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praticas astrais
The Etheric body is so close to the physical body that you can become aware of it physically.
The next time you ascend or descend in a very fast elevator note the “sinking” feeling that you
have in the “pit” of your stomach. This sinking feeling is due to the Etheric body moving out of
contact with the physical body due to the pressure of the rapid movement of the elevator. The
Etheric Body is just on the border line of solid and just enough so that it is effected by this type
of physical pressure.
There is a type of magical work that enables a man to get control of his Etheric Body. So
much so that he can do many strange and powerful things with the Etheric Body on the
physical plane. It is possible during certain times of the 24 hour period of a day to “thicken” the
Etheric Body so that it can be seen and felt by others. The Egyptians had developed this type
of magic to a great degree. They had a very common symbol for this Etheric double or Ka as
they called it. The symbol was two uplifted arms joined in the middle where the shoulders
would be. If you are interested in this sort of thing contact me as per directions in the last
section of this book.
However people’s bodies are somewhat different in these times. For example in the old days
very few persons had too much food and that was not too nourishing in many ways. A
physical body that is part starved all the time is rather loosely connected with its Etheric Body
and the separation is rather easy. A healthly well fed well nourished physical body is very
tightly connected with its Etheric double. However you can practice for a time a rigid diet and
achieve some results. However don’t expect too much.
To continue – The Etheric Body can be effected by mental thoughts and strong emotions as
you might surmise. Extra strong physical shocks can disrupt it and tear it loose from the
physical body entirely as you might guess from the elevator example. During the last war
many people were found dead in London without a physical mark on them. A bomb had
exploded nearby and the combination of fear, shock, and terrific vibration had driven the
Etheric Body out of the Physical Body so far that it could not reestablish connections, as it
could do in the elevator example when the lighter pressure was removed by the stopping of
the ride.
So much for the Etheric plane. The amount of knowledge I have given you here by no means
exhausts the knowledge available about this plane. (You would do well to get the books that I
have referred to heretofore and start your own research into this plane). However as you are
now starting to work with this plane you will study it as you go along.
The “body” “above” the Etheric body is the Astral Body and the plane above the Etheric Plane
is the Astral Plane. The Astral Plane is much more important than the Etheric Plane in that
this plane has a much more wider application to the Physical Universe than the Etheric Plane.
The Etheric plane is somewhat personal in its application to you and is small, narrow, and
limited. The Astral Plane is very “large” and contains much more of a variety of things than
any of the other planes. Many more of Nature’s Forces course thru this plane than any of the
other planes and their application is widely distributed; whereas the forces, by the time they
enter the Etheric Plane began to become individualized and personalized.
The Astral Plane differs from all other planes in another respect in that there is a Lower Astral
and a Higher Astral. The lowest part of the Astral Plane is very much like the Etheric where
they come together and the highest part of the Astral Plane is very much like the Mental Plane
where they come together. None of the other planes have lower and higher levels so well
marked. The Etheric is the Etheric and the Mental is the Mental but the Astral contains
elements of each of these two planes all mixed up which is what makes this plane so
fascinating. The Astral plane must be entered into very carefully, and with absolutely the
correct technique, or there can be trouble of an annoying nature.
Forms, such as they are, on the Astral Plane are very fluid in that they flow about and change
shapes and appearances very easily and quickly. As basic forces have a wide play on the
Astral Plane there is much color which is the Force itself. All Astral forms are composed of
many points of colors so much that the realm is called the Star plane or Astral which means
star. The forms near the “bottom” of the lower Astral partake of the nature of the Etheric Plane
and so are more stable but still show the star-like effect which is the signature as it were, of
the Astral Plane.
On the higher Astral “forms” have practically no form at all but colors take over completely as
the Astral blends into the Mental plane. The Mental plane is the plane of forces and has
absolutely no form or forms at all. The entire Mental realm is all colors which are vibrations
themselves.
There is a type of magic in which a person can enter this Mental plane with a form made up of
lower matter. The “form” being brought “up” from “below” as it were. Or to explain it to make it
fully clear – A form is organized on a much lower plane and then this form is “taken” up into the
Mental plane. When this is done properly a great deal of powerful work can be accomplished
by the operator. (Again this belongs to advanced work but it seems such a proper place to let
people know about it and what can be done. When you are ready contact me about this
advanced work)
You possess an Astral body, of course, but there is no material way that you can become
aware of it as you can of the etheric body. It will not be possible for you to see the Astral body
until you are advanced enough to take and succeed in one of the advanced courses
mentioned in this book in the last section.
The Astral body and the Astral plane are very tricky to “work” with and require some
experience as to what you are doing and how to do it. It would never do to enter this plane
without having definite experience in some kind of lesser projection work first. The method I
am going to give you to start this work with is admirable for gaining this necessary experience.
You also possess a Mental body and a Causal body. Not too much can be said about them
(and certainly not in this little book). YOU ARE THEM - The mental body and the Causal
body are not used for projection-traveling so as this book is primarily about projections these
bodies will not be mentioned further.
At this point I believe it will be of help to you for me to stop and make a brief summary of what
we have covered up to now. If you do not grasp the information fully I am again asking you to
take my word for these things until you are able to do your own studies and research on them
and experience them yourself.
We now know that a man has several other bodies besides the physical body. We now know
that each of these bodies has a plane to correspond to it, and it is on these corresponding
planes that the corresponding body consciousness projects to: from the physical plane, as a
base, as the physical plane is where our consciousness is centered now.
We have found that the Etheric and Mental Planes are quite distinct by themselves from the
others but the Astral Plane is one of gradual change from the lowest part to the highest part.
We have found that the lowest Astral resembles the Etheric Plane, to which it joins on the
lower part, and the highest Astral resembles the Mental plane, to which it joins on the upper
part. We now know that the Astral plane is the “largest” of the planes and that it has more
differences in it than similarities. (Actually there is no such thing as largeness, smallness, up,
down, sideways or anything like that on the Astral plane or, indeed, on any plane except the
physical. However it is necessary to use ordinary English language in describing this work.
Hence, as said before whenever a word is put in these marks “—“ then look out for deeper
meanings for which there are no good English words.)
We have found that, due to its interesting complexities, the Astral Plane has attracted most of
the attention of those who want to practice the Art of Projection. We have found that
projections can be made with both Etheric and Astral bodies. We have found that while we
live and move in all our bodies at the same time our consciousness is centered in the physical
body for now. We have found that instead of really “projecting”, as it seems we do, we are
merely transfering our personal consciousness to another body and living and moving in that
body, the same as we do now in the physical body. As most projectors end up projecting to
the Astral plane and as Etheric projections require special work for limited objectives, and is
really on the borderline between the Etheric and the Astral anyhow, we will, after this, in
refering to projections mean only Astral projections and discard all other kinds, except when
specially stated. I did, however, feel that I should mention the Etheric and upper and lower
Astrals as all the other teachers leave them out entirely (they probably don’t know about them)
and the student should know what he is doing at all times. Many times projections are
different and the student can recognise from the character of the “scenery” what plane he is
on.
In my work, in the past, teaching Astral projection certain questions come up time and time
again. In fact I recall that these same questions bothered me when I was starting out. I have
decided therefore to group all these questions together here and now and to answer them at
one time. The questions in the order of their frequency are:-
1. Why don’t other writers give exact directions as to the Practice of the Art of Astral
projection the same as you do?
2. Is it wrong to learn the Art of Projection?
3. Is it hard to learn this Art?
4. Is there more than one way to project?
5. What results can I expect to achieve by learning this Art?
6. What can one expect to “see” “over” “there”?
These are all natural important questions and they should be answered before you start to do
the actual work. So I will answer them in order.
The first question:- Why don’t other writers give exact directions as to the practice of Astral
projections the same as you do?
The answer to this question is – Our Solar system, in making its rounds about the belt of the
Zodiac, has entered the House of Aquarius. This means that the old age of Pisces has passed
away. The Aquarian forces are better than the Piscean forces which, among other things,
stood for prisons, and the world has certainly been in prison for the past 2000 years. That age
is now past and the people are responding to this new age ruled by Uranus who is a higher
Saturn in a sense. Now-a-days the psychic-etheric powers of people are awakening
spontaneously. Many people are having psychic experiences and many other people are
projecting naturally: and do not know the reason for it, or what it means, and are looking for
explanations. Thus people are ready for Occult study and training.
In olden times people were not ready for this work in large numbers but only as individuals
would ready themselves to receive advanced knowledge. Then these individuals had to seek
out those who could give them this advanced knowledge (there are always teachers around
somewhere) This is what I was refering to when I made the early reference to old books in
which the writer tells how his MASTER showed him how to work Astral projection etc.
Therefore when a person acquired this knowledge, and other occult knowledge, from a
teacher he was put under oath not to reveal this knowledge to anyone else freely. Again this
kind of teaching-knowledge was given out by secret societies as part of their training for their
members and the kinds of oaths they had to take were terrific not to reveal the knowledge to
outsiders. So when one of these people would write a book they would tell ABOUT IT but not
TELL IT. For example the book “Practical Astral Projection” by Yram, which is Mary spelled
backward, (why I’ll never know) he tells about WHAT he did but makes only a vague reference
as to HOW IT WAS DONE. I, fortunately, thru working 30 years on Occult studies, and
neglecting all other important things, had accumulated enough Occult knowledge and Occult
practice-knowledge, the hard way, to be able to recognise his coy hint and therefore I know
how he did it. But I trust, you understand, that I got this knowledge myself thru my own
meditation efforts and therefore I am under no obligation not to reveal it and so I do.
Question 2 – Is it wrong to learn to project Astrally?
This strange question comes up many times, more than you would think it would. I, myself,
never felt anything right or wrong about projection one way or another anymore than I would
feel it was wrong to paint pictures or carve statues. There are people in this world to whom Art
is “wikkid” and many other things, of which they know nothing about or do not have under their
control, they consider “bad” or wrong. But in this modern Aquarian age they are getting
pushed into the limbo of forgotten things as they deserve to be.
It is true that these Occult things are of the new age and, as a rule, it is equally true that only
certain kinds of people will practice them during the early part of their presentation before the
masses take them up. The early users of anything new have to be of an unconventional
nature in order to even notice new things. This type of person is apt to experiment too much
with other conventions such as sex and other taboos. And it is these things that gets the old
maids and old foggies all upset.
Try to take the learning of this Art in your stride and avoid doing other things in an
unconventional manner. However these old foggies’ loud cries do make many people worry
about whether they might be doing something wrong. I have heard the argument advanced
that with developing these powers some persons would take an unfair advantage of other
people who do not develop their powers. Well the answer to that is that the work is open to all
who want to do it and if they don’t believe in it and will have nothing to do with developing their
powers they are in the same position as anyone who will not advance with the times. This is a
new age, as I said, and those who will not advance with the new age can go their own way for
all I can care about them. The factory which will not install modern machinery is always at a
disadvantage against the factory that has the latest up-to-date machines in it and the old
fashioned mind is no match for the modern intelligence. If you have these kind of doubts I
guess it is something you will have to battle out for yourself. My assurance is not your
assurance. Like most of the ideas of the world this idea is wrong. But all I can say is that I do
not think it is wrong to learn the Art of Projection and any or all other Occult Arts. There are
uses of these Arts that are questionable but this is a matter for the individual to work out for
himself after he learns the Art.
Question 3 – Is it hard to learn the Art of Projection?
As I said before you have always lived in and used these other bodies all your life. Actually
you know, unconsciously, how to use the other bodies so this is not what you learn to do.
What you do learn to do is to transfer your consciousness to these other bodies and RETAIN
MEMORY of the transfer. Your quickness in transfering over depends upon your grasp of the
basic principles and then following directions accurately as to practices in the courses I offer.
If you have done a great deal of occult study of all kinds of occult books, from the very simple
to the very complex, that study would be of great help to you to master these practices. I
should hesitate to say how long it would take one who was totally unfamiliar with the Occult to
accomplish this Art. But then again I would feel optimistic about a person who did not know
very much about the Occult yet had a burning desire to succeed in this Art. And then again I
would have doubts about a person who knew a great deal about the Occult yet just dabbled
around in it. A short time ago I dropped in at a place in Southern California that had once been
a very active occult society led by a man, who was said to be a good psychic and was a good
writer on Occult subjects. After his death there has been a steady decline in the activities of
the group until now they look as if they are just waiting to be covered over. I talked with a
woman working there (1960) who told me she had been there since 1918 – 40 years!! I asked
her, among other things, if she had developed clairvoyance and could project Astrally etc. Her
reply was that SHE DID NOT WANT ANY THING LIKE THAT! So here is a woman who has
been sitting around an occult center for 40 years and wants no development of her latent
powers! So she never got any! What an advertisement for the place! Why would she hang
around an occult center for 40 years if she does not want anything from it? She might as well
have stayed at home and washed dishes for all the good it did her.
So the real answer to this question is – If you want it you’ll get it. If you don’t want it you won’t
get it. And this is true of anything in the world.
Question 4 – Is there more than one way to project?
The answer is – Yes there are quite a few different ways to project and many variations in
each way. The differences in ways are also the differences in what kind of projections you
want to make. If you want to make an Etheric Projection, that is one way. If you want to make
an Astral Projection that is another way. There are also obscure ways that I have heard about
but never used myself as they over-lapped the other ways.
As I felt that this subject was new to my readers, even those who know something about the
occult, I decided to confine myself to four strong courses which I shall describe below. I will
name them at this time and describe them more fully later. These four do not exhaust all
possible work along these lines. When you finish these courses and master them and still
want more I will be available to give still more advanced work by personal contact.
In this book
For practical work in Astral projection I offer the following courses –
1. The “Little” method.
2. The “Dream” method.
3. The “Body of Light” method.
4. The Symbol System method.
Again I am not going to claim that I am the sole repository of Occult Knowledge on these
things as other teachers do. With the exception of the “little” course, which I discovered and
developed myself, all these things are in Occult books and have been for many hundreds of
years. I did, however, work them over and rearrange them, in modern terms, and I give
supervisory directions upon personal contact as to how best study them and I watch the
student to see that it is done as near correct as possible as every person is slightly different in
their reactions. It does require a degree of experience and plenty of occult knowledge and
theory for me to steer a student thru these courses. To know when to tell him to do more and
to tell him to do less. To encourage him when he runs into one of those spells when no Occult
work can be done successfully and to tell him why.
A certain amount of Occult knowledge is absolutely necessary for the successful practice of
this work. Until you can get this for yourself it is very hard to make progress. Therefore it is
vitally necessary to have an experienced person to help you thru the first stages of this great
work. The Occult is full of double talk for the reasons that I gave you before. Yet those big
teachers did not want to leave the field entirely void of practical working knowledge in case
some did develop by themselves, which they do all the time. The Masters therefore wrote
many books in which they put down certain things partly but leave out much more. Then, as I
said, when a man reaches a certain development he recognises this hidden truth and uses it.
For example – In the collected works of Paracelsus there is an account about creating a
homoculus, or an artificial man, out of the elements as it were. Everyone has assumed that
this meant the creation of a little physical man of water, earth, fire, and air. A test tube man as
it were. Even the great writer Sommerset Maghum in his novel The Magician has Oliver
Haddo creating a deformed little monster in a bottle.
Well, as I said, it takes a large amount-degree of Occult knowledge to know what this is all
about. This Homoculus legend is a perfect example of Occult hidden-knowledge that is so
frustrating to the beginner until he begins to understand.
What does Paracelsus actually mean in this legend? What is he talking about? I am going to
tell you what he means but you will have to take my word for it now until you can do your own
work on it and then you will KNOW and do not have to take anyone’s word for it.
WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT IS THE CREATION OF A BODY OUT OF THE
MATERIAL OF THE NEXT PLANE!!
This work is part of the Body of Light method that I have on my list of projection methods as
method 3. This legend means that you can learn to make a “body” out of the material of the
next plane, to which body you can learn to transfer your consciousness so that you can do
many different things on the next plane by working in and thru this body. You can also learn to
influence circumstances and events on the physical plane by working with this body from the
Etheric-Astral planes. Not by direct action effect but in accordance with the laws of the
physical plane, which is a course itself.
So I trust you understand that if you DID NOT KNOW SOMETHING about the Occult you
would not know what Paracelsus was talking about in the first place and you would either
dismiss it as silly talk or attempt to create a man in a test tube as many have tried in past
centuries and in either case get all goofed up about the Occult.
Question 5 – What results can I expect to achieve if I am successful in developing a degree of
success in this projection Art? Answer – The very first thing you would acquire is a good sound
basis of practical working Occult knowledge which is an achievement of no little consequence
and should stand you in good stead for your other Occult work. The second thing you would
acquire is that as you learn to project, and become more and more proficient in it, you should
begin to acquire a knowledge of the inner planes that should help you to arrive at Illumination.
How could you be associated with these things for a long time and not become better at
understanding what the Occult is all about? Still another thing that you should get from this
study is that you should definitely be able to find out more about the inner hidden side of
things and first hand at that. This knowledge could not fail to help you thru this mad physical
life so that you will be what is known as a Successful Person. Then, when people see you
succeeding, they will enquire why, and when they find that you practice the Occult Arts, and
this is the reason for your success, they will want to know more about it, and will come to you
in droves for help. And to help them you will be able to do more than just talk about abstract
things. (Never offer Occult Knowledge or help to anyone unless they ask you specially for it.
Until they recognise a need for it, it is useless to them and only results in trouble for them and
for you. Until it works for you do not TALK about it to others. It will only sound silly if it has not
worked for you so that they can see it themselves).
Another thing you should acquire is that you should be able to explore and map out the inner
planes, or rather set up your own paths thru these inner planes as there is nothing there now.
This physical world is the tail end of a number of other “worlds” as you know and the CAUSES
OF THE END RESULTS on this plane are in those inner planes. When you know how to
penetrate them and study the causes of coming events you can alter those events somewhat
depending on your power to do so. These things are not trivial believe me and their
acquirement will give you a sense of power and peace that will go a long way to make up for
what you may have suffered in this past mixed-up life.
The most important thing, that can be achieved, is to learn, in a positive way, how to contact
your Inner Powers, or Forces, or whatever name you feel like giving them and, which is still
more important of all, learn how to USE your Inner Powers in a positive manner. You have
them, you know, but as long as you do not use them, by being ignorant of them, they stand
there, doing nothing to protect you, while you suffer the “slings and arrows of outrageous
fortune”
You are incarnated in a physical body for the purpose of learning how to conquer matter – (thy
kingdom come, thy will be done ON EARTH as it is in heaven) – and if you do not start to learn
how to conquer matter you will have to come back time and time again, over and over, until
you do learn this lesson to overcome the illusion of matter.
Actually you know all this unconsciously and instinctively, deep down inside of you, but there
is so much confusion in this life about what our aims are really supposed to be, due to the
petty distractions of everyday living, and a deep outer ignorance of fundamental facts about
the occult significance of physical life, that it is very hard for the ordinary person, until he
begins to study the occult, to find out what the exact goal of living should be, and to get some
idea of what the exact process should be to achieve this goal.
A start has to be made somewhere to learn about the other bodies you possess, and to learn
how to use them. To learn how to transfer your consciousness, from the physical body to
these other bodies at will, is just about the best and most pleasant rewarding type of growth
that you could find to advance along the path leading to Illumination. These powers can come
only with use and not by talking about them.
For example to be more specific – can you set or lie down and bring up images of persons or
things into your mind mirror? Can you see, perhaps dimly, these figures and shapes? Can you
then use your will-imagination to move them about and place them in different positions and
make them do different things? Everyone can do this to some extent. Do you know what these
images really are? These images are Etheric-Astral matter images and you are seeing them
with the third eye. The single eye mentioned in the bible.
As I said we all have this power, in some degree, and it only remains to give it careful
attention to develop it and thus double your abilities and talents to be able to handle life’s
tough problems. Do you want to have less?
I do not mean to belabor the point of the conquering of matter but this is what we are here for
and that is all we are here for. If you are not advanced enough to understand and accept this
idea then I advise you to reexamine your motives for studying the Occult. Just why are you
interested in this study? You are not going to conquer matter by allowing it to hurt you all the
time. You are not going to conquer matter by fleeing back up the descending evolution path,
like the Hindu’s Yogis do, by trying to ignore matter, by going into trances, practicing Samadi
and ignoring all the rest of India’s miseries.
You are going to conquer matter only by facing it, studying it to find out its reasons for being,
and LEARNING HOW TO MANIPULATE IT. There may be other ways of learning how to
handle matter and thus arriving at Illumination but this way will do for most of us until a better
way comes along!!!
Question 6 – When one has learned to project what can one expect to “see” over there? The
answer to this question is – I, myself, am so curious that when I have successful projection I
explore all over so hard that I often wake myself, up, if I am in the dream method. I have at
times found that I could see the reflecting ether very well and I practiced going back along the
reflecting Ether time track as well as forward. I have caught glimpses of cities 1000 years in
the future and also as little as 20 years in the future. I was in such a free state that time that I
deliberately went around looking for calendars and I found one in a store with the date 2000
something on it. I am working hard to develop this facility and I hope very much to be able to
bring back some real knowledge sometime. I admit now that I am somewhat shaky on these
trips and I can get easily rattled going thru one of these scenes as after all a thing like this is
not too easy or simple a matter.
Other times I find that I can reach a plane where it is easy to manufacture thought forms for
certain kinds of duties (there is a technique to this as they have to be made correctly and
endowed with life and emotion and energy in a definite manner. They can then be directed to
perform certain jobs. This is another course in its self. See last section.)
I have not done much work on the life after death question as I was always too interested in
this physical incarnation work. I did discover that there are definite “entrance places” scattered
over the first inner plane for those who have just died and the surroundings around them are
very much like earth.
I would not plan on contacting your departed relatives on the next plane by the use of these
projection methods I am teaching. It is not that you would be bared by entities there but the
road there is beset with strange difficulties and things are much different on that plane than
what the world thinks it is. It has something to do with the real separation that comes with
death that makes your live projections act very strange in that plane-place. Until you
understand fully the state the newly dead are in things are just mixed up and is nothing like
what the churches teach it is or even what the spiritualists have taught about it for so many
years. The newly arrived dead are in a dream state and do not recognise you or their
surroundings with any degree of accuracy. For example I did visit my Father one time. My
father has built for himself a duplicate of the same silly place he lived in on earth for so many
years. The earth house-place has been torn down now for many years, as it was no good, but
my Father still lives on in his Astral-matter duplicate and he wouldn’t listen to me anymore
now than he would then when he was alive. So there he will have to stay until he wakes up
himself. I can do nothing for him. So for heaven’s sake don’t plan on using this Projection Art
to contact those who have passed on as it just won’t do you or them any good and your visit
will be of no comfort to anybody.
So now we come to the end of the theory instructions and the end of the questions and we
can start on the actual projection work.
PRACTICAL WORK
Our first instructions on the Art of Astral projection is the method known as the “little” method
(my name for it). I discovered, and perfected, this method myself. This method is the best I
have ever found for making a start in this Projection Art. This method has many things to
recommend it. The main thing is that it is very safe. This method requires the student to be in
control of his senses at all times so no negative conditions can develop. This method requires
study and work on the inner side of things which study-knowledge is of great basic value in all
occult work and your achievements in this line can be extended to many other branches of the
occult as they are all connected together. On the other hand this system does not require too
much knowledge to start to work on, and to use the system, and the work can be carried out
with a minimum of study, in the beginning.
When you succeed, in some degree of projection work with this ‘little’ system, you can then do
a great many more things along Occult lines (I cannot emphasize this too much) All the “little”
work is on the Etheric Plane and from that plane you can influence others, and circumstances,
very well. This power is a very great asset indeed. Other applications will occur to you and I
can suggest many more when I am contacted later on.
And, best of all, successful work with this system gives practical experience to prepare the
student for the work in the advanced systems. What a beginning student needs most of all in
occult work is something safe and positive to work on, and with, to develop his inner tools and
to gain valuable experience as to what to expect to “see” when he does project later on with
the more advanced systems.
HERE ARE YOUR FIRST INSTRUCTIONS AND DIRECTIONS –
In this “little” system for your first projection work you are going to act-project in a rather
natural way. You are not going to go thru walls or thru closed doors or things like that. You are
not going to go too far from the body. Later on, as you develop in this work, you can do all
those things, go as far as you please etc. but for the very first work you will keep it very much
like physical movement. You are going to travel a preselected route there and back. You are
going to pick out a route to follow and stick to that route until you master it. So the first thing to
do is to select your “trip” route.
Look about your home. Pick out a spot to start from and a spot to go to. Say, for example, you
decided to go from your bed room to the laundry room in the basement. Say the route lies
along the hall, down the stairs, across the kitchen, down the basement stairs, across the
basement to the laundry room and then back the same way.
Now that you have selected a route to follow for your projection the next thing to do is to get to
know the route throughly physically. This means that you walk over the route many times
looking at it and getting every detail of it in your mind-memory. Notice every little thing about
it. Notice things that you never noticed before. If you want to succeed in this work you will not
do this just once or twice but many times. You will memorize the whole area-route so that you
can recall it to memory without difficulty. It will not hurt for you to draw a diagram of the route. I
cannot repeat this enough – do everything possible to fix the route in your memory.
Now in addition to the ordinary fixing of this route in your memory do the following – Select at
least six points along the route that have some special outstanding characteristic about them,
a characteristic that you can fix in your memory easily. These points can be a picture, a spot
on the wall paper, a crack on the floor, a vase or anything like that. If you want to make the
points stick still better you can make, or buy from me, some symbols which have occult
significance and place those symbols at these points too. (Contact me about these symbols).
When you have selected your points, and have reinforced them, then set down opposite the
first point and look at it steadily for 5 minutes the first day and increase this to 15 min. in about
10 days. Do this for each point in turn. That is do it for as long a time as is necessary for YOU
to learn each point and to recall it to memory accurately.
Now for heaven’s sake don’t cut this work short. If you get impatient and try to start the
projection working without memorizing these recall points enough you are not going to get
results and then you will be disappointed and will get mad and blame me for the failure.
I am going to explain the idea behind these actions in order that you, and your
subconsciousness, will accept them fully AND DO THEM FULLY. The reason for the repeated
looking at selected points along a selected projection route is to fix firmly the points in your
mind-memory. Why do this? Your memory is directly connected with the Inner Planes more so
than it is connected with the physical plane. When you look at an object physically you are not
looking at it with just the physical eye alone, you are also looking at it with the ‘Etheric eye’
and the ‘Astral eye’ and the ‘Mental eye’. But as I said before your center of consciousness is
in the physical body for the time being, and when you look at a physical object, with physical
sight , with the idea of recalling it to memory you are stimulating the etheric-astral sight too.
Keep this point in mind – when you use the physical body you are using the other bodies too.
I AM GOING TO SUM UP WHAT I TOLD YOU SO FAR.
1. For your first work in astral-projection you start by selecting a route that you will follow.
2. After selecting this route you go over it many times looking at everything along the route
carefully and noting all the things that will help you to fix the details of the route in your
memory-mind.
3. Pick out, set up, or arrange at least 6 “points” along this route that you can fix in your
memory in addition to the other natural points, or you can put the natural points together with
the artifical points.
Now here is something else you can add to your work on the above fixing of the route points
firmly in your mind-memory. Up to now you have been using only one sense, the sense of
sight, to do this fixing of these points in your memory. It is possible to use your other senses
too. (You can do anything you can think of, in your special case, that will increase your
perception of these points, use any special device that is good for you especially to fix these
points).
I experimented with all the senses. I first experimented with the sense of smell. I put 6
different scents at the different places along the route. I remember that I used Vanilla for the
first point, Peppermint for another, Chanel #5 for another, Carnation for another, Rose for
another, Violet for the last.
This idea was very satisfactory. It got so that as I recalled the memory of the scent along with
the visual memory of the particular point very accurately. Then I experimented with sounds. I
took a music teachers pitch pipe and assigned a note to each point. It seems remarkable but
in time I could recall the scent and ‘hear’ the sound in my imagination along with the visual
image. However as all the senses are in the “other” bodies too it is not too strange that they
can be developed too and in fact your successful transfer of your consciousness to the other
bodies means that you will learn to use the other bodies as well as you now use the physical
body.
I hadn’t intended to bring this out so soon but this seems a good point to do it. You are going
to do more than just project, you are going to learn to ‘live’ in your other bodies, consciously.
Remember there are two more senses that you will have to develop on the etheric plane too in
order to function there right. The sense of taste and the sense of feel. However you can leave
this for now as about the only sense you need for your projection work is the sense of sight
and the use of the sense of hearing and smell to reinforce the sense of sight. I do trust tho that
in the above few sentences you catch some idea of your future work along these lines and the
main objective to be attained.
I hope that you see for now that in order to succeed in your first projection work you will do
anything and everything necessary to reinforce your memory so that your recall of the route
you have picked out is accurate and will give you positive results. There are still more things
that you can do to reinforce your memory but I feel that you should have enough for now. If
you run into a situation in which your projections do not succeed for heaven’s sake contact me
about it as in a big subject like this I cannot give positive fool proof directions in advance. I can
help you if I know what is wrong so contact me fast if you can’t make it work.
I regret that so much preliminary work is necessary for you to do but this Projection Art is a
great work and it is well worth your time and much pains and money. When you acquire a
degree of proficiency in this Art you will have a powerful Occult tool to help you thru life and it
sure can smooth things out for you. For one thing success in this Art will encourage you to
take up other Occult things and as you acquire more and more proficiency in these things you
will find your path thru life becoming easier and easier especially so IF YOU LEARN TO
CONTROL YOUR EMOTIONAL BODY AS YOU MUST SOONER OR LATER. It is not the
mind that makes trouble in life but your emotions and FEELINGS.
It does seem as if I never will get started on the real work but I do want to say another word
about thorough preparations. Please do all the things that I have outlined. In Magical work,
dealing with the next planes, thorough preparation is the key to success. I have known people
who started this work the same as you are doing and during the preparations and before they
were half done with the preparations they began to Project! I am telling you a real Occult
secret now. In any work you do of a magical nature IT IS DURING THE PREPARATIONS
FOR THE WORK THAT THE WORK IS REALLY DONE. This is one absolutely true thing
about Occult work, (and this probably influences life to a much greater extent than known).
The reason for this is that everything on this plane is the reverse of the next plane above this
one. ON THE ETHERIC PLANE WHEN A THING IS CREATED IN THE FIRST PLACE (see
last section) THE MEANS OF ITS CREATION IS DONE AFTER THE THING IS CREATED,
and comes into being automatically. I do not have to point out to you how different this is from
the earth plane. This reverse creation is one of the Laws of the Inner Planes. Enough for now.
The above information will stand much meditation and study on your part. DO IT.
When you are sure that you have all these preliminary things out of the way and have
followed my directions as to preparations to the best of your ability you are then ready to start
actual work.
You can do the following work the way you relax best. The natural way is, of course, lying
down. I have found that it can be done sitting down, and some prefer it that way. I have done
enough work to enable me to know that this projection can be made while you are awake and
moving about!! This certainly opens up some new ideas as to how this system could be used.
You might keep this in mind and when you are more advanced try it.
In my personal case I am free in the middle of the day and I find that I can project quite well
during a mid-day nap. However not everybody can be free at that time so your projection
period will be something that you will have to work out for yourself. If you have to do your work
when there are other people about you you must guard yourself as well as you can against
interuptions. If you are interupted during one of your projections along your route, no matter
how urgent it is, turn about and ‘come’ back to your body by means of your memory route and
reenter the body correctly and slowly and then “wake” up and get up.
When you have assumed the position you are going to use for your work and are relaxed and
ready to start work then start by recalling, to your memory, the place-points that you have
selected as your route “stops”. If you followed my directions as best you could and have
studied your point-route-stops – if you have placed an outstanding symbol object at each point
and have reinforced this with a scent and a sound – You should be able to recall these points
to memory quite easily. Recall to your memory the first point-spot. Look at this memory picture
of the point for a time. Realize that you are now looking at the Etheric Image of this spot.
Realize that you are now projecting. Then take each of the route-points in turn and project
yourself to each of them one at a time to the end of your route. When you reach the end turn
around and come back the same way. Travel this route in your memory for as long a time as it
takes you to be able to travel it accurately and quickly and get the feel of this travel.
When you have done this operation for a long time and you are thoroughly familiar with it, you
then add the following work – Start at the first place of your route, your bed or your chair –
Image yourself raising out of bed, or your chair, and starting your route. At first YOU WILL
SEEM TO BE LOOKING AT YOURSELF DOING THE ACTION. When you have done this for
a while and you are familiar with yourself doing the actions AND FULLY REALIZE THAT IT IS
YOU WHO ARE DOING THE ACTIONS IN DUAL– THEN MAKE THE ATTEMPT TO
TRANSFER YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS, YOU, YOURSELF, TO THE IMAGE OF YOURSELF
THAT YOU ARE WATCHING – Try to see thru the eyes of the image, feel it about you, feel
yourself into it. The image is your etheric body and you are watching it thru the ‘eyes’ of the
ASTRAL BODY – when you WORK on or SEE any part of yourself you are working or seeing
thru the body ‘above’ that body. So in this case you are transfering down and not up.
Hold your consciousness into the Etheric body and go thru the route to the end and back
keeping yourself in the image. See thru the eyes of the image and perform all the actions with
the etheric counterparts of the physical body, the etheric arms and legs etc. Keep doing this
until you are perfect at it.
ONE DAY THE TWO BODIES WILL FUSE INTO ONE BODY AND YOU WILL OPEN
ANOTHER KIND OF AN EYE AND YOU WILL FIND THAT YOU ARE REALLY THERE IN
THE ETHERIC BODY FOR REAL AT THE SAME TIME YOU WILL BE CONSCIOUS OF THE
PHYSICAL BODY TOO AND YOU WILL KNOW THAT YOU ARE DUAL AND CAN AND DO
FUNCTION IN BOTH BODIES AT ONCE.
Don’t lose your head when this happens. By this time you should have had so much practice
along these lines that you should feel no great surprise. Stay out as long as you feel like it but
don’t go too far away for this first time. When you are ready to return to your physical body go
about it the same as you would physically, return to the body and WILL TO TRANSFER
YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS TO THE BODY. And you will open your physical eyes and ask
yourself “was it a dream?” And was it?
There are some other things that should be called to your attention now that you are going to
study these things for real – It goes without saying that you must keep calm at all times and do
not allow yourself to get excited over daily happenings. If you become excited and all nervous
easily and allow these things to happen it will hold you back in your projection work. Many
people do not succeed because of this reason alone. Excitement, loud noises and all kinds of
disturbances just don’t go with Occult work and certainly not with this kind of Occult work.
You really should not do this projection work when other people are about, especially if you
are likely to meet them on your route. As you get more powerful in your projections the time
can come when they will SEE you with their physical eyes and think they are seeing a ghost,
and indeed they are, and scream bloody murder! (Many of the ghosts that are seen are
etheric projections). Try and use all the common sense you can about these things. Act with
modesty and restraint, especially at first, AND DO NOT TALK ABOUT YOUR OCCULT
WORK TO THOSE WHO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT AND ARE NOT INTERESTED IN IT.
The old books say that for this kind of work you should choose a sunny day or a calm night
when there is no wind or other disturbances in nature going on. If there is a storm raging or
excessively hot this will effect the Ether and the Etheric Plane and will have an effect on your
projection. After you are stronger you can handle all this sort of thing but for the start you
should take it easy and project only on favourable conditions.
Now here is another matter that is very important and please give it your most careful
attention. There will be times when you cannot project at all!! There will be times when it will
be moderately easy to project or moderately difficult to project. There will be times when it will
be a cinch to project and, in fact, you might find yourself ‘out’ unconsciously.
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