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Egohood
EstabliBhlng
the
Ego
(I)
Lesson
III.
EsUblisblng
the
Ego
(U)
17
Lesson
IV.
Establishing
the
Ego
(III)
25
Lesson
Lesson
V.
VI.
Lesson
VII.
Lesson
VIII.
Lesson
IX.
Lesson
X.
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LESSON
EGOHOOD.
In
the
"Arcane
individual
Force
but
is
in
the
SPIRIT.
is but
is
rateness
creative
Life
but
XII
Life
and
relative
fiction
of
the
of
there
is but
is manifested
You
earned
"
has
have
also
seen
not
given
as
right
of
the
informed
Personal
Egohood.
universal
but
few
the
even
Egohood
natural
^os
Egohood
that
are
is the
Perception
and
the
"
In
the
Cosmic
and
which,
by which,
is evolved
Egohood
universal
birthright,
is evolved
Ego
men,
among
is earned,
gift. Many
eral
gen-
XIII
from
the
sonal
Per-
possesses
many
fail to
bestowed
not
personalities
and
or
Aphorism
As
race.
living thing
Every
Self, but,
Sepa-
"
in
"The
you:
Sell
you:
Many."
the
natural
or
partial illusory
and
Life
Will
Lives.
Cosmos.
One
the
and
informed
Many
Will
Cosmic
has
not
that
seen
Consciousness
Principle,
Aphorism
One
have
you
Centre
great
As
"There
Lessons"
reach
as
are
an
born,
evolved."
state
of
Realization
Realization
of
the
of the
I AM.
Ego
As
"
an
ARCANE
old
"
writer
English
avoid it
the
not,
or
of
the
ciousness
that he
and
be
is informed
reallyhave
race
this
within
fullyaware
of
imagine
cannot
that
awareness
them.
one
will reveal
iirst glimmering
from
being
have
no
of
point out
must
the
to
how
The
of
of
metaphysicalinquiry
extended
we
intention
or
it may
be
very
consciousness
you
"1,"
the
have
can
the
littleself-
Consciousness
the
con-
will insist
He
Self-Consciousness,which
of
desire
the
very
or
the existence
any
and
but
that
covery
dis-
the
to
surprised,incredulous
is
person
of the I AM
is
which
world."
new
average
of
to
time
that
"
in
try
we
realitysome
^phood
own
indignant when
even
few
our
"Whether
face this
must
we
say 'I,'and
us
The
said:
once
reality of
makes
FORMULAS
showing
entering
into
an
but
pages,
is not,
Egohood
you
We
Egohood,
in these
what
is far
as
it is, and
what
acquired.
merely
the
in
elementary
of
feeling.
sensation
or
degree of
awareness
life-forms
The
atoms
have
manifest
of
(consciousness)
other
fatnt
atoms,
EGOHOOD
which
is
evidenced
There
is
in
of
of
consciousness.
animal
objectsof
them
and
food
for food
the first,
and
evolutionaryscale
of
the lower
has called
The
give us
or
degree is
may
knowing
of outside
also of the
body.
awareness
toward
Rising in
the
the
higher animals,
find what
we
science
cated
is indi-
which
objects,
accompanied
of
reascmingregarding
other
higher animals
of this form
race,
further
of consciousness,
one
many
in the scale.
be described
that
seek
which
forms
the human
having advanced
own
degree
example
typical
developedof
and
Among
of men,
lesser
of
grees
constantlyincreasingde-
which
bttt not
an
second.
of outside
awareness
greater
them.
forms
ties
activi-
their
cell-forms
"simple-consciousness,"
by
that
by
other
the
find
we
of consciousness.
and
The
crystals
consequentlythey move
from
away
in
and
and
"
repulsion.
The
degree
building-up form.
the lowest
and
a
affinity
higher degree
still higher
of
attraction
chemical
elementary
manifest
in
as
kntmis.
state
It is
sciousness
Simple-conof
a
knowing,
ness
conscious-
the
physicalsensations ariung
senses,
in one's
ARCANE
But,
him
the
as
FORMULAS
advanced
man
of consciousness
degree
"self-consciousness,"in
him
to
comes
and
he
"
Not-SeH,
the
he
begins
to
understand
hy
means
the
begins
The
of the
but
limited
misty
than
take
themselves
gaze
inward."
these
ide^
race
knows,
for
As
thinks
his
men
fellow
this stage
chine"
ma-
is
and
gins
st^^, be-
attitude.
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in detail-^ur
They
the
sciousness,
simple-con-
its scale.
cannot
more
turn
never
in order
We
He
have
never
Self -consciousness,like
degrees on
only
gist
leading psycholo-
and
granted,
not
this self-consciousness
mental
Self
outward.
as
persons
of such
the
knows.
in this
well
possess
varying degrees.
consider
he
degree.
"I"
"knowing
gaze,
"Many
he
has
as
of
it. He
he
mental
as
sense
that
has many
study
to
that
of which
majority
but
know
to
is known
between
understands
itself inward
turn
to
he
as
but
to
the
which
differentiates
knows,
consciousness.
which
to
came
to
pause
One
has
perceive
here
to
is with
concern
higher degrees.
In
make
general
the
clear
and
way,
and
in order
distinction
between
self-consciousness,we
that
}rou
may
sciousness
simple-consuggest
that
EGOHOOD
think
you
of the former
world, and
laner
as
former
and
an
be
may
the latter
evolved
arc
meHtal
and
a
consciousness
of
as
"
mind.
own
conscionsness.
the
Ego-Consciousness,or
and
attained
which
the mental-consciousness,just
be styledspiritual
consciousness.
For
the
Ego-Consciousnessis reallythe
ness
of
in
Spirit,
more
than
of one's
own
others and
"
an
or
body
other
as
things.
own
as
an
awareness
awareness
not
Realization
distina
It is
from
more
of
Egohood,
'^
the bodies of
than
when
mind, even
even
this
the
ness
aware-
are
awareness
is carried to
those who
there
higherdegrees.
of one's
awareness
ccKisdous-
elementarydegree
an
^^Consciousness,
is
sciousness
con-
cal-conscio
surpassingthe physi-
to, may
other and
men
higher stage
alluded
many
of
the multitude
have
"
the
Or, the
who
Egohood
side
out-
physicalconsciottsness,
there among
few
of the
awareness
of one's
thoughtof
as
an
physicalbeing,and of
own
awareness
But, here
of
one's
as
plane of
consciousness
rather
of Individuality,
to
be stated
than
an
of Personality.
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Personalityis
FORMULAS
but
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the
used
Your
Greek
"the
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awareness
imagine
becoming
or
of
the
that
he
an
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and
by
is
the
are
something
on
idea of
off
shakes
more
awaken
you
than
to
"John
to be in
reality
used by actors."
is
Individuality
that he is above
III,
something
more
he
the plane
he
seen
character,or "mask
of
man
when
personalityis
Richard
clearer
When
"
play that
is
If you
or
of the
conscious
enacting.
gain
may
personal
own
in the
wrapt
character
Consciousness
man
he
really is Hamlet
you
you." And,
and
aware
realizes that he
assumed
then
of your
forgettinghis
Consciousness.
assumed
The
"a
Personalityis merely
is
play
of consciousness
Smith,"
the
actor
and
illusion,
than
but
of
earnest
Personal
the
rived
de-
part of
of
actor
an
Mephistopheles,
the state
the
as
the
so
imagines
"person" is
the
Smith
awareness
the characler
can
John
ccHisciousness
or
character, just
of
said in
have
we
persona, meaning
personalityis merely
consequently,the
an
word
the One
by actors."
playing
are
As
from
mask
in which
the characler
an
ness
aware-
charac-
EGOHOOD
ter of
Personality that
and
Force
teUectual
these
of
with
in
are
that
anything
be
be
is
that
be
teaching to
teacher.
which
has
mere
in the Cosmic
Centre
Important
tower
the mountains
The
individual
he
^justas
"
experienced.
that
he
is
and
body
than
more
mind
No
mere
understanding
will
knows
Ego-
an
must
that
"
must
indeed, he
For
He
Spirit
or
as
realizaticm,
tb^
individual
Life
tn-
that effect,
must
This
the
Knowing.
an
Life.
than
more
the
some
foot-hills above
of Ccmsdons-
Cosmic
approaching
know
Centre
One
acquiescencein
steps
but
the
however,
agreement
an
are
in
must,
awareness
or
he is
"
ness
realize
he
intellectual
is,
quiescence
ac-
experience of Egohood.
It is
Cosmic
not
Consciousness"
identitywith
Egohood,
the
This
The
Individual
ation
',
that he
for
necessary
"
by
Spiritas
have
must,
an
slow
whole
a
his
of
"
to
gain
higher stage.
Ego"
Many
and
experienced
awareness
experiencebelongsto
attains Egohood.
and
the
or
Cosmic
to
one
spiritual
entity,before
grow
he
gradual steps
"
FORMULAS
ARCANE
be
dragged
blooms
point,and
one
there
"
to
strugglingwith
the
they find
only,the
these
If
you
and
hunger
you
know
that you
throw
off the
are
tion of
Key
Egohood
must
is the Essence
centre
are
Personality
these,and
to
"
if
they attract
into effect
then
"
are
ready
to
bindingyon
back.
proceed,you
Spirit,
you
of
who
exercises,herein given,
sheaths
confining
of Power.
pointor
ready
and
ready
and
personality
off. To
put them
to
usefulness of
Egohood,
holdingyou
we
and
must
"Hie
important
an
are
confiningbonds
methods
appeal
As
who
many
hard to throw
will
and
depends the
enter
which
are
here is
and
throw
preparedto
"
which
upon
these lessons
But
cannot
plant developsand
the
as
naturally,
into flower.
lines. One
pulledup
or
into it
grow
aloag natural
be
velopment must
will
see
Before you
can
"
m'e
The
the
of
Spirit Spirit
Ego is a focal
in that Essence.
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LESSON
IL
ESTABLISHING
To
"establish"
steady, firm,
tioa;
imparts
mastery
settlement
and
of the
Arcane
all
Ego, by degrees,
untH
at
of
the
of
must
become
all
the
last
at
under
found,
it
may
becomes
take
ever
life
"
and
the
Ego.
firm
ness
conscious-
self with
which
of
consciousness,
Once
never
leaves
of
Strength
one
the
Ego-Consciousness
conditions.
from
thai
Neophyte
awareness
natural
Tower
refuge
from
the
and
all
the
this
develop
habitual
and
times
instruct
one
oldest
of
power
identifici^tm
Teachers
first of
may
and
sense
foundation
the
"
the
Self.
The
he
the
authority;"
of
one
founda-
establishing the
called
steady
Ego
with
and
tnalce
to
firm
upon
Formula"
"
(I.)
firmly ;
fix
or
place
to
is this
Occultism
to
settle
permanently
Therefore
known
the
stable;
ordain
to
etc.
Its
is "to
or
EGO.
THE
the
may
firmly
Once
one.
in
which
trials of the
safely defy
sonal
per-
the
things of personality.
9
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10
The
a
Formula
is that of
is
is not
Ego
superior to and
students
who
have
Consciousness
escape
the
physical organism,
or
of them.
master
entered
the
Even
of
plane
The
physical body.
thb
fully from
those
Mental-
requireadditional drillingin
completely and
for
body
ing
acquir-
absolute realization
clear,distinct,
positiveand
that the
but
FORMULAS
order
the bonds
of the
is
following exercise
to
mended
recom-
purpose:
EXERCISE.
Let
Neophyte place
the
from
away
the
of
the
himself
disturbances
outside
in
fluences
distractingin-
and
world.
Let
him
body;
the
first the
During
of
body
body
by step, until
aware,
the whole
the
assume
fr"Hn muscles
nerves.
at
qu^et place,
has
as
been
process
by degrees,that
whole, and
the
move
the brain
this
upon
then
attention
included
his
physical
beginnit^
upward
unti].
in attention,step
is reached.
the
he
is
Neophyte
a
will become
Something
consideringthe
of being
inside of
latter in all
identical
with
the
ESTABLISHING
There
body.
will be
that the
body
in which
the
has
Ego
found
realization
Stage,
in the
of
stage has
Neophyte proceed
the
to
the
Nec^hyte
tools
or
instruments
physicalform.
realize that
and
and
the
would
undisturbed
Then
Ego
not
still be
stUl be
in its real
bring the
after
the
walk
may
but
in
there, attached
fully existent
of
useful
Ego, unimpaired
indispensableto
as
being.
entire lower
fixing them
Neophyte
but not
next
were
would
Ego
tools,the Ego
and
let him,
if his feet
the
the
whereby
Then
even
body,
in
quired,
ac-
his attention
concentrate
now
the
pro"
been
upon
to
but
consciousness,
degree
this
physical
follows:
as
Let
the
may
of
of
the
all at once,
come
and
upon
sheath
which
conveniences
then
realization
garment
ficiency and
11
dawning
or
"
for the
gradually dawn
EGO
physicalenvelopeor
the
dwells
Ego
assumed
life. This
will
is but
THE
the
"
useful
being
and
are
and
ments
but instru-
important,
realityof
the
'ARCANE
him
Ego, Let
FORMULAS
that if these
see
Then,
still be,
physical life
and
uses
let him
"
in
them
even
if that
part of
the
let the
while
organs
that the
being, existence
and
and
let the
organs,
the
realizingtheir
to
purpose,
of
Ego
upon
himself
realize that
removed, and
would
in
similar
be
istent
fully ex-
value
the
Ego
would
Neophyte
and
in phyutility
sical
they,too,
for
are
certain
but
poses,
pur-
unimpaired
in
they absent.
likewise
etc., and
usefulness
and
dwell
were
reality,
lungs,
sider
con-
manner,
"
physicalinstruments
chest
integrity
being.
realizingtheir
life,let him
thus
were
Ego
Neophyte,
the abdominal
Then
the
dependent
way
body
the
in its entiretyof
and
no
that
consciousness, and
missing, nevertheless
and
the
impOTtaot
"
Let
from
"
into attention
purposes
realize
Then
istent
fully ex-
them.
there
not
were
complete and
Neophyte bring
let the
pelvicorgans
to
limbs
consider
while
respecting
wonderful
the
ability
adapt-
Ego would
ESTABLISHING
be
THE
let the
real
thought, and
be
impossibleto live
without
Ego
these
would
reality,with
Then
body,
one
fullyrealize
created
Ego
organism
for
in
out
and
and
true
and
sense
"
these
mental
over
the entire
its parts
process
being
the
"
has, in
to
a
which
apart
of
is but
the
Ego
that the
activity. And,
body.
all of
which
through
of the
performing
organism
the
let him
But
machinery
independent of
in the
through
absent
instrument
physical life.
and
physical body,
into
body
Ego" complete,existent, in
is above,
the mind
it would
in the
were
the wonderful
"
physical life
After
machinery
although
still if they
the
the
"
physicalbeing
of sense;
machine
manifests
as
the considers'
integrityunimpaired.
Ego, adapted
the
realize that
oigans,
let the
as
or
organs
organs
convolutions
then
still be
to
on
pass
its various
and
of
if these
even
Neophyte
centres
13
absent.
were
its brain
EGO
from
for it may
the
dwell
exercises,throw
body
purpose
and
of
into and
this
cluding
con-
become
devital-
FORMULAS
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ized
during
that
you
that
it is but
used
by
of the
a
or
able
make
before
was
and
You
analyticalprocess.
will be
vitalityand
it
the
to
it stronger
and
instrument,
directed
find
with
virile than
more
will
realized
once
machine, which
or
The
by the Ego.
is
realization
new
of
power
energizingand
part thereof.
any
of the
body,
tends
Throwing
supply of
After
the body
vitalizing
direct to the
to
Vril
or
having
it
gained,
been
has
particularparts
an
increased
Vital Energy.
mastered
satisfactory
degree, let
the
above
the Neophyte
exercise
pass
to
to
on
the
following exercise:
EXERCISE.
Let
body
and
practicewill
thus
it is
dwell
gaze
upon
enable
one
apart
grasped
this
from
to
do
the mind
bringii^ fullyto
possiblefor
the latter. A
the
^o
it.
When
to
imagination,
the realization
the
the body
possibility,
recognizedas merely
Httle mental
this in
leave
the
mind
will
sical
phy-
ever
physicalmachine,
body
has
that
and
once
after be
sheath \jr
ESTABLISHING
of
covering,
commit
the
the
THE
Ego
and
"
EGO
will
one
15
again
cever
the
physical body.
To
those
who
of
the
exercise
the
that
reason
objectthat this
may
for
"one
we
imagine anything"
may
as
dead.
all that
instructed
was
be
imagined
physicalbody
the
always
let the
behind
"...
his
Thou
body
alone
the
impossible
"
either
soul
in either
"
which
or
it
case
bodies, one
Neophyte imagine
himself
length
at a
as
as
Holmes
are
by life's unrestingsea."
imagine himself
occupying
(1)
else
being
being
other
Let
and
him
ing
leavsays:
grown
out-
then
different
himself
physicalbody, until,as
at
shell
and
imagine
the
alive.
Then
about
to
whereby
(2)
Test
that this is
is dead, while
physical body
stands
try
to
can
an
imagination,proving nothing,
Neophyte
merely
is
independent of
the
etc.
Ego
is
This
wilt
bring
something higher
particularphysical shell
or
i6
ARCANE
machine
at
that it is
time
one
will the
FORMULAS
considered
The
despisehis body
"self." The
period of
the
of
half-truths,and who
great mistake, and
againstit.
"
treat
many
over
would
wild
it well, with
Temple
it
worthy
Keep
it clean
it be
Do
This
is
Neophytes
bridgewhich
do
"
of the
and
not
grasped
value
under-
not
lovingregard and
is the
Let
all
is the
stream
physicalbody
one.
bodies.
warn
The
a
expression
have
who
despisetheir
we
for
of the Ego.
physicalbody
The
is carrying you
it
so
his
well cared
respected and
the evolution
mistake
reality,
against learning to
instrument
necessary
in
seem,
he
is to be
body
for, for it is
make
when
have
"Me."
of "I," or
is cautioned
Neophyte
it may
itself. Then
identical with
particularbody occupied
at this
which
using,and
now
care.
Spirit
in
"
good
worthy dwellingplaceof
make
tion.
condi-
the Most
High.
l;,GOOt^l"J
LESSON
m.
THE
ESTABLISHING
The
Formulas
actual
new
will
of
the
also
experience
may
desire.
him
the
over
he
will
and
build
This
of
to
treat
the
realizes
that
tiie physical
he
body,
realization
make
to
and
is
of
power
be
the
may
ter
lat-
17
realize
or
little
physical body
mind
and
it
will
that
may
also
enable
to
lent
excel-
others
and
will,
he
as
Neophyte
independent of,
will
With
strengthen
of
an
latter.
the
which
his
by
than
the
to
of
his
acquired,
once
he
realize
plane higher
all kinds.
When
is
phyte
Neo-
Ego"
superior
physical bodies
advantage.
fully
care-
functioning, weakness,
able
it up
if
and
any
power,
the
"
the
by
the
to
will
physical body,
wrong
be
he
on
direction
physical
He
that
responsive instrument
most
and
existence.
its existence
irregularitiesof
practice
of
experience
in the
for
indicated
preceding lesson,
physical body,
mastery
employ
in the
sense
mental
of
exercises
(II.)
entity having
He
the
described
and
that
of
practice
EGO.
actually
superior
he
has
to,
the
FORMULAS
ARCANE
command
to
power
of others
But
who
have
let not
the
this
at
Arcane
the
trammels
of
sense
in turn,
of
be
on
to
"
the
discarded, and
its
"
thus
Ladder
do
caped
es-
The
cal
physi-
still higher
higher
sheath
is,
focalizes
upon
its
this
Ego
from
the step of
the
he not
in too
Master
step.
much
each
possible.
haste
to pass
step
you
is
higher
next
as
you
easilyon
ceed
pro-
the
of Attaintment.
Followii^
of
follows
indicated in the
the exercises
up
of the
individuality.But
before
next
has
the
Neophyte,
the
he
Neophytes
build
doing
Personality. Later,
attained
There
their
retardinginfluences
in thus
spiritualnature
-^
"
first free
take
mis-
the natural
Personality
and
and
buildingup
the realization.
make
Neophyte
Teachers
body,
attained
not
the bonds
those
physicalfunctions,and
his
may
Establishingthe Ego,
now
proceed
precedwith
the
as
EXERCISE.
Placing
ease
and
himself
repose,
in
let the
position and
Neophyte
condition
meditate
on
of
the
THE
ESTABLISHING
incidents of Incorporeality,
or
the
Physical Body.
Life
Thinking of
naturallyand
being, one
incidents
For
instance,he realizes
by fire,water,
burned
earth, air
by
vibrations
laid low
of
such
Meditation
will show
might
untouched
or
injuredby
And,
dents,
physicalaccithe incidents
are
through
vibrations.
plane have
"
through
the
any
Ego.
without
efiect upon
In
some
the
that
none
plane of
the
intelligent
nation
imagithat
in his Astra]
fire imscathed
earth
of these
None
and
air without
ether
telligen
imagination in-
realization
Neophyte
through
through
"
"
the
pass
the
in effect upon
are
IncorporealLife.
feet
be
may
Corporeal Life,
of these incidents
water
be hurt
He
These
by sickness,etc.
the
smothered
with
meet
he is brought to
he
into account
etc.
electricity,
Body
cal
physi-
life in
by air, or
as
be wounded,
again, he may
as
that he may
water,
oneself
ether.
or
of
independent
corporealityor
by fire,drowned
19
properly takes
the
body.
of
EGO
without
through
"
hurt
to
terferen
in-
off his
being swept
regard
or
ethereal
of the ancient
Body,
or
embodied
dis-
occult inida-
ARCANE
FORMULAS
body,
and
himself
throw
in his Astral
in the flames
himself
into
things could
not
being
up
bound
Life, the
after
his
on
Astral
"
Of
far
more
the
truth
submit
realized
of
once
and
to
new
and
and
invulnerability
the entire
being and
that
to
the
and
is the
existent
non-
were
is
realization
of
latter must
n"k be
intuitive realization of
attained,tends
of
one
to
to
destroy fear
invincibility
courage,
mastery,
causes
in his
him
the
mere
the
an
sense
Astral
experiencein
gives one
from
physicalplane.
the
in meditation, but
impart
Corporeal
shrink
corporeal things
the actual
it
these
with
the test, joyfully,
to
he
to
form, and
of the
often
convincing than
despised for
that
dreams
course
plunge
fieryfurnace;
in his Astral
would
these
mere
physical
to
reaUzing
the memory
lips,as
form
bidden
was
Not
affect him
precept he would
Ia;^h
lake.
with
of his
the
Neophyte
But
tests.
form
out
of the hottest
from
bottomless
taken
was
which
permeates
radiate power
and
strength.
Likewise
in
will
come
the
realization
that
the
Ego,
wounds,
or
ESTABUSHING
sickness.
have
and
naught
to do
is
gains the
that his
Higher
Life,
and
let
that
actual
Self
incidents
the
enjoined to
until he
all the
with
Corporeal Life,
and
persevere
tice
prac-
experienceand recognition
Self
accidents
what
come
3i
Higher Self,
his Real
"
and
EGO
the
thingsbelong to
Neophyte
The
to
These
THE
of
is superior
"
the
Corporeal
his
will to
physical
ago,
end,
old Arcane
"Well, what
his study. He
similar
the
tale
is
by
street
excited
tones:
"Mr,
will be
in ten
days I"
repliedEmerson, calmly,
shall get
along just as
Century
as
The
dearly
sense
it
can
as
and
be
who
"I don't
understood.
as
must
the
but
it."
be
It may
what
iff"
we
teenth
Nine-
the
Ancient
world
of
The
voiced
predecessorin
realization
see
in
informed
"Well, whal
well without
the Formulas,
practicing
halted
was
Emerson,
Transcendentalist
did his
an
he replied,resuming
Millerite, who
him, in strained
destroyed
to
A
fullyhis invincibility.
told of Emerson,
an
years
coming
was
is that to mef"
realized
thousand
two
over
once
was
Teacher,
truth
Greece.
fore
experienced bebe
realized
given herein.
by
The
of
FORMULAS
ARCANE
22
step indicated
next
tlie Consciousness
Focalizing
is still within
very
consists
one'a
as
It tends
to
about
to
it
tend
to
on
gradti-
gather up
of
Consciousness
the
dissipatedsense
bringingit
actual conscious
existence.
to a
into the
The
of
and
focal
of
point,
realization,preparatory
higher
sense
exercise
following
the desired
bring about
realization
acute
an
being transmuted
individual
plane which
"
Centre
This
Ego.
It
higher plane of Individuality.
bringing
of
the
on
Personality,but
of
realm
ot that
into the
existence
Force.
realm
ths
high plane
allyblends
by
of
will
realization:
EXEBCISE,
Let the
condition,of
upon
and
rest
entities
are
Force.
Let
being
an
but
him
actual
around
Centres
and
position,
then
him
of Life in which
focal
meditate
the individual
Consciousness
of
and
picturehimself, in imagination,as
CENTRE,
which
Sun
which
with
Let
him.
pivot around
around
Let
calm.
in
him
the universe
the
all the
himself
see
moves
infinite world
flight
Let
universe
him
"
the
and
as
volving
re-
the
Central
planets
feel himself
ESTABLISHING
to
be
the
Focal
THE
Centre
of the
indeed, in accordance
axiom
which
informs
everywhere."
the outside
it
that
the
in Actual
realize
of
power
is nowhere
totally immanifest
Existence
"I AM"
to
the
old occult
Cosmos
is infinite
its centre
"
lose all
thought
if he
likes
and
in Full
quote from
of the Arcane
Power.
of his
fullest extent
Lessons
He
Lessons
it to
his letter,
for it affords
phenomenon
Centre.
of
appeared
to
has
written
take
then.
There
reading, the
'I,'and
my
One
Life
was
was
Arcane
to
wheti
the
result
itself from
that my
going
fierceness,clearness, and
such
that all
typicalinstance
notice,'with
with
We
cause
it
of Nothingness, at
Infinity
first
the
us
'wipe out'
disappear within
the
"On
says;
and
see
student
the
of
gard
re-
but
"
of
is
let htm
"
as
him
"The
Neophj^e
this ii
And
HIMSELF
Let
Cosmos.
23
the centuries
us
its circumference
"
Let
with
EGO
an
to
solved
re-
the
'sit up
'I' in
to
sleep,
nation,
determi-
of Nothingness right
Infinity
nothing remaining
but
jusl
'I.'
ARCANE
24
Then
to
rest
made
Life,
the
end
of
the awful
/one
the
separation
of
brings
We
the
conception.
several
at
stages
the
stage
The
should
for
be
used
it tends
Real
Arcane
all
but
to
for
revival
student
of the
It is
should
be used
of
it
the
"I
Ego,
subject
Real
or
of
our
occult
of
the
is the
lesson.
next
of
and
thousands
tremendous
aim
other
of
and
been
AM
goal
the
by
the
Occultists
Its recent
reverently and
with
of
awe.
of
of
use
initiatoryexercises
Statement
I"
exercises,
used
advanced
years.
"I
realization
actual
has
statement
sonal
imper-
statement
the
out
cession
suc-
mediatel
then, im-
Centre, and
realization
of the ancient
rites.
the
from
one
which
Teachers,
lands,
Life
bring
The
Real
the
and
freely in practicingthese
Egohood
Formulas.
Life
This
familiar
now
I had
of its rest.
One
'I'
how
evolution
Individual
the
and
Day,
go
steps in the
realization
forming
could
following,the
or
Life
Manifested
quote
several
out
One
witness
distinguishedthe
Unmanifest."
the
Cosmic
the
be
or
AM"
how
fullyunderstood
at
would
FORMULAS
Being
"
in
is
and
and
LESSON
IV.
ESTABLISHING
In
the
from
the
Self
Self.
Corporeal
spirit of
practice, he
will
consciousness
But
and
by
realize
his
Even
with
true
is bound
highest
when
when
does
the
by
the "I,"
of
closely bound
greater,
the
Only
dom
Free-
toward
the
Ego
is
latter
fails
one
the
ception
con-
to
bonds
of
begin
to
nature.
one
as
loosened,
are
partial
Incorporeal Self.
Personality,
Egohood.
into
same
into
"
the
caught
the
first step
the
of
has
put
the
illusion
nature
and
is but
of
oneself
physical body
evolved
the
its true
more
least
at
Incorporeal Self,
nature
even
has
your
cation
illusory identifi-
the
the
Personality
Just
and
Attainment.
bound
the
Neophyte
realization
this
of
realize
If the
have
or
even
with
Ego
Formulas,
the
directed
mentally freeing
imposed by
or
(III.)
have
we
of
process
restrictions
of
the
the
to
the
lessons
preceding
attention
EGO.
THE
of
the
than
"
Ego,
the
the
illusion
is it further
so
by
The
the
illusion
Ego
is not
physical body
25
it
of
the
bound
"
of the
only
uses
"
poreal
cor-
and
ioral
permore,
but
it
26
is also
ARCANE
FORMULAS
and
greater, than
more,
of
mind, consisting
constitutes
between
great diiTerence
"Me"
of
series of inherited
impressions which
is the individual
the
he
as
he
is in
all kinds.
The
the
the
Ego
"
"Me"
Smith"
"John
force
overwhelming
the
is the
Teachers
the
the
have
bonds
"I"
of
is
bundle
"
is the Individual
mental
ties of
being played by
"I"
The
It is often
cult
diffi-
very
free himself
Personality,
from
so
pletely
com-
self-hypnotizedand
Smith"
"John
several
of
is
part of him.
person
average
race-hypnotizedwith
Arcane
from
disentangleand
to
one
and
is the character
There
The
"
acquired
or
thinks he
reality free
the
"Me."
the "Me
prejudices,tastes, ties,etc.
as
part of
that
idea.
for
Formulas
Personality.
The
Let
us
loosening
un-
sider
con-
them.
Let
the
condition, of
and
him
take mental
the
"What
person
of
"
am
he
in
Let him
I?"
He
Cincinnati,Ohio."
let
self
ask himwill find,
himself
considers
^"John Smith,"
position,
Then
repose.
stock of himself.
question:
certain
himself
restful,calm
self-examination, that
upon
be
Netqihyte place
for
to
instance,
This
"]6hn
THE
ESTABLISHING
Smith"
has
be
to
"character"
of his own,
appearance,
will
others.
certain
likes
He
is tied
from
let him
from
him
set
one
hate,
aside
himself
he would
proceed
as
and
then
another.
himself
"characteristic" and
as
then
be did when
then
Let
him, he
when
As
remains.
that
is back
his
from
He
his
first
"
to
He
as
mental
will find
first one
his
sur-
cherished
sheared
are
well
of
the process
most
remains.
feelings,as
removed
thereof, are
HIMSELF,
HIMSELF
Let
him, in imagination,
another.
"characteristics"
from
divorcing
another
being divested
firmlyrooted
were
Corporeal Self.
and
they
to exist.
cease
like, and
one
imagines
that if
and
him,
first
He
in short.
visualize
dislikes,
things are
himself
certain
kaies
tightby
that these
Then
txxly,be
the
he
"
"characteristics"
away
illusion of
the
of
he supposes
istics.
personal character-
things
tiu'e" and
tak^i
27
which
aside
himself. Laying
the
He
EGO
away
finds
the
objects
vision, he,
Something
of, underneath,
that
and
at
maining
re-
the
ARCANE
FORMULAS
of all these
"feelings"and
28
centre
and
which
been
from
strippedaway
Then
as
full
persistsin
let him,
mentally,in imagination,see
acting
out
well
other
part, which
He
an
instrument
but
but
can
be
and
essential
not
be put on,
and
to
off
same
off
"I"
is
he
in each
will
he
always
will
He
his "Me"
But
behind
be
never
"
and
the "1"
able
to
He
cannot
Self.
that
case.
unchangeable, and
assumes
"I."
will.
at
ful
use-
that could
something
"
other "Me's"
"
is but
or
acter"
"char-
is this habitual
"
but
was
something
remains
shake
the body
just as
affectingthe
may,
self.
Him-
imagining was
being
have
he
"John
old
his
that he may
as
acters,
char-
covering
this "character"
But, try
of other
mental
realize that
the
host
HI,
and
taken
without
exchanged
playing the
covering,so
instrument
an
and
that
see
will
Hamlet, Richard
he has been
will then
self
him-
He
characters.
he has been
as
have
they
him.
Mephistopheles,Micawber,
Smith"
when
vigor
as
"diaracteristics,"
He
of every
every
mask
"character"
he
places
THE
ESTABLISHING
bclore
him.
"1," of which
old
same
He
Self,"I AM
always
lie upon
"I
Seer"
"I"
is
else is
Something
state
ourselves from
but
may,
never
Doer"- the
the
"
Centre.
Divest
never
main
re-
be described
it.
these
We
of sense,
states
it is
it,nor
so
must
ignorance,be
us
is
it,
of
presses
feeling, it im"
cannot
separate
not
can-
nation
set itoff for examiwe
of
denote
terms
or
are
in terms
conscious
are
all
"
be classified
"
examine
everything else
our
inner
"
for where
in
can
not.
directly.We
us
it
It is
to
channel
itselfupon
"
say
that IS.
it. It cannot
through any
one.
is
may
mental
any
things subordinate
are
One
but he
"
Actor
objectiveconsciousness, for
"
of
staUment
"I" is absolutelysubjective,
or
objectiveto
not
always the
It is
or
objective,
with
the
always
ways,
al-
must
that
This
tha^'
"I," that it is
the Thinker.
it of every
Such
not
be the
assert
truthfully
can
NOT."
am
This
always,and
can
one
29
always
this,or
not
am
he
No
his Real
a
EGO
objectiveto
influenced
and
two
in
us
"'/. It
moved
by
ARCANE
FORMULAS
^but when
emotions,etc.
feelings,
our
"
Truth
it turns
or
changes,kills,
these
on
the
know
we
them.
creates
It is at the basis of
Divorce
and emotions
feelings
"
istics,"
"character-
and instead of
ing
seem-
as
appears
givesand
give,but
can
always,and
must
(2)
it must
"the
always
"I DO."
two
say, and
self:
of it-
always say,
the "I" is
"Me,"
The
does
is
always the
same
"
the
belongsto
is changeable,inc("istant,
and
and
"I"
furniture
there is
shiftily;.
nothii^ else
for it to be.
and
stock-taking,"
practicingthis "mental
By
be able to
soon
Other
testifyto the
so
in
"
at
sufficiently
imagination,
different elements
of the
this attainment.
For
of all Attainment.
found, givesus
the
It is the
key
to
one
and
Heart
thing,which, when
ESTABLISHING
The
following
Arcane
Teachers
connection
to
serve
and
loosen
the bonds
the
Let the
Neophyte
his
which
appliesto
which
he
to
himself
most
Existence.
distinguished
or
his Real
times
In
many
name
"
and
were
Self
he thinks
when
such
in short,the
over
with
the
name
himself.
attention
contained
cases
as
again,softly,
word,
reach
the inner
"
"nickname,"
over
name
him
being
familiarlyidentifies
repeat this
thai name,
of His
at
let him
meditation, repeat
"
"Jack,"etc.
or
himself, throwing
if in
name
familiar
or
"Will,"
or
ow"
of the
positionand
Then
meets
this
name"
"Jim,"
him
Am
Personality,
Let
of his
him, in
Let
himself
of himself
in
repose.
centre
In
Individuality.
objectiveworld.
softlyto
he
ties of
of
the
by
identity,as
own
the very
face-to-face.
Uught
recesses
Let
to
calm, restful
outside
mentally into
"short
given in
and
31
Occultists.
upon
the
from
is also
of
meditate
EGO
soar
condition
exercise
with
enable
Self,and
THE
as
the Secret
Neophyte
will
'ARCANE
32
FORMULAS
consciousness, in which
Light Within,
and
He
hears
sees
few
clearlythe
more
strains
the
from
will realize,
as
never
Ega
Rudyard
life,entitled "Kim"
speaks of
Oriental
"Kim,"
"A
throw
people. He
quote from
few
veiy
themselves
their
own
names
over
the tnind
letting-
what
"
is called
"Who
'^e
room,
personal identity.
is Kim"
Kim"
squatted in
rapt from
Kim
all other
at
the
half-secomt"
to
he
his hand
be
"A
before
his eyes,
long-haired Hindu
just bought
peating
re-
selves,
them-
speculationas
to
....
clanging waiting-
the
thoughts, hands
pin-points.In
felt that
dropped
by
again to
over
it were,
as
?"
of
comer
lap,and. pupilscontracted
fti another
and
Asiatics,can
manjr
free upon
go
ness.
of conscious-
state
mazement,
his hero,
describes
people,but
unto
Hindu
book, as follows:
this
white
of
practicefamiliar
this
among
We
"
he
in
moment
would
"
arrive
wounded
shook
folded
from
bird, and
as
those
passing
his head.
bairasi (holy-man)
at
who
had
that moment,
THE
ESTABLISHING
stared intently. 'I also have
and
'It is
one
""What
"
of
33
lost it,'
be said sadly.
Way.'
is
"Thou
EGO
what
wonderini; there in thy spirit
wast
thing thy
sbould know
might be.
soul
I know.
...
Who
but I?"'
and
ner
man-
conversations with
his intimate
letters
friends
and
by repeating his
resemblingthe practiceof
manner
and
of the Hindus
in "Kim"
He
of his
'ance
more,
Sat all
That
and
for
immortality a
dition
con-
"
laughable.
became
than
more-
once
when
alone,revolving hi mytelf
word
which
symbol of myself.
is the
The
mortal
And
Melts
into Heaven.
Were
strange,
But
utter
The
gain of
Were
other
an-
same
son,
my
cultists,
oc-
mentioned
lifted into
was
the ancient
assurgiven a positive
was
nature
spiritual
in which
"And
he
in
himself
of to-day, as
stated that he
in which
world
He
to
name
Sun
Themselves
not
I touched
mine
clearness,and
such
to
"
and
loosed.
was
as
dond
my
yet
no
of
spark, unshadowable
but shadows
shadow
of
in
shadow-
with
ours
words,
wo
rid."
doubt,
,;,"
LESSON
V.
WILI^FOCAUZATION.
The
who
Neophyte
far different
it to
cuUarities, he
of
nature
discovers
which
contrary,
and
it is
do
to
seems
no
In
such
positive"I
and
"I
only
when
and
qualities
we
use
and
come
to
of
this
must
examine
in the
the
terms
AM"
"I
that
extreme
being
the
of
of
the
on
most
is
Ego
is
it is
"
which
that
dowed
en-
all else
There
nature,
Ego,
of
sense
be, asserted.
the
the
moment
Something
can,
the
in
only
about
pe-
something
non-existence.
Not"
had
personal
degree of actualitythat
Am
thing
some-
entity with
always
AM"
ever
potentialsense"
first,last
to
in
he
an
for
mean
is
and
it is
actually existent
question of
forced
not
Self
that
being
stated
only
positivesense.
with
of
that
be
can
is existent
Ego
anything
characteristics
Potentiality. We
the
Instead
distinctlymarked
the stage in
to
from
be.
advanced
Occult
discovered
himself," has
imagined
has
the
It is
attributes
we
Potentialityinstead
35
..Googl.
arc
of
"
FORMULAS
ARCANE
36
actuality. Let
in its
consider
us
this
understandii:^lies the
the firstplace,if
In
understand
the
chology,we
will
the
Ego,
we
solution of many
the
practiceof
attributes,characteristics
be
inseparablyconnected
I" first one
emotion
one
and
and
has
then
then
"Not
and
another; and
strippedthe Ego
there
element
"
is still a
Ultimate
to
Setting aside
as
another; first
then
istic
character-
personal peculiarity
placing them
Neophyte
in turn
in the
after he
finds that
left
Something
final
Element.
Element,
to, and
residuum
an
"
"
irreducible
surd,
or
thing
some-
while
"
it.
and
belong
insoluble
an
which
of
the
ing
aris-
the usual
Ego
the
then
"
the exercises
to
with
feeUng
for Establishing
personal peculiarities
and
another; firstone
I" category
philosophicalpsy-
from
popularly supposed
are
the "Not
of
occult
and
analysists,
sec
which
keen
are
preciseterms
and
little further,for
As
or
or
designated by
algebraical*,
to the
existence
Ego, there
is
no
or
tional
ra-
Unknown
of this Unknown
doubt
in the
JVILL-FOCAUZATION
Occult
Teachings,differ
about
may
which
the
be
may
of any
Formulas,
will
always
"I"
when
when
"
sea,
and
be
cannot
of the latter.
of
things
occult
^ves
"
us
the
"I," which
or
unknown
to
be
"I,"
popular
"
whereby
or
UUiraate
have
we
stated
ultimate
identical
try
to
attributes,
find ourselves
we
Personality,
the
Thus
understand
the
the terms
is found
there
discuss
may
Element
as
element
with
plane of
the
to
way
Philosophicalpsycholt^,
of
the final
of
the
exoteric
and
sider
con-
This
Self.
algebraicalx,
Self, is foimd
highest philosophicaland
psychologicalconception of
the Wilt.
with
transcends
But, nevertheless
term
AM"
this Ultimate
expressed or designated in
and
a
do
belong
all
"I"
the
endow
to
identifyingthe "I."
both
"I
of the self,and
describe
to
then
peculiarities,
Personality,while
of
exercises
The
way.
rience
expe-
"I Amt"
attempt
for these
matter
conscious
the
the centre
at
attempt
we
it is
practicethe
proper
found
we
qualities,or
at
the
respond
by
will
philosophies
modern
moreover,
"
who
in
be
will always
the
as
determined
one
the
But
matter
37
what
equals The
the "I" by
has
Will.
called
been
Let
us
what
considering
then
the
ARCANE
38
highesthuman
FORMULAS
Will.
we
the
vinderstand
may
reaiity.
Brushing aside
of the Will, we
and
Will"
unworthy
as
the
popular conception
h^est philosophical
to
"The
the term
psychological
thought uses
designatethe underlyingEssence
of
Being
ftmdamental
life-mind-spirit
principleof
the
Self.
The
Greek
the
term;
the
it; we
find it so used
the
"
Ancient
Philosophersso
used
eminent
historyof philosophical
thought ; Schopenhauer,
fthe
Nietsche
and
'The
Arcane
Will
with
of
the
Being.
Cosmos
Wundt
used
Teachers
SPIRIT"
The
and
the
is that Essence
in the
sense.
Principleof
identified the
the Essence"
Will
in this
the term
"beingness"
or
individual,which
Spirit,in
is
ever
ing,
moving, changing its manifestaticms,flowing,evolvcomplishing.
proceeding,desiring,attaining,seeking, ac-
Everything,but %
of the
be said
to be
thingsit manifests.
Prof. William
"Buddhism
itself cannot
ity
potential-
and
SturgisBigelow,in
his lecture
on
delivered in Harvard
Immortality,"
f.lK"lc
WILL-FOCAUZATION
39
Mifflin
the esoteric
York), beautifullystates
Company, New
attention
pleasure in callingyour
quotations from
the
said
take
We
immortaUty.
life and
of
great
the
following
Prof.
Bigelow
to
lecture.
ception
con-
says:
"We
all,as
are
Under
existence.
own
in
more
this statement
of
objects
certain
not
perceptioa
sensory
sensations, pleasurable
outside
disturbances
emotions.
closer
passive.
This
inclinations
or
call Will.
pain or emotion;
is always
a
ia
the contrary,
it?
we
subjective and
yet it is neither
on
but
Ask
is
your
never
to
We
and
than
centre
the other
forms
which
say,
part of sensation
their
nor
one
not
Will
It
is
of you,
emotion, but,
being
Will.
of each
time
any-
sensation,
This
,
or
their
are
I feel my
active,
in
we
say, I feel
consciousness
own
of
wholly different
the
to
consciousness
we
passions
aptitudesand
of
Second,
as
painful, originating
or
call
we
classifyas
we
Fourth, of what
character,consciously
bodies
that
ments.
distinct ele-
material
onr
our
clude,
habitually in-
we
or
of
familiarlysay, consdons
we
What
Sensationi
FORMULAS
ARCANE
40
originateoutside and
But
Will
the
is
deeper than
objective to it We
We
consciousness.
and
of
it
We
off and
through
consciousness
the
We
it
examine
form
of
bodies
our
of
the
from
it
Will
We
modify
cannot
its scope.
to
it,but it is
forms
of consciousness
objectiveto them.
never
tv sensati("is,
emotions, or
its
weakness
own
their
or
exists in
inconceivable
is not
form
in any
Will.
There
forms, and,
"
Will
is the assertion of
the centre
form
outward.
If it is
in
what
if need
can
passions,through
When
and
is of
form
we
forms
.
talk of
come
Will
would
with
act
them.
or
freely. The
its offshoots
from
by another
throu|^
immeasurably
the drcumference
B"t
'necessity.'
from
all
permeates
this is opposed
to
It is
active,it
of consciousness
recognize a hindrance
we
It
consciousness
be, create
of consciousness,intrudingfrom
inward,
not
our
overlies
moreover,"
importance, it
more
powered
over-
form.
and
be
necessarilyactive.
is nothing
deeper. It underlies
other
than
other
It may
resistingor directing
them, whether
other
no
objective
are
both
are
other
separate ourselves
cannot
stand
of any
terms
conscious
are
bodies, but
our
is direct
cannot
it in
We
they
cannot
describe
cannot
either,and
separate
intrusive
the
...
not
for these
personal consciousness
is, Uierefore,the
only
WILL-FOCALIZATION
complete freedom
obstacle
to
freedom
of the Will
habitual
and
The
only Will
better statement
Thus
last
we
Beingness of
mould
is'not free
had
persotuU
am.
It is
have
been
Teaching:
in
still
Cosmic
manifest
back
from
words, he finds
"
how
Tlie
sence
Es-
the
and
it
as
is moved
Arcane
prior
to
cause
finds himself
Will.
Chain
which
of
precedentcauses
remote
at
last
con-
Essential
the
XII, of
Lesson
more
Potential Infinite-M
of
"
thus do
always.
frcmtingthe
Andj
all fonns
and
may
LAW
Running
to
or
Plastic Essence
the
Being"
The
said
Ego,
AIl-Acdvi^
we
Will
is the
is in the nature
all
pleases,under
to
plete
com-
able.
interchange-
are
analysis,WIIX.
Activitywhich
and
terms
at
of
cause,
The
we
As
the
from
"
do
of
of consciousness
that
possiblehmnan
may
of consdoua-
Descartes
I am.'
.JComplete
Will
complete freedom
of the Will.
imperfect formula
an
the
freedom
Will.
is
of
complete freedom
and
neas,
41
sonal
Per-
confronting his
by
of Desire
Desire.
In
other
extendingfrom
the
ARCANE
42
Cosmic
Will
to
FORMULAS
"
chain of countless
"
an
Thereupon
Secret
Chain, because
Endless
of
he
the
Middle, and
Excluded
of Cause
is made
indeed
become
two
thenceforth
ends
of
Will.
of the
In this
Ego.
the Cause
of the
Circle.
From
it is
of WiU"
violated,
the
this is attained"
Cause
then does
the Master I
l;,GOOt^l"J
LESSON
THE
In
Secret
the
most
Secret
of the
spiritof
this Secret
XX,
Aphorism
and
principle
"
"
to
WILL
the
Centre
learn
may
it. He
passive to
may
rises
are
of Will,
plane
yet he
Will
"
learn
and
to
above
the
of
use
create
he
the
Balance
He
inner
refer
plane
us,
to
you
to oppose
Desire
may
man
the
upon
of Desire.
the
under
instead of
Law
same
On
being Reason.
Law
by Will.
"
WiU.
the
informs
enters
of
ancient
"When
remains
one
learn
may
us
of
the
opposite poles of
though
to
Let
one
Keystone
grasp
that:
us
"
Desire
He
informs
Will, and
the
as
to
place.
Individuality Egohood
of
of the
Aphorism
Mastery."
this
at
who
the
as
are,
is
formulas
regarded
was
Those
to
Aphorism
EUtains
the
road
Um
on
The
It
Arch,
Mystic
This
Teaching
Arcane
or
referred
we
Middle.
fundamental
and
fraternities.
the
plane
MIDDLE.
Excluded
ancient
Doctrine
occult
"well
EXCLUDED
the
of
VL
learn
to
he
LAW,
remaining
to
laws.
more
Furthermay
learn
complete
the
43
[;;.i;Ki;,G00gle
ARCANE
44
Circle of Will.
He
Middle^
is well
man
We
may
When
Cosmic
Will, which
the
Cosmos
has
evolution
been
has
principleof which
unbroken
an
Cosmic
Will
Centre
'
we
of
realize that
with
or
the
Focal
have
and
individual
'T'
Will
Personality
"
so
is but the
of
the
to
nature.
the
deluded
by
from
the
ized
focal-
this
broken
un-
Will.
is conditioned,
identity
or
entangled is
is
the accumulated
active
Individual
or
of
Will.
end
it is identical in nature
Point
the
latter is but
hampered by
own
has
Law
that there
bow
seen
the
seen
evolutionary growth,
separateness
have
under
doubting its
even
We
Sequence extending
find the
we
Principleof WILL,
Desire, which
bound
restricted,
sheath
We
of
At the personal
But
of
has been
of Will
chain,
is the
Logical Sequence,
of Will.
to
is learned,
progressed
chain
cluded
of the Ex-
Mastery."
evolved.
and
Orderly Trend
negative pole
to
in the Arcane
seen,
the
this
the road
on
have
FORMULAS
extent
The
"I"
and
it is
of
idea
fails to
substance
a
Centre
it in the bonds
of
"John
THE
Smith"
on
the
has
ideas that
of
The
Indra
Pottage
Hmdus
who,
"
in the
and
all
of
his
of
was
that he
self
him-
"I
but
squealed out
am
his
gods
god, steppedforth
in
a
his
wrath.
god"
let
to
out
me
repel
tried
Finally thev
in all his
ish
swin-
grtmted
continued
and
sorrow
pitiful
not
He
pig, not
he
low-gods,
fel-
of the pig-stale,
lost
The
his
and
pig-mate,and
tilled his
the
out
come
pig.
was
thoroughly
was
illusion
and
They persisted,
destroy
"
of littlepigs. He
in the mud.
wallowing
They
the
his
at
to
them.
to
gods
himself
unto
identity,and
him
denial, saying:
he
brood
took
alone !"
the humble
of the great
one
He
pig.
own
grieved
It
Personality.
of
raised
hypnotized with
creature
Birthrightfor
tell a tale of
body
tellinghim
pression
states, im-
following a caprice,incarcerated
pig mate,
sense
of mental
Mess
scious
con-
thing apart
45
that it imagines
characteristics,
and
nature
itself to be
MIDDLE
EXCLUDED
lol Indra,
gloriouspower,
and
ARCANE
46
in astonishment
laughed
and
teachers
their Real
A
as
the
occult
ancient
(the
illusion
in the
as
the
strong
its
growth,
that
of the
increases
has
path
of power
And
then
must
must
to
be endured;
perilous ladder
may
not
that
-energiesof
in the
which
your
present
nor
will enter
thing out
leads
the
to
last.
be
soul upon
the
to
the
upon
It
numerabl
in-
this
of his heart.
This
life of
ordeal
path
But, O
endured, and
the task.
future, but
ages.
the whole
at the
come
for
plant
himself
unto
utterlydissolved.
it may
it has
this
the
Only
wait
it is
And
be
until
come
who
disciple,
must
throughout
He
tear
his heart
seem
man
weak
acctunulated
existences.
the
The
it.
expunge
of desire.
man
oa
of
source
heart
man
the
and
PersonaUty)
when
little com-
her
in the heart
kill it out
can
lives and
dowers
parable,the
teachings,entitled "Light
of
in
fruitfully
well
writer, in
"Seek
Path," says:
It lives
this
By
impress upon
well-known
evil
Self.
of
pilaticMi
the
when
d^ree
Hindu
FORMULAS
of
life; it
member
disciple!re-
fasten
Live
in the
the
neither
eternal.
THE
This
EXCLUDED
giant weed
eternal
thot^ht.
the way,
when
so
he
by
out
the
Each
firmly,and, by
the
is to MmseK
man
his whole
grasps
But
life.
solutely
ab-
he is
only
individuality(personality)
force
his
of
awakened
with
himself, but
not
as
pain created
which
for his
he purposes,
to
intelligence,
reach
obeisance
bums
within.
you
when
you
become
The
"
the
the
of
the
have
found
Will
But
"
this exclusion
of
ity
beyond individualthe profound
the
to
dim
watch
Then
worship,
and
you
the
that
star
may
know
And
way.
lightwill suddenly
light"
connecting links
the Cosmos
you
has
means
by making
Paraphernalia
Individual
life
soul
by
be
beginning of
the
infinite
and
use,
it
stronger.
grow
of
between
the
"
"I"
By excluding it,the
with
Seek
Steadily,as
found
the
that
to
own
which
thing
that
his growth
as
(personality).
he
is
atmosphere of
very
truth,and
the
49
cannot
is wiped
existence
MIDDLE
One
is
the Cosmic
Being and
relative
and
the
"I."
in consciousness
merged
attains Cosmic
only
Will
"
Consciousness.
it is merely
an
ARCANE
46
in
exclusion
consciousness, but
regarded, then
realization
the "I"
while
nature
so
with
the Cosmic
to the
degree
process
Will, and
and
of exclusion
that
remaining
and
according
act
recognition. This
the
is slow
an
identity
and
is able to
strengthof
it
gradual
"
begins
with
an
then
gradually evolves
experience
and
into
broader
greater and
realization
along The
illusoryin reality.When
is fictitiousand
this middle
it is
FORMULAS
the
as
Neophyte
gresses
pro-
of Attainment.
Path
'
Middle
By excluding the
the
that
meant
Individual
of
personal instruments
he
contrary,
previous
only
should
expression
begins
then
old occult
good for
Aphorism
the
informs
Individual
good enough
Personality
that
and
life. On
use
them.
things of
to
to
use
"
he
does
having
freed
not
learns
to
use
"
the
do
need "them
"All
us:
to
this realization,
the
to
using
cease
but
set
without
to
remain
For,
As
of
n(me
aside
his
the
the
things
Individual.
to
not
ity
Personal-
have
are
Personality,it is
or
them
The
the
them
"I."
"
arc
vanced
ad-
things
^learns
Then,
thctn, he
re-
THE
and
turns
MIDDLE
EXCLUDED
49
and
and properly,
them, intelligently
uses
This
positively.
Mastery and
"To
die
Yes,
to abandon
"
than you
more
came.
conceived
ever
as
sible
pos-
All ideals,plans"
selfish all hopes and
desires.
"
Modes
of
best and
the very
even
To
un-
life,habits,predclictions,
periorities,
preferences,su-
weaknesses, indulgences
word
most
...
in
one
die
For
this into
All
to
be
the world
came.
you
abandoned,
when
and
they have
been
finallyabandoned,
Then
used,
to be
to return
to be
Be not
free and
used
for
open
t^ desire;
torn
one,
it has been
then only ta be
sullies the
rightly
ever.
caught
remove
Return
and
"
to
no
asking nothing;
In the calm
lightof His
splendor who
universe,the imperishableindestructible of
Dwell
thou
"
as
thou
canst
fillsall the
ages.
dwell" contented.
to be used.
l;,GOOt^l"J
ARCANE
50
using be
in
Yet
ready
thy body
is carried
along
and
in
ponring
ottt
Let
speed
that
"
thou,
not
anything, but is
sun
precious thing by
confusion
any
and
sufiering.
and
and
all sides.
on
and
sea
of
with
sweeps
be
opposites,
incredible
not
all,
So while
law
of
fears
nor
light-housebeam
over
passion, say
times
of Death
as
at
that" ;
or
down
For
at
of
al-i
suffering,,
happen
roust
the wind
not
drawn
on
needs
as
for then
themi
thee
cause
For
'~
"
will
in
'
and
entangled
not
are
When
free
FORMULAS
of
its
suFering, the
Therefore
I say
high up above
let
in the
world
is fixed in beaven.
confusion
no
be by the
must
cloud
thy
mind
about
this matter;
Bvt
ever
when.
thou
Though
as
in
Lest it tear
The
it admisskin
entreat
thy
true
self.
and
already given
the
rend
vrith the
Middle,
as
thy door.
it hospitably,
duty bound.
Formulas
connection
at
and
grant
Fence
Truth
desire knocks
well
as
thee."
intellectual
the
Secret
the Formulas
to
Neophyte, in
perceptionof
of
the
the
Excluded
follow,will bring
THE
about
EXCLUDED
Cosmic
and
Consciousness,
Identityof
exercise,and
in
Ne"^h7te
51
the
of
of
unfoldment
gradual
MIDDLE
of
Rec(%nition
the Cosmic
others
unfolding into
realization
akin
Will.
the
The
lowing
fol-
to
this c(Misciousness.
EXERCISE.
The
Neophyte, placinghimself
peaceful positionand
the great
upon
He
should
Focal
Point
feel
realize
its
that
Realize
between
Realize
no
mentally wipe
Exclude
Spirit join
that you
are
Centre
of
Will
should
his
inner
is of it,and
he
is
in it.
nothing but
and
real separation
no
of
separation. In
the
less
resist-
Spirit,
He
perceptiblein
the Middle
SPIRIT"
a
out
Spirit,
Established
an
great Ocean
that there
such
Spirit
or
of
movements.
way
tate
medi-
picturethe
and
be
can
as
Spirit(Will)
are
you
rests
should
its thrill is
Spirit(Will).
"
He
and
waves
that you
that there
he
that in every
being, and
great Ocean
of this
power
then
Will, Essence,
as
Centre.
or
force and
and
Cosmic
in which
and
restful,calm,
condition, should
picture it
which
upon
in
Spirit
"
your
tation,
medi-
paraphernaliaof
of Personality and
join
of Force
WILL.
in the
and
sonality
Perlet
Realize
great Ocean
FORMULAS
ARCANE
of Will
"
channel
Will
Cosmic
as
your
for the
expressionof
as
will
growth and capacity
allow.
Realize
that
come
nel
greater and stillgreater and grander chan-
as
you
Energy
Bring
to
and
about
Will, by
Life.
and
muda
grow
and
outpouringof
Complete
the Union
of
that
realizing
the
the Cosmic
Circle
Spirit.Learn
you
or^
of
to
Will.
Will
WILL.
r.lK";ilc
LESSON
MASTERING
The
who
who
"
learned
has
itself in
The
other
thus
art
acquire
of
mastering
emotional
this art
to
Will
to
forms
forms.
and
The
his
by
Poise
and
the
regions of
Opposites
evidences
"
In
the
find
we
one
which
one
individual
who
awakened
Balance,
Middle
phases.
and
newly
also
wishes
Will, and
first learn
must
the
his mental
much
he also does
individual
by the
Egohood
Opposites, however,
his mind
mould
OPPOSITES.
important phases,
its most
to
the
variety of
of
influences
of
learned
Mastery
of
THE
manifestation
has
vn.
In
being.
in the direction
acquiring
of
gainii^
.
Poise
and
Balance, and
have
We
seen
in
in
are,
in
"
the
same
thing
same
thii^r
seen
reality,but
poles of
the
have
"
so
Love
Arcane
The
"every quality,attribute
We
neutralizingRhythm.
condition
or
these
how
the
and
Hard
Hate
and
are
its opposite."
of
Opposites
and
Heat
as
contrasting
and
Soft
seen
that
has
Pairs
different
thing. Just
as
^just
Teaching
to
are
be
Cold
the
but
are
same
the
53
[;;.i;Ki;,G00gle
ARCANE
54
FORMULAS
contrastii^poles of
same
and
way,
from
the
upon
same
reason,
are
feelings
fundamental
activity
proceedsfrom
Will.
called and
directed
itself must
not
depends
ties.
activi-
in
in
water
as
colored
and
much
as
solved
dispure
is the Will
beginning,so
being not
influence
the
and
emotion
The
of itselt
Will
through
is
or
always
The
Will
but
feeling,
the vehicle
Will is the
'
the
Just as
experiencesthe
speak.
Will
the
chemical
in
feelingoperative
or
for the
I^
apparentlychanged by
of the emotion
it. The
action.
be colored
in the
was
no
the desire,feelii^
be
can
it to
inspires
glass may
There
be identified with
emoti"xi which
never
which
centive
Through the stimulus and in-
of desire,feelingand
water
the oppo-
and
action without
or
all contrasting
but
emotion
in the
All
The
thing. And,
the
same
"
t)Odyof action,which
so
to
clothes
f.lK"lc
OPPOSITES
THE
MASTERING
the
ordinary
to
Will
for
"
nothing
if that
would
order
be
manifest
or
like the
will is
merely
to
Will
itself and
becomes
This
Will
conscious
and
the
mind
the
throne
"
are
of itself.In
it is raised
sceptre of power
be
The
way.
conception of
such
pure
persons
up
Real
and
in
such
to
in
persons
the
Ego-
that
the
Will
remaining centred
"
the
would
identical,then
feelingplane
of
To
when
"
of its consciousness
emotional
the
of itself.When
is attained
the
from
intellect,independent
pure
because
is unconscious
Consciousness
in any
possibili
im-
an
corresponding to nothing
name
experience.
their
there
abstract
object of thought.
be
emotion
attempted
were
it would
person,
feelingand
divorce
left apparent
residuum
to
feelingin
and
itself manifest.
To
the
55
the instinctive
its
plane of
rightfulseat,
Self, and
it
authoritywhich
the
on
upon
assumes
the
reallybekmg
it
When
the
Ego-Consciousness
inmost
nature
is
acquired
to
nothing
more
or
less than
Will,
sees
FORMULAS
ARCANE
Emotion
Opposites of
that the
but
to
several
or
masks
it may
put
interest
It
another, as
has
begun
started
on
move
the
road
with
playing, with
belief that
on
personality,
hand,
the
character
he is the
and
the
in his real
or
change,
as
which
he
he may
is still
emotions
and
he is
character
and
realizes
nature,
dents
inci-
on
that
see
put
he,
its inci-'
emotions, is but
may
the
that the
and
objectivesomething
has
sites.
Oppo-
who
hand;
who
qualities,feelingsand
destroy
and
feelings and
one
individual
assumed
that individual
man
his
the
ual,
individ-
Mastery of The
its emotions
himself, is Will
dental
the
From
Freedom,
of the
himself" ihat
feelingsare
of
the
to
condititm
the
hypnotized
towai^
for
exchange
to the
comes
the
but
fore
place be-
desirable.
or
it suits
as
it may
off and
take
jective
obbut
as
off, as
them
sees
this realization
to
Contrast
other
and
even
but
are
them
sees
which
best
seem
may
when
moment
then
It
on
of character
Feeling
of itself,things
not
subjectiveSelf.
garments which
its fancies
and
on
fit Can
or
you
an
off,
not
difference
aee
that there is
the
contrastingbeing of
not
see
that
Liberated
knows
power
bent
emotion
as
and
do so; of
feelingor
Emancipated
that it is
and
then
repressingit
emotion
changing
love
to
to
one
when
so
and
"
it WILLS
When
to
the
feels the
it suits itself,
it is best to
it suits
dislike,pain
to
joy backward
to do.
that
of its pcries
to the other
hate, like
the
by
"
from
pleasure,sorrow
and
that
expressionwhen
more
"
being,capable of using
own
of
Nay,
Self
emodonal
no
when
using or discardingfeelii^(
its purpose.
you
and
of the Opposites,
"
of its
likewise
Can
acquiredfeeling ^knows
or
means
polesin
the
as
men?
two
the
"
this way
of inherited
57
Slave?
Ego
now
it is the Lord
"
these
creature
wide
as
is the Master
one
OPPOSITES
THE
MASTERING
Ego
a
to
forward,at
do it,and
:t
realizes that
subordinate
and
emotions,or personaltraits
alone
the "Kasidah"
is it Free.
It then
",glc
FORMULAS
ARCANE
58
"Do
what
self expect
He
thy manhood
applause;
lives and
noblest
nonebnt
noblest
dies who
makes
and
keeps
is
Ufe
Phantoms
A
breath,
wind,
ancient
of
where
but
none
voice,
tinkling of the
bell."
heightened
being
sound,
following exercise
Mastery
world
dwell,
Camel's
The
living Death,
wll
realization
the
Arcane
in
Opposites.
tend
consciousness
It is
about
of
^he
from
adapted
modem
Formula,
bring
to
an
fignres-of-speech
used.
EXERCISE.
Let
positionof
the
upon
rest, cahn
indicated
imagine
in
himself
in
balloon
of the earth
fied air.
as
mental
balloon
Let him
reposc
"I."
risingabove
the higher
which
him
con""tioii and
Let
is
all the
off
cast
its attributes,
Then
the lower
let him
planesof
planes of Egohood
rising above
higher regions of
then
meditate
htm
personal self,and
into the
Let
in
previous exercises.
personalitytoward
as
and
of the
real' nature
place himself
the Neophyte
throw
likes and
overboard
the
"
surface
purer
from
rarithe
dislikes;loves and
THE
MASTERING
OPPOSJTES
and
everythingwhatsoever,
either
the
emotions
of
body
or
which
the
even
personalityfor
subtle
more
finallyhe finds
naked
as
as
trials of this
of power
Oppoutes
clothingof
will
the
assumed.
of the
and
Master
This
his
him
Ego
few
sense
new
new
but masks
he has been
pig
god
whose
Owner,
exercise
he
emerged
he
personality
return
to
he has thrown
not
as
will
and
playing, Then
when
gradually
may
of Egohood, and
the
to
of
iota
every
Then, after
come
the garments
resume
hcretofoce.
as
of the
he
of
babe.
off
throw
emotions, imdl
Personalityare
the. character
body
let him
Then
Then
earth and
as
"
the mental
possessed,and
ever
he
from
but
might
the garment
As
long.
so
divested
exercise,will
and
ings
acquired feel-
or
formed
higher
new-born
in Will
nature
he
bad; in short
or
feelingsand
himself
personal charaaer
of
good
have
is
59
had
the
off
"
Slave to them
quicken the
ception
per-
Mastery
of
Oppositcs.
The'
followingexercise
useful in the
same
will
direction.
also be
found
very
ARCANE
6o
FORMULAS
EXEBCISK.
Let
the
himself
Neophyte place
in
upon
and
emotions
of the
experiment
been
of
dominant,
polarityof
and
his
the
He
feelingsand
emotions
constant,
he
as
shifted
being
had
about
from
his
feelingsand
dominating
polarityone
may
in
changed
sites,and
the
change
individual
ruling
to
emotion
the
pain be
shift
or
shift the
him.
ward
will, backthat the
discover
being
fixed and
capable
are
This
emotion, and
change
him
at
far from
tion
emo-
hate has
emotions
Will.
at
some
the
where
Let
supposed, but
polarity,or
mnch
always
of
or
opposite poles
love
will thus
are
its opposite.
into
meditate
imagination,try
versa.
feelingsand
forward.
the
polarityof
of
state
vice
or
in
the
changing
inducing
of
"
realitybut
same
then
are
positionand
exercise
wMiderful
will
power
preventing them
By
shifting the
painful feelingor
tion
emo-
Distressingfeelingsmay
balanced
obviated.
entirelyto
of
with
their
It is not
the
be
opposary
neces-
oppositepole
polarityto
the
opposite in
sufficient
MASTERING
degree
establish
to
and
of
and
of mind
Pairs
of
those
who
and may
shift the
finds
of
polarity
Such
conducive
a
one
to
of the advanced
state
peace
between
the
unknown
to
When
extreme.
is Master
of the
emotion
quietsthe stormy
balanced
Equally
that he
to
on
one
Opposites,
and feelingat
tion
establish the condi-
is well
dition
con-
polarizein either
fullyrealizes
equilibfium,which
is the true
Opposites one
6i
thus create
which
"
or
Balance
occultist.
and
poise and
passion,emotion
of Poise
OPPOSITES
balance
of
state
results in peace
sea
THE
ness.
happi-
,;,"
CODSIC
LESSON
vm.
NEUTRALIZING
In
th"
Arcane
of
the
Teaching
Balance.
and
feelings these
the
physical world.
and
attitude
and
deems
applies the
crest
laws
these
disadvantage,
bis
to
such
wave
be
harnessed
of
and
to
meekly
advanced
as
transmutes
and
he
safety
made
ative
neg-
he
or
ress.
prog-
be overwhelmed
to
rises
on
work
to
being allowed
on
it. The
for
the
overwhelm
to
him.
the
ocean-wave,
rides
of
advantage
of the
and
instruct
activities
else
or
own
great
in
as
assuming
laws,
by
emotion
Instead
as
master
chapter
of
them.
to
the
mastering, controlling
allowing himself
may
The
of
Rhythm,
Teachers
laws, instead
individual, instead
and
Arcane
art
of
of
fully manifest
of
by the laws,
Laws
dence
evi-
the
seen
realm
as
neutralizes
laws
Instead
the
The
yielding
his
to
the
are
toward
either
individual
laws
these
applying
In
in the
Neophytes
bowing
have
we
universality of the
Cyclicity and
their
RHYTHM.
Mastering
the
63
,
in
the
Opposites
are
preceding
equally
ARCANE
64
FORMULAS
When
is centred
and
neutralize
focalized
balance
to-and-fra
movement
of
and
centre
cyclic movements
have
we
Balance
Arcane
opposites,the weights
maintain
the balance
srtes
sites,
oppo-
in
fact
of
rhythm,
presence
many
as
in
of the two
each
of
compensation.
between
see, that
may
the
poles,or
tending
And,
to
Poi"e,
great
So, you
or
circular
Teachings. And,
the
we
poles
two
is
forms
mepely
are
poles or
that
the
of the
ceason
is evidenced
there
between
circumference,
ia the
seen
is able to
in rhythm
(felicitythere
imparted by
movement
ciple
underlying prin-
the
Opposites. For,
the opposites. In
of
in Will, then
the
is that of the
a
Cyclicityand
Rhythm,
rhythm, cyclicityand
find
of
the
poles or opposites.
Oppo-
Rhythm, Cyclicityand
Balance.
The
of
principleof
Polarityunderlies everything.
The
of the
Law
of
Rhythm
Aphorism,
moves
which
to-and-fro in
us
Rhythm,
that:
thing
"Every-
between
its two
NEUTRALIZING
RHYTHM
retreats
On
the
falls in
of emotion
plane
and
feelingthe
We
poles
sad
"
tomorrow
slothful
study
we
of
and
have
and
ebb.
in
tendency
or
emotion.
The
attain
a
of any
The
reaction
from
find that
flyto
to
by
to
mental
states
the
when
emotion
ocean
ever
evident
or
sense
of
desire and
in
indulge
we
an
have
feelingwe
follows
impotency
the
to us
satietyresultingfrom
object of
low, flood
and
high
reaction
and
law of reaction
may
a
out,
reveal
like the
are
ar"
life.
we
degree
glowny
energetic
and
feelingswill
and
find action
Moreover
extreme
active
are
emotional
our
are
the
We
we
are
we
we
01
are
emotions
our
extremes
are
we
of
Law
we
tomorrow
"
power."
To-day
joyful ; today
and
find that
the
emotions.
feelingsor
our
tomorrow
"
between
pendulum
in
with-
R%thm,
Everything advances
within
Rhythm,
65
the
or
or
the action.
revulsion
casioned
oc-
powerlessness
hoped for;
or
else
the attainment
of the
discovery that
it
was
ARCANE
66
what
Dot
expected of
had
we
FORMULAS
of
specialexamples
to
who
one
every
point,have
or
is very
opposite and
depression.
of the
be
This
way
to
extreme
back
and
from
when
to
to
the
the
courage
to
state
same
sudden
state
of
men
suddenly possessed of
the
courage;
anyone.
courage
ing
manifest-
denly
sud-
swung
In the
have
way,
same
found
suddenly
then
they
selves
them-
would
perience
ex-
desperation carrying
soldiers have
experience ot
tion
men-
mere
man
recklessness
The
extreme
other, if either
further
no
of extreme
treme
ex-
to
it to
fear, and
bound
its
find himself
law, many
proceed
treme
ex-
of dire fear.
could
opposite
experience
Many
will
extreme
likewise,
that the
extreme.
they
from
to
back
into each
react
of extreme
us
know
state
to
bound
common
them
so
many
an
the
in
to
apt
causi
is
tendency
carried
fly back
to
an
same
supply
to
startlingrapidity. And,
elation
have
will
if carried
anger,
tendency
with
the
experience of
the
these words
reads
Love, hate,
In
this, for
point
not
examples.
necessary
pole
need
it. We
shown
pitifulfear
and, likewise,
and
dariI^;.
the
bravest
"
we
the
see
tion
reac-
the
NEUTRALIZING
tnanifestiition
of
RHYTHM
bursts
occasional
spurts of
and
reckless
torioos
cowards.
in which
who
man
suddenly overcome
own
lack of courage
performed
that he
deed
won
battle and
was
was
with
that
such
case
revulsion at his
he sprung
to
reckless
rq"ort of the
in the
afterward
no-
coward,
startling,
daring, and
so
ever
of
self-confessed
specialmention
from
personally,know
We,
was
r^arded
as
man
of
highest courage.
the
Persons
emotions
who
live in
revel
in the
backward
indeed
were
swing
which
and
the
person,
feelingdoes
pay
the
-"are
who
grows
of
uselessness.
the
higher
he
travel.
price of
course
finds himself
these
and
regret
The
restingon
or
are
feeling
emotional
in the
who
scale
of
vnllingto
"
so.
the
comes
more
lower
extremes
and hell.
them
Those
free to do
Then
gods.
plunges
the
feelinguntil they
depression,melancholy, remorse,
impotence
plane of
ecstasies of emotional
if they
as
the
of alternate heaven
state
enjoying to
feel
on
principally
dwell
Now
of
67
But
the
individual
FORMULAS
ARCANE
of
play
of
and
master
steps to
backward
swinging
and
and
The
first step in
rhythm
lies in the
rhythm
itself. When
hot
fit is certain
high by
the
the low
fulnesa
and
"
himself
on
poise of
realization
one
be
vice
the
closelywith
so
to
at
their true
to
become
knows
worth, and
involved
that
his
the
does he
In
to allow
short, he
nature, and
were,
and
centres
from
watches
more
that
the sloth-
his Will
followed
take
to
by
his depression
the truth,he
upon
stands
them
feeling. He
excite him
more
positionhe
values
and
refuses
and
tify
iden-
ural
nat-
mere
as
allow
refuses to
to
to
cease
He
nature.
his exaltation
the
"
seriously.Likewise, knowing
refuses
"
depression
regard them
he
cold
of the poles,and,
depression will be
so
the
the
by
of
existence
by
in his emotion
and
stage of reacticHi,
quires
ac-
to
either
and
neutralizing
activityby
vlfrsa, then
stead
In-
between
seeks
of
of
coraes
"
being.
followed
fear
take
to
forward
direction
the exaltaticm
the
by
courage
and
feeling,he
the
to
"
is forced
nature, and
bis emotive
unduly.
his Will
aside,as
of his
it
feelii^s
NEUTRALIZING
and
he
emotions
detaches
emotions,
state
on
himself from
and
lives
may
be
swing
The
plane of
Will.
the
plane of Will,
Tlus
plane, without
his
allovring
tal
men-
the
and
pendnlum
way,
rhythmic
figurativelypictured as
dividual
in-
watching
beneath
Will
him,
to lie-
when
feeling.He
will
rising above
the
the
Will, and
plane
observing
of
by
above
Uie
it
storm
adversely by
acquire a
of
there
clouds
Will
there is Peace
still on
But
the
emotional
this
immunity
to the
Neophyte
to
are
him.
and
fluenced
in-
being
a
balloon
thundering, and
On
the
plane
of
undreand
by
of
those
plane.
to
rhythmic
all at
practice of refusing
feeling,or
sailing in
which
Power
and
of
wichout
one
flashinglightning,beneath
tional
emo-
calmly watching
emotion,
It is like
the
'ioiack"
mental
plane of emotional
tibe storm
his
oh
rl^thm by focalijsitig
is threatened
he
from
Neophyte may
effect of emotiona]
Will
come
of the
swing
involved.
come
the
the
on
In
poles.
two
the
69
of the emotional
lower
their
between
restingon
the
RHYTHM
to
once.
emotion
does
It is
matter
It is aided
take
the
not
of
by the steady
emationat
swing
ARCANE
70
ieriousty.Refuse
too
deny
"
FORMULAS
but not
aside and
in any
watch
before
when
will
of WilL
Once
This
does
not
emotional
On
nature.
the
from
will
its
at
it is-
plane
the bondage
willingly
never
play out
by
should
the
the part
emotions
beoMne
the emotional
as
storms
Master
yieldyourselfup
to the
outside of
does
to your
instrument,any
up
or
more
power
to
Strongly
and
instrument
emotions
as
than
would
you
if
always,never
involved
activities. Handle
an
will
accomplishmuch
etmicshed
and
use
often,for
are
properlyapplied.But, remember
yourselfto
never
or
ing
be-
nature,
laugh
life on
mental
that you
mean
aroused
the energy
allow
mental
unreal
essentially
feeling,
you
find it advantageousto
it is
ways,
it,al-
return
your
and
the
able to
freed
partially
even
of emotion
how
with
compared
of
your emotional
will be
see
think
and
You, yourself.Stand
play of
you
being yourself
as
with your
real way
the
long
Yon
antics.
reality.See,
something connected
as
and
its
away
admit it
to
influence of
"
the
^but
in
tions
emonever
passiveslave
yieldyourself
some
entity
yourself.
[;:,.ifKi:,'G00
RHYTHM
NEUTRAUZING
You
have
which
by
is
much
as
of
find it necessary
But
"character"
And, in order
the actor.
just as
throw
to
the actor
is
to the
adapted
on
hand, and
Instead
"
and
return
rhythm.
should
which
swing
it
equanimity.
there
Take
what
instnunent
swings
helpful,
always
you
back
mount
it
of the
of the emotional
view
work
or
emotions.
all other
use
tion
emo-
activity
the task
Beware
rest.
When
of the
is desirable and
his emotional
previous thoi^ht
restrainingthe
Will, and
basic knowledge
emotional
restricting
of
selectingthat
Itmi of
of
accomplishmentof
the
tion,
emo-
selectingthe
nature, you
reaction and
feelingand
of being
emotional
that assumed
merely acting,and
in
consists
into it
result
part
"
to
throws
world
as
always maintains
in the
play
to
part
71
of
pendu-
from
to the
and
sirable
de-
plane
smilinglyand
want,
the
of
with
neutralize
the rest
l;,GOOt^l"J
,;,"
DL
LESSON
right angles
fixed
of
center
of
is manifest
holds
the
the
body
from
In
form
of
rhydmi
rfay^m,
flie Law
of
of
body
cyclic motion
and
is
Opposites,
the
point which
is
dependent
or
the
merely
the
on
the
on
and
of
cause
in
cen-
another
latter,just
of
existence
Polarity. Polarity,or
fundamental
also
continue
to
falling toward
itself,is dependent
Opposites, is
and
instead
fact, the
circle,Id tffaidh
central
the
in die
is evident
causes
cyclic revolntion
tw.
law
the
of
power
ft
body revolving in
which
power
similar
at
from
forward,
is
which
gravity
point of suspension.
movements
and
backward
jdways
suspewion"
of
line
central
its
to
always to-and-fro,
as
is
The
the
BALANCE.
AND
CYCUaTY
both
The
Rhythm
Cyclicity.
All
active
motion,
this
movement
between
its two
rhythmic motion
straight line, as
expresses
in
poles
is not
the
case
73
itself in
or
rhythmic
opposites.
necessarily always
of
dte
pendulum.
But
in
In
ARCANE
74
FORMULAS
of
history,events,
etc,
results from
tends
outside
draw
to
and
swing,
generally in
of
it out
which
line of the
is
the attraction
forces
and
the
As
into
the
Aphorism
and
of
arises
continuous
Cyclicityis
into
vancing
of
forward
the
converts
straight
all
Consequently,on
of
Cyclicity
in constant
"
the
Circle
into
constant
of mental
is
of
the
all who
the circle
the
that time
old age
tend
ment
move-
only
escape
of transmutation
accomplished by
Motion.
The
Spiral is
ai-
sion
conver-
of
one
will examine
and
the
the
subject
is
person
'round
in
merely
a
curring
re-
graduallywidening from
prime of life,and
to
to
Alchemy."
traveling 'round
"
to
The
circle
circular
in the process
Point
akin
recurrence.
found
to
"Cyclicityis
reason
Central
childhood
by
the
It is evioent
from
and
Spirality. This
highest forms
the
states:
CyclicTrend
in
move
from
repulsionof objects
circle.
circle. This
operation.
Rhythm,
to
of its backward
and
gradually
swing
also of races,
and
then
death.
narrowing
The
average
AND
CYCLICITV
and
while
the
as
case
always
point
"
squirrelin
traveUng
be, he
may
old central
It is
by
It is
the
firmlybound
is held
person
BALANCE
when
the
around
of his cage
in his
of
the
the
by
inner
Will, they
of
Point
able
consciouslyadvance
to
of Motion.
does
influence
to
who
Will, Consciousness.
They
were.
by
"
the
use
the
advance
to
Occultists
their Central
are
Point
of
that which
intelligently
degree under
lesser
the
so
form
bound
up
that it cannot
have
plain the
simple and
regarding this
of the Will
except by those
Many
of circumstances.
Transmutation, for it is
use
^0
able
difficultto render
Formula
it
Advanced
thus to do
person
convert
in this way.
the
are
Central
of
he is able to advance.
accomplished
assertion
same
constant
"
is able to
the
gettingnowhere.
individual
spiral,that
is
real progress.
process
results
narrowing
or
any
swing
constant
the treadmill
which
only
makes
Cydicity,
of
this Law
widening
never
75
of
with
be
Mental
the
scious
con-
understood
It may
be
described
in this
ARCANE
however
way,
This
the
on
learned
far
average
desire
Will.
WILL
to
exerts
could
more
by the
mere
WILL
step
in advance
scale, and
thus
his
^o
Motion.
him
By
or
more
establish
the
graduallyby
habit
old
use
though his
advance
traveler
'round
peak,
ascending
and
so
be below
each
at
return
'rotmd
to
will the
traveler
find that
at each
of
circle,wiU
its circular
the
cMr
find
ment,
move-
moimtain
it,each
to
comes
habit
Cyclic
life stillmaintains
yet at each
advance
of
SpiralicPrices-
of
Neophyte by cultivatingthe
stantlywilling an
will
Centre
Cosmic
ol the Wili
replacesthe
The
in the
new
project
to
this conscious
sion which
he is able
plain
of
power
which
establishes
The
accomplish
increasingpower
individual
that
has
jterson
is able to
his conscious
By
desire.
less influence
or
however,
Will, he
d^tirtt
merely
persQn
When,
to
he
than
more
The
advance.
to
FORMULAS
time
along
plane. Just
needs
must
The
the
circling
Path
old
as
go
the
little nearer
he
tainment
of At-
paths will
him-
study of
the
succeedingchaptersof
additional
this book
instruction
and
suggestionsin
ualijingpower
conditions.
well
of the
The
mind
converting the
ia the minor
aa
oi the
the direetioB
has
or
just
Aa
as
Aphorism
the
from
The
the
old
figureof
would
Wire
Life
descended
picturethe
of
of
weakness.
Poise
is secured
between
Poise
Self,
of power,
mark
cultist,
Oc-
Real
is Power,
of the Storm
is Poise
the Pairs
of
the
Initiate
us
the
from
Opposites.
In
the
it
thy Self."
ilhistrate
to
by
the
a
tight-rope,
feat
Advanced
walking
to
wont
were
into
Seek
Power.
shalt find
of
neutral-
is Peace.
and
sults
re-
ing
by adjust-
thf Master
Ego
antiquity. They
traversingthe Razor-edge
Pole of the
in this
Spiral,as
the
mark
Centre
Masters
the acrobat
has
always
for in it thou
"
Occult
Balanced
which
there
Neophyte
desired
Rhythtn, by resolvingthem
In the Heart
Centre of Life
visr
advanced
found
Balance
Balanced
Polarity and
Unity.
the
"Poise
says:
Balance,
C^posites. By
ever,
is
maintaining the
and
tzes
This
about
into the
of
i" Poise
Balance.
the
of life.
matters
individual who
of
be employed
Circle
distinguishingmark
er
77
use
bring
to
Visualization niay
of
matter
BAIANCE
AND
CYCLICITY
Now
by
the
Balancing
the weight on
shifting
ARCANE
78
one
side, and
the
Path
he trusts
Balancing
the
other, he is able
the
on
Pole.
emotion
one
dashed
confidence
of
art
But
Balance.
he
down.
the
or
have
pull
balance and
Balance
into
that
the
the Ego
walks
against
threatens
to
His
other
an-
pull
Transmutation,
or
in
mastery of the
emotion
Alchemy
part
is "Action
axiom
crises of
push
be
and
are
to
the
person
Ego
his
which
one
balancing process.
manages
and
by the pull
over
Balanced
Pitting one
By Mental
Re-Action
the
untrained
The
be boroe
the
is able to transmit
of his
power
own
safety,because of
and
he neutralizes
him
of
or
ruin.
to
his
to
walk
to
^o
of
use
now
in
Awakened
FORMULAS
push
in
or
life.
pull to
He
always
counteract
thus
poise is maintained.
and
Poise
realization of the
Ego
can,
is based
and
be attained
may
real nature
and
of
focalized
should, always
from
act
and
Feeling.
the
in Will
by entering
In
the
the
Ego^
that
"
plane
plane and
fact, the
en-
AND
CYCLICITY
BALANCE
79
this point,has
to
leadingthe
individual to
must
Poise.
been
Toward
this
results
Knowledge
the truth.
goal, all
Make
from
and
of
and
cises,
exer-
Balance
and
efforts have
our
Practice.
it your
him
acquirementof
who
hath
You
have
been
Realize what
own.
are.
and
perfectBalance
directed.
Balance
from
quired,
ac-
once
the
facts stated,the instruction,
The
in
of the Formulas.
enter
and
Then,
Power, which
As
have
we
Arcane
Centre
of
shalt thou
Peace.
In
the Heart
indeed
of the Storm
He
THYSELF.
who
they are
ONE
said
in the
find Poise
and
shalt thou
find
to
comes
in the
Power.
you
ness
into that conscious-
acquired Balance.
Life
told
of Himself,
For,
at
the last,
Goot^k
1;,
l;,GOOt^l"J
Z.
LESSON
MENTALISM
In
the
Arcane
Universal
the
forms
likened
shown
is it
brain.
form
is in
things
and
itself is One
but
are
Cosmos
thought-
as
is Mind
Mind.
in everything,
Consequently,
in
Cosmic
the
strcmgly concentrated
(Will)
its
Brain, in which
Things
possible for
the
all of
Manifested
There
become
Mind
focalized
life
that
in
Cosmos
the
and
everything
so
the
that
things
Thoughts
as
have
we
great Universal
in the human
Brain,
and
that
and
to
of
and
just
fact
Mind,
be
forms
Teaching
is the
may
NUTSHELL.
principle of Mentalism,
fundamental
forms,
IN
materiaUze
to
ctmditions
on
into
the
jective
ob-
material
plane.
Just
as
the Cosmic
and
forms,
activities
There
and
Ail
is but
the
one
Will
so
manifests
forms
and
the
Will
"
Cosmic
the Cosmic
the Individual
may
difEerence
Individual
Will, from
Will
on
between
the
its
to
is identical in nature,
the
in
terialize
ma-
plane.
own
the Cosmic
difference
Will
Will
tivities
ac-
Will
degree.
feeblest Individua
althot^h widely
[;;.i;Ki;,G00gle
FORMULAS
ARCANE
differingin degrees of
Wills
but
are
This
Will, from
of
the
Instead,
of
phase
shall
we
Formulas
for
Teaching
In
chapter
subject in
the
at
principles.We
and
into several
shall
substance
give
In the laws
principle that
the
FOR
of Mentalism
the
give
and
the
festation
mani-
be
the
to
theory.
in
"MentaUsm
could
the
you
space
the
expanded
POSITIVITY.
there
is
fundamental
positivealways dominates
negative
positive. Everything
that
its limited
of what
entering
refer you
you
of
books.
FORMULA
"
for
we
the
manifestation
to
once
described
occasion
no
lowest.
actual demonstration
of these
this
is
proceed
the
Arcane
have
underlying the
there
and
Mentalism,
into this
laws
same
all manifestations
highest to the
we
festation.
mani-
and
that the
in
applicable
Teaching
Arcane
principlesand
the
it follows
so,
And
in the great
focalisedcentres
being
dividua
In-
fact, the
Cosmic
In
In
power.
negative is always
has
its
keynote depends
upon
subordinate
keynote
the
of
to
the
the
positivity.
degree of
Will
"
MENTAUSM
IN
Consciousness.
in
When
those
turn
around
environment
This
and
we
thinks
of
force
Will
m
Will
of
is
occupying
matter
The
of Will.
of
of
measurement
of
to
be
no
such
This
is
by
Will
Nor
he
the units
used
other forms
measurement
quantityor
that
ured
meas-
think of
conceive
in the
of
urement
meas-
of force. There
Will, but
of
amount
fact
is not
be
cannot
can
the way
tn
It cannot
One
fested
manifect
its ef-
can
space
large
be
he
produce
occultists.
or
electricity
standard
order
when
of
must
of Will.
amount
being measured
think
which
member,
Re-
the amount
person,
to
occupies space.
pound
or
to
the
upon
individual.
There
by spatialdimensions.
yard
the
of Will, not
is apt
erroneous.
substance
or
but also
persons
average
all advanced
to
material
The
Power
quaHtilyor
thing as
matter
Will.
is
polarized
dependent
by
degree
quantity of
This
known
the
the individual
by
to
course,
manifested
Will
of
amount
welt
conditions.
say
quantity of
83
intenselypositiveto
is
only
positivityis, of
degree of Will
or
he
not
"
becomes
one
Will-Consciousness
NUTSHELL
"
not
it is altogether
degree.
degree of
Will
manifested
by
the
Individual
ARCANE
84
depends
his
upon
degree of focalization
Will
in the Cosmic
of one's
is his
FORMULAS
itself.
relation
The
Power
Will
he
must
The
realization.
the
to
The
Power
is
of
individual
The
j something
Will
created
has
Will
Power
in
his
of
development
the
fact
that
of force and
of
the
Will in
this
truth
in
of the individual
your
is not
and
"
Neophyte the
manifestation
the
of
"
The
Power
moves
1W/Z.L
the
Fasten
possess.
The
earlier
the
will
higher degree of positivity
the
of the Coimic
Will.
to the
simply in
Will.
power
flow
for
Egohood
\ must
give
focalizedcentre
realization
i minds:
quently
Conse-
fundamental
in
given
will
consists
the
the
upon
Formulas
Formula
realization
individual
greater
Secret of Mentalism.
Arcane
Will
this
the
developing positivityin
based
the
Will
key
tion
greater the realiza-
the Cosmic
to
polarity
or
Will
being.
in which
The
he
and
lives
individual
has
no
through
which
the
point of
Cosmic
Will
MENTALISM
Ponder
act.
may
IN
in tbemiie
well
contained
serve
as
Atmosphere,
influences
his
render
be
is
Cosmos
Mind
or
World
Stuff is
Stuff is
just as
in the air,or
of
Positive
should
Mind
in
with
aid him
to
the
as
as
brain
the
think
is
is filled
and
and
IS
every
in the
kind.
pure
act
Neophyte
itself. Then
he
see)
the
(mentally imagine
or
vicinity becoming
immediate
of Will.
positivepower
of himself
The
Will
the
in the ether,
vibration
by Visualization.
his
whom
particularquality. The
of any
he
to
Stuff with
Atmosphere is created by
Visualize
chatted
Mind
everywhere. Vibration
real
verse
ad-
tending
Brain, remember,
Stuff
own
from
with
those
in the
just
in matter
Will, aided
should
will tend to
also
by
Posi-
Positive Atmosphere
The
of its
Mind
The
felt
is filled
mind-stuff
Cosmic
outside, and
the vibrations
by
all space
which
with
from
for himself
shieldinghim
positivepower
occasioned
of Mentaliani.
Aura, which
or
in contact.
comes
Neophyte, for
Secret
create
protectivearmor
85
ATMOSPHERE.
should
Neophyte
thre Will
these words, O
the whole
WILL
The
NUTSHELL
surrounded
as
an
It will
for
egg-shaped aura
or
from
a
FORMULAS
ARCANE
86
him
and
vibratingwith
matter
intense energy.
an
day,
oftener, with
or
of your
you
can
aura
or
of
Treat
aura.
the
Positive
Atmosphere.
visualise,or
imagine,the
atmosphere,the greater
allow
not
himself
the Imagination as
mental
The
those
The
gree
de-
clearly
more
existence
of this
will be your
degree
The
Neophyte
in
regardii^
new
with
discover
soon
whom
renders
him
about
among
charged magnet
he
in contact
comes
more
unless
As
strength.
and
electric wire.
become
that
feel a
understand
passes,
and
ordinary peoplejust as
or
quired
ac-
come
will tend to be-
they,too,
time
will
tice
prac-
perfectthe Neophyte
that he has
positive
personal atmosphere,and
principlesinvolved.
it will
the
"
negativeto him,
move
yourselfevery
be deceived
the
ceive
per-
an
Neophyte will
a
to
really
cannot
intent to increase
positivepersonal atmosphere.
must
or
is
phenomena
As
will
highly
It is difficult to
will practiceto
acquire
MENTALISM
In order
hold
IN
focalize
to
in his mind
"/ AM
OF
Neophyte
the presence
"overlap" him
He
should
This
them.
is
of course)
over
by
me."
focalize
as
his
his
the
meet
"I
not
cases).
positive
denying the
deny your
the
such
"overlap"
to
at once
mentally,
Positivity
Neophyte should
of Will, and
He
will
having
mingling with
the
he
other
him.
oppressed by
in the
mic
Cos-
the
find that
soon
and
positivity,
scale of
finds himself
Egohood
is in
self
Will-Consciousness, seeing him-
degree below
while
in such
(silentlyand
time
of hira.
the
that he
they shall
indeed
not
person
same
own
back
will rise in
If he
the
focal centre
Will
will sink
edge" if
the assertion
At
on
least to
at
other
that
used
tenn
accomplished by
of the
positivity
WILL."
experience. In
determine
once
determine
to
of
positivethan himself,
more
(the occult
"edge
persons
at
may
statement
or
occasionallyfind
may
past trainingor
he should
cases
87
POSITIVITY.
of persons
to their
owing
image,
POSITIVE
PERSONAL
The
NUTSHELL
fully,the Neophyte
more
the mental
CENTRE
same
as
sense
of negativity
crowd, he should
way.
The
Focal
Centre
sert
as-
greater the
of
Will,
ARCANE
88
FORMULAS
degree of
Personal
Positive Atmosphere
will be manifested.
VISUALIZATION.
In this
in
number
shall
chapter we
of Visualization,
speak
places. Visualization
of
is the creative
process
Mental
Images
Visualization
to
be
to
create
in
\ It
material and
conditions
as
in
clear
should
to
wish
be.
Around
to be.
(3)
See
these
realities form
be observed
(2)
See
conditions
visualized
wish
Image
tends
which
thing itself.
endeavor
Image
if it
The
to
of
the
actually
were
others
as
you
as
themselves.
is to
These
objectiveform
Mental
desired,as
holding
group
of the
possiblea
condition
thing or
to
Visualization
as
Planes.
pattern around
tend
prime factor
you
and
Mental
it is the mental
"
material
create
Material
forming
actuality.The
for itself
and existence
the
in
consists
and
Mental
them
the Uental
on
you
as
you
wish
ideals,do
wish
them
the
them
to ht.
material
and crystallize.
[;;.i;Ki;,G00g
MENTALISM
IN
NUTSHELL
89
STATEMENTS.
All occultists have
"affirmations"
or
Occult
Statements
of
about.
the
There
is an
is not
necessary
"Such
Do
tense.
not
thing will
and
such
be
Spoken Word
bye and
this moment.
Statement
must
Make
^we/y" avoid
The
not
is also
it is not
use
speak in
tone
these statements
tone
(and
in
aetual
good
necessary
to
cult
oc-
to-^
be appreciated.
earnestlyand
all half-hearted
results.
in the
as
statements
result in half-hearted
do
particularpurpose
be experienced in order
your
which
There
power
own.
yourself,"Such
to
say
great
"
Statements
use
istence
ex-
brit^
their
of
power
discuss in detail.
course,
to a
reason
favor"
Visualization
in the
Always
us.
being, now,
to
explain here
.to
Of the
wish
you
before
have
occult power
the power
such
to aid the
besides
degree, and
which
conditions
These
call them.
some
as
positiveassertions
are
They tend
present
ments,
recognized the value of State-
for
statements,
In
making
of entreaty,
of
they
your
ments,
state-
of
asking
or
COMMAND.
should not
post-
be made
Of
aloi:d to
"1
ARCANE
90
other
in
of meditation
in connection
that
have
people. They
state
FORMULAS
with
they will
Mental
best eSect
the
and
concentration.
visualization,and
tend
energize
to
when
made
Use
them
will find
yon
vitalize jrour
and
Images.
DENIALS.
Occult
Denials
are
form
of Occult
They
have
With
exert
much
existence
his
path.
positiveeffect
most
occult
the
and
disappearfrom
by
later
in the
"I
material
DENY
this
I
not
your
statements.
exist."
Make
Alchemy
strikinganatt^^
in the
your
sense
to
be
not
and
afrsud
It has
world.
my
denials
not
as
beg
of
the
disintegrate
like kind
COMMAND,
MENTAL
of
how
see
to
beset
world, which
obstacle.
it out
deny
does
of
Do
that
or
me.
tendency
response
out
difficulties which
one's mental
world.
over
Mental
Will, he is able
It is marvelous, at times, to
obstructingthings evince
and
in
rightlyused.
by boldly denying
power
obstades
when
Statements.
is followed
degree
to
no
For
say:
power
me
it
positiveas
entreat.
or
ALCHEMY.
or
to
Mental
Material
Transmutation
Alchemy
that in both
bears
or
there is
mutation,
Trans-
marked
MENTALISM
CHANGE
IN
in form
things operated
material
be,
outward
of
and
are
form
be
can
Mind
transmuted
and
and
character.
destroyed
"
Alchemy
things
first and
MENTAL
In
all forms
of
Mentalism
phenomena
of Mental
not
confined
the gross
to
universe, but
the
with
or
which
wills,there
Each
rate
Brain
or
things
in their
changed
mos
Nothing in the Cos-
always, that
Mental
You
destroy
do
of
there
not
is in
material substance
all space
of
the
of which
When
atom
or
keynote.
Mind
Stuff
is
vibration
is
of the
in the
is filled. Mind
thought, feeling or
of vibration, or
evidence
Vibration
equally in evidence
is manifest
vibration
kind
In
Alchemy.
Vibration,
is composed.
Brain
in the
own
is
elementary material
World
muted
trans-
VIBRATION.
the
Stuff
and
^you
"
things, like
everything is capable of
but
CHANGE.
means
or
Mentalism, in
is Mental
Cosmic
Remember,
change.
and
of the Alchemist.
the
91
of the substances
transformed
be
striking forms,
crucible
NUTSHELL
Conditions
upon.
the Will
its most
may
nature
objects,may
at
the
and
thinks, feels,
just as truly as
the
tuning-fork.^
emotion
has
its,
"^
ARCANE
92
When
certain
it tends
mental
within
tuning-fork will
objects in
the
vibrations
tend
other
minds
This
being
will carry, in
backed
vicini^, or
mind
less effect. He
in the
idea upon
of
strength and
AND
currents
emotion
in the air.
or
ocean
manifested
waves
will flow
out
or
forth
cotaiii
in
cumstance
cir-
individual
if. an
his
Will, he will
others, with
in this
to send, forth
and
waves
the
vibrations
by
currents
an
are
mental
more
the practice
by
by Visualization,for
WAVES
are
of Mind
create
and
practicestend
There
that
will be aided
of Statements
in
as
positive,persistentidea,
impress that
or
Just
sending
under
applicatiMi of
an
minds; of
the
distances.
his
THOUGHT
mind
its
it follows
high degree
reproduce those
able to
of a,
will
to
be
these
so
so,
with
up
in
states
similar vibrations
cause
long
at
fested
mani-
"s
room,
in
vibration
to
coming
of mental
rate
similar
consequent
those
FORMULAS
both
of
vibrations
power.
CURRENTS.
in the great
waves
and
ocean
currents
Thoughts, feelingsand
individual
in the Mind
in all directions
will tend
to
Stuff,which
influencingand
af-
IN
MENTALISM
happen
others
to
maintain
vibration
corresponding
wave
current
or
thought
and
whom
they
thought
wish
mark, and
and
create
rect,
consciouslydi-
Will
the
much
are
FORMS.
concentrated
an
in
in contact
effect upon
person
person
or
thought waves
as
and
WILL,
others,have
his
persons.
Occultists who
and
Will
thought-forms
of
so
high
and strength'that
they produce upon
impression that
the
mind
as
by.
have
degree
great
present
were
upon
the
acquired
often able
a
or
which, when,
mind
and
focalization are
the
almost
ff the sender
exerting
concentration
forth
with
thent
their
to
greater effect.
coming
those
upon
travel direct
currents
THOUGHT
Thought-forms
able to
focus
understand
influence,and consequentlytheir
to
waves
these
forth
who
Tliosc
are
and
concentrate
traveling
direct
of Mentalism
laws
the
usually unconsciously
currents,
or
of
sends
one
comparatively slighteffect.
the
93
degree of mental
that
to
Every
waves
without
NUTSHELL
if
in their field of force, particularly
fectingothers
those
to
send
of power
others the
tal
men-
ARCANE
94
FORMULAS
present in person,
In
of
some
ated.
inpression cre-
is the
strong
so
the methods
which
shall
we
now
have
above
said but
mentioned
have
the
read
this book
of
from
and
what
Wc
to
In
we
dwell
would
to
obtain
for
or
being
on
in the
methods
while
anyone
degree
have
first
who
of
grasped
the
Mentalism
Teaching.
directlyto
Formulas,
herein
the
rather
side of the
may
garding
re-
ject.
sub-
described,
obtain
some
still in order
success
it is
sary
neces-
sciousness,
developed the Will-Con-
degree
power
of
detail
much
Arcane
by practicingthem,
some
the motive
will have
pass
We
Those
elsewhere
theoretical
the
marked
to
one
the
that
success
any
into
go
in The
contained
with
say
degree of
read
besides
said
upon
connection
Mentalism.
phenomena.
it preferableto
practicalmethods
than
the
to
describingthe
underlyingprinciplesof
have
we
think
phases of
will have
theoretical detail,and
in
words
it necessary
theory
fundamental
few
various
thought
not
METHODS.
of
back
Egohood.
of all forms
The
Will
of Men-
'A
MENTALISM-
talism
IN
and
Mental
to
focahze
is able
of
and
book
have
we
the
bear
to
For
is but
when
the methods
condense
of the
these
student
will enter
in
read
must
one
into
few
highest
Mentalism.
whereby
one
may
Egohood within
is attained,the rest
us
proceed
now
Methods.
words
to
shall
We-
possible. The
as
carefullyevery
full
Let
Practical
as
very
of
and
thing
of detail.
matter
consideration
and
this
in WILL
who
that he
the
phenomena
devoted
pointing out
to
95
bring
in
power
Therefore,
it follows
Alchemy,
degree
NUTSHELL
word
so
understanding of
the
that he
subject
methods.
CONCENTRATION.
The
Neophyte
of Concentration.
s
centre"
cusit^
and
"
may
out
Concentration
Mental
of the Will
be
by
concentrate
is
reallya
of attention.
means
ideas
for
few
ments,
mo-
the
mind
"one-pointed"upon
idea before
you.
Then,
upon
something
else.
an
After
fo-
to shut
the
after
to
tration
Concen-
developed by practice.Learn
holding
or
"bringing
means
Concentration
distractingthoughts and
thing
developdtnd
must
interval,
you
have
ARCANE
96
subdued
the
wanderingtendency of
you
of mind
power
FORMULAS
which
thingto
which
after page
page
you
with
but after
the
power
detailed
upon
until you
you
will
"
WilL
It will do you
far
yourself,than
to
you
will
out
tration,
concen-
find that
fixing
in
to hold
is
mere
more
does
.time,
tice.
prac-
not
mean
hold-
fixingand
and
Begin practicing,
knack.
It is altogethera
detail and
good
means
of the
"trimmings."
to invent methods
blindlyfollow
some
Use your
own
by others.
at
the
tion
atten-
proficient
by
more
of the Attention,by
of the
use
would
moments
it consists of
acquirethe
soon
few
the eyes.
not
matter
mapped
concentration
thing
idea
("ilyby practice.And
and
more
Remember,
"staring'at
in
by fixingand holdingthe
anything,for
and
could fill
be had
grow
whatever
exercises
you
new
to direct
thing consists
practicemay
acquireda
upon
readingthem
mind, gradually,
direct it. We
may
of the wh"de
essence
have
the
set
for
lesson
minds, and
gain thereby.
,;,"
MENTALISM
IN
MENTAL
Secret
The
of
Alchemy
and
lead-penciland
you
will
While
may
the
seem
culist
very
knows
Mental
above
be
Alchemy,
under
be
may
the
found
to
pages.
Mentalism
of
extreme
whatever
that
so
these
of
your
the advanced
complicatedone,
it to
up
statement,
subject
tal
Men-
of
Take
turning over
the
beginner
the Art
Ike Will.
the
it easilywhen
see
to
mark
be staler
may
always, of
Imaging, reinforcedby
L.
A^J*
IMAGING.
Mental
I consiiting"rst,last
iJj^^HELL^^
oc-
simplicity.
it may
name
querade,
mas-
simply, the...pojl!ez.-iQ...M^'_
strong, clear_Mental
Images,
and
Read
times, and
find that
the
over
Bx
project them
the concentrated
of
means
to
italicized words
firmlyin
your
ever
may
be "boiled down"
to
the above
The
rest
matter
of
is
Whether
in the
persons
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