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Lesson 1 – Why MagickThe ability to think seems to set us apart from other creatures. And although we are concerned with living in the physical world, we are mental beings. The fact is we are thinking all the time. We plan, we brood, we get depressed or elated -- all of it is thought. But the ... |
| Published: Sunday 01 March, 2009 |
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Lesson 2 – The Subjectivity of Experience'The universe is a projection of ourselves; an image as unreal as that of our faces in a mirror....We cannot affirm any quality in an object as being independent of our sensorium, or as being in itself that which it seems to us. Nor can we assume th... |
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Lesson 3 – The Four WorldsThe ancients described man as mind, body, and soul. Psychologists of the twentieth century added the subconscious to that deffinition. This produces a four-fold classification. The universe is also divided into four corresponding parts ('worlds'), as shown bel... |
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Lesson 4 – Elements and ForcesThe Ancients divided the world into four basic principles or elements -- earth, water, fire, and air. That viewpoint has mostly changed with advances of science, but the four elements are still accepted in magick, for they are more closely linked with emotions, th... |
| Published: Sunday 01 March, 2009 |
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Lesson 5 – Chakras and MeditationAccording to East Indian philosophy, man possesses seven major chakras or psychic centers on his body. Each of these forms a bridge, link, or energy transformer; changing pure (higher) energy into various forms, and connecting the four bodies (ie. spiritual, me... |
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Lesson 6 – Thoughtforms and SpiritsAlthough there are hundreds of kinds of divination, the principle ones are astrology, geomancy, the tarot, the I Ching, and direct psychic means (especially clairvoyance). True divination is more than a mechanical system, for it implies true psychic interpret... |
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Lesson 7 – Basic Ritual 'The first part of every ceremony is the banishing; the second the invoking.' --Crowley, Magick, p. 104It may be said that ritual is the very heart of magick. For it is through ritual that we achieve our magical results. Ritual is a magical procedure or cer... |
| Published: Sunday 01 March, 2009 |
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Lesson 8 – Healing and BanishingPsychic or spiritual healing is a human potential we all possess. Some people are especially good at this. It is probably easier to heal someone else by occult means than yourself. In addition to healing in the presence of the person, there is 'absent healin... |
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Lesson 9 – Astral ProjectionAstral projection (OOBE, out of the body experience) is a popular area of occult literature; for traveling to see other worlds and places while the physical body sleeps or is entranced is an exciting notion. Astral projection is not dangerous. It is as safe as sleep... |
| Published: Sunday 01 March, 2009 |
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Lesson 10 – Cabala Western magick is based upon the Cabala, a Jewish mystical traditon first written down in 12th and 13th century southern France and Spain. It was oral before that; and it contains the "lost" knowledge of the ancients, possibly going back to Egypt and before. The mo... |
| Published: Sunday 01 March, 2009 |
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