The structure of the LBRP, known as a Banishing Ritual, and the Middle Pillar, are originally Mercurial, self propelled Road Openings, and linked to the Horned-man of the cross roads, The Devil, but the Devil in the TRUE European Witchcraft, as meaning virile, vigorous, wild, and powerful. Devil until Christianity, like the word demon, had ZERO evil connotations. Another interesting aside to note, on the tree of life, we see the sphere of Venus, opposite the sphere of Mercury (the horned devil, in his original form, sexual, wild, full of energy, sorcerous, and a trickster). The Devil (Mercury), and the Dame (Venus), are the Father, and Mother of the European Witch cults. Mercury is a tawny red/orange, as is the devil, the beams of Mars which is over Mercury, plays a HUGE role is this. That is something from the TRUE witchcraft mysteries.

What is a road opening?

As we know, the astral world is the blue print, or final edit, before becoming manifest/physical. There are a great deal of opportunities, resources, and other energies that for a multitude of reasons become blocked from connecting with us. They circulate around us, and come in as bits and pieces, or even corrupted versions of what they should have been. This can be the result of psychic sludge, a chaotic lifestyle, evil magic, harmful spirits, etc. If it comes to down to this, your roads are blocked and forward motion is hindered.

Another way of looking at this is doors. Strangely, Mercury, and Eshu, Lucero, Legba, Exu, etc, are all often called the, key holders to human destiny, and they can unlock doors for you. The inverse is also true, they can shut doors on you, or close your roads. Its common in Palo Mayombe, Voudu, and Quimbanda, to preform malefic rites to close the roads, or doors of your enemies. Its also protection magic, to close the roads, and doors on those trying to harm you.

The structure of the Golden Dawn LBRP, and the calling of directional based Archangels, and drawing banishing pentagrams is in effect to close your roads from being transverses by malignant spirits. The problem is the Archangels where called to stand watch (They will do NOTHING else, unless instructed too, as they are ARCHONS), and the doors/.roads around the magician are closed. You in effect, safe, but in an astral prison of your own make.

The Planetary tradition calls upon the forces of the four winds. This is important distinction because of the functions they serve. The four winds move, and wear heralds for Mercury. Unlike the Golden Dawn ritual structure where you are in reality assuming the God from of Jehovah, in this Planetary tradition, you are assuming the God form of Mercury. The four winds CLEARED THE PATH FOR MERCURY'S SWIFT MOVEMENT. In effect, opened/cleared his (now yours) roads. Mercury is the sign post (Transmitting messages through signs, and can be a receiver by having signs hung on them.... REALLY meditate on that, and it's connection to the Middle Pillar Ritual) in the middle of the crossroads. You are calling forth the four aligned powerful spirits which will make Mercury's (your) travel, commerce, communication, learning, tradings, etc, etc, easier.

The old saying, All roads lead to Rome, had deep, and magical implications, by virtue of Mercury.

Where the LBRP, takes care of, horizontal, the Middle Pillar Ritual, begins the Mercurial exercise of, vertical movement (body expansion, and in the tradition Planetary sphere/body visitation). This also linked the magician with the North Star, or Pole-Star, which in a hidden mystery makes sure your astral body will never get lost, and can navigate (travel/Mercury), the astral realm, or starry sea.

Now, this leads us to the topic of, The Merger. Behold, a true work of Mercurial inspiration. A multi-tiered/layered crossroad, all originating off the same center pole (you/Mercury), for hyper dimensional maneuverability. When you are drawing those Planetary master symbols around your own Planetary bodies, on each planetary realm, you are opening THEIR roads also. So, in other words, your are placing the keys around them, that they (YOU) might also have the roads, or doors, open on that planetary realm, and receive all the blocked/hampered energies that pertain to that particular planetary sphere, which would flow through that particular planetary body, and then down to your physical manifestation.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012Understanding the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram Full Disclosure What you are about the read has been purposely kept from you. I desperately want you to both know this and perhaps understand why this is. The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram or the LBRP is a key or a ritual that unlocks your indestructible or eternal nature; which is the part of you that is the child of promise. The LBRP is a practice which aligns you with the celestial movements of stars, unifies your position on the earth and begins a chain reaction on the astral plane that sends rumblings across the inter-dimensional/multi-verse. The LBRP sets order of motion in your own personal microcosm and aligns your planetary bodies to their correct positions while establishing stronger links to your own microcosm and the universal macrocosm. In effect the LBRP is a type of inner planetary alchemy that: corrects imbalances Reclaims spiritual authority invokes your indestructible/ higher self creates a powerful and ever deepening mediation of the universal self or child of promise Restores faith in humanity by revealing the divine nature of your own human nature The unification of yourself and your solar self, the inner champion/hero or heroine within you

The reason for the true keys of this ritual being kept from you shouldnt be all that much of a surprise. There is power/control benefits as well as monetary/financial in keeping you unawares and shackled by weakness, being kept a perpetual victim of circumstance. Imagine how many so-called essential systems, the ivory towers of elitism, would crumble if the masses where allowed to discover that no one else, absolutely no one, has any right or say or any claim over your own life. Imagine what might occur if the majority of humanity no longer felt the need to give away their power, their time, effort, attention, wealth and energy to highly suspect institutions who claim to work towards the safety of you and your family but more and more seem to indicate that they take what you give them and use it to build a type of physical, mental and spiritual prison and control grid. Imagine now the possibilities of a world where many humans in realizing their own divine natures act as conduits from Gods/Goddess and humans and the middlemen of corrupted and criminal priesthoods no longer had any audience to speak of. What if humans beings began living out the doctrines of their LIVING and EVOLVING deities upon the earth rather than the re-written, twisted and co-opted books written by already lecherous and treacherous men who scribbled down the hisses of their dark and scaly masters. Their words do not liberate, but enslave, terrorize and justify great and horrible evils in the name of a women hating, murderous and pedophilic Hebrew god, and much the same can be said of the same evil lords honored by Christian, Jews and Islamic alike. For the high level elite who understand the power and natural divine elements of magic/occult, the LBRP affirms their overrated ideals of themselves. In order to keep their underlings in line a corrupted version of this powerful rite is taught and as it travels further and further away from its vile source of the Illuminati the now perverse rite in its Hebrew rendition becomes more and more fouled and weaker until it finds it finds its self in its most deteriorated and tattered carnation that of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram found in the current new age books, The O.T.O, The Golden Dawn, and irresponsibly plastered all over the internet. In this way this befouled ritual can act as an entangling snare. The ritual even it this weakest of forms gives some sense of protection although it is more like a labeling which says hands off this human belongs to some of the most vampiric and truly evil intelligences in the form of Hebrew deities which are used to seal the pentagrams which are supposed to protect you but only place their mark on you, like you where a lunch box with powerful names on it saying to most other spirits this is mine to eat not yours. In return for spreading this magical disease if the form of this LBRP the Hebrew deities allow high level members of the illuminati the energetic leftovers from their feedings. This ritual works in this way because it uses the most basic concepts but rotted at its core. The kabalistic cross aligns the magicians body with the tree of life but instead of the white tree, it is the Qillopthian black tree which places you in reach of the Hebrew monsters. The so-called protecting pentagrams while they seal out spirits but the Hebrew names actually seal the magicians astral body inside a type of prison and light its location up so that the magician is easy to find and labeled in ownership to the Hebrew vampires. The Magician is safe from other lesser spirits only because the magician has voluntarily placed him or herself into an astral prison where Hebrew gods my drink the magicians energy away at their leisure. The authority gained in this LBRP only serves to continually and powerfully reinforce the magicians unwitting consent to being a well preserved meal for the Hebrew spirits he or she foolish thinks will protect him or her. This is a dark, dark ruse indeed.Now I will do my best to detail to you the why and how to perform the Lesser Banish Ritual of the Pentagram of champions, of heroes, of true magicians who embrace the highest aspects of humanity. Now prepare yourself to receive.The TRUE LBRP of the G.O.O.D.SFirstly we must examine the hidden symbols of the LBRP, its planetary correspondences and internal alchemical processes.The alchemical iconography of the LBRP is this, A golden child holding the most glorious rose of the entire universe. The break down is this;1. Rose2. Thorn3. Golden childThe LBRP is made up of the three symbols of the origins of humanity and from which all other sacred geometry.1. Triangle2. Pentagram3. Cross

These three symbols correspond to the three planetary origins of humanity.1. Mars-Triangle2. Venus-Pentagram3. Sun-CrossThese three symbols and their planetary correspondences relate to the three great implements of Humanity that were used to defend and drive off tyrants, monsters and magically, warded off spirits.1. Mars-Spear2. Venus- Shield3. Sun-Breast PlateThe three implements relate to the three major principals of humanity.1. Mars-Father2. Venus-Mother3. Sun-Child of promiseThese three major principals are finally brought to their originating energies.1. Father- Masculine2. Mother-Feminine3. Child-SelfSo in a full correspondence the 3 essential natures of humanity go like this;1. Thorn-Triangle-Mars-Spear-Father-Masculine2. Rose- Pentagram- Venus-Shield-Mother-Feminine3. Golden child-Cross-Sun-Breast Plate-Child of Promise-SelfBefore we get into the practice of the LBRP it is important to understand these correspondences and the intent behind them so that you can apply them to you LBRP in profound and powerful ways.The Mars energy is focused into the Spear. The spear is the thorn in the G.O.O.D.S mystery of the Rose and Thorn. The capacity of the spear or Mars energy in the LBRP is a passive one a hedge of thorns that pierces as deeply in equal response to the force that is applied against them aggressively in other words the attacker is responsible for the force they came at the magician with, and the thorns stays in as long as the aggressor decides to keep applying force. This mars energy doesnt attack, but offensively defends like a spiked shield or a wall of spears against a charging attacker who would impale themselves upon it. The pain stops when the attack stops and the extent of the injury will depend on the strength of the attack. This principle is the astral method of saying do not touch me, and if you do it is your fault. The Venus energy is the shield its self. It is the love of a mother to want to shield her child from harm. It was the mother of the Spartan who gives him his shield, the Spartan carries his mothers love with him to keep him protected. The Spartans father gives him his spear, the tool with which he will deal death to those foolish enough to attack Sparta. The shield of Venus much like the Spear of mars is in a passive role of defense as it poses no threat to anyone unless that person attacks and breaks themselves against the shield and punctures themselves against the spear. Venus is the Rose which carries the thorns of Mars and grows around and in front of the great child of promise the child of Mars and Venus, who is you, to protect you and keep you safe. The planet Venus actually traces the Banish pentagram around the Sun in its yearly orbit. The Sun energy within the LBRP is the life giving force to yourself and all other summoned, invoked or evoked intelligences you bring to your own microcosmic universe. Because this is the union of both Mars and Venus, like cupid the breast plate combines the mystery of love and war, beauty and strength, a function work of art that defends. This is also seen as the Solar plexus and the heart center. The Solar Center is the guard and the heart center the treasure the greatest treasure of who you are. The life force you share with the world and the center through which you are most emotional vulnerable. The golden solar armor radiance of the solar plexus helps defend the heart center from a plethora of spiritual, human and planetary influences. In days past magical breast plates had twelve gemstones corresponding to each zodiacal and planetary influence directed and purified to the heart center and shielding against impure influences. The LBRP affirms that you are indeed a child of both Mars and Venus; you are love on the earth as a Cupid in your own respect. You have within you the mystery of Love and War, as granted to you by your spiritual parents. You are the living embodiment of the twin pillars of Beauty (Venus) and Strength (Mars). For Beauty inspires Strength and Strength supports Beauty. As a child of promise you contain within you the divine spark of Prime Creator and you are the great promise of humanitys continued survival and freedom. We ALL possess this quality. That is why we ALL matter and each of us is vital and divine. This solar nature/child of promise/higher self is the energy that energizes the Rose of Venus and keeps the thorns of Mars sharp. The LBRP is a ritual in the highest order that both teaches us and empowers us in the deepest mysteries of magic, life/death, love/war, beauty/strength and personal authority/freedom. This child of promise is YOUR intelligence on the Sol/Solar/ Tipareth planetary realm. This IS the Christ/Buddha/St. George nature inside you. I simply cannot say enough about the deep implications of performing the LBRP with this level of understanding. The current Golden Dawn, O.T.O and Rose Cross orders simply no longer extend this to their members as it is seen as too high and would crumble these organizations because they are in essence now Black Lodges who use low and mid level initiates as occult batteries and feed them to Hebrew monsters. The LBRP I am releasing puts an end to this dark deception and places YOU as the solar cross of your own micro-universe.Let us talk about the solar cross. All solar intelligences are symbolized by the cross. The cross implies the location of center and the divining lines of influences as well as roads of power flowing in and out. This is true about the symbolism of the encircled equal armed cross which denotes the earth or physical plane. The center of this intersection is the primal hill where the king/queen (solar representative on the earth) stands as the channel of life energy on the material plane and surveys his or her four quadrants of their kingdom. In magical symbolism are the four quadrants or elements of his or herself and astral realm. When performing the LBRP you are attaining to the great reflection of the earthly cross, which is encircled showing that the physical plane is restricted by time and space (Saturn) and the grand solar cross of the Solar realm which is the center of the universe and whose arms reach out in all directions for all eternity. The Celtic cross is a primal example showing an encircled cross with the arms reaching past their bounds showing the all reach and freedom powers that the true solar divine nature transcends all limitations. Performing the LBRP

Step 1 (Earth cross and Solar Cross)Stand and for a moment contemplate your divine nature, that you are King or Queen of your own personal life/kingdom upon the material world. Below your feet and around you is a circle that shows your sphere of personal influence. Under your feet lines splay out in front and behind you and to your right and to your left and stop at the circle. This places you as the center of your own earthly kingdom. Also yourself to feel slightly contained and grow to surpass this idea of limitation. Allow your astral body to grow up and out of this world with your feet still on the physical realm but your astral body expanding to outer space and beyond until the Milky Way galaxy is a tiny speck of light under your feet. Step 2 (The grand cross)Now that your astral body is a universal presence just above your head in the softest but most brilliant white pulsating sphere of energy you can at this at imagine. This is the Uranian/Uranus, The Starry Crown or Crown of Heaven. Touch this sphere with your power finger (the pointer finger of the hand you write with) and draw the this power down to your head by touching your third eye which floods your astral head with divine light and invokes your higher genius as your vibrate the name Uranus and say The glory of heaven draw your finger down the front of your body to your groin and let the line of divine white light descend down your feet to the tiny light that is the milky way galaxy and to the center of the earthy encircled cross you made earlier and past that into infinity. Vibrate the name Terra and say shall be made real on the earth.Now touch your right shoulder with your power finger and divine light beams out from your heart center through your right shoulder and into eternity and vibrated the name Mars and say may terrifying strength uphold benevolence. Now with your power finger touch for left shoulder as divine light beams out through your left shoulder into infinity and vibrate the name Jupiter and say May benevolence temper terrifying strength. Now extend both arms and feel the divine light flow through and out your arms and down through your feet. Step 3 (The Formulation of the holy breastplate) You have now made the solar/grand cross and are in reflection of the earthly cross of your personal kingdom. Allow your upper body neck to waist and shoulder to shoulder to covered with a liquid gold that take a shape like a breastplate. Your heart center and solar plexus shine so bright the radiance makes the breastplate glow like the sun. Starting in the first quadrant at the left side of your neck and in a circular path down to your right breast first say Aries and see a gem of intense red, then say Taurus and see a gem of deep green then say Gemini and see a gem of beautiful mother of pearl white.Now under your right breast to your navel say Cancer and see a sparkling crystal white, now say Leo and see a brilliant citrine gem, now say Virgo and see a bright green gem.Now from your navel and up to your left breast say Libra and see a piercing blue gem, now say Scorpio and see a dark puce gem and now say Sagittarius and see a crystal blue gem.From your left breast up to the left side of your neck say Capricorn and see a luscious black gem. Now say Aquarius and see a speckled black and red gem. Lastly say Pieces and see an icy blue gem. The Zodiac gemstones by quadrants. Quadrant 11. Aries-Intense Red2. Taurus-Deep Green3. Gemini- Mother of PearlQuadrant 24. Cancer- Sparkling crystal5. Leo- Burning citrine 6. Virgo- Bright greenQuadrant 37. Libra- Piercing blue8. Scorpio- Deep puce purple9. Sagittarius- Crystal blueQuadrant 410. Capricorn- Luscious black 11. Aquarius- Red and Black speckled 12. Pieces- Icy blueThis creates the zodiacal solar right that beams out their influences to others around you and also absorbs their influences into your heart center. This practice will filter and purify the output and intake of these influences. You can if you wish, circulate these colors in a clock wise direction assuming that 12 oclock is located at the nap of your neck. These colors whirl and beam out like the rays of the sun in a prismatic way. With your arms held in the cross and the zodiac colors whirling around your heart center feel all this energy, which is not meant to overwhelm but enliven and vitalize you vibrate the name Sol and say may I be brilliant and bold in all that I do.Now bring your hands together, completing a powerful energy circle and allow this light to dim just a little. Step 4 (Roses and Thorns)In each of the cardinal directs trace the green banishing earth pentagram. Assume the goddess posture or star pose and vibrate the name Venus. Feel the undying love of our great mother Venus, holder of the most sacred symbol of our race (the pentagram), the five pointed rose of humanity. Sharply and with feeling thrust both hands forward so the finger tips touch making a triangle while you step forward with you left foot. This is the God posture or spear tip. Vibrate the name Mars, the great father of our race and thorn of the rose of humanity, the lover and protector of Venus. Feel his anger at all those who would harm her or his children and charge the pentagram with that energy. Before you should now be a large glowing fiery green pentagram cracking with red lighting energy.Step 5 (Calling the four winds)Facing east says Before me is Erus (vibrate the name Erus). Erus is the spirit of the eastern wind. He is sweet and cheerful. He appears as a young boy dressed in gold and yellow clothes a few sizes too big for him, mop top blonde hair and sometimes a big foppish hat. Now say Behind me is Zephyrus (vibrate the name Zephyrus). Zephyrus is the spirit of the western wind. He is bold and wise. He appears is a very attractive tall man with long well kept hair and scholarly blue and white robes with a knowing smile. Now say To my right is Notus (vibrate the name Notus). Notus is the spirit of the southern wind. He is kind and brave. He appears as a very athletic middle aged man with a broad genuine smile. He wears an open face iron helmet and a tattered red lion cloth. Now say To my left is Boreus (vibrate the name Boreus). Boreus is the spirit of the northern wind. He is ancient and strong. He appears as a large and extremely muscular strong man of advanced age. His long grey and white hair is wild and wind whipped. He is usually naked except for leather sandals and sometimes draped with animal skins. Step 6 (The Pentagram and Six Rayed Star)Now that you have the banishing pentagrams charged and the four winds called now is the time to once more assume the goddess/star posture. AROUND your heart center a banishing pentagram is traced in beautiful fiery green and is allow growing large until it is big enough to out your own body being held in the goddess/star pose. Say I am within the embrace of my mother Venus, keeper of the sacred pentagram and tender to the cradle of our race.

Now again AROUND your heart center see the golden six rayed star of sol over both your heart center and say Within me shines the radiance of Sol, for I am the center of my own universe, a reflection of the most sacred and most high!Step 7 (The grand swirlings)It is in this moment that a number of things happen.1. The zodiac ring around your heart center beginnings to spin clock wise extremely quickly and projects energy outward. 2. The keepers of the Four Winds (Erus, Zephyrus, Notus and Boreus ) begin to create a cyclone of whirling energy around you in a East to South to West to North direction.3. The Crown of Heaven above your head begins to swirl in a clock wise direction getting even brighter. The Pentagram around you and the six rayed star inside you beam like the sun and become so bright its almost blinding.

Allow this to continue for only a short time. No more than say a minute or two. Allow this energy to fizzle like a sparkler fizzles and allow things to become quite once more.

REPEAT Step 2 and ONLY the prayer hands/hand closing current of Step 3 to close out the ritual. So essence The grand cross the vibrations and intonations (sayings) and the final hands coming together over the heart center after letting the body experience the grand cross momentarily and its intonation of My I be brilliant and bold in all thing I do.

This is the LBRP of my tradition and one of the most original and INTACT forms in existence. The people who perform the LBRP in this manner have all reported amazing psychic awareness increases, powerful protection and astral sense development like nothing else they have encountered. Also fear of supernatural/spiritual intelligences all but vanish and profound contact with higher level intelligences and spiritual influences has taken place. Please begin this practice as soon as possible and watch the video series coming up that will describe in better detail the symbolic and iconography imagery of this ritual.

-Bear Heart Sunday, November 20, 2011The G.O.O.D.S LBRP begin this ASAP This is a much more effective template to over lay on the LBRP from the Golden Dawn and other Illuminati corrupted sources free from the Hebrew God-names which are actually hidden titles for Moloech, Mammon, Azoth and other Qillopthian deity level entities.

G.O.O.D.S Equilibrating Cross Instead of Ah-Tah vibrate UranusInstead of Malkuth vibrate TarraInstead of VGiburah vibrate MarsInstead of VGiDoorah vibrate JupiterInstead of Lah ohlahm amen vibrate SolFormulation of the PentagramsIn each of the cardinal directs trace that banishing earth pentagram assume the goddess posture or star pose and vibrate the name Venus and feel love for the great mother and holder of the most sacred symbol of our race (the pentagram), the five pointed rose of humanity. Then thrust both hands forward so the finger tips touch making a triangle while you step forward with you left foot. This is the God posture or spear tip. Vibrate the name Mars, the father of our race and thorn of the rose of humanity, the lover and protector of Venus. Feel his anger at all those who would harm her or his children and charge the pentagram with that energy. This is Venus/Mars/Cupid union.The calling of GuardiansInstead of before me Raphael say Before me cheerful and sweet, then vibrate Erreus.Instead of behind me Gabirel say Behind me bold and wise, then vibrate ZepheryusInstead of on my right hand Michael say To my right kind and brave, then vibrate NotusInstead of on my left hand Uriel say To my left ancient and strong, vibrate BoreousInstead of assuming the star pose and saying The pentagram around me, assume the star posture and say I am with the embrace of my mother of my mother Venus, keeper of the sacred pentagram and tender to the cradle of our race. Instead of seeing the star of david inside your heart center and saying within my shine the 6 rayed star, see the 6 pointed star of sol over both your heart center and solar plexus and say Within me shines the radiance of Sol, for I am the center of my own universe, a reflection of the most sacred and most high. The LBRP of the Golden Dawn is based on Qilopthian foundations, calling of evil gods and their minions assuming angelic forms. Because you are calling the Qillopthian deities first you then are invoking the angels in disguise and you dont know it. You are charging the pentagrams in tiles for Moloech and allowing him to decide which entities can come through.Stop the Golden Dawn LBRP immediately!-Bear Heart

Sunday, April 21, 2013"Codified" Middle Pillar Ritual (MPR) Codified Middle Pillar RitualI came upon Israel Regardies "the middle pillar" and read in the infamous warning before the middle pillar which i still can recite to this day

"the student should have come to a fair understanding of himself, he should have no major neurosises .... if such a neurosis should exist he will surely go insane in 3 different ways and break like a fucking porcelain doll under the energies of the middle pillar"

*Always preform the Astral Body Expansion, and LBRP before the Middle Pillar Ritual.

1. Standing in a natural position. See with your magic eye, a Great Brilliant Sphere of white light above your head, about the size of a dinner plate. Reach up with the tip of your finger/wand/dagger, touch the sphere, feel its pulse, and draw a beam of white light down, and into your head at your third eye. The inside of your head now brims with white light, and your head radiates this brilliance like a miniature sun. Tap the tip of your finger/wand/dagger lightly, the middle of your forehead three times. The tip of your finger/wand/dagger now rests lightly in the middle of your forehead. ---------- See in front of you, projected from your magic/3rd eye, the planetary symbol of Uranus. This Symbol suddenly gets so large it swallows you. You are now in the realm of Uranus. Your Uranus planetary body now stands before you. TOGETHER, both of your will chant (a long drawn out speaking of) Uranus. (The Realm of Uranus appears as a HIGHLY futuristic realm, lasers, super advanced technology, towering, and floating buildings. Very clean, and very bright. Lots of the white, and platinum.) (UUUUUUUURRRRAAAANNNNNNUUUUUUSSSSSS), at least four times. Let the realm of Uranus quickly fade away, and you are back where you where. The white light decends down in a beam, and settles in your throat.2. Lightly tap the center of your throat three times. A sphere of dark/black purple (concord grape color) appears, and grows to the size of a grapefruit. The tip of your finger/wand/dagger, rests now lightly on the middle of your throat. The magical planetary symbol of Pluto is projected from your throat. See This Symbol suddenly gets so large it swallows you. You are now in the realm of Pluto. Your Pluto planetary body now stands before you. TOGETHER, both of your will chant (a long drawn out speaking of) Pluto. (The Realm of Pluto appears as a dark, fearsome, yet immensely powerful realm. Lots of strange towers, braziers of fire, very mafioso, mansions, and lavish taverns. Huge cavern entrances, and billows of narcotic, and hallucinogenic. Lots of purple, red, and black) (PLLLLLLLLLLUUUUUUUTOOOOOOO), at least four times. Let the realm of Pluto quickly fade away, and you are back where you where. The white light descends down in a beam, and settles in your solar plexus.3. Lightly tap the center of your solar plexus three times. A sphere of brilliant gold appears, and grows to the size of a grapefruit. The tip of your finger/wand/dagger, rests now lightly on the middle of your solar plexus. The magical planetary symbol of Sol is projected from your solar plexus. See This Symbol suddenly gets so large it swallows you. You are now in the realm of Sol. Your Sol planetary body now stands before you. TOGETHER, both of your will chant (a long drawn out speaking of) Sol. (The Realm of Sol appears as a Elysium Field of staggering beauty. Huge golden towers, and castles dot the fields, and the sky is clear, with hues of dawn, noon, and dusk.) (SSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL), at least four times. Let the realm of Sol quickly fade away, and you are back where you where. The white light descends down in a beam, and settles in your genitals. 4. Lightly tap the center of your genitals times. A sphere of bright purple appears, and grows to the size of a grapefruit. The tip of your finger/wand/dagger, rests now lightly on the middle of your genitals. The magical planetary symbol of Luna is projected from your genitals. See This Symbol suddenly gets so large it swallows you. You are now in the realm of Luna. Your Luna planetary body now stands before you. TOGETHER, both of your will chant (a long drawn out speaking of) Luna (if female), Lunar (If male). (The Realm of Luna appears like Las Vegas at night with a strong Sumerian/Babylonian bent. Flashing colors, great towering images of sexual natures, screens of projected dream imagery. Lost of bright purples, violets, hues of blue, and red. ) (LLLLLLLUUUUUUUUNNNNNAAAAAAAA or LLLLLLLUUUUUUUNNNNNNAAAAARRRRR), at least four times. Let the realm of Luna quickly fade away, and you are back where you where. The white light descends down in a beam, and settles in your feet.5. Lightly grip, and release the floor with your toes hree times. A sphere of gorgeous black appears, and grows to the size of a dinner plate, feel the sphere pulse (The top half covers your feet, the bottom extends underneath your feet, into the ground). The tip of your finger/wand/dagger, rests at your genitals, but points directly at your feet. The magical planetary symbol of Terra appear under your feet (with you in the middle of the encircled equal armed cross) See This Symbol suddenly gets so large it swallows you. You are now in the realm of Terra. Your Terra planetary body now stands before you. TOGETHER, both of your will chant (a long drawn out speaking of) Terra. (The Realm of Terra appears as a primordial landscape of harsh, wild, and super powered version of any climate or terrain on earth) (TEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAA), at least four times. Let the realm of Terra quickly fade away, and you are back where you where. 6. Now allow the sphere to fade away, and slowly let your self come back to normal consciousness.

Finished.

- Uncle Bear Heart

Friday, May 10, 2013Codified: Working with prime Creator/Sphere of Personal Influence. All Prime Creator wants is for you to evolve, and embrace your higher self. This is an ongoing, and lifelong process. As you evolve, and expand, Prime Creator can also progress, and expand. This should be an empowering, and relatively humbling revelation. YOU are a key component to the furthering, and continual progress of the entire universe. As Prime Creator grows, and develops, this give YOU room to do the same. As you grow, and develop, Prime Creator is given license to do the same.

YOU ARE FULLY CONNECTED TO THIS HIGHEST SOURCE. All you are, and all your, could be, is contained in the boundless possibility of the ultimate creative principle of the universe, who is, Prime Creator. You becoming your Higher Self, is the ONLY worship Prime Creator wants. Your time, your effort, your continual pursuit of self betterment, is the sacrifice, the merit, the proof; of your devotion.

All other deities, and spirits are on their own continual evolution as well. Be wary of this all, one, idea, or, aspects. This idea tends to make non-physical realities into, thought forms, which is absolute folly. Beings like Thor, Osain, or Exu, are very real, and very separate intelligences, and NOT merely, masks, of Prime Creator.

You MUST connect with this pinnacle of creative energy to fully realize your higher potential. This connection will strengthen, purify , and increase clarity with all over intelligences. The lies a mystery between A-Z here. First, you are in line with all your physical ancestors or which you are the most outer shell, most recent link (unless you have children) of that mighty chain, and second; There is a spiritual inheritance from all your past incarnations, which forms yet another chain.

Aligning yourself with Prime Creator, is bringing yourself into alignment with both those chains. As those chains, or, of physical, and spiritual inheritance are strengthened, and cleansed, you too, become strengthened, and cleansed.

Honoring Prime Creator

A single white candle: A pure white 7 day, glass encased novella candle, works really well.

This candle can be put on ANY altar. We ALL come from Prime Creator, and all things use this energy. So placing it on your Good George altar, is prefect.

Dedicate the candle to, Prime Creator'. Say, I dedicate this candle to Prime Creator, and my continual advancement towards my higher self.

Light the candle.

I advise, as much as possible, to let this candle burn. If it is in a glass encased novella, it is fine. But, for whatever reason, if you cannot let it burn when you are not around to watch the candle, then that is Ok. Simply re-light the candle when you are around.

Everyday, stand in front of this candle, and see the brilliant dazzling white light sphere above your head. Reach above your head with both arms, and as you bring your arms down, in a long drawn out EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Have a brilliant bright white light beam focus down around, through, and all around you.

Raise your arms again, and bring them down to your wait once more, as you chant out, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

The light gets more intense.

Now, raise your arms again, now as you lower your arms, say, OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

The light is now even MORE intense.

Lastly, raise your arms, and has you lower, chant, EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-AHHHHHHHHHH-OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

*It is a vibrational formula of IAO.... NO Crowley did not, invent it, NO, it is not owned by the Golden Dawn, NO, Heretics did not create it. It is REALLY old, and one day I will give a ton more details about it.

The white light should now almost be blinding.

Spend some time (a minute, or more) absorbing this while, and letting it begin to stream out of all your pours. This is, life force, or Ashe, and this will fill, and replenish the energy in all your cells, your ATP.

Ask Prime Creator to heal, repair, and strengthen your auric field/sphere of personal influence. Also ask Prime Creator to remove all alien, evil, and unnatural presences from your sphere of personal influence.

This is a continual, ongoing, and life long process. You will see results, and see them fast. However, as you heal, your ancestors heal, and your past lives heal, etc, etc, onward, and every forward (sound familiar?)

Once you have done this, you are now ready to perform all other G.O.O.D.S related material, and in my experience, ANY other magical/religious working.

-Uncle Bear Heart.

"Silence is the Equilibrium of Perfection. Harpocrates is the omniform, the Universal Key to every Mystery soever!The God of Silence is called 'The Lord of Defence and Protection'. - Eliphas Levi"Self-control is one of the first laws of the Inner Self" - W.E. Butler

Magic & The Occult - Part I

by David R.G. DaviesEvery day we are creating magic, even as we sleep. We weave our energy with every thought, feeling, action and deed for the better, for the worse or neither! Imagine how potent we can become by enhancing our abilities by the disciplining of the mind will and imagination!

The occultist realises that 'everything' is Energy. That he or she is part of that 'all' and can affect it from within as well as without. However for simplification purposes and to give the student and investigator a starting point, we will cut to the chase and hopefully provide some helpful practical directions for getting started on the path.

1 - Stress, irregular breathing and mundane distractions are the main obstacles to the correct focus neccessary in the beginning. Some knowledge of yoga and mysticism is important. An acceptance and realisation that these various methods are inter-related and complimentary to one another is essential for the 'White Magician'. There is but one Truth , One All pervading source of Light. One God if you like! The only difference between white and black magic is 'Motive'. Black magic is usually motivated by 'selfish desire' pure selfishness and ego satisfaction. Lust for 'control' and power.

White magic is quite the opposite! The white magician's only motive should be that of help to ALL. It brings its own reward in time. Do not consciously look for results. Be lost in the work. The only selfish thought in your mind is to make sure that you become a 'Fortress of Light - Power- Spiritual Strength' so that you may be better equipped to help others and be sure to 'practise'! We cannot help others if we can't help ourselves. 'Practise' is the key in all these things.

2 - It also good to have a generally broad philosophical outlook and an understanding of the law of Karma and the realisation of the inter-connectedness of all things. Another quality prerequisite for magic work is the awareness and acceptance of different levels of existence. At least at first, the four main levels immediately connected to the physical. The etheric the astral , the mental and Spiritual!

Awareness of the auric field. The Chakras . These centres are nerve points, vortices in the etheric body and are closely linked to the spiritual channels in the higher bodies and to the glands and plexi of the physical. See recommended reading at end. In some ways the ritualistic practises of the Qabalist and Occultist are a lot safer for the western 'thinker' than some of the advanced Yogic techniques that in the past required the physical prescence of a guru.

Don't be put off by the posey grandeur of some of these systems. Yet it is obviously important to develop a strong mental attitude and sincere desire for knowledge .One of reverence and respect for the work, for the exercise to have any real effect or power! The emotions should always be tempered by 'Humility and Love'. The two most basic yet important 'Attributes' of the White Magician.

The Qabalist links to the subconscious and the subtle realms and explores the realm of depth psychology . These time honoured systems have immeasurable value and fulfill a mystical - astral heritage historically inherent in human-kind since Adamic man. The symbols and images presented are essential metaphysical 'clues' and 'keys' to our spiritual and unconscious make-up as a race. It is our Right to know and connect with this wisdom with these forces.

There is nothing new in the Universe. Sometimes it takes a very long time for 'Truth' to sink in. For the light to find a way through. Maybe many many lives. But we'll get there no matter how long it takes us. We have to rediscover our 'Real Selves'. Somehow! Let us prepare ourselves for work on the inner planes but remember, where 'LOVE' is absent Beware.

Israel Regardie the world reknowned writer, practitioner and exponent on the Occult , suggested that 'evokation' was a proccess parallel to psycho-analyst. A means of magical operation to 'dredge up' unconscious images and complexes and present them to the conscious mind in order to transmute or exorcise these very real and sometimes strange forces.

Regardie was more of a magician than a psycho-analysis. The 'art' of 'Magic' is vastly more powerful and far reaching.

The mind is a much weirder, multi-dimensional place than even Freud could have imagined.

"There is a skilled technique in the Mysteries by means of which the Rough Ashlar of character is polished into the Perfect Ashlar. In the stone this polishing is achieved firstly by the use of the chisel and mallet, knocking off the rough masses. This may be likened to life experience. Then follows the work of polishing - the steady friction which may be likened to the work of meditation.

In the Outer Court you are taught first how to acquire knowledge by meditation. In the Inner Court you begin to learn how to acquire power by meditation, and the first power you acquire is power over yourself, without which no other powers can be handled. This is your fulcrum. You are not taught how to acquire power over yourself until you have gained the knowledge which teaches you how to use that power over yourself rightly - not doing violence to your known nature nor yet setting up a deformity or unbalance within it. You must understand life in all its aspects before you are competent to apply power to your own nature.

"First, then realise that your being is divided into two parts - the Higher Self and the Lower Self. The Higher Self building around the nucleus of the Divine Spark evolving throughout evolution. The Lower Self building around the nucleus of the basic angle in the Triangle of the Higher Self - the unit of incarnation." - by Dion Fortune

Magic & The Occult - Part II

by David R.G. Davies

Correct breathing helps concentration and the clearing of the mind. Find a suitable quiet place to practise free from the ebb and flow and turmoil of everyday life. Some practical ablities in meditation are useful in the begining. Also the study of the Qabalah is essentail. While there are many books on the subject apart from Regardies extensive works on the subject, a tremendous book I would also recommend is 'The Mystical Qabalah' by Dion Fortune. It is neccessary to familiarise yourself with the various aspects of 'The Mystical Tree of Life'.

The fundamental purpose of the intial practises of The Qabalistic Cross and the Lesser banishing ritual practices which I will describe are essentially to psychically cleanse the place of worship, of meditation and of occult work. To try and harmonise the vibrations of the aura. As well as act as a preliminary device to test the psyche, to make sure it can weather the forces of Spiritual Contact!

Apart from being crucial keys to psychic operation, the Qabalistic cross and Lesser Pentagram rituals act together as astral-etheric purifiers, refining the psyche of the operator.

The words should be announced with intensity. It is a worthwhile tip to to lower the natural voice a tone or so to give the words a more dramatic flavour and a different feeling from normal everyday speech. Also the practioner must learn to direct his or her thoughts and conscioussness to the area where the intonation is directed for maximum effect. Remember that Will + Imagination + Thought effects the etheric and astral energies. The entities and forces that are called upon in invokation are defintely real on one level or another and form part of an astral linkage with the mythylogical paradigms that form the makeup of our subconscious mind and our 'space conscioussness' which is not held in the same sense time-frame as our physical dimension. We have to accept that the 'soul' is capable of operating far beyond our consciouss awareness and is not locked in 'any' measureable space. Feeling is the key. It is your psychic antenna if you like, your channel of work and recognition. Everthying is felt, sensed and seen in the 'Mirror of Astral Light'.

Traditionally the occultist would have certain ceremonial aids. A dagger a certain robe etc. (This we will cover later.) For the time being we should remember that these 'tools' are used as props, symbols or regalia for the real work. The work is done in the astral world when the soul has become a 'light', a beacon radiating energy into the other realms which in turn effects the physical. The Temple is in the the mind aswell as in the astral world.

While sitting upright with the spine erect. Use the 3/4 breathing. Inhale through nostrils slowly 1-2-3 . Hold for 1 second. On the fourth count breathe out through mouth , 1-2-3-4 pause. Then repeat 5 times. After a short while of contemplation and mental preparation. Stand and perform the next practice.

The Qabalistic Cross & The Lesser Banishing Pentagram Ritual

The Qabalistic Cross

Facing east with the left arm placed at the side raise the right hand above the head bring down the palm and gently touch the forehead recite aloud 'ATOH' (thou art). Visualise a shaft of white light coming down from crown centre (Kether) radiating down to the feet. Bring down the hand and touch the chest and say ... ' MALKUTH' (the Kingdom) pronounced 'malkooth'. Touch the left shoulder and say ... 'Ve Gedulah' (and the Glory) pronounced 'gedoolar'. Then touch the right shoulder and say ...'Ve Geburah' (and the power) pronounced 'Gedvoora.' Clasp hands together on breast and say ... 'Le Olahim Amen' (Forever God) pronounced 'Olaheem'. You may sustitute Aum for Amen. It is important to visualise and direct potent shafts of white light to each center with each direction given. This raises the mind to contemplate on higher things.

Lesser Banishing Pentagram

1 - With fingers of the right hand pointing outstretched. Using the index and middle finger (the blessing mudra (See Pic 2) or ceremonial dagger still facing east trace the banishing earth pentagram in the air and ethers.

Begin with right hand at the left hip. Raise the right arm. Extend it drawing the first side of the pentagram finishing approximatley at arms length just above the center of the forehead ... then continue. (See Pic 3). When finished, stab in the center of pentagram and vibrate the word ... 'YHVH' ... pronounced 'Yod-heh-ved-heh'. (It is called 'Tetragrammaton'. Ineffable name of God. Also attributed to the four worlds of the Qabalah.)

2 - Move to the south and trace another pentagram. In a similar fashion again stab with fingers in center and vibrate the word 'Adonai' (means 'Lord').

3 - Turn to the west and trace another pentagram and this time vibrate the word "Eheyeh" pronounced 'E-he-yee'. (means 'I am')

4 - Turn to the north, repeat exercise and vibrate the word 'Ah-ge-lah'. (Thou art forever great O Lord!)

5 - Return to the east. Stretch out the arms in the sign of the cross. With all the power of the will and imagination Invoke the Holy Archangels ... "Before me Raphael. Behind me Gabriel. On my right hand Michael. On my left hand Uriel. About me flames the pentagrams. (visualise in brilliant white light) Behind me shines the six rayed star."

Repeat Qabalistic Cross. Direct with the imagination pure white shafts of light joining each respective centre as the practise progresses. As you stab the center of each Pentagram visualize a blue white flame projecting from your finger tips drawing eventually a complete circle around you. As the names of the Archangels are pronounced visualise ... Raphael - robed in yellow, hair moving in the wind, feel a cool breeze. Gabriel - robed in blue with a stream or the sea at his feet. Michael - robed in red standing on parched earth radiating heat.Uriel - robed in dark orange/olive and black, standing in a rich wheatfield.

Practice on a regular basis daily for two months or so, to gain real fluidity to the ritual. If practiced properly, eventually one will sense marked and noticiable effects in the subtle realms.

Every cell and molecule on the physical, etheric, astral, mental plane is effected by this ritual! This is the foundation and basic groundwork for work on the inner planes for the Magician!

Before we move on to Part III where we will discover and learn about a great 'balancing' ritual practice and essential teaching called 'The Middle Pillar', I would like to offer the following quote from that wonderful mystic and occultist W.E.Butler, words to contemplate on ...

"So we serve God, we serve our fellow man, and we serve ourselves, and the proportion in which we do those things determines whether we are on the right-hand path or the left-hand path. You know that is again such a false dichotomy. There are those on the right-hand path who are Lords of Wisdom and Love, and those on the left-hand path who are Lords of Hatred, and of Separation. But in between is a vast body of us all who are simply grey - some a nice pearly irridescent shade of grey, and some are a rather gloomy kind of grey, and some - that the angel of Revelation in Apocalypse spoke about - lukewarm, neither one thing nor the other. And the angel said, 'Because thou art lukewarm I will spew thee out of my mouth.' What he means is, I've got no room for you. If you're lukewarm you'll get nowhere, and if you go into magic in the spirit of the atheist who was dying and who said, 'O God (if there is a God), save my soul (if I've got a soul)' then you won't get very far. You have to have dedication in magic, just as you have to have dedication in esoteric science. And you must have some guiding line to start with."Recommended reading ...'The Mystical Qabalah' by Dion Fortune.

'The Golden Dawn and the Middle Pillar' by Israel Regardie

THE MIDDLE PILLAR EXERCISE

By Israel Regardie

It is my confirmed belief that several weeks at the very least of patient application to the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram should precede any effort to perform the Middle Pillar. For one thing, it will have trained the student in several little tricks of routine and magical technique quite apart from the intrinsic virtues of the exercise, which is to purify and cleanse the entire sphere of personality to the end that the higher self may manifest through a purified body and mind.

It will be realized how necessary analysis is as a preliminary rou tine to magic. The student should have arrived at a fair understand ing of himself, his motives, and the mechanism of his mind, and integrated himself more or less thoroughly so that no dissociation or serious neurosis exists within the psyche. For the presence of a powerful complex of associated ideas in the unconscious, or a marked dissociation splitting off one part of the psyche from the other, will have the effect of short-circuiting the flow of energy generated or released by the Middle Pillar. An explosion in the form of a complete nervous breakdown, or even of the destruction of mental stability, will be a likely result. Many instances have been known of unprepared students contracting fatal physical illnesses through attempting work of this nature, though this is more true where Eastern exercises have been unwisely attempted. Some of these unfortunates, when the dis sociation was rendered complete, have succumbed to chronic melancholia or taken their own lives. These warnings are not intended to be portentous or terrifying, but only to impress upon the student the solemnity of these undertakings, a journey of self-conquest than which nothing could compare in importance or seriousness.

To my mind, the exercise described as the Middle Pillar is the groundwork of all actual developmental work. It is a process which is the basis of magic. That this has been but seldom realized is obviously at the root of the futile attempts to do ceremonial and perform ritual, of which the general public hears every now and again. Even students of magic of many years standing have been guilty of negligence in this respect, and also in failing to recommend it to their successors. The name of the exercise is taken from the position of the central Sephiroth on the diagrammatic Tree of Life. (See Pic 2 - Below) This exercise concerns those centers numbered one, six, nine, and ten. It also includes the shadowy center drawn in dotted lines, placed between three and four.(1 - See index at bottom of page) ' For various reasons I cannot go into detailed metaphysical explanations as to the underlying philosophy of this shadowy Sephirah, though students who desire more infor mation about it will discover the elaboration of this theme in my Garden of Pornegranates and My Rosicrucian Adventure. Suffice to say here that it arises from a consideration of the process of evolution on the one hand, and the two pillars previously referred to, on the other. The ancient philosophers who developed this system believed that as man evolved, that is to say as he developed sufficient control over his emotions as to be able to remain poised in a detachment from the dual pull of the opposites, so there developed within him a new faculty of discrimination and spiritual discern ment. Psychologically this idea has been verified. For it has been said that as the over activity of the superficial mind, the flitting from one thing to another, prevents creativeness, so equally does inertia, dullness and the unwillingness to move. If fact, any of the two extremes or opposite modes of behavior or thinking are characteris tic of the unevolved man. As was said by one magician "The Secret of Wisdom can be discerned only from the place of balanced power" (2) - that is from between the two temple pillars. Poise at a third point, which neutralizes to some extent the violence of the swing of the psychic pendulum from one extreme to the other, is the result of cultivating equanimity representing an equal capacity to be either at rest or active, interested or withdrawn at will, and not from emotional compulsion.

This central point between the two symbolic pillars of the opposites, the place of balanced power from which the working of the opposites may correctly be viewed, is the implication of Daath, which is the name of this shadowy Sephirah. Rightly it is shadowy and the word is used advisedly for in the majority of us who have not culti vated the difficult art of avoiding the opposites, the development of this new principle has proceeded with the utmost slowness. It is a new factor of adaptation or equilibrium, especially between the two broad divisions of consciousness - the ego on the one hand with its desire for adjustment to modem life with its refined and non-natural conditions, and on the other hand with the superficial levels of the instinctual life, concerned with primitive things, of self-assertion and the unbridled gratification of its every whim and caprice. It is this new factor of adjustment which comprises the principal impetus to what has been variously called in the east the Golden Flower, and in mediaeval Europe the growth of the Red Rose upon the Cross of Gold. (3) It is the Stone of the Philosophers, the medicine of metals. (4)

To the four central Sephiroth plus the shadowy Daath as the fifth, are attributed divine names - which, as in the former exercise, are to be vibrated powerfully in conjunction with the imaginative formulation of various images.

Let me expatiate upon these divine names by stating that they may be considered as the keynote or vibratory rates of various degrees or grades of consciousness. In their prolonged investiga tion into the hidden knowledge and the secret side of man's nature, the ancients who were as empirical scientists as our psychologists today, came to associate various sound-values or rates of vibration with various parts of the body, and also with particular types of magnetic force and strata of consciousness. No religious or meta physical theory need attach to the employment of these names. The system rests entirely upon its own merits. The simplest way of regarding them is, as explained above, as vibratory rates. Again, they may be considered as key notes by means of which access is obtained to the consciousness of the different parts of our being, the existence of which hitherto we have been kept in ignorance. (5)

With each of these five centers there is associated a divine name to be used as a vibratory formula. The attributions as we have received them, together with the traditional name of the Sephiroth, are given below with the names of the principles active in the human psyche. The numberings are those that appear on the Tree. (6)

Kether - Yechidah "AHIH" (pronounced "Eh-he-yeh")

Daath - The Link"YHVH ALHIM" ("Ye-hoh-voh E-loh-heem") (7)

Tiphareth - Ruach"YHVH ALOAH ve-DAATH" ("Ye-hoh-voh El-oah ye Da-ath" ) (8)

Yesod - Nephesh"SHADDAI AL CHAI" ("Shah-dai El Chai") (9)

Malkuth - Body"ADNI HARTZ" ("Ah-doh-nai ha-Ah-retz")

The divine names and the names of the Sephiroth should naturally be committed to memory as also the following scheme of their position or relation to parts of the human frame (See Pic 1 - Above)

Kether, the first Sephirab, is a center of light, and in the Qabalistic Cross, it is attributed to a center posited slightly above the crown of the head. It refers to that higher genius or it which, not yet fully incarnated within, broods above, a silent watcher. It is for each of us the source of inspiration and freedom and enlightenment. It is life itself.

Daath, the shadowy Sephirah, which develops in the course of evolution as we learn the domination of our mental and emotional propensities, is situated at the nape of the neck. Its position is at a point on the spine just below the occiput, about one or two inches above the larynx, and its diameter may be imagined to be about four inches in extent. It is conceived to be a symbolic link, self-induced and self-devised, between the higher genius on the one hand, and on the other, the ego, the conscious self referred to that group of characteristics clustered around Tiphareth.

On the Middle Pillar, Daath connects the higher faculties to the ego, Kether to Tiphareth. This latter Sephirah is resident in the neigh borhood of the heart, and its sphere extends from the diaphragm or solar plexus more or less to the spine. Its center may be imagined to be the lowest point of the sternum or breast-bone to which the ribs are attached, its diameter being about six inches.

Below Tiphareth is Yesod, a center which is referred to the region occupied by the generative organs, and its size should be visual ized as of the same dimensions as Tiphareth. The final center is Malkuth, referred to the feet, and it will be found by experience that the ankles comprise the periphery of a visualized sphere about four inches or so in diameter, the center being the sole of the foot.

The method of working this practice called the Middle Pillar is to stand upright, hands to side, eyes closed, breath being inhaled and expired steadily. Above all the mind should be quiet, calm, and still. When familiarity with the exercise is obtained, it may be per formed sitting or lying down. These preliminary conditions being fulfilled, let the student begin by transferring his attention to that region immediately above the crown of his head, where he should endeavor to visualize a sphere of white brilliance. To accomplish this may take some little while. Several attempts may be required before any realization of this center occurs. But when it has been obtained, let it be regarded with a certain sense of devotion, and contemplated as being the spatial correlative or correspondence of the vital core of his being. This devotional attitude should enliven it considerably, and the sense of light and power, the first avenues of sense by which this higher phase of consciousness may be grasped, should increase wholly beyond anticipation. At this juncture let him vibrate three or four times, slowly the name Eheieh.(10) This is a Hebrew divine name meaning "I am" (or more accurately "I will be") a statement which in reality is all that one can truthfully say of the self. Every other characteristic and quality belongs not to its own intrinsic nature but to the vehicles and sheaths of con sciousness through which it functions.

Steadfast in the contemplation of this source of power and enlightenment, he should endeavor to feel that an all-penetrant beam of brilliance is emitted downwards towards the nape of the neck. Here it widens, expanding to form a brilliant center similar to, though smaller in diameter than, that above the head. Applying the same vibratory technique here, while realizing that this is not his divinity but its conscious link or point of contact with his ego, the student should again feel the radiation of power and vitality. So marked and powerful should this become at this juncture that even in the palms of his hand will the vibration of energy be felt as almost of a physical nature, and quite possibly a prickling sensa tion will be noticed in the head and neck. A quite indescribable sense of poise and mental quiescence should also be experienced - no inconsiderable attainment, no small acquisition in these days of hurried business life and social fluttering.

After several vibrations of the appropriate name, again the beam of light should descend to the heart or region of the solar plexus, and from there a warmth and a quite different sense of power will gently radiate as though from an interior sun. Here too, a name should be slowly vibrated in such a way, which can only come through practice, as to detonate precisely in the physical area being contemplated and not in another. It must be felt to vibrate in the region between the diaphragm and the point opposite to it on the spinal column.

Pass in contemplation from the heart to the center of the genera tive organs. Visualize the sphere of light and vibrate the name, employing the same technique as before and noting carefully the reaction in consciousness. Some minutes having been spent arousing this center and vitalizing in with power, pass downwards to the feet where the magical center will be found to awaken quite easily in point of fact, it will be discovered that the mere contemplation of Kether, the center above the head, will by reflex action bring into operation the Malkuth center, these being the two poles, height and depth, of the Middle Pillar.

This very briefly is the technique. Little can be said which the zealous student will not be able to discover through application to it. If the student spends about five minutes in the contemplation of each Sephirah on the middle column, the exercise will take approx imately twenty-five minutes to half an hour. And surely there is no one so busy today who cannot devote at least one half hour a day to the task of self-mastery, to the cultivation of spiritual insight, and in the quest of his own divine nature.

My own plan of personal instruction, was to perform this exercise sitting beside that stu dent I had decided to teach. The principle involved was that of induction. I assumed that by bringing into operation the centers within my own sphere of sensation while sometimes, though not invariably, holding the hand of the student, the unawakened centers of the latter would react and revolve out of sympathy, or by reflex. It amounted, in a word, to a sort of initiation, and powerful it may become too. And I discovered that whereas the average stu dent took some while before stumbling upon the best means of producing the desired results by the Middle Pillar, those few stu dents whom I had initiated in this way were capable of performing the exercise immediately after in a highly successful way, even when away from my presence and atmosphere.

When seeking for the ideal technique of initiation, to perfect a rite of initiation from a purely individualistic point of view, one of the methods I hit upon was the combination of the Middle Pillar formula with an actual ceremony. That is to say, by ceremonially invoking a spiritual force by means of the appropriate pentagram or hexagram ritual, vibrating congruous divine names, and per forming the Middle Pillar in a room or temple thus powerfully charged by the manifestation of this spiritual force, the result was all the more effectual and definitely realized in consciousness. (11)

A simple ceremony which invokes the divine and archangelic currents of elemental force, using invocations composed of ecstatic passages from various sacred scriptures, is almost ideal for the pur- pose. Not only does this method succeed in providing a neophyte with an introduction to the light of his own higher genius and to the realm of magic, but it is a supreme technique of self-initiation.(12) Various changes may be rung on a simple theme. And according to the student's own ingenium and spiritual aspiration, so will he devise several methods of employing the techniques I have described above.

There will be some who will propound belabored theories as to suggestion - that because I consciously or otherwise suggested to these students that there were magical centers existent within their own system, their unconscious accepted the suggestion and produced the looked-for result. Others, yet again, will murmur the magical word "telepathy" - arguing that I projected, though not necessarily deliberately, certain ideas or sensations from my mind into that of the receptive student who thus was influenced against his own better judgment or skepticism. With none of these am I wholly in accord, though in each of them may be some germ of truth. None of them answer the facts of experience. And I can only suggest that these people would do far better to apply themselves zealously to a little experimental work rather than waste time in vain explanations and baseless theories.

Some will note that this exercise corresponds in some ways to the yoga chakra system. There is, assuredly, correspondence. But there are several very important differences and variations. The first, a minor difference, is the number and position of the centers involved. But this does not require discussion. What is fundamental, however, is the entirely different approach. The yoga technique commences its meditations from the lowest chakra and works upwards to the Sahasrara above the head. On the other hand, in the western system, the Middle Pillar starts from the highest and works downwards. In a word, the Western ideal is not to escape from the body but to become involved more and more in life, in order to experience it more adequately, and in order to obtain a mastery over it. The ideal is to bring down godhead so that one's manhood being enriched may thereby be assumed into godhead. Always does this system begin from the real center of working - the higher genius which, by definition, is in contact eternally with whatever infinite deity there may be. That is to say, through the Yechidah we have immediate access to all the dynamic inspiration and spiritual power of the collective unconscious.

By the magical hypothesis, the higher genius corresponds within man to the possible relationship of God to the universe. That is to say, man being the microcosm of the macrocosm, a reflec tion of the cosmos, is a universe within himself, a universe ruled and governed by his own divinity. So whatever magical work is undertaken must always be in accordance with the dictates and under the surveillance of that higher genius. And since, at first, there is no immediate method of realizing whether any particular magical effort has the approval, to state it simply and naively, of the higher self, the sole course of action must be for the student to place himself in alignment with that genius. This is done by invok ing it at the outset of any magical operation, and trusting to be made a vehicle of wisdom and understanding. (13) The first move ment of the Middle Pillar - as also the Qabalistic Cross, which is a quick method of obtaining the same result - achieves precisely that. For since the source of life and love has always been con ceived of as light, the preliminary step is to perceive that brooding brilliance above which is the emanation of, or the direct center through which manifests, that higher genius, or with which the latter is in especial sympathy. And the remaining steps are deliberately to open one's manhood as it were to the descent of divinity - to bring down the light into the personality. Here it must be emphasized lies the vital distinction between the yoga chakra system of the Hindus and the magical exercise of the Middle Pillar. At first such a descent is characterized by an increased sense of power and vitality. Gradually this widens to emotional quiescence and control with a mental poise, followed by a gradual broadening and enhancement of the entire mental horizon.

There is yet another highly useful application of this formula. It is to the art of healing that I refer. Formerly when I employed mas sage and magnetic healing in my professional work I found the Middle Pillar and the spiritual energy that it generates and makes available of inestimable value.(14) Cases of nervous exhaustion, catarrh, constipation, incipient consumption, pleurisy, and many another will respond in an incomparable manner to this combination of massage and the willed communication of power. That is to say, using effleurage and friction, especially on the spine, as the principal massage technique one should place oneself in rapport with the higher self by the contemplation of the center of light above the head. By silently vibrating the divine name appropriate, one is enabled to tap a tremendous source of healing power which is infinitely greater than that which ordinarily one has at one's disposal as an average human being. This magnetic or spiritual power flows through one steadily and powerfully. Directed by a calm will, and assisted by a clear visualized idea of the result desired, it may be com municated like an electric current through the arm and hands to the finger tips. Thence it enters the patient's body as the palms of the masseur's hands glide over the surface being treated. It requires some little practice to retain awareness of this divine Light while engaging in so strenuous a physical effort as deep massage, but it is not an impossible one. It is a great help if the visualization of the sphere above the head is attempted whilst walking, for example. When this can be done, then its employment for the purposes of healing is quite simple. I can commend it unequivocally, both to physicians and psy chologists. It is my hope that analysts will take over the technique for use in their own consulting rooms. Let them adopt it in its entirety as the one ideal method of inducing the right state of mind appropriate to free association and the cathartic confession. Should its present form be considered unsuitable, I reiterate that it has possibilities which render it worthy of being remodeled in the light of present-day psychological knowledge to suit modem contingencies.

There are several little physical helps which greatly enhance the degree and amount of power which can be made available. Correct breathing, especially, is one of them. There could hardly be a better adjunct than breathing in a rhythmical manner. The latter in itself, quite apart from the Middle Pillar, is supremely efficacious in producing quiet and calm. The entire system is stilled and strengthened as the lungs slowly take up a rhythm, and keep to it indefinitely.

First of all the student should train himself in the method of breathing correctly - that is to say, in the method of filling his lungs with air from the very bottom. He should combine abdominal with both diaphragmatic and costal breathing. The act of inspiration, if carefully observed, consists of these three phases. First the abdominal part of the lungs are filled, then that underlying the diaphragm, and finally as the shoulders are slightly lifted the thorax itself becomes filled. They are so continuous as to appear an undivided act. In this way, every cell of the entire lung surface comes into con tact with the oxygen inhaled, which is thus passed into the blood stream. Most of us usually breathe very insufficiently, only a fraction of the cellular surface of the lung coming into contact with the inhaled air. Thus there is always a large quantity of residual air in the lower reaches of the lungs. There is always a large surface of the lung area which is not employed; and a quantity of carbon dioxide and cells in an impoverished state of health are ever present.

This method of breathing introduces a far greater content of oxygen into the lung, destroying therefore, by combustion, toxins and undesirable elements, and also producing a better state of health. There are many individuals who, because of conflict and neurosis, have attempted to flee from life. They have attempted to evade a full contact with the stream of vital experience, and this psychological attitude of evasion has reacted upon the bodily functions. One of these particularly affected is that of breathing, the lungs falling into the habit of functioning at about half their proper capacity. The circle is a vicious one. For inadequate breathing by itself induces an enfeebled state of health, perpetual exhaustion, catarrh, and many another ill. Likewise, this constant state of ill-health reacts upon the mental outlook, confirming and strengthening the escapist attitude towards life because the individual is now only half alive, incapable of reacting to the pleasures and joys of life. For mind and body, as so often reiterated in these pages, are not two distinct units. The functions of the one interlap with and interpenetrate the functions of the other. More accurately they should be regarded as the two functions of one entity, two methods whereby it may acquire experience. Too much therefore cannot be said of the necessity for cultivating the lungs to operate at full capacity. This cultivation cannot be too often stressed, for life is power, and power is life and consciousness, indispensable in the path of magic which leads to the knowledge of the higher self.

The proper method of deep breathing having been acquired, the cultivation of a rhythmic breath should be the next step. The most suitable and simple method is the four-beat rhythm. If the student will inhale very slowly, mentally counting one, two, three, four and then exhale to the same beat, he will discover that this undoubtedly is the best rhythm for inducing that state of calmness and peace which is so necessary for meditation and reflection. And, in passing, let me add that the state of quiescence sought after is one not of pas sivity and negativity. It is one of alertness and eagerness. What one should cultivate is a quiescence in which every mental faculty is alert, waiting to be used. A tranquillity characterized by a sense of enormous power and capacity is the state to be aimed at, one in which there is the maximum of awareness and inner poise.

Success in the technique of the rhythmic breath is an unmistak able symptom which cannot fail to be recognized when it arises. There is first the sense of peace, satisfaction and quiet joy, without the least cessation of ones mental capacity. Next follows a sense of vibration felt all over the body, as though every cell and molecule were acting in unison and moving, as it were, in a single direction. The result of this vibration is to transform the lungs and the entire body into a single storage battery, generating and storing electric ity and power, transmuting them into will and faculty. Hard upon this, if the rhythm be persisted in, comes a quiet ripple over the diaphragm or solar plexusa difficult symptom to describe, because it produces no perceptible physical or recognizable change, though the sense of the rhythm is none the less distinctly felt. When this occurs, and when one becomes aware of a single vibration through the body, and a gentle vibration or sense of lumi nosity and lightness in the brain, the student may be assured that he has achieved success in this particular practice.

This state gained, the Middle Pillar should be proceeded with, and the names could be silently vibrated in tune with the rhythmic inhalation and exhalation of the breath. The sense of the brilliance above which I prefer to think of as the "lamp above the head," or as others have called it "the candle of vision," becomes much more per ceptible and marked. Very often it develops into an awareness of a whirling sphere of fiery light radiating peace and illumination into the mind and body. Little more need be said, for I have no desire to provide material which may act upon suggestible minds. There are people so constituted as to be able to produce symptoms of any described kind with the least application, and with practically no spiritual effect upon themselves or their mental or moral nature, and certainly no progress in that path which leads to the knowledge of the higher self. Silence with reference to symptoms and results is therefore most desirable.

Endnotes -

(1) This is Daath, which is not a Sephirah, but rather a conjunction of Chokmah and Binah.

(2) From the Neophyte Ritual. See Regardie, The Golden Dawn, 129.

(3) The symbol of the Rosicrucians. Rosicrucianism is a form of mystic or esoteric Christianity whose teachings embrace the Hermetic sciences.

(4) The Philosopher's Stone is an alchemical symbol of true spiritual attainment. The search for the Philosopher's Stone is the search for truth and illumination.

(5) Along the same lines, each letter of the Hebrew alphabet has a musical note attributed to it. Thus each divine name in Hebrew can be sung or played on a musical instrument. See the Appendix: The Musical Qabalah.

(6) In this list, Regardie has given the name of the Sephiroth of the Middle Pillar next to their corresponding part of the soul. Beneath that he has provided the divine Hebrew name that is to be intoned or vibrated in the exercise. Thus Kether, which is equated with the Yechidah, is activated in the aura by vibrating the divine name "AHJH" (which is the transliteration for Eheieh), and so on.

(7) Daath has no divine name of its own, so in the exercise of the Middle Pillar, it "borrows" the divine name for Binah which is the highest Sephirah that is close to Daath. (Since Daath is usually considered a passageway to the Supernals, Binah would be the Sephirah at its point of termination.) Although Regardie states here that YHVH is to be pronounced as "Yeh-hoh-voh," we see no reason it should be pronounced differently from the way it is pronounced in the LBRP - as "Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh." The term Jehovoh or Jehovah is simply a transcription of the Four-lettered Name YHVH - the letters of which were merely considered as stand-ins for the actual name of God, which was unknown and unpronounceable. We believe that the divine name YHVH Elohim should be pronounced "Yod Heh Vav Heh El-oh-heem" in all Golden Dawn rituals.

Some modern magicians believe that the divine name given for Daath (and for Binah) should not be pronounced as YHVH Elohim. They argue that YHVH was never vocalized by devout Jews who thought it was too holy to pronounce. Whenever it occurred in writing, the words Elohim (god or gods) or Adonai (lord) were always spoken as a substitute word for YHVH. Thus some magicians contend that the compound word YHVH Elohim is a mistake, and that what was intended was that the spoken word "Elohim" be substituted for the written word "YHVH" in Binah and in Daath. (The second word in the compound name YHVH ELOHIM was considered by Jews as a reminder that the holy name YHVH is never spoken but rather vocalized as "Elohim.") While this argument may be true for devout Jews, it is not valid for practicing magicians in the tradition of the Golden Dawn. There are several examples of Hebrew mystics vocalizing the various permutations of the Tetragrammaton for specific ritual work with the Sephiroth. This points to the differences between orthodox Jewish practice and the esoteric practice of westem Hermetic magicians.

(8) For the same reason indicated in the above endnote, the divine name here should be pronounced "Yod Heh Vav Heh EI-oh-ah ve-Dah-ath."

(9) The "ch" in Chai should be pronounced like the Scottish word "loch."

(10) Another common suggestion is to vibrate the name several times until it fills the mind completely, and no other thoughts remain. One other method is to pronounce the name as many times as there are Hebrew letters in the name.

(11) One very potent combination of such rituals is the LBRP, succeeded by the Rose Cross Ritual, and followed by the Middle Pillar Exercise. The RCR can be found on page 306 of Regardie's The Golden Dawn.

(12) Regardie strongly advocated the idea of self-initiation, particularly in those cases where it was not possible to find a local temple of duly qualified initiators.

(13) According to Golden Dawn tradition, the highest must always be invoked first - the highest divine name, followed by archangels, angels, and finally elemental rulers and spirits. (In principle this can be compared to a military chain of command, If you want something to get done, you must contact the highest ranking officer, who then delegates the work down to officers of lower rank.)

(14) Regardie was both a chiropractor and a Reichian therapist. Deep massage is an important part of Reichian therapy, designed to break down rigid muscular tension (armoring) that affects both body and psyche. Chiropractic medicine uses the manipulation of the spine to relieve physical pain. It is easy to see how one system can be used to complement the other.

Excerpt from pages 69 to 82 of The Middle Pillar, Israel Regardie ISBN 1-56718-140-6. Copyright 1938 Israel Regardie. Llewellyn Publications.