Two Papers for the Candidate Grade
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The papers that follow are the last two assigned to the Candidate Grade in the Fellowship of the Hermetic Rose; theyshould be studied carefully by Candidates in preparation for the 1° initiation, which will be posted next week. The first of them discusses how to create astral forms, which are used in FHR ritual, including the 1° initiation. The second is a guide to dealing with unwanted influences from the inner side of reality, using the Sphere of Protection.
With regard to the 1° initiation, those who are interested in receiving it should review the Prospectus and also the paper on the Opening and Closing ceremony, which should be practiced several times before the initiation. In order to be ready for the initiation, you should have already begun daily practice of a protective ritual, discursive meditation, and divination, and you will need the full set of items mentioned in the Prospectus for the ritual. Some attention to the paper below on creating astral forms is also a good idea.
With that, here you are:
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How to Create an Astral Form
OVERVIEW OF CREATING ASTRAL FORMS
According to the Tree of Life model there are ten steps involved in creating anything. We’ll go through these ten steps paragraph by paragraph:
1. AWARENESS. First, become aware that you can create an astral form as this is an innate ability given to each of us as part of our being. Anybody can create an astral form. Everybody does it whether they know it or not. Whenever you become aware you can create anything you start to build the astral form of your creation. You can create anything you want to create.
2. INTENTION. Secondly, we must intend to do something or we can never accomplish anything. Set your intention now to create the astral forms for your Seeker initiation. Intention is everything.
3. BELIEF. Thirdly, you must come to believe you can create astral forms for your initiation. You are not alone in this Your guardian angel or guardian genius will help you. The egregor or group consciousness of the Fellowship of the Hermetic Rose will help you, and so will the egregors of the older orders and traditions from which the Fellowship descends. Believe you can and you can.
4. LOVE. Fourthly, to create anything you must energize that creation with your love for it. The Divine energized us with Divine Love when we were created. In commemoration of our own creation we energize the things we create with our love. Love what you create.
5. POWER. Fifthly, having energized our creation we now emotionalize it with our personal power. Our personal power is the complete range of all the emotions we feel. This includes emotions like love - hatred, peace - anger, joy - fear, happiness - sadness, acceptance - rejection, forgiveness - resentment, and all our other emotions. These emotions give us our personal power. Empower what you create.
6. HARMONY. Sixth, we balance all these energies and bring them into harmony with each other, we focus our awareness, intention, belief, love and power on the object to be created and we balance these energies. Bring harmony to that which you create.
7. DESIRE. Seventh, having balanced all the spiritual, intellectual and emotional energies, we now proceed to bring our creation into manifestation by adding our personal desire, passion and intensity for this creation. They more we want it, the more easily it manifests. Desire what you want to create with all your being.
8. MIND - Eighth, we add our present awareness of our creation, any and all past experiences we’ve had with creating things, and our future thoughts and ideas about what our creation will become. We bring our creation into our mind and add our own thoughts and ideas to our desire. We decide to complete this creation.
9. THE MATRIX - Ninth, by using our power of visualization we create the astral form of our intention. This creation is accomplished in the astral world and it is the matrix into which the influences of the higher planes descend. The astral form is created by an act of visualization.
10. MANIFESTATION - Tenth, the astral form is created in the astral world according to our awareness, intention and belief. It is filled with our love, power and harmony. And it is created upon the matrix of our desire and mind. We are the father-mother of our creation.
IMAGINATION
We create astral forms by visualizing them. If you are already quite good at visualizing astral forms, you may skip ahead to the next sub-section.
Most Candidates are not able to visualize astral forms because their visualization skills are not well enough developed. This is not a criticism. It is merely an observation of a weakness that can soon be corrected. It is corrected by the proper use of your imagination.
Imagination is one of the three primary functions of the human mind. It is the function most related to the future. According to the teachings of the Tree of Life, our mind operates in the past (memory), present (cognition) and future (imagination). The Tree of Life further teaches that you cannot become what you cannot imagine yourself becoming, you cannot do what you cannot imagine yourself doing. Conversely, you can become what you imagine you will become, and you can do what you imagine you can do.
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re absolutely correct. You can do what you think you can do. You can’t do what you think you can’t do. Imagination is the key that unlocks this universal law. Everybody with a brain can imagine something happening. Use that power to help you learn how to visualize the things you want to visualize.
Imagine that you can create an astral form for your guardian angel or guardian genius—you will do this in the rituals ahead. Imagine yourself creating that astral form and you will create that form. You may not yet be able to visualize it, but have no doubt that you did imagine it into being; imagination and visualization are not the same thing. To imagine is to think something into existence. To visualize is to see what you have created. You can create something on the astral plane before you have learned how to see it.
Imagine the guardian angel or guardian genius as a conventional winged angelic form, taller than a human being, radiant with light. Practice imagining yourself building and holding this astral form and you will build and hold it in the astral world. You need to be aware that creating such an object in the astral world will draw attention. Some of that attention will be unwanted. So, before you start imagining anything being created in the astral world, we suggest you place yourself in a Sphere of Protection.
Practice adding and subtracting details to your imagined astral form. You will, actually add and delete features from your astral form. This activity will attract more and more attention as your skills improve. Just keep yourself within a Sphere of Protection and you have nothing to fear from this increasing interest in your astral creation.
The more you practice the more skilled you will become. That’s another universal law governing all physical, mental, emotional, psychological and spiritual endeavors of all kinds. The more you practice the more skilled you become.
VISUALIZATION
Once you feel you have become accomplished at imagining yourself create and hold an astral form, the next step is to imagine you can see your creation. Keep in mind, what you imagine, you can accomplish.
This is a ten-step process just like the process explained at the beginning of this lesson. What you do is go back over those same steps but instead of setting your intention to create an astral form, set your intention to see the astral form you’ve created. You will.
Most people are quite disappointed by what they begin to see. Don’t fall into that trap. First of all, your astral sight isn’t very well developed yet so what you think you see isn’t at all what you’re actually looking at. Secondly, your creative skills are not very well developed yet so what you actually create isn’t exactly what you think you created.
The more you practice both skills the more skilled you become. Our best suggestion is to continue imagining yourself creating and holding the astral form while you practice seeing your creation. You can do both at the same time.
Each of us develops these skills on our own timetable according to our previous experiences in this and former lifetimes. We can speed that process up by practice and practice alone. Please be aware that regardless of the quality of your creation, it is and will be an adequate form for your purposes. Once you can see the astral form you are creating you are visualizing that astral form. That’s what visualization is - seeing what you imagine you see.
Visualization is nothing more than seeing what you imagine. You see with your third eye, your psychic senses or with your intuitive mind. You may see things in full color or you may see them in black and white or shades of gray. Practice and you will improve your ability to see things in full living color.
The myth regarding your ability to create forms in the astral world is the story of Pinocchio. It is the awareness, intention and belief of the creator that is most important in the creation. It is the love, power and harmony you place in your intention that empowers your creation and it is your desire, mind and the matrix you create that finally manifests your creation. The astral forms you create are your own personal Pinocchios.
The message is clear. If you want to visualize anything you need to practice. The more you practice the better your skills will become. In the meantime, the things you imagine yourself creating will be created and they will be able to serve the purpose for which you created them.
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Protection Against Psychic Attack
by Brother A. A.
As you progress along your spiritual path, you'll undoubtedly pique the interest of others, both incarnate and discarnate. Those incarnated in the flesh may be tempted to attack you psychically in order to elevate themselves. The net result of their attack is to hinder their spiritual growth. At the same time, you may experience some negativity in your life because of their negative energy. You can protect yourself against these attacks.
Those not incarnated in the flesh are usually, but not always, more benign. They usually just want to get your attention to deliver a message for them to somebody residing in the flesh. Occasionally, they want to talk with you, to warn you of some coming event, to persuade you to change your ways, or just to chat with somebody who'll listen. It's good to remember, when working with discarnate entities, that they're not all holy people. In fact, they're just exactly the same person they were when they died except they no longer have a physical vehicle.
The discarnate may communicate with you in any number of ways including:
1. Visual: by showing you themselves or other things
2. Auditory: by speaking to you or making other sounds
3. Tactile: by touching you or causing sensations on or within your skin
4. Olfactory: by causing odors to affect your sense of smell
5. Gustatory: by causing tastes to affect your tongue
6. Psychic: by attempting to cause you some sort of harm
The incarnate may also attempt to harm you psychically by using any one or more of those same techniques in their psychic attack. They may send you pictures, messages, sensory perceptions, odors or tastes. More likely they will attempt to harm you in a physical or emotional manner, to cause you physical injury, to induce a heart attack, to choke you, to induce fear and terror, or great sadness and depression.
By whatever method your assailant may attack you or benign entities may intrude into your mind, you have at your disposal a most helpful form of protection called the Sphere of Protection. When used to protect yourself against psychic attack, use the following adjustments or additions to the Sphere of Protection. The adjustments may be substituted for the intentions of the Sphere of Protection, but our intention here is to add them to the basic structure of the Sphere, to produce a Sphere of Psychic Protection. That way you have two layers of protection against attack. These are the suggested adjustments or additions:
Air
The Element of Air is associated with sound, any kind of sound including psychic or discarnate voices. When banishing Air also banish all unwanted voices and sounds.
Fire
The Element of Fire is associated with sight, any form of visual aid including their physical body when incarnate here on Earth. When banishing Fire also banish all unwanted visions of every kind.
Water
The Element of Water is associated with touching and emotions including all sensations to the skin. When banishing Water also banish all sense of touch. Unwanted emotions are included in the regular Sphere of Protection.
Earth
The Element of Earth is associated with both taste and smell including all unsolicited smells and tastes. When banishing Earth also banish all unsolicited tastes and smells.
Spirit
There may be times when you want these intrusions, or at least some of them. These times include an emergency and anytime you voluntarily want to speak with discarnate beings. When invoking Spirit you can indicate such times or establish a signal so discarnate beings know this is the time you will offer them an audience.
Several years ago when I did a lot of trance mediumship and channeling I used the symbol for Spirit Above anytime during the day when I was willing to open myself to discarnate beings. I still use that symbol and I always state my specific purpose when using it. I've had to stop opening myself to all the entities that want to talk. There's just not enough time in the day to listen to every one of them. But, I do allow urgent messages for people I know at the end of my sessions.
These simple techniques really do work. The secret is to learn the Sphere of Protection very well first. Then expand it to include psychic protection. The alternative is to do the Sphere of Protection and follow that with a Sphere of Psychic Protection. This second method is suggested to those people who have a problem receiving too much information from the other side. After a few days or weeks, when the individual has solved his or her psychic problem, the two rituals may be combined into one.
If, after using the Sphere of Protection for several days you still experience unwanted communications, we suggest you try meditation to raise your vibration level. Perform the Sphere of Protection, spend ten to fifteen minutes doing meditation, and then perform the Sphere of Psychic Protection. After several days or a few weeks this can all be compressed down into one expanded version of the Sphere of Protection.
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Date: 2022-04-03 02:42 am (UTC)What also comes to mind is the spiritual version of compost for the surrounding countryside. The activation of the soil with spirit, in the same way that compost and biochar amplify soil life and mycorrhizae. Also, for some reason I am thinking of the earth tubes you've mentioned from time to time, which interact with various energies.
I feel like I've asked you this repeatedly lately, my apologies. If I metaphorically wanted to click "would you like to know more", do you have any recommendations?
Murmuration
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Date: 2022-04-01 06:13 pm (UTC)SOP etc while ill
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Date: 2022-04-01 04:51 pm (UTC)Thanks.
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Date: 2022-04-01 06:33 pm (UTC)Astral forms
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Date: 2022-04-01 08:16 pm (UTC)LRM and Psychic protection
Date: 2022-04-02 12:50 pm (UTC)If one is practicing LRM what should be done for psychic protection?
Thanks!
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Date: 2022-04-03 03:39 pm (UTC)This has been the plot of so many horror movies! In The Sixth Sense, a little boy who is plagued by seeing ghosts ends up relaying a message to someone in grave danger and saves her from being murdered. In another one of my favorites, The Others, a dead soldier visits his wife and attempts to give her a revelation.
From my personal experience with talking to human ghosts, they do just want to "chat with somebody who will listen". Very rarely are they angry about leaving Meat World.
"It's good to remember, when working with discarnate entities, that they're not all holy people. In fact, they're just exactly the same person they were when they died except they no longer have a physical vehicle."
I would add here that they are not all people. Again, this is only my experience, but most discarnate entities are not ghosts of dead people at all. Some are spirits who were never human, some are the spirits of things such as the essence of my pen, my office, the mouse pad, etc. Some are angels, some are demons. Some are trees. Some are entire cities. The difficult part (for me anyway) is discerning who and what is coming across my radar at any given moment and what they want to say, if anything.
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Date: 2022-04-06 02:39 pm (UTC)Axé!
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