Israel Regardie - The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic.pdf

VOLUME FIVE
ray of his identity, and by cultured and trained will, sends it to travel to the place
desired, focusses it there, sees there, directly and not by reflection, perceives its bodily home,
and re-enters it.
"In this traveling of the spirit, the process may be caused to start also by the symbol as
before, or by will alone. But in any event the divine names should be used and relied upon. If
the ray be emitted, and you succeed in this traveling to the place, you perceive a different result
to that of the clairvoyant, mirror-like vision, scenes and things instead of being like a picture,
have the third dimension, solidity. They stand out first like a bas relief, then you see as from a
balloon, as it is said, by a bird's eye view. You feel free to go to the place, to descend upon it, to
step out upon the scene and to be an actor there.
"Having attained success in projection you should practice the method when
opportunity offers, and having passed to any place, should make efforts -- and if you will --
success will follow -- to pass through all elements, water and earth as well as through air.
Practice will enable you to fly through air either quickly or slowly as willed, and to swim
through water, or pass through earth and through fire fearlessly with the aid of the divine names,
in this astral projection."
Once again, Mathers is stressing the initiated viewpoint, the vibration of the divine
names in order to achieve one's ends and to get to where one wishes to go without undue
opposition or difficulty. He stresses this as often as possible to ensure that the idea is driven
home, and that the method be used on all possible occasions. The above section also stresses
the use of the magical implements in all such undertakings -- implements which have been
made and charged and consecrated by the student himself for use in just such circumstances. It
is only when these basic rules are not scrupulously and faithfully followed that some mishap or
disaster may occur. Crowley's method, which is really that of the Order, follows this procedure
--Steinbrecher's does not.
"Seek then the forms and persons of the place or of the plane you read, seek converse
with them, by voice, word, letter and symbol, and claim admission, etc. by signs and by
invocation. Every figure is to be tried and tested, whether he be as he appears or whether a
delusory and deluding embodied power. It may be too that your travel is not real, and that you
are wandering in your own environment, and are misled by memory, etc. hence you might be
deceiving yourself by your own reminiscences.
"Try all beings, and if offered favours or initiation by any, try and test them by the
divine names and forces. And ever remember your own adept obligation and your allegiance to
it, to your own higher self, and to the great angel Hua, before whom you stood fastened to the
cross of suffering, and to whom you pledged your obedience.
"This old proverb enshrines a great truth, as many of them do. `Believe thyself there
and thou art there.'
"Rising in the planes is a spiritual process after spiritual conceptions and higher aims;
by concentration and contemplation of the divine, you formulate a Tree of Life passing from you
to the spiritual realms above and beyond you. Picture to yourself that you stand in Malkuth-then
by the use of the divine names and aspirations you strive upward by the path of Tau toward
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