08/06/2010

11:18 AM

Hi, Guys! How are we doing? 

I have been asked to broaden my comments on the Cosmic Egg by several members who are having a trying time with making any kind of emotional and imaginative connection to with the symbols and their point/purpose. Well, I do not know where to start, so I shall just start where I left off and take it from there. 

In Bubble Magic 2010, (file 01, in file section of our group) it was pointed out that everything is based on ‘self-observation’ in many ways this is, at the Basic-Basic level, nothing more than ‘sensory-deprivation’ of the Physical Body. It would seem that most practitioners, students, do not understand or comprehend what this means, nor how to make/create a ‘technique’ that will/shall enable them to make the crucial breakthrough in their studies/practices. The simplicity of the technique seems to ‘evade them?’

Sensory Deprivation of the physically physical body causes a kind of ‘sleep-paralysis?’ in the unskilled/untutored/uninformed/untrained person and so they remain ‘UN-CONSCIOUS!’ It matters not if you ‘enter’ into/onto an, Inner Plane, through meditation, contemplation, prayer, ritual, talisman, treasure chart/map, or by with the, million and one ways, to achieve this ‘entry’, they are, Basically-Basically, ALL THE SAME! Ophiel describes in many of his writings, that to ‘do something different’ merely requires a change in ‘APPLICATION’ or ‘DIRECTION’ depending on your ‘INTENTION/USE’ at the/that time. 

Here is what Ophiel writes in his book, The Art & Practice of the Occult, on page 62, (in the e-book version by Stephen Walford, in the file section of our group) in his chapter, General Considerations. 

“All that the word Magic stands for is embodied in the one conception – understanding that there are Inner Planes “beyond” this “outer” physical end result plane, and this outer plane is manipulated by lines of Forces proceeding “down” from “up” in these inner planes to here. And when one of these inner plane forces lines are “pulled” (Dion Fortune says “tweaked”) whatever is attracted to it down here “moves”, and this is the sum total of all Physical Creation – and the object of this book, and everything else you can think of. So again I say – your object should be to learn to use the Inner Planes to “move” this physical plane.
There are many methods of entering the Inner Planes to accomplish this feat, some methods quite ordinary, such as merely thinking of the Inner Planes, or prayer, or meditation-contemplation as already explained. Or actually entering the Inner Planes yourself with a portion of your consciousness, as shown and explained in my book THE ART AND PRACTICE OF ASTRAL PROJECTION: This book was specially designed to show you how to enter the Inner Planes with a portion of your consciousness, a beginning book as it were. What you do, or can do, when you get “in” there is further shown and explained in this book. I trust you will understand the differences.” End quote. (Capitols are ‘O’s.)

Read this bit again; “There are many methods of entering the Inner Planes to accomplish this feat, some methods quite ordinary, such as merely thinking of the Inner Planes, or prayer, or meditation-contemplation as already explained.” End quote.

From this statement by Ophiel, that there is/are many ways/methods of, ‘Entering The Inner Planes’, you should be able to ‘work-out’ your ‘own best method’ of how ‘YOU!’ enter the/your Inner Planes! AND FROM THIS, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND ‘WHY’ AS OPHIEL WRITES, THAT WE ARE ‘ALL SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT’ FROM EACH OTHER! (We are ‘all’ individuals!! Unique, Singular, Alone)

It is this, ‘slightly different’ that makes some techniques, ‘WORK’ for some people and others, ‘NOT TO WORK?’ for some pople. So, we go back to Ophiel’s same book, same chapter, General Considerations, and we read this on the same page 62 but in the paragraph before.

“Now I say again, and please note carefully, there is no other way you can realise/feel-cognize your physical existence other than through your five physical senses. As soon as you begin to practice “Magic” however, of any kind – including the work you have done on the Ritual up to now – and including the future work to be given – which you will do, YOU THEN BEGIN TO USE OTHER KINDS OF SENSES, NOT PHYSICAL, TO COGNIZE ANOTHER KIND OF A “WORLD” “PLANE”, AN INNER PLANE.” End quote. (Capitols are ‘O’s.)

DO YOU ‘BELIEVE!?’ IN THIS/YOUR ‘INNER WORLD’

Here is what Ophiel writes in his first book, The Art & Practice of Astral Projection, page 18, in the e-book version by Stephen Walford, in the file section of your group.

“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 transferring 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.” End Quote. (Capitols are ‘O’s.)

IT IS ‘IN THE METHOD OF RETAINING MEMORY’ THAT THE SECRET LIES!! 

Then on page 25 of this same book, we read this: “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 rising 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 transferring down and not up.” End quote. (Capitols are ‘O’s.)

In Bubble Magic, you are simply asked to step-up the number times that you ‘repeat’ the exercise and to ‘pay-attention’ to how the Symbols ‘feel’ when they are about you, surrounding you, penetrating you! Slowly (and in many cases, quickly?) you come to ‘sense/feel’ this, Other Body, and after a while of doing your Bubble Magic/Cosmic Egg Exercise, you are then able to ‘transfer this feeling’ into and along with Ophiel’s Little System. 

Bubble Magic, is from Ophiel’s Correspondence Course in the Foundations of the Occult, The Art & Practice of the Occult and his, The Art & Practice of Caballa Magic, all of which is/are have been made available for you, in/on the file section of our group. The ‘advantage’ of the/this exercise is to make available to the beginning student/person a ‘soft-landing’ when they start to work/use these Forces for themselves, Consciously, and, whilst they may not know/feel it at the time, they are working/using these Forces for themselves, Un-Consciously! Thus it is a, double positive.

Just as the Outer, outer physically physical body will ‘digest/use’ whatever food is put into its stomach, via the mouth, so too, will the inner body ‘digest/use’ whatever ‘Force/Symbol’ is put into it via the emotions/imagination. As you ‘emotionally feed’ your Etheric Body, it becomes ‘stronger’ through the number of times you ‘repeat’ (not the ‘length’ of time, but the ‘number’ of times you ‘repeat’) your exercise/emotion/imagination. Usually, in the ‘successful person?’ this, astral/emotional/imaginative ‘drive’ ‘ambition’ ‘desire’ ‘brooding’ IS TRANSLATED INTO PHYSICALLY PHYSICAL ACTION/DOING! AND THAT IS WHAT THE ‘UN-INITIATED’ ‘UN-TRAINED’ ‘UN-TUTORED’ PERSONS ‘SEES!?’ EVERYONE THINKS THAT BECAUSE SOMEONE ‘WORKS-HARD!?’ THEY ARE ‘GUARANTEED?’ SUCCESS! (If you would like to ‘understand’ this paragraph a little bit more, then please read Ophiel’s vignette, Living Life, Magic Workings On Matter & How To Get Ahead. All are available in the e-book version by Stephen Walford, in the file section of our group, Vignette Lessons In Occult Power.)  

Well, the ‘proof of the pudding’ is in the ‘tasting’ and there is/are millions of people/persons who ‘work-hard’ all their lives and, GET NOTHING FOR IT!!  

If you study Ophiel, you will/shall ‘see/feel/sense’ that there is ‘something missing?’ in the practice of many persons/students because of the large numbers that ‘fail?’ or ‘Cannot Make It Work?’ Bubble Magic has nothing to ‘do’ with the Causal Plane = Akasha = Egg/Oval/Aura, Mental Plane = Air = Sphere, Astral Plane = Emotion/Imagination = Fire = Inverted Pyramid, Etheric Plane = Attraction/Attachment = Water = Bowl, but has everything to ‘do’ with the, Earth Plane = Inert/Idle = Earth = Cube = REVERSE-NESS! 

This ‘reverse-ness’ is IN/ON THE PLANE OF THE ‘COMBINED ELEMENTS!?!’ (ALL FIVE ELEMENTS COMBINED!?) IS/HAS BEEN EITHER ‘IGNORED’ OR ‘MISUNDERSTOOD’ BY MANY, MANY PERSONS/STUDENTS! Ophiel addresses this problem many times in his books, vignettes and lessons. Here it is from his book, The Art & Practice of Caballa Magic very last page, last two paragraphs. (Page 120 in the e-book version by Stephen Walford in the file section of our group) 
“Here, at this point, is one of those tricks, deceptions, dead ends, and riddles which abound in the Occult. This matter has been treated elsewhere in other books, and writings, to which I refer you, but I will cover some of the ground here again. In the first place, between this Earth Plane and the Etheric Plane there seems to be a well-defined “reversal” pattern. What is coming “here” is going “there.” Man is upside down, end for end, reversed to the Etheric Plane. Therefore, this Force is not in reality ascending – it is descending!!” End quote. (Capitols and Italics, are ‘O’s.)

In our short presentation, we presented it as, ‘Hades = Outer/Inner Malkuth Earth = Plane of the Combined Elemental Forces’ and the ‘PUNISHMENT!?’ of Sisyphus/Tantalus, WHO DID NOT ‘KNOW!?’ ‘UNDERSTAND!?’ THE REVERSAL EFFECT!?! THAT THIS PLANE HAS ‘ON ALL FORCES!?’ COMING INTO/ONTO/THROUGH IT!!?!  Here is how Ophiel puts it in his vignette, How To Get Ahead!

“In the Vignette below the ideas expressed are different. Read the Vignette over carefully many times, notice the ideas therein and attempt to integrate these ideas into your daily life living. Remember, this vignette is concentrated occult Knowledge and not masses-messes of words. So study and apply it. ‘Truly’ the right application this Vignette can alter your life for the better.

The object of life is to live on all planes and to live more expansively on all planes. There is nothing much to hold you back from expanding on the Inner Planes, as existence is not-resistant there, no-thing to hold you back or to have to work against. So you can amass inner knowledge to any extent and without effort.

However, we also exist, a large number of us, and a large part of us, on the Physical Plane where the rules are different from those on the Inner Planes. There, different rules ‘rule’ or ‘govern’, which simple statement is never completely understood.

While it is true, that all the features of the Physical Plane are governed by the rules, which come down through the Inner Planes to ‘here’, there are important physical plane rules, which must be obeyed here, or matters will not satisfactorily work out here.” End quote.

ONE OF THE/THESE ‘RULES’ OF THE MALKUTH EARTH/HADES (And one of the most ‘important’ at that) IS THAT, ONE? OF YOU, (Implying that there is/are/must ‘be!?’ more than ‘ONE OF YOU!?’ [A TWIN? AN OPPOSITE? AN OPPOSER? RESISTANCE?])  IS THAT, ONE OF YOU, MUST BE/BECOME/IS/ARE THE ‘ANCHOR?’ THE ‘RESISTANCE?’ THE ‘OPPOSITE?’ THE ‘OPPOSER?’ OTHERWISE YOU ‘CANNOT MOVE!?’ YOU ‘CANNOT MANIFEST!?’ YOU ‘CANNOT ACHIEVE!?’ IN AND ON, THE OUTER, OUTER PHYSICALLY PHYSICAL PLANE!!! (YOU ‘MUST!?!’ TAKE ‘TURNS!!?’) Many people/persons ‘are!!’ able to Astral/Etheric Project and, make things work/happen!? Good for them! But!! What if you are, NOT LIKE THESE PEOPLE/PERSONS!? WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE YOU?? 

STANDING ‘BETWEEN YOU!?’ (Outer, Outer Physically Physical YOU) AND ETHERIC INNER PLANES YOU!? IS MALKUTH EARTH YOU!!!? WHEN THE ‘TWINS!?’ (Malkuth Earth YOU and Outer, Outer Physically Physical Earth YOU) WORK TOGETHER!! THERE IS ‘HARMONY’ ‘BALANCE’ ‘TRUTH’ ‘JUSTICE’ (See/Read Ophiel’s vignette, Why Do You Let The Devil USE You? available in the file section of our group, Ophiel’s Vignette Lessons In Occult Power, e-book version by Stephen Walford.) 
Getting to, KNOW? This, OTHER YOU!?! or, YOUR OTHER YOU? is so ‘simple!!’ so ‘easy!!’ Getting to make this OTHER YOU? or, YOUR OTHER YOU? WORK FOR/WITH YOU!! IS JUST AS, EASY!! JUST AS SIMPLE!! 

AS LONG AS YOU ‘STOP!!!’ INTERFERING!!!??? 

Here is how Ophiel describes the Plane of the Elements, in his first book, The Art & Practice of Astral Projection, page 24, in the e-book version by Stephen Walford in the file section of our group.

“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.” End quote. (Capitols are ‘O’s.’)

IT IS THIS ‘REVERSE CREATION’ WHICH IS ‘ONE’ OF THE ‘LAWS/RULES’ OF THE, MALKUTH EARTH/HADES/NORTH QUARTER EARTH! 

THE, PRINCIPLE/RULE/LAW OF MALKUTH EARTH IS ‘INERTIA’ SYMBOLICALLY REPRESENTED/SHOWN/REVEALED BY WITH HADES AND HIS WIFE, PERSEPHONE, ‘SITTING ON THEIR THRONES!’ SHOWN BY WITH THEIR ‘IMMOBILITY’ ‘IMPLACABILITY’ ‘RESOLUTENESS’ ‘UN-SYMPATHETIC’ ‘UN-EMPATHETIC’ THEY DO NOT/WILL NOT/SHALL NOT ‘MOVE!!?’ 

THE SYMBOL IS ‘REVEALING/SHOWING’ HOW THE ‘FORCE!!’ IS ‘WORKING/OPERATING!?’ AND YOU! (You!! Reading this file) MUST ‘DO!!’ LIKEWISE!! MUST NOT MOVE!! OTHERWISE YOU ARE GOING TO BE ‘PUNISHED!?’ (Tantalus/Sisyphus) 

So! Once again! 

YOU! by/with, ‘Standing Still’ with your Outer, Outer Physically Physical Body, for the minimum of two minutes per-day, and ABOUT TURNING/REVERSING YOUR ‘VIEW’ INWARDS!! ARE WORKING WITH THE/THESE/THIS PLANE!!

YOU! by/with, ‘Ignoring’ the Outer, Outer Physically Physical World About You! ARE NOW ‘CREATING MAKING’ A SITUATION/CIRCUMSTANCE WHERE ‘SENSORY DEPRIVATION’ IS NOW ‘WORKING FOR YOU!?’ 

YOU! by/with ‘Standing Still’ and Sensing/Feeling the/these FIVE BASIC ELEMENTAL FORCES/SYMBOLS ABOUT YOU, WITHIN YOU, SURROUNDING YOU, ‘COMING TO/TOWARDS YOU!!!’ ARE BECOMING STRONGER! PSYCHICALLY AND CLAIRVOYANTLY!!        

DO NOTHING!? STAND STILL!? 
SEE ‘IT’ AS YOU WANT/DESIRE ‘IT’ TO ‘BE!?’ (Let There Be!) 

BEING IS NOW! 
BEING IS NOT TOMORROW!
BEING IS NOT BECOMING!
BEING IS NOT WANTING! 
BEING IS NOT WISHING!
BEING IS NOT HOPING! 
BEING DOES NOT MOVE!
BEING DOES NOT CHANGE!
BEING IS THE MIDDLE PILLAR!
BEING DOES NOT MOVE! 

CAN YOU ‘ABOUT TURN!?’ 
CAN YOU ‘ABOUT FACE!?’ 
CAN YOU ‘LOOK AWAY!?’ 
CAN YOU ‘TURN THE OTHER CHEEK!?’ 

AND ‘IGNORE!?’ THE OUTER, OUTER PHYSICALLY PHYSICAL WORLD AS IT IS ‘NOW!?’ [The, WAY, you do not like it, NOW!!] AND SEE/FEEL/SENSE IT, THE WAY THAT YOU ‘DO WANT IT!?’ TO BE!! NOW!!! 

WELL! IN WHATEVER ‘WAY’ YOU WANT/DESIRE IT TO ‘BE!!’ ‘IT’ MUST COME TO/TOWARDS YOU!!?? MUST COME TO/TOWARDS YOU!? IN/ON THE PLANE OF MALKUTH EARTH/HADES/NORTH QUARTER!! 

Many, many, ‘un-initiated’ ‘un-tutored’ ‘un-informed’ people persons, Look, at successful people/persons and ‘assume’ that because these persons are, SUCCESSFUL, that they are/have, WORKED HARD! FOR THEIR SUCCESS!?! WELL, I, ME, (sender) CAN POINT TO MANY, MANY PERSONS, WHO HAVE ‘SUCCESS’ JUST FALL INTO THEIR ‘LAPS!!’ 

Work hard, Play Hard, Try Hard, WILL NOT ‘DO IT!?’ IF YOU ‘MOVE!!?!’ BUT A FRACTION!! IN/ON THE PLANE OF MALKUTH EARTH/HADES/NORTH QUARTER!! WHY? BECAUSE THE ‘RULES/LAWS!?!’ OF THAT PLANE (Malkuth Earth) IS/ARE ‘DIFFERENT!!?!’ FROM THE RULES/LAWS!?! OF THIS, OUTER, OUTER PHYSICALLY PHYSICAL PLANE!?! (And also, the Etheric Plane!!?!?)

Side note: My ‘introduction?’ to the/this, Plane of the Elements/Reverse-ness, is/was by/through the ‘chair exercise’, although my information was from Ophiel’s vignette, An Exercise in Preliminary Projection. (See/Read this vignette in the e-book version by Stephen Walford in the file section of our group, Ophiel’s Vignette Lessons in Occult Power.) Sometimes during/because of my ‘practices’, I would feel/sense that I was ‘up-side-down’, even when I was awake and at work! Which ‘indicated’ to me that I was ‘progressing?’
Ophiel writes that there is/are many, many endless ways to ‘enter’ into/onto the/these/your Inner Planes, which is perfectly true, what isn’t so ‘obvious’ to most persons/practitioners is ‘their way!?’ ‘their technique!?’ ‘their way of doing!?’ Some! Are very fortunate, in that they do ‘achieve’ this ‘entry!?’ most others, are not so! 

These ‘others’ are always/seeming to ‘struggle’ to find/discover the ‘technique’ (Key) that is going to ‘Open’ their ‘Aladdin’s Cave = Skull!?’ and give to them the ‘Riches’ of their, Hearts Desire!! BUT AS LONG AS THEY ‘KEEP REACHING!?’ ‘KEEP GRABBING!?’ ‘KEEP PUSHING!?’ ‘KEEP MOVING!?’ (Tantalus/Sisyphus) IN ON THE PLANE OF REVERSE-NESS!!!??!! THEY WILL BE ‘PUNISHED!?’ UN-MERCIFULLY BY THE, OTHER!!!!??! GODS = (FORCES!!)

Go you now to pages 50/52 of the e-book version by Stephen Walford of Ophiel’s book, The Art & Practice of the Occult and ‘look!!!!’ at Ophiel’s Tree/Map drawings. 

IS NOT MALKUTH EARTH A ‘TOTALLY SEPARATE SPHERE PLANE?’ STANDING ‘BETWEEN!!!?’ PHYSICALLY PHYSICAL OUTER EARTH AND THE NEXT THREE CIRCLES ABOVE IT!? (Hod, Netzach & Yesod) DOES THAT/THIS NOT ‘MEAN!?!’ THAT THE ‘RULES/LAWS’ WHICH ‘GOVERN/OPERATE!?!’ THAT/THIS PLANE OF MALKUTH IS/ARE ‘DIFFERENT!?!’ FROM BOTH???! THE ONE ABOVE!? AND THE ONE BELOW!?! 

PLEASE ALSO NOTE! THE RULES/LAWS/GOVERNANCE!? (Archons/Archetypes) OF A/ANY PARTICULAR PLANE, WILL NOT ‘ALTER/CHANGE’ A ‘SYMBOL’ ONLY ‘PREVENT/DELAY’ IN ITS ‘MANIFESTATION/REALISATION!!?!’ THE ‘SYMBOL’ IS ‘CONSTANT!?’ IN/ON ANY PLANE, SO IT IS/WILL BE?? THE SAME!?! AS ABOVE, SO BELOW!!?! BUT THE RULES/LAWS/GOVERNANCE OF ITS MANIFESTATION???! IS/ARE NOT!!!!! THE SAME IN/ON ANY PLANE!!?  

Use this ‘broader’ explanation on all of the files 2010, in the file section of our group and see for yourself what you ‘think/feel’. Please also know, that it will/shall make, no difference whatsoever to me (sender) if you chose not to, as my ‘understanding’ is not ‘your’ understanding! And this is just the ‘way’ that it ‘is??’ in the world!?! 

Wishing you all well, as ever, 

sender