This is perhaps the most practical part of training. Magic, at least the sort of magic that I expect you wish to achieve, is not exactly natural. It is not unnatural either. It is our natural faculties accelerated to almost unnatural levels. That is when the preternatural begins to occur. It’s not supernatural, but it is beyond what is normal. The natural is also pretty magical when we allow it to be and we should respect, accept and love the natural and it is important to recognise that everyone has the opportunity to experience the natural. But when a single human being wishes to be excelled to heights of mystical ecstasy, achieve miraculous manipulation of the physical world and unite with divine entities who are so very, very different from us, well that is when an unnatural level of training is needed.
Fully training in magic should be considered with the same level of devotion and diligence as any martial art. This course is designed to encourage the speeding up of your natural faculties. This is done through both taking moments out of your life to grow and also finding ways to make it easy to sync with your normal life.
Okay so this is an important part of training and in the early stages, it should form about 2 thirds of your practice. Why should so much time be spent on it? Well, it is what makes magic real and makes the practitioner aware of it. Otherwise, they’re reading empty words in rituals they’re not experiencing on a etheric level, never mind an astral or divine level. Without awareness of the etheric level, there is little difference between a reading ritual/spell and reading a part of a play. Both are lovely and beautiful, but there is so much more potential which is often neglected by many people who claim to be magical workers. With regular training, the practice develops a powerful sense of the spiritual effect of the ritual words until you can see and experience the effect of the ritual and advance it through concentration.
After a while when the practitioner is confident in magical rituals and channelling, it can be reduced to about half of the learner’s time so they can spend more time gaining familiarity with spirits. Then later down to at most a third so they can continue to form familiarity with spirits and astral planes, but spend more time learning theory too.
The content of this course is taken from a variety of sources but some of it is from the Franz Bardon’s schooling of the physical-self which means there are some exercises that do not necessarily seem to fit with the rest of the exercises. However it is with the attitude that it would be egotistical and presumptuous to assume you know better than your teachers to completely neglect areas of training that they set you.
Some of the content is from Psion materials of the 90s and early 2000s. This uses the term psi to refer to energy, but they’re talking about the same etheric material.
Many of these articles repeat the same information over a few times. Is that an issue? By the time you have read a few of these you will remember it.
Firstly, click on the links below and try to work through them in order. The first couple are more about the why and what of magic muscles so they are less practical, but the process should get more practical as you go through.