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THE TREE OF LIFE
intended to signify." The magical assumption of this form, particularly
the surrounding of the astral body with the egg of blueblack
or indigo, is sufficiently powerful to banish any unwanted
influence, inasmuch as it elevates the Magician above that realm.
This particular technique of the Harpocrates God-form has a
special significance even so far as daily life is concerned. When
assailed by undesirable thoughts and hateful emotions, relief from
their pressure, even spiritual assistance and strength, may be
gained from assuming the form of this God. By this assumption
one's being is transmuted to the shape of the God, and the mind
is elevated beyond worldly pettiness by assimilation into the
character and nature of divinity. It implies, certainly, a strength
of imagination and will, but pictorial images are more easy for most
people to retain in the mind than an abstract idea, and any
individual with a little practice may be trained to visualize so
simple and beautiful a form as the babe on the lotus. The sole
difficulty may be encountered in the transfiguration of the Body
of Light and the subsequent identification and union with the God.
In this, naturally, training is indispensable.
The vibration of divine names is a practice which under no
circumstances should be omitted since, as this exercise is proceeded
with, the coarse elements are forcibly expelled from the whole
constitution, physical, astral and moral, and other finer and more
sensitive elements are introduced to take their place. Frequent
celebrations of the Eucharist are also an excellent means of transmuting
and exalting the substance of the entire being. On an
earlier page this operation was briefly described, and by way of
emphasis I shall recapitulate the theory which there obtains.
Divorced of all dogma, the essence of the Eucharist is this. You
take a simple substance such as, for example, a wheaten host ;
baptize it your highest conception of God or, as the case may be,
in the name of a particular spiritual Essence, and consume it. In
this way, by means of sympathetic magic, an actual transubstantiation
of elements takes place under stress of the Will. That
which was formerly terrestrial becomes celestial. That which was
of the earth earthy is transformed into a thing of the heavens.
A wheaten wafer and the wine appear to become almost directly
assimilated into the blood, and absorbed by the ego itself. In
reality, this is a species of talismanic magic, for with the naming
of the substance the Magician invokes the spiritual force conforming