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

VOLUME FIVE
to the perception as a material one. But you can arrive at a great deal by merely
receiving the impression of the landscape as a thought. For example, I perceive an expanse
of sea, a slight strip of land - high grey rocks or boulders rising out of the sea. To the left
is a long gallery of cliffs jutting out some distance into the ocean. This appears sufficiently
vivid, so I begin my tests. I suspect my memory chiefly, so I draw in front of the picture on
the card, with the Lotus Wand, a large TAU in bright light. Then, believing that I may
have constructed the scene in imagination, I formulate on the card a large CAPH. In this
case, neither of these symbols banish or dim the scene in any way, so I continue. (But if the
scene vanishes or changes or becomes blurred, it is well to banish with a Pentagram whatever
may remain on the card, and simply recommence the process at the point where you are
endeavouring to attract a picture on the card.)
I now draw over the picture with the Cup the Water Pentagram, and with the Pentacle
the Earth Pentagram using the correct vibration. This intensifies the picture, and I now
perceive in it many figures, principally of the Water Spirit type. On gazing further, and
repeating the vibration, I perceive a much larger figure than the elementals, overshadowing
them, clothed in blue and white, with some glimmering of silver. To obtain detail I must
work for some time longer, and continue invoking with water and earth Symbols. I have
found that it is best first to look at the image and then alternately test it.
Eloping that enough has been explained to enable the student to understand the
general method of skrying, I will proceed further to the rules for astral projection.
However it should be remembered that it is possible to carry this vision very far, and the
student should not stop where I have left off.
ASTRAL PROJECTION
First follow the rules given for Skrying, until the point where the Tattwa symbol
has become perfectly vivid and you feel as though you are one with the Element. You
can modify the earlier stages of the work by enlarging the symbol astrally so that it is
large enough for a human being to pass through. When very vivid, and not until then,
pass, spring, leap or fly through it, and do not begin to think or reason till you find
yourself in some place or landscape on the other side. As before, only test the experience
when it has become tangible and a complete picture, If you have made your mind a blank,
as much as possible, the first idea that enters your mind vividly, after you have traversed
the symbol should be a correct correspondence of the Tattwa in question.
Having already, by the process of skrying, obtained a vision of a compound Tattwa,
my first impression is to find myself standing on a boulder slightly out at sea, which I had
noted as an important point in the picture. I realize that I am standing clothed in my
Adeptus Minor insignia and white robe, on this rock, facing the shore. Turning to the
right I am conscious of the gallery of cliffs, and to left and back of me the sea,
everywhere.
When working on the planes it is well to act exactly as one would normally realizing
each step as one goes, not trying to look on both sides at once or at the back of one's
head.
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