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