Meditation
1. Those who cannot project themselves within the astral body have lost the faculty, and they have to reconquer this faculty through daily meditation.
2. Meditation is a scientific system to receive internal information.
3. When the magician submerges himself in meditation, he abandons his physical body and he can converse with the sidereal gods.
4. Meditation covers four phases:
5. Asana (posture of the physical body). The body should remain in an absolutely comfortable position.
6. Dharana (concentration). We should separate the mind from all types of earthly thoughts. “Earthly thoughts should fall dead before the doors of the temple.” One has to concentrate the mind on what is within... On our Innermost.
7. Dhyana (meditation). The disciple should meditate in those moments on the Innermost. The Innermost is the Spirit. “Remember that thy bodies are the temple of the living God and that the Most High dwells in us.” The disciple should fall asleep profoundly trying to converse with his Innermost.
8. Samadhi (ecstasy). If the disciple has been able to fall asleep meditating on his Innermost, then he enters the state of Samadhi and he can see and hear ineffable things and converse with the angels in a familiar manner. It is in this way that he awakens consciousness from its millenary lethargy. It is in this manner that we can acquire true divine wisdom, without the need of harming the powers of the mind with the battle of reasoning, or with vain intellectualisms. Meditation is the daily bread of the sage.
9. With meditation, our astral body is transformed, our astral experiences are made clear during the hours of sleep, and in this way man reconquers his faculties and learns to project himself in the astral body at will.
10. Then he will be able to use, with success, the clues that we gave in the chapter entitled Gimel, or The Empress.
11. With meditation we can function without the four bodies of sin in the world of the mist of fire.
12. During the hours of sleep every human being functions in the astral body. Dreams are astral experiences.
13. Upon awakening, we should force ourselves to remember all of our astral experiences.
14. During sleep, every person is outside of his physical body.
