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Ceremonial Magic #6
Copyright © 1988 by Phil Hansford. This article is licenced for
free non-commercial distribution only.
** MAGICK 6 -- THOUGHT FORMS AND SPIRITS **
Although 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 interpretation (receiving). Some form of divination is
often used in magick ritual to communicate with the entity
invoked.
Since divination operates through the mind, it is affected and
biased by the mind. Our attitudes and fears may alter it.
Sometimes results are very detailed, and accurate -- but not
always. Often the future is plastic and changeable anyway, and
the use of magick may alter the result. Thus divination shows
tendencies only, which may be helpful, but must not rule us.
DEVELOPING CLAIRVOYANCE
It is possible to improve your natural ability with clairvoyance
through practice. A good start might be to look around you, then
close your eyes and try to picture your surroundings. This is
also good exercise for visualization. And visualization is an
essential talent in magick. Open your eyes again and check your
accuracy. Then close your eyes and try it again. When you use
your physical eyes, look at everything like a child seeing it for
the first time. Let the vividness of color and form burn into
you, until everything takes on a veritable glow. Try to capture
that glow when you close your eyes now and picture your
surroundings. It's just a simple step to extend what you see
with your eyes closed into what you remember seeing in the next
room, or what you "imagine" seeing in the next building, the next
city, even the other side of the world. Don't expect perfect
results, especially at first. Just try to be even partly right.
Another exercise is to picture a clock face, and thereby tell the
time clairvoyantly.
THE AURA
Under the right conditions, it is possible to clairvoyantly
observe a colored light around other people. This is known as
the "aura". Sometimes the aura is seen as multi-colored
emanations around the person, built up of various differently
colored layers and zones. Although many occult dabblers claim to
be able to see the aura easily and under many varied conditions,
I seriously doubt that they do. There are optical illusions and
qualities of sight which can sometimes trick one into thinking he
sees what he does not see. In this area, the quality of sight
known as after image is especially pertinent. Do this: stare at
any solidly colored bright object for a few moments. Very
intense red, green, or blue are especially good for this. Now
look away at a white surface and you will see a phantom image of
the object in its complementary color (a red object will show
green, a blue one orange, etc.). If the bright object is in front
of a light surface, you may observe a fringe of
complementary color around the object after a few moments. This
is all very normal, and is used by some magical groups as an aid
to visualization sometimes called "flashing colors". Some silly
people will stare at other people in the same way. And when they
see the after image of the person's clothing, they think they are
seeing his aura. What is more, various meanings have been
attributed to the colors of the aura. A psychic who can see the
aura is supposed to be able to determine that persons emotional
state. Thus psychic frauds can have a marvelous time with auras.
One deluded psychic taught a class I attended in which he
performed instant psychoanalysis on the basis of the supposed
aura. It was obvious that he was actually observing after images
from the students clothes!
This brings us to the chart of aura colors on the next page. It
is a general guide, based mostly on Theosophical material.
Various groups may attribute different meanings to the colors.
The colors we show on the chart are emotional in nature; useful
if you plan to create an artificial elemental or do healing.
Surrounding yourself with a particular color will tend to produce
the specific psychological effect described in the chart. That
quality of color is useful in magick ritual.
COLORS OF THE AURA
BLACK malice
dark gray depression
pale gray fear
BROWN materialism
muddy gray selfishness
or
dull rust
RED energy
bright red anger and force
dirty red passion and sensuality
dull red selfish love
rose unselfish love
ORANGE pride
orange cloud irritability
bright orange noble indignation
YELLOW intellect
yellow-green low intellect
earthy yellow selfish thought
lemon high intellect
bright gold logical thinking
brt. red-yel. spiritual thought
GREEN empathy
gray-green deceit, jealously
greenish-brown jealousy
emerald green unselfish resourcefulness
foliage green sympathy & empathy
brt. apple-grn strong vitality
brt. turquoise deep sympathy &
compassion
BLUE devotion (religious feeling)
gray-blue fetishism
light blue noble spiritual devotion
dark blue religious feeling
brt. lilac-blu lofty religious idealism
VIOLET spiritual psychic & spiritual
faculty
WHITE purity/protection
THOUGHT FORMS AND SPIRITS
Whenever we concentrate our thoughts, we draw psychic energy
together. This is called a thoughtform. Usually the energy
dissipates as soon as we break the concentration, but it is
possible to purposely concentrate energy in this way, producing
very strong thought forms. Such thought forms are vortexes or
centers of psychic energy. They can exist as entities by
themselves, at least for a while. They are basically inanimate,
non-thinking forces. Talking to one is about as logical as
talking to a chair. In this way, thought forms are similar to
elementals, ghosts, and spirits. All of these psychic entities
consist of a psychic energy vortex which could be described as a
localized field or as a discontinuity of the physical world.
Psychic entities respond to certain electrostatic and magnetic
fields, and to other energy vortexes. That is why they respond
to magick ritual. Someday, we may accomplish the same thing with
electronic machines. Psychic entities are sometimes able to
affect our thought processes.
Thought forms, elementals, and ghosts are usually not very smart.
If they display any intelligence at all, it is limited. They are
the morons of the spirit world. Their behavior is usually
automatic, repetitive, robot-like (just like some people). We
see that artificial elementals are little more than astral
robots. Spirits and deities are more intelligent and volitional.
DIRECTED ATTENTION
Your mind follows your attention. Wherever you direct your
attention, there will your thoughts go too. By directing
attention to a specific place or purpose you focus mental energy
upon it.
For example: you're having lunch in a cafeteria crowded with
people. It is a large place, and everyone there is talking at
once, so that the room is a constant jumble of noise. You happen
to notice a man across the room; he reminds you of someone. All
at once he drops his fork and you hear it hit the table. But
would you have noticed the sound of his fork if you had not been
looking? No. Only by focusing your attention there were you able
to pick out that individual event and associated sound.
It is a dark night. You are walking and the only light you have
is from the flashlight you hold in your hand. As you move the
flashlight around, the beam of light from it directs your
attention first one way then another. Now, the mind is something
like that flashlight in the dark. And by directed attention, you
point the mind to one place or another. As with that flashlight
beam, you see where the mind is pointed; nothing more. The rest
is "noise". And so we could define mental noise as anything not
focused upon. In another way, noise could be considered as
negative emotions, attitudes, and thoughts which make it more
difficult to direct the attention.
Your emotions follow your thoughts quite easily. Your emotions
are not YOU, but are rather reactions prompted by your model and
ego -- like a performance or an act, while the real you watches.
In a similar way, directing your attention toward a specific
emotion will cause you to experience that emotion.
VISUALIZATION EXERCISES
Visual imagination and concentration are very important in
magick. Here are some exercises to help in your development...
A. Close your eyes and visualize a single digit number as
clearly as you can. Then a two digit number, then a 3 digit one.
Hold the visualization in front of your "inner eye" for about two
minutes. Repeat with a letter or a word.
B. Visualize a brightly colored green circler spot. Again hold
the visualization for two minutes. Try again with a
different color.
C. Visualize in succession, each one of the tattvic symbols, in
their proper color. Hold each symbol for at least two
minutes.
D. Look through a tarot card deck and pick out several of
your favorite cards. Then, after briefly studying a card,
visualize it vividly in detail. Hold the visualization for at
least two minutes. Do this for each card you selected.
E. Repeat the above visualization exercises with your eyes open.
REVIEW QUESTIONS
1) What is the aura?
2) What is a thoughtform?
3) How can you develope clairvoyance?
BOOK LIST
Annie Bessant and Charles Leadbeater, Thought Forms.
W.E. Butler, How to Develop Clairvoyance.
J.H. Brennan, Astral Doorways.
Piero Ferrucci, What We May Be.
Kilner, The Human Aura.
Swami Panchadasi, The Human Aura.
A.E. Powell, The Etheric Double.
Harold Sherman, How to Make ESP Work for You.
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Phil Hansford, 4/88
Mysteria
(818) 353-8891 (modem)
P.O. Box 83
Tujunga, CA 91042
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