The Path of Esoteric Practice and its Mind Training is one uniquely conceived and fundamentally structured upon utilizing intensely focused techniques for meditation training to develop latent aspects of consciousness and our subtle bodies. These methodologies have long been taught by initiated adepts of the Mystery Schools for millennia. Within occultism, these specialized techniques enable the individual to start a process of elevating one's states of consciousness beyond our every day, base state of sense perception on the material plane. Thus, the aspiring initiate attempts to augment and expand their quality of consciousness, attuning the mind for perceiving subtle energies, higher planes. supersensible vibrations, and latent aspects of their own spiritual principles. Likewise, it will also incrementally unfold the hidden, superconscious faculties of their higher self as well as achieve integration of subconscious mind.
The Path of practical occultism is specifically structured to accomplish individualized spiritual advancement and complete mastery over the lower egoic self, with its animalistic passions. Consequently, in occultism, a neophyte seeks to acquire harmonious inter-connectivity with latent aspects of the inner being, awakening them into conscious activity. Once this arduous task is attained and the neophyte has become a point of cosmic equilibrium skillfully utilizing his/her natural spiritual capacities with ease, they are capable of safely, effectively traversing the more advanced non-material planes to uncover unique knowledge only able to be acquired in those planar spheres.
Yet, practical occultism requires patience before the initiate can effectively roam the higher planes, a hazardous exercise even if well trained, he must study the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Planar Denizens relating to these Cosmic spheres, otherwise those entities, ones not benevolent, can shake the neophyte's energetic foundations, misdirect their astral path, or even ensnare their consciousness.
In occultism, The Human Species (Anthropos) is inherently endowed with a plethora of latent psychospiritual potencies or abilities that are relatively unknown to average humanity. In defiance of scientific materialism, these latent faculties unequivocally exist residing within every individual. Once one has thoroughly undergone mind train
In occultism, The Human Species (Anthropos) is inherently endowed with a plethora of latent psychospiritual potencies or abilities that are relatively unknown to average humanity. In defiance of scientific materialism, these latent faculties unequivocally exist residing within every individual. Once one has thoroughly undergone mind training, meditation training, and various stages of esoteric practice, an individual's willpower and concentration of subtle energy becomes proficient enough to gradually unlock numerous psychospiritual abilities for perceiving the astral planes and their phenomenon.
These faculties enable an individual to engage in psychic states of consciousness allowing for accessing unseen, higher worlds. In Occultism, this is potentially attainable whether one is a scientist, lawyer, financier, or common laborer. Unfortunately, many people will journey through life totally unaware of these possibilities or even occultism, and even the individuals that come across or are offered this esoteric knowledge will often ridicule, disregard, or deny its existence.
Nevertheless, for those disinclined toward the general exoteric religious dross and its superficial doctrines regarding man's spiritual principles, there always lies the path of occultism for the one searching for deeper truths.
The Occult Tradition teaches that every Individual contains the potentiality for vibrating in varied states of consciousness; however, the greater portion of these faculties are latent and connected to the Higher Self, which is undeveloped in the majority of modern humanity.
In Occultism, the Higher Self of an individual is the state of c
The Occult Tradition teaches that every Individual contains the potentiality for vibrating in varied states of consciousness; however, the greater portion of these faculties are latent and connected to the Higher Self, which is undeveloped in the majority of modern humanity.
In Occultism, the Higher Self of an individual is the state of consciousness resonating in a state closest to our primordial spark of divinity, or monadic essence. This monadic essence resides within the individual and powers his states of spiritual consciousness.
Thus, every individual has the capacity to sync with this higher state using mind training within a regular esoteric practice to apprehend subtle vibrational energies of both them and the superphysical planes of reality. Thus, by utilizing Occult techniques of meditation training, an individual can attain knowledge totally inaccessible to our normal, daily state of consciousness. Once achieved, the individual becomes harmonically aligned in a truly wholistic manner to their inherent spiritual nature.
In esoteric practice, the essential technique for initiating spiritual growth and contacting the higher self through elevating consciousness is by persistent meditation training. Meditation as well as mind training is a highly potent methodology for reaching a myriad of spiritual advancements by utilizing Occult forms that are dynamically
In esoteric practice, the essential technique for initiating spiritual growth and contacting the higher self through elevating consciousness is by persistent meditation training. Meditation as well as mind training is a highly potent methodology for reaching a myriad of spiritual advancements by utilizing Occult forms that are dynamically multifaceted for daily mental practice.
In Esoteric Practice, one's meditative regimen must be entirely consistent, performed daily, and utilize structures that are incremental and focused. It is important in practical occultism to have specific outlines for achieving a desired goal for any real progress to be made as haphazard meditation yields little growth.
If your goal is increased concentration meditate consistently in the way necessary for acquiring that new concentration, if it is to attain a greater ability of holding imagery in the mind remain focused on this goal until capable of cementing mental imagery into focus for extended lengths of time; do not attempt both growth patterns simultaneously as it makes it more difficult.
The foundational pillar of Occultism resides within its philosophy, and thus its esoteric practice, mind training methods, and specialized meditation training remains useless without a full comprehension of its highly abstract, complex Cosmology. Unless one fully understands the vast interpenetrative differentiation process, archetypal structures, & system of involution (Spirit falling into Matter) the Esoteric practice of occultism remains systematically chaotic to use and more importantly becomes a dangerous temptation to penetrate into higher Planes without the necessary knowledge for safely doing so. Therefore, individuals must fully know and comprehend Occultism's uniquely Esoteric conception regarding Cosmogenesis, Involution & Evolution, bifurcation & differentiation of Cosmic Matter, and the entire grand schematic of layered emanations. This sophisticated process of vibrationally interpenetrative archetypal forces is fundamental to generating a harmonious stream of increasingly denser vibrations enabling all subsequent manifestations to exist within a system involving layered planes of reality. Furthermore, this Esoteric ontological system of Involuting emanations (one of eventual Evolution once materialization reaches its apex) is illustrated in staggering detail depicting a monumental system covering material & spiritual densification.
The beginning of the progressive differentiation and Involution process starts with the rarified, homogeneous, and unconditioned divine primordial essence reawakening into activity (after a cosmic rest period) which subsequently initiates the gradual Involution of its own essence (over eons) into the limitless variations of exceedingly differentiated, heterogeneous phenomenal Matter that "structures" the planes of reality, material & nonmaterial. Essentially, the primordial pre-cosmic substance (pure unconditioned spirit) is drawn down into increasing levels of materialization over successive, inconceivably long periods of time until peak materialization is achieved.
Consequently, without a thorough grounding in the structural basics of Occult Cosmogony, the aspects of its systematic process, its myriad of non material planes, and our original inception point within the scheme, it is difficult to conceptualize the non-physical variables involved and realms experienced in the actual occult practice and becomes dangerously unsafe. In all the Occult and Arcane Mystery Traditions it was enumerated that the Manifested Phenomenal Universe (physical and apparent) is derived from the Invisible Universe (non-physical and unapparent) which is its underlying schematic, and furthermore both a predicated upon the emanations of the incognizable Absolute Essence, which is unmanifested, eternal, boundless, and immutable.
From this Unmanifested Absolute is crystallized the Logos with this Logos being the reflection of the Absolute. The Logos is One and three simultaneously being comprised of both the Primordial Cosmic Ideation (Universal Mind) and Cosmic Substance (Primeval Matter) which all together form and stimulate the construction of the Visible and invisible Manifested Cosmos.
However, they are in essence One and those are the Dual Aspects of the Logos, negative and positive, Male and Female, force and form. Like all manifested forms in the Universe, we Humans are illusionary and temporal ultimately vanishing along with the Logos back into the Absolute at the end of every Cosmic Cycle. We are the fractal essence or monadic evolutionary vehicle for the Logos to experience and progress during every cycle as well as being intrinsically connected to all states of existence higher and lower than we are.
We are the life-form in this enormous cosmic process whereby the dual aspects of manifestation, mind and matter, spirit and substance, are integrated into a conscious vehicle and thus able to initiate the cycle back towards the Logos. Moreover, we inherently exhibit the septenary (seven-fold) natures of the original cosmic blueprint allowing us to activate particular latent potentialities within our layered framework from the spiritual, emotional, rational, psychic, and etheric bodies we are composed of to engage in consciousness unfoldment and spiritual self-mastery.
We are the Microcosm of the Macrocosm, as above so below. However, to walk this path of the Initiate one must begin with the fundamentals of its philosophy, the knowledge of oneself, and the discipline and perseverance required to understand the basics behind the occult practice including its cosmological and natural delineations and conclusions. Without which the aspiring magician will be treading a path blindly and without the structural framework needed for true apperception and unfoldment to occur safely and incrementally. There is no substitute for proper understanding or persistent effort in acquiring the requisite fundamental knowledge before attempting the path of the initiate, in essence there are no shortcuts. One must proceed with this in mind.
The tradition of occultism states that the individual is an aggregation of various cosmic principles structured in a seven-fold composition with each principle exhibiting different functions for cosmic interactions. While most of humanity, if religiously minded, is likely to attribute to man the trinary constitution (having a soul, mind, and body) with the scientific materialist positing just a mind and body, the Occult Tradition delineates a septenary (seven-fold) composition for the human being. The Mystery traditions enumerate the different aspects as follows: a spirit monad, a spiritual soul, a mental body, an animal soul or emotional body, an astral-etheric body, a life principle, and a gross material body. Consequently, this differs enormously from the religious and materialistic conceptualization of man's constitution.
In the Occult and esoteric Tradition's, these septenary principles of man form the basic foundation for understanding the esoteric practice, mind training, meditation training, unlocking the higher self, and the higher states of consciousness attainable through utilization of all these methodologies. There are various disciplines which are connected to the seven subtle bodies in the individual. Each one involves concentrating upon a related aspect to elevate, unfold, or enhance in that particular energy body. Thus, there are ones which focus on engaging the prana or chi of our life principle allowing greater control over aspects of the material body, magnifying its vitality, and enabling it to perform seemingly impossible feats, as exhibited by certain sects of yogis and eastern monks. In practical occultism, other disciplines focus on engaging the astro-etheric bodies in such a way as to perform consciousness-projection out of the material body into the astral planes through separation of them from the purely physical form.
Still others in practical occultism focus on augmenting the powers of concentration and of will power in conjunction with control of the Life principle. However, the highest discipline involves the attaining access to the spiritual soul (buddhi) and communication with the ensouling monadic spark (atma) to which the term enlightenment or Christ consciousness is a reference. The initiate that advances far enough in self-mastery and acquires access to the Atma-Buddhi is one which can be rightly titled an Adept and acquires true spiritual intuition from these highest of the sepentary principles.
The path of occultism and its initiation into states of elevated consciousness requires one to engage in a daily and utterly persistent esoteric practice of mind training in conjunction with rigorous meditation training, a process exhibited by the Adepts of all mystery traditions for centuries. Even though certain aspects might differ slightly within practical occultism taught by particular schools or orders the fundamentals and basics generally remain the same among them and enough so that every aspiring student is likely to find a methodology which will best suit his mental disposition. Whether the individual prescribes to hermeticism, occultism, yogism, or kabbalism path the initial process follows a structure whereby the individual will begin to engage in meditation with the endeavor centered around enhancing focus, concentration, will, and use of the pictorial imagination.
However, as one continues down this path of practical occultism, the four aforementioned mystery traditions will differ in which techniques focused upon, though the end goal will essentially remain the same, nonetheless. This essential objective is elevation of consciousness, contact with the higher self, and self-mastery of an individual's subtle bodies. Thus, while the occultic and kabbalistic path will involve imaginative concentration and ritualistic enactment of sephirothic spheres, the yogic path will involve grandiose visualization coupled with mantras, and the hermetic will involve intensification of concentration and the will. Nonetheless, as I am personally more familiar with the techniques associated with White Occultism and the Kabbalah, these are the two that i will extrapolate upon and focus on as a path of initiation for individual unfoldment. They are essentially techniques of deep psychology.
In the delineations of the path by such authorities as Dion Fortune, Gareth Knight, Israel Regardie, and other white occultist, the way lies first in the persistent practice of meditation. According to these learned scholars and adepts, the meditative practice one engages in will determine the efficacious nature of the results that will be obtained. The initial procedure of meditation is to find a consistent time of day conducive for the individual to engage in their meditation and to persistently hold to this framework whereby the individual will take the time to meditate daily at this chosen time without deviating from it. This daily meditative practice must by necessity become a continual routine as it is not effective to instead engage in sporadic meditation even if it involves lengthy periods of meditation in place, this not being a replacement for habitual practice if even for only 10-15 minutes a day.
Subsequently, it is far more efficacious to meditate daily for only 15 minutes without fail than it is to meditate three times a week for 45 minutes due to the nature of consistency in this practice. The initial goal of the individual's practice is to develop a persistent routine which they can stick to and regularly perform. Now when engaging in meditation in these preliminary stages it will be evident how difficult it is to calm the mind and to focus on any one thing, however the ability to do so will increase over time as long as consistency is maintained. In the beginning the individual should focus on simply seeking to filter out extraneous thoughts which will invariably bubble up to the surface and try to hold their mental state in a concentrated awareness.
One may attempt to do this by focusing on a singular idea or phrase which is held firm in the imagination or repeatedly brought back into focus as it slips away. By doing this one will engage their faculties of concentration and their will which must be developed if one is to attain advancement. Over time the engagement of this practice will enhance one's ability to negate extraneous thoughts, focus their mind on a singular concept, and ultimately enhance their mental capacity of concentration over several weeks or months of such a routine.
II. Once the aspiring initiate has succeeded in accomplishing their initial meditative practices of quieting the mind, enhancing concentration, improving the will, and adhering to a consistent system daily, the secondary phase of their occult mental training will begin. The second phase involves specificity, imagination, and systematization along particular lines of meditative training which revolve around the utilization of Kabbalistic symbolism and the associative ideas or concepts related to the symbolism.
This will involve using the now greater levels of concentration and will to exercise control over pictorial imagery related to Kabbalah and to focus specifically upon these images systematically in meditation so that a subconscious line of correlations and associations can be established within the depths of the subconscious mind forging interrelated links between thought-forms and symbols.
Now this phase of occult meditation occurs over a lengthy period of time ranging from 6 months to years since such intensive mental links and associations being forged varies according to the abilities of the aspiring initiate and their devotion to the task. It is also pertinent at this stage to begin studying the Hebraic Alphabet, the various divine names of Deity along with associated Archangels and Angels, the Sephirothic Tree of Life, and even begin performing the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram. All of these will be in addition to your meditative practice and will be utilized in it as an essential aspect, excepting the Lesser Banishing Ritual which is used to clear your aura of negative energies and engage your imagination.
Now to begin, one methodology for this secondary meditative phase is to engage in a sequential schema whereby for the next 40 days the initiate will meditate upon the various Sephirothic Spheres and associated symbols and concepts. This practice would begin by meditating on Kether the first day and then successively progressing down the Tree until reaching the Sphere of Malkuth on day 10, and then starting again at Kether on day 11. This practice would go through the ten Sephiroth four times thus occurring over the 40 days postulated.
Every one of these 40 days will be meditatively concentrated upon the appropriate Sephirothic Sphere with the initiate utilizing the pictorial imagination to envision the Sphere and all associated concepts and symbols with it. During such meditation it is useful to refer to Dion Fortune's Sephirothic Imagery for each Sphere and hold the image as detailed as possible in complete focus followed by holding the associated symbols in focus successively during meditation that day.
This process is designed to further build up concentration and will along with constructing subconscious links between the associated symbols and the pertinent Sephiroth. Overtime these correlative links will be systematically built into your subconscious framework so that when the time comes to begin pathworking on the Tree, the links already forged will aid in differentiating between the various astral or psychic influences which arise during meditation and relate to the Sephiroth symbolically by the mental imagery which appear in your mind.
This will allow one to cause symbols to mentally manifest when focusing on specific Sephiroth or to decipher which Sphere is influencing your meditation by the symbolic imagery which flutters by being linked to a particular one already built up subconsciously. Eventually, an initiate should be proficient enough to decipher the Sephirothic influences one receives by way of its associated symbols and imagery thought forms. However, once one begins to meditate upon the 22 paths this concept begins to exhibit all these risks and also its potentials if one's training has been adequate.
The propensity for intuitive understanding or knowing of informative intel about an event, object, coincidence, or occurrence is the primary use of this capacity.
This psychic capacity enables an aptly attuned individual to be capable of hearing words and sounds at an inordinately great distance, through walls or physical impediment.
The Telepathic faculty is innately designed to transmit thought-forms to an individual with a psychic resonance frequency/vibration tuned to such energetic reciprocity.
This special psychic potential correlates to the ability of an individual to percieve specified information about an event or occurence in reference to a future event or happening.
The esoteric practice involved for Remote viewing utilizes techniques of Hyper-Conscious visualization for psychically scrying into remote or distant places on the material planes. For example, the use has allegedly been applied by Military Intelligence Agencies for spying on secret, hidden bases of Political or Foreign adversaries.
The meditation training for accessing the mental act of Astral Projection into the Astral planes has been employed by Ancient Mystics for generations after years of extremely intensive esoteric practice and continual mind training. The essence of the ability is to consciously cast out the spiritual body from its entrapment in physicality to freely roam in energetic flight throughout the Terrestrial sphere or the Celestial one in search of informative higher experiences.
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