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Lessons of the First Flame

Lesson I

Sit in a chair facing south. Dim the lights, light some black or white candles in a dark room, or perform this meditation completely in the dark.

Close your eyes and let your mind soften into a light relaxation. Take a deep breath in, approximately ten seconds long, and hold it in your chest. Imagine all of your tension, apprehension and anxiety flooding into your chest, gathering in your lungs. Release the breath slowly, pushing the emotional tar out of your chest with the air. Like a swarm of tiny flies, see in your mind the energy buzzing above you and quickly dissipating in the sky. Continue this cycle of inhaling, gathering negating emotions, and releasing them in an exhalation.

Having repeated this process two or three times, your mind should quiet itself dramatically. Opening your eyes, your environment will seem fresher and crisper then before. An entirely new vantage will not be manifest at this point, but a slight alteration of the consciousness most surely will.

Hold your hands together, fingertips of opposite hands touching. Allow your palms to relax while your fingers still remain in contact with one another until a few inches of empty space rests between your palms. With your fingertips still touching, let your hands hover above your lap, parallel with your navel. This should be a comfortable position, the lack of force resembling the act of levitation.

In the state of spiritual quietude, open your awareness to your immediate environment. Try to see in your mind your surroundings, recreating them in a mental picture. Make a conscious effort to keep your mind relaxed, allowing the sharpness of the image to form on its own. As your imagination hones into your surroundings, do not detach yourself from it. Do not see it as being some other place far away, or something in your imagination. Know that it is around you, in the place where you sit. It surrounds you, and you are a part of it. While you are imagining, recognize the reality of that which you see.

The sharpness of your visualized surroundings having reached their peak, ease your mind deeper into the image, as if there is more there that is not yet seen. Let your mind drop into a more subtle state of awareness. Continue to see in your mind your surroundings, yet at the same time try to look through them. Relax yourself, allowing your eyes to rest comfortably and your mind to cease straining. In this relaxed state, unite that which you feel and that which you see in your mind. You can naturally feel the energy and the darkness around you at all times, but cannot see it or even imagine it. Here, you must do both.

Some may have problems with this, while others will instatly feel as if they are literally falling through rings of reality, dropping into an unknown realm. Either way, do not allow this to distract your attention from the visualized image of your environment. Do not escape into the ecstasy or the frustration of the experience, but know that your reality is here, now, in that chair in the Temple that you see in your mind and that exists around you.

As you begin to sink into the greater reality of your surroundings, the image in your mind will begin to change from its appearance when you first entered. The physical structure will remain the same, but something evil will begin to form. A black mist will seem to materialize in the room, seen through your inner vision, growing thicker and blacker every second. Understand that this in not coming into being, but was always there yet was never before seen. Try to visualize this black mist forming, or a tthe very least become profoundly aware its presence.

With your eyelids remaining lightly shut, inhale slowly as before. Sense the cloud of energy aroud you contracting, constricting until it seems like a coagulated mass of midnight is resting just off of your skin. Hold the air in your chest, intuiting the surrounding darkness following cue, lingering close. Allow the sensation to smother you.

Let the breath out. As it leaves your chest, sense the cumulative energy move away from your body. Feel the emotional relief, or perhaps the grief that floods your heart at the departure of the incarnate desolation. Once the air has left your lips, you should be able to sense the shadows back in their original places.

Watch the mist through your mental vision drift in its place, swaying with the barely noticeable currents of air and dancing with every minute movement made. Watch the darkness dance until it no longer seems to be reacting to stimuli, but appears to be the sole stimulus of action. It does not move because you breathe; rather, you breathe so it may move. Become aware, in your observation of the darkness, of its profound intelligence, its terrifying prescience of you, its vehicle.

Inhale once more, feeling the dark fog gathering close around you, squeezing next to your body. Feel it caressing you, crawling up your skin, invading even the air that you breathe. Sense the shadows piercing the social armor you have built around yourself, stripping you and slithering on the surface of your emotional nakedness.

Try to hear the voices emanating from the darkness, so close to your body. Although you most likely will not make out words, know that it is speaking at you, hissing, mocking, tempting towards insanity.

Those who are new to the occult will try to stave off the spiritual violation that they have warranted through this contemplative ritual. They will attempt to flee back into the daylight and to the comfort of normalcy. When this desire comes, do not allow it to take hold. Remember at all times when in the midst of the Powers of Eternity that they are always there and they always were, whether or not you have been aware. Remember that they cannot be exorcised, that the act of banishing does not rid you of them but instead rids them of you, removing your conscious mind from their presence.

This meditation will allow you to start to understand the omnipresence and limitless intelligence of the dark currents that assail every molecule in existence without prejudice. It lets you see that the Powers of Magick are real and are very relevant. Perhaps most importantly is that this rite allows Eternity to see you, to know that you are aware of it, and that you are attempting to ally yourself with it. It is here that the inherent strenght or weakness of the Sorcerer is seen, by both himself and by those Powers which he wishes to possess.

Repeat this Lesson no more than three times a day, at least 3 hours apart, until the experience does not feel like it is forced or visualized, but is very naturally occurring and is sensed as a real occurrence rather than one simply in your mind. As it becomes real to you, its utter true reality will be understood. Report notes on the experience, noting sensations, emotions, or thoughts regarding the exercise.

Lesson IIThe second lesson is focused on improving visualization skills, which will be used extensively in astral workings and evocation.

Meditate as was mastered in Lesson One. Clear your mind of everything, including the Darkness that surrounds you. When your mind is again blank, close your eyes and see in your imagination a pendulum swinging back and forth. It is not attached to anything, but is floating against a blank background. Watch the pendulum for 10 minutes. You may find that it disappears, stops swinging, or some other such mental phenomenon of distraction. Do not allow this to dissuade your meditation, bringing the image back into clarity and continue swinging. Repeat this exercise no more than three times daily, until the pendulum swings for 10 minutes uninterrupted, and report notes.

Lesson IIIObtain candles, one in each of the following colors

Red

Green

Yellow

Orange

Black

Indigo

Violet

White

Choose one or thwo colors to work with each day. Referring to the following correspondence chart, be sure that if you work with two colors, their attriutes compliment each other, lest your separate workings with them cancel each other out rather than amplify one another.

Red - Mars, violence, passion, love, hate, war, murder, sex, rape, blood

Green - Mother earth, green trees, grass, birth, life, giving, healing, nurturing

Yellow - Protection, watching over, enveloping with light, dispelling fear

Orange - Productivity, reproductivity, accomplishment of work and goals, hard work and the reward there from

Black - Absorbing all other colors, bringing into oneself, death, ancient, unknown

Indigo - Spiritual awareness, intuition, self-knowledge, clairvoyance, expansion of Soul

Violet - Divinity, Union with self and with the Absolute, unlimited growth, Mastery

White - Peace, tranquility, drifting clouds, quiet

Take the first of your chosen candles and set it before you. Sit in your chosen meditative posture and watch your surroundings come alive around you, until you have achieved an internal clarity. Open your eyes and light the candle. Gaze into its flame and relax your eyes, simply allowing your mind to absorb the energy of the candle's flame. Contemplate the attributes of the chosen color and feel such attributes welling up inside you. Sense the coldness or hot, the passion or serenity, the darkness or the purity of the color inside of you, all of the emotion that is related to it building. Raise the emotions of the color within you, and do not stop them from rising. Do not question the validity of the emotion or try to place it with anyone or anything, but simply allow yourself to feel.

Hold your right hand over the candle, palm down. Breathe in and feel the energy that has built up inside of you and the emotion gather in your chest. Release the breath slowly and feel the energy not leaving your mouth, but instead traveling though your muscles and veins into your right arm. Inhale and feel the force that was once emotion solidifying, becoming an actual energy, as tangible as the wind. With an exhalation, "push" the color-energy through your arm and feel it flooding into the candle. Sense the energy being stored in the wax of the candle and being released into the universe through the burning wick. Continue channeling this color energy into the candle until it has left you completely.

You may wish to take a break, as this is often spiritually and physically draining the first few rounds. Set the candle aside, preferably in a box which has no other purpose than to store the candles that you have imbued with power. Return either minutes or hours later and repeat the above with the second candle that you have chosen.

With each candle charging, a slight energy residue or signature will remain. Let this drift from you naturally, leaving only a lasting imprint on your Being by the next day.

Make notes of impressions of each color-energy. Repeat this for each candle, making sure that each is experienced in a real and concrete way. Report notes.

Lesson IVThe fourth lesson teaches the beginnings or working with your astral light. It is a simple energy exercise taken from Franz Bardon's work. Meditate as taught previously. Visualize a golden orb above you, feeling the energy pulsing within it and radiating into the environment. With an inhalation, pull the golden light into your being until you are completely filled with it. Exhale and sense the light inside you growing brighter, more intense, like a white fire that has lit itself within you. Sense the pulsations coming from within yourself now. Once the pulsations and vibrational changes due to the golen energy become a noticeable reality, and you can feel your whole being immersed in the throbbing and the rushing of the light, let your your head fall back onto your shoulders, so you are looking straight up at the ceiling. Take a deep breath in and feel the Light that you have invoked gathering in your chest. Let your mouth fall open, still looking towards the ceiling, and breathe the light out of yourself. It will often feel thick, noticeably being exhausted from your body. This is the only way to complete exhaust any energy from your body, or to completely allow your soul to travel without connection to the physical - through the mouth. Often, as the energy departs, you will find yourself choked up by it, coughing or gasping. Allow yourself to do this naturally if you do, and recover yourself.

Report notes.

Lesson VMeditate, clear your mind and breathe in deeply. Invoke Divine light as was done in the previous lesson. As you exhale slowly, let the Godname flow out of you, almost as if of it's own accord, and let it be moved into the universe on a wave od Divine light.

Practice this first with your own name. Once you have the feel for the technique, vibrate El Shaddai three times, Yod He Vav He three times, and Sat Nam once. Do these separately, and notice the change created in the environment and in yourself. Each name should have a different feeling that it produces.

Report notes.

If you have not done much work as a Cantor, or have not had much practice in vibration of Godnames, and need some more instruction, do let me know and I'll guide you through it.

Lesson VIKneel, facing east, hands on knees and head straight forward. Inhale, raising arms above your head, clasping your hands together save for both index fingers, which should point upwards - forming a steeple of your temple body. "Pull" white light into your fingers, and channel in throughout your entire body. Note the changes in consiousness and being.

Push the energy now to a concentrated point at the tips of your fingers. Exhale, lowering arms to your sides, until 10 fingers touch the ground. Visualize, as you do this, that a sphere of white light encases your being. Repeat this exercise until the reality of the sphere is undisputed in your mind.

Initiation - Receipt of the First Flame

You have already uncovered, through your own experience, what is necessary for Initiation. on this level, and on every level. You are receiving the Lessons in a specific order at a specific time, one following another to create a specific effect. This acts as a type of combination lock that allows you to move forward, Eternal.

The ritual of Initiation, on your part, is to meditate and view the mist around you for five minutes, view the pendulum for five minutes, reconsecrate each of the candles in the same order as before, pull divine light from the orb above you, vibrate the name Sat Nam, and form a sphere of light around you. With this last one, you may feel that you have not trapped yourself alone in the bubble of light, but that there is now something in there with you. This is the intelligent, omnipotent, Eternal First Flame. It will flow down into the sphere with you, and will overwhelm you, will reside within you. It will purify you and empower you. When you sense the presence of this Flame, on any level, simply and quietly state, "I accept the First Flame."

Allow yourself to react however you may. Some Initiates feel nothing at first, but over the following few days will notice a slight influx of power. Others will be shaken to their knees. Some feel the power of the First Flame flooding through them as they read this instruction letter, much the same way that I feel it flooding through me towards you this moment, moving through space to find you and fill you. In some of the higher initiations, I personally felt my flesh bubbling and burning with the Flames, and saw all of existence burnt up before me. React however you will, but know that you have accepted a power and a non-intellectual source of knowledge into your Eternal being, and that it is only one of your first steps into Godhood. Know also that as you are performing this ritual, I will be absent from this world of flesh and will instead be in the formative worlds of Flame, moving this power in your direction.

The First Flame is yours, not as a gift, but as a birthright that you have only now come to claim.

E.A.

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Lessons of the Second Flame

Emissary of the First Flame

Lesson I Begin with Meditation, Once you are clear, visualize a red disk floating beneath the base of your spine, or between your anus and genitals. This is the Root Chakra, responsible for the vital, primal energies that preserve life through raw means. This is the will to live and the driving force to continue in an otherwise hopeless existence. Visualize a golden light beneath you, a pool of golden light in the ground. With an inhalation, pull this gold light up your legs and into the root chakra. Feel the chakra opening like a flower, releasing its energy. Repeat this until it feels like it will open no more.

Move the golden light up your spine to an orange disk floating just over your genitals. This is the reproductive chakra. Open it as you did the last one.

Inhale and pull the light up into a large, golden disk floating off of your stomach. This is your solar plexus chakra, the storehouse of your emotion and intense desires. Open it as before.

Pull the energy to a green disk floating over the center of your chest. This is your heart chakra, responsible for nurturing life, healing and general well-being. Open it as before.

Pull the energy to the small sky-blue disk resting on your throat. This is the Throat Chakra, governing communication on various levels and basic intellect. Open it as before.

Pull the energy to an indigo disk over the center of your forehead. This is the Third Eye, responsible for clairvoyance, higher Knowledge, foresight, prophecy and self knowledge.

Pull the energy finally to your Crown Chakra, a large purple disk covered in lotus leaves, spanning the top of your head. Open this, and as you do, see the golden light leaving your body through this chakra and straight upwards, creating a pillar of light trough your body.

There is no need to close the chakras. Simply end the ritual as you feel most comfortable doing, make your notes and go about life. You should notice a change in your perception of the universe (and in the way the Universe perceives you).

Lesson IIThe second lesson teaches working with the spiritual elements of fire, water, earth, and air. In their pure forms, these elements form the base of creation on this earth.

Meditate, form a Sphere around you and open your Chakras. Choose one of the 4 base elements. (fire, water, earth, air). Visualize it to the extreme, seeing, feeling, tasting, and hearing it. Feel it flooding into the Sphere through the top, until the Sphere is completely filled with the concentrated element. Don't try to force a

sensation one way or another with the elements, but simply allow the feelings of them to come as you focus on the element and as it floods into the Sphere. Let the element drift and circle around you, trapped between your skin and the surface of the Sphere.

Imagine that your body is hollow glass, like and empty pitcher. Inhale, pulling the chosen element into your body through your mouth, nose, and every pore, beginning to fill up the "pitcher" with the element. Exhale, feeling the chosen element growing stronger inside you. Try to feel the effect of the entering element as concretely as possible. Continue pulling it into yourself until you are completely filled with the element. Note changes in consciousness and any particular sensations. You may want to write these in a notebook to use in comparison with the other 3 elements.

Let the invoked element saturate your entire being, until there is little variance between you and it. Raise your hands above your head, forming a steeple with your fingers as was done in forming the Sphere. Rather than slowly lowering your hands, quickly sweep tem down to the floor, dissipating the Sphere. Go about the remainder of the day, noticing how the element affects you. When you have gained an understanding of being filled with that one element, and if it starts to wear on you, sit in a chair, let your head fall back onto your shoulders so that you are looking skyward, allow your mouth to fall open, and in one exhalation exhaust the element from yourself.

Only ONE element should be invoked per day, as jumping from one to another any sooner would cause an elemental imbalance creating serious problems in the mental, astral, and physical being. Invoke a different element each day for four consecutive days.

Lesson IIIMeditate, open Chakras, and sit or kneel with the fingertips of both hands touching, palms apart. Relax your hands, letting your fingers barely touch each other. Now, moving your hands quickly in opposite directions, one up, the other down, brush your fingertips together lightly. Do this for 60 seconds, sensing an increase in electromagnetic energy in your hands. Hold your hands, fingertips centimeters apart, and feel the magnetic field between them. Relax your arms, and allow your hands to do as the will. Slowly move your hands apart from each other. You should notice a magnetic push/pull, which should reach a apeak with your hands a certain distance from each other. Once you achieve this, sense the same effect throughout your body... your entire being having a magnetic push/pull with the universe. Inhale slowly, and note the change in the magnetic frequencies. Exhale, doing the same. Experiment with this a bit, until you have a good feel for the magnetism of your hands.

Send me notes on how far apart your hands get from one another to achieve peak magnetism, and your general sensations in this exercise.

Lesson IVLesson 4 has multiple parts, as you will see. Try to do them all in one night, if possible, or if needed, split the tasks in two, half one night and half the next. This will create a full immersion or saturation of the experience.

Begin by simple meditation and opening chakras.

Hold your hands inches apart, fingertips together and sense the magnetic vibration as was noted in the previous lesson pulsing through your hands. Move your hands slowly apart, noticing the magnetic push and

pull as before.

In this lesson, you'll need to find a distance between your hands of critical mass the point in which the pull is strongest. For most, it will be between 4 and 12 inches.

Let your hands hover in that area, pushing and pulling at a perfectly equal rate. Once you have established this critical mass, visualize your solar plexus chakra growing brighter and hotter. Inhale, pulling the fiery energy from this chakra up your spine. Exhale and send the energy into your hands. Rather then the energy being released into the environment, it takes advantage of the magnetic push and pull and stays between your hands.

What you're doing here is creating a sphere of formed energy in your hands, empowering it and bringing it into a real manifestation.

Sense to the fullest that you can the effect of this specific energy between your palms. With the same inhalation/exhalation, pull more energy from your stomach chakra and push it into the energy ball.

You may notice the area of critical mass between your hands growing as you do this. This is normal, as you are adding energy, and therefore demanding that more unseen space be provided.

Continue to feed the energy ball until you feel it has reached its full potential. It should be a fiery golden color and may feel hot to the touch. Sit with it, seeing it in your mind, feeling its glow in your hands.

You now can do one of two things to conclude the Working:

1. with one large inhalation, bring the energy back up your arms and into your solar plexus. This can cause what is called astral whiplash from too much energy at once, which will leave you feel overwhelmed. This will subside.

2. You can slowly move your hands down in front of your stomach and "manually reinsert" the orb of energy into your solar plexus chakra. This is the most natural way to return the energy to its place.

Once you have returned the energy to its chakra, take a break.

When you have "recovered" from the above, do the same with your heart chakra, creating a soft, green healing orb of energy and with your third eye chakra, creating an indigo orb of knowledge, intuition, etc. Your Solar Plexus, Heart Chakra, and Third Eye are the three chakras you should use in this exercise. At this point, do not start pulling from other chakras, as you don't want to mix certain energies that closely.

After experimenting with the three chakras, form a sphere around you, invoke the element that you feel most drawn to (fire, water, earth or sky), create an energy sphere between your hands, draw the element into yourself, and channel it into the ball of energy. Focus on the elemental sphere of energy in your hands and feed it so much of the critical force of the element that it seems at any moment it might break out of the spiritual world and become physical in your hands.

When you have finished the entire Lesson above, or if you have finished one half of it for the night, rest your head back on your shoulders, open your mouth, and in one breath exhaust all excess energy from yourself. (This is called the Opening of the Mouth, by the way, and was used postmortem in Egypt to allow a soul to leave the body and enter the underworld. Today, while still alive, it can have the same effect.)

I'm sure as you do this you'll begin to see what can be done with such and exercise, and we will get to that in later lessons.

Initiation - Receipt of the Second Flame

The last exercise of the Second Flame is to recieve the Second Flame itself. The following se must be performed in one sitting... and it may either be exhausting or intensely energizing.

Open your chakras and form a Sphere around you (as taught in First Flame). Create the magnetic force between your hands. Invoke each element, one at a time. As the element fills you, push it into an energy orb between your hands. Once both yourself and the orb are filled, pull the elemental energy of the ball into your arms and into your being. Exhale, feeling the element leaving your body. Once it is expelled, invoke the next element, doing the same for all four elements.

Once the ritual is invoked and dismissed, vibrate Sat Nam. The sky will split open and the Second Flame will rush down to fill you. I will be at the other side of the rift, directing the Flames to you. Keeping the magnetism between your hands, Let in pour out into an orb between your hands as well. Allow the orb to become so full of the Flames that it flows over, the orb not being able to contain the power. Let the Flames do the same to you, spilling over you, flooding through you, overflowing into this world. You can feel them now, even as you read this, culminating beyond the regions of the abyss. Let the Second Flame shake your being and bring you Godself to a more awakened state. Let it saturate you and become you. Allow your emotions, your mind, and especially your body react however it will to the power.

E.A.

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Lessons of the Third Flame

Emissary of the Second Flame

Lesson IMeditate and open chakras. Stand, facing east. Raise your arms and join your hands together as was done with forming a Sphere. Inhale and visualize/feel a dark blue energy gather in your hands, coming both from the ground and the air, and also from deep within. "Push" the blue protective energy into your index and middle fingers, until it is clearly sensed.

Lower arms, feeling the indigo energy concentrated mainly in your right hand. Close left fist and lower it either to your side or place it palm-out over the small of your back. Keep right hand index and middle fingers extended, still carrying the energy as it moves. Keeping right arm straight at elbow and wrist, lower it until your two extended fingers point at the ground a few feet in front of your feet.

Push the indigo energy from your fingers into a ray that touches the ground pointed at. Feel more blue energy coming into you, and immediately discharching through your fingers, as if you have become a facet for the energy. Visualize the blue ray turning into an inextinguishable flame of the same color.

With fingers still sending an energy ray to the ground, begin slowly pivoting or rotating your body clockwise, or to the south (deosil). Make sure you keep your arm straight, moving only in a circle with your body. See the indigo flame leaving a burning circle on the ground around you, until your fingers point again to the eastern ground. Exhaust remaining energy at the point where the circle completes. Drop your right arm to your side, and notice the burning blue circle surrounding you. You should be able to sense its presence and protective power. See it at least in your mind to the extent of knowing the exact boundaries of the Circle. Sometimes the flame's heat can even be felt.

Doing this, there is no need for a physical representation of the Circle.

Once you can draw a Circle in this manner successfully, stand in the center or the Circle and raise both arms straight out to the sides, parallel to the ground forming a cross of your body. Call, in a clear and commanding voice: "The Circle is fortified in all planes, and is powerful in my service. The flames bur forever to protect me, and to illuminate this astral region. One Eternal round this Circle will not be broken!"

After this is pronounced, you may not step or reach out of the Circle. For now, it is the only barrier between and any nearby entities or harmful influences. It is also recognized as a Divine force, which ALL things respect.

Drop your hands to your sides and clear your mind of everything but the Circle flaming around you. Take careful mental notes of sensations and alterations in conscious state in this period of reflection.

Report notes.

To banish the Circle, stand facing east. Hold your hands, palms facing east, level with your hips, about a foot

from your body. Visualize your hands pulsing with the same blue energy that the Circle is composed of. Sweep your hands upwards and in front of you, visualizing the entirety of the border of the Circle being swept away with the motion. As you sweep the Circle away, Will the indigo energy to dissipate and assimilate into its origin. Continue doing this until the Circle is gone.

Lesson II Meditate, open Chakras, form Circle of Flames, and repeat the final Calling given in the previous exercise. Raise your arms slowly over your head and clasp hands together, fingers becoming a steeple. Pull red, fiery energy into your hands this time, in the same manner as with the blue energy of the Circle.

Lower hands, left going to the side or small of back, right index and middle fingers pointing at the astral flaming Circle's eastern point. In the same manner as with the Circle, direct a beam, steady and clear, at the eastern point on the ground. (This is where good visualization/vision is a big help).

Begin tracing an equilateral triangle on the ground outside the Circle, one point should be touching the eastern most point of the Circle, the other two forming a line parallel with the north-south diameter of the Circle. Visualize and feel the red fire left o the ground burning more evenly and "solidly" than the indigo. Feel the restraining power of the Triangle sending vibrations throughout the astral plane.

Exhaust remaining red energy at the eastern point, and kneel in the center of the Circle. Once again, take careful mental notes of sensations, imagery, and alterations in conscious state in this period of reflection.

Report notes.

Lesson IIIYour next lesson is the calling forth of the cardinal watchtowers. It is important to note that often the watchtowers manifest as actual stone structures, and at other times may manifest simply as the guardian of those watchtowers. The Cardinal Points may even sometimes manifest as animals in coordination with the specific direction.

Different traditions may use the attributes of each direction a bit different. The method put forth here is the most commonly accepted in Western Tradition.

North - earth, solidity, life-bearing, generative, maternal. Its colors are citrie, olive, russet, and black.

East air, intelligence, compassion, clairvoyance. Its colors are yellow and violet.

South fire, will, passion, destruction, violence, intensity. Its colors are red and green... sometimes a fiery yellow.

West water, emotion, love, peace. Colors are blue and orange.

Facing east, meditate, open chakras, and cast Circle.

Stand with arms out to your sides, forming a human cross. Imagine and sense all attributes of air coming

from the east, until you have a good idea and feel for the cardinal. Try to let the attributes and colors build into manifestation or at least astral culmination.

Call: "guardians of the watchtowers of the east, upon the winds, come!"

Feel the entities , usually one or three, rarely more, forming in the space beore you. Once you are aware of the presence of the watchtower and/or guardian, turn (deosil) clockwise to the south. Try to feel the heat and the violence and ardor.

Call: "Guardians of the watchtowers of the south, i call you forth to protect this circle and to bless it with your presence. Guardians of the watchtowers of the south, upon the flames, come!"

To the west: "Guardians of the watchtowers of the west, i call you forth to protect this circle and to bless it with your presence. Guardians of the watchtowers of the west, upon the waters, come!"

to the north: "Guardians of the watchtowers of the north, i call you forth to protect this circle and to bless it with your presence. Guardians of the watchtowers of the north, upon the earth, come!"

Face east again. Call, "i give my thanks to you, Guardians of the watchtowers. I now ask not that my will be done, as my will is imperfect, but that here within the sacred circle, standing upon hallowed ground, that the will of the Eternal be made manifest through me. I ask, oh Guardians of the Watchtowers of the east, south, west and north, and by the powers of fire, water, earth, and sky; I ask for protection ad guidance even after the Circle is dismissed. I ask that you be my guardians and my guides as I stumble in the darkness in search of those Flames that were lost before time began. This is my will, and the Will of the Eternal. So it is done!"

if the presence of the guardians is not sensed, do not read or recite the previous until they ARE there.

This serves as a type of self initiation and an introduction to the first powers with which you will be working on a practical level.

Take note of impressions during the ritual, especially after addressing the collective watchtowers.

Dismiss the watchtowers with a downward sweep of the hands, after thanking them for their presence. Feel the sweep of your hands and the current of air created thereby sweeping these Watchtowers away. They may not completely be gone you may feel their presence still there, or with you personally, aftewards. If so, this is as it should be.

Report notes.

Initiation - Receipt of the Third Flame

Form Circle. Call Watchtowers. Stand facing whatever Cardinal you feel most comfortable in. Raise your arms to your sides, parallel to the ground, palms upwards, head back, eyes towards the heavens. Vibrate "Sat Nam", and visualize etheric gates opening above you. Open Chakras and circulate energy through your Being.

When your energy peaks, call "Meat Solvalla, Vaskalla Trepardat", calmly yet with authority.

Recieve the Third Flame. Let it ride through you. Let it consume you. Allow the intensity of the Third Flame to sweep you away. The key is to not fight it. Like the release of the soul's orgasm, let it build and quickly run through you until you shake with the power of it. Let it no longer simply effect your emotions and mind, but allow the sensation of the Third Flame to move your flesh, to imprint your every cell with your own godhood.

E.A.

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Lessons of the Fourth Flame

Emissary of the Third Flame

Lesson I The past three Flames have been very structured, doing this and that to achieve a specific inner and outer result. Now, with the Fourth Flame, this will all become extremely personalized. We will work on what you, specifically, need to Ascend. You will be pushed to succeed where in the past you have not. You will be pushed outside of your comfort zones and your own expectations of what you can accomplish. I see deep inside of you, and I see the darkness and self-doubt that hides there, and the root of it all, and I also see the Flames that are eating away at the ideao that you are not invincible. You have worked to master your mind and to attune your senses to a greater existence than the flesh, and now you will begin to master your world, and to reclaim your throne above it. I now will begin to hand you the keys to Power, as they have been handed to me, and with them you will Ascend without restraint.

The First Lesson of the Fourth Flame is a purely physical and mundande one. Construct a ritual staff or obtain a ritual dagger.

If you choose to use a ritual dagger rather then a staff, the blade should be at least 6 inches long, and the handle should either be made of natural wood or should be black. No overly ornate designs should be made in the blade, hilt or handle. The blade should also be sharpened, as it will indeed be used to cut.

The ritual staff is to be cut while alive, and should be tapered, the top of thicker then the base of it when the thin end is placed on the ground. The top, thick end is to be rounded with a knife or sanding paper. The whole lenght of the thing should come at least to your chin when placed on the ground. The staff, being a phallic tool of assertive will, should be thick, reflecting your own ideals for phallic width, representing the most raw, sexually based power of domination.

Lesson II Perform the following using the ritual dagger you now have, and you may consecrate any further items in the future using the same method.

Meditate, open your chakras, and draw a Circle around you. Create a magnetic sphere between your hands, and allow the sphere to take on one or a mixture of the colors black, re, and violet. Allow this to reach a critical mass. Kneeling or standing, with your hands still buzzing with energy, take your dagger in both hands, held an inch or two from the center of your chest, the tip pointing to the sky.

Sense the power circling around you and the energy filling the room or area. Breathe in and feel it responding, moving tight around the Circle. As you do this, also feel your own energy moving, growing, ready to break out of your skin. Breathe out, and rather than feeling your breath and energy leaving from your mouth, feel it leaving through your right arm and imbuing itself into the fabric of the dagger. Continue

doing this until the dagger feels as if it is glowing and hot, ready to burst with energy.

When it is brimming with power, call, "Creation of steel, be the dagger through which the will and power of Magick may flow and couse change in this world. I seal this calling upon you, and i seal the power to perform your purpuse within you, Eternal." At this, feel the power that you have transferred to the dagger solidifying, becoming as real and integral as the metal and wood.

Dismiss the Circle and put the dagger away where it will not be found.

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Lesson IIIIn lesson 3 you will need to get into direct coscious contact with the Flames which you have been invoking and activating with your Initiations here. Sit, stand, or kneel facing south. Meditate. Pull energy up through your feet and legs as in opening your chakras, but rather than stopping at your lower chakras, feel it passing through your root chakra and your reproductive chakra, which are now in a way permanently open and receptive, and filling your solar plexus. Feel your solar plexus bursting open and releasing immense heat and light the instant that the energy enters it. Pass the energy to your heart chakra and do the same. Pass it through your throat chakra, which is errantly open and is barely affected, and into your third eye, which bursts open as well. Sit and feel your whole being connecting to existence without any walls or restraints. It is Soul and God, face to face.

Feeling the peace and power of Eternity moving through you, take your dagger, hold it near your breast as before and call out, "As the anointed Emissary of the Third Flame, I call upon the seven sons of the phoenix and the Keepers of the Flame to ignite the Flames around and within me. Burn this Servant of Flames so that I may rise again!" Sense the Flames gathering around you swiftly, as if you are surrounded immediately by liquid power. Breathe in deeply and feel the Flames within you igniting as well, feel your whole being on fire, every cell within you awakening in the agony of immortality. Feel God stirring within. Holding your dagger in your right hand, point it either at the ground or the sky and feel the Flames rising through you and spilling into the dagger. Gather your will and push the Flames through the dagger. Try to see them, feel them erupting into this plane. Like the energy that was used to draw the Circle and Triangle previously, see the Flames leaving the tip of the dagger, only as they enter this world, sense the much more concrete effect, sense the permanence and violence of the Flames on this lowest world. The Flames are pure power, untainted, unquestioning, simply acting when they are called to act. This power now flows through you. When you speak as the Emissary of the Flames, the Flames listen. When you command with the power of the Flames, the universe obeys.

Practice this until the Flames within you and the Flames that you move through the dagger are as solid as the ground that you pass them to. It is important that this not be toyed with, such as gathering the Flames and "shooting" them at people. The effects could be irreversible. Also, it is important at this point that you not allow your mind to focus on anything but the immediate goal when the Flames move through you. You are the Emissary of the Third Flame, and therefore you command more power than most so-called historical Gods. You hold a piece of the power which was used to create all things from nothing, and which will return this universe to nothingness. Be careful with that power. Always remember that the Flames will be the fiery agent of translation from mortality into Godhood.

Lesson IV You have experienced the Flames personally, intimately, and Eternally. This makes the rest of the Lessons from here on out much easier and effective, as well as the receiving of the Flames at initiations. At first they will stir in you when you recieve them, as has been the case in the past three initiations. Then they will begin to destroy you so that you may realize that you cannot die. Finally, they will destroy everything else, and you will stand as God of a waiting universe. In your final initiations, we will sit across a table from one another and the heavens will split and world will fall away as you recieve the Flames.

Pull the Flames from around you above you, and within you, and project them into the tip of the dagger. Feel them burning and growing more fierce, and feel the inherent power of the dagger increasing as the Flames increase. Once the Flames reach a peak, slowly raise the tip of the dagger as high as you can towards the sky and see a stream of power flow through an etherealgateway into the dagger. Call: "Alpha". Slowly pull the dagger down and touch the tip of it to the earth and call, "Omega". Sense this action grounding the energy, creating a pillar of Flames in the place where you stand. The dagger may be diffucult to pull down to the ground at first, as if the stream of light acts as a "tractor beam", demonstrating how concrete this power is. Stand back a foot or thwo from the area where you touched the beam to the groud and sense the power flooding into the earth, dispersing through the ground. Take notes on your observations here.

Initiation - Receipt of the Fourth Flame

The Fourth Flame is yours, and now you recieve it.

Stand in the center of the room, without a Circle drawn or any ritual performed, and hold your arms out to your sides, forming a human cross, your dagger in your right hand.

Call: "Itz rachu mantantnu vespacha kaltamu. Itz ranta mant kala mant atzu belt tasu. Vaskalla itz ratzu kantantu velchatza!" This is the Flame Chant. It possesses a natural rhythm which should be kept when speaking it. As you speak it, feel the words shaking reality and bringing it down, the power of it moving through your whole being, and moving from your dagger into the world.

A wind tunnel surrounds you and grows to a near shriek. You can feel the winds blasting against you and threating to push you over. The power of the Flames you have received peaks within and around you. A pillar of Flames is instantly opened, running through you into oblivion.

Allow the flames to tear you apart, to kill you in whatever small measure, and to simultaneously bring you to life. Hear the din around you growing louder, the unheard noises screaming in your ears as the Flames rush into this world.

Finally, the heavens will fall silent, leaving your body trembling on the ground. Your temporal being has surrendered and has made way for the God within.

The Fourth Flame is within you, Eternal.

E.A.

Grand Emissary of the Eighteen Flames

Ordo Ascensum Aetyrnalis Discourses

Lessons of the Fifth Flame

Emissary of the Fourth Flame

Probationer Sworn Knight

Lesson I Obtain 8 violet candles.

Set the candles in a circle around your at equal intervals. Bring your ritual dagger into the circle with you. Sit in the center, facing south, light the candles, and begin meditation, relaxing your mind and moving into the moment. Open your chakras and call the Watchtowers. Feel the collective energy of the burning candles aroud you calling the Flames into activity. Feel the Flames coalesce in the room and within you. Feel the thickening until it feels as if the whole room is ablaze. Through the Flames, notice the presence of robed figures looking on. These are some of the Sworn Knight of the Order which have been called to watch over and empower you and your life so that you may ascend. Each member of the OAA is protected and empowered such, and only at this point do they become aware of it, although they are told such before joining. Become aware of them even if you can't see them. Simply know that they are there and feel their presence, and feel the Flames growing even stronger as you come together in the same room.

Focus your mind wholly upon Ascent, in whatever way it manifests in your mind. Feel the sensations that you imagine instantaneous Ascent would feel like. Feel your own power doubling, your vision expanding. Know that in this moment you are in full scent. Know also that that which you now feel and now understand is barely a fragment of the whole.

Here, you must make a pact, an oath with the Flames, with the Sworn Knights of the Order (as you are soon to enter into their inner circle), with myself as the Grand Emissary of the Flames, and with your Self. State, in your own words, that you are dedicated to your spiritual growth, that it is your intent to Ascend towards limitless power and understanding, and that you are pledged to using the Flames to carry yourself into your own Godhood. End this declaration with "this is my decree, before the guardians of this Temple, before the Sworn Knights of the Order, and before the Grand Emisary of the Flames: that the heavens will move in my behalf, that the skies will clear in my wake, and that the planets will temble at my call. This, and unnamable more, I command should it be required for my Ascent. May all the hosts of heaven and the fiends of the lower worlds hear this, and hearken to my call. I am Eternal."

sit in silence and contemplate these things.

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Lesson IIObtain a few grimoires which containt the names, attributes, and sigils of spiritual entitites.

From these grimoires, choose 2 sigils to use in making changes in your life or in your inner being. Reply with the names of the two entities and your desired manifestation for lesson III, in which you will be given the method of charging/consecrating the sigils using the Flames.

For this initial operation, do not try to use Magick to move the planets out of alignment or alter the atomic structure of water. You'll perform miracles with time, and with time there will be no limits. But right now, you are still bound, you are still limited, and we must break those bonds gradually. Choose goals that are simple, but which when successful can be attributed to nothing but Magick.

Lesson IIIDraw the sigil on a 6x6 square of paper. Bring it and your dagger into the Circle with you. Kneel facing south, meditate, draw a Circle around you, and set the sigil on the ground in front of you, with the dagger set to the right of it, ready to be taken up when needed. Call upon the Flames verballoy to come near you, to rise up inside of you and to enter this plane. Once you feel them surging through you, turn your gaze towards the sigil. Lock into your mind your goal what it is that the spirit can do for you. Try to see it as a still picture, and allow yourself to feel the emotions attached to achieving that goal. DO NOT feel the emotions of longing for it, bat rather of having already achieved it, as that which is inside of you will manifest in the world outside. Gaze INTO the sigil, as if you are seeing through it rather than looking at it. Relax your eyes ad allow the energy of the sigil to begin to come through, keeping your mind focused on your goal. Once the energy starts flowing through the sigil, some of its lines might disappear from the paper and then reappear, or they might seem to move or physically vibrate. This is a sign that the physical world is being transmuted by your Operation, that you are effecting change here and now. Continue concentrating e ven harder on your goal and allowing the sigil to transform however it will. Once it is complete, the changes will cease and the whole sigil will seem to be alive and vibrant. This is what i refer to as "opening the sigil."

Once the sigil is open, it is ready to recieve your command. Place your right hand over the sigil, not touching it but hovering an inch or so above it. Feel the Flames well up inside of you and flow effortlessly through your arm and out of your hand, being sucked up by the sigil. As you do this, also transfer your desire with the Flames into the sigil until it is gone ad you cannot bring to mind that which you esired.

Tate, "Spirit _______, I, ________, Emissary of the Fourth Eternal Flame, have called you near and have opened the power of your sigil to.... (Tate what it is that you desire). So it is, Eternal."

Put the sigil away where it will not be foud, and do not look at the face of it again. Folding it in half will usually help with this, as you can trasport it without looking at it. As you come close to the sigil from that point forward, you will feel its power radiating, your desire coming to fruition through its energy.

When your desire has been fulfilled, take the sigil outside, unfold it and look at the face of it, thank the spirit for its help, and burn the sigil, stating that you are releasing the spirit from your service.

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First, breathe in and feel your chakras becoming active and vibrant. Breathe out ad feel them all begininning to open at once. Feel the energy in your root chakra building until it is ready to eplode. Inhale slowly, and as the breath rises up in you, feel the energy fgrom the root chakra also moving upo your body in a pillar of light, opening all of your chakras as it passes. In this manner, open all of your chakras with one inhalation.

Standing, feel the Flames gathering above you in a brilliant cloud. Inhale, pulling the Flames into your Crown chakra, where it grows violet in color as you exhale. Inhale and pull the Flames into your Solar Plexus, which glows a sun-gold color as you exhale. Inhale and pull the Flames to your feet, where it pools around your feet as black energy... all of the negative attachments having flooded out of you like black oil. Inhale, gathering the dispersed energy back into your feet and as you exhale feel your feet growing warm. Inhale, pulling the energy and the Flames directly from your feet up your body back into your Crown, and release back into the ether above you with an exhalation.

The microcosm's Divine Receptors/translators are now active. Inhale slowly, pulling pure white light from far above you into your Crown, filling your entire being with it. Sense the peace and mercy that comes. Let the feeling overwhelm you, taking away all of your fears, your self-doubt, your insecurities. Allow the light of creation to make you whole.

Sit in this Tate and meditate upon it. Sense the path that you travel, and sense that you are no longer traveling it alone. Sense the millions of Sworn Knights of the Order that stand behind you, and know that you are soon to be armed with their same power.

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Initiation - Receipt of the Fifth Flame

You have passed through all of the trials necessary, and are now a Sworn Knight of the Order, accepted into the Inner Temple of the Ordo Ascensum Aetyrnalis. You are protected and empowered by those of us who do not die, and who know no limitation. Prepare to receive the Fifth Flame.

Sit in meditation. When you have reached the necessary Tate of receptivity, allow your mind to wanter through the past weeks of experiences with the Fifth Flame. Remember the entities whose sigils you have charged, and the results that have come and are still coming from that. Feel the power flooding into the Temple as you recollect these experiences. Remember also all of the previous Lessons wherein you unlocked the Deity within step-by-step. Remember the previous Initiations. As you do this, you will feel the Flames stirring wthin you, and the heavens will open to pour them into this plane. Perform the previous Lesson, and when you have opened yourself as a vessel of Spirit, and the Light channels through you, kneel on your right knee towards the South. There I will be, and I will pas the Fifth lame to you, Eternal.

E.A. Koetting

Grand Emissary of the Eighteen Flames

Ordo Ascensum Aetyrnalis Discourses

Lessons of the Sixth Flame

Sworn Knight of the Fifth Flame

Lesson I A Baron of the Order has been assigned to be your personal spiritual guide and guardian, and he wil lfulfill this calling through the spiritual planes and states for now. Being Adept in all of the esoteric arts, all of his power will aide you and guide you, and most definitely will protect you. Shortly, you will receive his name as well instructions o contacting him first through the spiritual senses.

The first lesson of the Sixth Flame is to draw and consecrate the Seal of the Sworn Knights

1. The circle is symbolic of the eternal Tate, which we stand in, as we are in Eternity, and as the calling of the Sworn Knights is Eternal, and will pass with you from life to life.

2. The triangle is symbolic of the manifestation of the eternal Tate on the physical plane, the union of the upper and lower, or the precipitation of the Flames into the Lesser worlds, and the returning of that power to its source. Ex Rhombus in Triangularum, ex spiritus regnum in manifestus... one eternal round.

3. The inverted pentagram is one of the first symbols of man's Ascent into godhood through his own efforts.

Draw the symbol in black ink on white paper. Study it's design and shape. Open yourself to any initial impressions you receive. Consecrate it as you did with the sigil and square previously and let the power of the Flames flow through the sigil. Also, you will feel as you gaze into the sigil, that the other Sworn Knights are gaziing back at you. You will also find a stronger personality, intelligence, and power coming through the sigil... this is your assigned Baron. DO NOT ask questions or engage in sensory conversation of any sort at this point, but simply feel the energy and the Flames, and allow yours to move as well, the sigil becoming a transfer point between yourself and the Sworn Knights of the Order.

Put the sigil away some place safe for future use in contacting the Sworn Knights through the Sigil. With it, all of them will rush to your aide if you call them, and you will likewise be able to come to their aide.

Lesson II ___________ has been assigned to be your Guardian until you reach the level of Baron of the Ninth Flame. A good deal of future lessons will incorporate you workin with _________, and his influence will be noticed when he is present.

Construct a Circle and Triangle. Perform the Invocation od Divinity (pulling Flames upwards through chakras, and pulling light down through body, forming a channel). Present the Seal of the Sworn Knights within the Circle before you as you kneel or sit facing north. Scry into the seal and open it as before, and call your guardian's name. While many of the Sworn Knights will be aware of you, ______ will be the one who seems to step through the Seal and enter your reality.

This is basically and introduction. Try to get a good feel for his personality, as well as for his individual strenghts and weaknesses. He will immediately gain the same information about you, and will use this to help you the best he can. Report notes on the introduction as well as specific messages or impressions from _______ when this is completed.

Lesson III The third lesson of the Sixth Flame teaches the basic calling forth of wandering, earthbound spirits. I am going to send you an excerpt from the book I am currently writing, Evoking Eternity, which teaches this. Obviously, since the work is copyrighted, I have to ask you not to distribute it outside of this conversation (not that I'm worried, just to cover my bases).

Here, you are simply calling spirits forth, not in solid materialized bodies, but in spiritual bodies. You sre to become aware of them, to sense them, after which you will learn to see them.

You may prefer to perform this simple rite outside, although your indoor Temple will work just as well.

Shut out all light from the Temple, light the candles on the altar, and seat yourself behind it. Close your eyes and enact the meditation which will invoke omnipotence. When your entire being is aglow with Divine Power and Light, and that force flows from your eyes, hands, and radiates from every pore in your skin, open your eyes and let your gaze drift to the empty space betwee n the white candles. Without looking directly into their flames, allow your peripheral vision to notice the light shining from the wicks, the aura that it creates, and the meeting of their orbs of light in that space on which your eyes are focused.

Take a deep breath in, retaining focus on that empty air above the altar, and feel the Godforce within you stirring as you breathe. Feel it gathering in your throat and in your mouth, rady to spill from your lips like a bursting dam of energy. Know that if the omnipotence is released from you in the form of words, all of existence and its countless inhabitants will be compelled to answer and to obey. Let the breath out by calling in a clear, controlled voice, "Spirits, hear my voice. Spirits, hear my call. Spirits, gather around me. Make yourselves known to me. I call you out of the shadows and out of the graves, and I command you to stand before me. Spiritis, I compel you... come!"

Do not allow fear to plant even a single seed within you. Steady your heart, as it surely begins to thump as the wandering spirits' eyes move to your direction. Hold fast in a tranquil Tate, still aware of your own omnipotence as you sit and wait. As the conjuration was recited, if it was truly done so with Authority, you will have sensed the spirits bounding over the hills take notice of you. These spirits are by far the most willing to fly to your side and to make themselves known, and although for purposes of attainment or Ascent they are impotent, they are each unique and individual entities that you can observe. Simply sense their presence, and once you do, thanki them for coming and dimsiss them.

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Lesson IVCall wandering spirits near as in the previous Lesson.

Relax your gaze and let your vision blur slightly, taking the strain of observation off your eyes and shifting it to your Other senses, which will begin to See from your Third Eye, in the center of your forehead. As you initially visualize the entities and receive impressions of their images, you will likely notice a fine pressure in the center of your forehead. When you encounter this, allow the energy that is trying to push its way from you, the invisible indigo ray of light that is attempting to burst into the Temple with its omniscience, to do so without restraint. Give your will over to your Greater powers, and trust in them when the time comes.

The first step in actually viewing the spirits present, even if only in your mental vision just yet, is to locate them. After you feel that the spirits that you have called near are indeed near, inhale and hold the breath in your chest for a moment. Shut off your mind. It is vital that you not allow your brain to interfere with your

comprehension by inserting its own images or critiquing those impressions that do survade. Slowly let the breath out. As you do so, sense your own intellectual awareness, your natural omnisciense, flood the room. Sense the general location of the spirits, or if there are many, sense the location of the most powerful or the nearest one. Don't think, don't analyze, don't imagine; just receive. Your impressions at this point are not to originate in your mind, but are merely received by your mind. Feel the spirits' location i the same way that you can feel a stranger enter the room behind you. Remember, you are not performing an exercise in imagination, but are simply tuning your extant senses into a phenomenon that you have likely experienced in the past: the awareness of the presence of a non-physical entity.

Once the actual location of a spirit is discovered, train your senses on that space. Do not look at the space occupied by the spirit, keeping your gaze locked in the glow of the two white candles in the center of the altar. Simply stretch your senses and your awareness out to that one spot in the room. As you do this, your own conscious recognition of the presence of that particular spirit will grow stonger, sometimes frighteningly so. Bring your emotions back under your command, not reacting to your surroundings, but acting upon existence.

People learn about things through analyzing them, and they analyze things by asking themselves questions about them. Without questions, there can be no answers. Ask yourself, "How tall is this spirit?" Immediately, your mind will give you a response. If you have to search for an anwer, it will not be true. Trust your senses, trust your answers, and trust yourself. Often, the moment the answer comes, with your eyes still gazing into the eternal glow of the candles' flames, you may see an outline of a figure through your peripheral vision in the spot where the spirit is known to stand. Do not focus on this, but continue focusing on that empty space before you.

Ask yourself now, "How is the spirit holding its body?" With this question, your mind will not longer attempt to answer in words, but will choose the easiest path by placing an image in your mind, or sometimes in that elusive peripheral vision. It is also at this point that the energies, those emanating from the multitude of spirits that have presented themselves, from the power of the ritual itself, and from your own God-State, will begin to overwhelm you, in collusion with your brain's inability to accept the impossible. This will cause a dizziness or lightheadedness, and it is often reported as a feeling of skiking through the floor, or general spatial imbalance. Remember to breathe and gto gather yourself, and although the disorientation will not subside altogether, you will still be able to continue. You may as well be tempted strongly to let your eyes drift shut. Resist this, as it is a ploy to cease the barrage or spiritual reality on the illusion-soaked brain. Keep your eyes focused forward and allow the image of the stance of the spirit impress itself on your mind, or even on your vision.

As you see these things, it is vital not to relegate their value to the mind and imagination, but to place the importance of it on the reality of the spirit that stands in that disclosed location. As you see it in your mind, also sense it in your chest, in your heart, in that place within you that knows that you are in the presence of a thing that is beyond the flesh. As the impressions are transferred to your mind from the spirit, it is your duty i order to obtain a real image of it to then transfer the image back to that place where the spirit stands, rather than letting it dwindle in the unreal annals of the brain. Staring at the candle's glow, as the impression of the stance of the spirit comes to you, project this image back into its place of origin, seeing it either in your mind or your peripheral sight as standing in that stance before you. Hold this image in your mind maintaining it for a matter of at least a few seconds, sure that it is not going to vanish the moment that you take your attention away.

Ask yourself, "How does the spirit move?" What you are doing is step-bystep receiving and interpreting the whole figure of the spirit. You are lifting the veil between your mind and the spirit. When you ask this question, you will likely see the spirit begin to move. It is not that in asking this you cause the spirit to move, but rather that the spirit has been in motion as any living thing is, and in asking the question you are allowing

your mind to observe this motion. The spirit therefore is not put into motion by your question, but it is your mind that is put into motion. You will see this outlined figure which stands in a certain place at a certain height and in a specific stance move its arms, hands, head, legs or even mouth.

It is difficult to get this far in your uncovering of the image of the spirit without having perceived some of its more detailed features. Ask yourself slowly, "what is the appearance of the spirit's face?" For some reason that has eluded both myself and my spiritual associates, this question elicits the most dramatic response from the observer, often being the observation which ends the session of viewing for the moment. Sometimes the image of its face will flash in the mind immediately, and appears threatening or hideous, making it nearly impossible to retain conscious control over the emotions. Other times it may look pleasant, but as the mind attempts to analyze the details of it, the brain begins to shut down the whole of the process, always the enemy of magick. The key to successfully working through this step is to avoid the details and to accept the general image. The body of the spirit is made of a finer matter than that of the flesh, and it needs to be treated as an evanescent thing, to be accepted as it is in the moment and never confined to our expectations. Simply allow the image of the spirit's face to come, and trasfer that image back to the spirit, outside of yourself in the world of the real.

Take a moment before continuing to view the whole entity that you are observing. You have built a mental and a visual image of it from what you have received through your natural senses. Move your attention away from yourself, away from your mind, as your focus has surely shifted from the spirit to yourself, to your faulty imagination and your egoistic pride, and back to that space that was originally uncovered as being occupied by the spirit. Return your senses to the awareness of the reality of its presence, and now you do not have to simply understad that it is in that place, but you can see it standing there as you have analyzed its form. An interesting occurance that is noted is that the spirit will seem to be suspended in time and space, allowing you to view it. In the realm of spirit, however, time and space do not exist as concrete laws, but are constructs of the mind which are at times convenient and at other times a nuisance. Do not allow the seeming suspension of the spirit to deter you from viewing it and from sensing its presence. Be sure, however, that the image that you are viewing is not in your mind, but is in the Temple, outside of yourself. Be honest with yourself and you will have little difficulty in trusting yourself.

Ask, "What does the spirit wear?" The image will be added to automatically. You may likewise ask yourself any question that will assist in the unveiling of the spirit.

The final question that you should ask for this exercise is not one for yourself alone, but is for both you and for the spirit. Sense the spirit there, and see it in your mental vision as you have uncovered it. Breathe in and feel the power which wtill floods through you reactivating within your chest. Let your breath out by asking, "Spirit, what do you say?"

Initially the voice of the spirit will seem garbled or nonsensical. Relax your mind and feel the pressure that has gathered around your head, specifically around your ears. Feel it throbbing with a beat that may seem chaotic, much in the same way that words would seem were they not understood by other people of the same tongue. The words spoken by the spirit in response to the question will remain in the airt around you. Relax your neck, your forehead, your ears, your eyes, your eyebrows, and your mind, and ask yourself, "What ha sthe spirit said." The words may come slowly to you, one at a time until you grasp each. Allow them to come as the will, and if it is necessary, write them on a piece of paper as they come. One of the most difficult parts of this whole process of communicating with spirits is to hear the voice oand for that voice to be heart in "real-time." Often, at first, the spirit's mouth will move and seconds later the first of a string of words will enter your mind. As you progress at hearing the voice and interpreting the words in your own native language, words will appear in your mind, and then the spirit will move its mouth to speak them. This is an inconsitency only in your observation, and with time and practice will balance itself out.

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Initiation - Receipt of the Sixth Flame

You have developed your inner senses amazingly, and shortly you will discover that you exist more there than here.

Outside, draw the Seal of the Sworn Knights on the ground, the top of the seal in the south, large enough to kneel within it. It should be inscribed deeply in the ground so that your kneeling does not destroy the image. Hold your ritual dagger in your right hand and feel the Flames flowing through it. Point it towards the south and meditate upon the Flames, calling them into higher activity within and around you. Feel the Flames continue to build within the lines as you so meditate, finally breaking from this plane into the Eternal worlds, uniting the upper and lower. Feel the seal beneath you open as a gateway into the Kingdom of Flames, and feel the gateway expanding around you and above you and within you, Flames pouring into this world from the spot wherein you kneel.

Call the name of the Baron who is your guardian. Sense him and see him as you have learned to do, and notice the many Sworn Knights which begin to come with him. If there are any other ritual preparations that you need to perform receiving the Sixth Flame, your guardian will give them for you. Call my name, Eric Arcaelus Koetting, or I am also known in the planes above the astral as just Archaelus. I will come as well, manifested before you, visible to your senses now then ever before. Try not to pay too much conscious attention to seeing me and my features, however, but remain focused on the Flames and the increase of them through the ritual.

Kneeling there, say the words, "I am ready to receive the Sixth Flame." I will begin channeling the Flames to you. Receive them until I have finished, although it may seem like there are too many Flames for you to hold inside of yourself, like you will explode with them. Explode. Let them overwhelm you and run over you like a cup that has been filled too much.

When you have received the Sixth Flame, refocus yourself and bring to your conscious mind your position as a Sworn Knight of the Order, a coworker with the Eternal Flames and its Emissaries. You will again notice more Sworn Knights around you. Some may try to give advice, to welcome you, or to converse. You may do so as you wish. They are your Eternal brothers of the Flames.

Report notes.

E.A. Koetting

Grand Emissary of the Eighteen Flames

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Lessons of the Seventh Flame

Sworn Knight of the Sixth Flame

Lesson I (Excerpted from Works of Darkness)

The visualizations and sensory impressions have been, up to this piont, impressions only, filtered, calculated, and given a logical value by the organic machine of the brain. Thos ethings beheld in the mind were not creations of it, but rather were symbolic images through which the mind was able to identify an abstract with an absolute, in the same manner that the mind interprets all phenomena the difference here being the depth of the phenomenon and the height that the mind must reach to interpret it. The task that remains is to deliver these sums and values to the rest of the organism, defining to even the core of the nervous system the exact parameters of that which is seen, heard, smelled, tasted, felt, and instinctively known about the specific thing that once evaded waraness altogether.

Gazing through a black-backed mirror into nothing will show the Seer exactly that: nothing. Scrying mirrors are powerful tools, however, when they are actually employed in a purpose. Before humans learned to make and form glass into flat panes, ancient Sorcerers polish brass, copper, silver, marcasite, and most often obsidian to a reflective sheen. Through these earliest scrying mirrors, Black Magicians would peer into the unseen worlds and speak with the malevolent.

While some purists insist that the Operator's mirror be made of polished metals complementary of the astrological bodies of Luna, Venus, or Jupiter, either crafted by the Magician himself or by a craftsman that is indeed a Practitioner of the Arts, in all actuality the Black Magician can make a suitable scrying mirror for a few dollars with materials he may already have or that he can easily buy from any store. A simple piece of round, clear glass that is thick enough to resist easily breaking will work as well as a slab of polished obsidian. Ideally, the diameter of the round glass should measure beween a foot-and-a-half to two feet, providing for a greater panorama, yet not obtrusive in size. Simple black matte paint on one side of the mirror, enough to completely cover the surface and allow no light whatsoever to shine through, provides an excellent reflective surface with the visual depth needed to be used as a reliable scrying device.

Prepare the Temple with a chair facing south and a small table, upon which the scrying mirror should be set. The mirror should be leaned against an object or held in an adjustable plate holder so that it sits at about a 60 deggree incline. When seated in the chair and looking straight into the mirror, with the room lit up as in daytime, the Operator should have a perfect view of either the ceiling above his head or the edge where the wall behind him meets the ceiling. Either way, no objects such as ceiling lamps or his body should be reflected in the scrying mirror. Two black candles should also be set on the table, either in line with or slightly behind the scrying mirror, as to provide light without casting a glaring reflection in the mirror. The Operator should be prepared also with the drawn sigil of the pirit Sastan, who has the ability to guide the Sorcerer into perfection of the art of scrying. This same sigil should be put away at the end of each scrying session with it, and should be brought out and reconsecrated each time your practice scrying until initial success is had.

Having all other light sources shut out from the Temple, light the two candles and take a seat before the mirror. Inhale; gather all of your tension, apprehension, and all of your thoughts and feelings from day-to-day life in your chest, and exhale, feeling the negative attitudes and emotions leaving you with the breath, dissipating in the air. When you are relaxed and your mind is clear, hold the sigil in your right hand and gaze into it. Relax your stare and focus your mind on a visualization of the mirror, such being the target of the sigil consecration. In your mind, with your eyes still fixed on the sigil, see a clear mental image of the mirror no longer being a black void, but instead filled with images. Don't try to make out the images that you are seeing in the imaginary mirror, but simply know that they are there. Hold the mental image of unknown figures appearing in the mirror until the sigil begins to open and flash.

When the sigil has opened and is flashing, move your gaze to the scrying mirror. The exact "gaze" that is used in scrying is the same as is achieved in sigil charging. Your eyes should be relaxed, not searching for something that is not seen, but waiting to see something that has not yet manifested. This relaxed and receptive sight may not be difficult to achieve, having moved your vision directly from the sigil which you have just opened to the mirror. The mind should likewise be brought into a relaxed observation of the mirror, kept from asking questions of the nature of the thing to be manifested and simply waiting to see for itself.

The first manner in which the projected vision of Sastan will manifest is as a white mist or fog appearing in the mirror. The black sheen in the mirror will spontaneously begin to dull, a white sheet of ethereal mist covering most of the surface of the glass. This should be recognized as a signt that your scrying senses have awakened and are waiting for direct communication with the spirit. The mist may begin to clear not long after it has formed in the mirror. Some Practicioners report seeing tiny points of light appearing in the mirror as the white fog clears, others claim that entire scenes lay waiting behind the mist, playing out in full splendor once the mirror is clear again.

Before anything can be seen in the mirror, the ethereal vision must first make some type of connection with your mind with your general awareness. Gaze into your scrying mirror and watch the white fog begin to clear from its surface. Keep your mind relaxed and receptive to the images which may come, rather than forcing something anything to appear. With your eyes towards the mirror, bring your mind briefly and somewhat superficially back to the sigil. Remember the lines and the angles, and the circle that binds them all.

In the same manner in which you divided your attention equally between a sigil and your visualized desire, focus your gaze on the mirror, allowing yourself to become entranced by the abyss into which you are peering; at the same time, bring to mind an image of an enormous python. Rather than trying to concoct a mental image of the most ferocious, slithering, creepy serpent that you can image, relax your mind and begin the visualization with the basic form of a large snake. Bring its colors into focus: pale green, grey, and dull silver. Once you can see these colors, bring your attention to the serpent's head. All of it intricate details will naturally fill themselves in, until its black eyes show an intelligence and personality that could never be imagined or duplicated.

When the mental image of the python is clear and sharp in your imagination, turn the majority of your attention towards the mirror, the python remaining on the surface of your mind. Inhale deeply. As you exhale, feel your vision piercing through the darkness in the mirror. Repeat this, sensing that with each breath the mirror is becoming more alive and responsive to your visual probing.

Know that the pythong is not a thing created by and existing in your mind, but is an entity independent of your brain's electrical currents. Know that the serpent could now be seen in the xcrying mirror if only that sight were fully restored. Like a child playing make-believe, imagine that the body of the pythong is swirling on the surface of the mirror. Look deep into the mirror and imagine the form of it, project the shape of the snake onto the black glass. Usually, its at this point that the scrying senses reach a peak and a plateau, carrying the Sorcerer into the vision until he has seen all. As the image which was once in your mind is

projected into the mirror, the surface of it will seem to darken, and perhaps to deepen, in the same manner that it filled with white fog at the onset of scrying. It can then be considered that your scrying senses are fully awakened and receptive, and need only to be dialed in to the right frequencies to see what lies beyond the glass.

The first real success in scrying may come as a sharp and colorful mental impression of the serpent in the mirror, not originating from the mind and being projected into the mirror, but seen as originating from the mirror and being projected into the mind. The Operator will be able to watch the snake move and squirm, and may even communicate with him in these movements, the mind perceiving what the eyes cannot, his imagination having released its control and the perception simply picking up where the creative mind left off. While some may achieve such clarity of perception in their first few scrying attempts, this manifestation in itself is more likely to take several days of disciplined practice.

Continuing to scry into the pythong, or into anything else with the same focus and discipline, again and again, will eventually bring the external senses into alignment with that which is seen by the inner mind. Once the serpent can be seen in the mirror as clear, colorful and independently animated either by the eyes or the inner sight you may leave the serpent be, and retire the sigil of Sastan in the appropriate manner, giving verbal thanks for his assistence in awakening your senses thus far. The mirror should be covered in black cloth, preferably silk, and should be put where it will not be seen, touched, or damaged.

Lesson IIYou will learn here how to interact consciously and often using the physical senses with the energetic vibrations of others. Begin by placing your right hand about an inch off of a person's skin. You can do this while giving them a hug, patting them on the back, or in many other casual connections. Allow your hand to linger just an inch from their skin, and turn your attention to the energy flowing from them. Relax your arm, and sense the magnetic push and pull crated by their energy flux. If you're able to do this long enough, you will find that their energy reaches an "event horizon", or a near-solid point in their aura.

Once you have felt a person's energy in the above manner, now practice seeing it. You may have caught yourself doing this unconsciously, and have simply shaken it off. Looking at a person at least 6 feet away, look directly into their eyes, even if they do not return your gaze. Relax your mind and gaze at them is if the person was a scrying mirror. Relax your eyes, relax your muscles, and allow your vision to awaken. At first, you will see a glow around the subject's body, which will either be bright or golden. Try to "feel" what color it might be, altough you likely won't see this as the colors are usually to sensitive for the eyes to see.

Report notes, and when you are able to clearly feel and see the energies, we will work on manipulating them in greater degrees with the next lessons.

Lesson III Psychic Vampirism must be learned as a tool and a weapon in your arsenal.

3. When first learning to drain a person's energy, stealing their power for yourself, you may need the help of a willing participant. Simply ask a friend, lover, family member, or other associate for her right hand, which you will hold, palm down, in your left. The right hand moves energy from the self, while the left hand moves energy into the self. As long as you don't have a particularly sinister reputation, most people will have little complaint in going along with whatever you're about to do. Visualize a bright, blue light which fills the body of your subject. Inhale, and feel this light moving down her arm and through her hand, tingling your left hand as it leaves her and enters you. Exhale, and rather than feeling the energy returning into her, sense it sealing itself inside of you with the exhalation, becoming your life-force rather then hers. Continue to pull her energy from her with a deep breath in and seal it within yourself as you breathe out. The first experimentations with vampirism through touch will yield minor results: you will sense a slightly heightened state of mind and sensation and your victim may notice a slight dizziness or tiredness. With each feeding of this type, you will find that you are able to drain more energy from your victim in a shorter amount of time, soon far surpassing the hight that was once achieved through blood feeding.

4. Once you are able to pull a considerable amount of energy from your victim as you shake her hand or touch her shoulder in passing, you will have little use for this specific method of psychic vampirism. Using the same visualization and breathing techniques as before, stand next to an unknowing victim, not touching her but sharing a close space, begin to drain the life from her, in a manner similar to the above practice, inhaling as the energy is pulled from her and sealing it withiin yourself as if it were your own. It may initally require more mental concentration to achieve the same result, but should be much easier to master than the previous method. Each time you feed from a victim in such a way, put more space between the two of you. Soon, you will find yourself feeding from one specific person across a room, or as you pass subject after subject on the street.

5. Feeding from a victim through eye contact is best practiced when you are in a position to be sitting with others for an amount of time. Good testing grounds are restaurants, classrooms, pubs, ad a classic feeding ground is church. A Vampiric Adept with whom I would Work and study with in a Blood Temple took every Sunday morning in a Pentecostal church, feeding from the energy that was being flung in every direction. Select a target who is seated close by and is facing you. Begin to feed from your target in the same way that was learned when practicing psychic vampirirsm through close procimity; it is rare for her to not look in your direction when he is being drained by you. When she does, hold eye contact with her as long as possible. The moment your eyes meet, sense a definite link being established between you. Visualizing this link as a blue ray of light may be helpful. You will find a greater pull of power from her through her eyes then ever before. Maintain eye contact as long as you are able to, pulling her life from her through the gaze. Lookin into another person0