literature. But in terms of active and passive, if we are discussing an elemental who can control the explosion of a super volcano-- that would be a male salamander. And if we are discussing an elemental who can at this moment instantly perceive the feelings and often the past and future of any living being on earth--that would be a mermaid queen. #### Mermaids Mermaids are part of oral traditions, historical literature, and mythology. They go by various names: water sprites, water spirits, water nymphs, nixies, naiads, ondines, and so on. They are in the form of beautiful women and are masters of the magic of water and magnetism. They embody and guard treasures of empathy, sensuality, and love that the human race has yet to discover. In this regard, they are our teachers.   Consider our relationship to the element of water. We have oceanography. We explore the seas, name the fish, and study habitats, the ocean currents, the tides, and so on. We know from fossils about fish that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. We can reconstruct and run simulations on how the ocean was formed and operates.   Does this not give us some understanding of mermaids? A mermaid can sense immediately what another mermaid is feeling. She can do the same with any life form, including human beings.   We use water to wash, cleanse a wound, drink, and water plants and fields. It is essential to our industries. But when a mermaid puts her hands in the water she feels the seas and the life within them. She has visions of the past, present, and future. She has the power to take a feeling, a dream, or a vision and amplify it so that it appears before her in its full power and perfection. When a mermaid puts her hands in water, if she relaxes, she feels united to a sea of ecstasy.   It is possible to meet women who have the auras, sensitivities, and psychic abilities of mermaids. For example, between one shot and another in a photo shoot, it seems as if the girl changes her appearance into that of a different woman. But she is just utilizing the magic of water to appear in a different way for each situation she enters. She can do this because she has changed the ways she feels—   One moment a child; the next moment an ageless goddess; then flirtatious and playful; then familiar like a life-long friend; next attractive enough that the physical distance between the two of you seems to vanish; and then innocent and free as if a butterfly or hummingbird has just paused from its flight to land in your open palm.   The easiest way to tell when you are with such a woman is that when you are with her it seems that you are the only thing that exists in her awareness but you. But then you notice she gives herself to everyone in the same way without discrimination. However, unless she keeps her energetic giving in check, her actions are misunderstood and others often try to possess her or attack her.      On the astral plane, mermaids do not have a carbon-oxygen metabolism. Consequently, their body temperature is much lower. I gave a “mermaid woman” an electric thermometer. She discovered that within a few minutes of holding it in her hand she can drop the temperature from 98 degrees to 40 degrees. And often when she meditates with me, her room becomes freezing cold.              #### The Realm of Mermaids   On the astral plane, there are many spiritual kingdoms, domains, and realms. The sensation of the mermaid realm is watery but lighter than water. The energy is vast and continuously flowing. Love is everywhere. It is unbelievable innocent— that is, it is completely open and receptive, new, self-renewing, and self-purifying: it never loses its willingness to give all of itself in every moment. That is what I call innocence.      And it is healing and tender. It is sweet and kind, then the sensuality kicks in—the bliss begins running through your nerves saturating them. Here there are no inhibitions—what is the deepest inside of you naturally and without effort flows through what is deepest within another. The exchange of energy is total and continuous. And the peace and the serenity seem so vast they encompass the universe.       If I imagine the mermaid queen Istiphul, her mind and mine immediately join. The vibration of her mind is a nurturing, ecstatic love. It is embracing, healing, creating oneness, fulfilling satisfying, releasing, and strengthening whoever she interacts with.       Istiphul embodies a vast, watery expanse of love as pure astral energy and this energy flows into and through anyone she wishes. This is one embodiment of the water element in its full power and beauty.       As long as my mind is joined to hers, it feels completely natural for me to do what she does—to embrace, flow-through, become one with, and seek to fulfill anyone I think about. My energy is within the other person seeking to make them whole. You will not find this energy among human beings as a pure, sensual, perceptual energy exchange on this level.    To a large extent, mermaids are responsible for enabling the human race to feel fully alive. Their presence amplifies physical sensations and feelings. They heighten attraction and bestow bliss. Without their presence, human beings may feel half dead inside. Consequently, in search of stimulus people tend to take increasing risks seeking new experiences that may threaten their own existence.    #### Sylphs Sylphs are nature spirits composed of one element—the air element. They are invisible to normal sight. They live in the sky. And they are invariably involved in some way with weather control.     When an individual has a surcharge of airy energy, there are feelings like wanting to dance, sing, perform, and express oneself in artistic ways. In other words, the air element in an individual produces feelings of festivity and celebration. Qualities associated with the air element are cheerfulness, levity, laughter, amusement, and delight. Such individuals are aware of the beauty of being alive. Human beings with these airy qualities often turn to art and music as a way to allow these feelings to flow through them.    In the legends of elves and fairies, these beings are often pictured as dancing, singing, and partying all night. They dwell in a world of enchantment and sensual intoxication though they never seem to have a hangover or withdrawal symptoms from whatever it is that takes away their inhibitions and changes their mood to joy. But of course, what they have is the air element in their souls in large supply.    If you feel dragged down, in a rut, or burdened by life's responsibilities, contact with the air element might offer a remedy. It has the power the lift you up. It enables you to feel detached, clear, and gain perspective. It conceals the ability to feel light and playful.    We can develop the sylph or airy qualities that are latent within us. Then we can regard conflict and confusion in a different light. With more of the air element active within us, we are able to see humor and delight in life's unexpected happenings. Where others perceive frustration and dissatisfaction, the airy temperament responds with art, being overwhelmed with curiosity and wonder in the drama of life unfolding.   Where others cannot find a way to solve a problem, air will offer you ten different suggestions for moving forward. Air loves freedom. Harmony is its passion.   If you wanted to interact with a sylph-like Parahim, you might imagine that your mind is open and clear like the sky. She loves the purity of an open mind free of all attachment. But you will also have to have sensitivity and an appreciation of harmony. A sylph can sense the faintest shift in the wind, humidity, temperature, and air pressure. Understandably, sylphs like those who are like themselves.   The sylph Capisi tells me of a time when she assumed human form to become the lover of a great poet. Though sylphs may love detachment and be in balance, Capisi is a sylph who loves beauty even if great conflict accompanies it.   The sylph Cargoste is one of the great wonders of our planet.  His mind is so strong and clear that without the use of thought or mental action he is aware of the entire atmosphere of our planet. It is natural for a sylph of his power to oversee climatic changes such as the onset and the end of ice ages.      #### The Realm of Sylphs   I place my awareness in the realm of sylphs. I instantly feel I am high in the sky on a clear day. The horizon of the earth circles beneath me. I feel free. I am full of dancing energy. Nothing weighs me down. There are no fences, no limits, and no boundaries.            Because my nervous system can sense any wind, storm, or weather condition, I feel free of restrictions. The sky is my mind. It is open, clear, luminous, and free of attachment or anything that would bind.   Like the atmosphere itself, I love harmony and balance. There is a constant give and take and negotiations taking place between opposites-- hot and cold, moist and dry, highs and lows, fire/light/electricity and water/feeling/magnetism.       But to be as one who dwells here most of all I love the enlightened mind because it is totally free and I love the artistic imagination because it is witness to every nuance in each moment unfolding.       If I imagine Cargoste, a sylph of astonishing ability, I can join my mind with his as easily as I did with the mermaid queen Istiphul. As a sylph, Cargoste is highly empathic as are sylph women. He is aware of the faintest mental vibration. He is the perfect Libra—he embodies harmony finding the perfect balance between himself and another person or spirit or himself and wind or the entire atmosphere of the earth.        Cargoste embodies wisdom—he is aware of the past, present, and future of a person or of the atmosphere of the earth. He can perfectly read another’s mind to the extent that he can speak to a person with the individual’s own inner voice.       The difference between the mermaid queen and the sylph Cargoste is that he is not after oneness and love. He is after balance and harmony. Detachment is never a problem for him because seeing through the other’s eyes and thinking the thoughts in the other’s mind is part of his perception.           Translating this into human terms, sylph wisdom includes the power of voice, sounds, intonations, and language. What if you could not just feel another's needs and want to heal them? Not only sense what they feel and want to help them?      What if you could speak with the precise words that persuade others to take care of themselves? What if when you talked to another you made perfect sense to that person and because of the way you speak, the familiarity and understanding in your words, the person would rely on your advice and follow through with your suggestions?      That is the power of the air element. It is not the active empathy that makes another feel what it wants them to feel. Instead, this is directly interfacing with the other’s mind so that person feels you totally understand them with your mind. That is one aspect of the wisdom of air.    If you want to persuade and move others to action to pursue a good end, then this might be one of the reasons you would learn to embody air within yourself. This is an ability you can master through practice just like training to become a pilot of a jumbo jet like one mermaid woman I know.    #### Gnomes Gnomes are spirits on the astral plane that are composed of the one element of earth and have very close ties to the densest forms of matter in nature. In nature, the earth element is seen in the forests, vegetation, mountains, plateaus, and plains—the planet earth in its physical being.    The earth element emphasizes shape, weight, density, and mass. As such, the earth's element provides minerals, building materials, resources, shelter, and food. The earth element is also analogous to consciousness. The earth element unites thought (air), water (feeling), and fire (will) into productive activity. We use this form of consciousness to make things that endure.   When strong in an individual’s personality, the earth element makes that person solid, grounded, stable, steady, and persevering. The individual loves to work. He takes something and he makes it more valuable. He fixes things. He transforms them. The world is a better place because of what he accomplishes. We could say this person is down to earth.    The earth element embodies a quiet ecstasy. Within yourself, you sense your connection to something of enduring value. This inner silence empowers you. It protects you. It shelters you. It separates you from those whose values are transient and of little consequence. Silence strengthens inner visions so there is never any doubt or uncertainty about their reality.   The gnomes I describe are in some ways familiar to us. If you attended a Medieval Fair, it would not be difficult to imagine Musar being there. He would have a booth where he trades and barters antiques or ancient things found on the earth for whatever human beings currently consider being of value. He is downright curious about the human race. He wants to understand where we are going and what we are able to accomplish.   The gnome Erami could give lectures at Harvard on horticulture, genetic engineering, biochemistry, and longevity. I think he could translate his direct perceptions of life, matter, and energy into a scientific language without too much effort.    And if the gnome Mentifil walked the earth in human form, he simply would not stop until he taught us how to extend our life spans so we live two or three hundred years longer. And this he would do simply by showing us how to increase our awareness of our bodies, of water and food, and of the life force in breathing. For Mentifil, a still mind in combination with concentration and imagination can reveal the deepest keys to understanding health and vitality.  #### The Realm of Gnomes  Entering the realm of gnomes: here beneath the ground silence reigns. It is deep and still; I am where ages and aeons have no meaning. All the same, the essence of my being is to take the matter in hand and make it something more than it was before.       I love chemistry and study endlessly how molecules bind. And I love atomic vibrations. Every element is constantly singing of the joy of creation, of having come into being.       Trees, shrubs, flowers and plants—I love to watch them grow. Their inner essence I go out of my way to make my own. Precious stones enchant me—I am drawn to them like a moth to a flame. But unlike the moth, I go right inside of them and there amid a crystal palace I sit and meditate.       Crystals I am sure as you must already know can contain the light of planets, stars, and constellations. I listen so well I hear those songs and I  sing along. When I leave a crystal, the song I sung within it continues to be heard as long as the gem exists in physical form.       There are palaces and kingdoms, temples and forgotten pathways of spirit hidden within silence. And when you are very good, having traveled the world beneath the ground, having researched and discovered new things relentlessly, when you open your hand the philosopher’s stone appears—the quintessence of nature perfected. Because I know the ways through the darkest places, spirit reveals to me its greatest secrets concerning matter and its transformations.         The earth is my home; I am never alone; I am cloaked in the beauty of the universe.           When I turn to Mentifil, I have an instant awareness of what a gnome senses about the human body—he is aware of the electromagnetic waves of the brain, the biochemistry of the metabolism, the electrolytes in your bloodstream, and the blood circulation through your legs and different parts of your body, the functioning of your lungs and your renal  system. He is aware of what enhances, sustains, and detracts from the health of your body.       A gnome-like Mentifil can look at someone and feel how every body organ is functioning and what herbs and remedies could be used to make them healthier. In practical terms, then, the gnome awareness allows you to feel one hundred per cent part of the physical world. You will notice that mermaid women so far rarely build anything. At the time of this writing, there are no mermaid training systems, no mermaid correspondence courses, no mermaid seminars run by mermaids, no mermaid institutes, no mermaid online classes, no mermaid dance and song training programs, no mermaid magic classes, no mermaid tours to the astral plane, no mermaid spirit guide readings (a mermaid Tarot deck is not quite enough to cut it), no mermaid story tellers though there are a lot of human storytellers publishing new books about mermaids every week.       In other words, with the earth element, you build something that endures and enriches the world when you are gone. There is one mermaid who is an exception but she is here on a divine mission that I do not think the human race is ready to understand.       For gnomes, there is step by step procedure and gradual development. There is embodying something that makes individuals stronger over time and that remains with them. And as I like to point out, for a gnome time only exists in terms of what you are working on. When you are finished then you can say, “I finished what I began—that is the unit I use to measure time.”   #### Salamanders  Working with salamanders is somewhat different from working with mermaids, sylphs, and gnomes. Each kind of elemental being presents unique challenges. Since salamanders specialize in power, interacting with them requires something more. You must resolve in yourself the conflicts between love, power, and wisdom.      Being exposed to the fiery energy of these beings may produce any number of side effects. It may give a sudden boost to an individual's will. If the individual has a solid and balanced character, a wide range of experience, and high commitments, then he or she will feel comfortable with the expansive and dynamic qualities of fire.    On the other hand, if the individual has repressed anger or is otherwise hostile or easily irritated, the fire may have bad effects. An individual may fall into fits of rage and demand others comply with his wishes. Or, he may overreact and respond with paranoia when someone threatens his security.   Then again, exposure to the fire element may cause an individual to become passive. The experience with fire is so powerful it overwhelms the individual's will. He does not know how to respond to, absorb, or direct this new energy that has entered his aura. He is temporarily paralyzed while his nerves are recovering from the shock.   The salamanders have different interests. For example, Amtophul gives a practical meditation for better understanding how fire expands will power. Working with Pyrhum results in discovering the power hidden deep within you.  Itumo offers an outlook on life that is electrifying—he offers the motivation to do the impossible. With Tapheth, your enthusiasm and your desire to act and change the world are vastly expanded. Since Orudu moves continents, he embodies the kind of will required to overturn entrenched institutions or governments. Such distinctions help us to understand how fire influences us individually.   In discussing salamanders, we are pursuing questions about will and power as they exist within nature, as they exist within human beings, and as they exist within divinity. We ask about the relation of the external world to the internal—to what extent fire, which symbolizes light and will, is actual energy we possess and can develop within ourselves? And we are pursuing how matter and spirit interact and the way desires can be refined and transformed to fulfill the purposes of spirit.  #### The Realm of Salamanders     Salamanders reside, for example, within great calderas of flaming magma burning with tectonic rage--ready to explode having waited for ages and aeons to gain freedom.      Speaking with the voice of salamanders: “It is not that I am not content just to be or that I have forgotten that in each moment my inner spirit is already free. Rather, I burn with such intensity that I know in my heart every boundary and obstacle will in the end yield to me. This is because it is the nature of my will and power to grow stronger.      “Others may like harmony, perfecting nature and transforming matter, or embodying a love that nurtures. But in me you see a volcano that explodes, a pyroclastic flow, and lava lighting up the night and making new islands in the sea. Without fire, how can there be life? Without fire, there would be no visible light.           “The planet earth is alive because I am inside. My turning and churning and create a magnetosphere and protects the earth from solar flares. I move continents and enrich the chemistry of the biosphere.      “I am fire. Hidden in me is the secret of being free of all need—refined and perfected I too am divine—I burn with such purity I no longer need fuel or outer support in order to shine.”      If I focus on the great salamander Pyrhum again his mind appears within the open space of my mind. Almost immediately a great variety of different fires upon this planet flash through my mind—the volcano, the cinder cone, lava tube, mountain exploding, pyroclastic flow, calderas of lava, magma chambers beneath the ground, the magma beneath tectonic plates as well lightning in thunderstorms and wild forest fires.       But Pryhum also looks beyond this planet. He envies the fires of the sun and with that nuclear fire within his dreams, he is one. Pyrhum seems to speak within my mind, that is, his thoughts appear within my mind. He says, “I keep the planet alive. I diversify nature and bring it to life. 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He would do exactly what Tesla, Nobel, Edison, Westinghouse, and Oppenheimer did—invent an electrical motor using alternating current, set up electrical power grids, or join theory and application in harnessing the nuclear of the sun.     If a gnome king were among us he might well teach yoga like Swami Rama who could start and stop his heart at will or be fully conscious during the delta brain waves of deep, dreamless sleep. Or he might be like Warren Buffet, called the Oracle of Omaha and often the second wealthiest man in the world. Like Warren Buffett, he would say, “Find something in life you love and then work at it with all of your heart.”    And we already know about sylphs with their artistic sensitivity and professional focus on sensory experience. We have Beethoven, Mozart, and Shakespeare.    But mermaids are not well known. 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While I was doing research on elemental magic in hopes of finding inspiration, I found William Mistele’s website, and this is how I first came across the Bardon system. It seems that although I never was a bold person overall, at one point I was bold enough to make one bold prayer, and this has made all the difference.   In several of his writings, by the way, William suggests that God really wishes people would be bolder. For example, William likes the story about the patriarch Jacob wrestling with God for a blessing for his people. He periodically references this story in his writings because he thinks more magicians should be like Jacob. Well, I’d say that wrestling with God is a fairly bold thing to do. William has a high level of respect for the Israelite prophets, saying that they “were bold, courageous, and no king or army could destroy them.” In his essay on the Mercury spirit Achaiah, William suggests that these prophets were great peacemakers. 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Obviously, factors like how much time and effort you spend on your training matter a great deal, but there is one factor people often overlook when trying to determine why it is that many people remain stuck on Step 1 for the same amount of time it takes other people to work through the whole book. To understand the importance of this factor, you must remember that IIH is, in Bardon’s own words, “a path to, and union with, God.” With this in mind, let’s consider the following metaphor.   Imagine that there is a person on a boat who sets off from a mainland dock and is trying to reach a faraway island. This boat is one of those small skiffs that you can row but that also has a sail that can catch the wind if there is one. In this particular situation, however, there is no wind, so the person has to rely on his own rowing alone. Needless to say, there is a limit to how quickly he can travel. 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It is because the force of the wind was helping one person and not the other.   Some Bardonists are helped by a similar force in their endeavor to work their way through the ten steps of IIH and reach God. Early Christians called this force *charis* (χαρις), which is often translated “grace” or “favor.” I will use the former term in this article, although this is simply a matter of personal preference. There are some facts that are true for Bardonists because they are true for anyone trying to follow a path to, and union with, God. One of these facts is that they won’t succeed without the help of God’s grace.  Grace can produce many effects. These effects can be divided into two broad categories – visible and invisible. The visible effects of grace are easy to observe. Consider a Bardonist who is never able to get a good meditation session in because his roommates are always interrupting him. 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And the angel departed from her.** (Luke 1:26-38)*  This event is referred to as the Annunciation. Those who are familiar with the Rosary will recognize it as the first Joyful Mystery. In this passage, Gabriel appears to Mary and states that she is “full of grace,” and that she has “found grace with God.” He then explains that Mary will give birth to the Son of God. Mary, in reply, says “Behold the handmaid of the Lord.” Contained within this response is the secret to obtaining grace. Upon learning that she would be giving birth to the Son of God, Mary responded by expressing humility. These days, we often address Mary with titles like Queen of Heaven, Queen of Peace, Queen of Angels, etc. However, when Mary found out she would be giving birth to the Son of God, which is the highest honor that can be granted to anyone, she didn’t say “Well, I guess I’m super important now. Everyone better start bowing to me.” Instead, she called herself a handmaid. 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In Christianity, the process of spiritual evolution is summarized in the life of Jesus, and in particular in his birth, death, and resurrection, which compose the mysteries of the Rosary. So, while those who deal with Western esotericism have the twenty-two cards as their map of the journey to perfection, we Christians have the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary as our map. The Annunciation is the very first mystery. This means that at the very beginning of the journey, we must have humility. Mary didn’t develop humility at the exact moment Gabriel came to her. Gabriel came to her because she already had humility. Humility is a prerequisite for the journey to perfection. Any Bardonist who lacks humility hasn’t really begun his journey, even if he has spent years trying to work through IIH. Different types of people have different approaches to working through IIH. The approach of Christian Bardonists is to start by developing humility, because when we have humility, we benefit from the grace of God, the Father Almighty. There is no greater advantage a Bardonist could have than this.   Mary has many virtues, but the foremost of these virtues is humility. When we pray the Rosary, we make her the object of our love and contemplation each time we say the Hail Mary, and in this way we become more attuned to her. One result of this attunement is that we acquire the same virtues she has, including humility. Thus, praying the Rosary is a great way to develop humility, and to open the doors to God’s grace. Any Bardonist who develops a high enough level of humility, whether through praying the Rosary or practicing some other spiritual exercise, will also become “full of grace.” There is no barrier that can stand between such a Bardonist and adepthood.   --- ### To find out more about Virgil please visit his author profile. 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During this four-year period, roughly 20 million people died. As the story goes, after these people left their physical bodies and entered the astral plane, they cried out to Divine Providence, despairing that they had not had the chance to spiritually evolve much during their previous incarnation, since they had died young and never found good spiritual guidance. In response to their cries, Divine Providence commissioned an advanced initiate to reveal a system of genuine initiation and magical training to the world. This system would provide sincere spiritual seekers with good spiritual guidance. It would also give them the skills and abilities needed to end warfare and establish world peace. In order to reveal this system to the world, the advanced initiate entered the body of a boy named Franz Bardon, agreeing to take upon himself the boy’s karma in exchange for being about to use his body to carry out the task assigned to him. This story makes it clear that we Bardonists are called to be peacemakers. Now, many Bardonists are called to be things in addition to peacemakers. For example, William Mistele is also called to be a writer, a good Bardonist friend of mine is also called to be a healer, and I am in contact with many Bardonists who are called to help restore the environment by working with the spirits of the four elements. However, regardless of what other tasks Divine Providence may also have called us to perform, every true Bardonist is called to be a peacemaker, because this divine mission is intimately tied with the origins and *raison d'être *of our path. Given that this is the case, what better patron saint is there for Bardonists than the Queen of Peace, the Blessed Virgin Mary herself? 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Recently, I have designed and made several Hermetics-themed rosaries, including the electric and magnetic fluid rosary shown below: ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Hermetic-meditation.png) The red beads in this rosary represent the electric fluid. The blue beads represent the magnetic fluid. The violet beads represent akasha. The clear beads represent the vital force. Since the vital force is worked with before the electric and magnetic fluids, I found it fitting to have the Antiphon Beads symbolize the vital force. For those who wish to make use of Rosary-based spiritual techniques like the 54-day novena to accelerate their progress along the magical path, I am giving away these rosaries for free. Since I am experimenting with different designs, each rosary will probably be a little different, but they will all be functional, which is what’s really important. 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In theory, this advanced initiate could have taken over the body of any number of people to complete his task, but Divine Providence specifically directed him to take over the body of a young boy named Franz, who was the son of a man named Viktor Bardon. And so Franz Bardon, at an early age, experienced a drastic change in personality and developed a high degree of skill in the magical arts overnight. As it turns out, Viktor Bardon was an intermediate-level Christian mystic who found that he needed more guidance in order to advance further along his path. In order to receive this guidance, he had prayed to God to send him a teacher, and this is why the advanced initiate took over his son’s body and not anyone else’s. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/blog-header-TSPOM-2.png) Now, if you are a Bardonist, then there is a good chance that you have heard all of this before. But have you ever wondered why God would send Victor a teacher of magic when he was walking a Christian path? It might seem strange, but when you realize that Christianity and magic are actually the exact same thing, then it makes perfect sense. As for why Christianity and magic are the same thing, that is what I am about to explain. To begin with, let’s figure out what exactly Christianity is. Of course, some definitions can be quite long and there are many traditions of Christianity, including many mystical and esoteric traditions, but when I study the Gospels, there are two things Jesus said that I think really capture the essence of Christianity. *Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. (Matt. 7:21)* *Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. (Matt. 5:48)* The first statement quoted above reveals the practice of Christianity – doing the will of God. The second statement reveals the end goal of Christianity – perfection. Thus, Christianity can be defined as a way to perfection through doing God’s will. For magic and Christianity to be the same thing, the end goal of the magical path must also be perfection, and the practice of magic must also consist of doing God’s will. Let’s take these two points one at a time. The end goal of the magical path, or at least what Bardon considers to be the magical path, is indeed perfection. This is a trivial matter to prove since Bardon either explicitly states this or strongly implies this at various points throughout his three books. 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May divine justice, fair play, and harmony shine through and within all that I do. May the words I speak, the breath I breathe, the light in my eyes, and the love in my heart transform the world around me. May my path be anointed with divine beauty. * *May all who enter my life see divine peace reflected through me. May the truth of the universe, the mystery of creation, the light which sustains and shines within every created being use me as its servant. May my will be so perfected that in the end there is no distinction between the satisfaction of my desires and the work of Divine Providence on earth.* Remember that Eralicarison’s ritual, and therefore this prayer, is specifically tailored for students of Bardon’s system. Clearly, this prayer is an expression of one’s desire to do God’s will, and no one who does not desire to do God’s will could utter a prayer like this seriously. Thus, the magical path is for those who desire to do God’s will, and the practice of magic consists in doing God’s will. Since Christianity is a way to perfection through doing God’s will, and since magic is a way to perfection through doing God’s will, it follows logically that Christianity and magic are in fact the same thing. They overlap one-hundred percent in essence, and it would not be incorrect to use the terms “Christianity” and “magic” synonymously, although I would avoid doing so because you might confuse people who are not aware that they are the same thing, or who have a very narrow view of what Christianity and magic are. Given that Christianity and magic are the same thing, it’s not surprising that Jesus was such a great role model for magicians. Note that when you pray the Rosary, you contemplate the events of Jesus’s life. By contemplating these events, you gain a deeper understanding of them, which translates into a deeper understanding of what it really means to be a magician. This is one of many reasons that the Rosary is such an extraordinarily powerful and useful tool for aspiring magicians. [According to William Mistele](http://williammistele.com/interv.html), “Christ's life is a perfect example of one who chose to follow a divine mission, to accomplish it here on earth, to share both in the full suffering of mankind and at the same time to live with an inspiration of giving and love that derives from the highest ecstasy of being in union with God from within.” Different people pray the Rosary to achieve different purposes, and it is quite common to adapt the Rosary to better suit whatever purpose you are trying to achieve through it. If you are praying the Rosary as a way of accelerating your advancement along the magical path, one easy way you can adapt it to better suit this purpose is to modify the Hail Mary as follows. *Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus, the perfect role model for all magicians. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.* Over the course of the next few weeks, I will write several articles and essays explaining what the Rosary can teach us about the nature of magic, and describing other ways the Rosary can be adapted to better suit the purpose of accelerating one’s magical advancement. But in the meantime, consider what it really means to take up your cross. Think about what must be done to crucify your egotism so that your latent divinity may be resurrected in its place. Does crucifixion sound pleasant? 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But what of its appreciation and contemplation? Can it also be an act of magic and mysticism? The answer is obvious. In the moonsphere we will be focusing on the contemplation of how things can reflect in the magician's perception. 1. While appreciating a work of art, let the adept ask himself - What does he know of what he is witnessing? This is the effect of the piece in his mental body. - What does he expect from what is being shown to him? This is the effect of the piece in his astral body. - What does he perceive through his senses? This is the effect of the piece in his physical body. Because the moon is always a mirror, let him make use of his contemplations to identify good and bad aspects of his soul mirror such as: - Understanding/confusion - Openness to experience/disgust-anger-contempt He will soon understand that it is the evaluation of events and not the events themselves that makes him feel, and he is able to direct his feelings more consciously this way and to surf their waves. Let him deepen the analysis of the process of contemplation and emotional response by dividing it in five, as in the five elements: **Fire/Expectation** – before seeing the work of art, where the adept can glimpse at his self-image. **Air/Judgement** – upon watching the work of art there is an attempt to classify, there is cognition. **Water/Withdrawal** – reacting to the cognition, the adept withdraws so that he can classify the cognitive process itself. **Earth/Self-awareness** – according to his conclusions, he is able to reassess himself. **Akasha/Essence** - finally ready, he accesses the aesthetic essence of the work unimpeded, engaging in self understanding. --- ### Mercury in Emotional Awareness Mercury draws us into a deeper structure of our interactions with emotions. Several things should be taken into account in regards to that: In the mental plane of self perception, our ability to perceive, control or engage with emotions can be divided into the elements likewise: **Fire/Perception** – detecting or reaching out to the variety of emotions **Air/Control** – harnessing and picking emotions to facilitate cognition **Water/Understanding **– comprehending complicated relationships among emotions, their rhythms and their evolution **Earth/Management** – becoming fully conscious of the different emotions and their relations and manipulating them in oneself and others to intended ends. These should be trained as separate meditations, one at a time, focusing on the duty at hand for at least 10 uninterrupted minutes, until full mastery of the 40 minutes sequence.  **The astral plane of emotional ability can be divided into 5 elements:** **Earth/Self-awareness** – full knowledge of the soul mirror and the ability to use gut feelings to work it **Water/Empathy** – taking other's feelings into account when making decisions. **Air/Social Skills** – managing emotions to get along. **Fire/Self-Regulation** – controlling and redirecting emotions at will. **Akasha/Motivation** – being aware of the divine call hiding behind the veil of emotions. These are tests to the magician’s maturity that require full use of a diary and of the soul mirror. One who is highly trained emotionally will find his social relations to be better, he will be well perceived by others, he will get a better chance of negotiation, a better management of family, better academic achievement, psychological well being and self compassion. --- ### Venus in Emotional Awareness ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/lotus-flowers-by-tanya-robinson.jpg)*Lotus flowers by Tanya Robinson* Balanced by all that was previously given, and empowered in his routine by the potions, the adept will now step into the venusian side of water. This is the place for him or her to become as skilled as the undine or the merman in what concerns pleasure and sensuality. ### Body The adept is to be still and breathing deeply in whatever he is doing and scanning the body. First he will notice tensions, but with time this exercise itself will give place to pleasure where once there were tensions. As a next discipline of meditation he is to touch his skin organ, scanning himself this way and inducing pleasure. He should then try to reproduce in others the sensations he has learned again exploring touch and skin. ### Soul Let's lose our inhibitions in what concerns sensuality. Sensuality has been used as a substitute for sexuality because sexuality is still not seen that well in the morality of society. It is true that sensuality should permeate sexuality, but it should also permeate everything else. While sensuality can trigger sexuality, most importantly, it can open the gate to the authentic self, and to the authentic connection with the outer, bringing joy and pleasure to all aspects of life. From here on, all interactions with emotion and desire become intimate and, ultimately, divine and non dualistic. While the adept was teached to remain silent on the inside for an hour in his training as an adept, let him now learn to remain vigilant and inner listening at all times to the slowness of all things, including the body, the textures of the air, grass and feet, a hug or a kiss, the presence of a friend or a lover. Notice pleasure everywhere and this practice will become experience. Maybe you will realize that your body can only hold a limited amount of joy, the more your practice and experience and your body will eventually become ready to receive the divine with no obstruction. Bath in the sensations incessantly and they will give you power and self knowledge. Sensations include sound, music, scents, bodily postures, eye contact, flirting, dressing and undressing, dancing, savoring and the creeping touch of your curiosity: all these are a continuum of a cumulative awareness that is similar to an ever wide and moving sea of bliss. Feeling good makes you honest, true, and removes stress hormones, that's one of the best things you can expect from yourself for it is all about being alive and feeding the spirit. ### Mind The aim here is to stabilize what has been given previously and to live orgasmically. What is an orgasm: an electromagnetic experience that is all-physical and equally out of body. It is the primal and the spiritual in a single substance. The internal landscape of our mind is rich with intention setting. Belief and thought creates the tissue of reality. Most of us are completely unconscious of this, but not the adept. Orgasm or multi-orgasm in complete surrender, vulnerability and extreme states of ecstasy will remove time and space from the subconscious and formulate an universal intention with the help of the adept's will. Such can change the landscape of the mind deeply. And what if you can do it moment after moment, with enough equilibrium, self-control and awareness not to become absolutely hysterical? ### The Sun On the Emotional Spectrum ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/The-sun.png)*Photograph by Jill Wellington* In here the adept steps into his Godform and applies the maturation of all that has gone before. Because he is absolute, he will perceive emotions through a place of omnipresence, and he should be able to be inside every being, individual or collective. A solar empath should exhibit a highly developed capacity to step into the shoes of other people, a strong courage, he should cause major social impact and provide inspiration for others. Think of adepts of this calibre that were not magicians, that didn't learn transference of consciousness anywhere, and of how much they have accomplished. How greater is the adept's responsibility? Empathy is a natural phenomena, but to the magician, being learned, it is also a duty. *I was beginning to look at a black person, shake hands with him, and see him as a human being. Something was happening to me. It was almost like being born again.* - C. P. Ellis, an ex KKK member who became a famed civil rights campaigner. > *I am a Muslim! And a Hindu, and a Christian and a Jew – and so are all of you.* - Mahatma Gandhi, campaigner for Indian independence from British rule. > *I felt that I had got to escape not merely from imperialism but from every form of man’s dominion over other man.* - George Orwell, colonial police officer, writer and politician > * I got to see what it’s like for a transgender person, or a person with a sexual identity crisis, or a lesbian or a gay person, and the daily harassment you can get… it’s a scary place to be, to feel not understood.* - Hilary Swank, actress and a campaigner on gay, lesbian and transgender issues --- #### To find out more about Andre please visit his author and facebook pages. ### To find out more about our latest publications go to our product page - ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/1595404574.png)The Gift To Be Simple by Virgil- ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Book-cover-moon.png)The Moon Zone by Nenad Djordjevic and Kadiliya Aili- ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/3d-cover-mock-up-of-the-corpus-hermeticum.png)Corpus Hermeticum by Marsilo Ficino (Translated by Maxell Lewis Latham) --- # Against Homophobia: A Perspective from the Franz Bardon Tradition – Virgil Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/against-homophobia-a-perspective-from-the-franz-bardon-tradition-virgil/ Any student of the Bardon system can tell you that this path is not without its dangers. Yet, the biggest enemy of aspiring magicians is not negative spirits, black magicians, larvae, or any of the typical occult things that are thought of as hostile. The biggest enemy of aspiring magicians is ignorance. That said, aspiring magicians aren’t unique in this regard. Ignorance is also the biggest enemy of society in general. If you’re a fan of William Mistele’s writings, you probably know that his website is dedicated “to the enlightenment of the world.” Since the spirit of this dedication is something that resonates well with me, and since homophobia is rooted in ignorance, I wanted to write a brief essay commenting on this issue from a Bardon-trained magician’s point of view and offering practical suggestions for dealing with it. **The Importance of Love** There are multiple degrees of homophobia. Some people straight-up hate homosexual people. This is a high degree of homophobia. Other people don’t hate homosexual people, but still think there is something wrong with them. This is a different degree of homophobia. Obviously, straight-up hatred of homosexuals is not something any serious student of the Bardon system would exhibit. In the epilogue of IIH, Bardon wrote the following. *All men seeking this path to, and union with, God should always remember the words of Jesus Christ, the great master of the mystics who said "Love thy neighbor as thyself." This sentence ought to be a sacred command to any seeker of illumination on this spiritual path.* Hatred is not compatible with love. Homosexual people are as much our neighbors as heterosexual people are. Love is not distant. Real love is intimate and only possible between those who truly understand each other. Trying to love our neighbors means doing our best to really understand everyone around us. It means dropping our biases and prejudices against others so that we can learn what they are really like as human beings. This is actually an important skill in magic, but homophobic people do not do it. Homophobic people look at homosexual people and see something that deserves contempt or something that needs to be fixed because their prejudices distort their vision. If your vision is distorted, you won’t be able to function properly on the physical plane, much less the astral plane or mental plane. You might think that I am confusing literal seeing and metaphorical seeing, but from a magical point of view, they are related. Perception is perception, regardless of whether the mind or the sensory organs are used as the instruments. **The Black Soul Mirror** I recently had a conversation with William Mistele about the relationship between religion and magic. During this conversation, William stated that committing to a religion often involves joining a tradition and “accepting its doctrines, practices, authority, and morality.” He then remarked that the student of magic, in contrast, “consciously works on developing the four elements composing the light and substance of the soul and seeks to connect directly to akasha, which in effect means he has his own source of authority from within.” This voice of akasha, or the voice of the divine within you, is your conscience. If you are following the path of magic, your conscience is your authority. Your authority isn’t a scripture written by homophobic people. Your authority isn’t a homophobic priest or guru that you have surrendered yourself to. Also, your authority isn’t a homophobic society that you are trying to fit in with. Your authority is always your conscience. Sometimes, it can be difficult to listen to the voice of the divine within you. Your ego also has a voice, and it is possible to hear the voice of your ego and mistake it for the voice of the divine within you. However, if you are the sort of person who should be engaged in magical training, then it is better to take this risk than to rely on external sources of moral guidance forever. As you advance along the magical path and spiritually evolve, your ability to distinguish between the voice of your ego and the voice of the divine within you will improve. Some students are conditioned to consider homosexuality wrong. Maybe it is a homophobic religious leader who is responsible for this conditioning, or maybe it is a homophobic parent who is responsible for this conditioning, or maybe it is a homophobic society in general that is responsible for this conditioning. If these students are themselves homosexual, they may feel inclined to put their homosexuality on their black soul mirror. I sometimes receive messages from these students asking about these issues, and I have to teach them how to identify their conditioning so they can ignore it and listen to their conscience instead. Eventually, this conditioning should be not just ignored, but removed. The work of IIH involves discovering and strengthening the gnome, sylph, salamander, and undine within you. Removing your conditioning will strengthen the sylph within you, because a pure and positive air element is associated with a clear and open mind, much like the sky. A mind filled and bound by ideas others have transmitted into you is neither clear nor open. **Mindfulness** Mindfulness is the second mental exercise of Step 1. One of the benefits of mindfulness is that it can help us prevent ourselves from contributing to the stigma associated with homosexuality. For example, sometimes, people who are not homophobic still use the word “gay” as an insult. Even if the person using this word as an insult has nothing against homosexual people, the use of this word as an insult contributes to the stigma associated with homophobia because it implies that there is something wrong with being homosexual. Otherwise, why would the word “gay” work as an insult? In addition, when we are conversing with others, we can sometimes say things that assume those we are conversing with are heterosexual. This is inconsiderate if the people you are conversing with are homosexual. For example, have you ever asked a female acquaintance “Do you have a boyfriend?” In this scenario, you are assuming she is heterosexual. She might not have a boyfriend, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have a girlfriend. It would be better to ask “Do you have a partner?” If we are mindful, then we can catch ourselves when we ask questions like “Do you have a boyfriend?” This allows us to modify our questions so that they are less problematically worded. Mindfulness can also help us notice when homosexual people are being bullied or targeted. According to a survey conducted by the British research and data analytics firm YouGov, almost three quarters of homosexual people who are the target of hate crimes because of their sexual orientation do not report the hate crimes to anyone. If we ourselves notice such bullying or hate crimes occurring, we can take it upon ourselves to report them. If we are absent-minded, we probably won’t notice them occurring. **The Four Pillars of Solomon’s Temple** The four pillars of Solomon’s Temple are qualities that can help the magician in every one of his endeavors, and the endeavor to resolve the issue of homophobia in the world is no exception. In the following subsections, I offer some specific comments on how each pillar can help the magician with this particular endeavor. **Knowledge** Knowledge is an important asset for those who would play a role in solving the problem of homophobia. Since ignorance is the cause of homophobia, ignorance cannot be the solution. There are a lot of people out there who think God hates homosexual people, so it is ok to commit hate crimes against them. These people need to learn that God loves all his children, regardless of their sexual orientation. There are also a lot of people who think homosexual people go around trying to influence heterosexual children into becoming homosexual. These people need to learn that homosexuals have no such agenda. If you are a magician committed to resolving the issue of homophobia in the world, you need to know how to educate people in such a manner that effectively dispels their ignorance. **Courage** Speaking out against homophobia can take courage. This is especially the case if you live in a homophobic society. In very homophobic societies, speaking out against homophobia can even be considered a crime, or cause people to hate you. **Volition** Even if you are not homophobic, you may be pressured to behave in homophobic ways if you live in a homophobic society. In these instances, resisting the pressure requires volition. Remember that volition is the pillar associated with the fire element, and assertiveness is a trait associated with the fire element. It shouldn’t be a surprise that assertiveness is an expression of volition. When people pressure you into behaving in a homophobic manner and it is not your will to do so, express your will by using assertive statements that make it clear that you will not conform. **Silence** For the purposes of this essay, I will interpret “silence” to mean inner silence, and not to outer silence. It’s important to speak out against homophobia when the opportunity presents itself. However, you must do so from a position of inner silence, which is to say, tranquility. Although it is understandable to get angry at homophobic people, it’s not helpful. Homophobia is a product of ignorance, and ignorance can be removed via helpful discussions, but not through screaming matches. Since we are all sons and daughters of God, we are all brothers and sisters. Therefore, it is fitting that we all remain patient with each other. **Final Remarks** These days, there are many people working to resolve the issue of homophobia in the world, and there are many different approaches and tactics they are trying. Some of these, I am not exactly a fan of. For example, some people try to publically shame those who make homophobic comments on social media. While I personally am determined to do what I can to eradicate homophobia and appreciate that those who engage in this sort of public shaming share my determination, I would feel very uncomfortable using this tactic myself. From my perspective, homophobic people are our neighbors just as much as homosexual people are, so we must show love to homophobic people too. Public shaming is not an act of love, but an act of contempt and animosity. While it is important to give constructive criticism to those who behave in ways that target homophobic people, it’s also important to ensure this constructive criticism is worded respectfully. Otherwise, it is not so much constructive criticism as it is destructive criticism. The bottom line is, when you decide what sort of role you want to play in the effort to resolve the issue of homophobia in the world, make sure that the approaches and tactics you use do not go against the values at the heart of the Bardon system. ### Virgil is a best selling author of Franz Bardon related subjects please view below a list of his publications. 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He is currently the author of four books – *[The Spirit of Magic](https://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Magic-Rediscovering-Sacred-Second/dp/9869492576/ref=pd_sim_14_3/143-5070267-1519063?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=9869492576&pd_rd_r=3010df99-6d3c-48f1-92d0-a3231323001c&pd_rd_w=8smyM&pd_rd_wg=80QqV&pf_rd_p=e2ec6e52-b3cf-46fd-9026-eedc9747371d&pf_rd_r=K9XGFJSQ7B67B5P1SP5N&psc=1&refRID=K9XGFJSQ7B67B5P1SP5N)*, *[The Elemental Equilibrium](https://www.amazon.com/Elemental-Equilibrium-Foundation-Magical-Adepthood/dp/9869492525/ref=pd_sim_14_2/143-5070267-1519063?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=9869492525&pd_rd_r=2d76457d-3dbc-4697-a911-88dcce7e9c11&pd_rd_w=BVdG2&pd_rd_wg=vPVuF&pf_rd_p=e2ec6e52-b3cf-46fd-9026-eedc9747371d&pf_rd_r=HXFJP1YATPZYYMFZN40Q&psc=1&refRID=HXFJP1YATPZYYMFZN40Q)*, *[The Covert Side of Initiation](https://www.amazon.com/Covert-Side-Initiation-Virgil/dp/9869492533/ref=pd_sim_14_2/143-5070267-1519063?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=9869492533&pd_rd_r=16179f44-ff79-46f6-890f-bf1d5b8a3385&pd_rd_w=iPKu0&pd_rd_wg=snyIf&pf_rd_p=e2ec6e52-b3cf-46fd-9026-eedc9747371d&pf_rd_r=SZRZHRWBBRYAHQJWTJTS&psc=1&refRID=SZRZHRWBBRYAHQJWTJTS)*, and *[The Gift to be Simple](https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Be-Simple-Students-Question/dp/0995769273/ref=pd_sim_14_2/143-5070267-1519063?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0995769273&pd_rd_r=8e1cebcb-a317-42c8-a8d4-0c02fb21933a&pd_rd_w=9RQsV&pd_rd_wg=MIIZC&pf_rd_p=e2ec6e52-b3cf-46fd-9026-eedc9747371d&pf_rd_r=R97YTZAZEHM50R7DQAPY&psc=1&refRID=R97YTZAZEHM50R7DQAPY)* – and runs the blog *[Living Franz Bardon](https://livingfranzbardon.blogspot.com/)*. Although he enjoys sharing his insights, he enjoys encouraging others to share theirs even more. For this reason, during the summer of 2019, Virgil organized the first Franz Bardon community fundraiser, which resulted in the publication of the collaborative book[ *Equipoise: Insights into Foundational Astral Training.*](https://www.amazon.com/Equipoise-Insights-Foundational-Astral-Training/dp/9869770525/ref=pd_day0_14_1/143-5070267-1519063?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=9869770525&pd_rd_r=842930ff-461e-484b-a9bd-5173ca39f4f6&pd_rd_w=Fpt8d&pd_rd_wg=cMxO7&pf_rd_p=fa3b4fdb-763e-40d7-b43f-8f5746023b01&pf_rd_r=Y4WNRF60377PAER0A2B7&psc=1&refRID=Y4WNRF60377PAER0A2B7) This book is a compilation of essays and poems about magical equilibrium written by over two dozen students and initiates of Franz Bardon’s system, and all profits from its sales go to the Best Friends Animal Society. - **Falcon Books: During previous discussions with us about *****The Gift to be Simple*****, you stated that this book has a smaller target audience than most Bardon-related books do. Can you explain why this is the case?** **Virgil:** In order to understand why this is the case, it is important to remember that there is a difference between Bardon students and Bardon enthusiasts. Sometimes, a person is both a Bardon student and a Bardon enthusiast, but this isn’t always the case. There are many Bardon students, such as myself, who aren’t Bardon enthusiasts. There are also many Bardon enthusiasts who aren’t Bardon students. Most Bardon-related books on the market appeal to both Bardon students and Bardon enthusiasts. As for this book, it was written with only Bardon students in mind. I don’t think Bardon enthusiasts will derive much enjoyment from reading this book. They may enjoy reading about the Bardon system, but this book isn’t about the Bardon system. It’s about how to work through the Bardon system. The number of Bardon students in the world is small compared to the number of Bardon enthusiasts, which is why I say that this book has a smaller target audience than most Bardon-related books. **2**. **Falcon Books: In this book, you talk about how urinating mindfully will cause you to advance along the magical path. Why did you choose this example to demonstrate the importance of mindfulness?** Virgil: My point is that doing anything mindfully will cause you to advance along the magical path. I use this particular example because it is perhaps a bit jolting, and therefore does a good job of waking people up to the fact that magical training isn’t something you just do when you are sitting in your asana in your practice room. Magical training is something you do in the car, in the kitchen, and even in the bathroom. Everyone who has read IIH knows that mindfulness is the second mental exercise of Step 1, and since it is one of the exercises in IIH, any time that you spend mindfully is time spent on your magical training. When you cook mindfully, drive mindfully, or urinate mindfully, you are engaged in magical training. Mindfulness is really something that can be practiced every waking moment. You can’t practice visualization or pore breathing every waking moment, but you can practice mindfulness every waking moment. If you practice mindfulness every waking moment, then you will constantly be advancing along the magical path and you will fly past all of the students who don’t practice mindfulness every waking moment. This is why mindfulness is so important. **3.** **Falcon Books: In *****The Gift to be Simple*****, you state that it is better to read books about mindfulness instead of books about Qabalah. Can you share the reasoning behind this statement? ** Virgil: You need to have a good understanding of mindfulness in order to become an initiate. Not only is it the key to mastering the Step 1 mental exercises, it is the foundation of the entire mental aspect of the training. When is the last time you found mindfulness-related advice in a book about Qabalah? It doesn’t matter if you know which path on the Tree of Life that every Hebrew letter corresponds to, or if you can eloquently explain the difference between Ain Soph and Ain Soph Aur. If you don’t understand mindfulness, then you won’t get far. This is why in my book I say you should read books about mindfulness, and that you should throw out your books on Qabalah. The most that a book about Qabalah can do for a beginning student is clutter his or her room. **4. Falcon Books: Do you think everyone has the potential to work through IIH before the end of their current lifetime?** **Virgil: I** have to be careful in answering this question because I don’t want to give the impression that magic is for everyone. In one of his essays, William Mistele writes that you should only undergo magical training if you are called to become a magician, or if you are dealing with a problem that cannot be solved without the use of magic. I agree with this. While I don’t think anyone who doesn’t meet at least one of these two criteria should study magic, I do think that anyone who does meet at least one of these two criteria has the potential to work through IIH. However, not every potential is realized, so the fact that you have the potential to work through IIH doesn’t guarantee that you will ultimately succeed in working through IIH. If you really train, then you will get better, and you will eventually reach Step 10 and complete it. However, most people who attempt to work through IIH won’t even reach the intermediate steps. This is because what they’re doing isn’t so much training as it is repeatedly becoming distracted. First, they become distracted by one thing, and then by another thing, and they call this training. I’ve discussed this problem of becoming distracted in my previous writings, where I point out that the occult world is full of distractions. Enochian magic, folk magic, and the grimoires may be interesting to some people, but are they relevant to the exercises of IIH? In this book, however, I go a step further and point out that even the Bardon world is full of distractions. This is something that some students of the Bardon system are going to have a difficult time wrapping their minds around. If you are a student of the Bardon system, then anything Bardon-related must be relevant to you, right? Actually, that is not correct, and I explain quite clearly why that is not correct in the book. Training in the Bardon system means being focused on your advancement. If you are not focused, then you are playing around instead of training. Too many people think they’re training when they really aren’t, and then they wonder why they are still stuck on Step 1 after several years of pseudo-training. My hope is that *The Gift to be Simple* helps people understand what real training is by making them aware of all the distractions that prevent them from truly focusing. In this way, they can turn their potential to work through IIH into a manifest reality. **5**. **Falcon Books: It seems like it is more difficult to identify Bardon-related distractions than general occult distractions. Is this true?** **Virgil:** Many students erroneously assume that anything Bardon-related is relevant to their training. That just isn’t the case. To give an extreme example, imagine if some company desperate to profit off of Bardon’s fame started making Bardon bobbleheads, Bardon coffee mugs, and Bardon jigsaw puzzles. Would buying these bobbleheads, coffee mugs, and jigsaw puzzles help a student advance through IIH? Should time spent shopping for these items be considered time spend on one’s magical training? Of course not! Currently, no one is selling Bardon bobbleheads, Bardon coffee mugs, or Bardon jigsaw puzzles. As of now (I am writing this on 9/3/2020), commercialization of the Bardon system has not yet reached that level. However, the fact remains that not every Bardon-related thing will help you advance along the magical path. When you liberate yourself from the erroneous assumption that all Bardon-related things are relevant to your training, then identifying Bardon-related distractions should be just as easy as identifying general occult-related distractions. You just have to ask whether it is really helping you advance, and then try to answer this question as objectively and honestly as possible. These days, most people know that a beginning student who is trying to evoke Choronzon using the Enochian calls has become distracted from his training. Someday in the future, most people will also know that a beginning student who gets into an online argument about how well the teachings of KTQ align with the teachings of the *Sepher Yetzirah* has also become distracted from his training. **6.** **Falcon Books: The way that *****The Gift to be Simple***** is organized differs a bit from the way your previous books are organized. Is there a reason for this?** **Virgil**: It has to do with the way I wrote the book. I would sit down and an idea would come into my head. I would then try to work this idea into a chapter until another idea would come into my head. I’d then try to work that idea into a chapter until the next idea would come into my head. Often, a large number of ideas would come into my head in fairly rapid succession. That is why the book has a large number of very short chapters. My previous books weren’t written using this method. I’d outline each chapter, do research, and then spend a week or so writing each chapter. This time, I sensed a stream of ideas pertaining to simplicity flowing through my mind-space, and I wanted to capture this stream in some physically manifest form. That is how this book came to be. **7**. **Falcon Books: How much research did you have to do in order to write this book?** **Virgil:** It depends on how you define research. I did not spend any time sitting in libraries and studying books in order to obtain the information needed to write this book. In that sense, I didn’t do any research. However, this is a book about how to undergo magical training, and it is based on my own experience. So, you could consider all of the time I spent working through IIH to be time spent doing research for this book. In that case, I spent about twelve years doing research for this book. **8. Falcon Books: In this book, you write a lot about how important it is for students to be able to discriminate between the books that are relevant to them and the books that aren’t. You also state multiple times that not all Bardon-related books are relevant to every Bardon student. Can you explain why you emphasize these points so much? ** **Virgil: **Yes. To really understand why I emphasize these points so much, it’s important to know that this book was written for future generations of students as well as the present generation. I’ve spoken with some of the Earth-zone spirits about the role the Bardon system was designed to play in the evolution of the human race, so I’ve seen glimpses of what’s coming. Right now, there are maybe two dozen or so Bardon-related books on the market. Someday, there will be so many Bardon-related books that you could spend years doing nothing but reading and still not get through them. When that day comes, it is imperative that students of the Bardon system be able to discriminate between the Bardon-related books that are actually relevant to them and the Bardon-related books that aren’t relevant to them. Of course, if you are a Bardon enthusiast, then there is no need for this sort of discrimination. You can buy as many books as you want. If you know Python, or Java, or some similar language, you can even write a computer program to identify when a new Bardon-related book has been published and automatically order it. But that’s not what I did. I don’t know any Bardon-trained magicians who did anything like that. We all discriminate between relevant books and irrelevant books and don’t read the irrelevant books, unless it is purely for enjoyment or because we want to support the author. As for books that aren’t Bardon-related, there are already more of those than anyone could possibly read in one lifetime, so even in the present period of time there is already a need for discrimination. If people know that not every Bardon-related book is relevant to them, then they will certainly know that not every general esoteric book is relevant to them. Sometimes the students who correspond with me will tell me which spiritual books they are reading and I’ll think to myself that watching Netflix would be just as productive as reading those books. Lack of discrimination is a real problem, partly because people don’t understand the necessity of discrimination. **9.** **Falcon Books: You are known to discourage people from buying your books if your books are not relevant to their current stage of training. What kind of people will *****not***** find *****The Gift to be Simple***** relevant to them at their current stage of training?** **Virgil:** Those who have a great deal of common sense, who appreciate the value of time, and who know how to discriminate have no need for this book, so it is not relevant to them. Their money would be better spent on other things besides purchasing this book, and their time would be better spent on other activities besides reading this book. **10. Falcon Books: One of this book’s biggest themes is the importance of not wasting one’s time and energy. What is the most important advice you have for those wanting to identify the ways they are currently wasting their time and energy?** **Virgil: **Learn to think for yourself. Otherwise, you will be forced to rely on others for guidance, and this will not end well. Different people have different ideas about what is or isn’t a waste of time and energy. Some people might think a certain exercise is a good use of one’s time and energy, while others might think it isn’t. Similarly, some people might think that reading a certain book is a good use of one’s time and energy, while others might think it isn’t. If you can’t think for yourself and are forced to rely on others, you will be very confused. **11**. **Falcon Books: Is there anything you think people reading this book should know?** **Virgil:** This book attempts to answer the following question: Why do some people spend many years on Step 1 while other people work through the entirety of IIH in the same amount of time? What I want people to know is that this question has multiple correct answers. The answer this book gives is that the people who spend many years stuck on Step 1 aren’t truly focused on their progress. Of the various correct answers to the question, this is the one I thought would be the most useful for the most number of students at this point in time. However, people should know that there are other correct answers as well. Perhaps someday I will write books about the other correct answers, but for now, it is enough for people to know that they should be focused. **12.** **Falcon Books: You requested that we publish *****The Gift to be Simple***** before your next book, *****A Tiara of Pearls*****, even though the manuscript for *****A Tiara of Pearls***** was completed before the manuscript for *****The Gift to be Simple***** was. Is there a reason you wanted *****The Gift to be Simple***** published first?** **Virgil: **Yes. *A Tiara of Pearls* wasn’t written to be a sequel to *The Gift to be Simple*. Each is a distinct book, and they aren’t meant to be part of a series. Yet, *A Tiara of Pearls* is a book that only serious students of the Bardon system will appreciate. After reading *The Gift to be Simple*, people may have a better understanding of what it really means to be a serious student of the Bardon system. 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But I can, at least, point out the most basic universal aspects there are to it, as true individuality is and must be universal by definition, all else being a part of constructs that fall like sand figures on the wind as soon as they are able to scream “I am I”, only to aggregate again under a different form like the news on the TV.  In times such as these, some adepts may choose to hide like golden turtles on their silver shells, there is the rumour that adepts have been doing it since the mythic fall of Atlantis, not wanting to have anything to do with the causes and effects of this world. But some may choose to stand up and bring their balance to the world at large, in which case they will face a world in a silent or in a not so-silent panic. Whatever the case is, increased time at home or in isolated places of nature is advised while Covid-19 is walking the streets, and unless the adept has found a formula to become invisible to the collective, he will have to feed his equilibrium and have it rock-firm in his body.  I am a part of the artistic community, except for the lack of governmental funding , I know many artists who are in a personal heaven, taking their time to focus on new creative experiments. But, unlike the magician, whose occult art can be hidden from the beginning to the end, manifesting in the quality of life, the creations of the artist must one day find their world on the outside, and the outside world seems to be temporarily closing. Maybe a different world will open, and art is all we take from one world to another. Be that as it may, to the adept art will come easy, and art will have him reach out without any violation of silence and, most importantly, it can help him perfect the outward projection of his mastery over the elements.  It is easy to fall prey to our mental and emotional impressions of achievement, and to the impressions of our plastic imagination upon the senses. But the true test to the Great Work is in what we give to the world and in the extent of the greatness of what we give, on how strongly our impressions can transit from one world to another. It is said that the element earth is the embodiment of fire, water and air in equilibrium, so that in the material plane we may have our test. Art is the most direct way to calibrate the capacities given to us by the elements. 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He will fill himself with clairfeeling and feel how such a place of reverence is to be, and from it he is to get his vision of the temple and get a sense of its mathematics, symbols and proportions, First he is using water, then fire, then air. Let him learn from the architect and draw.  **How close is the final result to the spirit and perfection of the overall concept?**  When the result and the aspiration are one and the same, the adept will have proof of magical equilibrium. A fine piece of architecture, materialized, can be the greatest pentacle possible.  ### 2. The Water Element - Dance ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/dance.png) Now, let's talk about water: about the second art, the art of dance. I  did the choreography for some  dance shows and work constantly with dancers, My specialization is Tribal Fusion Bellydance. We are not to get shy here if we are males, I know how to perform at least a variety of the basic movements and there are great male belly dancers and teachers, such as the Portuguese [Horus Mozarabe](https://www.facebook.com/horus.mozarabe/), known throughout the world. The first thing we must do is to  learn a handful of moves, not tribal fusion moves, as tribal fusion is an upgrade of sorts, but belly dance moves. I will use videos to illustrate this , as this is mostly a visual task.  - First, the [hip lifts and the basic shimmy](https://youtu.be/3K62qZ2hGyw). Now that the adept knows this movement and has acquired a new ability, he must learn how to use it magically. I believe he may have figured it out already. This movement is for the awakening of the serpent at the base of the spine, commonly called by the name of Kundalini. An electromagnetic current starts to build between the sole of the feet and the waist until it seems to want to burst up the spinal cord.  - As the next move, we will have the [belly roll](https://youtu.be/aLrZ2Q1mzuU). The belly roll is that exquisite and exotic move that impresses everyone, for how can the belly become as a moving serpent? There's nothing too hard about it, it just takes a little practice and what is that to the adept, who has conquered the disciplines of body, soul and mind? Now that he has mastered this move, he must connect it with the first, for the first awakens the serpent at the base of the spine, and the second has it rising through the abdominal region.  - The third move is the [chest lift](https://youtu.be/zqZNZHUr6B0). The adept must have found out where I am going with this. Yes, now the kundalini is at the chest. - [Fourth move: the head slide.](https://youtu.be/BH7fIPEPvoY)  And there goes the adept with the electromagnetic current escaping through his neck all the way to the top of the skull. Good! The magnetism of the water will drag imagination, willpower and sensation with it. Here it is, tuning the elements together. The adept will see colors, feel sensations that are very hard to describe. But let him move this force unless it binds him instead of freeing him. Let him use the [snake arms](https://youtu.be/SPFIR0G1L3A).- And, let's [center the flow](https://youtu.be/XEmKb7ZZYHs) again.- And [bring it down](https://youtu.be/I-5kAnlJdnA) again: Nicely done. When all these movements can connect together and are known by the body and the heart, the adept has a kundalini ritual in his hands. 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Learn the choreography and do it, do it until it is perfect, for such perfection will not be the work of the water anymore, but the work of the four elements. ### 3. The Air Element - Music ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/music.png) Further down the rabbit hole we jump, to music and air, the first art.  I will not be telling you to learn how to play an instrument or the music of the spheres, as great as doing such things is. If the adept gets lost in intellectual meddling at this point he will lose the true music of the spheres: sound is happening all around him to an unimaginable extent. Each sound has many layers to it, just like a perfume. Among many genres, I do concrete music, but I also use electronic manipulations. One thing I have learned from Karlheinz Stockhausen and then from experimenting with sound, is that my ears, when working with my mind or extrasensorial abilities, can do exactly what the machines do: for instance, they can take the sound of a drop exploding and stretch it to 10 minutes, examining very slowly the chronology of its stages. Let the adept explore sounds, and let him also take all the objects and study the sounds they make. He will be extending his lexicon of sounds so that, later, he can speak through them. Because the adept is an adept, this is not to be a compass in the hands of a monkey. When sound is released, vibration is released: the vibration reverberating the inner structures of the object. For instance, the adept has learned through the depth point how to instantly get to know the mental body of any shape, and through it, if he was diligent in his training, he will have realized the components and how to combine different natures to compose fluid condensers. It is the same with music. Musical fluid condensers are done through sound vibration and also rhythm.  **Yet, how can this be done from the magical point of view or, at least, what is one of the possibilities?**  Let's imagine that the adept wants to do music for his beautiful mermaid friend, Istiphul. He focuses on the undine and on his wish, as if he had already done the music and is just now listening to it. The fire element determines the success at this stage. A rhythm will come, then a melody will add to it, then a soundsphere, a three dimensional soundscape. Let the adept record this rhythm by whatever means he has. How good the mind can memorize this rhythm and have it reproduced is the air component. Then the melody, which usually comes as the voice. Don't be shy, use your voice, it can command djinns, how could it not vibrate in song to fill up a room? At the Golden Dawn initiates test the vibrations of their voices against the shaking of the windows. 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The mind of the adept learns very little through conditioning although conditioning may have been important in the past. **The question is, if you close your eyes and uncondition your mind, does your product materialize around you what you were aiming for?**  If so, good. The job is done. ### 4. The Fire Element - Painting ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/artist.png)*Lance Richlin demonstrating painting from life at [Lance Richlin's Atalier](https://www.facebook.com/groups/2083679955231475/)*. At painting we have calibration through the light, calibration through the fire. I can be pretty creative and efficient as a graphic designer, but I do have a handicap with drawing directly with my hands. Unless I put some effort into it, the trace seems to have a will of its own and diverts from the picture in my head. In this particular medium, a fault on the air element is shown, for the intellect fails to firmly connect the emotion on the act of tracing with the image radiated by willpower. The concentration of the mind here that can fix it is similar to that of driving a car when there's intense traffic. In both cases, it is the visual input that drives the steady movement of the hands. The method for drawing is not so different from the method of sculpting, except the adept isn't gathering his vision from clay but from the paper being used as a magical mirror. Our interest here is not so much in drawing but in the use of colors, tinctures and paints. To the adept, oils are most often the best, as they are very efficient fluid condensers by right.  Usually, to make it easier, the adept sees, during his mental travels to the higher planes, beings made more or less in his likeness or in the likeness of other creatures or combinations of creatures. 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The Mercury Sphere - Literature ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/books.png) Before we get to the Moon Sphere, let us go through the sphere of Mercury and the sphere of Venus as the Moon seems to reunite aspects of the two and to put them together. We start, with Mercury and literature, the art of the word. The poet, philosopher and novelist Edgar Allan Poe used to say that there is nothing words can't describe, instead, failure to describe something by words means lack of capacity from the writer. The way with words may not be very different from the experiment with sounds. We take words for granted, but each single word can mean a variety of things, depending on where it positions itself in a phrase and in its symbolic significance, that is, the expression that it is given from the intention of the writer or of the reader as a matter of fact. Even if one is to divide a word in many words, these words have many meanings as well. 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At this point, it is not digital at all, the high art will be fully materialized. The ancient Greeks knew that ritual and theatre were one and the same, but if at all, theatre was a higher form of ritual, the reason why classical and neoclassical hermetic texts seem to be written as theatre plays. The method may not be too different from the one applied here at the audiovisual arts, but this time the adept must use his hands, working with sculpture and architecture for his designs and scenarios instead of picking landscapes to film. He will also have to, as author and actor, embody the writing, the symbols, and the principles himself, the expression of his whole physic being the very breath of such principles.  ## 8. The Sun Sphere - The Artist Makes Himself the work ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/serveimage-3-1.png) At the Sun, the sphere of divine beauty, the artist makes of himself the work of art. These are the iconic artists, the ones who changed the paradigm of arts, such as Michelangelo who defied Pope Julius, they become legends because of their own virtues and qualities and because of their charisma, but are first shown to the world through their special kind of art. Their art must be of such an excellence that it is similar to a word that changes the quality of human lives forever. To make a better picture of it, we may quote Milan Kundera, “They, human lives, are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence, like Beethoven's music, into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of the individual's life” or, what Antonin Artaud said about Van Gogh “...I will tell you that Van Gogh is a painter because he has re-assembled nature, because he has, as it were, perspired it and made it sweat, because he has spurted on to his canvases in heaps, monumental with colours, the centuries-old struggle of elements, the terrible rudimentary pressure of apostrophes, stripes, commas and strokes, of which we must admit that, after him, natural appearances are made. And how many repressed elbow movements, ocular shocks recorded from life, observations made in front of the subject, luminous currents of the forces which work on reality, were necessary to overthrow the barrier before being finally compressed, raised on to the canvas and accepted?” Divine talent must be earned, but it cannot be conquered, it springs forward like a miracle that was given. In the old times and during the renaissance, the magician would know many human disciplines. He would be the inventor, the philosopher, the medic, the scientist, the mathematician, the politician, the multidisciplinary artist, the mechanicist and the soldier. Can we, at this time where information is so much easier to get, start having such talented magicians again? In future articles, I may dedicate some time to explore some of the non-artistic disciplines and methodologies in the light of magic. In the meantime, let's not forget that I have but given rudimentary exercises on art. 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Naturally, a lot has been said and written about the Moon and the Sun, in art, literature, philosophy, magic, mysticism, religion, theology and science. They are the divine providers at the immediate disposal of the mineral, vegetable, animal and symbolic kingdoms. What each of these areas of human knowledge and research have to state on both heavenly bodies can be summarized by way of analogy. But because our aim is not to write a treatise on the subject, we will have to move forward to the considerations that match the brief intent of this letter.  In art and literature the moon has been associated with somnambulist states of wonder, anguish and trance, it is connected with desire, especially a desire beyond conscious control, and romanticism has given it the crown of being the heavenly body that can lead the human being beyond himself, uniting him with the powers around him but having him adrift and lost in the end. The sun generally represents fullness, individual realization, firmness, and sometimes hell, as is the case of the promethaic tradition of literature, where the conscious mind of the characters digests the subconscious constantly and endlessly. Philosophy considers the sun as the place of the Logos and the home of reason, and the moon to be the abode of the subconscious. Magic and mysticism have the moon to bring understanding of the mechanics of the world and its living magnetism, including our own nature, and the sun bringing forth enlightenment, knowledge and conversation with one’s innermost light. Religions have a mother in the moon, a father in the sun, and science knows the sun gives warmth, light and moves the winds, while the moon reflects light and rules the tides. In terms of polarity, the sun is the active pole or the active agent and the moon is the passive component or ingredient. This is a gross resume, but may do for what is required.  ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/sun-and-moon-alchemical.png) In lore, both have been known to heal and to curse, but as ours is the craft of balance and magical equilibrium, we aim for that alchemical marriage between them. In order to do that one has first to try and look at the moon and the sun as symbols through different angles. While below, the moon is mostly a rebellious desire and the sun is of a conscious intention, above, the moon represents that orderly heaven where everything moves by divine grace alone, and the sun the rebellious force that moves independently according to a conscious will, or to the obtaining of a conscious will, and to some sort of creative unbalance. In the space where above and below meet, the sun becomes the expression of being itself, divine radiation, while the moon becomes the knowledge of the divine. This can be understood by meditation, and we are not to expand on it too much. It suffices to say that at one grade desire must be mastered by intention, so that intention is to be able to transfer itself to the body of desire and become enlarged. When by fusion both curves become a single line, magic happens and creation takes place. At another level divine order and individual will must come to perfect terms, so that each gains endlessly by the expression of the other. And, thirdly, our knowledge is to be the knowledge of what is in detriment of everything that is not, so that our being knows itself. We are born under a father and a mother, generally. We do not know our fathers as actual persons when we are yet infants, they are providing forces. We can not get to things for we are too small, we cannot acquire new things unless they are given, we cannot even feed ourselves. And we know nothing but existence. Our parents seem immortal for we know not death, omnipresent for they are near us at all times, omniscient for they answer all, and omnipotent for they can do all that which we cannot. When we grow and understand that they don’t actually have a grasp of our inner worlds, they lose this configuration, but the sun and the moon keep being omnipresent and a never ending source of life, strength and inspiration, and no darkness can cut them down.  ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/sun-web.png) On a fight or flight perspective the sun becomes the conqueror, its courage has beaten death and the void itself, and its emanation has become pure, but once there was fear, it grew against it. The moon never grew up, it kept having the sun to give her light, and therefore it never knew death, It is innocent. While the sun has owned its immortality, the moon was ever eternal. Franz Bardon tells us that before reaching the sphere of the sun one has to go through the moon, and this key prevents the mistake of trying to have the heavenly spheres be conquered by pride, for the gate is the gate of innocence, even if innocence has its own crones.  While this may be true one has yet to figure out the dual aspects. On the outer the sun can become a representation of authoritarian power, it is the imposition of conscious order against the most nourishing aspects of the subconscious and against the freedom to grow through the interaction of the conscious self and the subconscious, where the soul experiences itself on the outside in order to expand. Examples of this are the Romans, the Nazi party, etc, all working under the sign of the sun. While this outer sun works through the fear of the unknown, it abolishes its concept, so that to the beholder it expresses itself as something that can be known and feared, the fear of things human. But on the inner realms, it gives protection, security and has light to itself and to everyone else.  ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/the-moon-web.png) The moon is yet uterine. When an unborn child is in the womb he listens to the sounds and trepidation outside as if coming from the darkness, like an omnipresent mysterious mass of things unknown ever revolving. Because the unborn child doesn’t even know what a human being is, this is not a fear of human things. It is through this state of consciousness that H. P. Lovecraft came to connect with monstrous and abominable cosmic forces from the void, such as Cthulho, Nyarlatothep, Yog Sottoth, the Crawling Chaos, etc. Yet on the inner, while the sun has scorched a devious and cannibalistic world into a desert to obtain divine sovereignty and establish order and law, the moon is yet the oasis of innocence, where the muses dance with a light without beginning or end, a light that never had to be conquered and that has never been taken away and never will. If you look beyond the psychic shells that compose the Lovecraftian Mythos, shells charged with an ancient and primordial human fear, you might find these fair, royal and delicate dancers and muses of innocence beyond the horror of frailty, constantly restored by the light of the sun and sublimating immortality into eternity, for the way up and the way down are inverse mirrors, and even if it is the immortality of the sun, as a guardian, that provides the eternity of the moon, a mortal knows eternity and only then, to become its guardian, can he claim immortality.  Now, while this comes as an introduction, let us not rush to the wedding before knowing the groom and the bride properly. --- #### The Sun and Moon Within, for those Training Initiation Into Hermetics by By Franz Bardon (Steps 1-10). ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/sun-and-moon-blended.png) When I was training with the accumulation of the elements and manipulating the electric, the magnetic and the electromagnetic fluids, my initiator showed me again a pop culture video, where the character from Lord of the Rings, Gandalf, had left Gandalf the Grey to become Gandalf the White, and he was shining with a golden-silver light, resulting in some form of white radiance. Then my initiator taught me to gather the elements, as can be learned by Bardon, layer by layer and later merging them, compressing them and having them flow into one another, into a single quintessential fluid composed of dense electromagnetism, To this one would add a layer of electric fluids and merge it with the ON, the golden solar fluid, followed by a layer of magnetic fluids and merge it with the silver light oscillation of the moon. Again, one would press the two layers together and have them flow into one another to glow with a white aura while healing physical, emotional and mental wounds, traumas and vices.  The magician may find similar results if he enlivens his mental body with the solar fluid, his astral body with the lunar fluid, his head with fire, chest with air, the abdomen with water and the limbs with the earth element. On earlier steps let also the magician put on his sunglasses and gaze at a spot near the sun, so that the sun is standing between his brows and at the level of the forehead. Let him fix his mind on the sun for ten minutes, His progress will quickly become unobstructed, for it will strengthen his mind.  ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/sitting-by-water-at-night.png) But let him, too, sit near the water at night, under the glowing moon, and practice some zen painting, with one or two strokes coming quickly and graciously from a first feeling with no image attached. After a while, let him gaze at the moon directly and allow his mind to become vacant and to flow freely. The tensions of his training and the wounds of his daily life will heal and the soul will clean. It may be that some fears will emerge, or a sense of pressure followed by a headache, but if the magician is accepting, not holding and not identifying himself with it, breathing, eventually he will feel relaxed and a loving sensation will rush in to fill him. With time and progress, when the magician has mastered transferring his consciousness he may, if he is ready, transfer his consciousness unto the sun, to the extent of his capacity, so that it will enlarge the magician’s consciousness but also adapt to its size. This will render him capable of controlling from collective thoughtforms to influencing destinies, just as the sun influences the movement of the winds, and that as long as it is in accordance with the laws. He may attract other persons or situations or have them banished from his path. At any rate, perfect reason will come to his aid.   On what concerns the moon, he will be able to attain the gift of prophecy and enchantment together with artistic gifts.  Again, at the later steps of IIH he will manage to work with the four divine qualities and the assumption of God, and he can actually evoke the sun and the moon directly, with all their beings inside, as a singing miasma, into the triangle. And if he manages to merge the two and conjure the intelligence that is inside, he is almost as near as it gets to meeting God face to face. Again, if the magician is exploring the spheres he may consult PME and deepen his knowledge on the nature of the light oscillations of each planet. If he practiced with the Tattwas well enough, he will understand that just as he discovered his mental body and also an astral body, so as he concentrated each of the four elements in himself in such a way as to become, with his mental or astral body, made of that element, and similar to an elemental. This is a body made of the fluid of an element, just as the mental body is made of the psyche and the astral body of feelings and sensations. The same can be applied to the light oscillations, and the magician can practice having a moon body and a sun body, coming to know them well. Most importantly, just as he enters his astral body with his mental body, so can the solar body enter the lunar body, explore the cosmos, and, once solidified, inhabit the physical body.  Now let’s examine their alchemical connection further and how it operates. First, there is a direct link between the element of the earth and the element of water with the moon. 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The reader may have noticed by now that this structure is also eight-fold, like that of the Sacred Emanations described by the planets, and it too can be made into a quadripolar volt.…… > In practical terms this translates as the volt of the sun and of the moon to be anchored accordingly at the abdomen, giving the chest to the sun and the zone around the sexual organs to the moon. Now, to anchor these energies at such regions of the body does not imply that their radiation is confined to these areas, instead, it should glow several feet long and permeate the body  - physical, astral and mental - as a whole. The sun's astral fluid is hot, incorruptible and aware, it is of a golden color while the color for the moon's astral fluid should be silver, and cool, sensual and dreamy in substance. The magician should inscribe the energy of the sun with the desired quality and the energy of the moon with the desired quantity. > > Now we push into the moon fluid the fluid of the earth, contracting it, and into the fluid of the sun we push the magical fluid of the water, expanding it**.** Then we add the air element to the back of the neck and embue it with the desired concept, and accumulate fire into the base of the spine with a sense of exclamation. So that when both spheres grow wide and the fire touches the air and an explosion is set forth and all the forces therein conjured combine. The magician then activates the area of the throat, forehead and above the head, removing time and space from the subconscious. He then vibrates his intention. While he utters a conjuration according to his analogy, he should be pulling with all is strength the vital force he has so far manifested. The volt is to become so small and concentrated that it disappears at the point right at the centre of his body, having been blown into the world of causes only to come back as the desired effect. > > To be continued in Part II.......... #### Stay tuned next week Andre will explore the Sun and Moon within beyond Initiation Into Hermetics and discuss working with these forces in terms of evocation and the use of kabbalah in PART II. #### To find out more about André, please visit his profile page. He also has an in-depth interview discussing his journey through Bardon's 3 books. André's forthcoming title, Through the Soul Mirror to the Sphere of the Sun will take you through the soul mirror work, utilising these forces to aid you. 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We shall proceed to give some more practical advice, now mostly to the advanced magician.  And for that we may as well start from what was given above when we exposed the divine marriage between the sun and the moon in three distinct levels. 1 - **Desire and Intention** ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/blog-header-andre-desire.png) To have desire and intention merge Bardon has given us tools as the soul mirror and auto-suggestion techniques, with the magician taking away the concepts of time and space so that the conscious takes the place of the subconscious and becomes one with its powers and structures. The advanced magician can densify this power through sexual magic, having his body, filled with intention, become omnipresent as well, and turning passion to his favor. For it to work properly, the magician has to bring himself to the edge of orgasm as many times as necessary in order for the actual orgasm to be just the consummation of a continuous sensorial orgasm connected with the principles of the eucharist.  **2 - Uniting individual and cosmic will -working under magical equilibrium** ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Copy-of-blog-header-TSPOM-1.png) To have the individual will and the cosmic will become part of a single perceived structure, the magician can start by glimpsing at the nature of each by imagining the universe to be a limitless sea of white light filled up by endless creativity -he may use the yod hebraic letter as a sigil - so that at the end of his work with sex magic he dissolves himself in this sea and attains a vision of its intelligence - Divine Providence. Alternatively, he may do the other way around, imagining a silver light instead and that his body is void and absorbing the light until the light falls back into itself inside him, becoming a portal for the vision of one’s deepest dreams, unveiling the magician’s true mission and source of inspiration in life. Independently of the magician having such maturity as to bring these methods into proper utilization, he can still apply the part of the technique of self knowledge that I have given at *[The Way of Abrahadabra](https://siriuslimitedesoterica.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-way-of-abrahabra.html)*, it can be adapted and it can be made to work together with the disciplines of the soul mirror. > *The magician is to find a name that is suitable to him as a worker of the Great Work*. The original name should have a quintessence, translating both into a mantra and into a threefold intonation. We give the example of a magical name, Panreva. It's number is 887, and it may be read as “Psyche and Cupid” on the mental plane, “Mind Body Spirit” on the astral plane, and “Divine Circle” at the physical. It's keyword is “The Abyss is Locked” and it's mantra “Here divinity sees energy, breathes in and binds the magician”. So, at it's original concept it stands for the overcoming of all steps between the union of life and desire. This is also present at the union of Eve and Pan under the Sun, Eve is the matrix for sublunar life and Pan it's living expression, the instincts inherent to desire, while R stands for Resh, the radiation of the sun, that is, of consciousness. On an emotional level that concept turns into a feeling of oneness between thought, instinct and enthusiasm. On a physical level it translates as Divine Circle because once the union of these aspects is achieved the magician moves about the universe as a star in its proper rout, and because of it the abyss is locked, no manifestation can counter love connected to willpower for every event comes to feed the purpose of their marriage, which on and by itself may already describe the meaning of the mantra. The number for these expressions is 887, but the reader is not obliged to gematria. After the study and definition of one's own name is accomplished, the magician is to find a duty connected to it. He should find a verb to which all other verbs should connect easily, for the more isolated his verb stands the harder it will make the magician's job. Nonetheless, he should not choose an helping verb like the verb to be, to do or to have. He should also find an adjective to describe how he will be doing the verb chosen. For instance: «To dream out loud», the magician's duty, or his word as a Magus, would then be to dream out loud. Every other verb can be preceded by this verb. i.e. «To dream out loud of flying».  Some words may be ambiguous, so the magician is to describe what he means by dreaming, making use of three other expressions. What is it that he personally means by dreaming: on a rational basis, on an emotional basis, and as a practical activity? He should apply this method also on the adjective, and he is to form three sentences, as a manifest, based on his results.  To the original sentence he should add his objective. *To dream out loud in order to inspire those around me*. The objective is going to define the balance of his duty, and that balance should be defined by the four elements. Inspiration needs determination on the fire element, freedom on the element of air, a celebratory spirit on the water element and thoroughness on the element of earth. Whatever is the objective of the magician he is to find the proper elemental associations and practice their balance.  The magician is still to nominate by which means he is to do his duty and enumerate them on a document. He will be able to change that document to accommodate the needs of his evolutionary work concerning his duty. Each of these enumerated paragraphs should also have a temporal paper assigning the initiatives the magician is to take forward in order to serve their purpose and the course of the magician's actions towards his duty during a one year period. A book is to be made with these materials and sealed with the magician's own sigil, which is to be received while the magician is meditating on his magical name. Further validation is needed, and the sigil is to be recognized by the magician’s guide before the duty is consecrated.  The original sentence of the duty is to be inscribed on a belt which the magician should use during magical operations, and the sigil is to be inscribed at it's lock. At his belt the magician is also to rest his wand. The belt signifies the region between micro and macrocosmos, above and below. The wand is also to subject itself to renewed efforts from the magician, which is to choose a star from all the stars as his own and give it his magical name, to receive the star's original name in return. This means that from the first hour of the night to it's last the magician is to hold the wand in his hands and fix the star with his eyes. 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It resembles the vacancy of mind as taught by Franz Bardon but uses identification, in its negative aspect, the not-I, as a technique. For instance, one states *I am not this, not that, neither this, nor that*, nominating all kinds of things that come to mind, but why not start by everything that is attributed to the elements on one’s soul mirror? The Egyptian word neti means “being”, “existence” and “negative”, but the application being neti-neti, it is applied to itself.   Of this, in her title, *The Way of Mystery - Magick, Mysticism and Self-Transcendence*, Nema wrote: > In the classic Eastern self-hunt of neti-neti, you begin by discarding from your consideration any component that is obviously not yourself. Is your body yourself? When you consider the phenomena of blood transfusions and organ transplants, the answer seems to be "no." The sense of self seems to be singular, losing nothing with blood and kidney donations, and gaining nothing with heart or liver transplants. If not the whole body, then what of the brain? I seem to live two inches behind my eyes and three inches or so from the top of my skull, but I don't seem to be attached to a structure. I seem to be the movement and patterns of the electric flashes among the cells, rather than the cells themselves. > Are your memories, your quirks, and your characteristics yourself? Not likely, since you can say they are your possessions. The same applies to your actions, moods, instincts, tendencies, thoughts, relationships, conditions, habits, and experiences. All these things pertain to you, are possessed by you, even describe you, but, since you possess them, are not you. What a delightful, maddening mystery! When all your possessions and characteristics are discarded, the center of their constellation appears to be empty. If so, what is it that experiences, decides, quests, and questions? Who speaks and who listens to the inner counsel that advises about the best course of action, or nonaction? What suggests and what recognizes that there may, indeed, be entities who are more intelligent and more advanced than we are? What posits a "higher power" and names it "God"? Can the searching eye see itself?  > Approaching the mystery of self-hood has two phases: the active discarding of all possessions—material, non-material, and abstract— and the still, silent awareness of the nothing or something that remains. When you've reached the state of silent awareness, there's nothing to do except wait without striving. Since each individual experiences inner truths in unique ways, I can't predict what will come to you in that silence, or whether you'll recognize it for what it is. In my own experiences with visionary trance (or entranced vision), the fact shown, spoken, or otherwise inserted in my awareness was stunning. At the instant of comprehension I was unable to move, frozen in place, and often breathless. The ability to move physically returned before the ability to think or respond emotionally. In some fashion, the visionary trance bypassed any instinctual reactions of fear or flight and overwhelmed me with the power and clarity of its content. The first feeling that returns, for me, is a sense of limitless exaltation, a destruction and subtler rebirth of the seeker and seer, followed by an awe and wonder that I can feel sinking in and spreading through all the layers of my being. > Rapture is a sense of being seized and swiftly carried upward, like a fish or a rabbit in the talons of an eagle or a hawk. Solid footing is gone, and struggle might result in a fatal plunge. There is often a sensation of being surrounded by and merged with light. In my own experience I've encountered a warm golden haze, a brightness of pure light, a silver-blue radiance as well as occasions of vivid, living darkness, a light beyond sight. In each case, the radiance is inhabited by an intelligence that stays at the edge of awareness, scarcely glanced, almost seen, haunting, familiar, and strange. The light and darkness pierce and penetrate every part of you, charging your vibratory rates with new energy while bearing its information into you. > I've never encountered a more immediate, intimate, intense, and all-inclusive experience than the realization of a hidden/obvious truth. Presentations to your inner senses are more convincing than the physical world around you; most of us believe that there's a small chance of our physical senses malfunctioning, while we assume that our non-material perceptions are infallible. > Rapture invites total surrender. This is its function. By overwhelming instinct and experience, rapture peels you open to expose levels of yourself that conscious mind is barely aware of, if at all. It shows you a "you" that is tender, virginal, and impressionable. In surrender lies ecstasy. With surrender, you dissolve into the light and scatter on tides of bliss. No physical pleasure can even approximate that of realization's ecstasy. Ecstasy can produce "miracles," often outside the awareness of the ecstatic, yet witnessed by observers. The reported effects include instant cures, stigmata, levitation, bi-location, and the appearance of solid objects out of thin air. Suffusion with the visionary light sometimes produces glowing countenances and bodies, and the image of a halo is an artistic convention that echoes the strength of an ecstatic visible aura. Ecstasy can also produce a perfume known as "the odor of sanctity." Many saints in the canon of the Roman Catholic Church are ecstatics, safely dead. Now, at the physical level the magician is acting in accordance with divine providence, at an emotional level his desire and his intention are no longer discordant, and at a mental level he is neti neti, empty and fully present, and the moon and the sun lived happily ever after. ### The Moon and Sun Within for those Training PME and KTQ ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Moon-and-sun.png) Finally, for the magician experienced with both the PME and the KTQ, I will leave some information possibly useful concerning the Sun and the Moon, belonging, once more, to my latest book, *The Way of Abrahadabra.* Because the element of plasma, as presented in this book, will be mentioned, we start by almost explaining it. First, the elements must be concentrated and transmuted into one another by willpower and making use of the keys I am about to explain, only to later be reconstructed as the plasma on the Akasha.  > The magician will come to the conclusion that he has mastered his ascension through the elements when from earth he is able to build water, when from water he is able to get into the air, when from the air element he is able to ignite a fire. On the physical this might seem simple, water is easily made out of salt, and this water can easily be made into a vapor. With a little electricity, it is easy to make fire out of gas. But philosophically other questions are raised that must be answered gradually by the elementals themselves with all their hierarchies. When dealing with the fire the magician's final quest is to, by way of fire, find the means to proceed into the spiritual realm, that zone outside the circles of time, the triangles of space and the squares of matter, everywhere infinite and every time eternal, to which we will be giving the name of Akasha and the shape of a black egg. Here, just as a man has on earth legs, arms, trunk and head, every being is omnipotent, omnipresent, immortal and omniscient. > Beings from this non-zone can also be materialized on the triangle if the magician is able to distill, separate and extract the magnetic components of earth and water, and the electric components of air and fire, having them united on a single composite and charging himself and the room with that component.... > ...We will proceed to leave some hints from the beings we have mentioned that will help the magician get started on his initiatic ascension through the elements: > Ponual points out that it is a virtue of earth to be one with itself. In this way, it's silence is the incarnation of truth. To separate earth from itself is to lie and to sin against truth, but from every new lie comes a new truth and from every new sin an ancient virtue. The earth is to be divided or corrupted and made to fear itself, for from it the earth will seek a deeper peace in surrender and it will become as water. The formula here is that of 4=2, meaning daleth = beth, or that the door and the house are rendered two and the same. It is also the formula for completion in harmony with division. > Wualwin points out that while generally the beings of one element can not easily contact the beings from another element, light is in reach of each elemental no matter what his element may be and it is part of the elemental feeding or breathing system. He points out that water, dark and receptive, is able to reflect light especially well and it can also receive it. Just as by repeatedly hitting a rock, water can turn it into sand, so can the constant use of magical light remove any sense of weight from the water. At this point a first bridge is built between water and air. The formula here is of 2=3, meaning that electromagnetism is equal in all three planes of matter, energy and thought, and it consequently means beth = guimel, or that the house becomes as a means of transportation. > Rasura refers that wind can be turned into fire by blowing it against itself, creating some sort of weight by pressure and then magnetizing the pressure. The magnetizing power of the air comes from the high regions of the sky where humidity generates. Then the magician is yet to ignite it with the hot winds that are generated through the friction of matter, such as the gulfs that come from volcanoes or the sparks that jump when rock hits rock. In the strange ways of the elementals this can be translated as absolute freedom meeting the most exuberant lust. The abyss between air and fire is vaster than between earth and water or between water and air, and vaster will be the distance between the fire and the spirit. The formula presented by Rasura can be translated as 5=6, the equilibrium between movement and light, also meaning hooked wind.  > Gorgonon's words are somehow enigmatic. He tells us that to get from fire to spirit one needs to burn his soul, for the soul, being invisible, its ash is visible. One is to leave the mind and the body unmolested and to burn one's astral body, gathering the ash and making a fetish. That fetish is as a ziggurat that will allow consciousness to rise unto the cosmos and to the realms of spirit. One has but to transfer his consciousness to it and meditate, reaching out to the spirit who will then  rebuild the soul. One may not forget that the elementals talk to us as if we are one of them, and some of the teachings can only make complete sense in their realm. An elemental has to sacrifice his soul to get to akasha and to be able to reach all the elements, becoming a human, for where we have an astral body the elementals have only a condensation of the astral element to which they are confined. Whatever the case is, the human magician, being in possession of all the elements on the pentagram, is still able to use Gorgonon's advice. To the human the ash of a salamander's soul can be physically found as that lichen that grows on the oak after it has been struck by lightning and has continued to thrive, and that was once so sacred to the druids. But applied directly to a human soul, the initiation described by Gorgonon corresponds to the crossing of the abyss or to the so called night of the soul.......but it's formula is that of 2=9, where duality first becomes a matrix for the multiplicity of forms. The individuality of the magician is ever consumed by his will and the macrocosmos abides, for he is living in the way of the serpent and her belly is his house. I interrupt the quotation to leave a note. Fear not, bold reader, for Gorgonon’s advice can be understood through the Phoenix and the Oroboros. At the earth element we apply fragmentation by willpower, at the water element we apply the principle of light, the wind consumes itself into fire and the fire consumes itself until only the emptiness of akasha remains. I resume the citation with a description of a being from the akasha:  > Fauldan appears robed in dark blue and with his back turned to the magician, his head being covered by his hood. He is a great master of demonology and can bind any demon to his will. Inside his robes he is an androgynous hermaphrodite and his eyes, when shown, can transport the magician directly to heaven or crush down the profane. He brings psychokinesis to the mind, the silence of death to the soul and fear or bliss to the body.........his hint for the reader about discovering the plasma invites him to do some research on the substance of tears. The mucous layer keeps the tear attached to its source, the watery layer hydrates the eye and protects it, the oily layer preserves the other layers and prevents them from evaporating all the while smoothing the tear's substance so that the eye can see through it. The element of earth is to become as the mucous layer, the element of water remains, the element of air is to become as the oily layer and the element of fire as the iris. Akasha is the mass of the eye in this formula. > On another note we add now some additional information that the reader of this article, the Bardonist, may understand. Consciousness attaches to the source, the Akasha, and is allowed to breathe and subside outside time and space through boundless love. An all-knowing wisdom smooths love and keeps it clear and intact, so that directed clairvoyance may remain unobstructed. The plasma having been introduced, we now may follow to the Sun and the Moon without further delays. > ** > ** #### The Sun - mirror, triangle, charging the room, charging oneself, example of a being: #### ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/the-cosmic-self.png) > As a warming up exercise the magician should practice transferring his consciousness to the spider, to the pelican and to the lion....an oval mirror of a frame of gold with silver paper installed behind transparent glass. 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Inside it, only love can move the magician, and it should direct him to the sun on the macrocosm interposed with the mirror on the microcosmos. #### Fluid condensers to help charging the triangle where the mirror stands are:   ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/potions.png) > A bowl of black oil containing algae, magnetites, quartz, uraninites and a monazite. The black oil should be sprinkled with water from a mineral spring and some sea water....There are many other materials more or less capable of giving some scarce sort of familiarity to the beings from the sunsphere, but they are largely radioactive and dangerous to work with.  > > The incense to burn should be prepared out of an oak tree. > > The symbol for the sphere of the sun is a circle with a dot at the middle and it should be represented on the magical circle also. The fluid of the sun was described already. It should be hot, incorruptible and aware, and of a golden color so intense that it becomes white at the center. > > The magician should add to the charging of the place and of himself the sovereign name at the archetypal world of the sunsphere: > > YHVH Eloah Ve-Daath, meaning "manifestation of the divine in knowledge and balance."In a threefold sense it means  "Has revealed God's Will" on the mental plane, "Love is universal"on the astral plane and "I am ready to fulfill my destiny" on the physical plane.   > > Raphael, meaning "the healing of God". In a threefold sense it is formulated as "At peace" on the mental, "Golden chalice" on the astral, and "Angelic healing" on the physical.  > > At Yetzirah, or in the formative world, the name is* Malachim* and means Kings, this is the order of angels that the magician will be contacting. In a threefold sense, the word should be magically pronounced as "I am a God" on thought, "Be one" on feeling, and "Icon" on the five senses.  > At Assiah or the material plane, he is to evoke the sun as the actual star it is, he has learned right at the fourth step how to transfer his consciousness directly to the sun and how to feel it's vibration, but it's threefold intonation is  "The Logos" on the mental, "I am Christ" on the astral, and "saints" on the physical or etheric world. The Logos is the very soul of reason, Christ in the neoplatonic sense is the ascension of the senses through the heart, saints are those who burn in the holy fire by having transmuted their senses through the heart, therefore ascending to the Logos. > These should be added to the charging of one's self and of the place. The magician may repeat the words until saturation is achieved in the air and there is a feeling of omnipresence on the body. > Electromagnetism, instead of the elements, should come into play. All air and warmness in the room or at least inside the triangle should become so dry that it stinks of electricity, and all the solid bodies and all humidity should be so magnetized that there is no perceived difference between them and magnetism itself.   > We still have to indicate that the triangle should catch the light of the sun and the remaining room should be in the shadow. > The black and white candle, the hat, and everything else that has not found a proper substitute in here, is to be kept,»...«Finally, the elements are to be replaced. An additional note should be given that may come up as a revelation to the magician, for it is hardly mentioned on any other system of magic, and if the magician wants to have any luck contacting these intelligence's without it ending up in yet one more allegory of the cave, he is to consider the scale. The sun is made up of gas, heat, light and plasma. This means its most solid element is gas, which, in turn, means the element earth to the sun, such as the Greeks considered it, is air; The element water, to the Sun, is fire; The element air, to the Sun, is the light, and the element fire is the plasma. Therefore, to work with the sunsphere, the magician would fair better rebuilding his training anew while having this into consideration, and changing the scale accordingly.  For instance, if the magician wants to stand as something scarcely similar to a sun being before having him on the triangle  he should charge his limbs with the air element, his belly with the element of fire, his chest with light and his head with plasma. The concept of the elementals should also be taken into account in the scale of the sun, because even the gas elementals at the sunsphere are very different from our air elementals, and the sun's heat elementals know realities that are fairly far from the ones known by our fire elementals. Again, I will interrupt to lend further insight into this subject of altering the scale of the elements. It is true that the magicians’ devices of perception may envision the being of the sphere of the sun under different forms according to his own reading of the world. But, at its natural state, the closer such a being has to a conscience of a body is the ideas, and he resembles a sun himself, with his emotions being made of a great concentration of willpower and his limbs its materialization under the form of original ideas, like sunbeams. These ideas, irradiated by willpower, in turn, originate from a place of absolute victory, a place of the light of all lights, which is as close as the sun-being has to an intellect as we know it.  Another aspect may have not escaped unnoticed to the learned hermeticist. While I have mentioned elementals from the physical sun, one of the opinions there is about the planetary spheres is that they are not connected with the physical planets at all, but different layers of, say, the akasha or, on a gross metaphor, the upper floors of the zone girdling the earth. While with the advance of science the platonic or neoplatonic philosopher and magician had to distance himself from science in order to keep his means of validation inside his own philosophical system, what happened by then is that the science of the scholars was advanced but not so advanced as to bring insight into the matter at hand. In fact, science, today, is perfectly aware of the magnetosphere. We have to make some things clear, in light of scientific magic. One of them is that which we may call spheres in relation with the planets. First we have to understand that electricity is the force that any two things exert over one another. Magnetism is the force weaved by the movement of these two things in relation to one another. Electromagnetism is a conjunction of both. Now the magnetic poles of a planet move every year, the inner core spins faster than the outer core and there are field reversals, which have some connection with the Aeons or spiritual ages. These movements form an enormous magnetic field that extends into space, called the magnetosphere, whose dynamics come up with the rays and the planes. This is the magnetic reach of a celestial body. The solar wind or cosmic fire compresses the magnetosphere on one side and stretches it on the other. In earth's case it extends about ten times the radii of the earth towards the sun and a thousand away from it. This means that it is somehow possible for the spirit of earthly conscious beings to truly understand the eye of the sun, and possible for the mind to be impregnated by that very eye of the sun. Although the soul can mimic this force through the science of analogy, it is more or less out of reach. The spirit can actively understand the void, and mind, soul and body can be touched by it if the mind is empty, the soul quiet and the body still. The whole of the Earth's magnetosphere is touched by the density, speed and temperature of the solar winds. The earth sphere, which is the earth, inner and outer crust, and also its magnetosphere, receives the sun through its etheric body, mental body and astral body, and then envelopes the sun with her own magnetic fluctuations. As these fluctuations manifest inside the Earth's magnetosphere they make the space weather. Just as the weather inside the atmosphere has generated life on our planet, the space weather generates the life of the entities used at evocational magic, and yet this as a spatial and temporal reflection of a timeless and spaceless dimension. This process is happening at almost every celestial body. The magnetosphere of the sun exists. And the magnetosphere of the galaxy exists, so that the spheres often contain and intercept each other, and from magnetosphere into magnetosphere the wild and perfectly trained magician might travel. The immediate order by which these fields meet scientifically, is the same as composed by Bardon concerning magic and mysticism. I shall now resume quoting from *The Way of Abrahadabra:* > Elementals apart, we should proceed to give an example of a cosmic being from the sphere of the Sun: > Omnar-in appears like an endless surface of nuclear fusion, with five concentric dots functioning as lungs:  an horizontal line of three dots preceded by a vertical line of two. From one of the horizontal dots came, for instance, the design of the trees here on earth. From another, the breathing process of mammals. From the third horizontal dot came the intelligence of men. From one of the vertical dots came the writing of angels, and from the other the original idea of the process of sight as it is possible with our known scientific dimensions. The being itself is very hard to describe and he turns the mind directly into its vibratory state. The astral body is expanded immediately when it gets in contact with Omnar-In, it expands so much that it becomes the starry space itself with a concentric bolt of energy where a higher awareness on the magician is installed. At the physical level Omnar-In places angels at the service of the magician, capable of carrying out many tasks and performing miracles.    > His sigil is a shadowy blood red circle with an empty spot inside the circumference at the northeast. Inside it there are two stars of eight rays, one on the top left and one on the top right, having under them the head of a lion with the tongue of a serpent leaning upwards. This head finds as a body the trunk of a scorpion of six vertebrae, no legs, no claws and a glowing sphere of blood instead of a tail.    #### The Moon - mirror, triangle, charging the room, charging oneself, example of a being: ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/the-cosmic-self.png) > As a warming up exercise he should now practice transferring his consciousness to the turtle and to the elephant........On the other hand the penis could be warmed by fiery oils and the testicles refreshed by a cooling oil, or the woman should refresh around the womb and warm her sex up by the use of different oils, as long as they are safe. > There is another mirror for the moonsphere, it's frame being silver made, with golden paper installed behind the glass, which should be anointed  by the same infusion as with the golden framed mirror except for the bodily fluid. For the Moon that fluid should be pre-ejaculative to men and of menstrual nature to women. > > The magician is to charge the mirror in the same way, with the element of Light. But this time, on top of it, he should impose upon the blackness of akasha the vibration of a different metal, silver, and again send the resulting substance into the mirror, also absorbing it himself...... > ...Inside an iron cauldron covered with aluminium paper there should be congealed water containing volcanic rocks and crystals inside. The ice is to be sprinkled with liquid magnesium. The incense to burn should be jasmine and orchid root. > The scale of the four elements on the Moon changes in that the element earth's grossest form is glass or crystal, which is it's finest form on our planet. It's feeling is no longer dark but luminous with transparency, it is not introspective but it catches the life of everything around it and gives it back, and it is no longer heavy, only solid. Also, the element of water at the Moon is as that of fire on planet earth but congealed. It is stagnant, introverted and cold. The element of air in the Moonsphere is non-existent, replaced by the process of Comminution, which is the breaking of every particle into smaller particles. It is still expanding, extroverted and light, but instead of working as a mediator as our air element works here on earth, it's aggressive component forces all dense matter to become lighter and lighter. The fire element at the moonsphere is the solar wind and therefore, again, the Plasma.  > The symbol for the sphere of the moon is a silver circumference and it should be represented on the circle as well as on the triangle. Let the magician not forget to practice tracing these symbols on a three dimensional visual, imagining also the temperature emitted, the smell, the taste in the air it leaves, and the sound of its vibration. The silver circumference should be drawn with the moon's astral fluid. The moon's astral fluid is silver in color, cool, sensual and dreamy in substance. #### The magician is to add to the charging of the place the recipe contained on the sovereign name at the archetypal world of the moonsphere: ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/potions.png) > Shaddai El Chai means “Almighty God of Life”. In a threefold sense it stands for  “O Gate” on the mental plane, “The O” on the astral plane and “King of All” on the physical plane. O is the circle, the magnetic field on which things occur and come to be.   > It's archangel, which is also as it's divine name at Briah – or creative world, should also come to mind: > Gabriel means “Divinity is my strength”. In a threefold sense it is fomulated as “Faith” on the mental, “Dharma” on the astral and “An Idol” on the physical or etheric planes. Dharma is that which sustains: following life's purpose.  > At Yetzirah, or in the formative world, the name is “Kerubim” and means “The Mighty Ones”, this is the order of angels that the magician will be contacting. In a threefold sense, the word should be magically pronounced as “Realm of light” on thought, “Goodness” on feeling, and “Pneuma” on the five senses. Pneuma is the prana or the Great Agent, the living astral light. > At Assiah or the material plane, he is to evoke the moon as an actual body in the sky, he has already learned at the Grade of the Hexagram how to transfer his consciousness directly to the moon and how to feel it's vibration, but it's threefold intonation is  “Semen” on the mental, “Lamb of God” at the astral, and “Hand of God” on the physical or etheric world.  > These should be added to the charging of one's self and of the holy place. He may repeat the words until saturation is achieved in the air and there is a feeling of omnipresence on the body, similar to that of an orgasm. > Electromagnetism, instead of the elements, should come into play....Once this is done, this electricity and this magnetism can be refilled by the elements at the scale of the moon.  > At this occasion the triangle should catch the light of the moon and the remaining room should be in the shadow except for the candles. #### Example of a cosmic being from the sphere of the Moon: ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Cosmic-moon.png) > Uhliven appears first as a floating indigo banner with a sign of a silver panther drawn into it. If the magician stares long enough it changes its shape into something similar to a one eyed badger but crowned with a solid-steel silver spider. The spider seems frozen but it lives and its legs are inserted on the badger's brain. If the magician keeps focusing on this figure it finally changes into a mouth of many suckers, it's tongue being as a silver disk with a smaller white disc inside, this smaller white disc is Uhliven's essence. Her presence in this final shape is very stunning and the magician may feel dizziness. She is responsible for the human notion of the void, she brings numbness to the mind, allowing it to freshen up, offering good sleep and aiding in techniques of meditation. She allows the soul to dream and the emotions to find their own places without the interference of the mind, in this way becoming a therapeutic facilitator. On the physical, she is able to silence one's enemies.   > Her sigil is of two silver dots at the top right plus two at the top left, a silver dot in the middle and two horizontal lines of three silver dots below.  > Her keyword is “Womb” and her mantra “I hold the Life of God and my actions give breath to His children.” > > Signs that the magician is mastering his ascension through the moonsphere are given when, among other prodigies, he is able to find that ancient alphabet available only through rhythm and not through words and is capable of animating all things with it and to influence life's events. Light will appear to him as a dimension of space itself and an unfoldment of time. And he will learn to materialize the invisible through silence. > The elementals of our own sphere will always rush to protect and serve the magician that has become respected on the moonsphere. The deeper the magician explores into this sphere the better he will understand the lore hidden in silence itself. When silence itself renders him unable to advance any further on that context, he is to command his psychic abilities further. In the hope of having been useful in any way possible, I leave you to progress. May success bless you. --- ### To find out more about André, please visit his profile page. He also has an in-depth interview discussing his journey through Bardon’s 3 books. André’s forthcoming title, Through the Soul Mirror to the Sphere of the Sun will take you through the soul mirror work, utilising these forces to aid you. 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This title has been translated from Latin into English: a scholar in Latin in his own right.  Having completed an BSc（Hons) in Classical Studies in 2016 at the Open University, Max Latham is an ancient historian, a classical scholar, an archaeologist and most of all: a contemplative spiritual seeker. Although Max has studied agency theory, anthropology, medieval history, Reception Studies, Classical Latin, archaeology, Greek and Roman mythology and philosophy, his specialism is in Roman imperial history and archaeology (*circa *27 B.C.E. - c.117 C.E.). Yet it is his spiritual journey which has redirected his knowledge of various fields of scholarship into other areas, specifically: Hermetic philosophy, esoteric literature and practising higher mysticism. Maxwell is also currently studying towards a master’s degree in Classical Studies with the Open University. To find out more about his work please view his [facebook page .](https://www.facebook.com/maxwelllewislatham/)and his blog.  --- Welcome and thank you Maxwell for participating in this interview.  - **Falcon Books: Congratulations on your first publication! I think you took on a huge undertaking. How did you begin to tackle such a title?** **Maxwell Latham**: You’re welcome Tanya, and thank you for publishing my first translation. One of the first things I had to do was to read Adriano Capelli’s book *Elements of Abbreviation in Latin* because the manuscripts I was working from had several truncation signs. After that, I just spent between 8-18 hours a day translating, one line at a time. 2. **Falcon Books:** **What was the most challenging aspect of translating a book of this kind?** **Maxwell Latham**: You’re welcome Tanya, and thank you for publishing my first translation. One of the first things I had to do was to read Adriano Capelli’s book *Elements of Abbreviation in Latin* because the manuscripts I was working from had several truncation signs. After that, I just spent between 8-18 hours a day translating, one line at a time ** 3. Falcon Books: What was the most challenging aspect of translating a book of this kind?** **Maxwell Latham: **Trying to find the most appropriate sense for a word. For example, some verbs have different meanings so I had to choose which sense would be most appropriate in the context of the sentence. The verb volere can mean ‘to turn over in the mind’ so I translated this consistently as ‘meditate’, and a cognate verb with a similar prefix (volare) means ‘to fly’. Another example is the adjective *altus *which can mean ‘high’ but could also mean ‘deep’ or even ‘ancient’. I often chose a word in English which encapsulated each meaning the Latin held. For the most part I stuck strictly to the primary dictionary definition of a word (it’s what the words say) but very occasionally I had no choice but to be selective, depending on each sentence in order to make the sentence readable in English. I often spent whole hours pondering the meaning of even a single sentence: philosophical texts are like that, even in our language. I translated each sentence several times then had to be quite choosy about which one made it into the final draft. I translate very deliberately and carefully. 4. **Falcon Books: Were there any differences you found in the expression of Latin that would normally be different when translating other texts?** **Maxwell Latham: **Yes. Some of the sentences seemed to be paradoxical, but after speaking with a friend (a former lecturer in philosophy) there was no paradox. There is no contradiction, only wisdom to be contemplated. It was not so much individual words but phrases which Ficino uses. He was very fluent in Latin as evidenced by his many letters. **5. Falcon Books: How does this translation differ from other translations of the* Corpus Hermeticum*?** **Maxwell Latham: **As far as I am aware this is the only translation of the Latin *Hermetica*. Roughly a third of these core Hermetic texts survive in Latin (namely the ‘Asclepius’ dialogue), the rest are in ancient Greek. They were translated into Latin so that the western world could read them. Greek was rarely studied during medieval times and the Early Modern period in the west. 6. **Falcon Books:  I wonder if you could share with us a bit background about the author (Marsilio Ficino) of this title and why you chose to translate this Latin version?** **Maxwell Latham: **The best evidence we have for Ficino is from his letters. He was the principal translator for the Medici family. Cosimo de’ Medici (a kind of benevolent king and a great patron of the arts) was his patron. It is important to note that Ficino was undertaking a translation of Plato’s works at the time the *Corpus Hermeticum* arrived in Florence from Macedonia (and before that the east). He was ordered to put translating Plato on hold and to translate the *Hermetica* instead because it was deemed that important. Ficino was more broad minded than some other humanists at the time (such as Ludovico Lazzarelli). From his introduction it is evidenced that he was more sympathetic to Lactantius’ views than Augustine’s. Some of the early church fathers were rather dogmatic and hostile towards other religions, particularly ancient polytheistic religions. This was not so with Ficino. Although he was a Christian he was also a great lover of classical studies in general, like some of his contemporaries. The Italian Renaissance must have been quite an exciting time. 7. **Falcon Books: What first inspired you to take up the ‘classics?’** **Maxwell Latham: **I originally chose history as my specialism but was told by the arts and humanities faculty at the university that studying Latin and archaeology came under the umbrella of classics, not history. Once I developed a taste for the classics, there was no turning back. I actually love studying mythology as much (if not slightly more so) than history. 8. **Falcon Books: What differences have you found in studying Latin texts compared to that in our modern language?** **Maxwell Latham: **In many cases the words carry different meanings which are not often translated. A translator usually has to choose between one definition or another, so quite often some meanings are lost in translation. For hermeticists there are marked differences which are quite important. For example, in the *Picatrix* some specifics are translated in different ways so it might be important to understand the various definitions in order to be more effective as a practitioner. (I usually mark these in footnotes where there is ambiguity to help hermeticists along their path). **9. Falcon Books: What are the benefits or knowledge we can gain from understanding documents  written in Latin that are not available to us now?** **Maxwell Latham: **One hermetic text which has only been relatively recently rediscovered is the *Summa Sacrae Magicae *(‘Height of Sacred Magic’) by Berengario Ganell (1346). It has not been translated before except into Russian. Therefore it is very worthwhile studying Latin for hermeticists. Furthermore, some spirits of the Earth and Moon zones speak and write in ancient languages. According to Nenad Djordjevic-Talerman’s pioneering research some heads are fond of classical Latin texts. These include the heads of the Earth Zone Jamaih (25° Gemini) who cites Tacitus (*Annals*, 1.1) and Hoson (15° Sagittarius) who quotes Juvenal (10.356). Kadiliya Aili (co-author with* *Nenad Djordjevic Talermanof *The Moon Zone*) discovered from Emcheba (the 13th head of the Moon Zone) that even today certain divinities still speak in ancient languages. I am learning ancient Greek for my master’s degree (under Gina May) and will be studying Hebrew after that to understand the Cabala (in conjunction with the ciphers found in the Holy Bible) more fully. I have always been interested in Old Norse (for practising runelore) and intend to master both this language and Arabic. --- **Thank you very much for this very interesting and insightful interview.** #### To Find out more about Maxwell please view his author page. 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He joined Fraternitas Hermetica (an order based on the works of Bardon) while still a minor and had an initiator that stood even after the order vanished. He also has worked with his old initiator for 20 years. He has experience of other magical systems such as, AMORC, Order of Michael's Grail (with roots on Dion Fortune), Thelemic Golden Dawn and Astrum Argentum. André teaches neo-shamanism and is also a playwright, poet, author, actor, founder of a publishing house with a music label attached,[ Abismo Humano ](https://abismohumano.bandcamp.com/) He also founded the [Theatre Company – *CIA.Mefisteatro*](https://ciamefisteatro.wordpress.com/). He enjoys creative writing and is a practitioner of Chi Kung. But Bardon' system has always been central to his practice. He works as an artist (performer, actor with his theatre company and musician) and a published author on hermetic literature, namely a Portuguese title.[ *Projecto Prometeus*](http://www.lulu.com/shop/andr%C3%A9-consci%C3%AAncia/projecto-prometeus/paperback/product-2109480.html)* *and the other is called [The *Way of Abrahadabra*](https://siriuslimitedesoterica.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-way-of-abrahabra.html)* *in which was intended to give the Abrahadabra formula the proper hermetic and Taoist methods and disciplines (stripping it away from the religious aspects of Thelema and all its folk rituals). Finally,  he is also the head of three artistic and cultural associations. --- Welcome to Falcon Books Publishing thank you very much for participating in this interview with us. Because of your extensive experience on this path.  - **Falcon Books: ** **Please you could share a little of your journey and how you came to follow Bardon’s work**? **André Consciência: **First of all, let me thank you for the invitation. It is an honour to be among like-minded friends. I will talk about how I discovered Bardon and, hopefully, share a little of my journey in the process. I come from a family with a history of the occult, spiritism, on one hand, witchcraft on the other. I grew up between suspicions of my home being hexed, incorporations and possessions, with all the bad and all the good that comes with it. What I soon came to realize is that there was not that much awareness of what was going on from the adults at that time, and mostly there was no clue how to take hold of it and control it in a preventive manner. After reading Allan Kardec and joining a spiritist center, I realized that the philosopher didn't have the proper answer to the questions his own doctrine was manifesting. I was also becoming a full teenager, and the child in me was giving way to a larger spirit it didn't seem to be able to contain. I was awakening to a lot of theories and memories which I would try to write, draw and organize, but I was losing control. To speed up the process, I fell in love with a young student from a Wiccan coven who soon died. Wicca wasn't anywhere near to satisfy my thirst either, although I respect it, and the death my girlfriend brought opened up ahead of me as an even larger abyss of mystery. I had to take care of it. I started studying everything, from art to philosophy, to occultism, while insomnia was hitting hard under the persistent call of something unknown yet known all the while. I ended up accidentally joining a strange sect led by two persons who were feeding our fantasies the best they could, only to tell us it was all a lie, in the end, except the power and wisdom we had absorbed from out of those induced fantasies. Fine. I went on, strangely stronger than before, and now I was becoming learned at theosophy, Blavatsky, Alice Bailey, etc, and at the same time studying the hermetic works of Aleister Crowley. Theosophy had also brought me to meet the congregations of its most dream-like states, the new agers and their close relations with the ascended masters, along with their channelled techniques. But, to summarize it, I had three priorities at the time:  1 The philosophies of Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov and the Great White Brotherhood which I still hold in great account and where I had a teacher; 2. An old man I had met that claimed to be an expert concerning the ascended masters and their teachings 3 Lastly, understanding Crowley's work I had a student although I was still a minor, an artist who always seemed to be delighted to see me and to hear me, gazing longingly. I was full of light, radiant like the Sun, in opposition to what one might expect after the death of a teenage passion, teenage passions always being of an obsessive character in at least one or another aspect. I often felt that I was full of light because I was inspired and under protection, but what if I stepped beyond that spotlight into the dark? Was I not being like what I once had come to criticize? Was that safety, that light, mine, or was I just sitting under it? Then, my initiator appeared in an esoteric discussion group. He made it seem like I was losing my precious time. Crowley was confusing in his opinion, at least to the beginner, while more or less superfluous to the mature magician. The ascended masters, under the new age perspective, were astral vampires that he had met himself, and they were wearing the masks of true masters. He gave me the book *Initiation Into Hermetics*, by Franz Bardon, and told me to read it and tell him my thoughts.  I did read it. I found it of good quality and fascinating, while the old man who claimed to be an expert on the ascended masters would tell me: 'it's fine, if you want to ride a donkey when you already have a horse'. I decided to test that person who had given me the book. I told him the book was alright but had a major issue, and I asked him which element was the most important to master first. 'Fire', he replied. 'Yes, that was also my impression after reading Bardon,' said I 'but the right answer is in the water, for it is through its love that the balance of akasha comes to be, then all other elements find harmony. The book is flawed'. I thought of myself as very smart upon saying it. Then he replied 'nonsense, what can love do without the will to learn from it or to express it? If anything, without will, love destroys character and consciousness, being as the darkness before there was any light. Will puts everything in motion, it is the word of being, and it brings forth the radiance of love, but first, you must will it. What Bardon tells you is that to obtain the perfection of success in your mystical and magical pursuits, you need to apply the perfect method'. At this point, I thought he was smarter, and the perfect method was what I always found missing everywhere else. I came back after three days to say to him that he was right. He answered 'Mind your steps, though. Once you come to know Divine Providence you immediately become a pawn and a king, and if you do not get a hold of your consciousness, you will always end up in the pawn's perspective'.  I spent some time training the IIH until he introduced *Fraternitas Hermetica *to me and started to train me. But that was just the beginning of my journey, I explored many things on my own, and I was never really the standard 'white lighter'. At each step, I would conquer I would only rest after meeting with its shadow instead of frightening it away and risking the dangers of ignorance. I think this multiplied the facets of my initiatic adventures. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/rainbow-1909_1920-1024x380.jpg) **2. Falcon Books: Could you share your insights of the Taoist path and how you have used it within your title ‘ The Way of Abrahadabra’?** **André Consciência: **The Taoist methods are not as present on the Way of Abrahadabra as are the hermetic methodologies, nevertheless, they are more often similar than what is generally known. For instance, the Taoists have their own practice of rising on the planes and the Celestial Masters have accounts of astral travels to distant realms in search of the divine. Tao means 'The Way', the reason why the book was named 'The Way of ABRAHADABRA', yet The Way, or the TAO, and Abrahadabra are the same, for the final dynamism of Abrahadabra is translated as 0=2, 210, or NOX. NOX is the trinity of 0 composed of the Two Columns of the Temple of Solomon, the Pentagram, and Death, the magician standing between life as expressed by the duality of the columns and the death of dissolved duality, treading on The Way, that path of non-effort called the TAO, which brings us to the original meaning of Abrahadabra and to that eternal now which states 'I create as I speak'. This is one way of formulating magical equilibrium. It also points out that through wisdom, love and will unify as a single consciousness, the akasha manifests, becoming electromagnetic. Abrahadabra's number is 11, the number of the hidden sphere, while at the same time it amounts to 5+6, five being the number of the microcosmos, and six of the macrocosmos. While the hidden sphere is here as the blackness of Akasha - the union of individual and cosmic expressions and their further neutralization into zero - the state of no-mind at first presents itself as the interaction of its parts, the spiritual akashic violet that leads unto the blackness. When one examines the numbers and letters of Abrahadabra one gets the Crown, the Wand, the Cup, the Sword and, finally, the Rose and the Cross as the Pentacle. It is at the Rose and the Cross that the two become one, the one being the unveiling of the zero so that dualism is a path to non-dualism. At Liber Al Vel Legis we find this passage written by Aleister Crowley: > *None, breathed the light, faint and faery, of the stars, and two. For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union. The Perfect and the Perfect are one Perfect and not two; nay, are none! Nothing is a secret key of this law*. There is no doubt that Abrahadabra is a formula to the Tao, and I mean to say the Tao not as a discipline or a school, but a state and a being. The method in this formula is tantric and yogic, but also firmly hermetic. The Crown refers to the dominion of the mind over the phenomena it witnesses, the Wand refers to the resulting transformation of the womb of the mind into the tongue of the spirit, Will, in a magical sense, meaning a Will that comes from the faculty of consciousness. The Cup is given by the new awareness that consciousness brings when it turns its eye into itself: it is the witnessed vacuity of mind. Through such mastery of the mind, the Sword finally aligns the individual magician with the Tao, with the Akasha in its expression of Divine Providence, and this is where the Tao is yet The Way. Upon the symbol of the Rose and the Cross the individual and the cosmos merge completely to become the Tao, where the 2 and the 0 are equal. It is clear that Taoism had a great influence on Crowley, and I learned the Tao Te Ching first from Crowley's translation of the work, as well as the I Ching. The magician following the works of Bardon will have no problem identifying with these brief explanations about the hermetic path. In Taoism, there is a place for the deification of certain disciplined men, that is, there is a place for the divine in all the structures composing a man, his soul, his body and his mind. Their immortals are as the immortals of the IIH, the ones who have attained a level of consciousness and equilibrium far enough to survive the corrosive aspects of the cosmos, being, instead, inhabited by it. In Taoism or Daoism, there are also the natural spirits and the deities that help the Taoist advance, and the methods to have the creative future flow backwards, which are, in a way, identical to the magical volt sent to the Akasha as taught by Bardon. All of this is explored in some way or another at the *Way of Abrahadabra*, yet mostly the book's aim is to arrive at the Tao, to realize that the Way and the Tao are translations of one another. Ultimately, the Tao becomes an attitude, the way is the non-way, and it can be attained by any means.  I divide the book into four distinct stages, one for the perfection of one's inner faculties and structures, two for the perfection of one's outer faculties in relation to inner faculties, and the fourth for reaching beyond the outer and, consequently, beyond the inner, so that the Akasha permeates the practitioner and Divine Providence manifests through him on the world. Taoists also have a way of sending things into the Tao and getting things from the Tao according to the natural way - that is, in Bardonist terminology, to the Eternal Now - aiming for an endless source.  Because I do not believe oriental traditions can germinate in all their purity on the west, due to the east having silence as the most constant activity of consciousness and the west exactly the opposite, I try to push the trained consciousness beyond what it can possibly conceive, being that engagement, in this case, tricks it into crossing over the threshold of attachment. The first three stages are symbolized by LVX, meaning Light. The L is the erected phallus, and it stands for an awakening of magical will, that is, the awakening of a will that comes through magical equilibrium. The V is the open kteis, and it refers to consciousness opening to receive the cosmos and the world opening to the influence of the magician. The X aligns L and V, micro and macrocosmos, forming a higher level of magical equilibrium. And finally, there is NOX, when the magician becomes the portal and no longer has to knock on the gates of power and virtue. **3**. **Falcon Books: Following this subject of Taoism, could you discuss the differences/similarities in terms of the energetics? ** **For example with a huge generalisation we have the Jing-Qi-Shen model, with the idea of transforming one substance into another, cultivation. Whereas in IIH we do not store we just immediately use the energy be it vital force, elements, fluids etc. How have you brought these two models together in your own practice?** **André Consciência: **Interesting. I have a tale yet to be published named *Father Moon and the Desert of Di Yu* which explores some of both. A taoist searches for the one they call Father Moon, which is said to live in a jade palace, for he thinks Father Moon is one of the taoist immortals. But it is actually an elemental of the earth element. This passage hints at the difference between both ways of seeing the world, but it is only a superficial difference.  > I woke up in a comfortably furnished room with a jade table, several chairs and a large bookcase that covered a whole wall. Sitting at the table was Monpai, with his smooth, young face, moving at once tired and fast. "Why are you here?" He asked impatiently. I anticipated this dialogue, nevertheless a cold sweat pierced my mind. "Are you not the father of the West? And do you not hold the secret of eternal life and the entrance to paradise?" I asked boldly. The golden eyes on the damsel's face penetrated my spirit. "I see you're not like the others. There is purpose in you." Monpai spoke in a nervous voice, a voice sung like the voice of a child. "But what you say about me can not be said of me alone" he concluded. "Yes... in my eastern culture there was a jade palace made by jade miners, there the Queen was a fierce goddess with tiger teeth, always ready to send plagues unto the world. But before the TAO she became benign, planting a peach tree that gave each Aeon the peach of immortality.” I argued. "I see, you came for fear of death. But how will I forgive you for invading my solitude?" He gestured with thin milky arms and delicate fingers. “Immortality I grant. A peach tree I do not have." He pulled a flute from his shirt pocket. "I have a flute carved from the vertebrae of the world." At that moment I nervously searched for my TAO cross in my own robes and stopped. Monpai shrugged, sensual as a lost breeze whirling in the snow. "I am not your motherly queen. I come from the period of the great formations of coal, generated in forests and exuberant marshes of a then tropical England. I've seen the seas swallow down the earth and continents become ice. I lived when on Earth there was only one Continent and the trees rose a hundred feet high in the Age of Amphibians. My flute has commanded one-meter arachnids and today commands mankind." I meditated on it all. "Are you as a Yaoguai? An animal become powerful and immortal by virtue of being worshiped?" But Monpai laughed sweetly and dangerously at me. In the depths of its ancient and pagan traditions, the west is wild and primal, the east is primal and gracious. But hermetism, being western, is still eastern philosophy going through a greek filter. It is a fine place to find balance between cultures. The Akasha in all its spectrum is ever beyond and ever-present and the way to approach it in its extensiveness is in the way of the TAO, the path of non-effort. The magician mingles with the unplanned patterns of the universe and,  flowing, disappears, the gate of the Sun then opens and drops of TAO fall through, condensation. What the hermetic magician, in turn, is made of as a whole is the TAO directly connected with the primal and raw power of matter. That makes him a master over all the elements. In hermetism, the element of light can be produced by transmission, which is the movement of electromagnetism through a body. This means that the body, material or shape should neither absorb the light nor block it. It is the essential method of the Tao and requires complete transparency as one completely flows with his environment, becoming the dance. Electromagnetic waves are as if they are a direct manifestation of the Akasha in the manifest world, and can be divided into seven forms of radiation, from the shorter and most saturated wave to the larger and most dissipated. But it can also, as in the example you give, be accumulated, and this brings me back to a story with my own initiator. At the stage in IIH when one is learning to concentrate the fluids of the elements, he said to me 'I have something quite surprising to show you' and he showed me a Dragon Ball Z video where Songoku was becoming a super warrior, storing vitality and then turning blond, with golden energy flowing all around him permanently. 'What the Japanese are showing on television is to be your focus at this stage. It works as bodybuilding, first, you accumulate the vitality of the elements and you can only store so much, but with time you can store more and more. Eventually, if you can store enough moonlight on your astral body for the light to fall back into itself, you become the sun, and this method of transmutation is to dissipate half of your coming nightmares regarding the soul mirror as you progress”. This is not too hard to explain outside the field of fluidic condensations. If one virtue of inspiration is pushed into becoming wise, it is closer to becoming a practical power to be applied in the world. If such wisdom learns to love, the most effect it will have on everything surrounding it. If it finally becomes a skill and a strength, it becomes fully present in the outside world. Likewise, if the magician takes a power and soaks it in love, this power becomes magnetized, and if he so continues to bring it closer to the Tao, that loving power becoming wise and then inspired, it is no longer just a power, but a portal into the spirit realm, a door to the kingdom of light and a torch of initiation. Bardon has also contemplated the transformation of virtues and faults on the soul mirror, but on the occasion, the magician is not yet quite experienced at manipulating the fluids. Jing Qi Shen works with essence, vitality and spirit, just as hermetism works with the elements, vitality or the fluids and the akasha. The three treasures are also moral virtues that connect the Taoist to the akasha and its phenomenal aspects on the eternal now. In IIH, the Jing, being the qualities, are breathed in, and this is the Qi, nurturing the Shen as soul and mind and bringing it forward as the spirit or deity, while traditionally the essence is turned to breath and the breath to spirit, which is very much the process taught by Bardon on breathing qualities and vitality into the blood and from the blood into the astral and mental body. Then, traditionally, the spirit is refined into emptiness. And this is exactly also what my initiator has taught me, to use the breathing exercises to create magical volts out of myself, refining the electromagnetism that comes out of the quadripolar volt into the akasha. The Qi can also be seen as the body – mental, astral or physical – and the Shen as willpower, but in any case, all these variations are telling us the same tale, and this tale is almost omnipresent in* Initiation Into Hermetics.   * **4. Falcon Books: This interview will focus more upon PME and KTQ rather than the early steps of IIH, But before we move on what advice would you give to students of IIH based on your own journey?** **André Consciência: **Act on the IIH with rigour and according to its indications but think of it with intelligence. What I have come to realize is that at each step Franz Bardon is giving us elements to form a language so to speak and the rules of its grammar, but becoming fluent in a language depends on its creative use. It is said that to really learn a language one needs to start thinking in that language. Almost any exercise at IIH can combine with any other, and this is how you begin to understand Bardon on a dynamic level. Men and women of western cultures get bored easily, they need entertainment, but there are so many ways on which you can engage with IIH as you progress that the only real reason remaining for the sincere aspirant to quit is lack of imagination, and imagination too can be trained.   Most of the students I had under my supervision gave up when it came to obtaining an empty mind. Many successful magicians have noticed this issue and have made suggestions. I will add that if it is too hard, try mastering the previous exercise in many different ways. Eventually, imagine a single star in a night sky with nothing else on it. Then, remove the star. You will trick your mind into thinking you are fixing your thoughts on an image as you are used to, but what you are really doing is uniting with silence and allowing it to take over. Also, do something to learn about silence if it is lacking in you. For instance, there are cromlechs that I go to here in Portugal that will literally silence your thoughts without any effort on your part having to take place. If you fix your thoughts long enough on such landscapes while you are standing on them you will end up obtaining their qualities.  The soul mirror is the second when it comes to having students quit. Those who actually managed through mastering their thoughts turn their backs at this period. Nobody likes to be judged, although we judge ourselves all the time as if someone else is doing it. Try not to think of your faults as sins and things to be ashamed of. Add psychology to the disciplines and transpersonal psychology. Communicate with your vices, listen to them with active listening, let them feel understood. Encourage their passive and docile loyalty and have them never lie to you or try to trick you. Engage with your virtues as well, fix your thoughts on them and realize their dance and their elemental grace. Virtues and strengths are not just obligations, they are muses and sources of inspiration. If you feed a virtue well enough it will eventually submit the vices under its supervision. Then comes the question of the balance between the elements. You have not only the quantity of qualities at each element to think about, but also the intensity of each quality. If qualities are lacking at one particular element, you can create them. Meditate on them, breathe them in and out, and eventually practice those qualities on your interaction with the world and on your daily life. You can start by playing the character of one who has the quality you are trying to create. First you write down the characters file, the traits the character has, what led him to have such traits, and what his ambitions are. You can even add in his tastes and his appearance in order to enrich imagination. When you play that character it will eventually teach you about its strength and virtue through gnosis, that is, through a knowledge that is not only intellectual but also sensorial and emotional. Your birth chart might bring you some new clues on the subject if you are learned in astrology. You can balance the birth chart not so much by trying to erase the aspects you dislike but by filling it with balancing traits, and you will have the graphics to help you on this mission. If you are not learned in astrology or if you do not believe it, it remains that we grow up under the stigma of being of such and such sign, and we eventually adopt its traits. But we, as magicians, can balance a sign by invoking another, that is, by having another sign form inside of us that balances the first.  If you manage to succeed, remember that your work concerning the soul mirror is not over nor will it ever be. I have seen those with greater training, greater experience and greater success than me eventually falter. The defect of great magicians is often pride, a blind pride, and its servant is an obsession towards control and perfection. That is why it is important to keep yourself in check, even if you now have all the tools to beat your weaknesses, you can still be deceived.  After a while, it does you no good to obsess about the soul mirror constantly, and it becomes a block in itself. It is sufficient to find some form of routine. For instance, once a week breathe in the elements that constitute your magical equilibrium as shown on the soul mirror, and out your weakness. It also helps to locate the positive traits in your body and have the vitality flow between them. At zones of the body where the tensions of the defects and vices lay, you can perform a good oily massage and dissipate such tensions through transfering your conscience to the affected muscles. At new moons and full moons watch your thoughts, feelings and bodily impulses, and if you have crafted your magical hat as teached at PME, use it at this occasion. You will realize how most of your thoughts and feelings aren’t yours but automatic responses to automatic responses. Still, sometimes you might be visited by a thought that is your mission in this life, or by an emotion that connects with your soul throughout all of your lifetimes. Be that as it may, your vices and weaknesses will flee from your divine vigilance. Yet this will also give you true authority over them. At solstices and equinoxes fix your silent concentration on the traits of the soul mirror, if your weaknesses are hiding something they will reveal it, and if your virtues have guidance to give it will be given. But finally, when the year is turning, write down a new soul mirror from the start. By updating one’s soul mirror one can keep track of what keeps coming back and what not. In terms of health it is important to take note that, for example, if loneliness keeps coming back again and again it might not just be a case of melancholy, but a symptom that one is not dealing correctly with how he relates to other people. Thirdly, there is the densest form of astral travel, or, as I like to name it, the etheric projection. While the magician has to concentrate great amounts of energy he really has to let go at the same time, or he will keep coming back to the physical body. Transferring one’s consciousness into the blood and projecting from out of it might help.  ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Copy-of-blog-header-TSPOM-2.png) **5. Falcon Books: How significant is the process of moving from Step 8 of IIH into PME and KTQ?  ** **André Consciência: **That depends on the goals of the magician. One can imagine the IIH as High School, the PME as the University, and the KTQ as a Master's Degree. High School is good enough to have you go about in the world as a working man or woman, and in this case, a man or a woman working for the manifestations of Divine Providence. Someone who has completed high school can always go to the university, where he will learn many wonders that he, at least before the internet, would not have the means to find out for himself. Believe me, the entities at PME have perspectives that we can hardly access by other means, and it takes years of exploring the spheres as learned at the IIH to find intelligences so solid and of such high degree. Our mundane universities are full of proud and frustrated teachers, but not this one, not this sacred university. At KTQ you learn to speak in exactly the same language of these intelligences, your word becomes the Shekinah, the holy dwelling of Divine Providence.  That being said, I am not sure if I am truly suited to answer this question. I was presented to PME little by litlle while I progressed. When I trained fixing my thoughts I was given a pen and told to think of a light expressing absolute victory while gazing continuously at that pen. When I was finished the pen was shining in the dark. I was told that it was by similar methods that I would later consecrate the sword as a magical weapon. To help me through the steps I was sometimes given an intelligence of the moon sphere, of the zone gridling the earth, or an elemental, depending on the nature of the lessons to be obtained on that step. I was to fix my thoughts on the sigil while emptying the mind, an astral fluid would start to flow and I was to breathe it or travel on my mental and later, on my astral body to activate it. Obstacles to the soul mirror as major issues at home or the strong nightmares that kept me from sleeping year after year, etc, were pacified at the intervention of those entities and, finally, my dominion over the elements in what concerns the soul mirror was crowned by the consecration of the corresponding magical tools by the means at my disposal at that stage, although I would keep coming back to them with new acquired methods. I was teached to meditate in the center of the circle about the center of the circle, and also about what every other magical tool given at PME was veiling. This was part of my process through IIH, but although I made fluid condensers and talismans that would connect me to the wisdom of certain elementals and certain entities of the moonsphere, I only evoked a being into the triangle on the physical at step 9. I admit I was also given some cosmic letters while perfecting my skill to concentrate the elements, so that I would know the elements' full composition and, once skilled at the akashic trance, what combinations were to connect the different elements with their akashic source, by such means keeping the process of breathing or nourishing the element going on by itself.  Moving from IIH to PME and KTQ can be significant in that neither the PME nor the KTQ are more of the same. They are truly an addition to IIH. Still, completing Initiation Into Hermetics is award enough and, on an essential level, one will be no less without touching the PME and the KTQ. **6. Falcon Books: Though PME is a very private journey is there anything you can share? Such as the beings you met, the differences between the spheres and anything that took you by surprise? ** **André Consciência:** Everything took me by surprise and still does. I only had five full materializations, flesh and bone. These are materializations where even if you try you cannot see past the intelligence, physically and not only physically. One was with the greek deity Pan according to Bardon's method. The second was something near to an accident. The third was with my own guide according to Bardon's method. The fourth with Bardon's method and N'Aton. The fifth with an entity from Abramelin and Bardon's method. At such a level of density Pan appeared to me as an absolute nightmare, everything froze, including my mind, but in the aftermath he boosted the natural power of having the elementals respect me as an authority even as one of their own. This evocation changed the constitution of my body in the space of a few months, especially my legs, but all for the better. The second time took place at a forest on an abandoned monastery I was allowed to explore. After months of working ceremonies on the space and having placed a grid of fluidic condensers buried beneath the ground something like a humanoid lizard, that had not been evoked, appeared. It gazed at me for ten seconds and disappeared. During the time span of the experience nature went completely silent, including elements such as the wind, and my mind instantly not with the silence of the silent monkey, but the silence of no monkey at all, if you can understand the metaphor. Even my heartbeat stopped. Yet, this time I was fully present. With my guide or Holy Guardian Angel I dedicated him a whole summer, and eventually he would often become fully materialized, but at the end of the time I had planned for the operation the instincts of my body were afflicted by the irrational eminence of death. Finally with N'Aton, the personification of the collective consciousness of humanity as flowing from the best possible future, the operation, aiming for global change in the present, was entirely pleasant. The only strange phenomena was that when I finally left the cave the mountain was on fire and deep smoke. Lastly, with the being from Abramelin The Mage I realized that although the psychic saturation in the air would be unbearable to almost anyone, I was totally at ease and in full dominion of my faculties. I tried full materialization only five times, and upon realizing that I had come to my own sense of perfection in the matter I left it behind so far. Most of the other evocations appear to be in the flesh, that is why we train each sense at IIH. But if you become distracted or try to look beyond the being, the being becomes more or less holographic or eventually a presence distorting the air. This method is fine and safer and, according to the laws of the triangle, still gives the intelligence power to act on the physical realm. Of this, for the sake of brevity, I will give one example of a frightening nature. Although I had perfect and positive results with intelligences from Saturn, I once conducted an operation where I asked one of them to show me the roots of my fear and to teach me how to deal with it. While he appeared at first in the appearance of a very fresh and very ancient holy man, he became horrendous after, and kept being horrendous until having come to the conclusion that I had obtained what I had asked for. He gave me some rules to follow on my communications with him and I also settled my own rules. He obviously never failed, but I once failed in keeping with the method and a scream like the ripping apart of the veil between the spheres was heard, one of my cat defecated and died of a heart attack, the other cat ran away to never come back. My dog, which was outside, died on the next day from a similar heart attack. The intelligence would try to have me break the circle: I eventually had a motorbike ride in through the chamber I was using, the noisy motor, the flashlight on me and someone looking as if I was doing something forbidden, but there was no way for a motorbike to get in that space and I refused to believe it. Eventually the noise and the light went to the background of my attention, finally to disappear. Or, if I would suddenly fear that something would happen, it would come to happen in an immediate time span. I remember fearing for no reason that the two guys in front of me at the bar would start fighting and one broke the glass on the head of the other and there was blood at my feet. Or fearing a thunderbolt would fall near me and having one fall on the house next to me in seconds, breaking its wall. Happily, the house was under construction and had no inhabitants. This eventually became a nihilistic period for me, it was the only time that I thought I would fail miserably. The things I believed in all started to show a different face on their own. I would sleep all day and night. But through my disbelief I started having wonderful dreams, and one day I woke up to realize that I didn't need to believe anything, for everything was there anyway, like a timeless garden to be a part of. I felt a deep spring in me and strangely the entity assured me that was all I needed to know, and was again of a benign disposition. The next day I dreamt with a girl, and on that day I met a girl exactly as the girl in my dream. As she invited me I started to go out more and to live again a life as natural as possible and certainly more natural than before. But, contrary to what had happened with Pan, this operation had ill effects on my legs and I took one year to recover them to full health. There are dangers on a psychological level by the influence over the physical plane from lesser entities. I once worked with a negative intelligence from the sphere of the moon with the intent to get rid of my emotional delusions in a way that the rational analysis of the soul mirror wouldn't reach. For such an operation I allowed for contact in dreams. The intelligence would give me prophecies during my dreams of betrayals to come from my dear ones. They were all nonsense, and still they happened every time right on the day that I would wake up to. In my dreams, the entity would then become a clown and laugh at me, but I started to realize that the mime was like me yet dressed and painted as a mime. Eventually, after the entity had tried to give me, from her mouth, a green serpent that I hypnotized with my wand, I dreamed that I was inside the mime and looking at me as I really am, and while I had the mask it was the person's face in front of me that was an illusion. I offered that person to the cosmic void. On the next day, me and the intelligence came to the conclusion that the job was done and the process concluded. Although the entities Bardon obscures, such as the entities of Mars and Saturn or even the air elementals – sometimes causing great confusion and dispersion to the non enlightened mind - can be hard to take on, the others have the minds of guides and, if abused, will give no harsher punishment than that of a good teacher. The important thing to keep is that the magician is no longer just the magician when evoking them to the triangle, he is divine, charged with omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence and immortality and keeping with his akashic trance. I also believe there are few human beings capable of abusing flesh and bone materializations without very dangerous possible side effects on the physical level. Aside from that, constant evocation even if not as dense, may cause dependency on the magician and not only that, may become as a drug that will have him hallucinate outside the operation or lose contact with the human world, it being that most of the things one learns in the context of magical evocation are difficult to translate into the mundane human experience. At any rate, good communication with the beings at PME is made of surprise, of the heart and mind and of the body expanding, and so, one is surprised all along. About the spheres, it may be important to notice that at IIH Bardon walks us through the abilities they offer as seen from Malkhut. Beyond that, each sphere can be as vast as the planet Earth in terms of variation, or wider, and to limit them beyond Bardon's or for example William Mistelle's descriptions can be fatal. Yet, as a most imperfect guideline, one may have it that the sphere of the moon teaches of that which moves mind, body and matter in terms of cycles, automatisms and self-regulations, or of the magnetism wrapping it all into a transcendent state or fluid. Mercury is thought of as splendour on the hebraic traditions, this means that it is not entirely intellectual. A rabbi would have the student understand the Torah from the glory that emanates from its passages. And it is through glory that the transcendence of the moon sphere becomes articulated into a system or a language to be spoken and understood. While this glory is still as a ghost, a reflection, art gives it a solid body of light which not only encloses the splendour into, literally, a holy mass, but also opens up the gates of the sun. The erotic devotion that it requires is absorbed from the sphere of Venus. The deliverance it provides brings the magician to cross the veil of illusion, the veil of Paroketh, his own ego – that is, the survival instincts of his own automatisms. And then he steps unafraid into the gates of the Sun, where he knows himself through all his life times, past and future, and at the same time creates himself. This is the magician's individuality that was being obstructed by the “ego”, it is as the electromagnetic body of his consciousness in its purest state and from this point of view the individual needs no self in order to be and to be contained. He still has to have enough willpower to put it into practice on a cosmic level, for he is now as a creative block of Divine Providence, and of such disciplines as great as to move the sun speaks the sphere of Mars. At Jupiter the individual attains to the double consciousness, he is not only the individual but, simultaneously, the collective consciousness of all the sunlike beings, the company of the stars, for he has reached outside. Finally, there is Saturn, the whirlwind of destiny upon which such collectives act. Saturn is not only the sphere of limitations and their liberating initiations, it is also the sphere where these stars go to dream and to create the world anew.  **7. Falcon Books: Do you prefer to mental travel to explore the PME or to do physical evocations?** **André Consciência: **There is more of mental travel than there is of evocation, for I never evoke a being without first moving to his sphere to meet with him. I do not prefer a method over the other.  **8. Falcon Books: Could you tell us a little more about your teacher and how it helped you work your way through Bardon’s?** **André Consciência: **My teacher was maybe one of the most puzzling miracles that I have witnessed. He gave me a lot for many years and was never selfish or vile, not once. Such an example is already the greatest talismanic – in the sense that each of us is as a talisman to the other – help one might need. Then, he was the most creative magician that I have had the honor to meet. I do not mean that on an artistic level, but speak of creativity applied to the hermetic disciplines instead. Intelligent could be a more exact term. He saw keys everywhere that I didn't, nor anyone else that I know or that I have come to read and, most surprisingly, they were the correct keys. With his help, going through the IIH was not that penance that so many seem to talk about, it was probably the most engaging experience that I ever lived. Also, he knew when to vanish. Once he vanished for three or four years, but it always felt like he was doing it on a perfect timing. We often worked and meditated together, and once I had worked with him my enlarged capacities would no longer diminish. At some point of our progress we were a lot like team mates, anchoring on each other to potencialize practices that we were pursuing individually before and after. If I was to speak of all he taught me I would have to write a book, but then again, it wouldn't be my book to write. Most of all he made each step at IIH into a number of steps, since each step would benefit from the next in order to be perfected and reconstructed. This actually made it easier and faster, not longer and harder. It remains to say that he didn’t base himself on hermetics alone, he studied the norse traditions and the Eddas, Sufism, Ninjitsu and Taoism. **9. Falcon Books: I wonder if you could share with us more about the Horus Maat Lodge?  ** **André Consciência: **The Horus Maat Lodge is a lodge for adepts, it does not have a training system of its own but, while accepting a myriad of traditions and its methodologies, it does have its own praxis. It focuses on the magick of Maat, as a counterweight to the explosive Horus. While Horus is a liberating light, consuming all limitations, Maat is balance and justice. Her virtue is Truth, whose power is that of constant transformation and evolution. In this paradigm Horus becomes the white globule of Maat, eliminating tyrannic structures to give truth and balance a natural space to manifest and grow. We function as a decentralized but seriously organized cyberlodge. The lodge has forty years and we have adepts from many corners of the world, divided in nexuses, and from many traditions, from Thelema to Vodoun, wiccan priests and priestesses to gnostic bishops, members of the martinist orders, members of the AMORC, chaos magicians, etc. We consider art to be magic too, for it works in its own discipline with the symbols and the invisible planes to bring change into the world, and give the solid artist the place of a rightful Adept. As stated in the Chart of the Horus Maat Lodge, we are tolerant except of intolerance and bigotry. I would say most of our ethics can be summarized at “Priesthood: Parameters and Responsibilities'', by Nema. A common inspirational book is Liber Pennae Praenumbra, where Nema channels Maat and describes her visions, revealing N'Aton as a possible healthy future for the planet, he representing the double consciousness of the sovereign individual who is fully telepathic and empathic, the reunion of every human being in such a state being the evolution of the species. This is an evolution where nuclear warfare or warfare of any kind will not be possible, and where through the collective consciousness as accessed by the individual everyone will be able to feel and communicate with Gaia – meaning nature, the earthzone and the elemental kingdoms – as well as to understand the intelligences of other planetary spheres and constellations. Thus, the environment will be safe. Our aim is to become talismans that preserve and potencialize this kind of change. Our magical word is IPSOS; meaning “by the same mouth” and, in my own understanding it implies, among other things, instant balance between the inner and the outer, being that our words and actions towards others are also swallowed/suffered by us, the reason why it would not make sense to commit to injustice and to lies. The works of Nema herself seem to give particular importance to the Tao through the dancing of the masks and the black flame, the purifying flame of the empty mind. The dancing of the masks implies also the practice of ascending in the planes: that is, when your vision and understanding becomes obstructed on a plane you rise to a higher level and start perceiving and acting through it. The levels are disposed through the Tree of Life and are similar to the astrological planetary spheres described by Bardon. Dancing the masks also implies that to bring truth into the hearts of the many we come to meet in life one has to become truth in many languages. On an ultimate level, it is the black flame, the empty mind turned into a fluidic and dynamic element, that is being masked by its elasticity to take on different forms and reflect the truth. **10. Falcon Books: Regarding working through IIH which aspects did you find the most challenging and why?** **André Consciência: **While I did ascend in a spiral to meet with my guide as teached by Bardon, this was not my first close encounter with him. I followed the procedures that were being given by the F. H. where, through a certain method, you meet with a personification-plasmification of your own astral substance, or better yet, something between your own astral substance and the Soul of the World as put by Giordano Bruno. This personification is knowledge itself and takes many forms and guises. It is only after you get it under perfect control and out of the way that the guide will appear crystal clear, as if one had removed the scales from one's eyes. While there are some valid methods given by adepts from the school of Frantisec Bardon to check whether the intelligences or elementals being contacted are real or products of the imagination, they are never bullet proof. Many of the beings that I had come to meet while working with the Tatwas were just this plasmification that stands as a bubble between one's self and the world. I started running through my magical diaries from years past and the number of such cases started to grow page by page.  The real challenge is truly knowing something. We are trained to manipulate mind, body, the soul and the senses into some form of hypnosis that allows us to cross the bypass that binds us to the most mundane realities. But what does it mean?  Eliphas Levi, in his “The History of Magic”, in a way seems to turn against the truth of magic, exposing the fevers of astral intoxication and its final products of hallucination and self-deceit. He tells us that the astral light is the devil himself. Aleister Crowley tells of a great number of self-claimed adepts who are but neophytes blinded by the shining images of the moonlight, he considering the phenomenal world not that important altogether  only to fall into a greater pit, the abyss of the void and its own non-phenomenal hallucinations. It is no wonder that, at Crowley's tradition, in the matter of validating some sort of absolute truth, the paradox that resolves the problems of magic is in Kether then, or at the grade of Ipissimus. When the magician reaches the highest form of himself he is just a simple man and no more. At The Way of Abrahadabra I close the book by telling the reader that, if he has gone through all the exercises, he has experienced so much that he can finally remain at peace again as a simple, mortal man. The great worm of hell formed out of curiosity will no longer blind him and attack him with fever and delirium. Goodness, he has earned being a common man for the first time in his life now. While I feared this kind of conclusion for the whole of my journey, I rejoice in it today.  As a consolation for the doubtful pilgrim who is walking on his path, remember that the most important thing is not how absolutely real in all perspectives something is, but if it works and the proof of success: ultimately, you become a better person.       Aside from that, with a teacher or without it, until you become mature not only as a magician but as a regular person with a body that keeps changing until it dies, this is a very lonesome path, and it gets lonelier as you progress. An important part of your life and of your identity becomes unpronounceable. This can only be counterbalanced by something Nema said “the hard work is in polishing one’s perceptions. This is why I say that 90% of Magick is trash-removal”, or, as an ex girlfriend of mine from a druidic order put: “I dream of becoming a human. There are just a handful. Most of the people tend to think of themselves as divine”.    **11. Falcon Books: There are some practitioners who attempt to work with Bardon’s 2nd and 3rd books before finishing IIH, what are the dangers of doing this?** **André Consciência: **Firstly, if you have no knowledge and no power it's all just child play. Playing is good for your health, they say. But if you do have some power and knowledge, once you have come to a fair amount of dominion over the elements there is no danger in working with the magical tools, but they are at their best once the magician has trained with the four divine qualities. For the circle, while it can not hurt, it is at its best once akashic trance is mastered. The hat is best used when the magician has control over his mind and his mind has become a beacon of light through the workings of silence. The triangle makes sense after the magician has learned to master his body and his hold of his situation in physical life, as well as in the mental sphere and in astral projection. It makes sense to use the lamp after having mastered clairvoyance, the incense after having clairalience, etc. The danger is that if the magician uses the weapons before mastering what they represent it will be harder for him to believe in their strength. But depending on the magician and of his influence over the astral fluids etc, the weapons can work the other way around, solidifying the capacities he has been searching for. Once the soul expands it does not contract, the old labyrinths, once solved, don't return to being labyrinths.  Concerning the intelligences, there is no danger in using some source of inspiration. But if the magician tries to have them on the triangle before he is prepared, or before he has learned the proper methods, meditations and magical equilibrium, he will probably be working with a densification of the astral light that, if the magician's concentration on virtue is not irreprehensible, will probably harbor astral larvae. He won't die specifically from it, for to be under the dominion of astral larvae one just has to wish for it, no magic is required. It is preferred that, unless the magician has a teacher, he refrains from using the PME altogether until reaching a proper step at IIH. Above all, if he must use it and he has the skill to actually succeed in obtaining more than a pipe dream, he is most firmly to stick to intelligences of the zone gridling the earth - avoiding the monarchs - and some intelligences of the sphere of the moon. Bardon's intelligences are, as I said, mostly guides of a gracious nature, but even ballet being gracious, it can damage the tissues of the untrained dancer if he pushes too hard or tries to go beyond his ability. For instance, a talented beginner using intelligences from the sun sphere has little chances of succeeding, at least without lowering the beings vibration very substantially, but if by some miracle he was to succeed with strength and dignity, he would find his ego shattered instead of asleep, leading to different breeds of psychosis. KTQ, in my opinion, has no dangers at all. Most people are capacitated to think in abstract terms, in symbolic terms, and on an emotional level. They are less able to think with the body and, because of it, won't be able to obtain the powers from the letters, only the virtues. The cosmic letters will come to the practitioner to the extent of his maturity, no less and no more, but, just as with regular meditation, they can help anyone progress.  The untrained person can try then to articulate the letters between many combinations and yet unless he is a skilled philosopher of sorts, an artist, a poet, or maybe a programmer he is to do it at absolutely no avail.  Still, I once met an oriental master who told me the KTQ should preceed IIH, for the magician would have fixed all the necessary virtues even before starting the work of Initiation Into Hermetics. Although I have hinted at some potential dangers and mistakes, one is to avoid fear, remember that esotericism protects itself from harming the fool exactly by being incomprehensible to him. **12. Falcon Books:  For someone who is untrained using the tripolar method how effective is KTQ and can it cause harm if they have not finished IIH?** **André Consciência: **Just as the west uses yoga mostly as gymnastics and makes it ingenuous, so would the practice of the KTQ become innocent to the untrained, no more than some periodic mental exercising and emotional relief.  ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/201612-orig-spiritual-path-949x534.jpg) **13. Falcon Books: Some of the dangers of the following occult path is that the training in some systems are unbalanced and there can be a tendency to focus on seeking out answers outside of ourselves rather than through personal development. In your experience working within occult circles have you found this to be the case and what are the consequences?** **André Consciência: **I haven't found this particular problem at the Bardonist tradition yet except for a grand initiator having the students strengthen their vices in order to make it a matter of life and death – as I consider our relation with our defects a neverending story, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me unless you want to be a rock star. Nevertheless, this picture you just painted seems to be the most common case in many other paradigms. Depending on the context, you either have the initiators imposing themselves and vampirizing their students, or the students obsessing about their “gurus”. On the first scenario, you have claims of sexual abuse at Ordo Templi Orientis and, with the rise of the alternative right at the Astrum Argentum, which was originaly built to prevent communication between students and adepts in order to avoid abuse of authority, you have at some structures an almost military paradigm, coming from initiators that don't even know how a pentacle can be built and have ascended through the grades out of political strategy and that are, at best, intellecuals. I know cases at masonic lodges where the initiators brag of having had their probationers piss themselves during rites of initiation. After bragging to anyone willing to listen, they have a good laugh.  It also works the other way around. At a certain time of my life I worked on a center of alternative and holistic therapies. I had many male students humiliate themselves before me, for my displeasure, and the more I told them to be sovereign and whole and to stay standing even before the face of death the more they would bow like creeping vampires. This led me to abandon them eventually. Female students would often “fall in love” and try all sorts of seductive moves. These are the “spiritual tourists' ', they come to you because they want some exotic experience of surrender. If I was Charles Manson, they would surrender just the same and end up doing God knows what just for the thrill. In the best case scenario, they eventually get bored or satisfy their touristic drive for adventure and leave by their own foot.  In another episode I came to learn with a shaman from an amazonian tribe. I went with a group of other caucasian men and women. As we would work with substances like Ayahuasca, Peyote and San Pedro, some of the members of the group started to become obsessed about the idea that they had to prove themselves to the shaman, for the shaman's personality was very strong and his gaze seemed to know all. Ayahuasca would then always reveal this unbalance which was a sort of aggressive shame. The shaman did everything in his power to drive those members away, begging them to take a breath and come back under another state of mind or move on with their lives, yet they kept coming, thinking they had to prove themselves harder than ever. One eventually tried to pull off his face and the shaman had to knock him out. This is the last I heard of the group.    What seems most surprising is when you have sects of actual trained adepts who turn their eyes to political power and cultural monopoly. They no longer remember their cause. They just want everything and are willing to destroy anyone to get it, like dragons sitting over a useless mountain of treasures. I was pursued by such sects, life threats included. Well... The occult is a vast abyss. You can learn to build your divine lamp and make a star, become a sun, or you can stumble in the dark for adrenaline. The world is dangerous, and at most occult organizations the blind lead the blind the best they can. Hermetic wisdom has become a source of inspiration, but its actual laws are out of fashion. The consequence is that the occultist joins not only ignorance in its either devotional or rebellious choirs but also its expressive side, stupidity, in detriment of what human enlightenment there is left. Many of these unbalanced paths can still hold some mysteries that the well trained magician, under the guidance of magical equilibrium can “steal” for himself and, beyond that one has to understand that a lot of traditions are solely for adepts or else for certain cultures and genetic strains, i. e. I never heard of Indians having trouble with Ayahuasca. They, at certain tribes, grow up with it, generation after generation and use it as medicinal water. **14. Falcon Books: How important was soul mirror training regarding your own path and what approaches did you find to be the most effective?** **André Consciência: **The soul mirror can have its own shadow, its name is restriction and, with time, it becomes a magical blocklage itself. This can happen especially if the magician has not learned to think in equilibrium. When I talk of thinking I am not referring solely to the mind, for I usually say that each body has its own head. 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Although at the macrocosmos the 4 stands for the four states of matter: solid, liquid, gas and energy, and the 5 is the cosmos, on the consciousness of men, or at the passive centers of activity in the brain, the 4 is instinct, cognition, memory and intuition, and the 5 is that which results from the balance of the four, because balance will move consciousness forward while unbalance will keep it moving in circles. While the 5, it being the spirit or the akasha, once generated, stands for itself and commands the 4 by introversion, the 4, by extroversion, make up the constitution of the 4 planes to which men is restricted, being them the physical, the etheric, the astral and the mental.  Another key may be applied in which the 4 is multiplied by the 3, the 3 being intellect, emotion and the conjunction of the 5 senses which is as the reflection of the number 5 on a physical dimension. This key sets cognition, intuition, instinct and memory on each of the three, making it 12 and, by consequence, forming the signs of the zodiac. If the magician was to follow in the presented direction of thought he would have the following analogies: The world of the senses would have Aries as instinct, Taurus as memory, the Gemini as cognition, Libra as intuition. This would mean that the instinct to react is at the core of our senses, while the instinct to persevere is their memory, their cognition comes through duality and their intuition through harmony. The world of emotions would have Cancer as instinct, Leo as memory,  Virgo as cognition and Scorpio as intuition. In turn, this would mean that the instinct to feel is rooted on the will to connect, our emotional memory is rooted on our sense of individuality, and that our feelings come to awareness by a search for well-being just as our emotional intuition, having no logic to be based upon, builds on the need to test.  The world of thoughts would have Sagittarius as instinct, Capricorn as memory, Aquarius as cognition and Pisces as intuition. In that context, the intellect would have adventure as it's instinct, structure as it's memory, innovation as it's cognition and imagination as it's intuition.  Even though we are still introducing this grade, the magician or future magician is to take from it his first test on mnemonics, the art of magical memory. He is to meditate on this table of correspondences until it becomes perfectly natural to him. But, although the cunning practitioner will be able to use the previous analogies during the course of our path to adepthood, the author himself will not be applying them in the methods to be teached. This is not to take the importance out of memorizing this table, for unless the magician memorizes it in such a way that it becomes intuitive, he knows it by instinct and it moulds his perceptions, the magician will find a missing link on his magical chain or at his magical structure, and his operations are hardly going to succeed.  In addition, by learning his mnemonics the magician will become naturally apt to work the correspondences to come during his exercises.  Now let us examine the pentagram further. Concerning the elements, at the left we have air at the top and earth at the bottom, at the right we have water at the top and fire at the bottom. The right column is the column of force and the left is the column of matter. Force is condensed at the heavens as water, to descend it must become pure energy, fire. Matter is condensed on earth and to ascend it must become subtler, air. Now, earth and air do not influence each other directly, their vertices do not touch at the pentagram, just as water and fire do not touch. Instead, fire and air influence each other mutually, just as air and water, water and earth. Air and water influence two elements each, but fire and earth influence only one other element, for one is the densest and the other the purest. Such a diagram shows that force and matter are mutually dependent in order to achieve their most sublimated states, but the densest state of force can influence both its purest state and the finest kinds of matter, just as sublimated matter can influence the most condensed forms of force and the grosser kinds of form. Akasha, or the spirit, is in direct touch with fire and earth, so that it is equally rooted at the densest and at the finest modes of existence. This means that left to himself and without the secret wisdom Men is only able to touch the divine as he experiences extremes. To understand it in human terms, as this grade concerns the microcosm rather than the macrocosm, we would have to say that the spirit touches the senses directly and the will of the regular men, while that very same will is able to conduct the mind and to be hypnotized by it, and the senses are able to reproduce feelings or be caused by them. Emotions, in turn, can also cause thought patterns while these very same patterns can reproduce emotions back. The realm of thoughts and the reign of feelings are cyclic and circular, but the Will and the senses are, outside the realms of spirit, what men can most rely on. This means that we have attributed will to fire, thoughts to air, emotions and feelings to water, the 5 senses to the earth. Or, roughly speaking, to the fire the analogies of heat and the concentric forces, to the air the analogies of openness and lightness, to the water the analogies of fluidness and coldness, and to the earth the analogies of everything solid, heavy and rooted. The elements move by accumulation. For instance, there was heat on the face of our planet, and that counts as one magical element, it is, therefore, the 1. From heat and the atmosphere came the winds, and the winds are the 2. We say these elements are magical because they are animated, and consequently the first and second sources of animism. From the heat, the atmosphere and the wind do the waters awaken to start their tides, and the waters are the 3. Apart from the earth being molded by them, from the heat, the atmosphere, the wind and the tides the earth is awakened by genetic life! This is the 4. And where there is conscious life there is that which we may call the aura of a planet, its astral trail, an electromagnetic field that suspends time and space around its source, and that is the 5. In this key, the atmosphere is the zero, the circle around the pentagram. Another way to say this is that Will shone on consciousness, and that from the interaction of the two the mind itself was born. There was energy dormant that was moved by the interaction of them three, and therefore there were emotions. Finally Will, consciousness, mind and emotion come to fill the centers of the body and breathe life into it. The magician may take the time to memorize these correspondences before he goes on reading. Now one can position any attribute at each of the elements, given that the akasha remains untouched and the proper filtration is applied at the other elements. Let us choose four random qualities. We put force at the place of the earth, we place brightness at the place of the water, darkness at the place of the air and matter at the place of fire. To fire, matter is actually destruction or rather its material form is destructive. To air, darkness is as ignorance. To water, brightness is as fascination and to earth, force is work. Now this can be easily translated into one of the following ways or into the other: Destruction leads to ignorance, ignorance to fascination, and fascination to slavery. Or, the slave starts to regain his individuality through fascination, and by the curiosity it evokes he recognizes his ignorance in order to destroy his chains. The Pentagram is actually the sign of the free men, for the magician who has learned to properly meditate on its diagram understands that nothing is a dead end and that every flow can be directed and redirected on the focus of his choices.         Still, the magician's work is not the same as the work of the regular individual. The magician's job is to find magical equilibrium, so that when will, mind, feelings and senses all work as one, the spirit, which is placed at the top of the pentagram, is reproduced as the quintessence at its center, leaving every element in touch with one another as well as with the divine.  We shall illustrate further. The reader may find that the four qualities we have attached to the elements form by their natural flow a sentence. The keyword to the sentence shown above is freedom/slavery, for neither freedom nor slavery were placed at the elements but they are the meaning we can extract from the position of their given attributes. Freedom/slavery is a dualistic keyword, just as it is dualistic for the spirit to be attached to fire and water. So, while when the regular men think of freedom they think in terms of ascending to freedom or of losing freedom the magician does not think in that manner, for he is at that spot at the center of the pentagram. At the fire he would place light, at the air he would place liberty, at the water he would place love and at the earth he would place life. Such as it is, from life he would come to love, from love to liberty and from liberty to light, such as from light to liberty, from liberty to love and from love to life. All the attributes are in harmony and a quintessential part of each other, and this happens because the qualities are directly connected to the elements they were given and are at their original source. Surely, we could change the scale of the keyword and still keep our magical equilibrium. If we change the scale of freedom to it's grade at the fire, the spiritual word or keyword becomes light. It is as focus on the fire element, direction at the air element, devotion on the water element and victory on the earth element. We could go on forever and not lose elemental balance and magical equilibrium. By this we illustrate what it is to think, act and live with magical equilibrium at one's side.» Through such means the magician can more easily move in many directions and explore without losing his magical balance. But I, eager to explore, suffered slightly from restriction before I had the idea for this key, for to express the most vibrant virtues one has sometimes to play and dance and an heavy armour won't do for such occasions.  Then there is that even the soul mirror being the best device for introspection I have found so far inserted on a magical system, the applied philosophy is not an exact science, and it takes practice for one to understand that sometimes too much of a certain quality is becoming a weakness and some weaknesses were strengths we were afraid to acknowledge. For instance, psychology tells us that anger is the first step to healing, so, what can we make of it? To work with the soul mirror one has to apply sensibility, intelligence and wisdom, and if one isn't sensible, intelligent and wise, one might end up becoming repressed by it instead. Maybe exercising one's sensibility, fluidity, intelligence and wisdom should be a warm up for the bellic approach the soul mirror might require of us.  Some left hand traditions speak of a natural way, and that the body, if left to itself, knows its own balance and a way to bring mental and emotional harmony. While Aleister Crowley, a man with a right and a left hand formed in psychology, might have had – or not - the ability to do this successfully in order to call himself the solar beast, most magicians from the left hand path don't have a single clue on how this can be done. While Anton LaVey, smart as he may have been, spoke of “indulgence instead of abstinence”, indulgence itself solves nothing of the origin of human unbalance. Psychology tells us that pathologies come from fragmentation, in order to protect itself from fracturing as a whole some parts of the psyche, when faced with trauma, are separated from memory and memory, in turn, tries to assimilate them back by associating them with other phenomenal objects of the mind. Just as the fibers of a muscle, when wrongly entwined, cause pain, limitations and unbalance on the body, so do the fibers of the mind. By acting, a body tries to escape an unbalanced mind, but it is as a lost animal on an artificial labyrinth. The mind must clear, so that the beast might find its proper forest and take good care of the mind. Between the body and the mind, the astral is important, that is why exercises of conscious breath come handy. The astral fluids have emotional intelligence and, by default, are not trapped by the body nor by the mind: as any other water, they seek balance and answer to intuition. **15. Falcon Books: What would you say about this statement, ‘our outward success in life is a reflection of  inward success of our practice, ‘As Above So Below’’?** **André Consciência: **Ah! But there are two sentences there, surely connected but maybe not the same. About the first sentence I would say that it is mostly correct, although maybe  not entirely correct at the present level of human evolution. While our work upon ourselves surely molds most of the things around us or how they interact with us, some of it doesn't reach outside. There could be two reasons for this, one being that the universe, by its own nature, only reacts to us to a certain extent, and the other being that there is so much of us that we do not know, that these parts are left out and so the outer seems to act partially of its own accord.  To the second sentence now: I met a very wise christian poet and philosopher. He used to tell me that “as above, so below” is not the same as “as below, so above”. He was of the opinion that heaven would only open of its own accord. To him, gnostics and hermetic magicians believed otherwise, in that they thought they could manipulate the process, building their own babel tower, and for that alone they had already corrupted the experience. To him, heaven was a gift, not something one conquers. I don't have any smart argument to overthrow him, just that the hexagram stops midway. When we earn at least paradise, then heaven descends of its own accord or, truly deserving something always comes with a surprise, a miracle factor, and that is the element of the soul expanding, the heart that beats without asking for permission: we just have to live and organize our lives.  Organizing life: Giordano Bruno tells us that if we change the stars then we change the Earth. He literally did this job as a magician. The concept was that by changing the archetypes one can program the reality of the world at large. Now this was a man living down on earth changing heaven above to change the earth below. He, as a christian monk and later an hermetic magician and philosopher, would still agree with my friend the christian poet, but did already outsmart him. And, by principle, Bruno and I would agree with you, that the inner connects above, and the outer below. But he and I would then open our eyes as wide as there is light and darkness and look outside at the Soul of the World in all its vastness. Eventually, we would see heaven alone, heaven and the adorer.  Alas, esoteric tradition shows a strike of light upon the tower of babel and the holy flames thereof. Now, while what I just said would make a fine closing line, this unity of two presented, what if we acknowledge yet that maybe the sentences at the question form up a single quadripolar magnet composed of Above, Below, Inner and Outer, whose electromagnetic force is as invocation/evocation? Again, I cite a small passage from *The Way of Abrahadabra*, a charade that aims to bring insight into a unity of four, and hints at a level not directly talked about by Bardon in that true vigilance is beyond the conscious and the subconscious/unconscious. While at first the conscious is spoken as a tool against the unconscious or the subconscious, it is still a reaction to the subconscious/unconscious, therefore impulsive and reactive. But when at IIH the magician actually starts to work with the four divine qualities, there is no way for reason alone to grasp them. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/spiral-2401967_1920-1024x831.jpg) *A Charade for the Magnetic Mars, Sphere of Eternal Renovation* ** Invocation** *A star falls as a seed * *And rises as a tree of life* *Now the dead will rise to greet* *A sky most bright.* **Evocation** *My name i*s * The Star Sapphire,* *I was about to write * *“Evoked action”*. This number is 4876, We were with you from the beginning to get to the other side'. The first poem a star, is referring to an original life-force or a cause - is invoked unto the magician and his channels are activated while his light scales up renewing his body. The lore here implies also that everything in connection with our inner structures may be born again at its image. It is about the act of renewal that starts from the inside out and makes the magician a portal of magic and creation. While the second poem has a different source. In Jewish mysticism a sapphire, being the color of heaven, always stands for celestial structures, supernal energy and divine knowledge. In the poem the poet is about to write "evoked action", so that he actually evokes the action of writing and the poem thereof. But he tells us his name is the star sapphire, implying that his action comes from the heavenly realm of causes. When an action comes from the dimension of original cause rather than from a reactive point of view, it brings with it eternal renovation, so that through it the initiate of this sphere is to be recognized. **16. Falcon Books: Is there anything else you would like to add?** **André Consciência: **I would like to add that the writings of William Mistelle were of great help and inspiration while I was completing IIH. Homage to him, who is an author at Falcon Books. I will also add that I am reviewing the book following *The Way of Abrahadabra*, and one of its missions is to address modern science in the light of magic. I feel that magic stopped at the renaissance, and even then it drank from Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt. We have come to learn so much since then, and to read so many new pages on that Book of Isis called Nature. Why is it that magic didn't follow? While some chaos magicians and some maatian magicians draw from quantum mechanics, how did we come from Ancient Greece directly to quantum science? What of everything else that is in between? **17. Falcon books Publishing:  Lastly, I wonder if you could tell us about your next title *Through the Soul Mirror to the Sphere of the Sun?*** **André Consciência: **Eventually you will see news on «Through the Soul Mirror to the Sphere of the Sun», and it will make the soul mirror itself a dynamic system of initiation into magic and mysticism. It may have the guidance of the heads of the sun, and the mission to have the magician connect directly with the source of all virtues.  --- Thank you **André** very much for participating in this interview and offering such in-depth answers. #### To find out more about André visit his Falcon Books author page . 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These are in number twelve; but under them are many more, my son; and creeping through the prison of the body [4](http://gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/TGH-v2/th227.html#fn_467) they force the man that’s placed within [5](http://gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/TGH-v2/th227.html#fn_468) to suffer in his senses. But they depart (although not all at once) from him who hath been taken pity on by God [6](http://gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/TGH-v2/th227.html#fn_469); and this it is which constitutes the manner of Rebirth. And . . . . [7](http://gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/TGH-v2/th227.html#fn_470) the Reason (*Logos*). 8. And now, my son, be still and solemn silence keep! Thus shall the mercy that flows on us from God not cease. Henceforth rejoice, O son, for by the Powers of God thou art being purified for the articulation of the Reason (*Logos*). In modern day language I believe Hermes was referring to the uncontrolled or hidden aspect of the subconscious mind that refers to the negative expression of qualities -- the tormentors which he lists twelve.  Interestingly, Hermes also speaks about a solution to do dealing with these forces and offers a key, the use of the *logos* (reasoning), which I believe is referring to conscious aspect of the mind. Later on in this article we will see how not only how this sentence of knowledge is fundamental in transforming the mind, but also the importance using the logos and to practice conscious awareness in daily life; moreover, understand the influence that the subconscious mind has upon us.  Also, we will be delving into the nature of concentration, its importance and link to the subconscious mind, including  the ability to make progress in any path towards adepthood is linked to the ability to concentrate and control our thoughts. ### What is the conscious and subconscious mind and why is it so important in our hermetic training? You have probably come across this dealing with this aspect of the mind through any self-development program or working on auto-suggestion if you follow the Bardon system. In modern psychology the subconscious aspect of the mind refers to a vast collection of unintentional, habitual thoughts, behaviors, and actions. These actions are non-conscious which in fact mean **we have have no choice in the way the mind responds.** ### The iceberg model for conscious and subconscious mind ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/serveimage-5.jpg) Neuroscientists have come to the understanding that the brains processes operate much like the metaphor of an iceberg, where by **10% of the conscious mind is active and in our control **and** 90% is hidden which is controlled by the subconscious **aspect of the mind’s processes. In earlier text, Hermes makes reference to uncontrolled passions relating to the tormentors. I believe he is referring to the negative uncontrolled aspect of the subconscious mind. If we look at the list below which attributes are associated with the uncontrolled subconscious mind it is very interesting to note, the form of these tormentors often manifest through them. - Beliefs - Emotions - Habits - Values - Protective reactions - Long-term memory - Imagination - Intuition Most people are subject to dealing with negative experiences from the past. Emotions rising up through protective reactions, or people believing they are cursed. Bad habits preventing them from having a full expression in life. The cultural values imposed upon us through our upbringing, to name a few. Now, if we look at the conscious mind in which only **10% is conscious**, meaning thoughts and actions that we actively choose through our own will. (as illustrated in the iceberg metaphor). If we go back to the references to Hermes he speaks about the* logos* in terms of logical reasoning, and if we look at the attributes below associated with the conscious mind we can see a direct link. - Will-power - Short-term memory - Logical thinking - Critical thinking This again is very interesting,  if we look at any training that focuses on Adepthood you will note at that will-p0wer. logical thinking and critical thinking are key to have clarity of mind and to override the subconscious processes. As you can see working on the mind is paramount if we wish to succeed. We have a huge challenge ahead of us since 90% percent of our mind is not our own. Not only are we dealing with this fact we are increasingly faced with the challenges of modern society, where we are constantly experiencing so much stimulation around us. Our level of ability to concentrate on one thing at one time has greatly diminished as we have become more accustomed to multitasking. 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What we watch and read, what we engage in continuously is being processed by the subconscious mind including past, experiences, actions, thoughts and feelings. Now let us take a look at subconscious mind from a hermetic view point. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Copy-of-blog-header-TSPOM-6.png) ### The hermetic view of the subconscious mind [Franz Bardon](https://falconbookspublishing.com/franz-bardon/) describes the subconscious as; > *The subconscious is the mirror to all negative attributes and is located in the inter-brain in the astral body. The uncontrolled subconscious is our enemy. It is especially effective at night, in space without time, in the body when the normal consciousness is at rest. 2 * ### How do I deal with the subconscious mind? I have offered 3 different approaches from Franz Bardon,[ Martin Faulks](https://falconbookspublishing.com/martin-faulks-books/) and [Virgil](https://falconbookspublishing.com/virgil/). In [Step II of Bardon’s ](https://falconbookspublishing.com/franz-bardon/)*Initiation into Hermetics4,* he offers a comprehensive chapter discussing subconscious and how to over come it through using tools such as autosuggestion, and using the magnetic forces to impregnate positive influences using methods such as, magical washing, magical eating, he also offers advice in *Questions and Answers* are as follows, > *We can control our subconscious through autosuggestion if we order it to do something good for us just before we fall asleep. We assign the subconscious to our storehouse of ideas where it where it exists as our qualitative component. Its quantity is the power to effect and tension of the opposite negative attributes.* Here Bardon is offering us a key, by transmuting  the qualitative component of  negative thoughts to positive ones, and by using the quantity of our will-power  and volition to bring about change. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Copy-of-blog-header-TSPOM-4.png) We can see also [Martin Faulks](https://falconbookspublishing.com/martin-faulks-books/) takes a similar approach whereby he tackles this aspect of the subconscious by making positive conscious  choices and behaviours in daily life, which over-time become habitual. This approach not only takes control by using the conscious mind, but also changes the negative patterns of the subconscious mind to a positive one.  In[ Enlightened Living Chapter 5, The Greatest Barrier to Enlightenment,](https://falconbookspublishing.com/enlightened-living-excerpt-chapter-5-greatest-barrier-enlightenment/) he discusses how using this is approach, not only its effectiveness, but also can lead to a permanent state of higher awareness: *So the idea is to make this state of consciousness our normal functioning state of consciousness. To do this, it is very important to learn to fully engage in what is happening right now. To always remember that the enlightened person is not going to be beyond troubles, but is rather someone who skilfully deals to the best of his or her ability, with the goal to bring about the best possible outcome. So when a negative thought enters the mind, it is corrected and then transformed into something positive. Rather than assuming failure at the presence of a negative thought, it is important to correct the mind. It is unrealistic to expect to never have those kinds of thoughts. Indeed to me, this very act of transforming a negative action or thought into something that has positive intentions and outcomes embodies the highest expression of enlightenment.* Using this method not only does the individual begin to train the conscious mind by being in the present moment, but also brings into awareness of the uncontrolled negative aspects of the subconscious, which are then brought into line by being  corrected  immediately as they arise. He further offers some motivating affirmations and finally states, > *The importance of applying these skills in our waking day cannot be emphasised enough. In spiritual traditions this is endemic. As people continually search for new techniques upon new techniques but never realising that these techniques are only the training, it is the embodiment of the skills, insights and abilities that aid us in daily li*fe. > > > *To review:* > > - * Do not put this off.* > - *It will not suddenly happen.* > - * Spiritual exercises are training, the true test is applying the lessons to life.* > - * Embody the state you wish to happen.* > - *Own every single action.* > > *By applying these principles, balance will be found within ourselves because by practicing things that are difficult we become stronger in those areas we are weakest. This acts as a sunlamp on the soul. Skills are transferable, so as we become accomplished in one particular skill, our ability improves in other areas also. For me, this is the true way of enlightenment.* > > > ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Copy-of-blog-header-TSPOM-7.png) [Virgil](https://falconbookspublishing.com/virgil/) in[* Magical Equilibrium*](https://falconbookspublishing.com/product/elemental-equilibrium-notes-foundation-magical-adepthood/) again takes the step 2 approach of Bardon's three-pronged attack, of using autosuggestion, transmutation and volition, and adds a further 3 to the mix, in which he calls the ''six-pronged attack.'' He states, As anti-impotence treatment options are easily accessible, people can [purchase viagra](http://cute-n-tiny.com/tag/cat/page/2/) without any hindrance. They may [cialis canada generico](http://cute-n-tiny.com/cute-animals/kitty-being-eaten-by-stuffed-dino/) not be a neighbor, but over the months that have rallies, can be riding buddies. 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For example if you want to eliminate impatience from your personality you can do this by developing patience.* In this method Virgil is tackling directly the subconscious by continually using a focused approach during by charging up the food, the breath, when washing  to aid in transforming negative qualities. ### Concentration linked to the subconscious mind Our ability to concentrate is fundamental in any spiritual discipline if we wish to progress to any degree. **Why is this so?** Because we need to have conscious awareness over our thoughts and actions in order to know that these processes are actually from our own choice and not through a programmed response generated by our subconscious mind. In order for us to enter into deep concentration we need to clear the underlying vibration or noise that is preventing us from entering into a deep state of uninterrupted relaxation. > *During concentration there is a continuity of consciousness and this condition allows our subconscious forces to rise up. The hidden psychological patterns in the subconscious mind start to manifest. Normally, because of our mental distractions, we are totally unable to contact or express our inner power. During deep periods of concentration we start to understand the deeper aspects of our being. So the fruits of concentration are substantial. Many people, whether they have experienced meditation or not, know that great things are in store for them if only they can concentrate deeply. Because they are not relaxed, however, they force their consciousness to dwell on one point.5* *- Swami Satyananda Saraswati* As we can understand by this quote, our ability to concentrate is linked to a level of relaxation, a deep level of relaxation directly linked to the relationship we have with our subconscious mind. As Bardon states often it is the  uncontrolled subconscious mind that will bring up negative thoughts and fears generating and underlying anxiety within us. This often manifests in our dreams and when we are in a resting state. Within the Franz Bardon training system in *Initiation Into Hermetics* in the first step Bardon addresses the power of the subconscious mind and how best to utilise it to our advantage offering a number of tools to assist. However, this is a continual process throughout life as we refine this process of inner alchemy, turning metal into gold. ### Why is it so important to have the ability to concentrate for spiritual development? Within the many traditional spiritual traditions a lot of focus is placed on developing a high degree of concentration. If you notice Bardon’s focus is all on developing quantities and qualities in order to push through the realm of the mundane through use concentration to develop imagination skills and willpower. In traditional yoga the process of transformation of the soul follows a similar path. If you go back to our iceberg model you will also notice that all these qualities are in fact created by the conscious mind-the 10% that is visible to us. The ability to concentrate and use our will shows that we are have the ability to act in awareness and not to be guided by our subconscious mind. This is fundamental in training. You will notice Bardon also places importance on autosuggestion, magical washing, eating and drinking, now we can begin to see why. He is aware of the power of the subconscious mind and has put everything in place to combat it. ### What is concentration ? Franz Bardon describes concentration in* Questions and Answers*, taken from the yogic tradition as; > “*Concentration* is an interrupted hold or adherence to a point, matter, being, abstract, concept, picture, thought, perception etc. Concentration is divided into three levels according with the periods of time. The first level is uninterrupted concentration for twelve seconds is called *dharana. *The second level is *dhyana*, has a duration of twelve times twelve seconds, while the third level has a duration of twelve times twelve times twelve seconds and this is called *samadhi* which means ecstasy, the flowing together of object and subject.”6 Another quote  from a yogic perspective. > *Concentration implies the focusing of one's consciousness towards one point, either external or internal, to the exclusion of all other subjects or thoughts.7* *- Swami Satyananda Saraswati* ### ### What does this mean? Through developing our concentration it allows us to not only to gain a deeper knowledge of a subject with clarity and precision but also to merge with it. To penetrate the visible world and go beyond what is in front of us. When dealing with unseen forces it is paramount that perceive through clarity and free from the bias of the subconscious mind. Only through willfully acting is this possible. But I believe the author is also talking about entering into a deep relaxation free from the noise of the subconscious mind. So far we have established the power of the subconscious mind and how little our conscious mind takes part in daily life. We can also see the affects of our environment upon conscious mind, our ability to act consciously diminishes due to the constant stimulation around us. Another converse effect is our ability to concentrate. So is not surprising people following the path of adepthood are faced with an even greater challenge than their predecessors . We need even a greater discipline avoid daily distractions. ### Why does my mind keep wondering when trying to concentrate on visualization? Concentrating on one thing is a challenge for the mind because of the wandering tendency of the consciousness. It takes time for the body and mind to relax. In order to really concentrate we need to  allow time for this to occur. Due to having busy lifestyles and distractions most of us are not able to spend the length of time in covering all the aspects needed to really allow time for the parasympathetic nervous system to take effect and to sink into these practices. The passage below eloquently offers and explanation from a yoga perspective: > *Many systems of yoga tell you to place an object in front of you or to visualize an internal image, concentrate on it, and lo and behold you will start to explore the subconscious depths of the mind. Although the method is correct and can bring wonderful experiences, it takes no consideration of the wandering tendency of our consciousness, which makes concentration impossible for most people. Concentration is possible only if a person is very relaxed mentally and physically. Most people cannot relax, or if they do it is on rare occasions. For this reason the mind continually projects streams of differing thoughts to conscious perception. As such, to ask most people to concentrate is impossible. And if they try to concentrate, they will tend to try to suppress the disturbing factors in the mind and create more tension in themselves……..Concentration is something that occurs spontaneously in a very relaxed mind and body. Until relaxation is achieved, concentration, real concentration that is, remains impossible. A system is required which progressively leads a person to deeper states of relaxation, until concentration becomes the spontaneous activity of consciousness.8* *- Swami Satyananda Saraswati* ### ### ### Why can’t I stop my thoughts in meditation? I wanted to address one of the main sticking points in any initiation that one will come across in meditation is being able to meditate with the cessation of thoughts. Many practitioners have this problem. As previously stated the mind has a tenancy to go into a follow into stream of consciousness. Unless we begin to address this in our daily life we are only scratching the surface. I believe the lack of concentration in daily life may be a contributing factor and the fact we are not able to enter a deep level of relaxation because we are not allowing enough time for the subconscious mind to process and release the tension that it has created. If you look around you most people are constantly on our phones, we are continually feeding the subconscious mind. If mediation practice is one hour a day but the rest of the time at work or at home is being run by the subconscious mind, then we sit in our meditation it is no wander our subconscious mind will processing thoughts. In effect we are training our subconscious mind not our conscious mind. We all live such busy lives and the mind and body never really experiences  a deep state of relaxation. Learning to become aware of the mental processes through out the day and cutting negative thoughts can lead to a greater degree of peace. The body and mind need to be in a relaxed state in order enter into a deep level of meditation. The practice of awareness throughout the day is very important because it allows us to control consciously our thoughts and actions. We then begin to have the choice over our mind rather than reacting to it. Please enjoy a wonderful meditation by [Martin Faulks](https://martinfaulks.co.uk/).9 that uses focus on the breath to aid a calm awareness, so the mind can become free from thoughts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSzsnDW5QQU ### In Conclusion For us to really progress we need to invest time in conscious thoughts and actions using our will power at every given opportunity. To listen to our subconscious mind and help it resolve and reprogram the negative responses. Most importantly learn to take time out and relax and develop our concentration skills in daily life. This way we are staying aware and focused throughout the day. Then we can truly shine like the red lion. [mks_separator height="2"] ### References  *1 [Mead G.R.S. ](http://gnosis.org/library/grs-mead/TGH-v2/th227.html)*Corpus Hermeticum  XIII. (XIV.)*Thrice-Greatest Hermes - Volume 2.* 2 ,Rüggeberg D, Franz Bardon *Questions and Answers **and the Great Arcanum, Compiled from teachings of Franz Bardon, * Merkur Publishing, Inc,2009. 3 Microsoft Attention Spans, 2015. 4 Bardon, F, *Initiation Into Hermetics*, *(Step II Autosuggestion or the Secret of the Subconscious), *Merkur Publishing, Inc. 10th ed, 2107. 5 Swami Satyananda Saraswati, *A **Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques of Yoga and Kriya, 2004.* 6 Rüggeberg D, Franz Bardon *Questions and Answers **and the Great Arcanum, Compiled from teachings of Franz Bardon, * Merkur Publishing, Inc, 2009. 7 Swami Satyananda Saraswati, *A **Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques of Yoga and Kriya,* Yoga Publications Trust, Munger, Bihar, India, 2004. 8 [Martin Faulks](https://martinfaulks.co.uk/) Hermetic teacher at The Seshen School of Hermetic Meditation and Meditation expert. 9. 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The focus of these discussions are guided towards the spiritual seeker. Presenting today and interview with **Justin B the Magician. **A dedicated practitioner of magic and artist who has[ blog](http://justinbthemagician.blogspot.tw/) which is now archived and wonderful resource of posts going back to 2008. You can also find him on [Tumblr](http://justinbthemagician.tumblr.com/). Justin began his journey at the age of 18. He is an explorer and adventurer whose curiosity for life and adventure lead him on a journey into of magic. Having over 20 years of practice and worked his way through Bardon’s 3 books and now has been given his own system of Kabbalah. He continues to research and explore the infinite universe that surrounds us. A cordial welcome to Justin. Thank you very much for taking the time to answer these questions. --- - **Falcon Books: I wonder if you could start by offering to us a background into your journey and what took on onto the path of following magic?** **Justin B: **From many unusual and odd experiences from a very young age such as sleep paralysis as well as seeing a “goblin” wide awake during the day, I knew the world was not how most people believed it to be. When I was around 14 or so I had an intense release of Kundalini energy which from the fear of the experience created something of a demonic tulpa. This being could perform certain poltergeist like activity and would try to possess me. Luckily for me a fellow student at school who was very gifted help me remove this entity and I began my journey at the age of 18 practicing Qi kung and energy work as shown to me from that same friend who was really gifted at psychic perception. He had a very unique method of teaching where it just seemed so simple and direct. Rather than arduous training and practice it was more about getting better at focus and perception. I then picked up some books on something called “the empty force” that I practiced for several years. The description was simple but in practice it can be arduous. Its main practice was holding a horse stance and keeping an empty mind for an hour. You had to do this every day for three years. Needless to say, this helped a great deal when I started Bardon’s thought control exercise. Later I began to dabble with ceremonial magick and spirit work, doing the LBRP and the watchtower rituals. This led me to work deeply with the four archangels of the quarters as spirits I would evoke daily. Some of the ideas they shared with me which I shared with a friend who was a yogi/Bardon magician led him to give me his copy of IIH because he said they were aligned, and they were. So, I started IIH at the age of twenty three. **Falcon Books: It must have been great to have found Bardon’s IIH so early on?** **Justin B:** Didn't seem so at the time. That was why I went with Bardon. It was difficult to get past the symbols and inspirations from spirits with my internal chatter or expectation of what they may say, even from years of meditation. You see, this is before the internet had taken off. If you did not know someone who could advise you it had to be worked out on your own, no validation unless it worked. So when I would work with spirits or the archangels I kept questioning if it was some internal garbage within me or pure inspiration from a spirit. Bardon was a great guide in the ways in which I needed to focus and clear the mind. That is also why I recommend Neo-Reichian exercises of tension and relief and Wim Hof. It really helps clear the thoughts. **2. Falcon Books: Interestingly you speak about using ‘tension’ I find parallels with Mouni Sadu’s concentration exercises which include tension exercises to develop this aspect of meditation.** **a. Could you please going into a bit more depth about the significance to the this and how using these types of practices help develop clarity and concentration.** **b. Could you also give us some examples of such practices.** **Justin B: **First you must realize that most of your internal chatter, emotional coloring of experiences and reactions to things is due to internalized, repressed speech or expression. Think about small children. If left to their own devices they are chatter boxes. They give direct commentary about everything they experience, and their imaginations are free to run wild and their emotions flow out. Parents or adults then impress the social norms, and teach them to suppress their unending dialogue from being voiced. It does not go away though. The speech, the imagination and all the rest is still pumping away. Watch an adult think about what they are about to say and if you watch closely you will see muscle tension around the throat and jaw. That builds over time, as do emotional responses we must “cover up” because they are not accepted. What the psychotherapist attempts is to re-live the experience that created it, which does not help or helps very little only when the patient experiences a release of the tension (why confession feels so good and freeing) what really needs to take place is a full release of body tension. You experience this at times when you have had a long hard day of work, or physical strain. After such massive strain you flop down and feel as you could melt, your mind is at peace and you drift off into rest. That feeling of peace, of release is really just that! Having a temporary release of the tensions in the body brings that bliss and inner silence which is why hard work has always been so lauded in society; it gets things done and has the added benefit of energetic release. Meditation is another way to do this by essentially starving the stimulus of the senses which allows the inner experience to pour out. If we first work with the muscles tension in the body before we do meditation we will see a profound difference in reaching higher states of consciousness and focus. There is no tension holding you within the confines of the body and you are allowed to surf the waves of blissful awareness even if a part of your body feels pain. The simplest way, but not the most thorough is to take a deep breath, hold it while you strain every muscle in a certain muscle group and release the muscles in that group and the breath when you have reached the limit of your ability to hold it. Start with the feet and move up to the head. Scan the body to find any sources of tension and repeat the exercise in that area while being fully open and aware of the area. You will see a marked difference in your ability to meditate. Jack Willis wrote a fantastic free book that is available online that covers many exercises to fully release the tension and the proper breath to do this with. Wim Hof breathing and physical stretching is another amazing way to do it. **3. Falcon Books: Moving on from developing concentration, I would like to ask your thoughts on the importance of developing ‘awareness’ and ‘being in the moment’ and how this affects training later on.** **Justin B:** That is actually a great segue in discussion because one moves into another. Once you release body tension you will notice more and more the field of awareness grows, you get a sense of what your energy feels like and how to move it. The old trick of thinking about your small toe on your left foot is a good example. Prior to being directed to experience that little digit it was most likely out of your awareness, but once directed your awareness flashed down to it. Grade that awareness though, was it a gentle vague cloud of perception or was it deep and penetrating such as when you stub that toe in the dark and you feel every heart beat within it and the nerves flash like a bolt of lightning. Expanding, strengthening and purifying the state of awareness leads (just as tension and relaxations led to awareness) to psychic states of awareness. The more you work on your awareness the more in the moment and perceptive it is, the more you are open to direct experience in a deeper way from your senses. Your psychic senses are just your normal senses in a more perceptive state. With experience and observing the cycles and patterns in nature the higher realms become as obvious as the nose on your face, always there but slightly out of awareness. **4. Falcon Books: Within studying magic there can be a difficulty in the discernment between imagination and genuine experience when dealing with the subtle realms. I feel is a huge area that needs clarification how do we avoid the trap of fantasy?** **Justin B:** That is an excellent point. Imagination that is not charged with ‘will energy’ is fantasy. It takes training to work both skills to do magic. Working one gives you great mental vistas and vision, the other the ability to succeed. When united they can do wonders. Now, having said that a purified and trained imagination is better than a mirror to skry in (the mirror is only a physical symbol of the imagination, an object on which the conscious mind and soul have agreed they can communicate in). Observe the imagination and become aware of its actions, its movements, its creations. This is what magic orders really do from ancient times until now. You receive a set of symbols that represent actual subtle forces in the universe. One learns through awareness and meditation what that force is like and links the experience of the energy signature to the symbol the order has prescribed. Through training and ritual this works just as well as me saying the word “cow” and a picture of a cow appears in your mind imaginatively without your will being involved. The imagination so trained can be gazed into and the products that appear will show you exactly what forces are at work around you better than any astrological chart could. Here is where the magic comes in, one then either charges the forces at work to increase their power around you or one can banish it, or add a symbol charged with the will force so it interacts with the other forces on your behalf. There, the whole of practical magic laid bare. It is literally so simple no one believes it or uses it until shown repeatedly that it works. To get back to the point on fantasy though that has always been the warning of the astral plane, it is filled with illusions and deceptions. Yes, because the imagination has not been purified and properly trained to see and interpret the language being discussed. It is like reading a story in another language you either barely understand versus it being read by a master of literature in that language. Where magic differs from literature thankfully is the reader once trained can interject their own story upon it. **5. Falcon Books: I wonder if you could offer further clarification to this, for example if someone is practicing in step 3 working on developing the analogous elements such as fire, they sit down they think of fire, they see themselves inside a red fiery universe as Bardon instructs they then feel the fire.** **a. Now they quickly note down mission accomplished. But how do they know what is the difference between this very deliberate and willful exercise to feel the fire and convince ourselves we are feeling it and ACTUALLY genuinely feeling it.** - **If a step 8 magician was in the room would he/she see any evidence of the element despite the claims of the step 3 student that the exercise is complete.** **Justin B:** I think the best way to describe this and Bardon even mentions this in regards to evocation and people don’t really hone in on that concept much. Go out into a graveyard at night with no light, or go deep inside a cave in pitch black or into a dank dark cellar. Now call to an evil spirit. Or if that is too scary go into a dark room and convince yourself someone is behind you and about to get you. If you are imaginative and spiritually inclined you probably already have goosebumps, shaking your head “no way!” If you get the point you don’t actually need to do the above, you understand the power of the imagination already. You see we assign power to the imagination in one area but when we say conjure the fire element around you it seems an impossible feat. When you can imagine at will an element, in the same way fear can force you to imagine a boogeyman, then you have attained a certain level of power both in quality and in quantity. I have done some experiments with students who could not magically tell the difference between a gnome or an angel from Geburah on whether or not they could influence psychically another simply by observing some pictures before doing a group meditation. I found that if two people in a group of 6 observed several pictures of a certain artistic quality and the other four were simply directed to observe their imagination, that the imagery would be similar in quality to the images seen by the other two. So, if you are having troubles on an element or force find some form or art medium that would help you fill the imagination with the ideas associated with the force, just like people watch horror movies on Halloween. You may not think it is psychically or magically effective but it does have an influence on the mental and astral forces around you. Feed your head properly. Another point I would like to discuss here is as you develop your skills you may have peak moments and plateaus of experience. The peaks are when you break through to a better quality or quantity of force, where the plateaus are you normal or average levels. When working around others though who have not raises their levels to what you have attained then they experience a difference. If one meditates on this they will see this is why a magician can effect healing on another but may find it difficult to heal themselves. Also, don’t “demand” the way another experiences an element or force. I once did a teaching session at a local meditation center years ago. I was discussing the elements and I was teaching how one can better work with the elements through vibrating the names of the quarter angels and meditating on their qualities. I simply demonstrated the proper way to do vibrate the name Raphael. After I had several people come to me and say that they all had experiences related to the air element. One described a certain smell (one I associate with air that they had no experience with), some described feeling a breeze and one heard wind chimes. The element affected them each in their own way. Don’t demand an experience be the way you desire, just draw it and allow it to work. So many magicians are too focused on control which diminishes their power actually. How much will does it for me to conjure the idea of a book in your mind? If you were sensitive as you read the word maybe you saw a perfect representation of a book in your visual field, maybe you recalled the smell of old yellowing pages or freshly printed paper? Perhaps you heard a book shut tightly. Either way, your imagination with a simple prompt came alive, it may have even cased a flash of will which will cause you to go find the book that appeared to you in some way, whichever was best for you. What power awaits to be aroused in you simply by allowing it to come forth! **6. Falcon Books: There is some debate with regarding studying Bardon’s IIH system, some say that this book is complete and it is not necessary to explore other avenues of knowledge to further gain understanding, while others suggest that Bardon’s IIH are really subheadings and it is our job to flesh out and gain deeper understanding and knowledge of each step through our own exploration and seeking out other literature.** **What are your views on this and also your experiences with going through IIH ?** **Justin B**: To really explain my view of Bardon it is of course necessary to look at the time and place of his writing, of the magical writings of the time, and what he was trying to accomplish. I sometimes ask myself if Bardon wrote IIH today would he have written every word of it like he did then? I honestly think not. The core or essence is the same of course, but if you have ever written an instruction or instructions for another you know how difficult that can be, especially if you can have no interaction or dialogue with that person during or after the reading. I recommend writing instructions on even a simple mundane task as if the reader has no prior knowledge of the subject. It is quite enlightening. So, that is how I look at all magical instruction books. The author has a set of experiences and wishes to convey them in a meaningful way to the reader, but because the subject is the subtle forces of magic it makes it even more difficult. How do you teach it? That is why I always recommend a few other systems be read at least. Get a few maps for the territory. IIH for me specifically, I always compare to a technical manual on building a complex machine like a car. Remember at the time of Bardon writing IIH the only way you could learn occultism is if you joined a magical order, swore oaths, and were trained in a certain set of symbols to be used. Bardon was one of the few tried to keep his oaths and was trying to go to the public with the work. It was not until later that magical orders started having their secrets fall into public consumption. So, if you took all of the work of the Golden Dawn and kept your oaths of secrecy but tried publish an instruction manual on the path to spiritual enlightenment and magical development you would have to teach someone to build their own personal magical order. So, going to a magical order for training is like buying a car at a dealership where Bardon is teaching you how to build a car from scratch. I always try to impress this concept on those coming to me with questions on Bardon. The secrets are all out there, we are flooded in them so they seem of no value. Bardon did not have this world, it was all hidden away. What would he write now with the secrets of so many order available online? I did not see this point right off though, I went through the work and realized it as I went. So, for me having worked Bardon, I like to see it as having given me the insight into any magical system or order. It is a Tabula Rasa for magic in my mind. An almost scientific journal from which one can penetrate the meaning of any system or symbolism, even say Enochian magic or Thelema. I think a good study of IIH with that perspective would benefit any magician no matter their belief system or practice. **7. Falcon Books: Which aspects did you find the most challenging going through Bardon's books?** **Justin B:** The soul mirror, which I think is everyone’s biggest challenge. It was not until I took a Jungian Active Imagination approach that I really had great success with it. I tried it all, from will work, sigils, autosuggestion, the magic of food and drink EmoFree and I must say that the book The Inner Guide meditation by Edwin Steinbrecher is an excellent resource (I found it much later sadly) but If I had to do it again I would focus on a Neo Rechian approach first with some Jungian Active Imagination for balance which is what the Steinbrecher book is all about with Astrology added. Honestly I am not a fan of the methods Bardon chose to work on balancing the soul mirror, I think if he had more modern methods he would have chosen those. I think an honest, unflinching look at one’s soul is needed and valuable but creating lists of hundreds of issues will not fix anything. It is discovering the need within the issue. Every negative trait or quality arises from a behavior that was acquired to defend and protect the ego. Only by facing the need and releasing the tension can healing begin and balance achieved. The positive trait will then bloom on its own from the released psychic or emotional tension. A good astrological chart work up can be of great assistance in discovering hidden problems. **8. Falcon Books: Which step took you the longest and why?** Justin B: If I look at my work from a strictly IIH perspective Step 8. Not because of the difficulty but because that is where I did the most magical experimentation. If IIH was a college I probably majored in the evocational arts. This of course translated later into kabballah. I delved deeply into their study for several years with a good portion of my blog devoted to that part of my work. **9. Falcon Books:  ****In Bardon’s IIH - astral travel is specifically described as the separation of the astral from the physical body and is described as a very blissful and very serious event. We see all over the internet Astral projection exercises described in such a way that they sound more like mental projection from the strict Bardon perspective.** **What is your view upon the Bardon method of Astral projection and does subscribing to that method relegate these other methods despite being called astral projection to actual being mental or etheric projection?** **Justin B**: I think most methods online focus on mental projection which can gently lead to astral projection with practice. I had sleep paralysis as a child so anything coming close to astral projection instantly caused panic. For me personally, mental projection which eventually allowed me the freedom and peace to allow myself to astrally project was the way to go. Let me just say this: when you astrally project there is no doubt you have done so. It is not a very vivid mental projection or guided imagery, it is an experience that changes you. You still have a slight perception at first that a residue of your awareness and personality is within your flesh but 99% of your consciousness is out and that is when you KNOW beyond doubt another world exists (that is if the Other has not found you prior to this like it did me). It is night and day difference. Like Gordon White says it is like “becoming invincible”. **10. Falcon Books: One significant part of the IIH journey I believe is that of the depth point exercise in Step 5. Here according to Rawn’s amazing guide we learn about the infinitely finite point and therefore the infinitely infinite circumference. Can you share anything more about the significance of this part of the journey and how this links on to subjects such as the personal and universal akasha?** Justin B: Be open, be empty. If you look at IIH, and this is some of the genius of what Bardon did, you see the training builds on itself. Learning Vacancy is a warm up lesson to working with the depth point and akasha. So, when students of IIH have not yet done the vacancy work and ask questions about the depth point it is a struggle because even the relatively simple experience of vacancy has not been perceived (to say nothing of the deeper and more profound experiences that one can achieve through vacancy). It is like not having learned your numbers in elementary school but asking how division works. I can give an answer but it will do you little good. With that being said read up on what Peter Carroll says on the force of Chaos, also what Steiner said on the Akasha or Chaos and how it works. Go out into the country and find a large flat piece of land. Lay out under the stars. See in the constellations how even the gods play through their cycles in the night sky. Think of space and everything contained within it. Know that you are made up of mostly empty space with charged particles in a somewhat distinct order that is completely changed out every so often, yet you appear on initial inspection to be “the same”. You too are a constellation in a manner of speaking. Seek the part of you that all life comes from, all feelings and thoughts. Where is the root of your consciousness, its depths? Every river has its source, you are a river of experience. The source is your depth point. 11. **Falcon Books: You have shared more than most when it comes to meeting beings of the EGZ and the Planetary Spheres in your IIH, PME and KTQ walkthrough. ** **Can you tell us about this time evocation, mental travel and how the quality of these communications changed after completing Bardon's first book IIH?** Justin B: In a classic full circle story I realized what initially brought me to Bardon, the fact that I could not finely slice whether a spirits “words” were coming from the spirit, or were my own creation or if they met somewhere in between was finally achieved. I knew after so much work with the spirits that they have no “language” other than energy, as in they are energy and their interaction with us produces certain cognitive experiences. The more similar we are in our views, culture and life experience the more similar our experiences with the spirit will be. If I sat down and did an evocation with someone from a radically different culture we would have some perception differences but the overall message would be the same. I have tried these experiments and they work. That is what a tribal group, coven or order has by being together, a shared language and symbol set from which the spirit or god is experienced for easier communication. So, once I learned that really the important thing is the awareness and experience of the spirit or god’ss energy, then some of my big questions started to get answered. Yes, I could translate the shared energy into a dialogue for many people to understand but to me it was energy moving and flowing between to conscious beings. The practice is like quietly being engaged in music that makes you feel something. Vacancy of mind and single pointed focus are paramount in this. Let me also say, you can clothe these forces in denser energies. I have seen some wild things. It is novel and can be a confirmation but it is eventually pointless and a real hassle to get accomplished. **12. On the same subject you shared some very detailed correspondences with these beings. How influential upon your development have these beings been and now that you have moved into other areas of magick do you still work with these same ‘Bardon’ spirits or have you been introduced to a host of new friends to speak with?** For me Bardon’s catalogue of spirits is an odd breed. Energetically they are very different than say calling Ophiel or Uriel. They are very inclined to teach and yet they are reserved. If you go in with intentions they don’t find proper I have seen some of them straight up ignore a magician or give them a brush off answer. Very funny sometimes, actually! Once had some dilettantes wish to evoke a Bardon spirit so I explained how it could be done, they tried it and they told me the spirit requested they plant a tree and it would help them with the task. They did so but the task was not completed. I just saw it as a spirit teaching them a lesson. Just from my experience Bardon spirits are more selective in what they do or who they work with. Also, appearance wise they somehow “look” different. Maybe more modern is the word. I will let the intrepid student discover more, and maybe that is just how they act towards me or those I have spoken with. I have had a few other Bardon magicians tell me the same but again they lived in my cultural and temporal location. The exception to that seems to be the elementals. They appear to be more willing to work with even non-Bardon magicians in similar ways other spirits do. There is only one spirit from Bardon’s PME I still dialogue with and that is only when a nice thunderstorm rolls in. **13. Falcon Books: I would like to ask about developing the connection to our HGA/ higher-self how did you begin to develop and connection and once you had did your life drastically change?** Justin B: I have seen many descriptions and explanations on the HGA. I started with Bardon’s automatic methods for communication which gave me a “name” which I later found out had meaning in Yiddish which I thought was fun. The most dramatic and life changing work came the first time I did the (little did I know at the time that it was mistranslated) Bornless ritual. I began using it before evocations and no matter what spirit I called I first got this powerful presence. When I dug deeper into the Bornless and discovered its history and how it is actually The Headless Rite, I used it in much the same manner Crowley recommends in Liber Samekh. I did daily invocations and spent as much time focusing my mind on the force. After several years of this I recommend the practice. For me the real key is just opening yourself up and giving yourself to the highest, make the connection to it and allow it to guide you and to work on you. It can be as simple as a single pointed focus and focusing on your highest state of mind or consciousness. Open yourself to that force and know that everything that you see, hear, read, occurs is a message from the highest working on you for your development. BOOM, the practice will skyrocket if you can do that. Don’t think of some babe with wings but you can if that helps. Also, the message may be an hour or days after. The real key is truly focusing on the divine connection within your consciousness and being open to inspiration for a time. As my best friend and fellow magician used to half-joke it is just “You from the future”. Think of yourself at your most divine, your most inspired, your most compassionate, your most insightful, conscious and potent. That is it. Allow that energy to work on and reside in you now. Once you can connect to that, magic is actually as simple as inner dialogue or like pillow talk with a divine lover. Let go of your desires, open yourself to the divine by creating a space for the divine to manifest and work in and through you. It is the merger of prayer and magic. As the medicine man Fools Crow said, “Become a hollow bone.” **14: Finally, as you mentioned earlier in the interview I wonder if you could tell us about your experiences with Wim Hoff and how using his training methods has assisted you in your own practice?** Justin B: I think Wim has created a really fantastic system teaching energy work and meditation which can lead to some amazing places but packages it in a way that just seems simple and an atheist could work with. Magicians of all stripes should at least take it for a test drive. If you want to really get a grasp on vital force or energy work then please try it. Shamanic breath work can also be a potent tool which is very similar (as is Holotropic breathing as taught by Groff). **15. Falcon Books: Where do you see your magical path leading?** Justin B: In the past few years I have finally answered a lot of the remaining questions I had. It was a long arduous process and in many ways it was for me like going into the lab every day and doing research on the structure and nature of the universe. I had a lot of questions I wanted answers for, and which I did not want; or in my younger days, did not have someone to just give them to me. I had a couple of guides but they were human. My major drive in magic, evocation and similar works was the drive to just find the truth. Another person can give you only their perspective, not the truth as you can experience it. The finger pointing at the Moon. So, once I had the answers I sought I had a period of time where I felt sort of lost. What do I do now? The answer was of course what step 10 in Bardon is about. You develop your perception, your ability, your consciousness to divine levels. You manifest spirit into matter, the work of the Sun described in the Emerald Tablet. This also translates for me in my work with others and my art. I am beginning to work on some things and have been doing experiments with art and paintings as a way to help others work with magical forces. Probably in the next year or two I will do commissioned paintings as talismans of sorts for people who would like a certain magical force in their lives or just a piece of magical art. 16**. Falcon Books: Is there anything else that you would like to add or feel should be covered?** **Justin B:** 1.Always keep in mind this simple fact, when magic seems too difficult or complex: Cave men figured it out on accident. Study shamanism, its views and beliefs and try to extract the workings behind what they did versus ceremonial magic or Bardon magic. They have distinct things in common. Grab hold of those similarities and realize the rest is just trying to get everyone on the same page linguistically on what to do with these forces that occur naturally. Ponder for a bit what is really the difference between a shaman, a psychic, a witch or a magician or someone who is extraordinarily lucky, or a genius, or someone possessed of mind blowing talent? Are they using the same force in different ways? How could all of these groups get similar results with drastically different belief structures and means? I have seen someone with no training or magical experience who was so afraid of magic read a spell that produced stronger results than a ceremonial magician with years of experience trudging through an incantation. What did one tap into that the other could not? 2.Keep a journal of weird experiences, synchronicities, magical results, recurring or odd dreams, and things that seem magical that occurred to you. Go back and read it every now and then. There is something in our consciousness that likes order and structure, that tries to pull the veil over our eyes. Magic plays with that order and structure, it pulls the veil open. So anything too unusual will be pushed away or forgotten by the conscious mind. Remind yourself now and again the world is weird. Realize you will probably never cast physical fire-balls to amaze your friends and even if you could somehow do it, doing so would disrupt the observer’s psyche so much it would be fairly close to rape in terms of disturbance. Because of that same mechanism that protects your conscious mind from the weird it also protects others from the weird. They would most likely suppress the experience and develop some odd behavior to compensate for the tension caused. Usually magic works in giving you an advantage, by increasing your odds and making something more likely to occur. However, if you get some fairly weird magicians together by themselves you will get some weird alterations in reality. A magician; once they realize where real power comes from, becomes a gateway for the divine to work miracles. 3.Adopt Chaos magic’s philosophy of “Use what works” if it does not work try something else. Find what works. This is not a free pass to jump from system to system, you have to put in the work, but if chanting a classic mantra for the element of fire does not help aid the imagination or inspire you try something else that does, even if it is imagining throwing a fire-ball. 4.Most importantly, there is no race for magical development going on. Savor the work. Enjoy the experience. See every challenge as a gift from the divine to develop your Self. This is yours, all yours. Take your own time as you need. Be honest with yourself. Don’t see this life or this world as something to escape from, but see it as your mission to use the gifts given to you and the skills you have acquired to making this world more divine. That is why we are truly here. The philosophers stone is really our own transformed soul, use it to make the world around you golden. Ask yourself is your work your own or someone else’s? You can talk shop with other magicians, be inspired, moved or guided but your path should always be your own. Be who you are. Share your light. 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Unfortunately, many aspiring magicians are having an unnecessarily difficult time becoming an adept because they do not even know how to begin their training.   The purpose of this series of articles is to provide aspiring magicians with enough guidance for them to begin their training, and to point them in the direction of the further guidance they will need to complete their training.   Part I: What is Magic?  Part II: The Importance of Magical Training Systems  Part III: Magical Training Systems  Part IV: Introspection  Part V: Self-Transformation  Part VI: An Introduction to the Bardon System  --- ## Part 1: What is Magical Training? **Part I: What is Magic?**    > *Do not be quick to embrace any definition of magic; by the same token, consider well before you reject it. 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Different “magical” systems, schools, and traditions often have vastly differing views when it comes to what the purpose of magic is and what distinguishes it from related or similar esoteric disciplines.   According to many systems, schools, and traditions of magic, magic is about service. The magical system I trained in was the Bardon system.i Because the Bardon system is one of those systems that views magic as an art centered on service, I am going to adopt this view throughout the following discussion about magic.    If we choose to view magic as an art centered on service, the first question that naturally comes to mind is who or what we magicians are serving when we work magic. According to some magicians, magic is about serving Divine Providence. According to others, magic is about serving the universe. According to others, magic is about serving society. According to others, magic is about serving the Light. This latter view can be seen in a passage from Donald Tyson’s book *New Millennium Magic*.  > *In the final analysis, the only worthwhile use of magical attainment is in service to the light – not because self-sacrifice is somehow noble, and not because the purposes of the light are more worthy than those of darkness, although both these premises happen to be true. The magus follows cosmic law for wholly practical and pragmatic reasons. Only by living in harmony with the light can the magus realize his or her highest potential as a human being.* I believe these all to be more or less equivalent. In other words, there is no fundamental difference between serving Divine Providence, serving society, serving the universe, and serving the Light. They are different angles through which one can look at the purpose underlying the art of magic - service. Practitioners of Bardon’s system generally view service to Divine Providence as the purpose of magic, so this is the specific angle I will use throughout this series of articles.   If the magician is to serve Divine Providence, then the magician must know the will of Divine Providence. Wisdom is the capacity to cognize the will of Divine Providence. This explains why wisdom has traditionally been considered central to magic. For example, the Biblical King Solomon is believed by many to have been a powerful magician, and many grimoires (ancient textbooks of magic) are attributed to him. One of the most well-known stories in the lore of general Western magic is the story of how King Solomon became a magician. According to this story, God once asked Solomon what he wanted and Solomon replied that he wanted wisdom. Because Solomon did not want money, women, the death of his enemies, or some similar base desire, God rewarded Solomon by giving him wisdom, as well as many magical skills and abilities. Among these magical skills and abilities were the ability to control spirits and the ability to understand the language of animals.   The story of Solomon hints at a powerful and profound connection between magic and wisdom. The nature of this connection was already explained previously. The magician strives to serve Divine Providence, and wisdom allows him to perceive what exactly it is that Divine Providence wants him to do. Therefore, it is imperative that the magician acquires wisdom.   Having established that the magician seeks to serve Divine Providence and must know what the will of Divine Providence is in order to do this, let’s discuss what the will of Divine Providence is. In other words, what does Divine Providence want? Of course I cannot list every possible situation you could face and explain what Divine Providence would want you to do in that situation. Your wisdom will have to tell you what Divine Providence wants you to do in each specific new situation you encounter in life. Despite this, we can certainly discuss what Divine Providence wants in more general terms.   In general, Divine Providence wants the universe to be blessed. Therefore, the magician strives to make the universe more blessed. Needless to say, the universe is a pretty big place, so in practice, the magician usually focuses his efforts on making his own little corner of the universe more blessed. By that, I mean the world in which he lives.   In traditional religious lore, angels exist to serve Divine Providence. Like magicians, they do this by carrying out her will. In a short story written by the magician William Mistele (Bill) titled “A Council of Angels,” an angel says the following about the task Divine Providence has assigned him and his fellow angels to do.  > *O**ur task is to bless all beings, to see that their lives are fulfilled in every conceivable way, to grant them every opportunity to follow their highest path of life**,** and to discover within the depths of their hearts the destiny they wish to fulfill as their contribution to the unfolding of creation.* Since magicians, like angels, seek to serve Divine Providence, this task is not just the task of the angels, but of magicians as well. In fact, in some systems of magic such as the Bardon system, the magician is seen as not only a person who does the same tasks as the angels, but as an angel-of-sorts herself – in other words, as a powerful spirit with intense astral and mental powers who strives to carry out the will of Divine Providence. If this idea is difficult to wrap your mind around, realize that all humans are spirits. In the case of humans who are not currently incarnated, this is obvious. However, just because a particular human spirit also has a physical body does not mean she is not a spirit. When you put a cookie into a cookie jar, the cookie does not cease to be a cookie. Similarly, when you put a spirit into a body, it does not cease to be a spirit. According to Bill, the Bardon system is designed to help its students develop “a capacity to move as a divine being among other divine beings and on occasion to participate directly in the divine workshop engaging in highly creative activity.”   In his book *The Practice of Magical Evocation*, Franz Bardon describes numerous powerful spirits who serve Divine Providence.ii These spirits are truly “divine beings” because they all possess a deep inner connection to Divine Providence and reflect some aspect of Divine Providence. They each play a big role in facilitating the evolution of some aspect of human culture, science, technology, and art. As a result of her training, the magician eventually becomes a divine being similar to them. She is powerful, her will is aligned with the will of Divine Providence, and she is determined to do what she can to manifest the will of Divine Providence in the world. However, there is a big difference between the magician and the spirits Bardon describes in *The Practice of Magical Evocation*. The spirits Bardon describes usually reflect one aspect of Divinity and embody one type of universal force. For example, one of these spirits might reflect divine mercy, while another might reflect divine justice. The magician, in order to remain balanced, must reflect all aspects of Divinity and embody all universal forces.   Later on in the same story by Bill quoted earlier, Divine Providence asks the angel “Why have I commissioned you to bless men?” The angel’s reply is as follows.  > *Because it is your very nature and essence to bless all things, to see that life is fulfilled in every conceivable way. You offer to men the opportunity to choose a destiny so they become like you – a creator who makes things new.* The passage is interesting because it asserts that genuine magicians aren’t just like angles; they are like Divine Providence herself. The student of magic seeks to become a co-creator of the universe; but to become a co-creator of the universe, one must have the same nature and essence as the Creator. Thus, the nature and essence of the magician must also be to bless all things and to see that life is fulfilled in every conceivable way. She must seek to be a blessing to the world.   In a nutshell, being a blessing to the world means reducing the amount of unnecessary suffering in the world and increasing the amount of joy in the world. Without a doubt, there are many people who strive to do this. In order to do this more effectively, some of them choose to undergo a process in which they establish mastery over all aspects of themselves, learn to use forces most people are unaware exist, and connect with spiritual entities that can provide them with arcane knowledge. That process is the process of magical training.    --- #### Stay tuned, Part II will be available next week. 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This interview is of great interest, as we continually faced with the challenge of discerning the difference from the inner reality and imagined within our magical training. Dr Mumford offers us a unique perspective on this subject, having both studied within the Western and Eastern traditions and in his understanding of the aspects of training** ** Presenting today an interview with Dr. Jonn Mumford who is a renowned and prolific author and is a direct disciple of Yogamaharishi Dr. Swami Gitananda Giri GuruMaharaj (South India). He was initiated by Swami Satyananda Saraswati into Sannyasa as Swami Anandakapila Saraswati at the Bihar School of Yoga, Bihar, India in 1973. He renounced that title in 2014. Dr. Mumford is known and respected around the world for his knowledge, scholarship, dynamic teaching style and extensive practical experience in Kriya Yoga, Jyotish and Tantra. His renowned 1975 book[ *Sexual Occultism*](https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-occultism-sorcery-practice-theory/dp/0875424910) (later revised and issued as [*Ecstasy Through Tantra*](https://www.amazon.com/Ecstasy-Through-Tantra-Llewellyns-Sexual/dp/0875424945/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1507536245&sr=1-1&keywords=Ecstasy+Through+Tantra)) was among the very first books to introduce Westerners to traditional, left-hand Tantra from the perspective of an initiate. This book and Dr. Mumford’s public teaching at [Llewellyn Publications’](http://www.llewellyn.com/bookstore/author.php?id=13147) 1976 Gnosticon conference inspired an entire generation of Western Tantra teachers. Jonn wrote his first book [*Psychosomatic Yoga*](https://www.amazon.com/Psychosomatic-Yoga-jonn-mumford/dp/B0000CLF4F)*,** *in 1961 while completing an intensive period of yogic study in India. 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His diverse background includes training in chiropractic and psychology, many years of practice as an osteopathic physician, advanced training in a wide range of Eastern disciplines, and many years of teaching in Australia, India and the United States. This depth and breadth of experience makes Dr. Mumford uniquely qualified to communicate the secrets of Tantra to the Western world. He currently resides in Sydney, Australia. A cordial welcome to Dr. Jonn Mumford from Falcon Books Publishing. Great to have you here and thank you for taking the time to answer our questions. **Dr. Jonn Mumford:** My childhood was spent under the shadow of World War 11 and yet as an adult I could never have dreamed the state of the present world. Understandably a pall of depression, anxiety and confusion has fallen everywhere upon the inhabitants of the earth — which we have been treating as a garbage dump for humans personal convenience. The last few years I have been attempting to bring certain aspects of Neuroscience together with the practices involving deep meditation because many aspects dovetail. We are each of us engaged in a battle within, for our sanity, while attempting to do something about the chaos we are immersed in. I have been fighting all my life to maintain some degree of sanity in my own life and I can assure you this battle can be won with many slips along the way. My first Guru gave me my life and I owe him to save it and share what has been hard learned over a lifetime. The path is truly a “razors edge” but it can be done with persistence and discipline- difficult during these times—our worst enemy is our own MIND—not the outside world. The enemy is within—endless dour, uninvited mind chatter, and yet if you can get past it, realizing these are but the mutterings of parts of your fragmented self, something beyond the world, beyond our fears lies deep within—even past the dreamless sleep state!” **1. Falcon Books: Would you be able to share with us a precis of your journey and what lead you on the path that you have taken?** **Dr. Jonn Mumford:** I want to express my gratitude for extending the opportunity for this interview and although I most definitely am not an expert on Franz Bardon I have admired his work for years and can recognize the unique and legitimate basis of his work—the man was a genius and his legacy is a treasure. Your generous comments about my background are quite sufficient. **2. Falcon Books: How have you been able to bring together the principals of Western and Eastern esoteric approaches of inner alchemy. Did you find you were able to harmonise the two effectively? ** **Dr. Jonn Mumford:** I did not find this difficult as the Indian tradition has a rich heritage of both literal alchemy (working particularly with metals and herbs to eliminate the toxic qualities inherent in some substance and bring out the healing properties) as well as the alchemical aspect of working with the subtle energies attached to humans to bring about transcendental states. Thus many correspondences and similarities existed in both Eastern and Western Traditions. **3. Falcon Books: Yoga has become a fashionable pastime of today. How has the practice of yoga changed since you began your journey and do you feel its goals of the practice have also changed or have they remained the same?** **Dr. Jonn Mumford: **I began serious study of yoga in the early 1950’s when Yogananda’s work was being established in America and a few authentic books started to appear on the market. Aside from Yogananda’s burgeoning influence with S.R.F. the first more accurate translations of Sanskrit texts begin to appear and records of direct experience, e.g. spectacularly Dr. Theos Bernard’s “Hatha Yoga”—an ultimate description of personal training undergone in North Indian and was written in the 1930’s. (his Ph.D. thesis from Columbia University was based on his book “Hatha Yoga”). This man is largely forgotten in today’s Western Yoga scene and if you would like to understand why I have such esteem for him read his [biography](http://religion.wikia.com/wiki/Theos_Casimir_Bernard). His early death in 1947 represents, in my opinion, the loss of one of the greatest Indologists America ever produced. Indeed you are correct in your comment “Yoga has become a fashionable pastime of today” compared to when I started and it also has become a Billion dollar major commercial Industry. American’s are like the Romans of yore—great assimilators of anything useful from other cultures and extremely creative and ingenious, at molding these acquisitions into a form that can be assimilated by the population in bite sized bits, and may be commercialized as a “product” selling “Passion, Power, and Profit” or alternately packaged as “Peace, Purpose, and Prosperity (for all)”: thus Yoga has turned into a “Brand” with unbeatable selling power that can be labelled according to the target market. The word “Yoga” has been misunderstood, abused and distorted by all Western Cultures and I am particularly offended when I hear Anglo-Saxon teachers addressing classes as “welcome Yogis and Yoginis”—my first Guru, Dr. Swami Gitananda, would never call himself a “Yogi”—the real implication is beyond what most of us have reached as we are all students and practitioners—not fully enlightened beings! The correct word for a student is “Chela.”** ** That being said I must say that America has some very good Yoga teachers, who have learned in India and also have a prerequisite knowledge of Sanskrit—often to Ph.D. level. Finally when Yoga is absorbed by other cultures it is inevitable that dilutions and distortions occur as the teachings are trimmed and altered by those teaching, and the prevailing culture and politics of the country.. Sometimes these changes are for the better and other times they are tragic in the superficiality. Yoga in India itself has changed, often not for the better, as the ubiquitous culture from the West, of monetary materialism infects the country, so you again have the best and the worst manifesting. **4. Falcon Books: You ha****ve written in extensively about Kundalini and the chakras, these subjects have become popularised within the new age movement. Within your book *****The***** *****chakra and Kundalini workbook, *****to**** quote the definition of a chakr****a:** '“*Chakra: "Wheel, disc, whirlpool." The term is applied to the basic seven psychic** **centers outlined in Yoga and Tantra. Chakra implies a vortex, and thus ",? may define a psychic center as a "whirling vortex of psychic energy at the conjunction points of the mind and the body." I must emphasize that just as the " Cartesian division of "Mind" and "Body" is arbitrary, so a "chakra" may well be an imaginary, albeit useful, artifact for purposes of attention-fixing. I perceive a chakra as outside the space-time continuum and equivalent to the Euclidean "Point"-i.e., without magnitude, possessed of location but not dimension.”****'*** **Could a chakra be understood not to be located in a physical space i.e., astral, mental, physical but somewhere beyond this, but its effects are felt within all of these planes. Or is the chakra more of a paradigm, a point of focus to manifest and create from? ** **Please could elucidate more on this.** **Dr. Jonn Mumford: **Yes—It should be noted—particularly in America—that the correct pronunciation is CH(as in Church)AKRA and never SHAKRA. Think of it as a point to focus without the attribute of DIMENSION! I consider Astral and mental planes as transcending the physical and time limitations we normally experience and therefore they exist on extra-dimensional planes. I prefer to start from the premise that human beings have huge illusions about the chakras and better to consider that you are not born with chakras but only nascent points for placing “intentional attention” exist on the physical body. These points have location but not discernable dimension however you may be able to grow your chakras into full blossom by concentration accompanied by intention over a period of time. This, by-the-way, is the classical definition in Euclidean Geometry of a “point”. Euclid’s book *Elements* begins with defining what previously was undefined: “a point is that which has no part” and “a line is a length without breadth.” This is quite startling when you consider the implications over two thousand years age (*c.* 300 bce).**** We start with Chakra Dharana, commonly gazing upon two dimensional colored geometrical shapes each representing a materialized Chakra until an afterimage is produced. These images are designed so that each one is the complementary color of the color most commonly associated with the chakra so the result is when you close your eyes you see in the inner world the color attributed in India as the most characteristic of the chakra. I also would like to establish that I am not a “theorist”—I am a “Technician”—I understand the basic theory of metaphysics however I am interested in “Experience over understanding” and what “works” So I would like to tackle the seeming paradox of my statement that we are born with only the “Seed” of Chakras” which have “Location” but not** **dimension in this plane of existence. Successful attempt with the following experiment will assist answering many of the questions raised and which will be addressed as we go along. You will have to fit the pieces together for yourself. --- **A: IMAGINATION EXPERIMENT** Consider the shape below: ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Dr-m-2.jpg) - Gaze softly at the shape for a minute while deciding is it 2 dimension drawing in “reality” of a two dimension shape or a two dimension representation of a three dimension object i.e. a prism? - Close your eyes and imagine you are gazing through your forehead into an infinite black space. This is not an after-image exercise so any after-image appearing let it fade before starting. - Construct the diagram as a three dimension object exercising your imagination, perhaps ten inches outside from your forehead and imagine the same dark orange color. Just continue looking through your closed eyelids and forehead and draw the square with a triangle on top and imagine you are coloring it is with the brown read - It is suspended in black velvety space and slowly rotate it while observing carefully. Set about to determine the Number of Edges, Corners, Faces? Manipulate it in this psychic space rotating it from left to right and also vertically as needed. Each time you have arrived at a conclusion open your eyes and write in the appropriate space the Number you think you have counted, reclose your eyes and continue. When you have finished consider this: Your imagination has lifted you into what I term the “5th Dimension” where MAGIC first occurs and if it is strong enough it reverberates down into the three dimensional world of time and space. REALIZE as long as you hold the Cube in this inner dimension it actually does not exist in the 3 dimensional world and the only thing it has in common with the so called REAL world is the seed of time contracted to “NOW” which is the only thing you have in any dimension that is “REAL”. **5. Falcon Books: As practitioners of these meditative sciences, often it is left to us to experience and discern what is truly real in our practice from that which is illusion. How do we clearly discern and define ‘experiences’ such as Kundalini awakening since they are subjective. What are the traditional signs and how do we truly know that these are occurring?** **Dr. Jonn Mumford:** A good place to begin is to point out that there are also objective signs i.e. quite discernible evidence to the examiner or objective observer. These include Expressions and gestures of ecstasy, spontaneous poetry, increased creativity particularly in music, singing, visual arts, and superior writing skills- seemingly arising from nowhere but now here for all to witness. Also you may get Aesthetic awe, triggered by sudden awareness of a “*world in a grain of Sand*”, overwhelming compassion upon realizing the truth of Christ’s statement “Father forgive them for they know not what they do” resulting in uncontrollable weeping. Exaggerated facial expressions, pupil dilation and gesticulation, signifying amazement and wonder as the individual’s perception of reality changes radically as do their feelings. Spontaneous movements, swaying, shaking, trembling episodes and blacking underneath the big toes.The problem arises that some of these signs (medically observable) and Symptoms (subjectively reported) also can mimic Psychosis, and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. The great Indian saint, Ramakrishna, expressed the Kundalini manifestation and significance of the Kundalini paradox very well: “*Men and women are beautiful masks. Behind them all is the* *same Divine Power who rises up gently through the six subtle centers of this human body, giving each person a unique flavor and intensity, unveiling through each living being**** ****a unique degree of Divine Manifestation.”* * - Gadadhar Chattopadhyay [Ramakrishna Paramhamsa] (1836-1886)* The question you ask is actually very sophisticated. Let us pause and take a deep breath: In the seventies so many people had experiences of real** **or false “Kundalini arousal”** **episodes** **that the concept of “Spiritual Emergency Centers” arouse where people could seek assistance and be helped through the discomfort. One of the best Resources is Dr. Lee Sannella M.D. *Kundalini: Psychosis or Transcendence?* privately published in 1976. Now available on Amazon and I would add his good friend, Itzhak Bentov’s book, *Stalking the Wild Pendulum* is essential reading—giving the best physiological explanation of Kundalini I have encountered. I have had the pleasure of meeting and spending some time with Dr. Sannella when I was touring in the states. He took me on some of his rounds and he is not only a board certified Psychiatrist but also an Ophthalmologist and was doing research on glaucoma and assessing stress as a factor. You can discover more about this remarkable man on this [youtube link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLkBv_W1AmA). I concur with his viewpoint. A couple of more comments to round this out and I will leave you to fit the pieces together as you desire. So called “Kundalini” is often smooth depending on the individual circumstances. 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The answer, is this: As long as we are inhabiting Bodies occupying three dimensions of “space” and one of “Time” and believe the brain secretes the consciousness the way the gallbladder secretes gall the simple answer is YOU CAN NOT DIFFERENTIATE WHAT IS REAL OR TRUE ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/drm-3.jpg) ** **However once we realize we are a multidimensional being, possessed of subtle vehicles beyond the physical body, things begin to change. We alter our perspective and become open to the possibility of extending beyond the physical. The key is INTENSITY of your experience when you transcend space and time. Such experiences often completely transform people for the better. AND THE HANDIEST TOOL AVAILABLE FOR THE MAGICIAN IS IMAGINATION WHICH, WHEN CULTIVATED, TRANSCENDS TIME AND SPACE AS WE KNOW IT: ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/drm5.jpg) Stubborn incidents that have persisted over centuries are now being carefully gathered from people experiencing such phenomenon as clairvoyance, telepathy, past lives recall, Near Death Experiences (NDE) telekinesis, and are now the subject of Scientific consideration and experiment, in spite of the Skeptics. The work of *Rupert Sheldrake* and his theory of Morphic Resonance, the American “Institute of Noetic Sciences” research, and the ground breaking cataloguing and verification of Past Life Recall that has accumulated over the last thirty years at the University of Virginia Medical Department, are just a few examples, easily verified by googling. Hopefully you are beginning to see a different perspective on sorting out “Really True.” **6. Falcon Books: Could you please define what tattvas are for those who may not know and the importance in using them to develop one's magical practice?** **Dr Jonn Mumford: **Some twenty-five hundred years ago an Indian philosopher called Kapila formalized a doctrine (Samkhya School) explaining the origins of the universe. His concepts were based on the “five Elements” eg. Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Ether beloved of the Greek philosophers. ## Below is a chart comparing the Western Symbols currently used and the contemporary Indian symbols commonly used as well as the order of elements   ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/drm6.jpg) Tattva means, in Sanskrit, “thatness, primary substance, the essence, principle” and upon the fundamentals of the Five Elements he was able to elicit combinations of the five elements into a total of twenty-five tattwas. The back story of how Magical Tattwas was produced is not well known. In 1995, in collaboration with my good friend, mentor, and publisher, Carl Llewellyn Weschcke, I began working on a book updating the original scrying cards based on the Tattwas as used by the “Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn” founded 1887. Carl had the copyright to addendums, provided by Israel Regardie, from the “Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn”. These “addendums” were written instructions given to the members. From three of these manuscripts we were able to construct the system they used for** **clairvoyance, utilizing the tattwa cards as known at that time. Carl designed the cards and searched with the fervor of his genius, to find a printer that could create brilliant iridescent colors that mimicked an effect more often attributed to fluorescence, luminescence and phosphorene displays, startling effects never before used in printing. He found a printer willing to try and the first attempt was a failure as the complex inks required bled into each other on the cardboard. They called in an inorganic Chemist to solve the problem and the results were stunning! Carl Llewellyn Weschcke (1930-2015), an author in his own right, was a master of ritual Magic and knew well the power of Imagination to release creative forces resulting in the observable crystallization, materialization, and actualization of desire through intention. He was also a friend, patron and mentor to me, and the owner and chairman of Llewellyn Worldwide, the world's oldest and largest metaphysical publisher. He has given me a great deal and my life would be less if he had not been such a pivotal part. The “Magical Tattwa” set could not have been manifested without our mutual collaboration. Meantime the book I was writing was designed to update with everything I had learned from Ananda Ashram in South India and Bihar school of Yoga in the North so we could produce a system update for the 20th and 21st century. I introduced into the manuscript a collection of original exercises never released before, using my knowledge of psychobiology combined with my Indian training regarding the “Swara” or psychic flows. In 1996 I typed up the manuscript, sitting in Carl’s Minnesota Library, to produce the “Magical Tattwas” which was published in 1997 with a set of twenty-five beautiful cards suitable for meditation, scrying and divination. ** ****Below you can see examples of the incredible fluorescent color designs used—the cards glowed with power**! The single card is an example of an Akasha (Ether) one of five cards from which the example combinations were created. Thus a total of twenty- five cards. **GAZE SOFTLY AT THIS FOR A MINUTE**   ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/drm7.jpg)   I also developed a “Magical Tattwas” course to accompany the book and cards. Now for the bad news – a little rain must fall in every life!   In 2007 AMERICA suffered the subprime recession which lasted up to 2009 and simultaneously publishers were placed under tremendous pressure from internet companies wanting to make inexpensive deals with publishers for digital copyrights. “Magical Tattwas” went out of print, the original printer for the cards went bankrupt, and the ink formula was lost and Llewellyn Publisher decided the cost of hiring another chemist and printer to republish the cards was not viable. Thus I got my copyright back and it is now revised, expanded and available by digital download to students who have graduated from the part I and part II Om Kara Kriya ® course and wish to do the “Magical Tattwas” course which is also available by digital download. We have managed to get our cards printed in Czechoslovakia and stock them at our New York Headquarters. They are not as good as our original cards but they are more than adequate and we sell them independently of the courses for around $10.00 plus postage. (Anyone interested can email Mark Michaels at Mark A. Michaels Give him your snail mail address and he will then PayPal invoice you including shipping or make other payment arrangements). Amazon and specialty book sellers have 2nd hand copies of “Magical Tattwas” available averaging $200.00 up to $400.00 as collectors’ items. Should you purchase this rarity please double check it includes the full original deck. The original information about the cards and “Magical Tattwas” is still on the Llewellyn site in an article written by my good friend the late [Donald Michael Kraig](https://www.llewellyn.com/encyclopedia/article/23951%20) (1951-2014) who was a personal friend of mine for some twenty-five years and is sadly missed. This article contains some very shrewd comments and your perspective will be broadened reading it. **7. Falcon Books: When working with methods such as scrying the Tattvas, how does one develop clarity to discern from that which is imagination?** **Dr. Jonn Mumford: **The clarity, with practice will develop so you notice concrete results or obtain knowledge that proves accurate as in “remote viewing”. Imagination is not just important—It is everything **8. Falcon Books: Within your work with Kriya yoga you attribute each chakra to a deity, I wonder if you would be able to explain a bit more about this practice and how it assists in the evolution of the person's development. Could this be classed as a form of invocation?** **Dr. Jonn Mumford: **I do not attribute the deities, these are the traditional Tantric deities attributed to the Chakras. Both invocation (the act or an instance of invoking, especially an appeal to a higher power for assistance) and evocation (the act of bringing or recalling a feeling, memory, or image to the conscious mind) are involved. The question we really want to know is: do the deities actually manifest or appear when invoked and/or evoked? The answer is YES! However not quite the way we may think? Hinduism is often called a polytheistic religion—this is incorrect because there are levels of understanding in all religions and at the highest level Hinduism is monotheistic. This follows the pedagogical rule of each to his own level of understanding. BRAHMĀ is the personification of the creative stream of consciousness of “no thing” from which everything emerges. The Sanskrit “Brahmā” (also transliterated “Brahman”) translates, roughly, as cosmic intelligence, ultimate reality, “according to Vedanta Brahmā is the cause of all visible existence, from which all manifest things are produced and into which they are absorbed”(extracted from “Sanskrit Glossary” Yoga Publications Trust, Munger Bihar, by Swami Yogakanti Saraswati). Suppose you want to accuse the Catholic Church of being “polytheistic” on the grounds that the holy trinity represents three different entities much the way the Greeks on Mount Olympus had multiple God/desses ! A smart priest will make short shrift of that attempt, and in front of the congregation. He holds up a folded sheet and displays the first fold “The Son”, the second fold is opened, “The Father” and finally the last, “The Holy Spirit” and, with a flourish, reveals the entire sheet, triumphantly saying “ALL ONE”! So let us stick with the Holy Roman Church and I will prepare us for the answer. Some thirty years or so ago, the Pope and his Cardinals decided the Church needed some reformation as the congregations began to shrink in many parts of the world. Much deliberation, among the committee, lead, in their collective wisdom, to the conclusion that what needed to be reformed was eliminating chanting the “Mass” in Latin and translating it into the local languages of each congregation. They did! What a disaster— things have just gone downhill ever since and I believe the present Pope, a remarkable man, will have his work cut out for him to make real “reformations”. What happened is the Church—as an entity, immediately lost the powerful psychic stream of nearly two thousand years of hundreds of thousands of worshipers hearing the Mass celebrated in Latin, by countless priests. The Western tradition has given us a word that perfectly encapsulates this phenomenon and the essence is to understand that deities are archetypes in the collective unconscious of humanity that grow with a power of their own as they are brought into consciousness. Deities are metaphors for the different expressions of universal forces and are empowered by humans repeatable affirming their existence until they take on a life of their own. The word is EGREGORE! “*Egregore (also egregor) is an occult concept representing a "thought form" or "collective group mind", an autonomous psychic entity made up of, and influencing, the thoughts of a group of people. The symbiotic relationship between an egregore and its group has been compared to the more recent, non-occult concepts of the corporation (as a legal entity) and the meme.”* ~[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore) So the answer is that each time a ritual to a deity is performed that deity is reformed on the astral plane and the more and longer the ritual is carried on the more the entity is a source of power to be tapped and the worshipper or ritualist is more easily to ride on that energy and see, from his own archetypal storehouse, a manifestation of that entity. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/drm8.png) Perhaps a simpler way to view the paradox is that deities just represent a variety of ways universal energy may be utilized the way electricity may light a bed lamp or drive the pumps in a hydro-electric damn project. Note well that the variation in the above Yantra (more properly “mandala”) is a Tantric depiction of mūlādhāra and substitutes Lord Ganesha (the remover of obstacles) for Brahmā as the main Shakta deity for worship or puja and as a matter of interest in the Tantric tradition Divine Mother in her fierce form as Kālī resides in Anahata, the Heart Chakra. So taking Ganesha, as an example, as he is the ultimate “enabler” we might ask does Ganesha hang around in some Hindu etheric heaven waiting to be called up to some stupid human, who by his own fault has gotten into a mess (we humans are really good at that)? No- Ganesha has a day job as secretary to Lord Shani (Saturn) who is the Cosmic Accountant and Karmic tax collector. Hindu’s are generally scared witless of Shani—the scientologists may have been able to blackmail the IRS, but by holy Shiva nobody gets around Shani!![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/drm9.png) However Ganesha has probably been worshipped for over two thousand years and by 300 C.E. had ascended to the position of the major god Hindus made pujas to; imploring help or relief. His location in mūlādhāra indicates his mastery of the creative forces from the arcane to the mundane and that is what you draw into with successful ritual to him—the energy of millions of Hindus who focused upon him for probably over two millennia. **9. Falcon Books: What practice would you recommend the practitioner of magic best to develop their imagination?** The easiest place to begin the cultivation of imagination is by using the eyes and associated visual processing. The largest area of the brain is occupied by the visual processing area at the back of the skull (occipital lobe). The human been primarily is a visual orientated being just the way a dog is primarily living in a world dominated by olfactory stimulation and secondly auditory acuteness with vision as a poor 3rd. The dog’s world is beyond our comprehension. I teach a series of exercises starting with 2 dimension evoking of after-images moving onto multiple variations of closed eye exercises turning into 3-dimensional objects as well as various applications of learning reverse and manipulate optical illusions. At an advanced level we integrate special yoga eye fixations known as Mudras to alter brain wave function and start integrating auditory functions and tactile sensations into the training. This process takes about one and a half years and continues in through various postgraduate courses. The human being not only believes what they see but without realizing it *they see what they believe* The interesting aspect is that when you are exercising your will in that inner 5th dimensions your imagination may be brought to the level that you are in complete control of what you elect to create, see, smell, feel and hear in a way that it is not possible in an outer world of three dimensions of space and one of time. --- **To find out more about Dr. Jonn Mumford and to find out the courses he provides please visit his** [Website and view link.](http://jonnmumfordconsult.com/) ** ** --- # An Excerpt: (Chapter 5: The Element of Earth)The Four Elements by William R. Mistele Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/an-excerpt-chapter-5-the-element-of-earththe-four-elements-by-william-r-mistele/ ## Earth in Kabbalah, Cosmic Letter AE—on Four Planes ### Akashic Plane ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/akashic.png) The principle by which the earth element appears within akasha, the void, is—because it is the nature of the void to unite as one love, power, and wisdom, (the water, fire, and air elements), the void produces works that endure, enriching life in every conceivable way. Ever surrounding us in deep silence, the void, in its boundless opportunities and endless possibilities, reveals all that can be accomplished in any age of the world. ### The Cosmic Letter AE Cosmic “letters” in Franz Bardon’s kabbalah are created by concentrating on perceptual sensations—a color, an elemental sensation, and a sound. These “letters” are the building blocks of the universe from which arise matter, energy, life, space, time, body, soul, mind, and spirit. They operate on four planes. ### AE on the Akashic Plane On the akashic plane, the cosmic letter AE is the color of loamy brown. The letter AE has the sensations of weight and density and so pertains especially to the earth element. If I concentrate on its vibration, I immediately sense how the realm of spirit—the akashic plane—is completely comfortable with the densest vibrations of matter in the physical world. Here is a perspective on buildings of the past and the labor that went into making them; civilizations that arose, their beginnings, their accomplishments, and the circumstances by which they fade. Here too are the lives of the great men of history and of everyone who has died. Here and there are graves, mausoleums, and bones. And there is an awareness of how the spirit, in letting go of physical from, moves on—the soul from the astral plane incarnates, beginning as an infant. The individual grows, experiences life with its passions and desires, its hopes and dreams, engaging in work and social activities with other human beings. And then the individual dies, returning to where he was before. He has learned new lessons and acquired new experiences. Hopefully he has become wiser and more loving. The cycle goes on and on. Some are thrown into life without a plan or goal in sight. Others enter the world to accomplish a mission and to fulfill a purpose that is sacred benefiting a community and the larger world. With the cosmic letter AE, you perceive both this world and the next world with equal clarity. You perceive the soul on the astral plane free of physical limitation and space time restrictions. And you perceive the same soul as it operates within a physical body, filling in the pages of a biography with a life shaped by the events and the concerns of a historical society. The negative principle does not have the perception and wisdom of the AE vibration. It is not free to incarnate as are human beings. And so the demons seek to take possession of the souls of those who are alive. These negative beings are obsessed with physical sensations. Exactly like human beings such as dictators, revolutionaries, or fanatics, they seek to dominate, kill, or torture those who do not obey their wills. Like the Devil card in the Tarot, if you can control the body, then they feel you can control the soul and mind of the other. This is their way of connecting. It is all that they know. However, with the AE level of awareness, your concentration is greater than theirs. You can place your mind in the densest vibrations and physical sensations, be at peace with them, and also feel completely free. The body, biology, desires and cravings, sexuality, and physical matter are not barriers or limitations placed on consciousness. ### Mental Plane ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/5.png) The earth element with its focus on the physical world has a mind that produce plans of action, blueprints and designs (storyboards) of what it wishes to accomplish in the future. If you talk to someone who has a strong, mental earth vibration, that individual is most likely a master of whatever area of life he is focusing on. He takes things a part and puts them back together. He gets to know something in all its aspects and variations. Here is Thomas Edison, after trying 3,000 different methods, finally discovering a light bulb made from a filament of carbonized thread inside of an incandescent light. And here are the Wright Brothers getting the lift they wanted after testing more than 200 wing designs inside of a homemade wind tunnel. If one of these people run into something he has not seen before, he gives it his full attention. He seeks to understand it so well that he learns from it and includes it in his plans. This mind, then, is immersed in the vibration of the physical world. This is where it feels satisfied, at home, and this is where everything feels complete. Everything you need is right here. There is not a hint or the least desire to go anywhere else. If there is a spiritual world, then it is right here now in and around us. The entire universe is a physical vibration. If you know one part well, then you feel connected to everything else. It is conservative and preserving, down to earth, grounded, steadfast, and enduring. Do you need mystery and spiritual realizations? For the earth element mind, matter itself holds all secrets that will be unlocked in time. ### AE on the Mental Plane If you spend a lot of time with thinking using words, ideas, concepts, philosophy, metaphysics, etc., then you notice right away the difference between thinking about some subject and your actual connection to that subject. The mind in the Western tradition is trained to be an observer who is separate from what is being observed. Consider the periodic table of the elements. We can review what went into the discovery of each element. We can recall the part that element has played in technology, industry, military history, and science. We can understand its chemistry and atomic structure. Gnome kings, by contrast, have placed their consciousness inside of the elements and studied them from within through firsthand experience. One mermaid queen pointed out the limitations of thought by saying that a man’s mind, and his feelings as well, cannot comprehend the form of a woman. It is beyond his understanding. Don’t understand women? If you are a billionaire you can sponsor beauty pageants and then marry a beautiful model. Now in your mind you understand human women. But only in a social, artistic, and performing arts sense. The spirit of femininity still eludes you and so there remains a great separation between a thinking mind and what it is thinking about. I know women who are so attractive that their beauty shorts out the minds of men who then immediately want to possess them. Their minds cannot cope with the intensity of sensations and feelings they are encountering—and they do not have a clue about what is happening to them. Their inhibitions are suspended and their lower brain takes over. And so the separation between the mind and the physical world can give rise to obsessions, infatuations, and barely controlled or completely irrational cravings and hungers. The AE vibration is present when the mind can change its vibration to mirror or duplicate the vibration of whatever it is contemplating. It is as if you are inside of and one with what you are focusing on. But this is not an astral/feeling level of perception. You are connected from within to the physical being of the other person or subject matter. Since this quality of mind has no separation in it, it sees through desires, obsessions, and cravings, overcoming the “distance” between mind and physical being. ### Astral Plane ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/1.png) The earth element in the astral body is a sense of inner silence and the feeling of being rock solid. With this stability, you feel you are able to endure until your goal is achieved. You are one hundred per cent focused on what you need to do as you build the foundation for your next task. All gnomes know how to do this. They work for ages and eons without distraction or need for diversion. They sometimes work on just one thing. Every improvement or advance, no matter how small, is worth the effort. As I place my mind on the astral plane within the earth element, I notice right away how this vibration is common to certain kinds of professions. When you work with physical things your aura can become saturated with its physical energy. This applies to some people who are diamond cutters, jewelers, blacksmiths, goldsmiths, steel manufacturers, carpenters, sculptors, shipbuilders, those who run wineries, farmers, forest rangers, archeologists, zoologists, paleontologists, etc. Think of a geologist who has a hobby of searching in the wilderness for jewels and precious stones. And there are some yogis and martial artists who are fascinated by the inner workings of their bodies or of how the body can move. Six hours of practice or of meditation and they are still hungry for more. Some people live in their head. Some people dream of happiness and of being fulfilled. The people of the earth element dream the dreams of matter itself—its changes, transformations, and what they can do with it. In general, then, the astral vibration of the earth element produces individuals who are sturdy, hardy, and who are very satisfied in working with physical things. ### AE on the Astral Plane > *There is a joy in me raging, a joyous, magical feeling.* --Cirque du Soleil This is the repose and peace one attains when desires are completely gratified, missions accomplished, and victories are won. It is a feeling, a vibration in the mind, and a state of being. On his gravestone it read: *I was here in the physical world. * *I lived my dreams.* *My life was all it was meant to be.* There is an ease when the mind is able to think about desire and immediately immerse itself in the feelings and sensations of that desire being satisfied. With this flexibility of imagination that penetrates desires, hungers, longings, etc., the soul attains independence and freedom. ### Physical Plane ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/the-earth.jpg.png)Again, sense the physical body as empty inside and imagine it filled this time with dense weight. It is not so much a substance as it is with water. Instead it is a feeling of solid mass and gravity, that is, it is heavy. Produce the sensation of being rock solid. Your strength is not in acting in and on the external world. It is in your inner cohesion—in the way you hold yourself together. You endure through time regardless of the changes in the world around you. In the Battle of Bull Run, General Thomas Jackson held his position in the face of charges from the Union army. General Bee said, “Look at Jackson standing there like a stone wall.” And Thomas Jackson’s name changed to Stonewall Jackson. There are times when the physical vibration of being rock solid has a part to play in human affairs. You can work on the personality traits of being solid, enduring, down to earth, patient, and hard working. But beneath these and supporting them is a completely different level of consciousness—the physical level of the earth element producing sensations in your physical body that are solid and dense as a rock. ### AE in the Physical Plane Aikido masters have a demonstration they all do. They are sitting on the floor relaxed. Grab hold of them and try to lift them off the ground and you can do so. But if they focus on being centered, you cannot budge them even a half inch. Weight lifters cannot move them. Tai Chi Chuan masters do something similar. 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The level of mental maturity and mental discipline required to stay continually present-minded is relatively low compared to the level of mental maturity and mental discipline the magician will have acquired at the end of his training. However, learning to be continually present-minded is an important beginning step on the road to mental mastery. Those who have not taken this beginning step are not very far along in their mental training, and therefore not very far along in their magical training in general. So, what does it mean to be present-minded? Have you ever gotten into a car to drive to a location and found yourself at that location with no recollection of how you got there? Clearly, you weren’t present-minded while you were driving. You were absent-minded or distracted. When you first begin the practice of present-mindedness, you have to try to be present-minded. Later, you no longer have to try because present-mindedness becomes your default state of being. There are many benefits to be gained from being present-minded. It improves your ability to focus. It helps you learn more from your life experiences; after all, you can’t learn anything from your life experiences if you are absent-minded while going through them. It makes it possible for you to “carefully observe your routines and seize opportunities as they occur to improve on what you are doing.” Finally, being present-minded will improve your life because the present-moment is the only moment that truly exists, and therefore the only moment when you can consciously make changes that will transform your life. This isn’t possible if you are absent-minded and running on autopilot. **Listen to Your Conscience** The problem of morals and ethics is difficult to tackle in the world of philosophy, but not in the world of magic. Your intuition is the voice of Divinity speaking to you to give you guidance. When your intuition gives you guidance in moral issues, it is often called your “conscience” or “moral compass.” When you are faced with moral issues and ethical dilemmas, just listen to your conscience and you will know what to do. There is a big trap that some people fall into called the “rationalization trap.” This is when you don’t like what your conscience is telling you, so you use logic to convince yourself that your conscience is wrong. For example, let’s say you are really tempted to cast a love spell on a woman you desire and your conscience tells you this is wrong. You could use logic to convince yourself that your conscience is wrong and then cast the love spell. This is a common example. Another common example involves curses. A person will be tempted to curse someone he doesn’t like. His conscience will tell him this is wrong, but he will use logic to convince himself that his conscience is wrong and send the curse anyway. Logic uses deductive reasoning to draw conclusions from what we know. However, we don’t know everything, and oftentimes, what we think we know is false. Therefore, logic is fallible. Divinity, however, is omniscient and infallible. When Divinity speaks to you through your intuition, you should listen. Oftentimes, our intuitions can tell us things that logic can’t tell us. If your intuition has ever warned you against going to a seemingly safe place or dating a seemingly ok person, then you already know this. Another common trap is confusing one’s emotions with one’s conscience. If you are angry at someone and this anger is compelling you to curse that person, this doesn’t mean your conscience is telling you to curse that person. **Be Open-Minded** When you finish your training and magician, you will often find yourself working with energies, powers, and entities that the human mind really wasn’t designed to comprehend. This might seem like a problem, after all, it is difficult to grasp or engage with an energy/power/entity if you have no understanding of it, and even if you do, you will be working with it from a position of ignorance, which is dangerous. The human mind, however, can evolve/adapt to understand these energies, powers, and entities, but only if it is flexible. A rigid mind cannot bend, and therefore cannot change, develop, or evolve in any way. Narrow-mindedness is a sign of a rigid mind, while open-mindedness is a sign of a flexible mind. When you come across an aspiring magician who is narrow-minded, you can be sure that he is a long way from adepthood. Open-mindedness is not a quality you cultivate when you are an adept and need to have a flexible mind to comprehend the strange forces you are working with. It is a quality that we begin developing at the very beginning of our training, and that we cultivate with each step we take as we walk the path of magical training. In fact, when it comes to magic, open-mindedness is not just a quality that allows our minds to be more flexible, and therefore more versatile and useful tools. It is also a quality that is imperative for survival. When you are narrow-minded, you see little and you see from one angle only. Therefore, you miss seeing dangers and warnings. When you are open-minded, you see much and you see from many angles. Therefore, you are more likely to dangers and warnings. You are also more likely to see solutions and opportunities. Note: i The quote from Bardon that I give in the second epigraph of this chapter illustrates this well. I do want to make a few comments about this quote, however, because it is easy to misinterpret it. Bardon is not saying to hate yourself or be abusive toward yourself. Such behavior is not conducive to one’s mental or physical health, and it is important for the student to remain mentally and physical healthy. 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One curious fact from the classical milieu is that Asclepius’ life seems to have an extraordinarily close parallel to the history of Egyptian civilisation itself, therefore Asclepius appears to be just as allegorical as he was historical: as above, so below. Asclepius in Ancient Greek means ‘always kind’, but in Latin signifies ‘to cut open’. Evidently to these two interrelated ancient civilisations the same thing meant different things. Asclepius’ purpose, whatever is meant by his name, is to heal not to harm. Yet as we shall see, much of what we know about Asclepius is contradictory. The sources vary and often conflict for one other. The reasons for this are many, but quite often arise from the localisation of certain cult centres, each of which gave rise to further myths about him. It is not even certain that Asclepius was a god, originally, at any rate. One leading authority of Greek mythology actually refers to Asclepius as a ‘healing-daemon’. It may well be the case that the original Asclepius was a mortal, deified upon his death because he was so skilled in the arts of healing. Evidence for this comes in the earliest sources referring to him. Homer does not add Asclepius to his fables, only his sons (*Iliad*, 2.729-733 & 4.218-219, *Odyssey*, 4.232) and Hesiod does not mention Asclepius at all. The early Homeric Hymns mention Apollo as his father, but his mother as Coronis, a queen (the connections between royalty and divinities in antiquity are most nebulous indeed), making Asclepius a hero. ‘Of the healer of diseases, Asclepius, I begin to sing, the son of Apollo, whom fair Coronis bore on the Dotian plain, the daughter of king Phlegyas. Her son was a great source of joy to men, the soother of evil pains. Even so do you hail, O prince, I pray to you in my song.’ (trans. Lang) This idea is reinforced by another early source of Pindar’s (*Pythian Ode*, 3.1.6) mentioning ‘Asclepius the hero, healer of every sickness’. It is interesting to note that the placement of Asclepius in the Homeric Hymns sits between that of Heracles and the twins: Castor and Polydeuces. Lucian (*Dialogues of the gods*, 1.15) also preserves an amusing anecdote about Asclepius, where Heracles calls him a pedlar of poisons and a layabout when Asclepius wittily retorts by saying that he has healed many of the wounds which Heracles had caused. The labours of Heracles are symbolic of the Zodiac, and the twins: Gemini. Asclepius has also been identified as the constellation Ophiuchus ‘The serpent holder’, which is thought to perhaps be the ‘lost’ thirteenth sign of the lunar astrological Zodiac. Cicero writes in his work ‘The Nature of the Gods’ (3.22) that there were three Asclepii. ‘Of the various Aesculapii the first is the son of Apollo, and is worshipped by the Arcadians; he is reputed to have invented the probe and to have been the first surgeon to employ splints. The second is the brother of the second Mercury; he is said to have been struck by lightning and buried at Cynosura. The third is the son of Arsippus and Arsinoe, and is said to have first invented the use of purges and the extraction of teeth; his tomb and grove are shown in Arcadia, not far from the river Lusius.” Cicero, On the nature of the gods, 3.22 (trans. Rackham) The principle Asclepius Cicero mentions accords well with every single other ancient source referring to him, adding weight to the argument that this was the original Asclepius, and not simply a localised variant or offshoot of his myth. Cicero mentions Asclepius’ father as being Apollo, which is the only thing that all the sources agree upon, and mentions him in connection with the Arcadians. Some of the rivers in Arcadia may have had healing properties. Sanctuaries either dedicated to or containing images of Asclepius in Arcadia are attested in literary and archaeological sources, principally by the geographer Pausanias. They include Megalopolis (8.31.1, 8.32.4 & 5), Mantineia (8.9.1), Cleitor (8.25.1), near Thelpousa (8.25.11), Aliphera (8.26.5), Gortys (8.28.1) and Tegea (8.46.1). Sanctuaries and temples dedicated exclusively to Asclepius in Arcadia attested by Pausanias were at the ruined village of Caous (8.25.1), Thelpusa (8.25.3) and on the road between Tegea and Argos (8.54.5). The Roman cult of Asclepius arrived in 293 B.C.E. following a plague and was based on the sanctuary at Epidaurus. With regard to the medical practices of adherents to the later Roman cults of Asclepius, it would appear from what evidence we have that these practices were efficacious in many cases, but completely unconnected with anything even remotely resembling ordinary medicine at the time. Asclepius is not really a feature of anything found in the Hippocratic corpus (except that Hippocrates himself claimed to have descended from him, and one slender fragment, which is comical in nature) and that the healing techniques employed by followers of this mysterious religious cult were entirely magical in nature. Remarkably, even some of the most sceptical historians of the past seem to have accepted the plausible effectiveness of their remedies based upon the evidence, and astonishingly, for the true believers among us, their cures appear to have been nothing short of miraculous. What is even more intriguing, what might be case, is that the Roman Republic may have adopted the god into their pantheon because it had no state god purely devoted to the healing arts. Furthermore, the cult of Asclepius would be called upon in times of extreme need, when the prophetess of the Cumaen Sibyl was required. Her prophecies were inexorably linked with the cult of Asclepius, who was to be propitiated at her behest, following the oracle’s predictions. A much earlier connection also existed between Asclepian ‘medicine’ and prophecy. The word common noun ‘prognosis’ has only a remnant of its ancient meaning retained. In the *Prognostic* is written: ‘It is most excellent for a physician to cultivate *pronoia*. Since he foreknows and foretells the past, present and future men would have confidence to entrust themselves to his care. By an early forecast in each case he can tend aright those who have a chance to survive and by foreseeing who will die.’ (trans. Singer) Perhaps one of the most interesting scraps of evidence from the ancient world connects a person’s formal education directly with the ability to prophesy accurately (Ammianus Marcellinus, 21.1.8) particularly ancient languages and classical studies. The common noun *interpres* in Classical Latin means a ‘negotiator, mediator, messenger; expounder, explainer’ but also ‘prophet, prophetess’ as well as ‘interpreter; translator’. Ammianus Marcellinus (21.14.1) discussing the foresighted prediction of the death of Constantius Augustus seems to contain a blatant reference to Hermetic philosophical thought: ‘In this welter of adverse events Constantius’ fortune, already wavering and at a standstill, showed clearly by signs almost as plain as words, that a crisis in his life was at hand. For at night he was alarmed by apparitions, and when he was not yet wholly sunk in sleep, the ghost of his father seemed to hold out to him a fair child; and when he took it and set it in his lap, it shook from him the ball which he held in his right hand and threw it to a great distance. And this foretold a change in the state, although the seers gave reassuring answers. After that he admitted to his more intimate attendants that, as though forsaken, he ceased to see a kind of secret something which he used to think occasionally appeared to him, though somewhat dimly; and it was supposed that a sort of guardian spirit, assigned to protect his life, had deserted him, since he was destined quickly to leave this world. For the theologians maintain that there are associated with all men at their birth, but without interference from the established course of destiny, certain divinities of that sort, as directors of their conduct; but they have been seen by only a very few, whom their manifold merits have raised to eminence. And this oracles and writers of distinction have shown; among the latter is also the comic poet Menander, in whom we read these two *senarii*: A daemon is assigned to every man At birth, to be the leader of his life. Likewise from the immortal poems of Homer were given to understand that it was not the gods of heaven that spoke with brave men, and stood by them or aided them as they fought, but that guardian spirits attended them; and through reliance upon their special support, it is said, that Pythagoras, Socrates, and Numa Pompilius became famous; also the earlier Scipio, and (as some believe) Marius and Octavianus, who first had the title of Augustus conferred upon him, and Hermes Trismegistus, Apollonius of Tyana, and Plotinus, who ventured to discourse on this mystic theme, and to present a profound discussion of the question by what elements these spirits are linked with men's souls, and taking them to their bosoms, as it were, protect them (as long as possible) and give them higher instruction, if they perceive that they are pure and kept from the pollution of sin through association with an immaculate body.’ (trans. Rolfe) The secrets of Asclepius’ cult appear to be rooted in theurgic philosophy, esoteric alchemy and the ritual summoning of spirits. The terms: demons, daemons, *daimones* are in fact all precisely the same thing with only very slight differences in meaning. It is only certain medieval thinkers which brought any stigma to the use of this common noun. In Ancient Greek δαιμόνιτός has various meanings but in a philosophical sense means ‘of an inferior divine being’. Magical incantations remaining through Roman syncretism and the earlier Hellenic syncretic origins of Oriental religious beliefs offer a tantalising glimpse of ancient treatments against disease. Seemingly, the invocation of deities, naming them in their original foreign languages was utilised in order to combat various conditions. Later Roman practices went even further than this by associating individual body parts (*membra*) and even particular feelings (*sententiae*) with their own individual deities. This may be rooted in much earlier Egyptian practice. A particular tutelary being (entity, numen, head, power, force, energy, spirit, angel, demon: whichever term suits one best) had to be propitiated for their corresponding symptom, part or function, in order for this spiritual healing to take place. Traces in Latin literature indicate magical homeopathic remedies of this sort (Virgil’s *Eclogues, *8 & Ovid’s *Heroides* 6.91). **Esoteric symbolism** Pindar’s *Pythian Ode* (3.1.1-60) pairs the two legends of Asclepius and his royal mother, Coronis, which appears to be allegorical for highlighting the dangers of attempting to exceed the mortal limits of man. Asclepius was bribed to bring a mortal back to life, and paid divine punishment for it. Pindar also notes in the same *Pythian Ode* and also his *Nemean Ode *(3.52-55) that Asclepius was taught the healing arts by the mythical centaur Chiron. This centaur is unique in that he is often depicted on pottery as having human, not equine, forelegs and is sometimes dressed in a ceremonial robe. By the 5th century B.C.E. centaurs were thought to be symbolic of everything masculine Greek patriarchy did not represent. Diodorus Siculus (5.74.6) however posits that Asclepius learned how to heal from his father, Apollo, also thought to have been taught by Chiron. Apollo was known more for his prophetic abilities than his healing powers whereas Asclepius was the opposite, but both mythological figures could do both, wedding prophecy with medicinal efficacy. In the earliest references to Asclepius (Homer and Pindar), there is no mention of a serpent. A relatively early text (388 B.C.E.), Aristophanes’ *Wealth* (2.733-747) mentions Asclepius as being a powerful god being able to harm, as well as heal, which appears in the form of a snake. Legend has it that when the cult of Asclepius came to Rome, a snake embodying Asclepius came ashore and chose its own sanctuary. It appears that this later addition to Asclepius (who is often depicted in art with only one serpent, not two) was connected to his healing powers. An inscription from Crete (CT791, IC 1,17#21) mentions the god, ‘sending… as a guide a divine serpent.’ In Plutarch’s *Moralia *(755) the passing of a serpent was seen as a good omen. Epigraphic evidence from mainland Greece (T423, IG vol.4,1 #121-122, A.7) mentions a man who had his foot healed by a serpent, seemingly as a direct result of sleeping at an *Asclepion* temple. This seems to relate directly to Apuleius’ description of Asclepius in his *Metamorphoses* as the image seen by the patient in the prophetic vision was quite similar to that of the fable ‘a young boy with a beautiful appearance.’ ‘…A pretty young lad with a gentle way about him clambered up and disentangled the spear’s intricate windings in a feeble and loose-limbed dance. When he did this everyone present was astonished. You might say on that day the spear was like the staff which Asclepius the Physician carried, its half-trimmed little branches were full of knots, a noble serpent of Asclepius smoothly coiled around it, clinging to it…’ Apuleius’ *Metamorphoses*, 1.4.4-5 (trans. Latham, M.L.) The serpent is a complex symbol because, according to Freudian psychology, seeing a serpent in a dream relates to propagation or a phallus. According to Sir Francis Bacon (Wisdom of the Ancients, ch.2) the serpent symbolizes rebellion. Although the serpent in the Old Testament (Gen. 3 etc.) is deemed utterly evil, both in the classical tradition and indeed elsewhere in the Holy Bible (Matt. 10:16) its symbolism indicates prudence and shrewdness. In the classical culture, serpents symbolize renovation and it may be important to note that some serpents are tamed (cf. Pausanias, 2.81.1) and can help people find curative herbs. Among other deities that held serpents in classical culture were Hygieia and Ophiuchus, the latter being analogous to Asclepius. Euripides (*Bacchae*, l.1330) mentioning Dionysus’ prophecy about Cadmus and Harmonia being transformed into snakes is aetiological in nature, combining numerous strange legends. The royal couple become leaders of western peoples *Encheleis *(‘Eels’) and this transformation may well reflect Cadmus’ association with Thebes’ earth or perhaps less likely, shades in the underworld. The house-snake was a symbol of stability and possession. The main connections between healing and the dream temples are found in the works of Artemidorus and Pausanias. The principle of correspondence is a key part to unlocking the mysteries of earlier traditions, because much of what remains was passed down by word of mouth, from teacher to student and so forth. With the addition of various social upheavals and religious turmoil and iconoclasm, a great deal of what we may otherwise have known with more certainty, has been lost to the passage of time. However, from what slender fragments and pieces of the puzzle remain, we can learn a great deal, but the evidence rests largely on fanciful reinterpretations of earlier traditions. For example, the French esotericist Deseille Michel (Enseignement ésotérique: La Tradition Primordiale) makes an analogy between the Christianisation of much later Arthurian romances and the symbolism of ancient Egypt. Monseigneur Michel claims that any references to an island, is a masked reference to an Egyptian pyramid, citing the isle of Avalon as an example. In the Anglophone tradition, many instrumental correspondences were made by the late great teacher Manly P. Hall (Mystery of the Ineffable Name of God [44:48-45:99], Invisible Creatures of the 5 Elements [9:30-9:51] & Return of Masonic Initiation: Mozart’s Magic Flute [1:07:44-1:08:24]). For example, in elementalism Manly Hall draws together many intriguing parallels between the four elemental forces and various other analogies, only a few of which are listed here: EARTH (Taurus): physical (body, world, etc.), the victory of the soul over mere materialism, symbolic of sarcophagi and subterranean burial places, corresponds to the Scandinavian Hertha. FIRE (Leo): emotional nature, passions (anger, love, etc.), symbolic of a long passageway surrounded by fire and corresponds to the Indian deity Adni. AIR (Aquarius): electrical fluid condensers, mind, flight, invisibility, teleportation, symbolic of mountains, corresponds to the Scandinavian valkyrie and Indian Mans. WATER (Scorpio): vital life, generative principle in man, symbolic of a boat without oars, a flooded river or open seas, corresponds to the Indian Veruna. **Conclusion** From what slender evidence which remains we may conclude that an air of mystery surrounds the tradition of Asclepius, his followers and the practices employed by his attendants. Many different Asclepii appear to have existed at different times, but perhaps can be traced back to an original hero, highly mythologised with local offshoots springing up at certain cult centres throughout ancient Greece and eventually adopted into the Roman pantheon. The connection between prophecy and medicine is also tantalising, as although it was Asclepius’ father Apollo who was properly the god of prophecy, Apollo too had medicinal traits. Likewise, so did Asclepius, even if one had an emphasis on medicinal aspects and the other prophetic. Therefore it is safe to conclude that the two are interconnected and form part of a whole. What’s even more curious (to practitioners of the Craft, at least) are the magical remedies replete within the cult of Asclepius and the often nebulous nature of them, having been virtually destroyed by iconoclasm throughout the passage of time. The often symbolic and esoteric meanings still exist and have been explored variously by innumerable scholars, which may help elucidate parts of this ancient wisdom, aiding Hermeticists in their journey towards enlightenment. Even so, Asclepius’ legacy endured in an unbroken chain, even down to today, despite various upheavals, as evidenced by his symbol on ambulances in the United States of America, and it was only relatively recently that the Hippocratic Oath was no longer sworn by general medical practitioners in the United Kingdom. The Hermetic tradition keeps its flame alive (Herm means ‘flame’ in its etymology) and tends it carefully, with its inner workings being shrouded in mystery, magic and ritual, never to be profaned but ever present. One thing is for certain, that Asclepius and his followers are a force for good, for healing, not just of the body but also of the soul. The elements, spirits and apotropaic practices which remained hidden from religious and political intolerance went underground and stayed with the builders of civilisation, far away from the eyes of the uninitiated, the impious and ungodly. Like the dual meanings of his name in Ancient Greek and Latin, Asclepius’ followers are ever gentle, but make precision cuts with a scalpel, to heal the wounds of the world and everybody in it, through the spirit of goodness, loving kindness and universal brotherhood. Ovid’s *Metamorphoses* 15.533-546 & 626-653 [Hippolytus said]… ‘…See too by the light without royal kingdoms And a scarred body heated in the waves of fiery Phlegathon, Were it not for Apollo’s kin, Asclepius, by their effective cures Could man be restored to life, which, after taking potent herbs* And with Apollo’s help, I fetched him back from unworthy Dis (Orcus), While as for me, lest I should augment this gift I’d been given, Being envied stood in the way, the thick clouds by Cynthia’s moon, And as I must be careful and can be, it seems I’m safely Joined. The age will not understand. He had not been forsaken, For me, on the edge, and in order to own Crete, he had doubted them. Whether or not he would surrender to Delos, and leave, And make for Crete, put here, and then would be of the equines. He ordered they be reminded, to set down there, and he said ‘Who are you Hippolytus?’ saying ‘now you will be like the Forces.’ From there I harvest the woods, one rich, one poor, by this divine will. You lie beneath mistresses, and I reckon so with the girls… [...] ... You bring ill-omens, he missed the Romans, in heaven, Pale and wan, they mourned their bodies, well-being (through meditation). Exhausted, after all their funerals, they parted ways, The trials were nothing, no healing remedy helped. They strived for the help of the gods, in their midst he held His ground near Delphi, the oracle: Apollo’s prophecy, And a part had said no, and he disagreed and felt differently, He was not supposed to help, and she herself had held back a lot, They advised not to set him work, or surrender to the powers that be, While they hesitated twilight struck, and appeared a beam of light, As did a ghost of the land, and night covered the earth’s orbit, When a helpful god, in his dreams, granted him visions in his rest.’ Translated by Maxwell Lewis Latham (2018) --- #### To find out more about Maxwell Lewis Latham please visit his author page. #### To view Maxwell's latest title a translation of, the Corpus Hermeticum: Power and Wisdom of God by Marsilio Ficino translation of the Corpus Hermeticum available on Amazon in both paperback and digital versions. 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Let's say you want to get the most out of Bill's [essay on the *Sea of Fire Meditation*](http://www.williammistele.com/amtophul.htm)*.* Check out the  example images below: #### To read the full contemplation by Virgil, please download the PDF ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Picture1-65x65.png) ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Picture2-65x65.png) Yeah, that's right. I literally just wrote out the entire essay by hand. That's the technique. I've found that when I write out an essay by hand, this process ingrains the knowledge in that essay into my mind and psyche more thoroughly than mere reading alone ever could. When I was in college, I found that if I didn't understand the solution to a problem, writing out the solution often helped me understand it. 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It is only in more recent times that society has grown lazier and some people balk at the idea of copying out a whole essay by hand, let alone an entire grimoire. Note also that in the East there are the practices of Shakyo and Likhita Japa, amongst other practices that utilize the power of writing to assimilate esoteric teachings and ingrain their essence into one's psyche. Pick an essay by Bill that really speaks to you and touches upon a major problem you are facing. If you're undergoing a period of darkness, maybe pick his [essay on the shadow](http://williammistele.com/shadow.html). If the fire element is weak in your personality and you're trying to strengthen it, maybe pick one of his essays on the fire element, such as [this one](http://williammistele.com/introfire.html). If you're having trouble establishing an elemental equilibrium in general, maybe pick one of his essays on establishing an elemental equilibrium, such as [this one](http://williammistele.com/astral2.html). 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Sorry to disappoint you if you were expecting some bizarre Ancient Egyptian ritual you could use to instantly and effortlessly assimilate all of the information contained in each of Bill's essays. Writing out an entire essay by hand may seem like a lot of work, but personally, I find it an enjoyable activity. Some people will chop wood, or practice a kata, or do some other sort of rote physical activity to bring their mind back to the present and center themselves. Copying out an essay by hand does that for me. And remember, you don't have to copy out an entire essay in one sitting. I've never done that, after all, they can be really long. 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Many are familiar with his writings, in particular, those posted to his old blog, Emerald Force. You may also view some of his most recent posts in his new blog, Through Castle Doors. --- ##### Thank you, Virgil,  for sharing with us your time and the wisdom you have gained while walking the path of a magician. --- - **Falcon Books: In your book’s preface, you briefly discuss illusory self-transformation and contrast it with genuine self-transformation. Can you give us some thoughts on the difference between the two, and why it’s important for your readers to understand the difference between the two?** Virgil: Illusory self-transformation centers on creating a subjective feeling of being transformed. There are many techniques and exercises that can help people achieve illusory self-transformation. However, illusory self-transformation is not genuine self-transformation. Just because you feel more balanced doesn’t mean you are actually more balanced. Just because you feel you have spiritually evolved doesn’t mean you have actually spiritually evolved. Just because you feel more enlightened doesn’t mean you are actually more enlightened. Just because you feel like you are a better person doesn’t mean you are actually a better person. People study esoteric disciplines like occultism, sorcery, mysticism, and magic for many reasons. Some of them seek illusory self-transformation. They don’t care about becoming a better person. They just want to feel like they have become a better person; after all, it’s a very nice feeling. Others don’t want to become more enlightened. They just want to feel more enlightened because, again, it’s a nice feeling. Therefore, they practice exercises that make them feel more enlightened. These people should be looked up to. They know what they want, they identify the exercises that will get them what they want, and they practice those exercises. People who want to feel like they’ve improved need exercises that provide them with illusory self-transformation. They are very fortunate because the esoteric world is filled with these kinds of exercises. Thus, if they want to feel balanced, they can find many exercises to help them feel more balanced. If they want to feel more spiritually evolved, they can find many exercises to help them feel more spiritually evolved. If they want to feel more enlightened, they can find many exercises to help them feel more enlightened. However, on occasion, a seeker of illusory self-transformation will have the misfortune of running into IIH and mistakenly believing it will provide him with what he wants. IIH won’t make you feel more balanced. It will make you more balanced. There’s a big difference between feeling balanced and being balanced. Similarly, there’s a big difference between feeling enlightened and being enlightened. Someone who seeks illusory self-transformation could waste many years of his life practicing the exercises of IIH and becoming balanced, spiritually evolved, and enlightened when instead he wants to feel balanced, feel spiritually evolved, and feel enlightened. Similarly, many people who seek genuine self-transformation practice exercises that provide them with illusory self-transformation. They practice exercises that make them feel balanced, spiritually evolved, and enlightened. Then one day, they look back and realize they are just as irritable and impatient as they were the day they first started their esoteric studies. They are just as disorganized and unassertive as they were the day they performed their first ritual. They are just as boring and socially awkward as they were the day they first learned about the Tree of Life. They are just as arrogant and selfish as they were the day they built their first wand. They are just as dishonest and insecure as they were the day they bought their first Tarot deck. This is a huge problem. These people sought genuine self-transformation, but they practiced exercises that brought them only illusory self-transformation. Someone who seeks illusory self-transformation will not be happy if he practices exercises that can only bring him genuine self-transformation. Someone who seeks genuine self-transformation will not be happy if he practices exercises that can only bring him illusory self-transformation. This is why I brought up the difference between illusory and genuine self-transformation at the beginning of my book. For me, it’s about being honest with my readers. If someone who seeks illusory self-transformation picks up my book only to find a bunch of exercises that can only bring him genuine self-transformation, he’s going to be dismayed and disappointed. He’s going to feel ripped off. I’m not a criminal. I’m not in the business of ripping people off. I don’t like it when people feel ripped off, and I especially don’t like it when people feel ripped off because of something I did. At the beginning of my book, those who seek illusory self-transformation can clearly see that the book is not for them, and quickly return the book in order to get their money back. Those who seek genuine self-transformation will know that my book has a lot to offer them and continue reading. **2. Falcon Books: Would you say that genuine self-transformation is difficult?** Virgil: I’m glad you asked this question because it’s question I really want to answer. However, before I answer your question, I want to discuss the answer to a different question, which is whether most people think genuine self-transformation is difficult. Clearly, they do. If you ask a large number of new Bardonists what part of IIH intimidates them the most, some will say VOM ( vacancy of mind).  A few will say merging with Divinity in Steps 9 and 10. However, most of them will say the Step 2 astral work. The Step 2 astral section is one of the biggest reasons many students of the Bardon system don’t believe they have what it takes to work through IIH. And if you think about it, that makes sense. Consider the negative trait of irritability. There are people who spend their entire lives struggling with their irritability. They go to therapy and they attend support groups in hopes of mastering their anger management issues. Irritability is one of those major traits that you need to get rid of before moving on from Step 2. If you spend your whole life struggling to completely root out your irritability, you’ll never more on to Step 3. 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The second is that they aren’t using their resources strategically. When you know all of the resources you have at your disposal, use all of the resources you have at your disposal, and use them strategically, then self-transformation is actually enjoyable and easy. **3. Falcon Books: Many people don’t succeed in the Step 2 astral work. Besides lack of faith in their own potential, not knowing the resources available to them, and not using their resources strategically, are there other issues that prevent people from succeeding in the Step 2 astral work?** Now, you do [pharmacy canada cialis](http://deeprootsmag.org/2017/01/24/music-to-entrance-uplift-and-break-your-heart/) not need to worry about having therapy and talking it through with a stranger. 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One common misconception is that you should strive to have an equal number of items on your black and white soul mirrors. This is not true, and I give a detail explanation of why it’s not true in my book. Another common misconception is that when you impregnate food while practicing conscious eating, you fill the food with “energy.” This is false; there is no energy work involved in conscious eating. You’re not moving “energy” into or out of the food. You’re using the power of focused intent to transmute the food into whatever positive quality you want to develop. I could go on and on listing harmful but common misconceptions. People need to study Bardon’s instructions and ascertain the true purpose of his exercises. This will help them identify misconceptions about them. **4. Falcon Books: Your book contains an enormous amount of information about the magical self-transformation techniques found in Steps 1 and 2 – autosuggestion, conscious eating, conscious breathing, using magic of water, etc. Where did you find this information, and how long did it take you to gather it all together? ** Virgil: Most of the information comes from my own direct experience working with these techniques over the course of many years. Because of this, people can expect to find a lot of new and original information about Bardon’s self-transformation techniques in my book. I’ve practiced conscious breathing every day for the last decade and a half. You learn a lot about a self-transformation technique when you use it every day over such a long period of time. Sometimes, I’ll be practicing conscious breathing and I’ll think to myself “I wonder what would happen if I make X change to the way I do conscious breathing.” I’ll then change the way I do conscious breathing in X way and observe what effect this has on how effective the technique is. Other times, I’ll be practicing conscious breathing and I’ll think to myself “I wonder what would happen if I remove Y from the way I do conscious breathing.” I’ll then change the way I do conscious breathing by removing Y from my approach to this technique and see how the effectiveness of the technique changes. One time, I was reading a book about acting and the book contained a breathing technique to help actors deal with stage fright. I thought to myself “I wonder what would happen if I combined elements of this technique with Bardon’s conscious breathing technique.” I tried it and observed the results. Another time, I was studying the fighting principals of Shotokan karate and I realized that some of the principles karate practitioners use to defeat their opponents can be used by the magician to “defeat” his negative traits. This is where the IHME technique I explain in my book comes from. Another time, I was talking to an expert in acupuncture. He told me that it is easier for acupuncture needles to slide into the patient if the patient is relaxed. If the patient is stiff or tense, it’s hard for the acupuncture needles to slide into the patient. When you practice conscious breathing, you transmute the air around you into a positive trait like charisma or intelligence and then breathe it in. When you breathe it in, the trait permeates your astra-mental body so that your astra-mental body can assimilate it. I wondered if relaxing could make it easier for the trait to permeate you and your astra-mental body, so I experimented with that idea. All of these are just some of the little incidents over the years which have provided me with the ideas and inspiration I used to experiment with conscious breathing in various ways and gain more knowledge about this self-transformation technique **5. Falcon Books: Would you say your book is a “commentary” on the self-transformation techniques in IIH?** Virgil: No. My book is many things, but it is not a commentary. Let’s consider the technique of conscious breathing again. In IIH, Bardon gives the instructions for conscious breathing, but Bardon wasn’t the clearest writer. When you write a commentary, what you do is give your own instructions for conscious breathing in a clearer manner, or clarify the unclear parts of Bardon’s instructions. The point of my book isn’t to give instructions for conscious breathing, or to give clearer instructions for conscious breathing. There are already enough people doing that. In fact, there are probably too many people doing that, but I digress. The purpose of my book is to present new ways of approaching, modifying, and enhancing the simple conscious breathing technique that Bardon’ teaches in IIH. **6. Falcon Books: There are many articles, essays, and books about the Bardon system. Why is your book different from these other writings? In other words, what makes your book unique?** Virgil: If you think about IIH, it’s about as practical as a book on magic can get. Many people think that because IIH is completely practical, there isn’t any room or use for other books about the Bardon system that are practical. Thus, a lot of writings about the Bardon system are historical, theoretical, or philosophical. My book is purely practical and this sets it apart from the historical, theoretical, and philosophical writings. Now, I’m not trying to downplay the importance of those writings, because I do think they’re very important. I’m just pointing out that they are different from my book because my book is about the practice of self-transformation, rather than about the history, theories, or philosophy of self-transformation. Now, of course, my book is not the only practical piece of writing about the Bardon system. However, if you look at the existing practical writings about the Bardon system, most of them fall into two categories. The first category consists of commentaries on IIH. The second category consists of books containing supplemental exercises that you can practice in addition to the exercises of IIH. My book does not fall into the first category because it’s not a commentary. If you don’t understand Bardon’s instructions for conscious breathing, then having someone else (e.g. Rawn Clark) explain the instructions to you can be very beneficial. However, you don’t need ten different people explaining the instructions to you. Many people these days are very confused when it comes to Bardon’s exercises because they have ten different people explaining the instructions to them. As far as writing commentaries go, I’m a bit late to the game, so I think there are better uses for my time than to become an eleventh person explaining the instructions for Bardon’s exercises to these people. Now, if we look at the second category, it becomes clear that my book doesn’t fall into it either. In my first book, I made my position on outside/supplemental exercises very clear. If you have extra time you would like to devote to your magical training, it is far better to spend that time deepening your mastery over the exercises in IIH than to practice exercises from outside of IIH. Thus, my book doesn’t provide a bunch of exercises for you to practice in addition to the exercises of IIH. So, in summary, my book differs from the historical, theoretical, and philosophical writings because it is practical. It differs from other practical writings because it is not a commentary and it is not a collection of outside exercises. **7. Falcon Books: Are there any alarming trends regarding self-transformation in the Bardon community that you address in your book, or would like to address?** Virgil: I do address several trends that I think are problematic. Here, I’ll discuss one that I ended up deciding not to mention or analyze in my book for space reasons. As I mentioned previously, new students to Bardon’s system are often intimidated by the astral work of Step 2. The most common way to reassure these students and to comfort them is to say something like “Don’t worry. You don’t have to root out all of your negative traits.” While this is true, it’s a bad way of lifting the spirits of those who despair at the Step 2 astral work. You’re basically saying “Yeah, you’re right; rooting out negative traits is hard. However, the Step 2 astral work isn’t as hard as you might expect because you don’t have to root out as many negative traits as you think.” There are all sorts of problems with this. First, you’re reinforcing the false notion that rooting out negative traits is difficult. Second, they might misinterpret you’re statement as an indication that they only have to root out a few of their negative traits, when in fact they do need to root out most of their negative traits. A much better way of providing comfort to those who despair at the Step 2 astral work is to say “Don’t worry. Rooting out negative traits is actually really easy.” You’re not lying to them. Rooting out negative traits is in fact really easy, and if you don’t believe me, just read my book **8. Falcon Books: Can your readers expect more books on the subject of self-transformation from you?** Virgil: Of course! In the second chapter of *The Elemental Equilibrium*, I briefly discuss strategy. 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It is up to you to take what you have been given and turn it into a life worth living. **Part II: Body Awareness** Your physical body is what enables you to be here in this world. Without it, you are not here but on the astral plane among the departed or somewhere else. To be fully alive and active, make a point of keeping your body healthy. Exercise regularly. Eat with care. Monitor your stress levels. --- ** The below video is a grounding exercise:  Meditation on the Feet** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_QCstd19hE&t=2s --- ### Common Virtue: The Feeling of Well-being --- ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/animal-1822662_960_720.jpg) “Well-being” is the feeling that gives us our greatest ability to fully accept and to respond with appreciation to the physical world we are in. Without it, you miss seeing half of what is going on in the world around you and you fail to seize the opportunities that come to you. With it, joy and wonder are always close by your side. In the feeling of well-being, life seems to unfold in a way that is completely natural and nurturing. Life in its essence is protective, sheltering, and fulfilling. This appreciation occurs on a level far deeper than the conscious mind, for it has nothing to do with beliefs, doctrines, theories, or ideas. For individuals with well-being, everything in life is where it is supposed to be. An individual’s identity is not defined by the goals he pursues or what he accomplishes. There is, instead, a feeling of being directly connected to nature that exists as an inexhaustible source of peace and renewal. People with well-being say, for example, “Things in life happen when they are ready to happen. I feel that I am a part of a flow of life that is like being in a river and moving along with it. On some level, I only have to accept the flow to be a part of it. “The present does not proceed from the past and move into the future. Rather, the past, present, and future are simultaneously together within the same landscape of time. And in this landscape, the events of life are already interconnected and interwoven. There is continuity. If I lose something important to me at one point in my life, it can be found again later during another stage.” Another person said, “Well-being, for me, is a sense of timelessness—no outside goals or explanations are needed to justify how I experience things in the present. Nothing needs to be connected to the present moment of perception. I do not have to think when I am just doing and experiencing things.” For these individuals, even relationships do not really end. What is begun in one relationship can be carried on and fulfilled in another relationship. 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This is what people with high well-being have going on inside of themselves all of the time. Joy and wonder, acceptance and peace, are constantly before their eyes. When this feeling comes to you, stop everything you are doing and focus on it. These experiences take you into a mystical, magical realm that is not a common human experience, for they reveal a completely different way of feeling and perceiving: of being fully present in our physical world and, not due to external circumstances, but from within yourself—feeling you have finally come home. If you can evoke this feeling of well-being through contemplation or some other means, then repeat your practice until the feeling is a part of you. Frank Waters sums up this sense of well-being in his book, *Pumpkin **Seed Point*. During a long and lonely winter while studying the Hopi Indians in Arizona, he wrote: *"Yet sometimes I awake in the silence of the night with an intuitive feeling of its mysterious context. At these moments of utter peace I feel absolved from the necessity of hurrying through space to reach a point in time … for time seems then a living, organic element that mysteriously helps to fashion our own shape and growth …. Adrift in a sea of motionless time, we come to realize there are worlds enough for becoming ourselves."* --- ### Magical Virtue: A Quiet Ecstasy --- There is a mystical dimension within feelings. In fairy tales, the beings who live in the earth element are called gnomes. Gnomes are completely at home in the physical world. They consider something physical like matter to be spiritual because they can shape and transform it, raising its vibration and adding feeling, mental vibrations, and consciousness to it. Gnomes like to study and work with minerals, gems, trees, plants, flowers, organic processes, and the Feng Shui of the land. Gnomes themselves are very down to earth and grounded, solid, and persevering. They involve themselves in what they work on as if time does not matter, only their desire to persevere and to finish what they have begun. It is fair to say that gnomes possess a quiet ecstasy. When they work, they work with all of their heart. For gnomes, a unit of time is measured in terms of when they began and then when they completed a project. Time is defined from within. Put simply, gnomes feel rock solid inside and joined to the physical world around them. I said to one girl, “You have the vibration of a gnome.” She asked, “How so?” I replied, “There is this feeling in your aura of being in a cave beneath the ground that is perfectly silent and still. And yet there is also a sense that you are a part of and within everything physical as if matter itself is alive and imbued with spirit waiting to be awakened.” She said to me, “Yeah. That is the way I feel all of the time.” If you get to know one of these gnome type individuals, when you listen to them talk or look into their eyes, you can sense how much they are fully here and alive. Work for them is a pure act of giving. We meet gnome type individuals in Warren Buffett, who is one of the wealthiest men in the world. He accumulates billions by buying high-value companies and then, with great insight, he picks men to manage those companies who are honest, sincere, and love to work as Buffett himself loves to work. Buffet’s attitude, like a gnome, is to “find something you love and then work at it with all of your heart.” Other gnome style individuals are like the scientists who discover the double helix in DNA or make a new kind of ceramic or they contribute to the world the way the UN project eliminated all smallpox on earth by 1980. Take a few moments and switch out of human time and into geological time.  Imagine you are a mountain, a boulder, a stone, a tree, or a valley. Recall for a moment when you were working at something you loved doing with all of your heart. Add to this a sense of feeling that you are rock solid, enduring, and persevering. This state of mind is a divine virtue. Find it in yourself and make it part of your soul. --- ### Problems & Tips: Take Nothing for Granted --- From the beginning, the human race has been engaged in a struggle to survive. Go back to 70,000 B.C. on Sumatra in Indonesia and a volcano called Toba erupted sending 28,000 times more ash into the air than Mt. St. Helens. Genetic records indicate Homo sapiens may have shrunk to as little as 1,000 adults, perhaps even to 40 breeding pairs. We are very lucky to be here. In the geologic record, there is a list of intelligent beings like Homo erectus and Neanderthal that are now extinct. We survive in an environment where there is never enough food, shelter, or land; and in fact never enough education, honor, respect, justice, freedom, opportunity, knowledge, and wisdom. We compete for material wealth as well as recognition and social status. Even love and affection are scarce commodities. You have to “win” another’s affection. Love is subject to negotiation, bribes, coercion, and often obtained and sustained by fantasy, lies, and deception. Looking back, human history has been and still is a history of savagery and oppression. And so, confronted with the necessity of overcoming our limitations, we have been forced to learn, constantly facing new challenges and unexpected change. Add to this that our world is “in-between” the dark, impenetrable realm of lower brain instincts and the invisible, “higher” realms of pure light. 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Existence here in the physical world is always at risk. And where there is risk and danger, as the saying goes, "eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." Senator Ted Kennedy once said, “Nuclear war is unthinkable.” I can very easily visualize and, in my mind, experience an all-out nuclear war. Because I am not brain dead like Senator Ted Kennedy in regard to “black swan” events, I create solutions than those with conventional ways of thinking could never imagine. To paraphrase the Tao Te Ching, The men of old were unfathomable in their wisdom. And so we can only describe their actions: They were cautious as a man walking on thin ice. Alert as a soldier sensing danger, Courteous as a guest at a formal reception, As free of attachment as melting ice, As available as an uncut block of wood, And as nurturing as a valley, Which is to say, Their actions arose from stillness. 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And as this magma circulates it generates the magnetosphere that protects the planet from deadly solar radiation. At the same time, earth is in a Goldielocks or habitable zone where there is liquid water covering 71% of the earth’s surface. The atmosphere contains oxygen which is a byproduct of life and earth has enough ozone to shield it from most of the sun’s ultraviolet light. With the movement of the tectonic planets and lunar tides there are many ecosystems giving rise to a vast variety of life. --- ### The Four Elements ---   ### Fire, earth, water, and air—the presence of these elements define the uniqueness of our planet as compared to those among other stars. The wealth in these elements of nature are also reflected in ourselves—in the qualities that characterize our civilizations and in the traits that define our personalities and shape our motivations. **The Earth Element** Such as rocks and mountains, are enduring. Metals and materials are useful for building and producing things. In the human personality, the earth element manifests as the desire to make things of value that enrich the world. With the earth element, we have an inner silence and a quiet ecstasy as we work, for in work we feel close to those things we care most about. And yet, for all its endurance and solidity, material things in time disappear, are worn down, pulverized, erode, and age. Glorious civilizations in the past and in the far future shall arise, thrive, and then cease like images in dreams that fade as we wake up from sleep. **The water element** Is in the moment—flowing, absorbing and releasing, purifying, giving, and renewing. It brings forth and nurtures life. Those with the water element strong in their personalities are highly empathic and loving. The water element bestows the feeling that love is a part of the fabric of the universe. Water flows around us. We drink it. It nourishes and cleanses us. At the extreme, it gives the feeling that others are ourselves in another form and that we are all joined as one. Like the air in the open space of the sky, the air element gives a sense of freedom of movement and clarity of mind. It is both detached and hypersensitive to high and low pressure, hot and cold, wet and dry, and electric and magnetic. Those with strong air element in their personalities have the artist’s sensitivity to the nuances and changes in sensory perception. As in an appreciation of music, they enjoy artistic expressions that take tension and conflict and produces harmony. And they have the open-mindedness, detachment, and curiosity that makes for good scientists. **The Air Element** Represents the pursuit of knowledge. At the end of our journeys and after many experiences, we shall finally understand our difficulties, how to surmount them, and to attain freedom. **The Fire Element** As in nature, is hot, dynamic, expansive, intense, explosive, demanding, commanding, and consuming. It is charismatic and electrifying. Leaders and generals find such power within themselves. They make things happen sooner rather than later. The fire element within the human personality is represented in terms of, integrity, leadership, and relentless pursuit of one’s goals, like a CEO of a global corporation. With fire, every problem is a challenge and every limitation is something to surmount and overcome. In fire is the will and energy necessary to change any fate and to fulfil any mission you wish to undertake. All the same, though sometimes supportive and accommodating, fire is often destructive to the other elements. In fact, fires, volcanoes, and super volcanoes as well as tsunamis and floods, hurricanes and tornadoes, and earthquakes these dynamic expressions in nature of the four elements operate independently of each other. In a similar way, the four elements are not integrated in human nature or in society. In fairy tales and lore, each element has intelligent spirits residing within them. We can say that the mermaids do not sit down and talk to the air spirits, the sylphs. The fire spirits, the salamanders, do not hold long conversations with the gnomes. These different kingdoms within nature each have their own awareness, purposes, and evolutionary path. Similarly, our scientists (the air element) may pursue with professional detachment their theories and experiments. But they lack the love of the water element and the harmony of their own air element. Often when funded by governments and corporations, scientists will invent some new technology that has military applications. Almost immediately this technology falls into the hands of the worst people on earth—the dictators and those corporations that are devoid of conscience. Our leaders and corporate CEOs (the fire element) do not pursue long terms goals (the earth element), producing things of great value that endure through time. Obsessed and rewarded for short-term gain, they take excessive risks and produce products that destroy rather than conserve and protect. And politicians wait for a crisis or a disaster before they change their methods to protect people and nature. The creative powers within us, the elements that constitute our nature, are extremely dynamic. But, like I say, they are not coordinated with each other. Nature and human personality are like a central station with airplanes, ships, trains, and buses whose schedules are never coordinated and that lead to different destinations. You try to pursue something like studying genuine wisdom or establishing justice on earth and ending wars. You go to the ticket counter and the agent says to you as the agent once said to me in Bolivia, “Oh. Your flight has been rescheduled. There is only one plane flying today and it is just now taking off. When it gets to its destination they will send it back. At that time, your flight will be available.” **To review:** Fire =will Air = knowledge Earth = producing things of value. Water = love and feeling—they are endless in their wealth. But a person who is a scientist, artist, leader, and empathic healer? Uniting these opposites harmoniously within us is almost a superhuman task. --- ### Akasha of the Planet Earth --- We have the physical world and our physical body. We have our feelings, our soul, and the astral plane. We have ideas, thinking, analysis, theories, plans of action, and the mental plane where they take place. Yet overseeing these three planes is the akashic plane. Akasha has been described in many texts such as the Heart Sutra from the Prajnaparamita, the Bhagavad Gita, and even the 90th Psalm. I know Zen masters who slip into akasha as easily as they tie their shoes. Some Tibetan Buddhists I know configure their magical circles to express an akashic state of trance. Think of conscience. Its warnings and promptings serve to protect and keep us focused on what is important. Conscience says in effect, “Experience life to whatever extent you can. Discover what makes you happy and gives you satisfaction. Find some things worth doing that are right for you and totally captivating. But also discover your deepest lessons and then take the time and make the effort to learn them.” Akasha is completely detached and it is also eidetic—perfect in empathy, you can relive any moment from the past as if it is happening right now. And if you can do this with the past, then future outcomes can also be imagined and experienced as if they are completely real. We have the ability to review in advance the consequences of our actions and the results of our decisions before they happen. With akasha, you learn to appreciate each moment of time as something unique and special. You see each moment as part of the fabric of everything that has occurred on earth. Akasha, then, is awareness penetrating through space and time. Beings who dwell here do not need a material body in order to exist. They do not need to use thoughts in order to think or to communicate. They do not need an astral body or the four elements on the astral plane in order to feel. They are highly intuitive and can, on their own initiative, interact freely with the mental, astral, or physical planes. Just as we have conscience through which akasha is active in guiding our lives, we can also access an akashic awareness overseeing all events on earth. As with the individual, akasha supervises, inspires, sets limits, insisting we maximize our ability to learn rather than being forced to make changes due to pain and suffering. Higher spirits in the Earthzone are all oriented toward making what they envision into something real. They take the spiritual world, wrapping it in form and matter, to produce works of enduring value that enrich life on earth. To align yourself with this akashic awareness, think in terms of changing yourself, your situation, the environment, or the world. This requires concentration, study, commitment, and acquiring experience and mastery in some area. If you work at something and employ a high learning curve, you master your area of speciality and then with ease you accomplish your objectives. A conversation with one of these spirits is like responding to certain questions: “Are you perfectly clear about what you want? Are you willing to do the work required to accomplish your objectives? Do you embody an absolute commitment, for we are ever vigilant and tirelessly? We take nothing for granted and so there is no end to our love when it comes to protecting, sheltering, nurturing, and perfecting life on earth.” You will know when you are connecting to akasha. You will feel total freedom and detachment and also profound compassion, caring, and commitment. You will feel you have all the power you need to accomplish whatever purpose you choose and also an immense gratitude for the love that flows through you to enrich others' lives. You will feel as if you have finally come home and yet also that each moment is new as if your nervous system has never felt these sensations running through it. Akasha is a love which embraces all of life and holds the universe within its heart. --- ###  A Biographical Note --- I am the son of five generations of men who had great faith in God. They practiced the most powerful work ethic on earth—the Protestant, Ethic—which is so successful because it declares that your personal faith connects you directly to God who will bless you in whatever path of life you take. The weakness is that they were total extroverts, completely lacking in self-reflection other than the specific morality defined by their religious community. In a way, this extroversion along with their blind attachment to the literal, written word, was necessary because, in their eyes, they had to overcome 1,500 years of an autocratic and corrupt Catholic Church. And so many of them were willing to put their lives at risk in order to pursue their truth. Strengths and weaknesses. Adept at business, they shut all gates to the subconscious and to nature's pathways. It seems that the keys to their inner, spiritual wealth—those treasure vaults filled with intuitive insights that accumulated for 500 years—those keys were handed to me. So I listen. Some are struck by lightning. I know such a person. The lightning came right through the window and hit her. But it was okay. She felt better afterwards. I was struck not by lightning but by silence. Good or bad in effect, it is still a shock to the nervous system. This was in part because I had no guidelines, no manual to follow. To perceive without thoughts intervening is the foundation of all magical traditions. As I was growing up, this is what my Protestant and university professors were incapable of comprehending. 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Two engineers from the firm of rocket manufacturers had had serious reservations about the craft taking off, believing that the fuel seals would lose their integrity in the prevailing low temperatures. One of the engineers, acting partly on instinct, tried in vain to have the flight stopped, but the management made a decision based on expediency that the flight should go ahead. The rest is, as they say, history. A perverse and ironic triumph, you might think, of reason over instinct. In his *Essay on the Puppet Theatre, *Heinrich von Kleist tells the story of a man who owned a performing bear. He had taught the bear to fence using a rapier, and claimed that this bear could outperform any human contestant. His friend found this hard to believe, and so they put the claim to the test, the friend engaging the bear in a fencing match. As predicted, the bear won. What particularly struck his friend was that the bear’s eyes never left his own ‘as if he could read my soul in them’. 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After all, we say that reason is useless ‘unless assisted by that Light which is from above’. ‘Homo Sapiens’, the knowing-man, but also the creature who can attain *divine *knowledge, knowledge above science, above reason. ‘Sapiens’ is good, but it is not good enough. Scientists define humans and chimpanzees as ‘sapient, sentient beings’ – scientist-speak for ‘knowing-feeling’. Two sides to our nature, you might say. Perhaps we should re-name ourselves ‘Homo Sapiens Sentiens’. In the space shuttle tragedy, all else having failed, the engineer told them that he had ‘a bad gut-feeling’ about the seals’ integrity. If an engineer begins a sentence with ‘I know’, he is listened to with respect, but if he begins with ‘I think’ or ‘I feel’ he never gets to complete the first sentence. ‘You can't get up and say “Hey, I've got a gut-feeling this thing's going to blow up”’ he said, ‘They'll take you to the funny farm.’ So, there we have it. We can afford to ignore much in life, but not our feelings. The problem is that in today’s world we have all too little chance to be in touch with them. But we must recognise that the effort is necessary. Feelings, instincts, can be our best defence against mistake or attack. They can indeed mean the difference between life and death. And they do incidentally come precious close to self-knowledge. *(First published April 2001)* --- To find out more about Julian Rees, please view his [author page](https://falconbookspublishing.com/julian-rees/), please view below publications by Julian: [wpbooklist_shortcode table="createanewlibraryherejulianreese"]     * * * * --- # An Excerpt from Mermaid Tales by William R. Mistele: Custodian of Mermaid Archives Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/excerpt-mermaid-tales-william-mistele-custodian-mermaid-archives/ ### Custodian of the Mermaid Archives ____________________________________________   When I touch her aura with my hand, these words pass through my mind:   *She is the sea.* *She dreams of what has been and what shall be* *The ocean trench, she knows those depths.* *Waves that roll a thousand miles,* *Look carefully, they are in her smile—* *The whitecaps, the foamy crests,* *The wave’s spray, the wind’s caress* *Waves and depths speak with the same breath—* *As the seas encircle the earth* *And to life give birth* *She is one with those she loves.* *Yet even among mermaids she is a mystery* *When she gazes upon another* *She becomes the other* *Every perception perceived,* *Every feeling, every thought and belief,* *The song that is a soul* *She captures whole.*   Imagine you are on a beach. It does not matter where--the Aegean Sea, the island of Crete, France, Spain, Iona in Scotland, São Paulo, the Solomon Islands, Hawaii, Japan, or China. Smell the salt in the air. Feel a gentle wind, drops of spray anointing your skin when the wave breaks, and bubbling white foam around your knees as the wave retreats. The sea reaches out across the horizon. Relax; let go. Feel the sounding sea flow through your soul. Imagine you can see the ocean floor, the reefs, the islands, and the fish. Sense the waves, the currents, and the moon’s pull driving the tides. Take the sensations in your five senses, the feeling of the open expanse and the sea’s depths, and allow them gently to unite into one vibration. Imagine that all the seas of the earth with their mysteries and awesome presence are like a relaxed exhalation, a soft breath, a warm touch, or a sweet kiss. Now we begin to feel the presence of this woman inside ourselves. It is accepting and satisfying, and the love has no end. And this is where our story begins. For the record, mermaids do not use words to communicate. Experience is transferred directly soul to soul and heart to heart. Even telepathy—mind-to-mind communication—is considered an inferior way of sharing. Memory for mermaids is also quite different. It is not an “I recall an experience in the past.” That is what we do: we use words, literature, histories, biographies, and audio and video recordings to capture and store perceptions of events that are now gone. When we read or play these things back, there are moments when we experience vicariously another’s experience as if it is our own; or indeed we may recall briefly something that once occurred to us as if it is happening again right now. But such moments are rare. Yet because of the nature of the water that encircles the earth and because water is always the same no matter the change, mermaids do not view events in terms of linear time. When mermaids experience something, it is forever alive. And so they do not recall a memory or record an event. Their method is different. One of the mysteries of mermaids is that they possess technologies that are beyond the knowledge of our science. Consider this. If you have known someone you loved who has died, for a mermaid that experience lives on forever. By going to a certain place and aligning herself to the vibration, a mermaid is able to recapture her own memories and also to relive what any other mermaid on earth has experienced in the history of the world. What is it like to specialize in the ecology of reefs where you play a part in nourishing and seeing life flourish over millions of years? What is it like to dwell in an ocean trench—to watch sulfur-based life-forms come into existence? What is it like to feel in your body a billion waves rolling to a thousand different winds? Or what was the first experience of a mermaid encountering a human being? What is it like to love a human? What were the best and worst of mermaid-human encounters? These histories and events are right there in the mermaid archives, wrapped in a stillness that is timeless and that will endure as long as this planet exists. And so one day in this very place beneath the sea the conversation went like this—though as I have said no words were used and no thoughts communicated. To be more accurate, it was a shared vibration, soul to soul and heart to heart, between the mermaid queens and one of their assistants: That our records might be complete regarding the deep purposes of the earth, a race will soon appear on land that shall quickly expand and encompass the planet. But far more quickly they will cease to be. And this without leaving any kind of living record of their journey. Their ruins as well shall decay as if they had never been. Though we do not see all ends, the signs are perfectly clear. Without divine intervention of some original and radical design, the self-destructive tendencies of this race will cause their demise. Therefore, we ask of you that you become as one of them. Master of experience, Custodian of our archives, your skills are equal to this task. Through your clairsentience and empathy, record what they experience here on earth. Let us make a living record of what it is like to be alive in their shape and form—what they felt, what motivated and inspired them, what instincts drove them. In this way, when other races appear on earth, they shall be able to come to us and find here the perfect eidetic and living experience of what it was like to be a human being. And the Custodian of the mermaid archives responds to this request, imagining it in its perfection once accomplished: These questions shall I answer: What it feels like as a human being to wake up in the morning and to go to sleep at night, to be hungry and also to taste with delight, to cry tears of joy and tears of sorrow, to be born—to take that first breath—to crawl, to walk, and with the aid of machines to fly. And without hope to lie down in the dust and die watching as the last breath goes by. What it is like to dream, to seek and to find, to build, to invent, to scheme, to create, to ascend with honor and fame and to fall again into despair and shame. What is the essence of a human being? What is it for them to be alive? What purposes do they fulfill and what hopes are denied? And above all else, what is love to them? Do they ever wonder to explore its depths? Do they ever once taste the love that holds this entire planet in its embrace? What inspiration comes to them? And when things are at their worst, what decisions do they make that shape their fate? Accepting what is said, the mermaid queens suggest that the Custodian be circumspect: But this will not be easy. Human beings are hostile and in fear of water. The feeling is alien to this species. Their hearts are like deserts, wastelands, and dry and dying forests. They are half dead; a strange species alienated from life preying upon and devouring each other’s life force and energy. You will have to go as a master of disguise. We have chosen you for this task because—even among this race with its dark cravings—you will be able to maintain your own soul vibration of love united to the waters of the earth. At the same time, you are capable of feeling all that they feel while cloaking yourself. When they look upon your form and personality you will appear familiar and understandable. When I interviewed this woman, she told me of a past life when she incarnated in Atlantis: In my first incarnation as a human being, I was a young girl in Atlantis. I served in a temple that was in the shape of a dome with an altar at the center. There were drums and dancing, and water was all around. I did not live long. We understood that Atlantis was coming to an end, that it was the end of an age. The change was inevitable, sad, and yet we were ready to face the future with great courage. Many of us felt detached. Though our lives were about to end, spiritually speaking, we were ready to pack up and move on. Here is my recollection from that time: Sitting here in the temple, the drumming is a combination of the rhythm of a heart beating, the surging pulse, and roar of waves breaking on a beach. I am very content in this body, yet I do not feel like a human being. Rather, I am the element of water in human form. I did not leave nature behind when I was born. Still, the drumming is rhythmic and hypnotic. The vibration the priestesses create perfectly captures what they wish to express—it is an amplification of the life force and vitality in everyone who is present-focused into and through a crystal ball that rests on the altar. In doing this, they create a radiant ball of light that is bronze and golden in color. This light fills the room. Its glow calms and renews the soul. Yet like a spontaneous appearance of ball lightning in front of you, this condensed power of vitality captures everyone’s attention so there is no distraction. It is mesmeric and overpowering. The crystal ball, like a reservoir or battery, stores power accumulated in the past and unites it to what is being generated in the present. The high priestess uses this combined, collective energy to heal, to command, and to transform. The purpose of this religious Order? 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And being a healer, I looked at my own knee that now felt her pain, and I made that pain go away. At that moment, her injury also vanished. She possessed similar abilities of healing and empathy. I could sense these within her. But in the beginning, helping others was not one of her priorities. It was not that she was selfish or encumbered by her ego. Rather, she was enchanted with the glamour of social status, and beyond that with the Mystery Schools that enable you to rise and enter the upper echelons of society to be among the elite who rule Atlantis. If we had had more years to live, this young girl I once played with would have become a woman of great power. When she pursued a purpose, she would have drawn together the conviction and energies of the inner planes and the plans and knowledge within the best minds she could find. In Atlantis, you do not just take on a project and then acquire resources to accomplish it. In Atlantis, magic combined with willpower becomes the means for shaping the future. Atlanteans bring immense energy from the inner planes and then blend it with science to accelerate the discovery of new technologies. And they can do this because they have produced a unique social order: they seek those with the most innate psychic abilities. These young children are then trained in problem-solving, leadership, and magical concentration. The goal is to develop a few to rule Atlantis who can see through the eyes of the divine and design for society those projects that produce the greatest benefits. As for the young girl next to me? Her innocence and sweetness are gone. Though I can record her experiences as if they are my own, I will never experience the kind of radical soul changes she has undergone. My astral body remains the same whether I am a child or an adult. In this sense, I am not like her or other human beings. Zania, however, has become strong in the ways of the temple. She is a powerful healer. She can take a burn victim or someone with acute depression and make them well. In place of the young girl is a priestess with access to a crystal ball, a great lineage, and a well-honed spiritual will. In this moment, as I slip my soul inside of hers, all that exists in my awareness is the temple, the ceremonial ritual vibrations, and one other thing—I sense a secret, nearly insatiable desire. This craving for something that as of yet has no definition I can find in nearly everyone who has been shaped by the magical training systems of Atlantis. It was not there in Zania as a young girl. It is a collective, unconscious will that has come into existence because their genius at social organization has not yet evolved to where they have discovered how to attain balance. What is missing from Atlantis, from their amazing social organization and astonishing technologies? It is not that difficult for me to see. If I gaze at Zania for a moment, I see it instantly. If Zania were to become the person she is meant to be—the one who is free and finally complete, having mastered all human needs—she would be like this: earth and sky would shine from her eyes; if she looked at a cloud, she would feel like she would want to dance as if she was the cloud swirling and whirling around and the wind was her soul within. If she walked in a forest, the trees would share with her their dreams. The turning of the seasons, the illumination of lights, and the silent song sounding in the depths of the earth—the trees would bestow this wisdom. And if she touched water, placing her hands beneath the surface, in that moment she would be as me and feel what I feel—she would be joined to all the seas of the earth. There is no transmission I can give her. There is no blessing I can bestow upon her so that the woman she will one day be manifested in the here and now. She is a human being, and it is not my assignment or commission to intervene. The karma of the individual is joined to the collective experiences of the entire race. They will have to discover on their own through bitter and horrible experiences that the harmony of the soul is something you should never put on hold. How many times in the future will their civilizations acquire knowledge without wisdom or gain power without love? My body is content as I sit here. The sound of the drums is exquisite. The incense is bewitching, satisfying, and gratifying. It is like nothing else exists. Yet I am also here as an observer—detached, recording as always the experiences of those I meet. Though I am in human form, I have visions of the future beyond what they can see. Yet I cannot weep. They shall make their own fate—time after time they shall rise and then be destroyed like waves breaking on the shore. Time is a sea and one day, if they fail to find an inner stillness to shape their destiny, they shall be swept away and be no more. A friend who knows me well wrote for me this poem:   *I am water* *I am what I was before* *I only change the outer form* *I am water* *My secret dreams, my innermost needs?* *I am wild and daring and craving—* *The essence of love that has no end.* * * *My secret name is desire set aflame:* *I ask you,* *Where does the sunburn so bright* *As when its passion unites with ice?* *The haunted soul with its abandoned love* *Frozen and cold?* *I go where others cannot* *I am the sparks that arc illuminating* *The secret chambers of the heart* *My songs are citrine, violet, vermillion, and lilac* *By what authority do I claim what is lost?* *Have you never seen me dancing naked?* *Dazzling his rays ravish me* *In the curves and crests* *Golden his caress finds me, binds me* *In a billion waves* *His ecstasy sets me free*   *I am water* *I am what I shall be* *I am the sea* *With its endless dream* *Of being one and of being free* * * --- #### To find out more about William R. Mistele please view his author page to purchase this title or any other of his books please click on the links below: [wpbooklist_shortcode table="wmbooks"]       --- # An Interpretation of the Emerald Tablet by Tanya Robinson Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/interpretation-emerald-tablet-tanya-robinson/ --- Over the centuries there have been many attempts to decipher this text and philosophers, alchemists and magicians have mused over applied and these principals universally to understand and the world around them to great effect.  One such example, physician, alchemist, and astrologer of the German Renaissance, Paracelsus, who applied the hermetical principle of 'As above so below*'*, the analogy that the universe's macrocosm was represented in every person as a microcosm. in order to heal and maintain harmony within the body. It is said, these tablets descended to earth from a meteorite on an emerald tablet. However, the true origins of this text are unknown.  The author of these arcane writings, Hermes Trismegistus himself is said to have been attributed to the Egyptian God Thoth and to The Greek God Hermes. In Renaissance Europe, there was a strong belief that he existed adding power and weight to the influence of these hermetic texts.  I am not going to delve into the history of the Emerald Tablet in this discourse since it has been covered by other researchers in great depth.  I have provided links at the end of this commentary for those wishing to gain a deeper understanding of the origins of the Emerald Tablet, Hermes and Hermetic philosophy. --- If we look at this text from the approach suggested in* The Emerald Tablet* by Martin Faulks, we are able see these include not only instructions guiding the spiritual seeker on his journey but also an attribution of the process of spiritual evolution its self in action. We are able to see a thread weaving through of gentle guidance, at first remote but increasingly directed towards the spiritual seeker as we move through the axioms progressing towards the attainment of the goal -  enlightenment. In this commentary, I  have made some comparisons of these stages that could be likened to the practices which are laid out in Franz Bardon's three books. I hope to offer inspiration to those practicing this noble art. - ** ‘True without falsehood certain, most true.’** - **‘That which is above is like that which is below, that which is below is like that which is above. Know this to make the miracle of the one thing.’** - **‘As all things were made from the meditation of one mind, so all things are born of one thing.’** - ** ‘It is the creator of all works of wonder in the world.’** - ** ‘Its father is the sun its mother is the moon.** - ** The wind carries it, in its womb, the earth is its nursemaid.’** - **‘Separate thou from the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross, with great effort and industriousness, success would be assured.’** - ***‘With great wisdom, it ascends from earth to heaven and again it descends to earth and takes back the power from above and from the below.’*** - *** ‘Thus you will receive the glory of the distinctiveness of the world. All obscurity will flee from you.*** - ***'This is the whole most strong strength of all strength, for it overcomes all subtle things, and penetrates all solid things.'*** - ***'Thus was the world created.'*** - ***'From this comes marvellous adaptations of which this is the procedure.'*** - *'**Therefore I am called Hermes Thrice-Crowned because I have three parts of the wisdom of the whole world.'*** - ***'And complete is what I had to say about the work of the Sun.'***   --- ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/asia-3051646_1920.jpg) --- > 1. *True without falsehood certain, most true.* --- This phrase is demonstrating a knowing and understanding on all levels, the manifestation of something that is concrete there is no room for ambiguity it states with sanguine authority. It represents the physical manifestation of matter. If we look at this from a philosophical perspective, we can observe this understanding in our own lives. We know something to be of “Truth” as there is a certain resonance to it, of purity and clarity and there is no room for question. It rings out like a clear bell into the universe. When we hear words spoken of this nature we instantly know that these things are correct since they resonate and connect to something within us and are in harmony with the Divine laws. In relation to the spiritual path, it is gaining the awareness to differentiate between what is is “false” and what  is “true.” The practitioner learns to separate his own prejudices, doctrines or beliefs that are not in resonance with the Divine laws. He knows this since what is true will create a harmonious and life-giving resonance. Let us view this process through the analogy of an artist. When he first learns to draw a portrait, in the beginning, the artist is unable to see the subtle shades, tones and contours so well, his drawing is inaccurate and out of proportion. He will need to seek guidance from his teacher in order to correct his mistakes and to show him his errors. Over time with dedication and practice, he continually improves to a point where one day he will draw an object say, an eye on a face. He will know it is in the correct place and at the right size, there is no need to second-guess his decision. Once he has reached that level of understanding he has embodied this knowledge and will be able to repeat the process with ease. This principle can also be applied in daily life when we listen to the world around us, we begin to discern the truth in what others say, we know if someone is trying to dupe us. In nature, we learn to observe these principals in action we become an observer clear in thought and action. The practitioner becomes aware, he sees manifest this understanding on all levels. Although this is the first aphorism, it is by no means an elementary exercise in understanding or achievement. It may take many years for the practitioner to come to this level of realisation within himself. It is the unfolding and letting go of old beliefs, childhood programming, societies values and the reshaping of the subconscious mind. It is the beginning of understanding the Divine mind within himself. At this stage, the practitioner has developed his mind and has control over it. No longer is he swayed by fanciful thoughts or emotions he becomes the observer of them and is able to sit in silence free from the hindrances of the mind. But of course, it is greater than that. It is the attunement of Divine thought which often manifests in the form of inspiration. Once he is able to discern the Divine mind from the personality mind, he enters into a freedom, the vast ocean of oneness where he is able to perceive truth and the universal laws and is not bound by or limited by his own mind or past experiences. He hears the truth of the Divine mind clearly and adheres to it since it brings him great joy and harmony to know this way.   --- ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/beach-340448_1920.jpg) --- > *2. That which is above is like that which is below, that which is below is like that which is above. Know this to make the miracle of the one thing.* --- This is a well-known phrase Hermeticists love to use and perhaps the most popular and straightforward of the axioms. It refers to the microcosm and macrocosm, being a reflection of each other. One of the best ways to demonstrate this is when we look at the body.  It is like a fractal, we can view the body as a whole but also we can also view an individual part and still the whole is contained within it. For example, if we observe a foot it can still be seen as a fractal of the whole body as it is still contained within it, as shown in a discipline of reflexology. In reflexology the body is mapped out on the feet, by massaging them we in-turn affect the organs relating to that area of the body on the foot We see the analogy of microcosm and macrocosm further expressed by Paracelsus: ***"That is what philosophy is: [things] are in the human being in the same way that they are outside, intangibly, as if one were looking at oneself in a mirror......"*** He further  affirms the theory of microcosm and macrocosm using the parent-child analogy: ***".......it is a wisdom given by the parentes microcosmi **[in order for them] to recognize the microcosmus as their **son........."*** Also if we look more on a cosmic level we can observe the atom is likened to planets in their movements and image. There are many examples of this principle in place within nature which man has gained understanding and utilised for his own ends especially in science and it is the fundamental process of alchemy. If we look at AI. (Artificial Intelligence) we use can the same principals as the Divine mind to create robots. This principle is very important in terms of understanding how the universe works or how to create things that will work on the physical plane in terms of manufacturing and design as we have seen this the architecture of the Egyptians, something they understood very well. We can also use this principal as a litmus test against ideas or theories if they do not match up to the universal laws or understanding then we know that they are most probably incorrect. Even metaphysical theories can be tested against with this principal. If we look at geometry, its presence is all around us in the natural world.  It is the formation behind all matter and is ever present in its fractal form. We have only to look at plants or flowers to know this.  Equally fascinating is the importance of numerology, it does not only have symbolic significance as is understood in occultism but also of a very practical one as well. Each number has a very specific resonance, it forms a sound, a shape, this language is universal in its conveyance,  As we move towards Evocation we learn to use these symbols to great effect e.g the circle and triangle to communicate the Divine laws to those beings, they are not only used for protection. From the view of the spiritual seeker, as he develops, he will naturally attune himself towards the spiritual laws which then work within him. As this occurs, he will notice the increased harmony and blessings increase in his life. As his mind becomes clear and reflects the heavens within himself, like the lake at midnight that reflects the moon in its glory, so the heavens come down to meet the practitioner through his dedicated practice.  The process of these two actions continually support and uplift each other.  This perpetuates the cycle of evolution of the soul. One cannot be in existence without the other. As this process continues they become one, greater than the sum of their parts. Thus the star that shines in the bright clear night sky is a beautiful reflection of the practitioner's true nature.  For the practitioner, these outward manifestations are evidence of the divine work within him.  He shines forth like the sun in the Divine entity as we know him to be, the sun shines down on him radiating its love and beauty offering life to this dimension and of course is a constant reminder to him on his journey towards the sun. ***‘To make this the miracle of the one thing,**’ *is a very beautiful and profound statement – It is informing us to know these keys - you too will have the creative power of a God and not only that you will be in complete harmony with the divine plan. So, at this stage, we understand the practitioner has gained knowledge of this understanding and applies this principal in daily life to great effect.  He has the power to create his own reality. --- ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/wave-64170_1920.jpg) --- > *3. **As all things were made from the meditation of one mind, so all things are born of one thing.* --- This aphorism is indeed speaking of the Divine within all things. It is a beautiful reminder that nothing is separate from the Divine creator All is created by the Divine mind.  So nothing is outside of this. Along our path we may face considerable amount of challenges and sometimes we may feel separate or feel outside of  Divine presence, but this poignant axiom can bring us back into remembrance of the Divine truth, whatever we may experience it does not go unnoticed and it is All within and **‘*born of the one thing*.’** When we go through suffering we are not alone the Divine also suffers. When we celebrate, the one mind also experiences this. We have only to enter into silence to experience this oneness. From the viewpoint of the practitioner this becomes evident, we can liken this to Franz Bardon’s practice of the void meditation whereby the practitioner will experience the one mind. We can call this realm *the akasha*, it is the realm before all created things are made manifest, through the silent mind. As any magician will know, it is where we create in order to make manifest here. Thus the meaning** ‘.....*so all things are born of the one thing’ * **All becomes accessible to us, It is also the place where we receive divine inspiration. We can witness throughout history, the arcane mysteries and great advancements have been given to mankind to progress and utilise through the meditation upon the one mind. From my interpretation, when we understand this in our heart we know that to love another loves the divine and to harm another is to harm the divine. Moreover, since all of the one mind, in reality, it is ourselves that we are loving or harming depending on our actions and intentions because there is no separation. When we send out love we connect to all beings throughout the universe our beam of light connects joins with the one mind and can be felt throughout the universe. --- ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/rainbow-1909_1920.jpg) --- > 4. *It is the creator of all works of wonder in the world.* --- This sentence to me is perfect and beautiful. Again reiterating the Divine is the creator of the ALL.  All that we see is in its glory. But also it is a reminder for us to enjoy the wonders of the world that are all around us in daily life. It is when we engage fully we are able to experience its magic. When we go into nature we are able to see the creator at work. His glory is in the sun, the mystery in the moon, his power in waves and thunderstorms. The divine workings in the stars. His nurturing and healing aspects in the plants and animals. From the view of the practitioner, we learn to read from the book of nature and see the creator in action on this plane and on others. In daily life, he speaks to us in many ways, through the words of a friend, or the kindness of a stranger, the loving embrace of a husband or wife. Through the sun and rain that gives life to all things. It is in the small things where miracles occur. It is when we embrace the oneness of the ALL that it naturally reflects in our lives. --- * ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/equinox-2194645_1920.jpg)* --- > *5. Its father is the sun its mother is the moon. * > *6. The wind carries it, in its womb, the earth is its nursemaid.* --- This expression has been reiterated throughout time in various ancient texts and it reminds me of the creation model, of the two primary principals of creation represented through the masculine and feminine. I.e. Yin/Yang, Osiris and Isis. In hermetical terms, they also represent the electric and magnetic forces, from which other forces are generated. In this case, this text is describing the 4 elements - Father-sun being fire, Mother- moon being the water element. The wind- air and lastly, earth as stated.  This text describes the underlying material of all things within the physical universe. ***"The wind carries it, in its womb,........"** *This could also be interpreted as the mental sphere perhaps being thoughts that are incubated and carried, then are nurtured and made manifest by the earth aspect of the material plane. The process of an ideation into a manifestation of an action. Another beautiful yet simple statement **‘…...*the earth is its nursemaid*’**.  To me, this represents the nurturing aspect of nature of not just the qualities of the earth element but also the physical earth. Nature herself embodies all of the elements and skillfully keeps them in perfect balance. When we spend time in nature we can experience this harmony and peace around us. We can observe her unconditional love, ever-giving nature as she embraces us with arms wide open always ready to receive us. When we learn from the living book of nature she begins to reveal her secrets to us and shows in her eloquent and gentle way how we can be also like her. When we spend time in nature, her gentle influence has a harmonizing effect upon our own elemental makeup naturally bringing back the elements into balance within ourselves. She is also an incredible healer, in her abundance,  her nurturing and loving kindness is a testimony to this. When we listen to her and befriend her she responds and graces us ever more in her presence. She will speak to us through symbolism offering us a greater insight into her world. From a practitioners perspective, we learn to observe the elements within our personality and through this analysis of the soul mirrors we begin to harmonize those elements that are exerting a force and bring them back into balance again. In time we develop the skill of elemental equipoise. (To view soul mirror articles please view links at the end of article). As nature constantly adjusts to accommodate the changing forces of the elements so do we as practitioners do the same. We can also learn from these wonderful qualities the hidden gifts that lie within them. If we observe the sun we can view its divinity and the blessings it offers to us daily, it is also a reminder of the Divinity within ourselves as our goal to shine brightly as the sun, to shine our love upon the world. Also understanding the quality and quantity of the elements we are able to observe them on other planes. 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We can see images of this process echoed in many hermetic images. > ***‘….with great effort and industriousness, success would be assured.’*** The practitioner first develops a regular practice of meditation, then he begins to work on his vices chipping away at old patterns and beliefs that do not serve him. He works on all levels, physically, mentally and astrally. Not a day goes by where he is not conscious and continuing to work on this process. Then as he develops his will and power of concentration his burning desire in his heart to ascend and join with the divine. He then begins to experience the purification process. His mind becomes clear, his heart pure, his concentration more focused than a bird of prey. He creates good intentions and manifests goodness wherever he goes. After many years of arduous practice…... His consciousness begins to condense within the base of the spine, he begins to feel the pressure of this force beginning to rise. He begins to feel renewed an energy of pure awareness awakens in him. As it rises through the chakras it purifies an increasingly his energy increases. He begins to see and feel and sense like he has never done before. As if he were living in a slumber before. He has visions, his heart bursts open, he hears for the first the glory of the heavens. The magic of the dawn of each day as the chorus of angels sing in celebration of the rising the Divine sun. He is almost overwhelmed by its beauty and majesty. He asks himself, “how could I have been so in such a slumber?” His world is transformed, everywhere he looks he is able to witness the Divine plan at work. He now has a greater understanding of his place in this physical world, no longer does he feel separate. He is now united and the beginning of living as his real/divine nature is becoming manifest. A beautiful moment for all to witness. --- * ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/340493-2294200_attachment.jpg)* --- > *8. **With great wisdom, it ascends from earth to heaven and again it descends to earth and takes back the power from above and from the below.* --- As this forward motion continues onward, he further attunes himself to the heavens and becomes a conduit. He in is total oneness. We witness this in the *Book of Enoch* when he was taken up to the Heavens and all was revealed to him. The practitioner brings forth knowledge and power from the Heavens.  In turn, he increases himself and expands thus sending back up to the heavens, greater than the sum of its parts. Thus demonstrating the ever-increasing cycle and power of the universe in action. --- *![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/12799404_1043554275717945_8090451699537671082_n.jpg)* --- > *9. Thus you will receive the glory of the distinctiveness of the world. 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He has become the Aeon. The practitioner has overcome the limitations of this world, he has moved beyond them. He has mastered himself  "…***.**for it overcomes all subtle things…"** ***My interpretation of this is that he has mastered the unseen forces of the mind and has fully transformed his consciousness to that of the Divine will, and in doing so mastered the workings of the material plane. ***‘This is the whole most strong strength of all strength,’*** to me suggests a uniting of the Divine the practitioner becomes one and is complete. He is no longer divided within himself he is whole all aspects within himself are harmonised and aligned to the Divine will by doing this he gains the power of the whole. Such is so he has the ability and freedom to move in and out of dimensions to travel to the spheres and beyond. He can soar like a phoenix through the universe. In *The Book of Enoch*, we are witness to this state.  Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) demonstrated this level of attainment by making an imprint of his hand into to a rock (view image below). Thus demonstrating the power of all things within the physical realm. Such abilities include to materialise and dematerialise at will, bilocate, to split the bodies up and be in two places at the same time.     --- ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/spiral-2401967_1920.jpg) --- > *11.  Thus was the world created.* --- In this statement,  the author is referring to the completion of the process that occurs not only in our own development but also explaining the mechanism of the universe in motion. It is the underlying mechanism behind all created things. I also believe he is offering us a key, we also become Divine creators, Gods. We have the power to create worlds, beings universes. The expression of the divine is infinite in its existence ever expanding and growing.   --- ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/william-mistele-cover-2.png) --- > *12.  From this comes marvellous adaptations of which this is the procedure.* --- This text is not so clear in its delivery, I believe this is referring to the execution of using these principals. So we are able to use these forces and alter them according to our will. This what is meant for us to do. It is speaking about the use of magic. We develop the skills to have dominion over all things, the practitioner is no longer subject to the physical laws laid down he now is able to shape and manipulate them according to his will.   --- ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/d764ca9feef8f03d0510dea968f055f0.jpg) --- > *13. Therefore I am called Hermes Thrice-Crowned because I have three parts of the wisdom of the whole world.* --- Hermes Trismegistus, in which was within contained the knowledge of three parts of the wisdom of the Universe, including Alchemy, Astrology and Theurgy. There is no need to go any further into this phrase since Martin Faulks has covered this in detail in his title, *The Emerald Tablet*. I believe this sentence is giving authority to the authorship of these writings and perhaps reassurance to the practitioner that this information is** ‘*True without falsehood certain, most true.’*** From the practitioner's perspective, we also see the analogy of the trinity repeated in many different traditions - the mind, body and spirit. The author is stating his completion of all these aspects from a theurgic point of view.   --- ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/the-masters-1.png) --- > *14.  And complete is what I had to say about the work of the Sun.* --- In just about every religious/esoteric tradition, the sun has been an important symbol of Divinity and perfection. It is the symbol of rebirth, life-giving, glory, radiance and synonymous with the supreme being. This final aphorism states clearly the purpose of this work and its intention from the beginning to completion. Not only does is it offer a confirmation to the reader of this fact, but also refers to the author’s own journey to perfection. We get the sense he is speaking from his own experience of going through this process. There is a confidence within the text a sense of permanence, an energy and life to it. Those who tune into it will receive the wisdom from this text as those in the past who have meditated upon these words. I get the sense perhaps the author is with us as we read. 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Each sephirah’s chapter contains several exercises for understanding the mysteries and lessons pertaining to that sephirah. The first two exercises for Malkuth are as follows: - Carefully observe your routines and seize opportunities as they occur to improve on what you are doing. - Turn your life into a story worth telling. These are genuinely magical exercises and are interwoven with the work of IIH. Therefore, I want to discuss them a bit. When I contemplate the first exercise, I am reminded of alchemy. Just as an alchemist continually refines a metal to improve it, you continually refine the way you do anything, whether it is conversing with others, cooking, driving, playing with your kids, or eating. By constantly refining the way you do these things, you improve the way you do these things until you can do them almost perfectly. Another thing I am reminded of is a quote by Paul Foster Case from a book he wrote that discusses using magical techniques to improve yourself, improve your life, and achieve your goals. The quote is as follows. > *Don’t waste a moment’s time trying to think up some high and lofty objective, far ahead in life. Life is not lived by years. It is an affair of days, hour **—**minutes even. Today’s activities determine the fulfillment of tomorrow’s ideals.* I think the spirit of this quote aligns well with the spirit of the two Malkuth exercises given by Bill. With the first exercise, you’re not trying to become an adept, or become enlightened, or accomplish some other high and lofty objective. You’re just trying to improve the way you do the things you do in your ordinary day to day life. This really is an affair of minutes. You might cook for a few minutes, or drive for a few minutes, or converse with someone for a few minutes. A lot of the time, it is actually an affair of seconds. Washing your hands doesn’t take several minutes. Yet, a magician can always improve the way he washes his hands by becoming better and better at using the magnetic fluid in the water to absorb away his negative traits and carry them down the drain. For the student of magic, the ideal of tomorrow is to be a person than he is today. Whether this ideal comes to pass tomorrow is, as Case says, entirely dependent on the activities he does today. It’s not dependent on any one particular activity. Every activity you do today determines whether you will be a better person tomorrow. For this reason, at any moment in time, it’s important to be focused on whatever you are doing so you can consciously strive to do your best and take mental notes on what you can do to improve. For example, let’s say you are practicing a kata. If you aren’t present-minded, your movements will be sloppy. Practicing the kata in a sloppy manner may make you worse, rather than better. If you practice the kata while present-minded, then you consciously strive to do the best that you can do. In this way, you will truly improve. This also gives you the opportunity to make mental notes about other things you can do to improve. For example, you might notice that you are not good at remaining in zenkutsu dachi. With this knowledge, you might decide to do some stance training later. However, if you are absent-minded instead of present-minded when you practice the kata, you will not notice these things. In summary, in order to improve the way you do something —cooking, karate, conversing, flirting, etc—you need to try your best while doing it. In order to try your best, you have to be focused. This is why present-mindedness is so important, and why I devote a whole chapter to the subject of present-mindedness later in this book. Besides the importance of present-mindedness, another thing I notice is that in order to improve the way you do things, it is often necessary to transform your personality in some way. For example, let’s say you are a college student who is bad at taking exams. You will probably do better if you develop the quality of intelligence while eliminating the quality of stupidity from yourself. This can be done with the six-pronged attack, which I discuss in great detail in my second book. Yet another thing I notice is that journaling can be a powerful asset to this exercise for some people, including myself. For journaling to be helpful, it needs to be approached in the right way. What the right way is will be different for different people. I like to spend an hour once a week writing in my journal. I document the all the things I like about the way I lived during the previous week, as well as all the ways I am disappointed in how I lived during the previous week. I might note down, for example, that I did a good job staying present-minded, but wasted a lot more time on social media than I wish I had. I’ll also write down plans and suggestions for the upcoming week so that it will be better than the previous week in regards to the way I live and use my time. The insights I gain from journaling like this go a long way in helping me improve the way I do the things I do. Having discussed the first Malkuth exercise Bill gives, let’s discuss the second one. I find this exercise particularly interesting. Crowley theorized that the wand, sword, cup, and pentacle of the magicians evolved from the stylus, ink holder, sharpening blade, and paperweight of the first scribes. Just as a scribe uses those instruments to write a story, the magician uses those same tools to write out his destiny. The wand represents the airy aspect of a magician once it has been refined and developed. In other words, to possess a magical wand means that you have acquired positive airy traits like intelligence and open-mindedness, and eliminated from yourself all negative airy traits like absent-mindedness and shyness. Similarly, the sword, cup, and pentacle represent the fiery, water, and earthy aspects of the magician once they have been refined and developed. There are several ways of attributing the four elements to the sephiroth of the Tree of Life. One popular way is to attribute air to Tiphereth, fire to Geburah, water to Chesed, and earth to Malkuth. Another possible way is to place all four elements in Malkuth. This method is probably the most relevant method for Bardonists who use Qabalah as a tool in their training. Malkuth in the macrocosm is the Earthzone, and the four elemental regions where the sylphs, salamanders, undines, and gnomes dwell are all contained within the Earthzone. 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Make every effort not to get bogged down.* According to Bill, the two exercises he gives are specifically designed to help you do just that—not get bogged down in life. Your magical training is an aspect of your life and should be well-integrated with the other aspects of your life. Thus, we might consider not getting bogged down in your magical training to be a part of not getting bogged down in life. I want to discuss this part of the practice a bit. Many people get bogged down in their training. You see this in instances where people spend several years on Step 1. There are multiple things these people can get bogged down in. A lot of them get bogged down in their immaturity. Again, the way Bardon wrote IIH makes it seem like magical training is just about mastering exercise after exercise. Although I’ve stated several times already that this is not the case, numerous people continue to believe it is. Since they are unaware that one’s maturity affects one’s rate of magical advancement, they never realize they are bogged down in their immaturity. They believe that the solution to their problem is to practice the exercises of IIH for several hours a day. This a really bad idea, and often leads to what is known as “magical burnout.” If you are bogged down in your own immaturity, the best solution to your dilemma is to work strategically and persistently towards becoming more mature. This will remove the invisible walls you are butting your head against when you practice magical exercises and find yourself unable to advance, despite putting many hours into practicing those exercises. Bill also includes a section on “well-being” in the Malkuth chapter. I think it’s important to discuss well-being in regards to magical training; in particular Step 1, because well-being is exactly what many beginning Bardonists don’t feel. Instead, they feel uncertain about whether they have what it takes to complete their training. They feel anxious about finding time each day to practice. They feel despair because the magical path seems so difficult. They feel worried about how they can juggle their magical training with their other interests and activities. This mixture of negative feelings isn’t great. Until you’ve developed a sense of well-being, you won’t make any significant progress in your training. The reason is that in order to make lasting progress, your magical training needs to be well-integrated into your life and in harmony with all other parts of your life. If this is the case, your magical training should not have a negative impact on your sense of well-being. Rather, it should enhance your sense of well-being because there are many positive benefits to be gained from magical training, assuming it is approached in the right way. Bill also writes the following about gnomes in the Malkuth chapter. > *Gnomes are those beings who are most at home in the physical world. They consider matter itself to be spiritual and they are continuously seeking to shape and to transform it, raising its vibration and adding soul and mind to its nature. Gnomes possess a quiet ecstasy. Whatever they are working at, they are doing it with all of their heart. For gnomes, a unit of time is measured in terms of when they began and then completed a project. Time is defined from within.* In magical training, you work to develop all four elements within yourself. Thus, you possess the positive traits of a gnome, a sylph, an undine, and a salamander. It is developing the gnome part of yourself and learning to approach your tasks like a gnome that I want to discuss now. Gnomes continually work to refine and transform matter. When you have completed your magical training, you are a different person than before. You have an elemental equilibrium. You possess certain magical skills and abilities. You have become noble and righteous. In the same way that a gnome refines and transforms matter, you have refined and transformed yourself. Some people think that a “fiery” approach to working through IIH is the best. Through willpower, you blast through all obstacles in your path. Other people think that an “airy” approach to working through IIH is the best. Through intelligent reasoning and logic, you come up with an excellent plan to overcome any obstacle and then put that plan into action. Other people think a “watery” approach to working through IIH is the best. Any time you come across an obstacle preventing you from advancing, you find a way to adapt and flow around the obstacle. In truth, the ideal approach to IIH has the nature of all four elements. I feel that the earth/gnome aspect of most people’s approach to working through IIH is the weakest, and this is why their progress is slow. Consider, for example, that patience is a virtue of the earth element. Many people impatiently try to rush through IIH as fast as they can. Gnomes don’t rush through their work. They work steadily and persistently at the pace most comfortable with them. Since “time is defined from within,” they feel to need to hurry. Try to approach all aspects of your magical training more like a gnome and see what happens. Refine your ability to practice conscious breathing, conscious eating, and magical washing the way a gnome refines matter. Refine your ability to concentrate, accumulate energy, and exteriorize your subtle bodies the way a gnome refines matter. Refine your ability to see, hear, and feel astra-mental phenomena the way a gnome refines matter. Refine yourself the way a gnome refines matter. Document what happens when you do this. You will be surprised at what the patience and thoroughness of a gnome can help you accomplish. --- #### To find out more about Virgil please view his author page where you can read excerpts and an interview with him. #### To view and purchase Covert Side of Initiation or any of Virgil's other titles please follow the links below: [wpbooklist_shortcode table="virgilpublications"]   ---   --- # Falcon Books Interview with Nenad Djordjevic–Talerman Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/falcon-books-interview-nenad-djordjevic-talerman/ FALCON BOOKS INTERVIEWS EXPLORING ENLIGHTENED LIVING THROUGH HERMETIC MEDITATION AND BEYOND With **Nenad DjordjevicTelerman** *Copyright of Falcon Books Publishing Ltd. All rights Reserved, (2018).* --- Falcon Books is presenting a series of interviews with seasoned Hermetic practitioners to offer not only their wisdom, knowledge and understanding, and an insight into their own journey, but also to offer inspiration to those on this path. The focus of these discussions are guided towards the spiritual seeker. Presenting today and interview with Nenad DjordjevicTelerman. Nenad is an Honorary Vice President of the Royal Asiatic Society China in Shanghai. He lives in Shanghai where he is a freelance researcher, writer, tutor and musician. He had his first magical experiences as a child and he regards himself as Bardon’s student. He studied history in Stockholm and Belgrade and earned a master’s degree in 1994. After working as a historian at the Yugoslavian archives, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1997. His diplomatic postings took him to Pyongyang in 2000, Beijing from 2002 to 2006, and Shanghai 2006 to 2010. He is the published author of the* Old Shanghai Clubs and Association and** Sapajou: The Collected Works of a Cartoonist*. His next publication,* 360 Heads of the Earth Zone: The First Step to Divine Providence*.(Falcon Books Publishing). The majority of Falcon Books interviews are focused on the practice of *Initiation into Hermetics* by Franz Bardon, however, today we will be to exploring more Bardon’s second title, * The Practice of Magical  Evocation*. A cordial welcome to Nanad and thank you for taking the time to answer these questions. --- - **Falcon Books: I wonder if you could share aspects of your magical background and how your experiences as a child shaped your path?** **Nenad Djordjevic Telerman:** When I was a very small child, I remember how my guardian angel told me that I would not be able to see him anymore, and when I started to cry, he told me that he would always be around me and that I would be able to see him once again but much later in my life. When I was about four years old, I had a dream about fairies and gnomes, and when I woke up, they somehow transferred directly from my dreamworld into the physical reality, so for a few minutes, I saw them dancing in my room in their physical forms. About the same age I was entirely shocked to realise that we all were going to die, and maybe my first spiritual quest started as an attempt to understand if there really was a life after death. I had a very nice childhood. I lived next to the oldest and most beautiful park in Belgrade, my hometown. I spent most of my time there playing with friends, climbing trees and exploring ancient ruins and walls. We had our own magical trees which we adored. I strongly felt at that time that some secret paths did connect our world with other realities and that we could find actual portals hidden somewhere in the park. Those ideas were spontaneous. We had not heard about such things from anybody else nor read about similar things in any book. We were maybe 7 or 8 years old. Later I understood that we had been actually worshipping nature and performing some kind of magic there as kids without knowing it or consciously wanted it. **2. Were there any other influences in your life outside of Bardon’s work that helped to guide you along your spiritual path?** **Nenad Djordjevic Talerman: **The most influences have come from my family members - parents, sister, wife, sons; and closest relatives and friends. In my primary school, I was happy to have a very interesting biology teacher (whose family name happened to be the same as mine) whose lectures about biology were actually fascinating stories about the universe, lost civilisations, secrets of nature and all kinds of mysteries and magic. When I was 14 years old I happened to buy a book about astral projection. It was in 1984. Such books were rare at that time. I was shocked to realise that astral projection was a real possibility for some people. There were a lot of instructions in that book about how to achieve astral projection and for two years I was practicing very stubbornly almost every night and finally achieved my first conscious astral projection when I was 17. This book was surely one of the most influential in my life. Regrettably, I lost it. I even forgot the name of the author and the title. I have been trying to find this book on the internet, but up to now to no avail. In next 10 years after my first conscious astral projection, I had a lot of out of body experiences and saw a lot of spirits and different planes of existence. The problem was that I was very confused about those regions which I was visiting. I was not sure what they were about and had a little understanding of their nature and inhabitants. Different spiritual guides helped me a lot to gain some better understanding of it, but I was also very lucky to find my human teacher - Tom deLiso, whose instructions and words of wisdom were very precious to me. He did his best to encourage my exploration of the *Tree of Life* and *30 aethyrs* of Enochian magic. Thanks to Tom deLiso and his instructions I managed to visit all sephirot in the Tree of Life where I was also blessed to meet archangels Sandalphon, Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael, Metatron and some other great teachers and masters. **3. Falcon Books: When did you discover Franz Bardon’s writings and how did this change your practice? ** **Nenad DjordjevicTalerman: **I do not exactly recall the date, but I guess it was around 2002, when I came to live in China, about the same time when I was taking a more serious interest in tarot,* yi jing*, teachings of old Christian gnostic schools and tantra. Some of my favourite authors from that time were also [Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov](https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awr9ImiE36lazJcAwZVXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTExa2MyY3N1BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDVUlDMV8xBHNlYwNzcg--/RV=2/RE=1521111044/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fOmraam_Mikha%25C3%25ABl_A%25C3%25AFvanhov/RK=2/RS=GjQUyrYLFRqxRFsS8AYIJGd7y_c-), a great Christian mystic and gnostic and Robert Svoboda, who wrote a fascinating trilogy about aghori and the life and teaching of his teacher Vimalananda. I started reading Corpus Hermeticum and got fascinated about hermetic tradition too. My studies of hermeticism, lead me finally to Franz Bardon. I was at once attracted to him a lot. I found it amazing how vast and detailed his knowledge was. I found his books very intelligently and spiritually written. I liked his personality too. Beyond all, he was a very good man. I think that mostly due to his influences, as good as all Bardonian magicians I came in contact with are really good people too. I had achieved my first conscious astral projection some 15 years before I discovered Bardon’s books, but Franz Bardon changed my practices in many different ways. First of all, Franz Bardon’s second book changed my perspective about evocations. I realised that even if I made progress in my out of body experiences, I had absolutely no idea how to make an evocation. I might have seen some different realities in my out of body experiences, but I was never able to consciously evoke spirits into our world’s reality. Thanks to Bardon, I have become interested in ceremonial magic. In one field, such as OBE, I felt advanced, but in other fields, such as evocation, I felt like a neophyte. **4. Falcon Books: Franz Bardon states, ** *"To reach this maturity a certain pre-training is absolutely necessary. The reader will, therefore, find it natural that he must be fully conversant with the first tarot-card, at least up to Step 8, if he wants to have further positive success in his practice of higher magic."* -The Magical Practice of Evocation **How important do you feel this statements is?** **Nenad Djordjevic Telerman: **Step 8 is about separation of mental body from astral body, mental travelling throughout the universe, controlling the elements, influencing from the elements, preparation of fluid condensors and preparation of magical mirror. The magician who is able to achieve all of those things is undoubtedly very advanced. All previous 7 steps have helped the magician come up to that level, often after a long and hard work. But once you get to that point, you will then also have it much easier to evoke and communicate with spirits and travel wherever you want around the universe. When you astral or mental travel to different realities, you are a guest, but when you evoke to our physical reality, spirits are your guests. Step 8 helps you become a better host and guest. The magician who is about to master step 8 is also about to master both evocations and out of body experience (including astral and mental projection). The communication with spirits will be much easier from that point on, which all is much more explained in Bardon’s second book about magical evocations. I often practiced according to Bardon’s instructions. And once you master one step, it does not mean you would never come back to it again. I always come back to Bardon’s steps, especially to the step 1. Nevertheless, before I discovered Bardon, I had been lucky to master astral and mental projections by my own efforts and later with the help of Tom deLiso. My point is that the magician can also come to the step 8, by following some other teachings and traditions. You do not necessarily need to follow Bardon to reach Bardon’s level of step 8. There are many different ways to come to the level 8. Franz Bardon gave only one example, but it is the golden example. I also noticed that many people take years to master some of the Bardon’s first steps. If they happened not to be able to move forward for years, maybe they could then take inspirations from some other books and teachers and later come back to Bardon again. If you have studied some magical traditions for 30 years and discover Bardon for the first time when you are, let’s say, 60 years old, I think that there is no reason that you should start your magical studies from the very beginning in order to reach the step 8, when you have actually already reached the level 8 by following some other traditions. **5. Falcon Books: I wonder if you could tell us about the inspiration behind your up and coming title,* 360 Heads of the Earth Zone: The First Step to Divine Providence. *What can we expect from this title?** **Nenad Djordjevic Telerman: **Let me quote Franz Bardon: > *The size of this volume makes it impossible for me to give full details on each individual head; I can only publish a few words referring to the general facts of hermetic science…The description of many a head whose range of competence is very great would fill not just one volume, but a good number of volumes.* The first time I was reading Franz Bardon I felt sorry that he omitted to write more details about the 360 heads of the Earth Zone and other spirits, but it also looked to me that with such remarks, he invited future magicians to continue his work. So, I felt a call to try to continue his work the best I could. So far I know, since Bardon’s time, only three people focused their spiritual practices on the 360 heads of the Earth Zone: Emil Stejnar, William Mistele and Cynthia Schlosser. I would like to take this opportunity to give them my gratitude and acknowledgements. Nowadays, more people are interested in this subject. There are several nice FB groups about Bardon’s magic with a lot of interesting members. I first started to evoke spirits from Bardon’s book in 2006. In the next few years, I did my evocations sporadically and unsystematically. But in 2013 I decided to evoke all of them. I started my online journal on Friday, April 26, 2013, on Studio Arcanis, a magical forum, with the following sentences: “Well, I know their names, I know their sigils, I have seen and talked to some of them...But I am still not satisfied with my results. I want to see who they really are... So, I will dedicate my next year to working with the 360 heads of the Zone girdling the Earth… Since there are 360 heads, but 365 days in one year, I will more or less dedicate one day to each head of the Zone…” My diary about evoking the [360 heads can still be read on-line](http://studioarcanis.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=8923), (However, you need to be a member of Studio Arcanis in order to read it). This book about 360 heads of the Earth Zone includes some parts of this diary but also all of my previous and later evocations. It has taken me four years to write this book. During this time, I have evoked each of those 360 spirits at least two more times, if for non other reasons, then just to confirm if what I was writing about them was true. In my description each head of the Earth Zone contains the following elements: sigil; alternative name which were used by Abramalin the Mage and Quintscher; Divine and angelic names for the circle and conjuration; dominant colour in space impregnation; number and colour of candles; the triangle arrangement; offerings; additional suggestions about evocation; similar spirits; appearance of the spirit; the spirit’s teachings and instructions; my own experiences; the spirits’ region; subordinate spirits; and possible problems and side-effects. The second part of the title is *The First Step to Divine Providence*. There are ten main steps to Divine Providence, and the first step is the Earth Zone. The second step is the Moon, the third step - Mercury, the fourth - Venus and so on. The last step is Kether. My life aspiration is to write ten books about 10 steps to Divine Providence, but Divine Providence will also decide whether this will happen or not, because it is a huge task. I have almost finished two books about the Moon Zone and Mercury Zone and I have gathered a lot of materials about the Venus Zone too. But I am not doing this work alone any more. It is too much for one person to handle, so I am writing these books together with some other magicians. **6.Falcon Books: Firstly, for the passive reader without the experience of IIH can we clarify that these beings you are talking about in your forthcoming book are all beings existing outside of the mind of the practitioner. So these are not psychological these real beings like you and me but with a very different role, is that true to say?** **Nenad Djordjevic Talerman: **Those beings exist outside of our own mind. If you have any doubt about that, when you meet them, just watch them objectively and let them talk. In such situations, they will then most probably say some things which you’d never say by yourself just to show you that they are a separate entity from you. Those genii are extremely knowledgeable. They somehow know all that has been written by human beings, so what they talk about cannot be found in any of our books. For this reason, it is good to be well informed when you meet them. The smarter question you ask them, they would appreciate you more. There is no reason for them to explain to people some basic things which they can, for example, find in books or online. When you are in their own dimension, when you touch them, you can also feel that they are real. Astral body is quite solid when it is in the astral realm. It is obvious that they are not a part of our own mind when we see them. **7.Falcon Books: With regards to Bardon’s second title *The Magical Practice of Evocation*, have you found that you have been drawn to work with Earth Girdling Zone (EGZ) Spirits more than others?** **Nenad DjordjevicTalerman: **The 360 heads of EGZ were the first group of spirits from Bardon’s book which I explored systematically, but I have been also fascinated by working with spirits from all other planetary zones. The spirits of the Moon Zone are very mystical. The Mercurial spirits are extremely intelligent. The Venusians are pure souls and additionally very beautiful. The Martial spirits can be great protectors. We live on the Earth, so it is important not to neglect the 360 heads of EGZ even when we work with spirits from other planetary spheres. Nobody knows better our planet than the 360 heads of EGZ, and they are willing to share their knowledge with us. They also want to help us properly understand our planet and our role in it, as long as we live here. **8. Falcon Books: How has working with these beings assisted you in your daily life on practical level?** **Nenad Djordjevic Telerman: **I started my systematical work with the 360 heads at the time when I decided to start something new in my life. First of all they helped me overcome my personal “dark night of the soul” a crisis which came as a reflexion of my crossing the Abyss. I was a successful diplomat but due to some personal reasons, I decided to leave the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and become a freelancer. It was a difficult decision. The 360 heads of the Earth Zone have been helping me in my aspiration to be a free man. They have helped me achieve financial stability. They are helping my family. Since I live in a foreign country, they assist me with local deities as well as with local communities and administration. Their influences are unmistakable. Let me give you some examples. Kolani is an expert of occult dancing. I evoked Kolani for the first time in Shanghai in June 2013. At that time, I had no idea that I would just one month later make an unplanned trip to Konya (Turkey) where I also had the opportunity to visit Rumi’s mausoleum, an old spiritual centre of Sufi’s dancing. Pafessa, Abbetira, Siria, Giria, Alagill, Yraganon, Capipa, Jrmoni, Lurchi, Iserag, Aspadit and Nasi are related to financial matters. Due to their influences, I spent my first year after the first evocation of those spirits living and working in: Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, Turkey, China, and the Philippines. My childhood dream was to become a rock singer, and some 35 years later, this is exactly what I have become totally unexpectedly after my first evocation of Riqita, a head who is a guardian of singers. I evoked Baalto, a guardian of caves and underwater tunnels, and soon after I happened to see some of the most beautiful caves in the world in Guilin (China). Among other things, I am also a teacher, so I have been assisted by Zagriona and some other spirits on daily basis. They also help me with writing. I have been healing some people with their help too. People now appreciate and like me for who I am, and not for my title and social or financial status, which is mostly due to their help. They also help me connect with nice people. They push me to work for peace in cooperation with some other magicians. They encourage me on my way to personal freedom. So far, not all of them were equally helpful, which is reasonable and normal. For instance, some of them are guardians of mathematicians, engineers and physicists. I am not good at those sciences and probably will never be, so I really do not expect to be assisted by them in those fields. But then again, who knows? Sometimes you need to wait for a while to be sure that you have observed their influences. If they all want to help at the same time, I’d achieve all my dreams in one day, which is absurd and most probably unsurvivable. **9. Falcon Books: When making the transition in IIH visiting the elemental realms and then moving onto investigation of the 360 heads how does this change one's perspective on life?** **Nenad Djordjevic Ta****lerman**: The 360 heads are teachers of 360 different faculties and 72 fields of magic. Their academies and temples are located in the Earth Zone. When people die, some of them will become their students. Among many other things, their students will learn there how to fly, become invisible, strive for peace, travel to other planets and help our humanity grow. One of the greatest things about the 360 heads is that we can be accepted as their students while we are still alive. So, they help and teach us, but they also need us and sometimes they also need our help. They help our physical reality through us. The physical world needs to be taken care of and cultivated by us humans. This is our main role on this planet. If we neglect that role, then the 360 heads of the Earth Zone will not care to help us. The elemental realms help us understand nature and our role in it. They inflame our souls with love to all living beings. They also make us become more balanced and better human beings. That is all very important because if we do not strive to become better people, the 360 heads of the Earth Zone will just ignore us. We will never become a part of their company. **10. Falcon Books: Does working with these beings not only aid with bringing knowledge into this world, also what are the effects upon the mental body of the magician?** **Nenad Djordjevic - Telerman:  **Once upon a time, they were directly helping humanity grow in culture and sciences, but the stories from the three Enoch’s books remind us that the concept of their direct involvement in human affairs dramatically failed when the humans misused and misunderstood their knowledge. Ever since that time, the great spirits have preferred to carry on the work of enlightenment through elected human beings. Franz Bardon used to say that some secrets are locked behind many locked doors for good reasons and can be revealed only to the mature magician. Scientific discoveries may anew lead to world catastrophe. The heads of the Earth Zone know exactly that there are some big problems with human nature and that we have a potential to destroy the world we live in, so it is no wonder they are reluctant to help. Many spirits don’t want to have any contact with immature people at all. Franz Bardon mentioned that many spirits are ready to reveal their teachings only to the magician with high ethic standards. All spirits whose faculty is to inspire inventors to new technical inventions reject to help the magician in any way, unless s/he is truly mature enough to receive such knowledge. And they have every right to be reluctant with all of those scientific experiments which have ended up with atomic bombs, chemical weapons and destruction of nature. So, the future of this humanity is left to the adepts which is the conscious decision of the Mercurial spirits. The adept needs to find a way how to approach spirits using his or her knowledge in magic, alchemy and astrology. If they find the magicians worthy, they will help them strengthen their mental bodies with incredible proportions, but they would expect them to keep the sacred teachings from corruption and to keep up with the good work of the ancients with the aim to rise humanity up from its barbarous features to cultural heights. With the strong mental body, we can travel to the end of the Universe where we can also by our own eyes witness the rays of creation. They can help us expand our memory and intellectual capabilities, so that we could remember all of our previous incarnations and understand what is behind a person even if we meet them for the first time and what is in the book after the first read sentence. We will be also lucid all the time if we wish. The only problem will be from then on how to find a way for people to understand you. Helping people is very difficult. **11. Falcon Books: With regard to the heads of the EGZ they are often spoken of as the true teachers of humanity, In your experience is this the case and how great an influence do they have upon our development?** **Nenad Djordjevic Telerman: **I think that I already partly answered to that question, but let me add that if they like you then they can also teach you everything about anything which is related to our planet Earth. In their efforts to influence our development, the heads of the EGZ closely cooperate with the Mercurial spirits (Shem angels). Most of the 360 heads of the Earth Zone have a great affinity towards Mercury, but they use the Earth as a platform from where they teach and help human beings. Cooperations between Shem angels and heads of the Earth Zone are very intensive. Many heads of the Earth Zone have Mercurial characters and can teach the magicians a lot about Mercury mysteries. As they are also familiar with the human habit to abuse knowledge when they have a chance to do so, they now only elect trustable individuals to represent Mercurial affairs and interests upon the Earth. Those lucky persons are or will become: hermetic masters, advanced magicians, extraordinary alchemists, and outstanding astrologers – in other words – the true children of Mercury. **12. Falcon Books: In your work with these beings do you always evoke or meet within the EGZ and what is the reason for this?** There are different levels of EGZ. During the evocation, the spirits come to our world reality as our guests, and during our out of body experiences, we go there to their astral and mental realms to be their guests. They sometimes follow us to Akasha. One and the same spirit after their appearance in our world’s reality may suggest to guide you to the realms where they live. I personally think that the mutual visits between you and a spirit you have evoked is a sign of the most successful evocation. In my own experience, the meetings with spirits are as real as anything else from our world’s reality when they happened in the astral region. When they come to our world’s reality during the evocation, they most often appear in their etheric forms. They are observable and you can communicate with them, but you need to be lucid and at least slightly influenced by their energy. But the evocation is always magical and if it is successful you will already find the best way of communication with the evoked spirit spontaneously. When they are in our world’s reality, most often they are in the etheric plane, which is the densest part of the astral region, which also means that we need to raise our conscious just a bit in order to see them properly. Some heads of the Earth Zone teach about other planets. So, it can also happen that they decide to guide us to Mercury, Venus, the Sun or other planetary spheres. For example, when I evoked Bekaro for the first time, I spent a few hours with him on Mars, which I did not expect at all because I thought he was to teach me about the fire element. Bekaro introduced me there to some Martial spirits. At the end I learned something there about the fire element but from Mars’ perspective. **13. Falcon Books: With regards to the preparation of the magic circle in evocation, Bardon offers a number of examples of how this can be performed. How best would you advise someone to prepare the magic circle for the first time?** **Nenad Djordjevic Telerman: **Franz Bardon required from us the perfect understanding of the magic circle, but was quite flexible about how we can use it. I can speak here only about my own personal experiences. If you evoke a spirit for the first time, draw a circle around you with a chalk. Write inside the circle related Divine names and archangels. The same names you write in the circle, you will also mention in your conjurations. In my book, I suggested related Divine names and names of archangels for each of the 360 heads of the Earth Zone. It is important to have them included within the circle, not so much because of protection, but more in order to attract their attention. We do not want to attract some random spirits during our evocations. If you invite your friend for a visit, you most probably would not like to be visited by an unknown person from the street who is also pretending to be your friend. Some spirits like to fake their identity for one reason or another. Besides the circle, it is very important to have the right sigil. In later evocations of the same spirit you will most probably not need to draw a physical circle on the floor around you any more, but you will always need to have the right sigil. The sigil is the ancient sign of recognition. The spirit might not hear your conjuration, but he will know that you want to see him once he observes his sigil by your side. And always do remember to light the candle, at least when you evoke inside. **14. How important do you feel understanding the symbology of the circle and triangle is in order to perform evocation successfully?** **Nenad Djordjevic Talerman:  **I think that Franz Bardon perfectly explained the meaning of the circle and triangle. And he also asks us to have perfect understanding of both in order to have successful evocations. Related to the triangle, some rules should be applied no matter if we have it visualised or physically drawn on the floor. The triangle is the place where the spirit is going to appear in your room as your guest, so try to make it large and comfortable. The heads of the Earth Zone are mighty spirits, so you cannot really expect them to feel nice if you arranged for them a few inches’ wide triangle. 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Tabori (10° Aries) - secrets of the water element 3. Hahadu (20° Aries) - undines 4. Sapasani (30° Taurus) - sea salt 5. Hyris (19° Aries) - magic of water and undines 6. Hipogo (20° Virgo) - ships 7. Horasul (29° Scorpio) - water regulation 8. Calamos (29° Taurus) - sea life 9. Merki (28° Libra) - fishing 10. Seneol (30° Gemini) – water-sports 11. Dimurga (10° Sagittarius) - travel on water 12. Irmano (30° Scorpio) - controlling water animals 13. Anadi (28° Scorpio) - hydrotherapy 14. Calacha (30° Aries) - hydrotherapy 15. Megalogi (30° Libra) - medical springs 16. Andrachor (29° Leo) - magical water 17. Caraschi (10° Scorpio) - medical magnetism **The magician can learn a lot about the air magic from the following heads of the Earth Zone:** 1. Kagaros (7° Leo) - mediatory principle of air 2. Pliroki (6° Cancer) - message through the air 3. Barnel (17° Aries) - love and music through the air element 4. Magelucha (18° Taurus) - mastering the air and water 5. Romasara (8° Leo) - pranayama **The following heads of the Earth Zone are related to the earth magic:** 1. Nadele (24° Aries) 2. Baalto (25° Taurus) 3. Amia (18° Capricorn) 4. Kamual (19° Capricorn) 5. Yromus (25° Aries) The heads of the Earth Zone are very friendly and they can teach the magicians all what they would like to know about: gnomes, finding lost things, crystals and precious stones, mining, and earth in ceremonial magic and alchemy. They inspire us to: laugh and have a good time; entertain our friends with great jokes, give away gifts; make some money; learn how to save and invest; take care of ecology; help gnomes in their hard work to preserve our planet; cultivate friendship with our crystals and stones and communicate with the suit of Pentacles in tarot. They are closely related to archangel Uriel, who is the guardian of the earth element and the master behind secrets of manipulating the matter, and who sometimes appears as a large beam of purple light. **15.  Falcon Books: Is there anything else you would like to add?** **Nenad Djordjevic Telerman: **The 360 heads cover many different fields of magic from the Earth Zone including: the four elemental forces, nature, stones, flora, fauna, agriculture, food, family, education, literature, love, sex, healing, music, sciences, religion, technology, inventions, art, weather, justice, virtues, alchemy, phenomenal magic, entertainment, wealth, karma, astral magic, mental magic, Akasha, Divine Providence, etc. Each field of magic consists of many different subjects. All in all, the heads of the Earth Zone can teach humans about 1500 different subjects altogether. Some subjects are similar to the ones from our world’s reality, but others are quite different. The beauty of being a magician is that we can attend their schools, learn their subjects and pass their exams while we are still alive. The heads of the Earth Zone do not hide information, but can sometimes give it under the seal of secrecy. I hope that one day people will get to know them better. This world would become a much better place if there were more people willing to cooperate with them. They will surely give you knowledge and skills, but they will also expect you to be a better human being and do your best to help humanity grow. If I may suggest our readers something at the end. Be humble. Do not show off with your knowledge. They will help you find some amazing information about your origin. You may become a member of their family. Maybe you will realise that you are closely connected to Olympian gods, Cherubim angels or some other mighty groups of spirits. But even if that was the case, do not tell that to other people. It is your secret. Do not say that you are more special than other people. See yourself as an ordinary human being. Do not compare with others. You are no crystal parent nor indigo child. Be normal. If you do not cultivate normal human virtues, the heads of the Earth Zone won’t bother to meet you. They will just ignore you. And be careful with your new powers and learn how to control them! 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Presenting today **Martin Faulks** discussing his latest title, *Enlightened Living *and finding out more what lies behind this intriguing book. --- Martin is known internationally as a meditation master, adventurer, spiritual warrior and author. Martin’s years of discipline and dedication to daily meditation practice have led to mundane and spiritual achievements. His demonstrations of mind over matter using the power of meditation brought international attention which was documented in the press (2012). Such skills include altering his body temperature, changing the binary waves in brain function, and retention of breath under water. Thus highlighting the potential of ancient mind sciences for healing, health, spirituality and self-development. Martin also runs a Hermetic Meditation school, Seshen School of Hermetic Meditation You can also find him on [Facebook,](https://www.facebook.com/martin.faulks)[ Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt8UUqwAccfhetgC7alponA) and his [Website](http://www.martinfaulks.co.uk/). A cordial welcome from Falcon Books Publishing. Thank you for taking the time to answer these questions. --- I thought I would begin with a quote from *Enlightened Living* explaining the definition of this state: *“In a world with so much confusion, where people naturally drift from their goals and are pulled around by their emotions, someone who had gained the ability to keep a clear focus stood out. They were able to stay on target in every moment. This person was truly connected with the world in a harmonious way and in every action expressed their highest potential. To the enlightened person, every moment was a moment of joyous improvement.”* *Enlightened Living* (Second Edition) .xxvi - **Falcon Books: I wonder if you could tell us a bit more about your background and what inspired you to write a book on “Enlightened Living”?** **Martin Faulks: **My life has been fully dedicated to the Hermetic Path. So much so that from my teenage years I have very much put my training first in life. My meditation taking a position above all other things. I once had the great honour of attending a retreat under the tuition of a Zen master. During this time, I noticed something very interesting. I noticed that during our meditation practice my mind was in perfect focus and my discipline was unshakable, but when I was undertaking work for the temple none of these qualities shone through in quite the same way. In daily life, the monks were far more detailed, meticulous and on target than I was. In Zen training, you get private time with your teacher each day to talk about your thoughts and challenges. In my next session, I asked how I could bring the excellence from my meditation into daily life. The Rōshi answered instantly, “That’s easy, just focus fully on one thing at a time”. It’s hard to fully communicate the feel of the response, but it was a breakthrough moment for me. From this very simple, to the point answer a series of different insights hit me at once and a change started to take place that took many years to fully manifest. I realised I was allowing myself to not express my full potential during my everyday life. His answer was, of course, an exact definition of meditation. So the trick to life was to make each moment a meditation? Somehow I had been making a dividing line between my life and practice, learning and evolving with full awareness when engaged in spiritual practice, but finding a way of playing a role of a less capable person in day to day life. This book contains the insights that followed allowing me to let go of this role and to bring into being an evolution into every moment of life, and life into every breath. **2. Falcon Books: ** *In the distant past, these techniques were viewed as a means of training our consciousness for everyday life. The practitioner would use their practice time to sit in meditation and to create the qualities that would allow them to reach their full potential in daily life. These vibrations created in the consciousness would naturally pass over into their everyday thinking. The practitioner would consciously apply the skills gained whilst training and carefully assess which techniques were working, then make the necessary changes to their practice based on their everyday interaction with the world. Their goal was to create a constant state of mind that was imbued with awareness, compassion, dedicated purpose and ability to learn. This ongoing sense of improvement came to be known as ‘enlightenment.’* *Enlightened Living(Second Edition)* ** I wonder if there are any references that you could cite within the ancient Hermetic texts that refer to this kind of training?** **Martin Faulks:** The most popular works in the modern day focus on learning rituals or special methods to gain spiritual powers. The focus is on magical techniques or knowledge of the occult arts. The idea focused on knowing the right word, the correct incense or corresponding stone, herb or symbol to bring about the effect you wish for. Magic is something that you can catch and harness to your own ends. If we look at any of the original texts of the Western tradition we can see that the focus of the whole path was on the transformation of the self. The regrowing of the wings of the soul so one could become divine and to have the freedom to ascend to the higher realms. The Hermetic works describe the process of the practitioner becoming reborn and changing his or her whole viewpoint on the world. In this process, the soul is literally transformed into a new higher state, in the same way as a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. It’s an evolution that involves the practitioner transforming all that holds them back into what lifts them to higher states. To turn all the vices to virtues. In this tradition magic is something you are. To learn more you can read the following: - The Corpus Hermeticum- The Perfect Discourses- Kore Kosmu- The Golden Verses of Pythagoras- Iamblichus: *Theurgia or On the Mysteries of Egypt*What is this? 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Practitioners focused on improving their meditation skills and cut out other aspects of life in order to focus better on these arts, rather than practicing meditation in order to master life. “* *Enlightened Living (Second Edition) xxvip* **As we can understand from the above quote it appears as though our understanding of enlightened living has shifted onto relying on methods rather than the practice in our waking day. What steps would you suggest to the reader in redressing this imbalance?** **Martin Faulks:** Make sure you fully embrace every moment as a chance to express your full potential. Many people put off potential positive expressions of self until the future. Enlightenment is not in years of meditation or in some special formula, it’s in this moment, doing what you are doing now fully and honestly. **4. Falcon Books: What advice would you offer to someone who is in a very difficult life situation    (For example, an unemployed stressed single mother of 3 young children trying to make ends meet) to assist them in living out these enlightened principles.?** **Martin Faulks:** Have you ever noticed how parents often see things in a different way after they have children? Sometimes you can see the wonder of their own childhood return as they help guide their offspring and show them the wonders of the world. Children give parents a chance to view the world anew, to do things with them, to be playful and to explore the world. The role of mother and the path of self-realisation can be one. As the children grow in awareness every day, so can they. My advice would be the same as with anyone, make small changes and be kind to yourself. It is important to only build on what you have managed to establish as a new way of being for you. Evolution takes time and should be in gentle steps, just as it takes time for a child to grow and thrive. **5. Falcon Books: I wonder if you could explain the difference, between the concept of “enlightenment” and “enlightened living”?** **Martin Faulks:** Often with concepts like enlightenment we can find ourselves imagining this as a perfect state in the future. Dreaming of a time when a dramatic transformation will take place whereby from that very moment we will be able to see things exactly how they are, and effortlessly and skillfully manifest our will. This is a beautiful vision, but let us ensure it doesn’t become a barrier that allows you to put off living to your full potential in the now. “Enlightenment” is there for you to embody, in this very moment. If you allow your highest potential to flow through in each act then this is enlightened living. **6. Falcon Books: What benefits do you believe the readers will gain from this book?** **Martin Faulks: **Most people do the same things every day with no visible improvement. It’s easy in the modern world to turn off and to forget oneself, to function automatically. With the enlightened living approach, your improvements are not limited to your practice time, but occur in all moments. Life and training become one. No moment is underutilised or wasted. **7. Falcon Books: What makes this title unique from other self-development books out there?** **Martin Faulks:** Most self-development books focus on artificial methods of training. Special practices developed by people or from a specific tradition. This book is different. It’s an approach that goes with the flow and takes the challenges that everyday life supplies. Viewing the world as our ashram, and fully engaging with the lessons the guru we call life is giving us. **8. Falcon Books: What do you feel the most important aspect is to grasp if we are to achieve and pursue this path in our daily life?** **Martin Faulks:** We need to start to fully engage with all things. To be aware and on target even in small matters. Every word, every action, every moment has value. Our thoughts, words and actions create ripples which are very powerful, let's use this to bring around good outcomes. **9. Falcon Books:  What do you feel society needs right now assist us all in moving forward and creating change for the better?** **Martin Faulks:** As a race, we need to wake up and learn to put kindness before ambition. At the moment we are all focusing on competing with one another, struggling as if resources are limited and we must fight to get enough for ourselves or our group. If we work together there is enough of everything for everyone. **10. Falcon Books: What is the greatest challenge people face when trying to improve themselves?** **Martin Faulks:** My teacher used to say to me that the hardest challenge is to take the hidden step. To really dedicate oneself to the path of perfection without hesitance, equivocation, conflict or displacement activity. To stop studying it or just thinking about it and to truly embrace walking the path. **11.  Falcon Books: Is there anything else you would like to add? ** **Martin Faulks:** If we look at more recent spirituality we can see that in the modern world it is very focused on the inner self - the answers are within you. The focus is on becoming detached, destroying the ego and letting go. Virtue is something in yourself that is seen as coming about through meditation. Meanwhile, the world around us is very much in need in of help. It’s time for us as a race to put our ideals into action. To stop dreaming, but start making those dreams manifest. To live the philosophy we espouse. To transform ourselves by actually practicing the qualities we wish to cultivate. We need to be the change we want to see. --- --- #### To find out more about Martin and to read other interviews with him, you can visit his author page, YouTube and  Website. #### To purchase 'Enlightened Living' please follow the link below:   --- [ Get Your Copy Today ](https://www.amazon.com/Enlightened-Living-Martin-Faulks/dp/9869492517) ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Enlightened-living-Book-Promo1-1024x683.jpg) --- # A Contemplation on Body Awareness by William R. Mistele Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/contemplation-body-awareness-william-r-mistele/ ### A Body Awareness Meditation Essay Copyright © William R. Mistele 2015 (Edited by Tanya Robinson). --- #### Preface --- In Franz Bardon’s book, *Initiation into Hermetics*, are presented ten chapters, each of which train the individual on a physical, emotional, and mental level. In the first chapter, the practitioner learns to relax the body, and work on physical postures, etc. By the third chapter, the individual strives consciously to “breathe” through every part of the body. Bardon, assumes the student is already proficient at meditation, since Bardon’s work is for advanced practitioners.  The set of exercises I am presenting in this essay is a precursor to Bardon's training, to assist anyone who is a beginner in meditation. Although these exercises are not directly a part of Bardon’s practice. they do include the basic concepts that are applied in Bardon's training.  Bardon requires his students to master working with energy both in *pranayama* and in concentrating (compacting and then dispersing) elemental and other energies in his body. A complement to this approach of concentrating energy is first to become acutely aware of the muscles, nervous system, anatomy, physiology, etc. which is already in our bodies.  We can call this "body awareness"—pure "physical awareness" of the body in all aspects.  It is not about vitality or energy per se—it is about being aware of the physical components that produce vitality. Nonetheless, pursuing these exercises makes it possible to gradually refine and fuse the body’s internal energies together, following for example the approach of the cosmic letter OE    The following four paragraphs are from my essay on the cosmic letter OE: *"One aspect of OE on the physical level is the ability to immerse one’s consciousness completely within the life force of the physical body.  Your awareness is heightened and penetrates into the physiology and vitality of the body in a way that feels completely comfortable.  This form of awareness not only penetrates but also unites the different energies in the body so that their qualities and strengths are enhanced.  The three previous levels of the cosmic letter OE deal with overcoming separation, with systems of transformation, and with the union all opposites.  All three of these inner levels can also be experienced within and by being aware of the physical body."* *"Exercise.  An easy way to begin is to rub one of your hands for a minute or so.  Imagine you can see into the hand noticing the muscles, tendons, bones, and the blood flow.  Then compare the sensations in one hand to the other hand."* *"You might notice that the hand you rub feels warmer and the skin tingles.  There is more blood flowing near to the surface of the skin in part because the increased relaxation allows the capillaries to open and circulate more oxygen.  In other words, there are specific physical sensations that can be sensed with increased blood flow and circulation. "* *“The idea is to immerse or sink the mind into the body and become part of the physiology and metabolism of the body.  If you can sense the blood circulation through the hand in the earlier exercise, you can then gradually learn to sense the blood circulating through the whole body.  The OE meditation is to immerse your consciousness in the flow and circulation of blood that you sense the oxygen and nurturing components of the blood flowing through the muscles and the organs of the body."*    This above essay is a further developed  approach which relays some of my further thoughts and explorations. [**To note:** Bardon's energy accumulation  practice and the energy refinement/awareness exercises shown here are not exclusive.  In practice, however, there is often an inverse relationship between working with energy and being aware of the body.  When accumulating energy, perceptual awareness of how the body functions is often severely restricted.] For example, when you are running a race, you don’t have much time to notice anything about your body other than what is contributing or detracting from your effort to win.  A vast amount of consciousness is suppressed in order to reach that objective.  When accumulating energy in the body, almost all other sensations and entire systems of perceptual feedback are eliminated from consciousness. When I am in the radiant sphere of the sun, I can see, feel, and understand the future of the universe—the beauty is incomprehensible; the harmony is so great it easily justifies all suffering that has gone before—everything is undergoing transformation in a way that is astonishing and full of wonder. However, there is no connection between this visionary state produced by the heightened amount of energy I possess at that moment and my ordinary body and personality through which I live day to day. I have to create the connections, find and work for the applications that make a difference in my life.  Before you become radiant like the sun you have to solve the problems of ordinary life otherwise you fall into delusion, rigidity, and fanaticism. --- #### Introduction --- In my earlier essays, I have discussed some of the problems in the study of magic.  Among these is the inability in religious and spiritual training systems to move freely between the inner and outer worlds.  Highly religious and spiritual individuals often get stuck and unable to shift gears so that when they try to focus outward and solve real world problems they continue to utilize feudal and introverted concepts that relate to another age of the world. Also, when looking at various personality types, they will approach working with these exercises in different ways. Such as the extrovert type of person will try to slow down and self-reflect, developing serenity and contemplation, but  instead end up racing to see how much they can make things happen right now, today, “getting things done” (which turns into ‘let’s control and manipulate people’ or even ‘let’s hypnotize ourselves into believing our efforts are producing results’).  An extrovert type of personality proceeds directly from the idea to action.  He experiences feeling through the action and therein finds satisfaction.  Should he try to work with his feelings and intuitions first, he would be subject to disorientation, uneasiness, and anxiety.  Internally subjective states are only of value when they are authenticated by the real world. On the other hand the introvert type of personality  proceeds directly into his feelings before acting. Exploring his feelings he discovers satisfaction and only then is he comfortable that the external expressions of these feelings will have value and meaning.  Should he move directly from idea to action he risks feeling empty.  His actions have not been internally validated. Consequently, hasty action runs the risk of being merely “external” and so void of meaning. --- #### Studying with Mantak Chia --- ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/7acfaccbe39349c2bd074aff59336f26.jpg)   Hopefully this essay enhances our ability to move more easily between the inner and outer worlds.  Here are some examples  that highlight my past conflicts in pursuing this topic: Its 1982.  Mantak Chia has just published his first book in English called, *The Microcosmic Orbit*.  The book claims to reveal secret Taoist techniques of internal meditation for strengthening health and vitality.  I give Chia a call on the phone and he invites me to his class at the Chinese Cultural Plaza in New York City. I walk in and sit among a group of Chinese students.  Chia teaches the class mainly in Chinese occasionally speaking in English. During the break he has me sit in another room and begins working with me on the microcosmic orbit meditation.  This meditation follows on of the eight extra meridians that moves up the back and down the front of the body forming one circle of vital flow.  Chia taps on an acupuncture point on my body and then has me meditate on it for ten minutes or so and then returns.  He checks whether the chi has moved sufficiently to that point and then taps on the next point. After we complete the circle of flow up the back and down the front, Chia says there is still an imbalance in my practice.  I am over concentrated in my third eye.  Well of course, I am over concentrated in my third eye.  I have been engaged in extremely intense concentration practices from sports for twenty years and I had been practicing Bardon for seven years which if anything overdevelops the third eye. It would have been really nice if Chia had said to me, “Go for an hour walk every day and cease all forms of meditation, contemplation, and magic for at least three months a year.” This advice would have saved me an incredibly amount of wasted time trying to figure out what was causing so much disharmony in my body.  But masters can not make sense of something that falls outside of their boundaries of experience. And so I would suggest to individuals who possess a high level of concentration: be careful to work sufficiently in developing your lower body in a manner that adequately supports your upper body awareness.  Otherwise you lose your flexibility, health, strength, and stability. --- #### Studying with a Taoist Master --- ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1-1doaist.jpg) --- Fast forward two years and its 1984.  I am studying with another Taoist master, the head of perhaps the oldest intact Taoist monastery in the world dating back over two thousand years.  Chia had stated that he is pursuing a McDonald’s approach--of having his techniques taught in precisely the same way all over the world.  This monastery, however, is at the opposite extreme—it is ultra mystical and the techniques change radically each year. I think these meditations were the most beautiful of anything I have ever run into.  But both systems of internal refinement of vitality and life force were extremely formalized.  There is very little if any provision for the individual to explore and to discover how life force works within his or her own body. Chia had the same problem.  One woman, for example, an American woman, notice right off that Chia’s meditations are slanted to favor male energy at the expense of female energy.  You take a meditation out of a feudal oriental society and place it in a modern, post industrial, pluralistic Western society and some upgrades are required. Similarly, you take a mystical, highly ritualized but fabulously intuitive system of training as in this monastery and give it to someone like me and I ask questions that have never been asked before in this tradition.  I am on the phone to the Chairman of the physiology department at the local university discussing getting a Ph. D in physiology. I am interested in correlating the Oriental practice to Western science.  I read a book of essays on scientific research on acupuncture and I begin taking a class on biochemistry.  I do not want only mystical meditations that track the weekly cycle of chi changes in nature and then embody these in my body. I want meditations that give me the ability consciously to track and modify the functioning of my metabolism.  I want to sense how my brain chemistry functions.  I want to follow how my consciousness moves between thought, feeling, and internal body processes.  I want to unite the Oriental system with the Western system. So it would have been nice if this Taoist master had said to me, “Oh, you want to observe in precise detail the specific symptoms and imbalances that result when the *yin jing* (the feminine energy) and the *yang jing* (the masculine energy) are not fully integrated in each individual.  There are about two hundred physical aspects of the body you can evaluate and then modify to enhance the body’s health and harmony.”  But this she did not say.  Mystics do not pursue these kinds of questions. To be fair it would have also been nice if the chairman of the physiology department had said to me, “Oh yes, we are currently developing a curriculum in psychoneuroimmunology in which we have different test group studying the influence consciousness has on controlling a range of symptoms such as hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, cancer, dietary problems, obesity, drug and alcohol addiction, etc.”  But this he did not do.  Like any scientist trying to validate his field of research, until recently consciousness has not been a legitimate area of study. --- #### Studying with a Tai Chi Chuan Master --- --- Fast forward again.  It is 2003 and I am sitting next to one of the foremost Tai Chi Chuan masters in the world.  With this master, there is no New Age inner smile you do when practicing internal meditation. There is no facing the light source when you meditate.  There is no use of image, no thought, no visualization, no acupuncture points and no meridians.  You just let the chi sink down in your body to your abdomen.  He does this meditation for three or more hours a night instead of sleeping which he does for only one hour a night.   And unlike the previous mystical Taoist master, who is very familiar with magic and psychic abilities, this master avoids all magic and in fact any form of activity that taxes vitality. There are many other traditions that focus extensively on the body.  In the Buddhist tradition, Vipassana practitioners may spend hours every day for a month or longer focusing on their breath, the movement of their diaphragm, etc. But in all these traditions, there is very little if any focusing on the specific experiences of the individual. The practice is formal and generic.  The intended results are preordained. The individual’s personal history is irrelevant.  The individual’s personality is irrelevant.  The Vipassana practitioner may have fabulous awareness of his lungs and breathing.  But he does not take note of the way his different breathing patterns interact with his parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system, his adrenal glands, the circulation of blood to his extremities, his digestive track, etc. to influence his moods or how his thoughts when he is thinking trigger different emotional states that change breathing patterns. What is missing for me from all these various Oriental practices is a consciousness component.  That is, being aware of what precisely I as a person and an individual am experiencing right now so I can observe it, learn from it, discuss it, develop it, deepen it, and find completely new applications for it. You can do all sorts of energy practices and develop many forms of *siddhis* or powers utilizing these various systems.  But what you experience remains within a narrow focus like a horse wearing blinders (which may be good if you need the horse focused on a specific  task)—but the individual is not freed to observe his experience, develop his own understanding,  and then take that experience in new directions. I can easily understand how others may not encounter my difficulties with these Oriental systems and that is fine.  I have given examples involving Taoists because for Taoism health, longevity, and astral immortality are primary objectives.  My own difficulties tend to be resolved as I design and add what I feel is missing from these systems.  This is cultural adaptation and spiritual innovation.  It is finding what works for me. 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Historically, however, meditation went u![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Alquimia-Arbol-Astrologia-e1460813612517.jpg)nderground in the Western world.  And so we have a loose alchemical tradition in which the microcosm (the human body) is a reflection of the macrocosm (the universe)--all the energies in the universe are within us. In old alchemical illustrations, these energies—the stars, the constellations, the sun and moon, the animal kingdom, the vegetable and mineral kingdoms in all their variety and array of opposing, instinctual and unconscious forces are present within us.  They are waiting for us to mix, blend, unite, and refine them into an elixir of life, a philosopher’s stone, into the perfection of nature—something to engage in, work at, and to accomplish in a conscious manner. Modern chemistry in part took its birth from these alchemical experiments—the alchemists observed, they experimented, they took notes, and they shared their experiences and observations.  Theory, observation, and experimentation began occurring in a completely new way. The three Taoist masters I mentioned earlier like to keep secrets.  They do not teach their students the same things.  They keep secret from one student what they teach another student.  Even Chia has his students swear to keep secret some of the most basic of techniques. When I write about the feeling I get of flowing down a river when I meditate on my kidneys or feeling like a billion year old rock when I meditate on my legs or being able to sense directly the anxiety producing and ecstasy producing aspects of my physical brain, I expect others to reproduce these states of awareness in themselves. There is no franchise, no secrets, no “you must vow to keep the tradition” in this essay.  I am Western.  You learn from making accurate observations, keeping accurate records, molding theories that can be tested, and proceeding in a measured, systematic, step by step manner that allows you to correlate your results with and learn from others. Health and healthcare are national issues.  You take better care of your own health and you keep down health costs and you make this nation and the world a better place.  These are political, economic, financial, and public issues.  They are not esoteric, private, and there is actually nothing magical about it.  Or to put it another way, if you are aware enough and know enough, then you are capable of solving problem without using magic.   --- #### Basic Exercises --- This manner of exercise originates from sources such as Jacobson’s book, *You Must Relax*.  Jacobson noticed that jet pilots were developing too much stress and so he developed a very simple method for teaching relaxation.  Like other Western practices such as focusing by Eugene Gendlin, the Westerner imagines practicing for a few minutes.  Add a half hour or an hour to the length of these practices and they turn into something completely different.  I would recommend only practicing when you are not tired and do not force yourself to concentrate if you are bored or distracted by other things.  The idea is to bring to your body good feelings that are nurturing. -  A simple starting point is to place your arm and hand comfortable on a table palm down.  Then bend your wrist up slightly off the table flexing the muscle of the forearm.  Hold this position for ten seconds or so and then place the hand down again. Notice the tension in the forearm and notice how it relaxes when the muscle is no longer flexed. You may also want to see how many different ways you can move this set of muscles in your forearm.  For example, you can raise each finger individually or raise the hand as a fist.  You can raise the hand with the fingers together or with them spread apart. - Proceed with the other arm and later on pursue similar gentle stretching/tension/relaxing exercises for all the major muscle systems in the body.  With the feet, for example, you can walk slowly grasping the ground with your bare foot as you walk or rub the bottom of your feet on the carpet.  You can spread your toes, wiggle them, rotate your ankles, move the foot to the left and right, up and down, curl the toes down and up, etc.  This is very basic exercise and most probably  a  genuine extrovert might find his optimum learning curve at practicing no more than five minutes a day.  On the other hand, a genuine introvert really into this will want to practice at least an hour a day to compare each day’s results to the previous one.  It depends on the individual how long they are performed. --- ####  Sense Observation --- ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Autonomic-Nerveous-System-Chart-347x460.jpg)Let’s look at what you can consciously observe even with such a simple exercise.  The emphasis here is completely on observing physical sensations.  You can notice the different kinds and degrees of sensation related to tensing a muscle.  It might help to have a visual outline of the muscle in your mind so that you observe the anatomical layout.  Notice the range of sensations that occurs as a muscle relaxes. From time to time, recreate in your mind the tensing and relaxing of the muscle without the accompanying physical action.  This helps build a repertoire of sensations in your memory.  Without conscious recollection, much of subjective experience once produced is easily forgotten and so falls again outside of consciousness. Along with the tension you may notice the specific sensation related to the accumulation and dissolving of lactic acid as the oxygen supply to the muscle changes between when it is tensed and released.  Later on you will notice the lactic acid more clearly when you add aerobic exercises—rapid repetition—to working with a muscle.  Contrast that to working with weights for example, using a dumb bell with the arm muscles or doing various kinds of slow or fast sit ups using the abdominal muscles. You may also notice the change in temperature of the muscle.  As the tension is released, you may notice the increased blood circulation though the muscle as the capillaries dilate when relaxed.  This also produces a warming of the external skin.  In addition, different sets of muscles have different sets of specific sensations due to anatomy and function.  Notice these sensations as well so you can distinguish between them.  At the same time, different parts of the body have different concentrations of nerves producing different forms of sensitivity to pressure, movement, temperature, touch, and function.  Notice the kind and degree of sensitivity in different parts of your body. You can also massage the muscle area before or after it is tensed focusing on the anatomy and tactile sensations that occur on different levels from the skin down toward inner layers.  You can also exercise the muscle in an aerobic fashion, exercising it more vigorously as a further basis of comparison of tactile sensations.  As you proceed through the body, you may notice you encounter sensations related to old injuries, unexpected aches and pains or other tensions.  On top of this, there may be other forms of discomfort, anxiety, unease, and repressed emotions that begin to surface in working with specific areas of the body As you work through the feet, legs, abdomen, torso, arms, hands, neck, head, five senses, and internal organs you will notice some areas are very easy to work with.  Others present great difficulty.  Some are slow to respond and others possess extraordinary sensitivity. Some areas you will find produce harmony and balance.  There may even experience rapture and transcendence.  And there will be areas that are intensely problematic, as if you have all sorts of unfinished business associated or buried within them.  At times, you may wonder if you really want to know this much about your body.  And at other times you may feel you are being guided by one of Bardon’s earthzone spirits who specializes in magical methods for self-transformation. The quality and strength of your concentration are also factors in this practice.  Some individuals will have already practiced having an “empty mind,” that is, a mind that is free of all distractions.  In this case you can practice both, holding your mind completely empty and then focusing on a body part and then returning in the end to a state of mind completely void of imagery, sensations, thoughts, etc. At the same time, mental concentration on a body part may itself be producing tension.  It is concentrating like this, “Ah, there is the sensation of relaxing occurring.  Now let me see, what else was on my list, oh yes, I wanted the temperature.  Ok, there is the temperature.  Now let’s notice the lactic acid—no lactic acid here.  How about the sensitivity of the nervous system?  Ok, I got that….” The above way of concentrating is obviously dissecting.  It breaks things down into parts in order to enhance observation.  It produces mental tension.  The task is in part to also do the opposite.  You can use words or images or project pure sensations or feelings to accomplish this.  These are all of the things I have said you should not do. 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A great artist realizes the world is fragile and touches it with tenderness.  Our bodies if anything are fragile and transient and, as a work of art, something to be touched with tenderness. 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These generic descriptions and found within Traditional Chinese Medicine and other systems and are a guide. However, it is the awareness of your body lies the key.  Become aware of your own stresses, tensions, strengths, and variety of sensations.  Remember, do not get carried away with the astral feeling.  Every feeling produces and is supported by physical sensations in the body.  Focus on the physical sensations of these emotions in order to deepen your awareness and increase your freedom of response. --- #### The 5 Senses --- ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/making-the-most-of-your-five-senses.jpg)In chapter 2 of *Initiation into Hermetics,* Franz Bardon gives a large number of exercises related to developing concentration with the five senses.  You learn to hold images, sounds, tastes, smells, and tactile sensations in your mind for long periods of time without distraction.  In the exercises presented here, the emphasis is more on the experience of the sensory organ. In taste, for example, there are individuals with extraordinary sensitivity to the qualities of wine and to coffee for that matter.  The idea here is to notice the experience of the tongue in discerning tastes.  The tongue is an exotic laboratory of chemical interaction as is the nose. With the eyes and ears, immerse your awareness in the sensations of sensory perception.  Notice again the range and variety of ways in which you use these sense organs.  With the five senses, we use all sorts of filters and screening devices that relay and interpret our sensations.  Put aside some of these filters and allow in more raw sensory impressions without first determining their meaning and significance. When you  look at a tree or hill, an animal or a person.  Be aware of the light and shadow, the color and composition and then put these ideas aside and just experience what the eye is seeing—and the sensations they produce in the eye.  With hearing, listen to the crickets and just be fully aware of what that sound is like in your ears.  Compare that to the sound of the dog barking or a bird singing. I have also begun working with the different parts of my brain.  I can sense to some degree the different areas in my brain that produce dread and anxiety, the parts that evaluate sensory impressions, the relay stations, the kinetic movement centers, the brain stem, etc.  It is something I intend to explore in great depth but the rest of the body is in a way a prerequisite for working directly with the brain. Work also with the five sense organs, eyes, ears, tongue, nose, and skin.  In addition, the spine, the sex organs, the brain as well.  Identify and explore areas of interest and difficulty. Notice I am not using any form of visualization, light, energy, etc. to relax the muscles.  This is primarily a passive observational activity like a submarine listening and also using sonar to observe its external environment.  You want to know what is there first before engaging and interacting with it otherwise you lose your depth of field, clarity of focus, and capacity for response. Later on you can work with activities such as yoga as well as more vigorous forms of exercise.   Starting with yoga is like learning to scuba dive before snorkeling or practicing on a high diving board before working with the low one.  You miss an entire level of awareness that connects the inner and outer worlds. In general, focusing on physical sensations will increase your awareness of your body and its functioning.  Life force/vitality/chi are produced from the physical body.  Dead people have vitality.  It is just greatly reduced, decreasing to a devastating degree their ability to interact with the physical world and actively gain new experiences. Take advantage of the power source you have in your physical body. As you concentrate on different parts of your body, of course you enhance the blood circulation and vitality to that part. As you work through your entire body, there is an organic interaction, a natural total body transformation that occurs. If you focus on vitality or *chi* directly you can do all sorts of things like circulate it, refine it, condense it, and transform it.  But the systems of developing and refining chi often, however noble and dynamic, utilize only a very tiny faction of the potential that is available in the body. --- #### Astral Sensation --- ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/astral-senses.jpg)Sure you can develop astral immortality utilizing Taoist techniques.  Fine.  Great.  Well-done.  But if the Creator of the universe makes an appearance in your body or your learn to operate as an agent of Divine Providence, you begin to think more in terms of making significant contributions to human evolution, things that transform the entire world and not just your microcosm. Though I am emphasizing again purely physical sensations, quite spontaneously you may experience full-blown astral impressions.  If I concentrate on my kidneys, there is a pure physical sensation I experience of flowing water.  But accompanying this is a feeling of having my entire body, and not just my kidneys, immersed in a river flowing to the sea.  Again, it is the physical sensation that provides the alchemical process of transformation.  The astral sensation of total relaxation, of letting go, of feeling purified, of feeling well-being, timelessness, etc. is kind of interesting.  It is nice because I can reproduce it at will.  I really enjoy it but, in regard to this practice, it is a side effect.  The astral sensation by itself may familiarize my personality with a new mode of feeling but it probably in itself will not bring about any substantial change in my personality.  It will require the physical sensations and body awareness to do that. Similarly, if I focus on my bladder I get a sense of a lake—of pure serenity.  With my liver I sense a forest with its array of natural, organic growth.  With my lung I get flashes of the entire atmosphere of the earth, as if I have become a sylph who oversees the balance of the biosphere, etc.  Nice stuff but again it is off topic.  It is interesting, but not the most productive focus unless I am an artist painting pictures, composing music (a la the moonlight sonata) or a poet seeking to capture images for his poems --- #### Sexuality --- ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/sexuality.jpeg)Sexuality is always an interesting topic.  Some Taoists actually give elaborate seminars on male and female energy and how to transform them.  For myself, sexual stimulation is centered in the prostate.  It is the trigger, the blasting cap kind of like the A node that generates the electrical impulses that contract the heart muscles.  It has various levels of intensity and these can be reset, tranquilized, or left to themselves.  The nerves relating to sexual excitement that are associated with the prostate often will send a message to the brain like, “Hey, how about some action.  We are all on stand by down here.  What do you want to do?”  And the message is sent with a priority override so that it takes precedent over all other activities. The testicles actually carry some of the awareness of the cosmic letter OE, of a penetrating power analogous to science that wants to understand the entire universe.  The male physical sensations carry a mode of sensory sensation that attempts to penetrate physical matter with consciousness. In the birthing technique of Lamaze, a woman practices *kegals* to prepare herself for the contractions of labor.  In some forms of Taoist yoga, both men and women practice *kegals*.  This is a gentle contracting and releasing of the genitals done through contracting and releasing the muscles of the pelvic floor.  This is one method to assist the conscious mind of being more aware of the sensations and blood circulation occurring in this region.  Strengthening the muscles and circulation in the pelvic diaphragm is certainly a health producing activity. Each individual will have various aspects of their nervous system, anatomy, physiology, and brain that come into play with sexuality.  You have to explore what is there and become aware of it.  As Kinsey said in his research of human sexuality,"if there is any similarity in sexuality it is that we are all different from each other." In the area of romantic attraction, psychologists sometimes talk about recapturing projection.  In other words, the opposite gender may present you with sensations and energies that are physical and astral.  The woman offers the man a sense of magnetism, of embracing love.  The man offers the woman a sense of power and safety. He already has that magnetism and embracing love within his own body.  He is just unaware of it.  She already has that sense of power and ability to take command in her body.  But she too is unaware of it.  Her love could be from her kidneys in combination with her heart and her lungs.  His power could be from his adrenal glands in combination with the sexually aggressive energy coming from his eyes and his hands. It is an individual thing.  If you can focus completely within and are aware of your own body, you can find the other’s energy in yourself.  It is just probably far less developed.  It is a tough call—if that person departs from your life you may never taste that beauty again.   Some things we learn faster and better through the outer world than through the inner. A man experiences a woman’s love and suddenly he can multitask, focus one moment on his job and the next moment on nurturing a child, then do something like cleaning the oven (with enthusiasm) and the next recollect the memory of a long forgotten friend.  The woman’s energy allows his brain to function in a different way.  Can you learn this without the external experience?  Sure.  Is it easy?  No. I have trouble at night sleeping without a woman next to me.  But if I concentrate on my feet for ten minutes, it helps bring the energy down from my upper body and head.  If I do yoga stretching my legs, I get that rather strong physical and astral set of sensations that I am a billion year old rock, timeless, a part of the fabric of the planet and the universe.  This is fairly grounding.  It’s a kind of substitute if not a replacement for the opposite gender. A few Taoist masters simply divorce their older wives and marry younger women.  The younger woman has stronger estrogen, devotion, and attachment than her older counterpart. The younger woman’s presence automatically pulls the energy down the meridian along the central front of the body of these masters.  It saves them from doing a lot of homework on developing body awareness.  It allows them to maintain the intensity of their focus on their work and on being productive.  On the other hand, I know women in their sixties whose magnetism is far stronger than any of their younger counterparts.  I suspect the forces of attraction between the genders are things that can be developed and enhanced. --- #### Summary --- In summary, this is a rather simple essay, mostly an introduction.  I am reviewing only a very basic set of practices for developing body awareness.  For some individuals, increasing awareness of the feet, of the muscles around the jaw, skull, and eye sockets may produce dramatic results in terms of eliminating migraines and so forth.  I am not covering any of the healing aspects of this practice.  It is too vast and I am not good at healing. I have had at least six serious problems over the years that simply would not go away until I found a unique meditation for them.  And then, discovering through experimentation a meditation that worked for me, like magic these problems disappear from my life as if they had never been there.  This set of practices is like that for me.  It solves a problem that has been around for decades.  In 1973 a gypsy said to me, “You do not need to study with Tibetan masters.”  She left it at that.  If she had added, “All you need to do is study the physical sensations in your own body, learning all you can about their origins, anatomy, and physiology and you will acquire more wisdom than you could ever learn from the masters of the Orient.”  That advice would have been absolutely priceless for me.  But what’s the price of wisdom?  Is it sold for a song or for a dance in the street?  asked Solomon. To paraphrase Franz Bardon, “The only real teachers are life and yourself. 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It’s all about referencing the story, fable, or parable that best illustrates the point I’m trying to make or that best reflects the lesson I am trying to teach. Sometimes that’s going to be something old like a Gnostic legend or Egyptian myth. Other times, that’s going to be something modern like Star Wars or Harry Potter. If you get too caught up in whether the reference is to something old or to something that is a part of modern pop culture, you miss the important thing which is the lesson, teaching, or point that the reference is trying to make. **2. Falcon Books: Are there any frustrations you have about the way *****The Spirit of Magic *****was received?** **Virgil:** As you mentioned earlier, the book was mostly received well, and I certainly don’t have any frustrations about that fact. That said, I’m not always convinced all my readers understand what I was trying to convey. There are my misconceptions about my book, and that is frustrating. The biggest misconception about my book is that it’s about the Bardon system, or that it’s written for students of the Bardon system. I get a lot of messages from readers saying things like “Your book is a fantastic introduction to the Bardon system. I really liked it.” It feels kind of weird to reply with something like “I’m glad you liked my book but I don’t think you understood it.” I usually just thank them for their kind compliments, but inside of me, there’s always some turmoil because the book really isn’t about the Bardon system or about Bardon’s approach to magic. It’s about magic. If you don’t understand that, I don’t think you can really understand my book. I didn’t call my book *The Spirit of Bardonian Magic* or *The Spirit of Western Magic *or *The Spirit of Hermetic Magic*. These kinds of misunderstandings about my book are all on me, not my readers. There are many things I could have done to make it clear that the book is about magic in general and not about any particular system of magic or system of magical training. When I begin working on the second edition, I will make sure to add some clarifications in hopes of facilitating an accurate understanding of the book. **3. Falcon Books: Which chapter of this book did you enjoy writing most?** **Virgil:** The commentary on “The Golden Key” was by far my favorite chapter to write. I’ve always liked that story. Several readers who have messaged me over the course of the past few months have made references to “The Golden Key” in their messages. That always brings a smile to my face. There is a concept called “Awen” in Druidry. It can be roughly translated as “inspiration.” In Druidry, it’s not an abstract concept but a living force that you can feel, use, and work with. George McDonald was definitely channeling Awen when he wrote that story, and when I read it, I can feel the Awen underlying it. It’s always a transformative experience. Considering how much esoteric symbolism there is in the story, I’m surprised it’s not more well-known in the esoteric world. Many of my readers have told me that my book was the first place they heard of it. The story has beautiful imagery, especially in its description of the rainbow. It is a reminder that great and wonderful things await us once we complete our initiation. **4. Falcon Books: What were your biggest influences when it came to writing your book?** **Virgil:** The book is about magic, so anything that influenced my views on magic influenced the book. Most of my views about magic stem from my own experiences undergoing magical training and working as a magician. I view magic as primarily about service, and I view service as any act that makes the world more blessed. For me, making the world more blessed means increasing the joy and wonder in the world while decreasing the amount of unnecessary suffering in it. A long time ago, I was watching a comedy show on television that I really liked. I won’t say the exact show because doing so might reveal too much about my tastes (which can be weird). Most of the episodes were hilarious, but there was one episode with a really sad ending. It explored the miserable childhood of one of the characters, who was actually my favorite character. After watching that episode and feeling sad, I remember thinking to myself that while this fictional character is obviously not real, there are many real children living similar miserable childhoods because of poverty and negligence. Prayer has always been a part of my approach to spirituality, so I prayed that society would improve and fewer children would have to go through that kind of suffering. A short time later, I learned about the Bardon system via Bill’s website. For me, that was like Divine Providence saying to me “Hey, if you seriously want that to be the case, then help me make it happen.” That incident gave me my initial understanding of magic, or at least the magical path I happen to walk. That understanding is reflected quite clearly in the text of my book. As for other magicians or teachers of esotericism who influenced my views on magic, I quote most of them in the book. I quote Bill and Eliphas Levi a lot because they’re probably my biggest influences. Bill also views magic as an art centered on serving Divine Providence by making the world a more blessed place, but he’s been a practicing magician for a lot longer than I have, so his writings have given me a better understanding of what exactly it means to make the world a more blessed place. I consider the concept of magical equilibrium to be central to magic, and Levi writes extensively about that concept, so I’ve studied his works in great depth. I always thought it would be cool to collect together all of the things written about magical equilibrium by various magical teachers who knew what they were talking about and to publish the whole compilation in one book. Bill’s written several essays about magical equilibrium. There are several chapters about magical equilibrium in *Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie*. There’s a great article about magical equilibrium written by Rawn on his site. I can’t think of any essay, article, or chapter written by Josephine that’s specifically about magical equilibrium, but she does spend several paragraphs discussing it at various points in her books. Those paragraphs could be compiled together into a chapter for the book. I think it would be cool to see all these various writings about magical equilibrium gathered in one place, but in any case, I digress. **5. Falcon Books: Can you tell us a little about the process of writing this book?** **Virgil:** When I first decided to write a book, I envisioned a book called *Twelve Essays by a Bardonist*. I saw it as consisting of just that – twelve separate essays written about twelve different esoteric subjects that would be published together in one book. The point of the book would be to allow the esoteric community to view many subjects from a Bardonist’s point of view. The actual book I ended up writing – *The Spirit of Magic* – is obviously very different. The essays were all supposed to be separate and unrelated to each other, but as I was writing them, I noticed many connections between them. I decided to strengthen those connections so the book became a single unit with twelve parts rather than twelve separate units. I also noticed that I was exploring themes like service, compassion, and wisdom a lot. These themes are close to what you might call the essence or “heart” of magic because they appear in all genuine forms of magic and differentiate them from other disciplines like occultism and sorcery. That’s where the title of the book comes from. In a nutshell, that’s basically how the book evolved. The thing about major written projects is that they take a direction of their own. I was originally heading towards *Twelve Essays by a Bardonist* but the project steered itself towards *The Spirit of Magic*, so that’s where I ended up. **6. Falcon Books: In your book, you discuss “magic” and “occultism” a lot. How well do your definitions of these two terms align with the standard definitions of these terms?** **Virgil:** I don’t really think there’s a standard definition of “magic.” Too many different magicians, all equally famous and iconic, have given their own differing definitions of the word for there to be one standard definition. As far as the Bardon community goes, I think my definition of the word aligns with the most common views on what magic is because it reflects what Bardon had in mind whenever he used that word. If you read IIH and PME, it’s clear that Bardon saw magic as an art designed to be used to help society develop and to make the world a better place. As for occultism, when most people try to come up with a definition of that word, they base their definition on the word’s etymology. The word “occultism” comes from the Latin word “occulere,” which means “to hide.” Therefore, the original meaning of the word was more or less “the study of hidden subjects.” I can’t tell you how many people have messaged me saying “The definition of occultism in your book is wrong because occultism actually means the study of hidden subjects.” If we were living in the Middle Ages or in Victorian times, I’d have to agree with them. Back then, religious authorities and governmental bodies could persecute you for studying certain esoteric subjects or possessing books about those subjects. Therefore, the resources needed to study those subjects were hidden well and those who engaged in the practical application of their knowledge about these subjects did so while hidden from the view of the public. It’s not surprising these esoteric subjects came to be known as “occultism.” In those times, the word really did refer to the study of hidden subjects, as its etymology suggests. Now, we live in a world where people wear occult jewelry to show off the fact that they are occultists, and where any large bookstore is bound to have a section filled with occult books. The way people use the word “occultism” is different from the way it was used in the past. In other words, the definition of the word has changed. Based on my own observations of the esoteric/occult world, it’s clear to me that the definition of “occultism” I give in my book does accurately reflect the way that word is used in modern times. **7. Falcon Books: Do you have any ideas for changes you will make for the second edition of *****The Spirit of Magic*****, besides those you mentioned earlier?** **Virgil:** To be honest, I haven’t thought too much about the second edition yet. The first one has only been out for a year, and in the time that it’s been out, most of the time I’ve devoted to my esoteric writing has been spent working on my other two books. I think most of the revising I’ll end up doing will be for the purpose of making everything more clear and coherent. I can be verbose at times. Since writing that book, I’ve also read a lot more of Bill’s writings. Many of his short stories and mini-articles do a great job of illustrating the nature of magic. I’ll probably ask if I can include one or two in the appendices of the second edition of my book. I’m also going to have to modify the chapter on the six-pronged attack to reflect the most recent version of this set of techniques, which I discuss in great detail in *The Elemental Equilibrium*. There’s a section on not getting distracted by occultism in the book that I want to expand. I want to discuss the danger of becoming distracted in greater detail. I don’t think there are many people who realize just how easy it is to become distracted. **8. Falcon Books: Based on your experience writing this book, do you have any advice or suggestions for people who intend to one day write books about magic?** **Virgil:** Make sure what you write reflects your values. Otherwise, you’re probably not making a unique contribution to the magical community. Sometimes that can be hard. If your values clash with the accepted norms and conventions of the esoteric world, then allowing your values to be reflected in your writing may cause it to draw negative backlash. If you would rather not deal with this negative backlash, then don’t write. That’s perfectly fine, and there are many magical and esoteric subjects I don’t ever see myself writing about because doing so would be stirring up a hornets nest and I don’t want to put up with that. However, when I do write about magic, I do my best to make sure that what I write reflects my values. Your values are a reflection of your true self, and your true self is divine. Therefore, to write something that doesn’t reflect your values is to betray Divinity. --- ##### To find out more about Virgil you can visit Falcon Books Author page. To  read an in-depth interview with Virgil please follow the link  Falcon Books Interviews. You can also catch up with Virgil on Facebook and his Blog: Awake in the Starlight. ##### To purchase any of Virgil's titles please follow the links below::   *"Treating others with kindness is the first magical act the magician learns and the last one he masters."* **~Virgil** [wpbooklist_shortcode table="virgilpublications"] --- # Excerpt: Ch 4 Mature Speech from The Covert Side of Initiation by Virgil Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/excerpt-ch-4-mature-speech-covert-side-initiation-virgil/ #### Chapter 4: Mature Speech **Preliminary Notes on Speech** Speech is two things. 1. A reflection of a person’s maturity level 2. A means through which a person can change his maturity level Speech is a reflection of a person’s maturity level, meaning that by observing the way someone speaks, you can assess how mature he is. For example, let’s say that someone is always gossiping, lying, boasting, belittling others, and insulting others. Since he speaks immaturely, you can safely assume he is immature. Now, let’s say that someone always speaks intelligently, compassionately, and respectfully. Since he speaks maturely, you can safely assume he is mature. Speech is also a means through which a person can change his maturity level, meaning that by forcing yourself to speak maturely, you will eventually become mature. By forcing yourself to speak immaturely, you will eventually become immature. Needless to say, no one intentionally does that, but it still happens. Whenever immature people speak immaturely, this act of speech reinforces their immaturity. Thus, if you are an immature person who is constantly speaking immaturely, a wise thing to do would be to just shut up until you learn to speak maturely, and then try to speak maturely until one day you really are mature and therefore no longer need to “try” in order to speak maturely. **Covert and Overt Immature Speech** There are two forms of immature speech—covert and overt. Boasting is one type of immature speech. Everyone who has been a member of any online occult forum or group has seen this type of  speech in its overt form numerous times. In such forums and groups, people are constantly boasting about how long they’ve been studying occultism, or what degree they are in this or that magical order, or how old their magical lineage is, or how many evocations they’ve performed, etc. Covert boasting is another matter. Let’s say that someone writes an article about IIH. It seems like this article was written to help students of Bardon’s system understand the book, but if the real reason the author wrote the book was to show off his knowledge of IIH and imply that he is an expert on Bardon’s system, then the article is an example of covert boasting. Lying is another type of immature speech.7 Overt lying is also something everyone is familiar with. If you say something that is just plain false and you know it’s false, then you are overtly lying. Covert lying is when you say something that is technically true, but you word it in a way that is misleading and meant to get others to believe something false. For example, let’s say that you are envious of someone named Steve and want to ruin his reputation. You tell everyone that you saw him slap his wife. This makes everyone think he abuses his wife. In reality, you just saw him give his wife a high five. You we’re overtly lying because what you said is literally true, but you were covertly lying. Therefore, from a magical point of view, you were still lying. Insulting people is another type of immature speech. Some people disguise insults as constructive criticism, however, insults disguised as constructive criticism are still insults, and therefore, an example of immature speech. Insults are designed to hurt people —to hurt their self-esteem, to hurt their feelings, to hurt their reputation, etc. Insults are destructive. Constructive criticism, on the other hand, is designed to help people build themselves up. They are complete opposites. **Additional Notes on Speech** At the end of Magical Rituals of the Sanctum Regnum, Eliphas Levi provides a number of esoteric maxims. Three of those maxims are as follows. Every idle word is a fault. An idle word is either without meaning or is of the nature of a lie. He who is content with idle words is as if he were dead. Before coming across IIH, I studied Levi’s writings extensively. Coming across these maxims was my first introduction to the idea that regulating one’s speech was an important part of magical training. Shortly after I started training in Bardon’s system, a number of incidents happened in my life that quickly taught me the importance of regulating my speech. In one instance, I was unfairly bad mouthing a coworker whom I didn’t notice was standing right behind me. That was embarrassing. In another instance, I was making fun of a waitress at a restaurant. I was speaking in Chinese to my friend and assumed that the waitress didn’t know Chinese. It turns out she did. That was embarrassing too. A number of similar incidents happened, all in a very short span of time. It was clear to me that the universe was trying to teach me a very important lesson —regulate my speech. In other words, don’t gossip, don’t lie for selfish reasons, don’t belittle others, don’t make fun of others, don’t insult others, etc. When it came to basic magical training, Bardon could only fit so much into one book. He puts all of the absolutely necessary information in his first book. Thus, his system is complete. However, he also leaves students of his system to figure out a lot of stuff by themselves. The importance of regulating your speech is one thing Bardon never explicitly wrote about, but expected his students to eventually learn. In KTQ, Bardon teaches the art of creative speaking. Literal human speech is NOT the same as the divine art of creative speaking, however, they are analogous. IIH is not the be all and end all of magical training. It prepares you to learn and work with much higher and advanced forms of magic, including evocation and creative speaking. Creative speaking is a powerful means to shape the world. The negative effects from its abuse can result in a lot of suffering for innocent people and a severe karmic backlash for the one who abuses this art. In order to protect the would-be abuser and his would-be victims, Divine Providence puts in place certain restrictions that prevent the immature from learning creative speaking. How those restrictions manifest themselves in the lives of specific aspiring magicians varies on a case by case basis. Using literal human speech responsibly (or as I’ve previous put it, “regulating” it) shows Divine Providence that you can use the divine art of creative speaking responsibly. Since IIH is designed in part to prepare you to learn creative speaking, part of doing the work of IIH is learning to regulate your speech. In this way, when you complete Step 8 and are ready to move on to the work of KTQ, you will have learned how to speak responsibly, and therefore, Divine Providence knows you can be trusted to make use of creative speaking responsibly. Another way of thinking about it is this. If you are a mature person, then you will speak like a mature person. Mature people don’t gossip, lie for selfish reasons, belittle others, make fun of others, insult others, etc. Of course, they can point out the errors of others and offer constructive criticism, but this is never done in a way that is disrespectful or unnecessarily hurtful. Thus, we have the following situation. Inner state = immature Outer manifestation (of inner state) = immature use of speech One of the things you’ll learn in your magical training is that self-transformation almost always works from the outside in. For example let’s say you don’t have an elemental equilibrium but want to develop one. We end up with the following situation. Inner state = elements within oneself are impure and unbalanced Outer manifestation (of inner state) = one exhibits negative traits like irritability, laziness, stupidity, and dishonesty. Can you establish an elemental equilibrium by using magical techniques to directly purify and balance the elements within you? Nope. You can’t do that. Numerous modern magical systems make the mistake of thinking you can. They use various elemental correspondences (divine names, colors, symbols, regions of the body) in an attempt to force the elements constituting one’s subtle bodies into a balanced and pure state. While this might seem logical at first, anyone with a solid understanding of the occult anatomy and karma will realize that it is an naïve and ineffective approach for establishing an elemental equilibrium. Again, as is often the case, you work from the outside in. In my second book, I give a number of magical techniques for eliminating negative traits like irritability, laziness, stupidity, and dishonesty. By working on these outer manifestations, the inner state giving rise to these manifestations will change. The elements constituting your subtle bodies will go from an impure and unbalanced state to a pure and balanced state. In this way, you will have established an elemental equilibrium within yourself. A similar principle is at work when it comes to regulating your speech. When you’re immature, you speak immaturely. By forcing yourself to speak maturely, you slowly begin transforming your inner state so that it becomes more mature. As without, so within. **Being Accountable** Levi writes the following in The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum. > *God, unless you are illuminated. All the images which you create, whether of God or of other ideals, remain imprinted on that luminous medium—the astral light of the soul, and of the world and there is that Book of the Conscience which shall be opened and its records revealed in the Last Day.* > > > *Be guarded in the words you speak. Speak not of *This is, I believe, Levi’s way of saying that you are accountable for everything you say, even if you don’t think you are. The universe tried to teach me this lesson very early in my training. I already mentioned the two stories where I was saying negative things about people without realizing they were listening to me. Sometimes you don’t think you will be held accountable for what you say about another person because they aren’t listening so you can say whatever you want about them. That’s never true. The astral light records everything and will hold you accountable for what you say. To become responsible is part of the process of becoming more mature, and part of being responsible is being responsible for the things we say. **Words are Like Swords** In Kenji Tokitsu’s translation of Miyomoto Musashi’s Book of Five Rings, he writes the following in the introduction. 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We don’t give swords to immature people because they’re either going to hurt themselves or hurt others with it. It’s the same case with words. If you don’t use them maturely, you’re going to inflict a lot of unnecessary suffering upon others and upon yourself. Do yourself and the rest of the world a favor by learning to speak maturely. **Forming Your Speech Code** Some people might find it helpful to write their own code that provides guidelines when it comes to refraining from speaking immaturely. An example of a speech code is below. 1. Avoid making negative remarks about others unless it is absolutely necessary to do so. 2. If you ever do need to criticize someone, make sure to word the criticism in the least hurtful and most respectful way possible. 3. Don’t talk about spirituality unless it is unavoidable. This means don’t bring up spirituality, religion, etc. when conversing with others. If the subject of spirituality and religion does somehow end up getting brought up during a conversation, talk about these subjects as if you had no interest in these subjects. 4. If you do end up talking about spirituality with someone, do not mention anything related to magic or esotericism unless it is unavoidable. If the subjects of magic and esotericism do somehow end up coming up, talk about them as if you had no interest in them. 5. Do not make false or exaggerated statements. **The Speech Journal** It is a good idea to keep a speech journal as you endeavor to make mature speech a way of life. This is a journal in which you record all the times you speak immaturely. Each time you speak immaturely, pull out your smartphone and make a note of what you said. That way, at the end of the day, you can just look at your smartphone to see what to record in your journal. You don’t have to reflect back on the day and try to remember all of the ways you spoke immaturely so you can record them. The speech journal will help you see how quickly you are becoming more mature, and whether there are any patterns in the way you speak immaturely. A segment from my own speech journal is contained in the next chapter. There are several things to note. First, note that I do not write in the journal every day. Some days, I don’t speak immaturely in any way so there is nothing to record. Also, note that the entries either begin with “Today” or “On this day.” If an entry begins with “Today,” then that means the events described in that entry were recorded the same day they took place. If an entry begins with “On this day,” that means I forgot to write in my speech journal on the day the events occurred and am recording them either the next day or at some later date. The date above each entry gives the date the events happened, which is not necessarily the date they were recorded because I was really forgetful back then and often neglected to record speech infractions. Also, note that I reference the code given in the previous section several times. Like I said, having your own code is useful. However, each person should have their own unique code. For example, I restrict myself from talking about general spirituality or religion. That’s because whenever I talk about general spirituality or religion, I always end up referencing magical ideas and concepts. Thus, talking about general spirituality and religion inevitably leads me to end up talking about esotericism and magic. However, if that’s not the case for you, you may feel no need to have a code that restricts you from talking about esotericism and general spirituality. As one final note, I want to point out that I did not write down the times of the infractions, but after someone advised me to do this, I have begun doing so and think it is a beneficial practice. Thus, in your journal, I suggest that you not only record instances where you spoke immaturely during the day, but that you also not down what time during the day the instance happened. If you can’t record the exact time, record the general time (early morning, around noon, late in the evening, etc.) --- ##### To find our more about Virgil read excerpts from his other titles please go to Falcon Books Author Page. ##### To purchase The Covert Side of Initiation or any other titles please follow the links below: *“Treating others with kindness is the first magical act the magician learns and the last one he masters.”* **~Virgil** [wpbooklist_shortcode table="virgilpublications"] ---   --- # Author’s Corner – Interview with Dr.David Harrison Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/authors-corner-interview-dr-david-harrison/ ## AUTHOR’S CORNER ### FALCON BOOKS INTERVIEWS ### EXPLORING LITERATURE With **Dr. David Harrison** discussing : *The Genesis of Freemasonry * *The Lost Rites and Rituals of Freemasonry * --- ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Dr.-David-Harrison-1.png) Author’s Corner is a platform to explore literature ranging from esoteric to historical works, offering the opportunity for the author to discuss their titles and for us to find more about them and the reasons behind their work. Presenting today an interview with Dr David Harrison who is a Masonic historian and leading academic expert on the study of Freemasonry, also a musician. He has lectured at the University of Liverpool and Hope University, and has worked as an archaeologist, specializing in industrial archaeology in England. David is also best-selling author in his field of research regarding Masonic historical literature. His most popular publication (Lewis Masonic Publisher) to date being *[The Genesis of Freemasonry](http://www.lewismasonic.co.uk/the-genesis-of-freemasonry-pbk.htm)*. David has recently released a new publication [*The Lost Rites and Rituals of Freemasonry.*](https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Rites-Rituals-Freemasonry/dp/0853185417) We will be discussing both titles in this interview. You can view David’s[ Website](https://dr-david-harrison.com/),[ Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/drdavidharrison/) and [Youtube Channel.](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV7qzpbeFOcPJMqONfdmUMQ) --- A cordial welcome to David Harrison from Falcon Books Publishing and thank you for taking the time to answer these questions. **1. Falcon Books: I wonder if you could share with us  your  background  and what inspired you to research into Masonic history specifically.** **Dr. David Harrison:** I became a Freemason in 1998, I had completed my first degree the year before in history and archaeology and was looking for some new direction. I started a MA course, and on completion was offered to research for a PhD. I suggested looking at the origins and the development of English Freemasonry, they said "yes" and began my research in 2000 part time. I successfully defended my thesis in March 2008 after submitting the previous December, and the thesis was published a year later with Lewis Masonic as *The Genesis of Freemasonry.* **2. Falcon Books: For those who are not familiar with Freemasonry I wonder if you could briefly outline to the reader the foundations and principles of Freemasonry**. **Dr. David Harrison: **Brotherly love, relief and truth…. **3. Falcon Books: ** *"The 19C Masonic historian Gould, seems to put forward an idea that as Rosicrucianism disappeared in the Mid- 17th Century, Freemasonry began to develop the remaining elements of the mysterious ancient Rosicrucian Order. The necromancer John Dee and the natural philosopher Sir Francis Bacon were both linked to Rosicrucianism and it was the practice of Hermetic philosophies that led to the foundation of the equally mysterious college."* *The Genesis of Freemasonry (* page 27). **We could say a large influence of Freemasonry practices originated from Hermeticism as early on as the 17th Century, I wonder if these practices are still prevalent today among Masons?** **Dr. David Harrison: **I think the interest in Hermetics within Freemasonry is gaining popularity with the younger Freemasons who are searching for a greater meaning to their lives. I have met many young Masons who are deeply interested in this and want to explore it further. **4. Falcon Books: I wonder if you could explain to us in a little more in-depth the influence that Hermetics has had on the practices and philosophy within Freemasonry****?** **Dr. David Harrison: **Hermetic philosophy certainly played a role with the careers of certain Masons such as Arthur Edward Waite and William Wynn Westcott for example, especially with the formation of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The outstanding theme found embedded within Freemasonry of the search for lost knowledge is certainly something that inspired certain Freemasons to search for a deeper meaning and examined other philosophies, Hermetics certainly being one of them. The Occult Revival of the later 19th century witnessed a number of Masons being inspired by Hermiticism, and the Golden Dawn was a way of conducting research in this way. **5. Falcon Books: You also mention in your latest publication *The Lost Rites of Freemasonry *how in the past Masons  used 'magic' as a way to connect with the Divine? Please could you explain a bit more in detail regarding this?** **Dr. David Harrison: **I can’t delve into it too deeply here as this is all explained in the book, but the formation of certain rites such as the Rite de Elus Coen and others allowed for the use of what we would term 'magic', which was used as a way to contact the Divine. This was seen as a next step for some Masons and it embraces the theme of the search for lost knowledge. **6.** **Falcon Books: Please could you explain to those who are not familiar with Freemasonry, the “rites” and what they represent. ** **Dr. David Harrison: **Art de Hoyos (Masonic author and renowned 33˚ degree Mason) who very kindly wrote the foreword for the book says it best when he describes a rite as a staircase, and each step is a particular degree. 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But also in the Occult Revival, early propagators of these rites such as Count Cagliostro and Martinez de Pasqually certainly inspired Freemasons such as Arthur Edward Waite and John Yarker, who have in turn inspired modern Freemasons as they explore the hidden mysteries. **9.**  **Falcon Books:** *"The ritual of Freemasonry is heavily laced with magical imagery, with symbolism and numerology being of utter most importance to ceremonies. The power of ritual and and the secret of symbolism which accompanies the rites of passage is expressed more deeply with each passing degree, the initiate is constantly reminded of moral codes."* *The Genesis of Freemasonry * (page 49). **Since Masonry is heavily based on ritual and symbolism, I wonder could explain why this is so, and what does one gain in knowledge and wisdom from it in daily life as a form of self-development?** **Dr. David Harrison:** The meaning of Freemasonry is different to different Masons, the interpretation, the experiences are different – we all go through a similar degree ceremony, but each individual experience is different. I have met Freemasons who were moved after the ceremonies, some who were interested in finding out the history, some wanted more ceremonies immediately and go into the side degrees quickly. The power of the ritual certainly influences people in many ways. **10.  How much of Masonic ritual would you say is based on Solomonic magic? ** **Dr. David Harrison: **The Grimoires associated to Solomon date to the Renaissance period and do not appear in Masonic ritual, though certain Freemasons such MacGregor Mathers was deeply interested in them. The Masonic ritual concerns the building of Solomon’s Temple and the search for lost knowledge. **11. Falcon Books: What does one obtain at each stage going through the degrees. Does one need to show a level of magical ability as along with wisdom and how is this assessed? ** **Dr. David Harrison: **Not magical ability, but an ability to understand how one can improve himself; you act out a role in a moralistic play, so you move from apprentice to Master, and you experience how through work, you can improve upon oneself as a human being, moralistically and educationally. There are however many Freemasons who wanted more and saw Freemasonry as a gateway to the Divine, to understand more about the hidden mysteries of nature and science and in my latest book *The Lost Rites and Rituals of Freemasonry**,* some Freemasons took a step further in their search for God. **12.** **Falcon Books: In what ways does Freemasonry benefit society?** **Dr. David Harrison: **Freemasonry does give a lot to charities, local hospices, local hospitals, children’s charities. I believe in the age of austerity we have entered, Freemasonry certainly assists in filling the holes left by government, especially with charity to hospitals and even local education. **13. Falcon Books: How much do you feel ideologies have changed over the centuries as it has developed and grown?** **Dr. David Harrison: **Freemasonry has indeed changed over the centuries; its ritual has changed and the people who have joined are changing along with the world around them. The Freemasons of today are different to the Freemasons of the eighteenth century, for example they dress differently and dine differently, and they are worlds apart in the sense of technology, but I think they have the same fundamental needs--to care for their family, fellow brethren and society as a whole. **14.** Falcon Books: What is your vision for the future of Freemasonry? **Dr. David Harrison:** I think there will always be a need for Freemasonry, it’s attracted people for well over 300 years as a society, and I think it will continue to do so. Freemasonry has always changed and adapted and I believe it is beginning to change again to attract new young people. **15.** **Falcon Books: I wonder if you tell us about your new title ****The Lost Rites and Rituals of Freemasonry and what can we expect from this book?** **Dr. David Harrison: ***The Lost Rites and Rituals of Freemasonry *is my latest book. The book examines the lost rites of Freemasonry, in particular the mysterious and influential Rites created on continental Europe during the eighteenth century by the likes of Martinez Pasqually, Count Cagliostro and Baron Von Hund. Charismatic figures such as Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, an enigmatic French Mason of the eighteenth century that forged the Rectified Rite out of the teachings of Pasqually and the reorganised Rite of Strict Observance will also be discussed. The eighteenth century saw a number of Masonic Rites developing in France, Germany and Russia, and though some of these Rites ceased to exist by the close of the century, the Rectified Scottish Rite, though changed, still survives today. Other influential figures such as Louis-Claude de Saint Martin and Emanuel Swedenborg are examined, and the influence that these charismatic figures had on the occult revival and later Masonic organisations such as Martinism and the Swedenborgian Rite are analysed in depth. Lost English Rites and rituals are also covered in detail, along with the lost symbolism that vanished after the union of the Antients and the Moderns in 1813. --- #### To find out more about David, please visit his Website and  Facebook. #### To purchase The Genesis of Freemasonry and The Lost Rites and Rituals of Freemasonry please visit: Lewis Masonic Publishing.   ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/16807356_1192337050815786_5270533072128895566_n.jpg) ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/18582586_1277919642257526_3733019678584311703_n.jpg) ---     --- # The Elemental Equilibrium by Virgil – An excerpt Chapter 1: An Overview of Self-Transformation Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/elemental-equilibrium-virgil-excerpt-chapter-1-overview-self-transformation/ #### Chapter 1: An Overview of Self-Transformation #### The Elemental Equilibrium   > *If you want a specific result, you have to examine if your practices produce those results.* ~William Mistele In the past, many magical schools and teachers advised their students to establish an elemental equilibrium. The Golden Dawn, for example, urged its students to “establish thyself firmly in the Equilibrium of Forces, in the center of the cross of the elements.” The fact is, however, it is no good to tell others to establish an elemental equilibrium if you do not also tell them how to do this. In other words, you must give them instructions for doing so. To give ineffective instructions is no better than to give no instructions at all, and as I pointed out in my first book, the vast majority of occult exercises that are designed to help people establish an elemental equilibrium are actually entirely ineffective. An elemental equilibrium is a state in which the four elements constituting an individual’s subtle bodies have been balanced and purified. Elemental imbalances and impurities manifest as negative character traits. Therefore, the current state of an individual’s elemental equilibrium can be assessed by observing the strength and number of his negative character traits. The process of establishing an elemental equilibrium involves eliminating one’s negative traits, strengthening one’s positive traits, and developing new positive traits. Bardon provides several extremely effective techniques for doing this in IIH, including magical washing, autosuggestion, conscious eating, conscious breathing, and volition. Each time you use these techniques to eliminate a negative trait, you eliminate the elemental imbalance or impurity that was at the root of that negative trait. By eliminating your negative traits one by one in this way, you will eventually remove all imbalances and impurities in your subtle bodies, establishing an elemental equilibrium within yourself. #### Crowley’s Postulate of Magic In the third part of Liber ABA, Crowley presents the following postulate of magic. > *Any required change may be effected by the application of the proper kind and degree of force in the proper manner, through the proper medium to the proper object.* You are trying to effect a change on yourself. What is the nature of the change? You are trying to establish an elemental equilibrium, or as many occult books put it, “balance the elements.”i As previously noted, some schools and systems of magic instruct you to effect this change in yourself but do not tell you the proper kind and degree of force, the proper manner, or the proper medium through which you can successfully effect this change. For this reason, their students are not successful. Let’s consider the factors that lead to success in a student’s endeavor to change himself into someone with an elemental equilibrium. #### Table 1: Factors of Successful Self-Transformation   | Kind of Force | Your own desire to change | | ------------- | ------------------------- | | Degree of Force | Serious | | Manner | Persistent | | Medium | Self-Transformation Techniques | | Object | Yourself |   The proper kind of force for self-transformation is your own desire to change. The wrong kind of force is someone else’s desire for you to change. If someone else really wants you to change but you don’t want to change, you won’t change. You yourself must desire to change, and it is the force of your desire to change that drives you to begin the journey of self-transformation. The proper degree of force is serious. If the degree of force is unserious or half-assed, you won’t succeed. If the degree of force is obsessive, you might injure yourself. It’s never a good idea to apply an obsessive amount of effort toward achieving a goal—even one as noble as self-transformation. Be serious about self-transformation without being obsessed about it. For example, consider the technique of conscious eating. Don’t try to practice conscious eating while simultaneously reading a book or watching television. If you do that, you aren’t serious. However, there is no need to sit around and do nothing but eat impregnated food all day. That is obsessive behavior, not serious behavior. The proper manner in which to apply the force is a persistent manner. Practice conscious eating at every meal every day—not just whenever you feel like it or only once in a while. Don’t skip doing the practice unless it is unavoidable. The medium in the process of self-transformation is the set of techniques you are using to transform yourself. It is through those techniques that the force of your desire to change acts. And lastly, the object that is being transformed is yourself, so this is the object you apply the force through the medium to. This combination of factors results in the desired change—the elimination of negative traits and development of positive traits, leading to the establishment and strengthening of your elemental equilibrium. Many occult books provide exercises for developing an elemental equilibrium. People who desire to change themselves often practice these exercises seriously and persistently. However, despite the presence of the proper kind of force, the proper degree of force, the proper manner of using the force, and the proper object, they do not succeed and remain as immature as they were before. This remains the case even after years and decades of regular practice. How is this possible? Crowley gives the following two theorems of magic. > *Every successful act has conformed to the postulate.* > *Every failure proves that one or more requirements of the postulate have not been fulfilled.* If aspiring magicians trying to establish an elemental equilibrium are applying the proper kind and degree of force in the proper manner to the proper object but are still unsuccessful in their endeavors, then clearly they are not using the proper medium. The medium is the specific set of techniques being practiced in order to establish an elemental equilibrium. If the techniques you are using to transform yourself are not effective, it does not matter how hard you practice them, how seriously you practice them, or how persistently you practice them; you will still be unsuccessful. If you have the proper medium, you are set to go. The proper kind of force, the proper degree of force, and the proper manner of using the force (of your desire to transform yourself) follow naturally. They can be summarized with the word “approach.” Once you learn the instructions for a technique, you need to experiment a little to find the right approach to the technique in order to make it as effective as possible. This shouldn’t take too long. Finding the right medium through which they can transform themselves is the first obstacle many students of magic need to overcome. As a student of the Bardon system, this is not the case for you because Bardon has already provided several extremely effective techniques of self-transformation in IIH. When these techniques are used with the proper kind and degree of force in the proper manner and applied to the proper object, they will result in the establishment of an elemental equilibrium. In other words, if you approach the task of using these techniques properly, you will establish an elemental equilibrium. However, the exact proper approach is slightly different for each individual. Table 1 is only a very generic summary. The purpose of this book, therefore, is not to teach you what the proper approach to each technique is. It is to give you some ideas that will help you find your own correct approach to each technique. #### The Three Parts of Self-Transformation The three parts of self-transformation are as follows. - Eliminate your negative traits - Strengthen your positive traits - Develop new positive traits This is usually considered the best order, and for good reason. Self-transformation is a process of recreating yourself. Let’s say you have a cake but it is not a very good cake. You want to make it better (AKA recreate the cake into a better cake), so you start by reducing the cake to separate ingredients. Each ingredient represents a personality trait. Upon examining the ingredients (AKA introspecting), you find sugar, baking soda, flour, eggs, butter, milk, rabbit feces, squirrel vomit, and donkey saliva. The first thing you do is you throw out those last three ingredients. It does not matter what the rest of the ingredients are; if a cake contains rabbit feces, squirrel vomit, and donkey saliva, it will not taste good regardless of what else you put in it. Therefore, when you recreate yourself, the first thing you do is eliminate your negative personality traits. While reading *The Universal Master Key*, which was written by some direct students of Bardon, one thing I noticed was that the authors repeatedly insist that a positive trait is not of much benefit if it is weak, and that to truly benefit from a positive trait, it must be strong. I think it is fair to assume that Bardon himself must have repeatedly stated this or else his students would not continually emphasize this point. Therefore, this should be contemplated. It is clear that the idea has a lot of merit. You might have some good traits, but you won’t derive much benefit from them if they are weak. For this reason, the second part of self-transformation is to strengthen your positive traits. It is usually easier to strengthen a positive trait you already have than it is to develop a new positive trait from scratch. In addition, your strengthened positive traits can be valuable assets that will aid you when you begin the third part of the process and work to develop new positive traits. As for the third part, this is partially tied to the first part. For example, in order to eliminate impatience, you must develop a new positive trait—patience. However, there are also going to be positive traits you would like to have but did not develop in the process of eliminating your negative traits. These, you should turn your attention to after you have completed the first and second parts. When recreating the cake, first remove the gross ingredients, then make sure the remaining ingredients are high quality and replace them if they aren’t, and then add in new ingredients like frosting. #### The Six-Pronged Attack Self-transformation is not an instant process. I’m sure at one point or another, we’ve all wished it were possible to wave a wand and cast a spell on ourselves in order to become virtuous or talented. Something like that might work in the world of Harry Potter, but not in our world. True and permanent self-transformation takes repeated and constant effort over a period of time. In Step 2, Bardon writes of a “three-pronged attack” for the purpose of self-transformation. It is as follows, - Autosuggestion - Transmutation - Volition He also says that one can use the techniques of conscious eating, conscious breathing, and magical washing to supplement this set of methods. In my first book, I grouped all of these together into a set I called the “six-pronged attack.” - Autosuggestion - Volition - Conscious eating - Conscious breathing - Magical washing - Transmutation In this book, I have removed transmutation from the set. I did this because transmutation is different from the other prongs. Autosuggestion, volition, conscious eating, conscious breathing, and magical washing are specific techniques you can use to transform yourself. Transmutation is not a specific technique, but a strategy. The idea is to eliminate a negative trait by developing the opposite positive trait. For example, if you want to eliminate impatience from your personality, you can do this by developing patience. Or, if you want to eliminate stupidity from yourself, you can do this by developing intelligence. In order to do that, you can use autosuggestion or conscious eating. Think of it this way. The prongs of the six-pronged attack are weapons. Transmutation is not a weapon, but a fighting style. It’s a specific way of using those weapons. After removing transmutation from the set of prongs, I added another prong, which is intended as a catch-all for any non-magical methods that could be used to eliminate the negative trait you wish to be rid of. The new prong I’ve added is discussed in the eleventh chapter of this book. The order of the prongs I have used in this book shouldn’t be seen as standard. I address magical washing first because I considered it the best place to introduce the inner adept idea, which I will reference repeatedly throughout this book. I then introduce autosuggestion so I can point out that it can be used to increase your proficiency in using the other prongs. This allows me to remind you of that fact in the following chapters about conscious eating and conscious breathing. I then put conscious eating and conscious breathing together because they are similar in their mechanics. Both involve impregnating a substance and consuming it in order to assimilate the trait it has been transmuted into. I discussed non-magical methods last because this is a new addition to the six-pronged attack, and I wanted to address the traditional prongs readers were already familiar with first. That was the logic and reasoning behind the order I used as I organized the chapters of this book. Again, it’s not standard. If you go onto a Bardon forum or chat group and start throwing around the phrase “Prong 3,” no one is going to have any idea what you are talking about. Refer to it by its actual name—conscious eating. The self-transformation techniques in the six-pronged attack are remarkably effective. Their effectiveness only grows with practice. Over time, they will allow the student to accomplish “the creation of man by himself.” They will aid the student in acquiring “the perfect emancipation of his will” and gaining “full power over the Universal Magical Agent.” #### The Lovers The message of the sixth card in the Major Arcana is that the more wise decisions we make, the more joyful and blessed our lives will be.ii In his book *The Tarot: A Contemporary Course of the Quintessence of Hermetic Occultism*, Mouni Sadhu notes that the person in the card standing between the paths of virtue and vice is young. According to him, this indicates the importance of making wise decisions when young because the earlier you make a wise decision, the more benefit you will reap from it. Deciding to change yourself for the better is a wise decision. Therefore, make this decision as early as possible and get to work! The earlier you do so, the more you will benefit from the positive traits you develop within yourself. #### Reactive Emotionalism In his book *The Lost Art of Listening*, Matthew Nichols states that learning to truly listen to others will help improve all relationships. This includes familial relationships. Since the family is the basic unit of society, clearly society overall would be better off if everyone were better at listening. According to Nichols, one of the things that prevents people from truly listening is something he calls “reactive emotionalism.” It’s a complex concept, but the gist of it is that when we react emotionally, even slightly, to what others are saying, we do things to express our emotional reaction, and this distracts us and prevents us from focusing on and understanding what the person speaking to us is trying to say. The things we do might be physical, but could be mental as well. Establishing an elemental equilibrium means you are in control of yourself. Other people are not in control of you, and your emotions and passions are not in control of you. In other words, it is the most permanent and thorough solution to the problem of reactive emotionalism. I mention all of this to show just one of the myriad ways establishing an elemental equilibrium will improve your relationships, and therefore your life in general. When you have an elemental equilibrium, your mind and emotions are balanced and therefore stable. Because they are stable, they possess a quality of inner stillness and inner silence that allows you to truly listen, fostering the understanding and empathy needed for a relationship to remain strong and flourish. #### Attitude Many people think that self-transformation is a gruesome, strenuous, and exhausting process that involves a lot of suffering. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, I don’t understand that attitude at all. It is completely illogical. I suspect that the reason people think this is that they believe the volition prong is the only tool they have to transform themselves. Yes, if sheer willpower alone was the only tool we had to change ourselves, self-transformation would indeed be tiring and frustrating. However, when the other five prongs are also used, it becomes a steady, smooth, and enjoyable process. A well-known saying by Bob Anthony goes “When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change, you will change.” There are some important messages to take away from this statement. One is that changing yourself is a way to avoid suffering. Do you see the irony in not wanting to change yourself because you want to avoid suffering? If you want to avoid suffering, changing yourself is exactly what you need to do. Much of the suffering you experience in life is ultimately caused by your negative traits and the influence they have on the choices you make. We see the most glaring illustrations of these basic truths in literature where tragic heroes suffer because of the tragic flaws they possess. With King Lear, it was his pride. With Oedipus, it was his arrogance and ignorance. With Hamlet, it was his indecisiveness. Had any of those characters eliminated their tragic flaws from their personalities with the six-pronged attack, they would have avoided a lot of suffering. #### Training for Busy People Bardon writes in IIH that the busiest person in the world could still work through his system. The system’s efficient approach to self-transformation is one reason for this.iii The techniques of the six-pronged attack are used while eating, breathing, washing your hands, showering, and doing any non-intellectual activity. As a result, you can devote a large portion of your day to self-transformation. These activities are all already integrated into your life. As can be seen, you don’t have to work to integrate powerful techniques of self-transformation into your life. You take activities already integrated into your life and turn them into powerful techniques of self-transformation. Clever, huh? The thing is, Bardon didn’t choose to include these techniques in his system because they were efficient. He chose to include them because they were the most effective and powerful techniques he knew of. The fact that they also happen to be extremely efficient is a great bonus, especially for us busy folks! #### Magic vs. Occultism In a group chat between various occultists I used to belong to, a well-known occult writer stated that it was ok for magicians to be angry and irritable. He wrote that many religions dogmatically insist that anger is bad, but the magician should not be a slave to such dogma. Therefore, the magician should realize it is ok to be angry and irritable. There are many problems with these statements and this line of reasoning. It is true that a magician should not be a slave to dogma; however, this doesn’t mean you should just automatically believe the opposite of what religious dogmas say is true. If you do that, you are still a slave of religious dogmas. When it comes to the question of whether or not it is ok for a magician to be angry and irritable, the magician needs to do his own thinking, come to his own understanding of anger/irritability and the consequences of possessing this trait, and then come to his own conclusion regarding how acceptable it is for a magician to be angry and irritable. Being angry and irritable is a sign that one does not have an elemental equilibrium. Therefore, claiming that it is fine for a magician to be angry and irritable is the same as claiming it is fine for a magician to not have an elemental equilibrium. For me, this is like saying it is fine for a warrior to have no muscles, or it is fine for a scientist to have no brain. It just does not make sense to me, but it made sense to this occult writer. This incident was one of several incidents that made me realize that the magic I sought and studied was different from the magic that most people in the esoteric world sought and studied. As I did some research on these two different forms of magic, I realized that although they were both called “magic,” they were in fact essentially different, and a lot of harm could come from confusing the two. One of the reasons I wrote my first book, *The Spirit of Magic,* was to clarify the difference between the two. I continued to refer to one as “magic” and referred to the other as “occultism” in order to minimize confusion. This book was written for students of magic, not occultism. #### Genuine Magical Self-Transformation and the Advantages It Has Over Its Occult and Sorcerous Alternatives If you’re a human being, there’s a good chance you can’t fly. Let’s say you want to be able to fly. That involves changing yourself. You could try creating a jet pack and using it. The jetpack can fly, but that doesn’t mean you can fly. You still haven’t accomplished your goal of being able to fly. If you want to fly, you need to grow wings. Some might argue that for many practical purposes, owning and using a jetpack is just as good as growing wings and using them. However, the experience just isn’t the same. When you grow wings, you are flying under your own power. You are not relying on some device that is foreign to you and not a part of you. Besides, the jetpack can run out of fuel or malfunction if it is not built correctly. Let’s say you want to be more charismatic. You could create a talisman that exudes warmth, confidence, openness, and friendliness. If you wear this talisman, people around you will behave towards you as if you were charismatic. In the case of a truly charismatic person, his aura will naturally exude those qualities. But for most practical purposes, it might not matter whether it is your aura exuding those qualities or a talisman you are wearing that is exuding those qualities. Still, the experience is just not the same. Do you want to seem charismatic, or do you want to actually be charismatic? Also, what happens if the talisman becomes destroyed or lost? Those around you who were attracted to your magnetic and charismatic personality would become disillusioned. This is because your personality was never actually magnetic and charismatic. The personality of the talisman was, and that is broken or lost. Many years ago, a friend of mine needed help passing a course in college. I made him a Mercury talisman and programmed it to help him pass exams. The idea was that the talisman would subtly influence him into marking the correct answers whenever he wore it. It seemed to work, and he wore the talisman during every exam. One day, however, he forgot to take the talisman with him to an exam. When he realized this, he turned to the person sitting next to him and screamed out loud “Oh my God, I forgot my talisman!” He nearly broke down from the panic attack he experienced upon realizing this. In retrospect, instead of giving him a talisman, I should have taught him the six-pronged attack and told him to use it to become more intelligent. You can forget to take a talisman with you to an exam, but if you are intelligent, you can’t forget to take your intelligence with you to an exam. In addition, developing intelligence would have benefited him in many other aspects of his life, not just the academic aspect. Many of his relationships also went sour because of stupid decisions he made. Yep, becoming intelligent would have benefited him in pretty much anything he did. A client who had trouble making friends hired a witch I knew to perform a ritual to help him make friends and build a social life. She did, and he messaged her about a week after the ritual thanking her and telling her it worked. He had indeed met some people and begun hanging out with them. A few weeks later, he contacted her again and tried to hire her to perform the same ritual again. Somehow, he was back to having no friends and no social life. It turned out that while her ritual had helped him make friends, he had not been able to keep the friends he made because he was a shy and boring person. Workings like rituals and spells can fix a problem temporarily, but if you still possess the personality traits that led to the problem in the first place, that problem is just going to come back. A permanent fix to his problem would have been to learn the six-pronged attack and use it to become charismatic, open, extroverted, friendly, and interesting. I remember reading an old folk tale about a guy who was possessed by a demon when he was a baby. The guy’s parents took him to a sorcerer who gave him a talisman. The sorcerer said the guy must wear the talisman at all times because it would prevent the demon from taking over his body and manipulating it. The guy managed to wear the talisman continuously until he was an adult. One day when he was working in the field, however, the string holding the talisman broke and it fell off. As a result, the demon was able to seize control of the man’s body and cause him to walk to a cliff and jump off. Maybe this is just some silly folktale, but I think there are genuinely magical lessons to be extracted from it. Think of the demon as a negative personality trait like irritability, impatience, disorganization, or laziness. Creating a talisman that is programmed to magically suppress the influence of the negative trait is at best only a temporary solution. It’s not a real solution to the problem. You need to exorcise the demon; in other words, you need to root out the negative trait with the six-pronged attack. Consider the following variation of the folktale with the same message delivered in a more literal manner. > Once upon a time, there was a boy who had really bad anger-management problems. His parents took him to see a sorcerer, who gave him a talisman. The talisman was filled with lunar energy because the quality of serenity corresponds to the moon. The sorcerer told the boy that he should always wear the talisman. That way, he would always feel calm instead of angry. The boy wore the talisman continually until he was an adult. One day, however, the string holding the talisman around his neck broke and it fell on the ground into the sewer. The man didn’t notice. Later that day, his wife did something to annoy him. As a result, he got so angry he picked up a gun and shot his wife and their children. As you can see, the kind of genuine self-transformation offered by magic has many benefits over the illusory self-transformation offered by sorcery and occultism. And let’s not forget that magicians are interested in much more than casting spells to make fast cash or seduce pretty women. Magic is about embodying the highest forms of power and wisdom in order to accomplish divine missions like establishing peace and justice on Earth, repairing the global economy, and eliminating corruption in government. You will have many teachers and helpers as you work in service of Divine Providence. The first of these will be the elemental spirits you meet when you begin the work of PME. Regarding the task of working with elementals, Eliphas Levi writes the following. > *To overcome and subjugate the elementary spirits, we must never yield to their characteristic defects. Thus, a shallow and capricious mind will never rule the Sylphs; an irresolute, cold and fickle nature will never master the Undines; passion irritates the Salamanders; and avaricious greed makes its slaves the sport of Gnomes. But we must be prompt and active, like the Sylphs; pliant and attentive to images, like the Undines; energetic and strong like the Salamanders; laborious and patient, like the Gnomes: in a word, we must overcome them in their strength without ever being overcome by their weaknesses* The gnomes respect a magician because he is patient; not because he happens to be wearing a talisman that magically manipulates him into acting patiently via subtle energies. Acting patiently or appearing to be patient isn’t enough to get the gnomes to take you seriously. You have to actually be patient. To do this, you need to internalize and develop that quality so it becomes a part of you, unlike an external talisman that you wear. This passage from Levi’s writings is actually very famous. Surely, numerous students of magic have read the passage and asked themselves how they can eliminate the negative personality traits Levi lists and then become prompt and active, pliant and attentive to images, energetic and strong, and laborious and patient. The answer is through the six-pronged attack. In my first book, I included the following story. > *One day, it came to pass that a certain occultist wished to evoke the salamander king Pyrhum. He drew a circle and triangle, placed Pyrhum’s sigil in the triangle, and proceeded to recite a long series of conjurations. The salamander king appeared, very angry, and began to berate the occultist for bothering him. The occultist, in reply, said ‘In the name of Elohim and by the power of the great angel Michael, I order you to obey me.’ Pyrhum, in response, said ‘I respect Elohim, and I respect Michael, but who are you?’ He then incinerated the occultist and returned to the elemental realm of fire* Those sorcerers and occultists who say things like “In the name of Elohim” are trying to apply magical techniques and principles that have become corrupted and distorted to the point of being ineffective. The magician does not evoke in the name of Elohim. The magician evokes as Elohim because he has internalized Elohim (the fiery aspect of Divinity).iv The process of internalizing the fiery aspect of Divinity begins with developing positive fire traits like charisma, enthusiasm, self-discipline, and independence. Again, this is done through the six-pronged attack. When you have done this, great salamander kings like Pyrhum will respect you and take you seriously when you evoke them. They will teach you the secrets of their element and empower you to perform the work you are determined to perform in order to fill the world with light, love, and joy. In PME, Bardon states that wings are symbolic of a divine nature. Because angels are divine in nature, they are always depicted with wings. One song about a great magician of the past states “Light and life to all he brings; ris’n with healing in his wings.” Note that it did not say “Ris’n with healing in his jet pack.” It is not enough to have the appearance of virtue and divinity. You must truly be virtuous and divine. #### A Story In Byron Sherwin’s book *Kabbalah: An Introduction to Jewish Mysticism,* the author explains that in Kabbalah, humility is considered the most important virtue a student could possess, and that developing this virtue was a prerequisite for serious systematic study of Kabbalah. He cites a number of texts written by well-known Kabbalists to prove his claim. I once came across the writings of someone who had dedicated his entire life to a particular magical tradition and the magical system that tradition had developed and practiced. We’ll call him Logan. Since magical training is in part a process of spiritual evolution, I figured Logan would be highly spiritually evolved after spending a lifetime working with a system of magic. I was wrong. Logan’s writings immediately reflected the fact that he was extremely immature. Most of them were poorly written hatchet jobs targeted toward people he believed had wronged him in some way. Furthermore, regardless of whatever he was writing about, all of his writings dripped with ridiculous amounts of arrogance. This is ironic because the magical tradition he was a part of incorporated a lot of Kabbalah. His level of arrogance was actually comical, and many times, I could only shake my head and ask “Are you serious?” Unfortunately, his writings were not some form of satire criticizing arrogant “magicians.” He really was that arrogant. While all of this was amusing in some ways, it was disturbing in many others. I ruled out the possibility that Logan was born that arrogant because, realistically, it is highly unlikely for someone to be born with that much arrogance in his personality. Somehow, he must have become ridiculously arrogant over the course of time, and this process of becoming arrogant happened either in spite of his magical training or because of his magical training. Which was it? The answer is the latter. It turns out that the system of magic he practiced was incomplete because it did not provide students with effective methods for establishing an elemental equilibrium before working with magical energies. That system happened to work a lot with solar energy. Since arrogance is a trait that corresponds with the sun, he had become ridiculously arrogant as a result of constant work with solar energy. The constant contact with that energy had fed, increased, and augmented the arrogance that already existed in his personality. If he had rooted out the quality of arrogance from his personality before working with solar energy, he would have been fine, but he did not know to do this because the teachings of the tradition of magic he belonged to were incomplete. If you look back at the history of that particular tradition of magic, you will see that many of its members were also very arrogant. This is not a coincidence. We can speak of an “elemental equilibrium” in which you have rooted out the negative traits corresponding to the elements, or we can speak of a “planetary equilibrium” in which you have rooted out the negative traits corresponding to the planets. They are essentially the same thing. The idea is you root out your negative traits so that the magical energies you work with and bring into your body cannot feed them, augment them, and strengthen them. If you asked most people who knew Logan to describe him, they would describe him as an arrogant asshole. While this is a correct description, I don’t think it’s a fair one. I think it is most fair to describe Logan as a victim of a group of individuals who incorrectly believed they were qualified to create a system of magic. Because they were not actually qualified to create a system of magic, the system of magic they ended up creating was horribly incomplete and unbalanced. Logan was tricked. He was sincere in his desire to evolve spiritually and was told that the magical system would help him do that. In the end, it did the opposite. As the Kabbalists pointed out, the first step in spiritual evolution is to acquire humility, yet after a lifetime of dedication to that magical tradition, Logan is as far from taking that first step as I am from marrying Natalie Portman. If you go through the old BardonPraxis archives on Rawn’s site and read his responses, you will notice that he is always very humble in his interactions with others. All of the other adepts I know or know of are also very humble, and interacting with them always inspires me to be more humble as well. Humility is truly one of the marks of a genuine adept. Make sure you acquire that trait during the Step 2 self-transformation work. The techniques contained in the six-pronged attack will help you do that. #### Meat and Poison There is a saying that “One’s man’s meat is another man’s poison.” This is very true. The elemental pore breathing exercises of Step 3 are meat to someone with an elemental equilibrium. These exercises will nourish him and further balance him. These same exercises are poison to someone who does not have an elemental equilibrium. They will further unbalance him. #### To Know - You must know which techniques will help you establish an elemental equilibrium, and you must know which techniques will not help you establish an elemental equilibrium. - You must know yourself so you know what about yourself you need to change in order to establish an elemental equilibrium. - You must know your negative traits because you will need to eliminate them in order to establish an elemental equilibrium. - You must know when a negative trait has been fully rooted out and not just weakened or diminished. - You must know your positive traits because you will need to strengthen them and use them in order to establish an elemental equilibrium. In addition to knowing your negative traits, you must also know the nature of each trait, and not merely the fact that you possess it. The more understanding you have of a trait, the easier it will be for you to form an appropriate plan for eliminating it. Rawn suggests meditating on the trait. By contemplating it regularly, you will examine all aspects of the trait, see how they relate to each other, and discover the trait’s origin and purpose. Indeed, meditating on and contemplating a trait is a good way to learn about it in order to understand it. There’s another thing you can do to come to better understand the negative trait you are trying to eliminate or the positive trait you are trying to develop—research it. If you type the trait into a search engine like Google, I’m sure you’ll find numerous articles and websites discussing the trait. Reading them will help you understand it. You may also come across tips for eliminating/developing it as you research it. When I was working to eliminate the trait of disorganization, I found a number of good websites providing excellent tips for becoming organized. I guess another manifestation of this power is knowing that Google is a useful tool and knowing how to use it. #### To Dare Some people are afraid to change themselves. Various writers have put forth different explanations for why this is the case. I don’t think any of them are right or wrong. For every person who is afraid to change himself, I think there is a unique combination of factors giving rise to this fear. In any case, dare to change yourself. Your courage will be greatly rewarded. #### To Will Volition is one of the prongs of the six-pronged attack. Therefore, it is clearly involved in the process of character transformation. Volition isn’t just about using your will to fight against a negative trait when it rises up and tries to control you. It’s also about regularly willing yourself to make use of the techniques of the six-pronged attack. This is especially the case at the beginning of one’s training, before using them regularly has become a habit and a way of life. #### To Keep Silence The most important power! Woo! #### The Elemental Equilibrium of a Bardon-Trained Initiate Bill views the inspiration behind the Bardon system as being closely tied to Saturn. This is the planetary force associated with overcoming one’s limitations and establishing justice. These processes are a big part of magical training and practice in the Bardon system. In Appendix A, I show that even after you have established an elemental equilibrium in Step 2, you will be constantly refining and improving your elemental equilibrium as you work through the rest of IIH. In an essay highlighting the Saturnian nature of the Bardon system, Bill provides the following description of the kind of elemental equilibrium possessed by someone who has completed IIH. > *We would be able to say with water: ‘I am a source of love for others—feeling, rapport, acceptance, support, giving and receiving, sharing, union, and intimacy—others find that I amplify everything that makes them feel alive.* > *In mastering the air element, we would be able to say, ‘I have a telepathic receptivity to the inner life in others. I enhance their sense of freedom and their power of choice. The desires hidden within them and the dark chambers of their hearts are illuminated. My presence is uplifting and refreshing. They feel harmonized and free of personal need.’* > *Through the fire element we inspire courage, resolution, strength, and conviction. Problems become challenges and obstacles opportunities. Fire, when it is pure and powerful enough, can take the urges to dominate and to destroy and transform them into the desire to heal and to renew the world. This aspect of fire we master on the astral plane until it becomes a part of ourselves.* > *With the earth element, we convey stability and endurance. The bliss within the earth element is found within silence. It has a peace as deep as the universe. Silence is a magical power which destroys hostility, negativity, and out of control desire. The actions and purposes of akasha, when they manifest, always possess some aspect of silence just as a word spoken in love represents only a small part of the heart which expresses it. The power of silence with its peace and ceaseless activity are a gift we extend to others through our presence.* In the Bardon system, magic is viewed as the art of blessing society. In other words, it’s the art of reducing unnecessary suffering in society and filling society with joy and wonder. Of course, Bardon-trained magicians often do this through practical magical work, but as this passage from Bill’s essay shows, when you have finished working through IIH, your presence alone is a blessing to those around you. This passage describes a high quality elemental equilibrium, but Bardon expected his students to attain nothing short of just that. Upon reading this description by Bill and understanding that this is the kind of person Bardon expected his students to become, it is obvious why the Bardon system has a serious nature and rigorous standards. --- ## Q & A ***Q: Does establishing an elemental equilibrium involve balancing the elements in your astra-mental body?*** A: Yes, but that is not the most practical way for beginners to think of the process because, despite what some schools and systems teach, you cannot directly manipulate the elements in your astra-mental body into a balanced state through the use of elemental correspondences, visualization, and occult techniques. In fact, it is actually really naïve to think so. It is better to think of it as a process of eliminating your negative traits, strengthening your positive traits, and developing new positive traits. When you have done this, the elements in your astra-mental body will be balanced (and purified). ***Q: As far as magical training is concerned, why is it important to transform your character/personality by establishing an elemental equilibrium in Step 2?*** A: If you do not root out your negative traits in Step 2, the exercise of pore breathing the elements in Step 3 will cause them to grow and strengthen. This will cause you to become an extremely unpleasant, unbalanced, and possibly dangerous human being.v In addition, in Step 3, you are reaching for magical power. Such an action attracts the attention of the Saturn principle of the universe, which will put limitations and restrictions in your way that prevent you from developing and acquiring the power you seek until you have the maturity needed to handle it responsibly. The character transformation work of Step 2 is an important part of developing the maturity needed to handle the magical power you develop in Step 3. Without this maturity, there is a greater possibility that you will misuse or abuse your magical abilities, resulting in a significant accumulation of negative karma for yourself. In addition, as Bardon (and other authors) point out, the quality of your astral senses depends on the purity of your character. ***Q: As far as life is concerned, why is it important to transform your character/personality by establishing an elemental equilibrium?*** A: When I look back on my childhood, I find that I suffered a lot because of my unbalanced personality. I was way too passive and not assertive at all. I was way too introverted and not extroverted at all. I had way more fire and air traits than water and earth traits. My unbalanced personality not only caused me to suffer a lot, but also prevented me from succeeding in a lot of my endeavors. Thus, for me, establishing an elemental equilibrium by using the six-pronged attack was not about moving on to Step 3. It was about improving the quality of my life. ***Q: So is life the ultimate test of how legit your elemental equilibrium is?*** A: Yes, that is correct. A lot of your suffering and failure in life will be because of your negative traits, and those negative traits are rooted in elemental imbalances in your subtle bodies. If your elemental equilibrium is truly improving, then you should notice a definite improvement in the quality of your life. If you notice such an improvement after a period of time working with certain self-transformation techniques, then you can be sure those techniques are effective for you. If you do not notice such an improvement after a period of time working with certain self-improvement techniques, you can be sure that those techniques are not effective for you. Too many people who try to “balance the elements” within themselves don’t really understand what that means and therefore have no way of testing whether the exercises they are practicing in order to “balance the elements” within themselves are effective or not. They just keep practicing those exercises because some “authority” told them it was effective. Life is indeed the ultimate test that determines whether or not a technique is truly effective. ***Q: What is a perfect elemental equilibrium?*** A: A perfect elemental equilibrium is seen in Divine Providence, who is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and eternal. According to some esoteric thinkers, the cards of the Major Arcana represent the spiritual journey of a magician. If this is the case, then the last card, The Universe, represents the attainment of a perfect elemental equilibrium. The four elements are symbolized by the four animals at the corners of the card, and the woman at the center is the magician. The circle around her represents her connection with Divinity. According to Eliphas Levi, the woman also represents absolute truth, indicating that when the magician has reached this stage, he will be enlightened enough to speak of absolute truth. As Bardon points out in the truth section of the theory part of IIH, this is a very high and exalted level of spiritual attainment. The woman also holds two wands. One represents her will and the other represents the will of Divine Providence. It is impossible to tell which one represents her will and which one represents the will of Divine Providence because they are identical. ***Q: What is introspection?*** A: Introspection is the act of analyzing and examining yourself - in particular your personality and character. In the process, you should not be critical or judgmental. You should be objective, honest, and thorough. As you examine yourself, you should strive to identify the various traits and qualities you possess that cause you to think the things you think, feel the things you feel, and act the way you act. ***Q: How does introspection help one develop an elemental equilibrium?*** A: To establish an elemental equilibrium, you need to eliminate your negative traits. You can’t begin the process of eliminating your negative traits if you don’t know what your negative traits are. Introspection will help you identify what your negative traits are. It will also help you identify your positive traits so you can begin strengthening them and making use of them in your efforts to eliminate your negative traits. ***Q: I don’t need to introspect to establish an elemental equilibrium because instead, I’m going to practice an exercise I found in a book that is designed to balance the elements in your astral body directly. Basically, you visualize symbols associated with the elements in specific regions of your body and vibrate divine names associated with the elements.*** A: Ok, good luck with that. ***Q: Bardon says that the student of magic “ought to quickly and surely endeavor to get rid of those passions that hinder him most from being successful in the magic art.” Because I don’t know a lot about magic or magical advancement, how do I figure out what negative traits are the biggest hindrance to my magical advancement so I can get rid of them sooner rather than later?*** A: Actually, the various factors (karmic, circumstantial, etc.) that determine the rate at which you advance along the magical path are far more complicated than you think and I don’t fully understand them myself. Thus, if you gave me a list of negative traits, I would not be able to rank them by how strongly they hinder one’s magical advancement. Instead of seeking to quickly eliminate the negative traits that hinder you from being successful in magic, I suggest you seek to quickly eliminate the negative traits that hinder you from being successful in life. For reasons I won’t go into here, I have reason to believe that the same traits that hinder you most from being successful in life are also those that hinder you most from advancing along the magical path.vi ***Q: How do I know what traits prevent me from being successful in life most?*** A: First, take some time to think about what you want most in your current incarnation. Is it a happy and healthy family? Is it a successful career? Is it to leave a lasting legacy? Is it to spread love and joy? Is it to travel a lot? Reflect back on your life and try to identify what traits have prevented you from getting what you want. In addition, make a list of the biggest failures that have happened in your life and try to determine what personality traits led to those failures. ***Q: After many years of magical training, I have eliminated every negative trait on my black soul mirror. As far as the task of self-transformation goes, I don’t know what to do next. Can you give me advice?*** A: Use the six pronged attack to become a better husband to your wife or a better parent to your children. One can never be too good of a husband or parent. And unless you are seriously conceited, you cannot possibly believe you are a perfect husband or parent, and therefore, must admit that you have work to do in that area. ***Q: I am neither a husband nor a parent though. Is there anything else I can do?*** A: Well, since I know absolutely nothing about you, the safest answer I can give is to become more intelligent because one can never be too intelligent. The more intelligent you are, the more easily you will be able to think of good solutions to the problems that pop up in your life and the problems society as a whole faces. Therefore, apply your efforts to becoming more intelligent. The fact that you are asking me this question implies you are not intelligent enough to think of a good answer on your own, showing you have work to do in that area. ***Q: Why is it suggested we eliminate our major negative traits before eliminating our minor negative traits? Isn’t it better to start with the minor traits because they are easier and therefore we can build confidence in ourselves through our successes and gain proficiency in using the techniques of the six-pronged attack, which in turn will prepare us to tackle the major negative traits? It seems to me like if we tackle the major negative traits first, we are more likely to fail and lose confidence in ourselves.*** A: You cannot possibly fail to eliminate a trait, no matter how big or strong it is, if you are persistent. Yes, it might take a long time for you to be successful, but if you keep at it, you will be successful. As Levi wrote, “Constantly dripping water will wear away a stone, and in the end will perforate it. The aim to which you ever devote your will power will be at length attained; you begin to succeed as soon as you begin to will success.” In later chapters, I will explain the mechanics of techniques like conscious eating and conscious breathing. Upon studying the relevant sections, you will get an idea of how powerful these techniques are, and how thorough the transformation they bring about within you is. You will realize that if they are used persistently, they cannot fail to bring about the desired change in yourself. In other words, as long as you are persistent, you will not fail to eliminate a major trait, not matter how strong it is. You eliminate the major negative traits first because they have the biggest negative impact on your life, and therefore, by eliminating them, you improve your life immensely. In addition, due to the fact that all aspects of the personality are connected and the astral body is one unit, oftentimes the elimination of a major trait results in several minor traits being eliminated in the process. Thus, you kill two (or three, or five) birds with one stone—a big bird and a few small birds that are connected to it somehow. ***Q: After developing an elemental equilibrium, can you lose it?*** A: Yes. No one’s elemental equilibrium is perfect. You will constantly improve it. However, if your elemental equilibrium can get better, it can also get worse. Never cease to continue improving your personality and character in order to further strengthen your elemental equilibrium. The task of self-transformation does not stop upon completing Step 2. In The Universal Master Key, a student of Bardon writes that the trait of vigilance is used to protect the temple of Solomon. The temple of Solomon represents an individual’s elemental equilibrium. Protecting the temple of Solomon means guarding the integrity of one’s elemental equilibrium. Vigilance is necessary to do this because by constantly being aware, you will be able to sense if your equilibrium is weakening and take appropriate measures to strengthen it. ***Q: How do I know what new traits I should develop in the third part of the self-transformation process?*** A: One good idea is to make a list of people you admire and then determine what specific traits about them you admire. If you don’t possess those traits, work to develop them. Another good idea is to examine your life and career and then think about what traits you need in order to be more successful. Then, work to develop those traits. ***Q: If I am an adept magician with proficient mastery over the elements, including akasha, is it possible for me to use magical methods, techniques, or rituals to establish an elemental equilibrium in someone else?*** A: When it comes to magic, pretty much anything is possible in theory. However, just because it is possible to do something does not mean it is a good idea. A lack of an elemental equilibrium is a disease in the same way that the common cold, cancer, and tuberculosis are diseases. When it comes to healing diseases, the first step is to assess whether the disease is caused by chance or caused by karma. If a disease is caused by chance and has no karmic root, it is a simple matter for an adept to heal it. If a disease is caused by karma, the situation is more complicated. The following passage comes from Memories of Franz Bardon. In it, Dr. M.K. reminisces about Bardon and his teachings. > *The master told me once that he healed a young girl whose lungs were already severely destroyed by tuberculosis. Since this ailment was linked to her destiny or karma, for this reason he himself was called upon to account for his actions through incredible obstacles. Eventually he was compelled to undo the entire healing process.* So we see here that to really cure someone of a disease caused by karma, you have to take a portion of the afflicted individual’s karma upon yourself; namely the portion of the karma responsible for the disease. A lack of an elemental equilibrium is a disease caused by karma, and working through one’s karma is involved in the process of learning, maturing, and transforming oneself in order to establish an elemental equilibrium. Therefore, to establish an elemental equilibrium within someone else, you would have to take an enormous part of that person’s karma onto your shoulders. 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The correspondences taught by the original Golden Dawn order were actually as follows. Fire  Elohim (Geburah) Water  El (Chesed) Air  IHVH (Tiphereth) Earth  Adonai (Malkuth That set of correspondences reflects the correspondences between the Sephiroth and the elements that is seen in the Rose Cross Lamen. There have been numerous debates in various online esoteric groups about which set of divine names is more “valid” or “correct.” Numerous individuals have spent significant portions of their finite lifespans arguing about this on Facebook. It is clear that some people care a whole lot about this issue. Despite this, I assure you that there is no one who cares as much as I don’t. I have chosen to use the older correspondences because there now seems to be a trend towards that direction amongst those who use divine names. v At the beginning of the Step 3 astral section, Bardon writes “Before starting on the training for this step, the astral equipoise of the elements in the soul has to be established by introspection and self-control unless you wish to do mischief to yourself.” This is what he means by “mischief to yourself.” vi Consider, for example, that the magical path begins in Malkuth, which is the real world, the world of daily life. --- #### To read more excerpts from  The Elemental Equilibrium: Notes on the Foundations of  Magical Adepthood, please visit Virgil's author page. To purchase either Kindle or Paperback view links below: #### [wpbooklist_shortcode table="virgilpublications"] ---   --- # There is No Magical Path by Virgil Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/no-magical-path-virgil/ --- ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/201612-orig-spiritual-path-949x534.jpg) --- These days, you see a lot of people talking about magical or spiritual “paths.” In a way, it makes sense. Students of magic want to get somewhere – namely adepthood. If you want to get somewhere, following a path to that place is a good way to get there. However, is it the only way to get there? If you think about it, if you want to get somewhere, you don’t need to follow a path. You just need to go in the right direction, at least most of the time. However, sometimes, it’s difficult to know what the right direction is. If you don’t know what the right direction is, then you could be going in the wrong direction. On the conscious level, most people aren’t afraid of going in the wrong direction. They don’t believe it’s possible for them to go in the wrong direction because they’re walking on a path and the path is always leading in the right direction. That’s why the path exists, right? However, although on the conscious level they aren’t afraid of going in the wrong direction, deep down inside, they are in fact terrified of going in the wrong direction. This terror is why they cling so strongly to the belief that they are walking on a path. If you want to reach adepthood, you need to walk in the direction of adepthood. Everyone who practices or does magic is walking, but they’re not necessarily walking in the direction of adepthood. In fact, many of them are walking in the opposite direction of adepthood. Magical advancement means getting closer to adepthood and consists in part of becoming more balanced. If we examine the exercises in IIH, we find that they will make you more balanced if you are ready to practice them. However, if you practice the exercises of IIH before you are ready to practice them, they won’t make you more balanced. They make you more unbalanced, and thus, bring you further away from adepthood. I see this happening all the time. People move on past Steps 1 and 2 before they have completed the work of those steps. They practice the elemental energy work of the later steps, and they create serious problems in both their inner and outer lives. They then come to me asking for help. Of course, I can’t help them because I have absolutely no idea how to fix the problems they have caused themselves or undo the damage they have done to their astral and mental bodies. I ask them if they want to become magicians, and if they say yes, I give them the best advice I can think of for people in their situation, which is to give up magic completely. 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Furthermore, the affirmation should not contain negative words (not, don’t, no, etc.), so “I am not impatient” is an incorrectly worded affirmation because it contains the negative word “not.” When you have come up with a correctly worded affirmation, repeat the affirmation at least forty times immediately before falling asleep and at least forty times immediately after waking up. In addition, repeat the affirmation regularly throughout the day whenever you get the chance to. #### Mechanics All of one’s personality traits and habits are rooted in the subconscious mind. Therefore, the student who wants to change his personality and habits must change his subconscious mind. When you repeat an affirmation over and over again, the idea contained within the affirmation sinks into your subconscious mind and takes root. Because the barrier between the conscious and subconscious minds is weakest immediately before falling asleep and immediately upon waking up, these are the best times to practice autosuggestion. #### Autosuggestion Throughout the Day During the summer of 1992, I had the once-in-a-lifetime experience of meeting the current president of the Bardon community when I travelled to visit her in New York. I stayed at her home for a week, and we had a number of long conversations about the nature of magic and magical training. She told me many stories and anecdotes about these subjects. One of them was about a friend of hers named Kelly. Kelly worked as a secretary for an insurance company in Corona and lived in a house in a suburb just outside of the city. Every morning, she would drive ten minutes to work. Every evening, she would drive ten minutes home. One day, her car was repossessed. As a result, her ten minute drives turned into hour-long walks. At first, she was extremely annoyed that she now had to walk an hour to work in the morning and an hour back to her house in the evening. It seemed like wasted time. However, she soon realized that this was an opportunity to use autosuggestion. Thus, every morning, she would repeat an affirmation over and over again for the entire walk to work, and every evening, she would repeat an affirmation over and over again for the entire walk back to her house. Her two hours of repeating an affirmation each day proved astoundingly effective towards the transformation of her character. She was able to eliminate vices and build up virtues much faster than if she had just repeated an affirmation forty times before going to bed and immediately upon waking up in the morning. When her car was first repossessed, she thought a terrible thing had happened to her. She wasn’t wrong, but the fact is, because that terrible thing happened to her, she ultimately ended up advancing along the magical path much faster than if her car had never been taken away from her. With two hours of autosuggestion a day, she was able to eliminate her irritability in just a month and a half. Without those two hours of autosuggestion each day, it might have taken her two years or more because the trait was so deeply rooted into her genes, mind, and personality. Anytime you are doing a mundane task like tidying up the house, pruning trees in the yard, sweeping, stirring cake mix, walking upstairs, or doing the laundry, repeat an affirmation over and over again. Making this a way of life is one of the secret keys to rapid advancement along the magical path. #### Grandmother’s Voice "And what is your name, please?" asked Tangle. "Grandmother," answered the lady. "Is it really?" "Yes, indeed. I never tell stories, even in fun." "How good of you!" > "I couldn't if I tried. It would come true if I said it, and then I should be punished enough." And she smiled like the sun through a summer shower. In the above passage, Tangle meets a great adept named Grandmother who is unable to lie. This is because anytime Grandmother says something that is false, it automatically becomes true. Her voice and speech have the power to transform the universe. Remember that according to the inner adept idea, your real self, which is present at the deepest layer of your being, is a great adept of at least the same caliber as Grandmother. Whatever he says immediately becomes true. You can tap into his power so that your voice also has the ability to speak situations or facts into true existence. The key to doing this is faith. This is reflected in the words of Jesus when he said, > “Truly I tell you that if anyone says to this mountain, 'Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' and has no doubt in his heart but believes that it will happen, it will be done for him.” If you make a statement with faith, your faith will empower the statement in such a way that the idea contained in the statement manifests in reality. Therefore, when you repeat your affirmation, do so with full faith and conviction that you are speaking the truth. When you say “I am patient,” truly believe that you are in fact patient. Take this as far as you can. Don’t just believe you are patient. Believe you are a paragon of patience or an embodiment of the most perfect form of patience. Have faith that this is truly the case. Some people think of autosuggestion as a way of building up positive qualities. Since our inner divine selves already possess all positive qualities, perhaps autosuggestion is just a way of reminding ourselves that we actually already possess the positive qualities we think we lack. When you say “I am patient”, you are reminding yourself that you are patient. You act impatiently because you’ve forgotten this is the case, but once you remember your true nature, you’ll live and act in accordance with it. In light of this view, when you say “I am patient,” you really are speaking a true statement and therefore should have no reason to doubt the veracity of your words. #### The Magical Power of Speech There are many spiritual and magical texts discussing the magical power of speech. When these texts describe the process of Divinity speaking the universe into existence (e.g. Genesis), they are not referring to literal human speech, but to the divine art of Creative Speaking. This is the art of using the Cosmic Language that is formed from the “letters” of the Cosmic Alphabet. These “letters” are potent and primordial forces that underlie and sustain creation. Those who have completed Step 8 of IIH or reached the equivalent level in another valid system of magical training can tap into the power of these letters using various quadripolar three-sense concentration practices. For specific details, consult KTQ. Although Creative Speaking and human speech are not the same, they are analogous. From this fact, we can conclude that human speech possesses its own kind of magical power that is reminiscent of the power of divine speech. For this reason, a number of spiritual texts discuss the magical power of human speech when it is magically trained. This power can be harnessed and applied via any spiritual technique with a vocal component, including autosuggestion. 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Autosuggestion can be used to change a negative personality into a positive personality. In this way, repeating an affirmation can certainly “reverse a whole course of negative destiny and bring forth something new and good.” #### Intelligent Wording Be intelligent when you design your affirmation. If you are suffering from insomnia, do not use the affirmation “I fall asleep easily.” If you do, you will end up falling asleep while driving, while at work, and in numerous other situations you would rather not fall asleep in. #### Beautiful Wording Magic is an art. Everything about your magic should be beautiful, and that includes your autosuggestion affirmations. Do not use an affirmation like “I fall asleep instantly and immediately at 10:30 in the evening every day except on Friday nights.” That’s not a beautiful affirmation. That’s an incredibly awkward affirmation. In addition, it’s kind of restricting too. What if one day you need to stay up late and can’t go to bed at 10:30? What if one Friday night you want to go to sleep early instead of partying late into the night? For insomnia, “I sleep well at night” and “I fall asleep at will easily” are better affirmations to use. Both are elegant and concise. I used the former to get over my insomnia. No language is perfect. Sometimes it might be tricky to come up with a concise and elegant affirmation to deal with a particular trait. An addiction to smoking is one of those traits. A few years ago, I taught a small three month long introductory course on magic at a local bookstore in Seattle. I challenged my students to come up with an elegant and concise affirmation for someone addicted to smoking. The best one they came up with, in my opinion, is “I am free of the desire to smoke.” I like it. I’ve never smoked, so I haven’t tried using that affirmation, but I can’t find anything wrong with it. In fact, I think that general template works well. Patience is the opposite of impatience. Some negative traits are like that. There is a single word that has the opposite meaning, which makes it easy to design an affirmation to counter it. Other negative traits like lust don’t have a nice neat single word with the opposite meaning. For those traits, you could use an affirmation like “I am free of lust.” Besides not being confusing for you and your subconscious mind, concise affirmations have other advantages. You can say the affirmation in one breath. Also, because they are short, you can say it more often than you can say a long one in a given period of time. Since the effectiveness of autosuggestion depends largely on how often you repeat the affirmation, a concise/short affirmation will result in more effective and powerful results. #### A Tired Tongue On some nights, before I had built a healthy social life, I would go on long walks lasting hours. Sometimes I’d leave shortly before midnight and would not get back to my apartment until around 5:00 in the morning. During the hours I was out, I would be repeating an affirmation with full conviction nonstop. The thing is, when you have been repeating the exact same affirmation over and over again for a long time, your tongue will get tired. My solution for this problem was to design multiple affirmations that mean the same thing. For example, let’s say you are trying to make yourself continually present-minded.i Consider the following three possible affirmations. “I am present-minded.” “I am focused.” “I am aware.” These all mean roughly the same thing and can be used to make yourself continually present-minded. Repeat the first affirmation over and over again. If your tongue gets tired from repeating the same thing for so long, switch to the second affirmation. Cycle through the three affirmations in this way. #### Autosuggestion and the Other Prongs Magical washing comes naturally to me. I didn’t need to work to get the hang of it. The first time I tried it while washing my hands, it was so easy for me to feel my negative traits leaving me, entering the water, and being carried down the drain. I know a lot of people that don’t take easily to magical washing though. The same thing goes with conscious eating and conscious breathing. Some people sweat and contort their faces into all sorts of strange grimaces as they struggle to impregnate their food with a specific positive trait. If you find yourself doing that, conscious eating clearly doesn’t come naturally to you. In *The Book of Five Rings*, Miyamoto Musashi states that “You should not have a favorite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well.” The techniques of the six-pronged attack are the weapons with which you fight against your negative traits. You shouldn’t be way more proficient in using one of the techniques than you are with the others. Good strategy necessitates that you become proficient in all of them and make use of all of them. Otherwise, your attack will only be one-pronged. If you are bad at using magical washing, conscious eating, or conscious breathing, you can use autosuggestion to get better. Just repeat an affirmation like “I am a master of conscious eating” or “I am proficient at conscious eating.” Autosuggestion should come naturally to everyone. All you’re doing is just repeating a statement to yourself. As a result, everyone starts off already able to use this powerful technique of self-transformation. By applying it strategically, you can quickly become proficient in some of the potentially more tricky techniques like conscious eating, conscious breathing, and magical washing. In this way, you will soon be able to apply the full force of the six-pronged attack against any negative trait you wish to rid yourself of. #### Autosuggestion When One Risks Being Overheard When you are pacing back and forth along a lonely road in the middle of the night, you can repeat whatever affirmation you want out loud. There is very little chance anyone will hear you. However, what if you are in a situation in which the chances of someone hearing you repeating the affirmation to yourself are much higher? For example, what if you are repeating your affirmation while walking to the restroom at work? There’s a good chance that a coworker or employer walking by you will hear you whispering the affirmation to yourself. Any person overhearing you will probably guess that you are using some sort of psychological self-affirmation technique to transform yourself. Therefore, if you are repeating the affirmation “I am patient”, the person will infer that you are impatient and trying to work on that. Speaking for myself, I would not be comfortable with people knowing I am impatient, violent, disorganized, or stingy, even if they also know I am taking measures to develop the opposite positive traits. I assume you are the same way. Therefore, when you are in a public place, there are three options available to you. The first is to repeat the affirmation silently in your mind only. I don’t like this option at all because for me, an affirmation repeated only mentally is not nearly as powerful as a physically vocalized suggestion. The other option is to repeat an affirmation you wouldn’t mind people overhearing. For example, I suffer from insomnia. When I am using autosuggestion in a public place, I repeatedly whisper “I sleep well at night” to myself. Any person who happens to overhear me whispering this to myself could deduce that I have insomnia and am trying to use some sort of psychological self-affirmation technique to eradicate that issue. However, I really don’t care if people know I have insomnia. On the other hand, as I said before, I wouldn’t want people knowing that I am impatient or violent or anything like that. This illustrates one advantage of tackling three negative traits—one major and two minor—at once. One of the traits can probably be fought with an autosuggestion affirmation you wouldn’t mind people overhearing you repeating to yourself. The third option is to use the magical exhalation instead. This will be discussed in Chapter 9. In short, instead of repeating an affirmation like “I am patient,” you repeatedly exhale out the quality of impatience. #### Read Coué’s Book Émile Coué, who created the technique of autosuggestion, wrote a book called *Self-Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion**.* I highly advise you to read it. The more faith you have in the power of autosuggestion, the more effective it will be. In his book, Coué describes the many successes he has had with the technique throughout his years working as a psychotherapist. The book will help you realize how powerful autosuggestion can be. #### Conscious Grounding Sometimes when I practice autosuggestion, I use a trick I call “conscious grounding”. Basically, while repeating the affirmation to build up the positive trait within me, I feel and believe that the opposite negative trait is flowing out of my feet and draining into the ground. 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These hand gestures are just psychological tools that help increase this feeling. Usually, people who use hand gestures use them when they are practicing autosuggestion while walking, sitting, or standing. As far as I know, they are usually not used when you are in bed repeating the affirmation while trying to fall asleep. Here are some of the more common hand motions people use when they recite their affirmations. Giving a Speech This is pretty self-explanatory. Your hands move as they would if you were giving a speech. In a sense, you are giving a speech of sorts. You are both the speaker and the audience. In other words, you’re giving a speech to yourself when you continually repeat the affirmation. Flicking Water This hand motion looks as if you are flicking water off your fingers. While doing so, you should feel as if you are flicking the negative trait out of yourself. The positive trait, which is embedded into the autosuggestion in the form of a seed-idea, fills the place left by the expelled negative trait and then grows. People who practice magical washing are familiar with this gesture. They do it when they have finished washing their hands. In their case, they actually are flicking water off their fingers while imagining they are flicking the last drops of the negative trait from themselves. Swiping Downward In this gesture, you swipe your hands downward. The motion parallels the feeling of the idea sinking down into you. It also parallels the feeling of the negative trait flowing out of you and into the ground if you are using conscious grounding. Weaving In this gesture, your hands make a motion as if you are weaving something. While doing this, you imagine that you are weaving the idea contained in the suggestion into your astra-mental body, personality, or subconscious mind. 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Just because you know something is true doesn’t mean you feel it is true, and just because you know something is not true doesn’t mean you feel it is not true. For example, in one mental illness documentary I watched a few months ago, a person with OCD was being interviewed. He explained that his computer mouse always had to be facing north. Mentally, he knew that nothing bad would happen if it was not because that is ridiculous. However, he couldn’t shake off the feeling (on the astral level) that bad things would happen if the mouse was not facing north. Another example can be seen when riding a roller coaster. You know that you are safe, after all, there are strict safety rules regulating the creation and testing of roller coasters. If there was any indication it was unsafe, the amusement park would not be allowed to open that ride. However, although you know you are safe, you still feel that you are in danger. In other words, you feel scared. How you feel astrally does not align with what you know mentally. In order to increase the effectiveness of autosuggestion, you must both know and feel that the affirmation you are speaking out loud is true. #### Visualization Many people (Mouni Sadhu, Georg Lomer, and Bill Mistele to name a few) recommend visualizing a relevant image when practicing autosuggestion. For example, if you are trying to eliminate acrophobia from yourself, then while you are repeating “I am comfortable with heights” over and over again, you also visualize yourself walking on a high tightrope perfectly comfortably. You can do this from a first person or third person point of view. If you are really uncomfortable with heights, you can start off by visualizing this situation from a third person point of view and then switch to a first person point of view when the trait has weakened. The idea behind this add-on to autosuggestion can be found in the phrase “Seeing is believing.” To really believe something is true, you must know and feel it to be true. As mentioned in the previous section, believing the affirmation you are saying is true helps increase the effectiveness of autosuggestion. For some people, looking at an image that shows the affirmation is true will help them believe it is true. That’s why many people use the visualization add-on. Consider trying it if you are having trouble believing in the veracity of your affirmation. If you can see yourself acting patiently by visualizing yourself acting patiently, it is easier to believe that you are patient, which makes it easier to effectively practice autosuggestion using the affirmation “I am patient” when trying to become patient. That said, don’t think that visualization is a necessary part of autosuggestion. If you can easily get yourself to believe in the veracity of your affirmation without visualization, then there is no need to use visualization and it may just end up being a distraction. #### Rhythm Experiment with different rhythms. One person I know says that autosuggestion works best for him when he recites the affirmation in groups of three. In other words, he will recite the affirmation three times, then pause briefly, then recite it three times again, then pause again, etc.ii #### Written Autosuggestion In addition to using verbal autosuggestion, some people have experimented with written autosuggestion. Written autosuggestion consists of writing the affirmation over and over again instead of speaking it. Consider experimenting with this. #### Complex Affirmations In the traditional autosuggestion Bardon teaches, you repeat a single simple affirmation over and over again. Some people have tried using more complex affirmations, apparently with good results. These complex affirmations are made of multiple sentences. An example of such a complex affirmation to become proficient in conscious breathing is below. > I am a master of conscious breathing. When I inhale, I inhale only the positive trait I desire. When I exhale, I exhale only the negative trait I desire to be rid of. I am proficient in every aspect of conscious breathing. One person I know says that she finds simple affirmations better for verbal autosuggestion and complex affirmations better for written autosuggestion. #### Summary of the Most Important Points In this section, I want to briefly summarize the most important points I’ve made in this chapter. - The affirmation should be worded in the present and should not contain negative words. - The affirmation should be powerfully and concisely worded. - The affirmation should be repeated at least 40 times before going to bed and at least 40 times immediately upon waking up. - The affirmation should be repeated over and over again whenever you are doing some mundane task like cleaning, walking, cooking, wrapping presents, or drying yourself after showering. - When repeating the affirmation, you should believe with full conviction that it is a true statement. - Autosuggestion can be used to become more proficient in the techniques of conscious eating, conscious breathing, and magical washing. ## --- ## Q & A --- ***Q: How long does it take for autosuggestion to being working?*** A: Many people, including myself, have noticed the transformative effects beginning to appear in as little time as one day. 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Another rhythm you could try is repeating the affirmation twice fast, once slow, and then pausing—two quarter notes, a half note, and a quarter rest. --- #### To find our more about Virgil please view Our Author  page.  Virgil also has a blog named Awake in the Starlight  you can follow him on. ####  The Elemental Equilibrium: Notes on The Foundation of Magical Adepthood, is available both in Paperback and Kindle (view link  below), alternatively you can purchase your by following the links at   Publications. ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/author-covers.png) --- --- # Notes on the Two of Cups by Virgil Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/notes-two-cups-virgil/ --- Since the subject of romantic relationships is very complex and profound, no single card could ever capture the entirety of its nature. However, because the Two of Cups is often interpreted as a representation of a successful romantic relationship, I thought it would be interesting to see what insights this card gives us about this subject. The cup is clearly a receptive object; after all, a cup must receive a liquid into itself before it can hold it. There are many actions humans do that are receptive in nature. Listening is one of the most important ones. Many people believe that just because they have functional ears and good hearing, they can listen. This is not true; few people these days know how to listen. This unfortunate fact compelled Michael P. Nichols, PhD to write a book called *The Lost Art of Listening*, which can be bought [here](https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Art-Listening-Second-Relationships/dp/1593859864). The book’s description states that it “has already helped over 125,000 readers break through conflicts and transform their personal and professional relationships.” The nature of the cup also has many parallels to the nature of memory. Just as a cup receives a fluid and holds it, memory receives information and holds it. This indicates that using your memory is important if you want your relationship to succeed. It’s not hard to think of reasons for this. If I forget my girlfriend’s birthday, she’s not going to be happy about that. If she is upset about me never putting the cap back on the toothpaste, then I need to remember not to do that again. We’re all bound to make mistakes in our relationships. Remembering the lessons those mistakes have taught us will prevent us from making those same mistakes again, ensuring the relationship becomes less bumpy. Furthermore, in magic, the cup often does more than just receive a substance into itself. Often, it receives a substance into itself and then transforms it. The transubstantiation of ordinary wine into sacramental wine is one example of this. Similarly, when you enter a romantic relationship with someone, you receive her into your life, but you also help transform her. In his essay on the electric fluid, Bill presents a hypothetical situation in which a magician makes the following request to a spirit of the Sphere of Venus. > *I want a lover who will walk beside me on my way through life, who I can love and who loves me in return. I want it so we bring out the best in each other. I want a love so rich and nurturing it turns our weaknesses into strengths. I want a love so complete it overflows and enriches the lives of everyone around us.* This is what I mean when I say that you should not just receive your lover into your life, but transform her as well. You should bring out the best in her and turn her weaknesses into strengths. Notice also that the cups in the card don’t have lids. The cups aren’t possessive or clingy. They don’t seek to trap whatever they receive into themselves. Similarly, you shouldn’t be possessive or clingy with your lover, and you shouldn’t try to trap her. In Liber ABA, Aleister Crowley writes the following about the cup. > *They say that the Venetians made glasses which changed color if poison was put into them; of such a glass must the student make his cup.* Again, when you enter a romantic relationship with someone, you receive that person into your life the way a cup receives a fluid. However, if that person is toxic to you, you should dump him. Since a cup can transform substances, you might think that you can change the toxic person’s nature through your love. It’s possible, but is it worth it? You can only help someone change if he is willing to change, and most toxic people are not willing to change. Therefore, be alert and know the signs that your partner is toxic. 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A man that seeks a woman without love may fulfill his desire, but he will fill his cup with loneliness. These are the laws of love; know them well.* Romantic relationships are a valid part of the human experience. Therefore, those who refuse to enter romantic relationships for the sole reason of adhering to what their cultures consider to be “honorable” ways of living will feel sorrow. Of course, if you’re aromantic or asexual, that’s a completely different story and not what we’re concerned with here. Also, you can have a good time by having sex fueled by desire and lust. That’s fine, but if you try to establish a long-term romantic relationship on lust and desire instead of genuine love, you’re going to end up feeling lonely, even when you are in the arms of your lover. --- #### To find out more about Virgil and his publications please visit his  author page,  you can also purchase his new publications below available in both Paperback and Kindle. [wpbooklist_shortcode table="virgilpublications"] ---   --- # Falcon Books: Exploring Stories of Magic and Enchantment by William R. Mistele Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/falcon-books-author-discussion-exploring-stories-magic-enchantment-william-r-mistele/ --- Falcon Books is presenting a series of discussions from Falcon Books authors exploring their work and discovering more about their writings. Presenting today an interview with **William R. Mistele,** author of *Stories of Magic and Enchantment*. --- ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Magic_and_Enchnatment_Promo2-1.jpg) --- ##### Hello William, thank you for taking the time to answer our questions regarding your latest publication, Stories of Magic and Enchantment. --- **1. Falcon Books. As we begin, could you please explain the significance of stories and the part they play in discussing other realms?** **William Mistele: **I write about using stories as a contemplative tool for understanding one’s own life. My essay on this approach is in* McKee Psychology—[McKee Psychology ](http://williammistele.com/mckee.htm).* Also, I briefly describe [12 Earthzone spirits](http://williammistele.com/earthzonewritingspirits.pdf) who specialize in the art of writing as mentioned by Franz Bardon in his book*, The Practice of Magical Evocation*. In a sense, a story is a transmission—what is in one person is shared with another person. In one story from my next book, *Mermaid Tales*, a professor at a magic university says to his writing class: > *Story is about you and me. Go inside any individual and you will find the story of that person’s life. What love, trust, innocence, and oneness has he lost or does he seek? Where is he now and where are these things within his hopes and dreams?* > > > *Put simply, a story is a progress report on the extent you have overcome your conflicts. It is intensely personal. You are sharing your deepest motivations, innermost dreams, and the essence of your being.* > > > *Listen well. It is not just that there is a story hidden in each person. It is through listening to other’s stories and to our own that we turn our own life into a story worth telling.* > > > *Now then, we are going to break into groups of two for an hour. Ask each other this question: ‘What can you share with me that offers a new way of perceiving, thinking, and feeling?'* Stories are magical. They transmit the wisdom and experience of one generation to the next and the inspiration in one person’s heart is set afire in another’s. In my story, *On Becoming a Man*, there is a negotiation between two generations. A man’s son is facing puberty. He wants the wisdom of his father’s generation passed down to him so he can make the transition into becoming a man. The father has met many important people in different countries around the world. But, as the two talk, it becomes clear that the father has no such wisdom to give. The son persists. And so they negotiate a deal. The father will create a foundation for the son to oversee. It will bring together the wisest men from all traditions on earth and record their seminars and teachings. In effect, in response to the son’s questions, the father endows a magic university. The task is to rewrite and update the curriculum for the Freemasons so that it conveys a set of practices that are available, universal, and user friendly. Anyone who wishes to be transformed will then have the means to do so. This is not just a story. This is the essence of the lifelong conflict between my father and myself. He was a 32nd degree Mason and yet he did no spiritual practice of any kind to hand down. And so a story is a way of imaginatively finding solutions to problems that otherwise have no solution. Kind of like—“We did it this way. Now let’s try to imagine what would have happened if we did it another way that actually produced satisfying solutions.” I have a twenty-eight page essay on the role I play as a “[mermaid greeter.](http://williammistele.com/mermaidgreeter.pdf)” One of Bardon’s lunar spirits named [*Emrudue*](http://williammistele.com/emrudue.html) likes to emphasis this principle, > *If you have a problem, help others solve that problem and you become so wise in the process your own problems vanish.* I collect stories about the lives of these incarnated mermaids. Some of the stories turn into novels and movie scripts. But, you see, in helping others understand the part they have to play in this world I can better understand my own role. By spending five years interviewing thirty-five women, I can finally answer for myself the question, “What is missing from life?” It was never about my life. It is about what the human race is missing in its soul and desperately needs if it is to attain harmony with itself. How does story relate to other realms? For example, in regard to the mermaid realm, Franz Bardon warns his students that contact with the beauty of the mermaid queens may distract them from seeking any further spiritual development. My response? Yes. Watch out. But it is just as easy to become distracted by any relationship with a woman and especially with incarnated mermaids. My stories about mermaids lay out the entire spectrum of the wonders of love, the power of emotional life, and dangers from obsession that come with contact with this magical realm hidden within nature. **2. Please explain your inspiration behind this title?** **William Mistele:  ***Stories of Magic and Enchantment*: The word magic for me conjures up the image of Gandalf in Tolkien lighting up the tip of his staff to illuminate a dark cave. Franz Bardon has an exercise along those lines. Magic is in ordinary life. It appears as synchronicity, luck, and good fortune. From time to time, miraculous events occur and we are also watched over—sometimes we are warned not to make things worse or take them the wrong way. When you fall in love you enter a kind of magical space. There is a heightened awareness and an amplification of sensory perception. Empathy kicks in and you can see the other person as a part of yourself. *Stories of Magic and Enchantment* is about what happens when you take ordinary life and add additional dimensions of awareness to it. You are with another person but that person brings with her the perceptions and feelings of an entire kingdom outside of human awareness. Or you look into a mirror or through another person’s eyes and you suddenly see your own life from a totally different perspective. Or someone asks you a certain question or responds to you in a remarkable way and as a result you become a different person. In mediation involving conflict resolution, there is a point where I as the mediator often say, “If this person were to do such and such for you, what would you be willing to do in return?” This same negotiation can be carried with the divine world. Either side can initiate the process—“If I do such and such for you, what would you be willing to do for me in return?” Jacob to the angel: “If I wrestle successfully with you, what kind of blessing are you willing to give me?” Or Balaam to God: “If I enter your Presence from which all purposes and karmas arise, to what extent am I then permitted to change the fate of nations?” Or in the stories about the ancient Order of women: “If I dream your innermost dreams and give all that I am to you fulfilling your deepest needs, would you be willing to do good rather than evil?” Now that is a great question and I continuously explore that kind of magic. **3. I think sometimes your work is not fully understood and missing the insights in them. Could you explain to reader some of the lessons they contain? ** **William Mistele: **I think at the heart of the book is the beatitude I wrote: > *Blessed are those who meet others in their darkest place and walk beside them back into the light, for there is no greater or more sacred celebration of life.* We all breathe the same air, drink the same water, eat the food offered to us by the earth, and benefit from the energy of the sun. And, without the astral plane, our souls would not exist. There would be nothing to support our inner life after we have died. This book is about the power of empathy. Empathy is not passive. It is an expression of the authority underlying the universe. “To see” that the life within others is the life within ourselves is one of life’s greatest insights. To know yourself, to be yourself, is to cherish the life within everyone. But each person has to discover this in his own way and in his own time. **4**.** Falcon Books: I wonder if you could also elaborate on the value of your titles for those studying the Franz Bardon System and how they would benefit from reading these books. Since many principles pertaining to the steps are outlined within them.** An occasional purchase cheap levitra [buying here](https://unica-web.com/DEUTSCH/2017/GA2017-minutes-1.html) issue does not mean a man shall evolve any chronic condition. The [free sample viagra](https://www.unica-web.com/archive/2013/selection_of_films_of_unica_2013.html) most common is Peyronie's disease and penile curvature. There're four types of canadian viagra pills [check it out](https://unica-web.com/archive/2005/upatron2005.html) treatment for endometriosis. One of the most potent is the amino acid Arginine. 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You can develop the elements within yourself without focusing on nature, but I have not met anyone who has mastered an element who is not also joined to nature from within. In my book, *Mermaids, Sylphs, Gnomes, and Salamanders*, I explore each of the four elemental realms side by side. And studying these four realms, I arrive at a rather startling conclusion. Each of the four elements on earth is amazingly dynamic and magical. But the four elemental realms are not aligned. The kings and queens within each elemental realm to not communicate with each other. It is then the task of magicians to speak with and make these beings his friends. In so doing, he also enables them to interact and understand the principles governing each other’s realms and the part they play in the greater biosphere. The other conclusion I draw is that there are many advanced races that come to earth to incarnate. But usually their home worlds are very uniform and integrated. They share a strong identity with each other. But in their magical and spiritual training, no one asks them, as Bardon asks his students, to become like the kings and queens of the four elements. On earth, we not only will one day have scientists who terraform the biosphere, controlling weather and volcanic eruptions. We will also have magicians who from within themselves can control hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. This is not just a possibility offered by Franz Bardon’s training system. The planet itself offers this level of magical power and wisdom to whatever race dwells here. But we can also see the conflict between the four elemental realms in society. There is the air element of the scientists and artists, the fire element of the CEOs, generals, and political leaders, the earth element of those who find their greatest joy in working to make something of value that endures, and the water element of those who exist to love—these four “kinds” of human beings rarely communicate with each other. So in meeting the kings and queens of the four elements we are in effect coming into contact with the archetypes, the primordial forms, of what is hidden within us. To know ourselves will involve to some extent knowing these great magical powers which exist in the natural world that surrounds us. **5. Falcon Books: There are a number of stories that that stand out for me. One being **[***The Oracle,***](https://falconbookspublishing.com/oracle-excerpt-stories-magic-enchantment-william-r-mistele/)** where the gangster, ‘Alessio’, seeks guidance from the Oracle regarding his path. How do you think this relates to the Hermetic practitioner and how we apply this wisdom in our own lives? ** **William Mistele: **I sometimes meet** **extremely gifted young magicians who ask me for advice. And I tell them, “You will not believe how many difficulties life is going to place before you if you choose to practice magic.” The hermetic path requires a great deal of self-reflection. It is like keeping a running balance sheet that tracks your strength and weaknesses and your vices and virtues. And this is because magic accelerates your learning process. A “Saturn return” occurs every thirty years or so. It is a time when you face the question about whether your life is based on your deepest values. What is a distraction or non-essential seems to get stripped away. But this is what a magician is expected to do for himself—to take a hard, detached look at his own life, motivations, and actions. The hermetic path is like seeing yourself with the detachment of a mirror. But this magical mirror of self-reflection has another side. It also shows you your “better self,” the person you will one day be when you have solved your problems, resolved your conflicts, and embody the highest and most dynamic inspiration that is right for you. And this is asking a very great deal that someone conjure up this degree of detachment and this degree of inspiration and join the two together. Some of the incarnated mermaids actually “see” my future self as they talk to me. I asked myself, “Who is she talking to?” And then I realize part of her is in the future in the presence of the person I will one day be. For myself, akasha—the fifth element—provides this insight into one’s true self. Akasha is like quantum reality—all possibilities are present. Kind of like, “Here you are now as you know yourself; but there is also another you present—the perfect you who has mastered all of life’s lessons.” In my story, *The Oracle*, a man enters this trancelike space of self-awareness where the voice of silence within him, the oracle, says that his better self has always been waiting to meet him. In practicing magic, you will meet your “better self.” And you must learn to do this because you can expect encounters with the very worst that you have been or could be. **6. Another wonderful tale is the story of Farmer Jack Allen who twice has an encounter with a Sylph. I wonder if you could explain a bit more about these two stories and the natures of both Jack Allen and the Sylph, and how understanding them will aid the magician in his practice. ** **William Mistele: **These stories are quite personal. As I mentioned earlier, I just did a five-year project studying incarnated mermaids. http://williammistele.com/mermaidgreeter.pdf One of these women asked me when we first met, “Are you a merman?” “No,” I replied. “I am the fifth element.” I do not think any of the incarnated mermaids have the faintest clue as to who or what I am. It is because their empathy senses the astral body of the person before them, seeking to heal and make whole and alive that individual. But the water element seems to lack a normal level of curiosity. The incarnated sylphs, by contrast, have an airy quality that picks up more on the other individual’s mind. With a mermaid, you feel the other’s love and aura flowing through you. With a sylph, she is more like a tuning fork. You hold two tuning forks next to each other and hit one and the second one will start resonating with the first one. The sylph uses a kind of mental telepathy. I have met four incarnated sylphs. Each has had a tremendous influence me—extremely ecstatic because they blend and make themselves one with you; and painful because their freedom and independence is not negotiable. They are like a muse that enters your life purely to inspire (in powerful and dramatic ways) but never to be a friend. The water element through its presence says, “Here is love, innocence, and feeling fully alive.” The air element through its presence says, “Here is freedom, harmony, and joy.” In these stories about sylphs, I am sharing what it would look like if my experiences occurred to someone in the ordinary world. Farmer Jack Allen is a “sylph magnet.” He has that quality of mind that is open and clear as the sky. And so sylph women show up at his door. They come down from the sky, as some of the incarnated sylph women have done with me, to spend some time with him before they leave—departing to return to their realm of freedom. **7. Falcon Books: I wonder if you could share with us one of your favorite tales within *****Stories of Magic and Enchantment***** and explain to us why it is so special to you. ** **William Mistele: **In *The Ancient Order of Women, part III: Sa and Radea*, a member of a secret Order of women confronts the kind of man who plays a role in bringing about the destruction of Atlantis. After five thousand years of entering the dreams of the most powerful men in Atlantis and inspiring them to do good, these magical women of enchantment, who can dissolve malice, finally meet their match. *There was an ancient order of women * *Whose magical beauty was so great * *They could dissolve all malice and hate. * Radea was beyond the reach of their love. Now here is the fun part. You see, this is not just writing, literature, and a story. I am in the middle of a battlefield where opposing sides are fighting for the soul of the human race and for who gets to shape human destiny. This is an actual practice. I work with women who are adept at lucid dreaming. They literally enter the dreams of dictators and presidents seeking to free them from their false attachments and to inspire them to do good rather than to do evil. Whatever motivated Plato to share his stories about Atlantis, it is also true that Plato wanted to unite the Greek city states into a Republic, something ancient Greece never accomplished. Plato uses the story of Atlantis to say, “See. Political unity has been established before. So it is possible in the present as well.” In a similar way, I am saying through my stories, “See. The human spirit is so great in the past, in the present, and in the future that there will appear human beings whose very nature is to resolve conflicts, to end wars, and to establish peace and justice.” My stories are an invitation to those who would like to use magic to establish justice on earth. As is the task of air element, my stories get into the details of what that might feel and look like in practice.” **8. What psychological “space” do you enter when you write? ** **William Mistele: **Obviously, writing is hard work. As my copy editor once said, “Write so that the reader understands what you are saying without having to think about it.” To publish a book I have to reread the final manuscript at least seven or eight times. That is the craft part of writing. But most of the time I write in a semi-trance or from an alternate state of awareness. Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher, liked to point out that if you cannot find a way to share with others what you experience, then that experience is lost to the world. Consequently, when I meditate, I will experience an insight, realization, or kind of contemplative ecstasy. For example, in the story, [*The Temple of Saturn*](https://falconbookspublishing.com/excerpt-stories-magic-enchantment-william-r-mistele-temple-saturn/), I may be visiting what Bardon calls the sphere of Saturn. And from within that planetary vibration, I am looking back at my life here on earth with a different kind of feeling and understanding that is not part of ordinary awareness. There is that clarity of a mirror which is purely reflective without any personal attachment. And at the same time there is a voice that speaks from that detachment. It says, “Experience life to whatever extent you can. Discover what makes your happy and gives you satisfaction. Find some things worth doing that are right for you and totally captivating. But also discover your deepest lessons and then take the time and make the effort to learn them.” It is like you walk into a graveyard and then look back at your life as if it is over. But actually you are in a dream and a voice says to you, “Now that I have your full attention, let’s talk about the deeper meaning of your life, what you were meant to and can still accomplish.” That perspective I often run into when I meditate. Saturn is so involved with me it is like I have become an agent of Saturn on earth. So how does a writer communicate his encounter with the aura of Saturn and the presence of is 49 Judges? A story comes to me. In ancient Rome, there were temples that celebrated the mysteries. And one of these was the temple of Saturn. Here is my experience in the present placed in a historical context so that it is shaped in a way that others can follow and experience with me. That is one side of writing—taking an inner, subjective experience and finding a way to share it so that what the writer feels and perceives the reader feels and perceives as well. The other side of writing is pure inspiration. One of the earthzone spirits, Zagriona, said to me, “Oh. You want to succeed in writing? You were once a bard. Here—I give you that ancient voice so that you can use it again in this world.” And from that moment I spontaneously started writing a lot of poetry. You can sense that in my story and poem, “I Shall Never Taste” that moves from one sensual image to another with the intent to evoke a hypnotic sense of wonder and awe. And a third aspect of writing involves the air element. If you imagine you are weightless, suspended, or floating in the air—as light as a soft breeze gently moving through the leaves of a tree as if those leaves are a wind chime and you a musician turning touch into music. Again, it is being totally detached and yet in the same moment fully engaged with the nuances of each sensory impression. That “spirit” of the air element allows you to look at the world with a sense of wonder as if it is happening in a new and original way right now that has never occurred before. It is that sense of touching life with tenderness. It is “There is no greater pleasure than the thrill of discovering the way the world is new in each moment.” This is a purely astral experience and sensory mode of perception. The great sylph Cargoste, who holds the entire atmosphere of the earth within his consciousness, puts it this way: “The universe is on the verge of exploding because of the joy it contains.” But also the mermaid queens have this sense of being in the moment—“The universe is on fire with wonder, beauty, and ecstasy.” This is the space which I often enter when I meditate. And from this sense of the wonder of being alive experiences come to me which I fashion into stories and poems so that they can be shared and not lost to the world. --- ####  To find out more about William please visit his Author page where you can find many links to his work. #### Available in both Kindle and Paperback. To Purchase your copy today please follow the link below: [wpbooklist_shortcode table="wmbooks"] ![](https://falconbookspublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/author-covers-1.png) --- # The Oracle – An excerpt from Stories of Magic and Enchantment by William R. Mistele Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/oracle-excerpt-stories-magic-enchantment-william-r-mistele/ ( Image: *The Oracle* by Wildweasel339) [mks_dropcap size="52" bg_color="#ffffff" txt_color="#000000"]T[/mks_dropcap]he Oracle is in a little cave in Bali, not too far from Denpasar International Airport. You can rent a car and drive to the rocky peninsula of Uluwatu. From there you will probably need to hire a local guide. Not too many guides will take you there so ask for Putu. He is happy to assist as long as you pay in cash, preferably U.S. dollars. Now Alessio was a mob boss who ran an operation in the United States. He had heard about the oracle in a roundabout way. One of his captains had a daughter. And this daughter had a friend who liked to wander all over the Far East, often by herself. And as she wandered, she discovered she had a gift for running into gurus, mystics, and wise men. Even walking down the street in Mumbai or Kolkata, an enthusiastic male would approach her and say, “You must meet my guru.” And she would go with him and his guru would be delighted to make her acquaintance. In fact, the guru would offer to teach her things he had never taught any of his own disciples. Well, the captain could hardly resist describing this wacko, spaced out New Age girl who wanders about. He told Alessio how he had met her one day when he had lunch with his daughter. The girl came strolling in wearing a thin sari and sat down at the table. The captain told Alessio that one of her stories was about entering a mystical cave in Bali called the Oracle. The cave was only known to a few of the local people. But the girl claimed the Oracle had all knowledge and was in fact a continuation of the Oracle of Delphi in Ancient Greece with a few enhancements. Now Alessio liked to collect rare things. For example, he had some valuable paintings some of which were well-known. And he also had some paintings in a private collection that he had to keep hidden from the public eye. You cannot put these on the open market to be bought or sold. And every now and then Alessio liked to indulge a wild, crazy whim. Something would capture his attention. And then he would go off and experience something new that most people could not imagine. Alessio knew a little secret about life. You are as young as you feel and feeling young, as he would say with his thick Italian accent which he rarely used, “It is all about spontaneity—there are things you can make happen; there are things you can make not happen; and then there are things that happen on their own but only if you let them.” So Alessio decided to go see this cave. First of course he had to entice the pretty young New Age thing to divulge the cave’s location. But being a master of charm and persuasion, as well as numerous devious methods, he easily extracted from her the information he desired. Not knowing anything about Alessio, she asked him straight out, “Why exactly do you want to go to this cave?” And the boss replied honesty, “I wish to ask the Oracle what Apparently her flair for running into masters and gurus sometimes included masters from the dark side. But she did not judge. She knew that some people you have to respect and some people it is best to stay as far away from as possible.is missing from my life. After all, this question can only be asked by a middle aged man like myself who senses there is something very important in life that he has not yet encountered.” His tone of voice and explanation were more than convincing. She knew he was not lying. He flew out a week later and rented a car and found a guide as she had suggested. And now he walks into the cave. There are candles with matches just inside the front entrance. He lights a candle and walks on maybe for a quarter of a mile into the darkness. There he finds a little sign that says in both Balinese and Indonesian, “Put out the candle. Make your case, ask your question, or state your doubt.” The girl had already translated the words for Alessio so he knew what it said. He put out the candle and then, addressing the darkness, he says, “I have seen much in my life. I know what motivates men. I know when the law is useful and I know when the law is no longer your friend. I watch over my community. I am a patron of the arts. I support the Church. I care for my family. I adhere to tradition and I can also sense when tradition must give way to change so that there can be a new beginning. I do what I love and I do it well. “Yet in all that I observe—of what makes me and others feel alive—the essence of life remains hidden. I know in my bones that there are special things have not yet been revealed to me.” And a voice from the darkness and silence asks, “What do you see right now around you?” Alessio says, “I was mean to my friends when I was a teenager. If they were not loyal to me, I settled the score. I did not need to take things so far.” "And the Oracle asks, “What is the best that has happened to you so far in this life?” And Alessio replies, “For the first ten years of my profession, I worked my ass off just to survive. The second ten years, I had my head above water but there were still times when the outcome of my decisions were iffy." “But in the last ten years the best things have been happening almost without effort. I have stayed on top of technology. The legal system assists me. There is no longer a need for violence because there are now countless ways to persuade others to work with me rather than oppose me. And more markets are opening for my services than I can possibly handle. This has been the best— accomplishing more with less effort than I could ever have imagined.” And the Oracle asks, “If there was a gift you wished life had given you at the beginning, what would that be?” And the don says, “A few—just a few whose love and trust were never withdrawn or in doubt.” The Oracle goes on, “I am rarely asked this question, ‘What is the essence of life that is hidden?’ "It is not for nothing, I speak from out of darkness and silence." 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Though you were not listening, I was telling you there is another way; the pain inside you only exists because of your attachment to an illusion." “I was there when you saw Don Agostino solve his problem. I was speaking to you, ‘Celebrate the strength in a man. But understand a greater strength can be found inside you like the endurance of mountains, like the brilliant and dynamic action of lightning, and like the wild exhilaration of the wind.’” “And with lifelong friends who love and give but who never appeared, I was saying to you from the beginning, ‘Give to others the very thing you wish to have for yourself. Then life will find in you a man who is worthy to fulfill its deepest plans.’” Alessio says, “Let me see if I understand what you are saying. I get all that about the electrifying conviction, innocence of love, sheer bliss in taking hold of and claiming the unknown, and getting things done and the satisfaction that ensues. But are you telling me that you—the Oracle—are the essence of what it is to feel fully alive?” And here Alessio pauses a bit and waits in silence. And then he goes on, “In other words, if I understand this right, the way to be fully alive is to give to others opportunities to experience new things and also to assist them, more than assist, at times guarantee that their lives are all they can be. Is my summary correct?” The Oracles says, “Your original question as you stated it to the young lady who once visited me was—‘What is missing from my life?’" “What is missing from your life is a feeling of being one with every living being. You notice the silence that surrounds both of us. If I pause from speaking, it is here, everywhere, all inclusive. Like this silence, I am totally receptive without judgment or evaluation. And yet, I point out what you already know and have experienced. I am your own conscience recalling, reflecting, and contemplating what is yet to be done." “You have arrived at a point in life few men ever encounter. You are indeed able to think others’ thoughts, feel others’ feelings, and assist them in fulfilling their needs and dreams." “In your tradition it is said, ‘Know your friends, but know your enemies better.’ You are a man who is capable of being everyone’s friend. You are able to sense and to assist others in discovering for themselves what makes them feel most alive. This is why you have entered this place of darkness and silence." "To meet your better self who has been waiting all these years to make your acquaintance.” And Alessio, the mafia boss, went home. And he became a better man. --- #### To find out more about William R. Mistele and to read other excerpts from his titles, please view Our Author page. 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I have intentionally skipped over the seventh one for reasons that will become apparent in a few months. > **(#1) Blessed are those who trust, for they have entered the Kingdom of Heaven**. There are a number of exercises in IIH that teach you how to trust. Visualization, conscious eating, and conscious breathing are some of them. Let’s say you are trying to visualize a chocolate chip cookie in front of you. The first step toward success is to trust that the cookie is in front of you. Once you have learned to trust that the cookie is in front of you, you then work to see the cookie. Learning to see the cookie is easier once you trust that it is really in front of you. Once you learn to see the cookie, you are “visualizing” it. Make sense? Probably not, but think about it and try it out. The first step towards successfully visualizing something in front of you is to trust that it is in front of you. Visualization is not only a powerful magical technique in its own right, but an essential part of many other more powerful and advanced magical techniques. Those magical techniques are the techniques you will use to make society a better place; in other words, to build the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. This is one reason Bill says that those who trust have entered the Kingdom of Heaven. It’s because the power of their trust has allowed them to build the Kingdom of Heaven up around themselves and their loved ones. When you practice conscious eating, you impregnate the food with the positive trait you want to develop. You then trust that the food is the positive trait while you are eating it. Some might say that this is not a matter of trust, but of belief. In other words, you firmly believe that the food you are eating is the positive trait. This is true; however, oftentimes belief starts with trust. Thus, while it is the power of belief that reinforces the impregnation of the food, you achieve this state of belief by first achieving a state of trust. Trust is gentle, while belief is strong and even forceful. Still, they are equally sacred. Since they are related, trust can be used to transition into belief. > **(#2) Blessed are those who pass through their inner darkness without fear or shame, for they shall attain freedom**. The soul mirror exercise is where the student of magic begins this process. The concept of inner darkness is profound, and numerous books could be written on the subject. You’ll be working with your inner darkness throughout your initial magical training. Passing through your inner darkness is a long journey, but as the saying goes, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” The first step is the creation of the black soul mirror. When you create your black soul mirror, you must do so “without fear or shame.” Many people don’t introspect because they are afraid of what they will discover about themselves. They might find that they are not as grand, flawless, or virtuous as they thought. With many magical endeavors, you need to put your heart in the work if you are to succeed. You can’t put your heart in the work of introspection if you are afraid to, because your fear will keep you from learning anything important. Thus, when you begin the work of introspecting, knowing yourself, and creating your black soul mirror, you must do so without fear. You must do so without shame too. When you examine yourself, you must do so objectively. If you are ashamed at what you find when you introspect, you are clearly not being objective. There is emotional involvement in the process, and the resulting emotional turbulence can destroy the clarity of mind needed to analyze your findings after introspecting. Your negative traits enslave you and keep you from fulfilling your highest potential in life. To be free of them, you must first known and understand them. This involves analyzing the dark side of your personality, or, to put it more poetically, “passing through it.” Once you’ve done this, you can begin the self-transformation work that will free you from your negative traits. > **(#3) Blessed are those who find the divine within themselves, for they shall create peace and justice shall fill the Earth.** The process of finding the divine within yourself extends throughout the entirety of your magical training. This process begins with identifying your positive traits when creating the white soul mirror because these traits are reflections of the divine within you. When you master depth-point meditation, you hit a major milestone in your journey to discover the divine within yourself. When you do discover the divine within yourself, you also discover the will of Divinity and gain access to the power of Divinity. Thus, you realize that it is the will of Divinity that peace and justice be established on the Earth, and you are empowered to help make this happen. In the Book of Isaiah, it is written “And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.” In the Book of Deuteronomy, it is written “Justice and only justice shall you pursue.” > **(#4) Blessed are those who become one with another without hesitation or limitation, for what they dream shall come into being.** When you learn to become one with another in Step 4, you are well on your way to learning to become one with Divinity in Steps 9 and 10. When you become one with Divinity, then what you dream shall indeed come into being. 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Thus, you transform irascibility into patience, greed into generosity, disorganization into organization, stupidity into intelligence, etc. When you do this, you have made your soul much nobler. Those magicians who understand the symbolism of the divine king, his sacrifice, and his knights will see what I mean by this. The more pure your soul and spirit are, the better your clairvoyance will be. If your soul and spirit are completely pure, you will possess perfect clairvoyance and nothing will be hidden from you. > **(#8) Blessed are those who let go and flow as each moment unfolds, for they shall see through the eyes of God****.** Some people hold on to their regrets of the past or to their worries about the future. When you learn to let those regrets and worries go, you can truly begin living in the present. The present moment in time is the point at which the future and past meet. There is also a point where fire meets water and air meets earth. These two points are the same. 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A few hours later, I checked Facebook to reply to some messages sent to my page. As expected, people were talking about the eclipse. There were conversations about the eclipse in Facebook groups I belonged to that had nothing to do with magic, and there were conversations about the eclipse in Facebook groups I belonged to that were esoteric or occult in nature. Most of these conversations were initiated by someone asking questions like the following. - *What kind of magic can I do during the eclipse?* - *How can I harness the power of the eclipse to fuel a magical working I do during the eclipse?* - *Should I work with solar or lunar energies during the eclipse?* This got me thinking about a big problem in magic. It’s a problem that I mentioned briefly in *The Spirit of Magic* and plan to discuss more thoroughly in a future book. However, it’s not a problem that I am the first to notice. In fact, Eliphas Levi wrote about this same problem quite a bit in *Dogma et Ritual del la Haute Magie *and *The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum. *The problem I am referring to is that it is very easy for an interest in magic to turn into an obsession with magic. So, am I saying that anyone who tries to do magic during an eclipse is obsessed with magic? No, but I’m saying that they very well could be. Let me explain with an exaggerated example. Imagine that, for some reason, money magic was particularly powerful if you did it during your child’s wedding. Thus, when your son or daughter decides to get married, instead of attending your child’s wedding, you stay home and perform a money magic ritual. Of course, you knew that doing this would require you to miss your child’s wedding, but you simply couldn’t pass up this opportunity to do a money magic ritual at such an auspicious time. Wouldn’t you say that someone who made a choice like that is clearly obsessed with magic? Unless the person who makes such a choice is extremely destitute, then yeah, I’d say anyone who chooses to perform a magical ritual instead of attend his child’s wedding is probably obsessed with magic. Now, I’m not saying that an eclipse is just as important of a day in your life as the wedding of your child is. However, it’s still a cool, neat, and rare occurrence. If you know the eclipse is going to pass over you and you begin planning the magical operation you intend to do during it without even considering the option of just relaxing and enjoying the eclipse instead, then there’s a good chance you lean toward being obsessed with magic. If you intend on becoming magician, you might want to do some introspection to figure out whether that’s the case. Magicians are serious about magic. Wannabe magicians are obsessed with magic. So yeah, if someone were to ask me a question like “Why didn’t you do any magic during the eclipse?” I would probably explain that I preferred to watch the eclipse while hanging out with my wonderful coworkers and having a nice time. This, of course, isn’t the only reason I didn’t do magic during the eclipse. It’s just the most concise reason, so it’s the one I would give. The other reasons would take longer to explain, and have to do with the essential nature of genuine magic. Those people who learn that an eclipse is going to occur and immediately wonder what kind of magical operation they should do clearly adhere to a philosophy like the one below when it comes to practical magic. “*I do magic whenever it seems like a cool time to do magic (e.g. during eclipses).” * And hey, if that’s the philosophy that determines when and how you approach practical magic, I can definitely see why you would do magic during an eclipse. However, the philosophy I adhere to when it comes to practical magic, that is to say magical acts intended to change the world in some way, can be more or less summarized as follows. “*I do magic whenever it would help heal, strengthen, or repair the Balance and the Pattern.”* This is another reason I didn’t do magic during the eclipse. As a magician, the Balance and the Pattern is always on my mind when it comes to the art of magic, and when the Balance and Pattern are considered, there was no more reason for me to do a magical working during the eclipse than at any other time today or this week.i Josephine McCarthy is literally the only human teacher of magic I am aware of who teaches students about the Balance and the Pattern. However, despite this, she’s not the only teacher of magic I am aware of who teaches students about the Balance and the Pattern. Why? Because every single spirit you will ever work with as a magician will teach you about the Balance and the Pattern. Now, some people might ask, what about those teachers who teach their students about the Tree of Life? Since the Tree of Life depicts the Balance and the Pattern, aren’t they teaching students about the Balance and the Pattern? Well, yes and no. For one thing, you are assuming they have a proper understanding of the Tree of Life, which few of them do. This isn’t to say that my interpretation of the Tree of Life is the only correct one, or that there aren’t multiple valid interpretations of the Tree of Life. Yes, there are multiple valid and correct interpretations of the Tree of Life, but there are also invalid and wrong interpretations of the Tree of Life. Many modern interpretations of the Tree of Life evolved from older interpretations of the Tree of Life formulated during a time when magic was seen as just an exotic form of psychology and those who studied the Tree of Life could only view the diagram through the lens whatever system of regular or occult psychology they adhered to. The image they saw through this lens was distorted at best. Furthermore, learning about the Tree of Life by studying books or listening to lectures about the subject can only provide you with an understanding of the Balance and the Pattern on an intellectual level. It cannot provide you with an understanding of the Balance and the Pattern on what we might call a “magical” level. In magic, experience is the only reliable source of genuine knowledge and the only valid gateway to genuine understanding. To truly understand the Balance and the Pattern, you need to become aware of and experience the Balance and the Pattern. Once you’ve done this, you then live in harmony with the Balance and the Pattern. This way of life not only further develops the magician’s understanding of the Balance and the Pattern; it also provides the magician with a sense of well-being. Compare this life with the life of the sorcerer, who thinks he can live a happy life by using rituals to banish away his problems and casting spells to acquire money, women, and power. Human magical teachers who guide students in the process of understanding the Balance and the Pattern, living in harmony with the Balance and the Pattern, and working magic in a way that heals and upholds the Balance and the Pattern instead of disrupting it are rare.ii Like I said, Josephine is the only such teacher I am aware of. The rarity of these teachers should not be surprising given the history of modern magic and its roots. A lot of modern magic is influenced by the Golden Dawn, which taught that as long as you invoke the highest divine names corresponding to the forces you are working with, nothing can go wrong. This is incorrect. Even if you invoke every divine name you know while performing a ritual, the ritual can still seriously mess up the Balance and the Pattern. 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Mistele Source: https://falconbookspublishing.com/farmer-jack-allen-sylph-part-ii-excerpt-stories-magic-enchantment-william-r-mistele/ ---   --- [mks_dropcap size="50" bg_color="#ffffff" txt_color="#000000"]I[/mks_dropcap]t has been a few years since farmer Jack Allen found a naked teenage girl on his porch. He kept her for a year and then she mysteriously disappeared. Well, won’t you know? It happened again. During the night there was a thunderstorm and lightning striking a few hundred yards out. But when that storm hit, Jack Allen was not concerned. He rolled over in bed and went back to sleep. So then morning comes. The storm is gone and the dark indigo of night is just beginning to fade. Odd thing is that if Jack Allen didn’t know better he could have sworn that the birds had been up early singing at least two hours before dawn. There was a goldfinch chirping and a group of doves cooing. Most odd. Jack Allen steps through the front door and finds a girl curled up on the couch he has on his porch. She is wearing tight fitting blue jeans torn with a blood trail going down one leg beneath the knee. And a nose bleed has left a dark stain on her magenta T-shirt. She is nineteen or twenty. Blue eyes, dark hair cut short; maybe she is ninety pounds and say five foot four. But this time no storm cell accompanies the girl’s sudden appearance. Jack Allen bends down and asks the girl, “You okay?” The girl waves her hand as if to say, “Go away.” She closes her eyes and goes back to sleep. Jack Allen gets a wash cloth, some antiseptic, a few large band-aids, and tape. He rolls up her left leg blue jean and washes her abrasions. She doesn’t complain. Just lies there. He cuts the sticky ends off the band-aids and tapes them onto her leg. No need for stitches. He fetches a blanket and covers her with it. Two hours later the girl comes limping through the front door into the house and sits down at the table, head in her hands. Jack Allen, figuring she is hungry, makes some scrambled eggs and toast and sets it before her. She helps herself. Now just to be clear so there is no confusion, Jack Allen is now retired and, like before, he enjoys living alone. You could say he is a low maintenance kind of guy. Now, as you already know, the highlight of his day is still sitting on the porch watching the sun rise and later in the day watching it set again. And when he sits there watching, not a single thought goes through his mind. Perhaps in that one way only—in regard to his mental processes—farmer Jack Allen is a most unusual man. All the same, as we already know, Jack Allen understands that life is full of surprises. And maybe when you know this secret about life, life throws a few extra surprises your way. All of which is to say, though Jack Allen is a true gentleman, he does enjoy on rare occasions such as this the company of a young woman. After she is done eating, he says to the girl, “My name is JackAllen. You are ....?" It takes two more days before she tells him her name— Theresa. She doesn’t say much more than that. But she is helpful. On the second day, she takes out the garbage, cooks breakfast and dinner. Funny though, some days she only eats a carrot and a strawberry or two. She also washes the dishes. Does the laundry. Sweeps the leaves off the porch. And oddly enough, she washes all the windows on the first floor. Now on the third day, Jack Allen sits out on the porch, as usual, watching the sun set. Theresa comes out of the house. She gives him a hard stare and then she sits down next to him. In the last few years, having more time on his hands, Jack Allen has taken to rescuing injured animals. There was a small owl smack in the center of the road that wouldn’t let him drive by. He got out of his truck and went right up to it. Apparently, it couldn’t fly. Jack Allen got a stick and set it near the owl and the owl climbed right up on it. He took the owl back to the farm and put it in the barn. Figured mice would make a fine owl snack. Now what is odd, as Theresa sits next to Jack Allen, is that the little owl comes walking out of the barn toward the house. It hops up the stairs onto the porch. It then comes over, jumps up, and sits on the arm of the couch next to Theresa.And there they sit for an hour after the sun sets—farmer, girl, and owl. Pretty cute I would say. Life has these charming moments. Theresa also had a thing for Jack Allen’s other rescues. A few months back, Jack Allen had spotted a little puppy dog in the ditch next to the road as he drove into town. He stopped, picked it up, and took it home. He lets it run around outside during the day. But at night he keeps it indoors. Not safe at night for a little puppy dog to be on its own. And there are also three baby raccoons farmer Jack Allen found abandoned in the woods. He took them home. He keeps them in the shed. Feeds them peanuts, bread, apples, and a little dog food. The thing is that on the fifth day since the girl’s arrival Jack Allen would see Theresa cradling the dog or a raccoon in her arms as she walked about yard or house. And she found her own rescues —she made friends with a pheasant and a couple of wild rabbits. They came right up to her. Maybe the owl had spread the world that this was a place of animal hospitality. On the sixth day, Jack Allen comes down to the kitchen and there on the table is a potted flower called *Amethyst mist coral bells*. And on the windowsill is another plant, a carefully potted—lily-of-the-valley. Theresa has discovered Jack Allen’s tiny flower garden. Besides those two flowers, Jack Allen has daylilies, a pretty flower. There are blue and pink Columbines and asters. And there are Ligularia with their tall spires that rise in June and July. On the seventh day after Theresa arrived, Jack Allen drives into town for some supplies. Turning onto the main road and about a half mile down Jack Allen stops his truck. There in the ditch is a Volkswagen kombi, a little minibus. It has hippie type paintings on the side—a moon, waves breaking, mountains with snow. That sort of thing. Jack Allen inspects it. Looks like maybe the axle is busted. The girl was lucky she hadn’t killed herself. There was also a tree struck by lightning on the other side of the road. Jack Allen figured with the wind and rain the girl took the wrong turn and, with the lightning striking so close, she lost control. The next day Jack Allen uses his tractor to pull the kombi out of the ditch. He calls into town and asks if anyone knows how to fix it. Has a friend come out to look at the kombi. The friend tows it away. A few weeks later the kombi is back all fixed, but Theresa by then had decided to stay A few days later, Jack Allen notices something odd as he is coming into the house from out back. About eighty feet away from the house the air is slightly warmer. And then if he steps forward a few inches the air is slightly colder. “Humm,” he says aloud. He never noticed any unusual phenomena like that with the other girl. He puts his hand up and sure enough, as he moves his hand closer to the house the air falls in temperature and as he pulls his hand back the air is warmer. He then put his hand right on the spot where the temperature changes and suddenly there is a faint flash of light before his eyes. It is like being on a mountain top and looking out into the blue sky. But when he looks again nothing happens. But there is a feeling that went with the flash that stays with him. He feels like he weighs five or ten pounds less when he walks toward the house and the weight comes back when he walks out of the house. Now Jack Allen is not the kind of man who draws quick conclusions when no conclusions need be made. You could say Jack Allen has a judicial temperament. Ambiguity does not bother him and he knows he only needs to decide what something is when there is a practical reason to do so. All the same, Jack Allen is slightly more alert around the girl from now on. But it takes no special alertness to notice another odd thing. After taking a walk in the woods, Jack Allen comes down the path toward the house and stops. It is late in the afternoon. The light blue of the sky is at the edge of starting to fade. Jack Allen looks at that sky and he sees what he has never seen before. That fading light blue now seems to have twenty different shades. There is blue violet, cyan, cerulean, light cobalt, a hint of turquoise, steel blue, cornflower, teal, aqua, celeste, maya blue ....The naming was confusing for Jack Allen. But the sight was amazing. He kept staring and asking himself, “Why haven’t I ever seen this before?” It was like the sky was a window through which he was gazing into another universe. Now with Theresa, who still only spoke a few words each week, there came about a change in the evening ritual of sitting on the porch. One night she grabbed one of Jack Allen’s feet, takes off his shoe and sock, and gives him a foot massage. It seems okay to him. It feels fine. It is relaxing. He didn’t realize there were so many achy muscles in a foot that were there to awaken at her touch. A day later she massages his other foot. The following evening she massages his hands. And that is when he saw what she was doing. In touching him, she was linking their two minds together. 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Theresa knows what he wants her to do. She stares at that sky and within twenty minute’s time clouds have formed and there is a heavy down pour. And then he gestures again with his hand toward the sky. Theresa stares at the sky again and then suddenly the rain stops. Now you might wonder how farmer Jack Allen came up with the idea that Theresa could control weather like that. But the thing is that when you can go for hours on end without a single thought entering your mind you can see things and think thoughts that you never had before. Insight can come out of nowhere. Jack Allen just knew that this was a final test, a parting gift, that he was to give Theresa. Like the other girl who once stayed with him for a year, he knew in advance she would soon leave. It was Theresa’s time to depart. Jack Allen just knew that this was a final test, a parting gift, that he was to give Theresa. Like the other girl who once stayed with him for a year, he knew in advance she would soon leave. It was Theresa’s time to depart. A younger man no doubt would have wanted to have his way with Theresa. But with Farmer Jack Allen this having your way thing never came up. Well, that is not exactly true. The last night before she left, Jack Allen was in a deep, dreamless sleep. Yet even where there are no dreams you can still be alert and notice things going on. But even so you may have a hard time recalling what you observed or experienced when you wake up. In the morning, taking a shower, half way done, it suddenly came to Jack Allen that this nineteen-year-old girl had climbed into his bed during the night and had her way with him. How can I describe it? I don’t think I can other than to say perhaps it was her way of saying "goodbye," or just simply thanking him. Do men really understand women? Or, on the other hand, we could dismiss this event as unsubstantiated speculation and say maybe Jack Allen’s imagination was playing tricks on him. 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It is how you use what you have been given that counts. “Saturn only asks that you find in life something of great value to work at or to accomplish. This can be inside yourself or in the outer world. Make something that endures. “Rome itself is part of this struggle. There are buildings that we build that shall stand for thousands of years. What emperor can enter this city made of stone and leave it filled with marble? What general can set aside his rank and power and return to his villa leaving behind a tradition of honor that shall inspire men down through the ages? “Each of us is a part of two worlds—an outer world and inner, spiritual world. We live and operate equally in both, even though the outer world seems solid and real and the inner, the spiritual world, feels like a dream. “You will know when you have entered Saturn’s dreams. There are soul to soul and heart to heart connections. 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To meet others where they are, to be with them and to comfort them, and then to walk by their sides to a place of freedom and light—is this not the greatest and most sacred celebration of life? “We are here on earth to learn, to grow, to experience new things, and to transform into something more than what we now are. “And yet Saturn stalks us demanding what even the greatest of world teachers are hard pressed to achieve— “To demonstrate that we have learned all that can be learned from life in the worlds of form we must show that we are able to create love where love does not exist and that we are able to free in our hearts under the worst and most difficult conditions of life. “The voice of Saturn says to each of us, ‘Learn to be as me—weep not when death and fate take away. Renounce regret, sorrow, and loss. Every ending, separation, farewell, and goodbye is a sacred rite in my eyes. 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