Manifestation

– You can make magickal props, like writing checks to yourself if you want money or creating a symbolic lease if you are looking for a property etc. These props are actually replacement thoughts. For example, if you were looking for a place to live then the thought that you don’t have one would keep on coming to your mind, and if you did have a place to stay you would never think about the lack of a place. So the magickal lease is replacement, you need to vow to never think about not having a place to stay now because you made this magickal lease and it is real in the next world and real in this world. You can put the lease in the magickal folder or images if you are following the nembutso chanting practice I teach elsewhere. You can combine it with diety worship, for example, for abundance, you can use Jupiter in theurgy, and when you feel abundance, that feeling is actually the principle of Jupiter in the unmanifest, within you as a state, and you can vow to the diety never to have the thought of poverty again, and perform libation daily to the God/Goddess and vow to perform a symbolic gesture in the world when the senses perceive what you are attempting to create. Continue reading→

Meditation

Meditatio – a meditation on breath can be linked to two concepts, like two related gratitudes, or one intention and one gratitude, or two related questions. Two concepts, like slighting and forgiving. So, you could breath out and state an intention, ‘I am a magnet to abundance’ and then breath in a strong feeling of gratitude and being in this state of abundance fulfilled. It could be combined with diety worship or breathing in the elements as in the Bardon training.

Boredom

Boredom is actually a very interesting state, like wanting something to happen or change but not knowing what. It’s a shadowy, undefined state of dissatisfaction which needs to be changed to ‘having’ so better things shine (are created on the visual field) from it. I AM IS BEING.

An Important Stage of Magickal Training concerning the Visual Field

There are certain stages in spiritual development, which are quite specific. For example, access concentration at will. One of these stages is constant control of the visual field, i.e. to always be in control of what is existing visually (and so astrally) in the mind. Now it might not always be positive or in real-time, but it becomes all conscious.

So before training, the mind just runs around and does whatever it wants. But then one learns to control it for specific periods of time. Then there is improving awareness and concentration. Each evening, the days events can be reviewed and people will generally struggle to remember what they were visualising in the morning as it was largely unconscious, but this will improve, to the definite state where one is aware, looking back throughout the just-lived day, or what one was visualising (and so the state one was in). This stage is partly due to improved recall and partly due to improved concentration, but it coincides with increased disipline, and so happiness and ‘luck’.

New Magickal Perspectives on Theurgy

This isn’t really an insight, but more an understanding I got from reading the book Divine Magick. That there is the physical world, that we see with our senses, and a world of ideas (in the Platonic sense) that exist as principles. It’s a bit like gravity, which existed before any person or consciousness evolved. So in the world of ideas there are principles, like something being hot. Heat. Now we have evolved with bodies and can feel heat and see flames out there in the world with our senses, but the world is a dream of the past, it’s realy a manifestation of the idea of ‘heat’ being reported by the senses, you don’t really know what exists at all out there beyond the senses.

So theurgy is contacting these energies because the principles like ‘love’ and ‘abundance’ are not just ideas, they are CONSCIOUS, and you can experience them as STATES. So you look at a pantheon of dieties, say the Olympic spirits or the astrological dieties, and they represent a collection of ideas that rule over the human experience.

So you get their associations, their colours and scents and you build a shrine and you contact them by petition (writing your intention) and then EMBODYING THAT STATE as a state of consciousness, and you feel what you want to feel and the idea is existing in your consciousness and will manifest associated fantasy in your mind. Then it will shine into the world.

For example, you could contact Jupiter, burn his scent, visualize him nembutso style in his shrine in your astral temple, and you can then feel a state of pure essense of abundance, and then you have manifested his state. Yes, actual abundance will then manifest around you, but really you have it when you have the state because it will exist in you. You are EMBODYING IT AS AN IDEA.

If you are doing the practice I teach elsewhere, of having a series of rotating manifestation images to accompany magickal nembutso, then you can add pictures of the dieties and their associations.

Persitency of Visualization in LBRP to Anchor You in the Astral

LBRP
Once aspect of performing the LBRP astrally, is to anchor yourself in the astral world. There is the physical component which is mirrored by the astral component. The astral component is based, initially, on visualising while you are performing the main ritual. So you might be doing it in a bedroom, but visually, as you walk around, you imagine an inner body performing the same actions in another world based on the elements. So, for example, when drawing the air pentacle, then there is a huge forest before you and the breeze is blowing over your face.

Then you can perform it mentally/astrally only. Lying down, you imagine your astral body rising and performing the ritual and you can see through it’s eyes and feel with it’s body. For example, when you are in the astral drawing the pentacle , then the breeze blows over your astral face and you feel it in this body, but also on your physical body which is existing in the physical world and lying in the centre of the room, and so this practice is anchoring you to be in two worlds simultaneously, which is essential to all magickal practice.

As you walk around the circle, the perspective changes and is very hard to maintain, you will keep snapping back to the perspective of the physical. The trick is make sure you are persisting in the visulization of the astral moment-to-moment without break. Walk around and see the world of the elements from the perspective of the astral and make sure that you are always seeing this visual field, do not let there be any break in concentration, control the mental field (visual screen) so that it is doing nothing other than placing you in another world.

It will take many months of practice, but the practice will ‘loosen’ you and you will start to ‘wake up’ in the next world more and more.