06/11/12

16:00 hrs

Hi, Guys! How are we doing?

We begin now with Ophiel’s other vignette; The Other You! Which is rather short and lightweight, when compared, to some of his others; in this vignette, there is more in the way of information and advice than there is of forming any kind of technique, but let us ‘look at it’ anyway, Ophiel begins this vignette, this way: 

“There is so much, which is unknown in the ‘Occult’ that, from our point of view, it is simply appalling. Many years ago a comedian was reported as having said about some hotel blankets here in San Francisco, ‘The blankets were so thin they had only one side.’ An amusing thought indeed, but not true of course. There is ‘NOTHING’ in the physical universe that is so ‘THIN’ that it has only ‘ONE SIDE.’ In my work, I have been struck many times by a strange dual-ness in things, in myself and in others. It seemed to me that in every operation I undertook, tiny or large, I ran into a strange dual-ness/double-ness, which, - if not allowed for - would cross up my operations, by setting up strange kinds of blocks and boundaries, bringing all kinds of plans to naught.” End quote. (Capitols are ‘O’s.)

It is this duality, which we are ‘looking at’ and also, to, see, if any beginning Ophiel student members wish to, test/exercise, their Clairvoyance/Psychic abilities, through the, Chair Exercise. The ‘exercise’ itself is relatively simple/easy to do, but it is in the/this, other side, hidden side, that they would have to ‘exercise’ their inherent abilities, and once a, ‘feedback’ is/has been achieved, then it will/shall assist greatly in other things. The ‘exercise’ it to, Educate/Inform, the ‘Ego/Personality-Conscious’ how to, Communicate successfully, with the/their Silent Partner. The ‘secret/occult’ of the, Silent Partner is in the first part of the name, ‘SILENT’!? And it is this ‘Silent part?’ that Ego/Personality-Conscious seems to find ‘difficulty’ with?? 

In the basic Chair Exercise, you are trying to, sense/feel, the FLOW OF ETHERIC MATTER! AND ITS ‘CONNECTION,’ TO WITH THE, ELEMENTAL FORCE, OF THE ELEMENT OF EARTH! AS IT ‘FLOWS,’ WITHIN YOU (Silent Partner,) AND YOU (Ego/Personality Conscious, Observe.) ‘DO THIS’ WITH/THROUGH YOU OUTER, OUTER PHYSICALLY PHYSICAL BODY: Please read this part from Ophiel, from his book, The Art & Practice of Clairvoyance, page 67, in the e-book version by Stephen Walford in the file section of the group:

“So, you will naturally ask here, at this point, if the action of the sub-conscious mind is automatic and uncontrollable then how do we get to use it or make it work for us, and this is a good question, and the answer is – you start to train this sub-mind to work for you but very carefully, quietly, and gently. It will never completely work for you on the physical plane but you can get some work out of it and that work can become very valuable and useful to you and, of course, this work is very closely allied to clairvoyance if not actually clairvoyance itself in all its fullness. The training of the sub-mind is a very subtle matter. 
There is no danger involved; the worst that can happen is just no good results in a hurry, and some confusion of ideas. The training of your sub-mind is like your training of your physical self to go under water for periods of increasing time. You are inducing your “hidden” mind to come “out” and function in the Physical Plane World; whereas its true plane existence is in the Inner Plane World.
There are many benefits to be gained from the functioning of your sub-mind in the outer plane world, if and when it can be trained properly. The sub-mind, possessing as it does, unlimited access to Inner Plane play of Forces can predict and calculate instantly the sum total effect of these Force’s interplay upon each other, and upon your Being. And this outer plane function can be, as I said, of great benefit to you. I might say here that any difficulties that might arise come, not from the impact of the information upon you, but from the difficult job of getting the information “through” to your outer plane in a form that you can understand and use “work on.” End quote. 

There is a ‘feeling’ of not being in ‘control’ as you do the chair exercise which is ‘good’ for your, Conscious, as you begin to, introduce yourselves to each other, Conscious to Silent Partner. You would do well to read the whole of Ophiel’s chapter, The Two Minds, and read his, ‘Introduction’ to this, through his three examples of, watermelon, milk pouring and gas-peddle.
The three stages to the chair exercise are; 

1.	You physically, physically say/speak, stand-up, sit-down, noting the physical body movements required. When you have done this as many times as takes for you, Conscious, to be satisfied you rest and relax.
2.	When you say/speak, stand-up, sit-down, you observe, what happens, just before the actual, factual, literal physical action of standing or sitting.
3.	If you have done 1 and 2 properly, you should sense/feel a ‘flow’ to/towards the ‘Opposite’ direction from the one you are doing. 
4.	Flowing down to stand up. Flowing up to sit down = Opposite/Adverse!?! 

THE PHYSICALLY PHYSICAL ACTIONS, IS/ARE SECONDARY, TO THE INTERNAL SENSATIONS. If, Ego-Conscious, ‘looks?’ to/towards the ‘opposite direction’ from the outer, outer physically physical action, there should be, subject to personal ability, a Clairvoyant/Psychic ‘knowing?’ (A Gnosis = Personal knowing,) that comes to, Ego-Conscious, from the Silent Partner, (Via the Etheric Chakra) which they can ‘sense/feel,’ IT, IS A ‘FLOW/FLOWING,’ THAT IS ‘UNMISTAKABLE,’ EITHER UPWARDS TO SIT OR DOWNWARDS TO STAND!? 

You should be able to Ego-Consciously make/give the ‘command,’ sit down, without actually doing the outer, outer physically physical action, and still get the sensation of ‘flow’ upwards to the top of your Cosmic Egg and if you make/give the ‘command’ stand up, without actually doing the outer, outer physically physical action, you should still get the sensation of ‘flow’ downwards to the bottom of your Cosmic Egg. It is the ‘subtle sensation of flow’, that is important! This ‘flowing’ is/can be ‘used’ in many different ways, in/on many different things! Here is how Ophiel writes/describes this in his vignette, How to Control and Dominate Others. 

“Successful people do these actions ‘NATURALLY’ and all ‘Love’ ‘Fame’ ‘Money’ and ‘Honours’, flows ‘their?’ way, their whole lifetime. This statement is too obviously true for contradiction. ‘Correct?’ I trust you will go back over the above before proceeding with the lesson and that you will study it for a long time. More Occult knowledge is there in a few paragraphs, as you will realise as time goes by, than in many dozens of the 'SUGARY METAPHYSICAL' occult books that have always been done naturally and often unknowingly.” End quote. (Capitols are ‘O’s.) 

Ophiel then continues in the next paragraph, with his vignette, Your Other You: “There is in ‘Magical Operations’ a procedure known as ‘BINDING.’ Usually this means to limit or encompass or put a boundary on a kind of operation, especially a metaphysical one, since a metaphysical operation can be reversed as easily as it can be started forward. Now besides ‘Magical Operations,’ there are all kinds of other mental operations, which make up our daily life/living besides our physical life/living movements. You are a ‘Four-fold creature’ consisting of ‘Four-elemental Forces.’ (Really five elements/forces but the fifth is so nebulous and so difficult to understand correctly, in all of its ramifications, that in ordinary occult work it is not referred to but ‘IS’ in the back ground of ‘THOSE WHO KNOW?’)” End quote. (Capitols are ‘O’s.) 

Side note: To those of you who, do/practice, your Cosmic Egg Exercise, I, me (sender,) would like to assure you, that you are working to a very high standard, which will/shall come to the fore, as time passes? End of side note. 

Then Ophiel continues with this; “Thus, as a four-fold creature, you function ‘ON ALL PLANES AT ONCE’ and ‘ESPECIALLY DO YOU FUNCTION ON THE ETHERIC PLANE’ The ‘Etheric Plane’ (See all my other books.) Is almost a double of this plane; everything here is a duplicate there, with the difference that the duplicates there are rather plastic and mould-able. Then, there are parts of the ‘Etheric Plane’ and places where the ‘Etheric’ borders onto the ‘Astral Plane’ and thoughts can become forms and these ‘Forms’ come alive with a ‘Kind of Life.’ The making of these ‘Thought Forms’ is an ‘Occult art’ and can be one of vast usefulness to you when done properly. What I am discussing in this ‘Vignette’ is the not so obvious fact that you create these ‘Double Thought Forms,’ every time you do something/anything on the ‘Physical Plane.’ Naturally, - Or should I say, unnaturally - For some ungodly reason, the inner double seems to ‘OPPOSE’ the outer double and it is/seems, that a lot of the trouble of this world, can be traced to this strange fact?” End of quote. (Capitols are ‘O’s.) 

Please read the above quote more than once, and see how you, feel, about it! THE ‘TROUBLE’ IS SIMPLY BECAUSE EGO-CONSCIOUS YOU DOESN’T UNDERSTAND! NOT BECAUSE THERE IS ANY KIND OF ‘DELIBERATE RESISTANCE/ADVERSE/OPPOSITION,’ THE ‘TROUBLE’ IS SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU, EGO-CONSCIOUS DO NOT UNDERSTAND! (You are not yet, Gnosis!) Then Ophiel continues;

“Dear students, I am not prepared to argue/prove this material to be true. Please make some tests of your own. There is one thing you can do; first, you can become aware of this ‘Double-ness.’ You can even become able to see ‘Thought Forms,’ and then you can become aware of your ability to ‘Bind,’ the inner ‘Etheric Double,’ so that it becomes unable to harm the outer ‘Physical Double.’ The actual inner ‘Binding,’ is as automatic, as the original inner creating.” End quote. 

In the above quote, is the ‘idea’ contained in the, Chair Exercise, “There is one thing you can do; first, you can become aware of this ‘Double-ness.’” End quote.

Read this part again; “The actual inner ‘Binding’ is as ‘Automatic,’ as the original inner creating.” End quote. 

When we create/make the thought form, stand-up, we ‘bind’ its ‘double,’ its ‘other side,’ (sitting down,) and we just ‘AUTOMATICALLY,’ stand up! Here is how Ophiel describes it: 

“What I am discussing in this ‘Vignette’ is the not so obvious fact that you create these ‘Double Thought Forms,’ every time you do something/anything on the ‘Physical Plane.’ Naturally, - Or should I say, unnaturally - For some ungodly reason, the inner double seems to ‘OPPOSE’ the outer double and it is/seems, that a lot of the trouble of this world, can be traced to this strange fact?” End of quote. (Capitols are ‘O’s.)

When you, sit-down, you push-up and when you stand-up, you push-down! = Binding? Too easy, too much, well, too bad! Because it is, what it is! It is only when you are Ego-Conscious, Aware, and Awake, to the/these goings on that you are in a place/position, to do something about it/them!? Imagine if you will, that you have understood the Chair Exercise, and that you ‘know’ from experience, how the Etheric Matter Flows, in a given direction, to any Symbol of, Your Ego-Conscious Choosing? And today being a Tuesday, you decide that you are going to ‘work,’ on, rich and poor? Because yesterday, you ‘worked’ on, success and failure! And, tomorrow you are going to ‘work,’ on, employed and unemployed? All three of these, dual forces, have ‘poles,’ and you Ego-Conscious, because of your Chair Exercise, now have a ‘feel,’ for which ‘pole,’ you wish to ‘USE’? Ophiel then writes; 

“As I write this ‘Vignette’ I am becoming more and more aware of the queer existence or this dual-ness. I seem to catch glimpses of it as I proceed on to living and it becomes clearer to me as I write more. Now for merciful heaven's sake, do not become suggestible and allow yourself to be influenced ‘UNDULY’ by the above material. The above material is presented for ‘STUDY ONLY’ or suggested ‘STUDY’ and not as ‘FACT’ a final finished ‘FACT.’ Exactly what the Truth ‘IS’ is not really exactly known by me or by anyone else but what I write ‘Seems’ to have some validity. So, do ‘STUDY’ and examine and do not accept too easily. ‘STUDY’ for your ‘Future Use’ possible use, in your life.” End quote. (Capitols and Underlines are ‘O’s.)

You ‘train’ your Ego/Personality Conscious, by/with letting it first ‘learn,’ what ‘happens,’ when you stand-up/sit-down: At first, there is absolutely no reason not to ‘sense/feel,’ where you want to ‘be conscious,’ that is, when you do the physically physical action of standing or sitting, INSIDE, YOU SHOULD BE ‘LOOKING’ (Sensing/Feeling,) WHERE YOUR SILENT PARTNER IS ‘FLOWING TO!’ With this inner action of ‘looking,’ (Observing,) in that ‘direction,’ your Silent Partner should ‘send’ a ‘sensation/feeling’ of ‘Flowing’ in that ‘opposite’ direction of physical you! From that ‘position’ you should ‘sense/feel’ the, Fixing, Setting, Elemental Earth/Hades Inertia, and then, once the Silent Partners is satisfied, the physical body moves, and you sit-down or stand-up! 

Wishing you all, every success, as ever, 

sender 

PS. Let us put these two parts here for your consideration! The first from Ophiel’s first book, The Art & Practice of Astral Projection; his chapter, The Little System; Page 15, in the e-book version by Stephen Walford, in the file section of our group: 

“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 affected by this type of physical pressure.” End quote. 

The ‘above’ is a ‘more drastic’ sensation, of the Etheric Body ‘moving’ in the ‘opposite direction’? But what we are to ‘feel for,’ is the notion, sentiment, empathy, sympathy, of the movement, as we stand or sit! It is this observation, that is going to stimulate, our latent/dormant Psychic/Clairvoyant abilities!?

The second part is from Ophiel’s second book, The Art & Practice of Getting Material Things Through Creative Visualisation, his chapter, Occult Law Number Six: The Law of Binding. page 32:

“However, in our physical life, we use both sides of things, so naturally, that we have completely lost sight of the other side of the things we use. Do you ever stop to think that every time you cover yourself with bed clothes you are using one side only and that there is another side to the bed clothes? Could the sheet exist without the other side, the side you do not use? (Not too good an illustration but it will do to enable you to think about it, and to keep the concept as simple as possible.) Here is a different illustration. Do you realize that every time you drive your automobile forward you are exerting an equal force backward? If you will study some physics about the Laws of Motion, you will find this is true.” End quote. 

In the above two quotes, is/are your, Basic Chair Exercise! And whilst I, me (sender,) agree, that it is ‘easier’ for the individual to ‘feel,’ the elevator and the car, THE SAME ‘FORCE’ IS ‘USED!?’ IN STANDING AND SITTING!? But! More importantly, is/will be your ‘personal/individual ability,’ to ‘sense/feel,’ the/these MOTIONS IN YOU!?! Which is revealed/shown to us/you, as Psychic?