pewep
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On any day I count myself to be 3-8 times more psychic than the average man - depending on how full my dantian is. If I've been celibate for longer than a week, multiply that figure by ten.
Anyway I was in dance class, and this time we were supposed to grab a girl and dance with her (verbatim from our instructor). Anyway I danced with a bunch of people then my crush grabbed my hand. I felt like I was walking on air and at the same time I was here. It was so intense. We were supposed to look at each other as we waltzed and honestly, my dumb face couldn't keep a straight look while I gazed upon her. Similarly, she started giggling a LOT. Anyway we kept dancing and I honestly couldn't hold it any longer, the "vapour" started coming out of my eyes. It's that feeling where like I start seeing things sliding across, etc... It's like a cloud starts to form around me and it's real but at the same time it's kind of fake. Guys, I wish you could record this. Anyway she abruptly said "Okay, I'm starting to feel it." I didn't know wtf that meant. We went on our separate way but I've been confused since then. I'd like you guys to see something, keep in mind I don't share Witch secrets freely:
Anyway I was in dance class, and this time we were supposed to grab a girl and dance with her (verbatim from our instructor). Anyway I danced with a bunch of people then my crush grabbed my hand. I felt like I was walking on air and at the same time I was here. It was so intense. We were supposed to look at each other as we waltzed and honestly, my dumb face couldn't keep a straight look while I gazed upon her. Similarly, she started giggling a LOT. Anyway we kept dancing and I honestly couldn't hold it any longer, the "vapour" started coming out of my eyes. It's that feeling where like I start seeing things sliding across, etc... It's like a cloud starts to form around me and it's real but at the same time it's kind of fake. Guys, I wish you could record this. Anyway she abruptly said "Okay, I'm starting to feel it." I didn't know wtf that meant. We went on our separate way but I've been confused since then. I'd like you guys to see something, keep in mind I don't share Witch secrets freely:
"Centuries ago, occultists called upon this energy from the eyes to
explain glamours and prestiges. In his Philosophy of Natural Magic,
Cornelius Agrippa explains that there is a 'vapour' that emanates from the
eyes. Marcus Fienus, a Florentine physician, uses almost the same
language. He says that 'a vapour, or a certain spirit' is 'emitted by the rays
of the eyes'. In more modern times, we call this 'vapour' the cloud.
This is why Morien tells King Khalid that the Five Matter 'is firmly
captive within you yourself, inseparable from you wherever you may be . .
. [It] comes from you, who are yourself its source, where it is found and
whence it is taken.' It is in theory possible
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to 'dissolve' common elements into the First Matter, but in practice, the
substance is produced directly from the emanations of the human body.
Likewise, Hermes says that 'the Work is both within you and without you;
taking what is within and fixed, thou canst have it either in earth or in sea.'
That said, it is now time for me to stop throwing theories at you
and tell you precisely how you are to form the cloud, either for
materialization or for invisibility. Every principle that we shall use has
been given to you already. What remains is to draw the loose ends together
into a definite technique.
All told, there are seven steps a number that will ring a bell with
students of alchemy. We shall consider each of the seven in turn.
Step One
The first step is to construct your laboratory. Every alchemist has to have a
laboratory, and modern alchemists are no exception. But your laboratory
does not have to look like something that might be owned by the Dow
Chemical Corporation. Al-chemical laboratories can be quite simple. In
fact, you will need no conventional chemical apparatus at all.
'What shall I say to you,' asked Paracelsus, 'about all your
alchemical prescriptions, about all your retorts and bottles, crucibles,
mortars, and glasses, of all your complicated processes of distilling,
melting, cohibiting, coagulating, sublimating, precipitating, and filtering,
of all the tomfoolery for which you throw away your time and money. All
such things are useless and the labour for it is lost. They are rather an
impediment than a help to arrive at the truth.' The true ancestors of the
chemists were not the alchemists, but their despised brethren, the puffers
also known as broilers, souffleurs, and cacochemists. Unless you are a
chemist, you may leave the glassware and the bunsen burners to them.
They are of no use to you in alchemy.
There are of course some chemical facts that you may wish to take
into consideration. In Psychic Self-Defence Dion Fortune gives
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some advice for preventing materialization, say, by an enemy. She
suggests 'consecrated salt', dissolved in vinegar and placed in saucers, for
'low degrees of force', and nitric acid, either diluted or full strength, for
higher degrees. Obviously, in this case, we are trying for just the opposite,
so if you have any consecrated salt about, you might wish to exclude it
from your laboratory. The same goes for nitric acid.
Other than that, the problem of setting up your laboratory is mostly
one of atmosphere. The Spiritualists, who have experimented more with
materialization than anyone else, claim that light is detrimental to
'physical' phenomena. Best to try it in darkness. I do not happen to believe
that one should go that far, but you will find it desirable to have a room
where you can limit the amount of outside light. Just the amount of light
that usually is seen at late twilight seems to be best for these experiments.
You should also have available at least one unadorned wall, or a door
which leads into a darkened room. And, yes privacy. The presence of
sceptics dooms one to failure, especially in the beginning.
Step Two
With that taken care of, the next step is to sit quietly and comfortably, and
direct your eyes to some single place in the room. This is necessary so that
the cloud may collect at the place where you are staring. If you glance
here for a moment, and there for a moment, the cloud will not build up.
The effect of directed attention is cumulative. The longer you look in the
same direction, the more definite the cloud you are building becomes.
Step Three
Now since the cloud is, after all, a subtle phenomenon else it would not
make you invisible we are going to have to apply the
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principles we studied in earlier chapters for enhancing sight. That means
de-focusing the eyes slightly as we stare and wait for the cloud to become
apparent. H. Spencer Lewis, who discusses this technique in his 'Ninth
Degree' monographs, suggests that you look beyond anything that might
be in front of you, as if you were looking at something five miles away.
He calls this 'passive visual perception', and he refers to the point also
made by both Butler and Bates that the eyes see better when they are
passive. By slightly de-focusing your eyes, you will enhance your ability
to see the cloud. And for the same reason that near-sighted people throw
away their glasses and others learn to see the aura.
Lewis suggests that you keep your eyes half open while you stare
and wait for the cloud to collect, but I find that one additional principle is
necessary for me to get results. My eyes tend to focus on whatever is in
front of me, despite my efforts to prevent it, and to keep that from
happening, I sit in front of something that simply is not worth looking at.
I have had good results looking at a plain white wall, whereas
others prefer a dark background. Schrenk-Notzing noted that for some, the
cloud shows up better against something dark, and you may wish to use a
dark cloth or a doorway into an unlit room. Practically anything will work
just so long as it is so nil to your eyes that they tend to de-focus naturally
after a few moments of concentration. Collecting the cloud is of no use to
you if you cannot see it after it is collected. Therefore, this de-focusing is
absolutely essential to the technique.
Step Four
If you have absolute privacy, and I do mean absolute privacy, you might
want to do some chanting along with the staring and the de-focusing. I
personally find this unnecessary and even distracting, but H. Spencer
Lewis recommended it to his disciples, and you might want to try it if you
have difficulty getting results without it.
The mantra to use here is RA-MA. It is the name of a Hindu
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god, and it is the name of an Egyptian god, and it is also the name of the
city where the School of the Prophets was founded in ancient Palestine. H.
Spencer Lewis says that the syllable RA represents the positive, masculine
energy in the universe, and that MA represents the negative, feminine
potency. Together, they represent the creative power that brought the
universe into existence out of the cloud in the beginning. By chanting
these syllables together, we bring some of that creative power into the
present day, and once again call into existence that cloud out of which the
Cosmos was formed.
Each syllable should be drawn out, thus: RAHHHHHHHHHMAHHHHHHHHH
and should be repeated fifteen or twenty times per
session. As you chant the mantra, bear in mind that you are trying to bring
together the dual sex potencies in the universe and produce a
manifestation thereby.
Step Five
At this point I may as well be honest with you and tell you that all of this
will not fall into place the very first time you do it. I have had people tell
me that they tried fifty times or more before they started getting results.
Anything worth doing is worth doing repeatedly. But the cloud can be
formed, and has been formed hundreds of times by the Wise.
Now the biggest problem that you will have is not producing the
cloud, but recognizing that you are producing the cloud. Sometimes you
will be concentrating and you will see what appears to be heat waves,
radiating from the spot where you are staring. If you see this,
congratulations! That is not it!
It is what H. Spencer Lewis described as a faint discolouration of
the atmosphere, nothing more. If you are using a white background, the
cloud will appear to be a very, very faint blue stain that almost cannot be
seen at all. The one thing that will tell you for certain when you are getting
results is that anything on the other side of the cloud will be blotted out.
The first time I got results with this experiment, I was lying in
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bed recovering from influenza, and using the ceiling of my bedroom for a
backdrop. I was wondering silently how much longer I should have to
work to get success with this phenomenon, when I suddenly noticed that a
very slight indentation in the ceiling where I was staring could no longer
be seen. This indentation was quite visible before you tend to notice
such things after staring at them for some time and when I looked more
closely, I noticed that there was a very subtle blue haze between the
ceiling and my eyes. If I looked away from the target area, I could see the
ceiling quite clearly. If I looked where this blue haze was forming, I could
see nothing. However, if I had looked for the cloud itself, I would never
have noticed it. It was almost invisible.
When you think you are getting results, it is time for step five
building the cloud. There are several different ways in which this may be
accomplished. You will recall that the Buddhist nun mentioned by
Madame Blavatsky in chapter two 'began to draw together, by large
handfuls as it were, invisible material from the surrounding atmosphere'.
Some people do have excellent results using their hands in this
experiment, and there is a technique that is widely used by Western secret
orders based on this principle.
The idea is to start with your hands separated by a foot and a half
or so, then bring them together, at the same time holding in mind the
thought that you are compressing the astral material in the space between
them. You are not to gather anything, precisely. The motion that you will
make is rather like that of a man playing an accordion. You bring your
hands together, then drawn them apart, then bring them together again.
This technique was once used by members of the Inner Peace
Movement, and a woman connected with that movement told me that she
could see balls of light forming in the space between her hands when she
did this experiment. Some people get excellent results using this method.
As for myself, I get nothing whatever.
A method which works better for me is based on will power and
eye movement, and does not involve the hands in any way at all. After you
have seen the cloud begin to form, look away from it, allow the energy to
collect in another region of space, and after a moment or two, bring your
eyes gradually toward the centre, where
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the main cloud is forming, at the same time willing that the energy in other
parts of the room will move in and join with the energy already in the
cloud. You may glance up above the cloud, then bring your eyes down,
willing that the energy above the cloud be added to the energy of the cloud
itself, then do the same thing by glancing below the cloud, then to either
side of it. Remember as you do this that your willing is not to involve eye
strain in any way. The willing must be entirely mental. The eyes must
remain passive if you are to see what you are doing.
You may find it helpful to mix this technique with step number
two, and start the building-up process at the same time you start the
concentration that allows the cloud to collect in the first place. In other
words, rather than concentrate until you see something visible beginning
to collect you might want to alternate between step one and five,
concentrating for a few moments, then building up the cloud for a few
moments, and then returning to your concentration. This helps relieve the
tedium that often accompanies occult experiments, and can produce some
excellent results.
Step Six
After you have produced the cloud successfully, you will discover that it
has a natural tendency to disperse to the four corners of your room. This is
according to the laws of thermodynamics, and if you allow it to happen,
eventually the energy in the cloud will become evenly distributed
throughout the surrounding space. This dispersing action takes the form of
a spin, and must be countered by another spin of opposite type if the cloud
is to be of any use to you.
The dispersing spin takes place in a clockwise direction, and you
must counter it by willing that the cloud spin in an anti-clockwise
direction. Once it starts to do this, rather than becoming larger and thinner,
it will become smaller and more dense. Therefore, you may need to
alternate this step with step five, causing a anti-clockwise spin, then
building up more energy into the cloud as it shrinks.
If you persist with this, you may build a cloud that is very dense
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indeed. This is one of the secrets of materialization, and I have been told
of an AMORC Grand Master who has completely blotted out the light of a
150 watt bulb in private demonstrations using this method. The
Frenchman A. Secour has compared this process with the formation of
nebulae in outer space. Astronomers contend that galaxies, including our
own, are formed in this way, with gigantic clouds spinning and condensing
until they gradually form suns and planets.
Step Seven
Once you have formed a cloud that is quite definite and which contains a
great deal of astral substances, the final step is to draw it around yourself
and blot yourself out of view. Once again, the technique is just the logical
result of everything we have said thus far. You must produce a cloud large
enough to enshroud the human body, then will that it come toward you and
surround you. If there is a tendency for it to shine, you may want to will
that it assumes a neutral colour, perhaps the same colour as your
surroundings. I have never noticed this effect myself, but it has been
mentioned by numerous others, especially ancient authors. In The Six
Keys, Euxodus says of it that 'it is properly called the great Lunaria,
because of the brightness with which it shines'. If you get this result, you
will want to suppress it with your will power. It is no use trying to become
invisible in a lighthouse.
When you think that you can make yourself invisible, it is well to
have a small mirror in your laboratory, placed perhaps six or seven feet
away so that you can see your own image in it. If after you form the cloud
and surround yourself with it, you can no longer see yourself in the mirror,
you are getting objective results. I must caution you about inviting friends
to come to your laboratory to see if they can see you. After you have
achieved perfect mastery of the experiment, this kind of thing is fine. But
at first, when you are still getting results sporadically, you may repeat the
experience of Lord Lytton and make yourself ridiculous instead.
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As you advance, you might want to try some elementary
experiments in materialization, perhaps producing lights in your room or
columns of smoke, or even images. As Vaughan said, 'it is to no purpose to
know this Matter unless we know the thing itself to which the notion
relates. We must see it, handle it, and by experimental ocular
demonstration know the very central invisible essence and properties of it.'
This can come only from experience.
Now there is one other effect that can be produced with the cloud
that does not lend itself to experimentation, but I want to make mention of
it nonetheless. This is invulnerability. In times of danger, you may
surround yourself with the cloud, and thereby protect yourself, not only by
making yourself invisible, but by physically isolating yourself from
whatever the danger is. As Madame Blavatsky interprets this
phenomenon:
The astral fluid can be compressed about a person so as to form an
elastic shell, absolutely non-penetrable by any physical object,
however great the velocity with which it travels. In a word, this
fluid can be made to equal and even excel in resisting power, water
and air.
In India, Malabar, and some places of Central Africa, the conjurers
will freely permit any traveller to fire his musket or revolver at
them, without touching the weapon themselves or selecting the
balls. In Laing's Travels Among the Timanni, the Kourankos, and
the Soulimas, occurs a description by an English traveller, the first
white man to visit the tribe of the Soulimas, of a very curious
scene. A body of picked soldiers fired upon a chief who had
nothing to defend himself with but certain talismans. Although
their muskets were properly loaded and aimed, not a ball could
strike him. Salverte gives similar case in his Philosophy of Occult
Sciences: 'In 1568 the Prince of Orange condemned a Spanish
prisoner to be shot at Juliers; the soldiers tied him to a tree and
fired, but he was invulnerable. They at last stripped him to see
what armour he wore, but found only
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an amulet. When this was taken from him, he fell dead at the first
shot.
This is a very different affair from the dexterous trickery resorted
to by Houdin in Algeria. He prepared balls himself of tallow,
blackened with soot, and by sleight of hand exchanged them for
real bullets, which the Arab sheikhs supposed they were putting in
the pistols. The simple-minded natives, knowing nothing but real
magic, which they had inherited from their ancestors, and seeing
Houdin, as they thought, accomplish the same results in a more
impressive manner, fancied that he was a greater magician than
themselves. Many travellers, the writer included, have witnessed
instances of this invulnerability where deception was impossible. A
few years ago, there lived in an African village an Abyssinian, who
passed for a sorcerer. Upon one occasion a party of Europeans,
going to Sudan, amused themselves for an hour or two in firing at
him with their own pistols and muskets, a privilege which he gave
them for a trifling fee. As many as five shots were fired
simultaneously, and the muzzles of the pieces were not above two
yards distant from the sorcerer's breast. In each case,
simultaneously with the flash, the bullet would appear just behind
the muzzle, quivering in the air, and then fall harmlessly to the
ground. A German offered the magician a five fanc piece if he
would allow him to fire the gun with the muzzle touching his body.
The magician at first refused, but finally, after appearing to hold
conversation with someone inside the ground, consented. The
experimenter carefully loaded, and, pressing the muzzle of the
weapon against the sorcerer's body, fired. The barrel burst into
fragments as far down as the stock, and the magician walked off
unhurt.
In our own time several well-known mediums have frequently, in
the presence of the most respectable witnesses, not only handled
blazing coal and actually placed their faces upon a fire without
singing a hair, but even laid flaming coals upon the heads and
hands of bystanders, as in the case of Lord
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Lindsay and Lord Adare. The well-known story of the Indian chief,
who confessed to Washington that at Braddock's defeat he fired his
rifle at him seventeen times without effect, will recur to the reader
in this connection.
This effect has been demonstrated in Europe as well, but as I said, it is not
something that one would want to deliberately make use of as an
experiment. It is something to keep in mind; one more effect produced by
the marvellous power of the cloud."
