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If the
magician is able to manage the projection of elements to the
outside so that he knows how to project any element he chooses out
of himself or directly from the universe, he will e able to create
elementaries for his own and other people's profit too. He will
succeed in creating beings that will be his faithful servants not
only on the mental level but on the astral and material one as
well, according to his producing or condensing these beings in a
mental, astral or material way. I have already talked about the
deliberate or conscious creation of thought forms or elementals.
The difference between an "elemental" and an "elementary" is that
an elemental is produced on the basis of deliberate thought forms
with the help of the magician's imagination and willpower, and
works mainly on the mental plane for the magician's or other
people's benefit. An elementary, on the other hand, is far more
penetrating and subtle in its effect because it is being created
from one or several elements. In the light of practical examples,
I will explain the real procreation of an elementary as thoroughly
as possible, demonstrating the manner in which the magician has to
create an elementary. The intuition acquired by the previous
training certainly will help the magician to contrive his own
practice, responsive to the purpose he aims at. According to his
ethical development, he will never dare to create elementaries for
evil purposes; the invisible world would certainly vow ferocious
revenge on him, because through the knowledge of how to create
elementaries, the magician has got a plenitude of power which
allows him to achieve anything on the mental, astral and material
level he chooses. He must always consider that it is he himself
who is responsible for his deeds, and not the elementary he has
created. The elementaries are compliant tools in the hands of the
magician, following his orders blindly and granting every desire
to him regardless whether a bad thing has to be turned to good
account or the other way around.
In the same manner as you cannot expect a baker's job to be done
by a carpenter, you cannot demand that an elementary created for a
certain purpose will accomplish a second task for which it was not
intended. For this particular reason you must never give two or
more orders to any of the elementaries, for it will not be able to
do either job well. Apart from that, the analogy to the elements
is to be considered. It would be quite wrong and illegal if the
magician created an elementary that would not be in harmony with
the analogous elements.
There are no limits to the shape of the elementary, and it is up
to the magician to choose the form according to his liking and
intuition. However, avoid picking the form of living or deceased
people you have known or with whom you have been or still are
connected. By doing so you might easily slip into the reach of the
mental or astral body of the respective human being and
consequently do him great damage. Apart from that there is a
danger that an elementary might turn against the magician at any
moment in consequence of its inbred intelligence. It would
understand perfectly how to vampirize him or to influence him
indirectly when asleep, and to do any possible amount of mischief.
Therefore every magician is advised to take this warning very
seriously!
Each elementary has to be given a name at the very moment of its
creation. It is opportune to choose less common names because the
mere utterance of a name will be enough to bring the elementary
near the magician at once. Supposing that one has created several
elementaries, it is advisable to take notes of the names in order
not to forget them. But these names must not be mentioned to
anyone else because another magician, being clever enough, could
easily seize the elementaries and work with them without any
effort.
The power and effectiveness of an elementary depends entirely on
its loading. The stronger the willpower of the magician, the
projection of the elements to the outside will be all the greater,
and an elementary loaded to such an extent becomes all the more
pervasive and far more effective of course. Sometimes an
elementary can be condensed so much that it is visible even to an
untrained physical eye. It is therefore up to the magician himself
whether he wants the elementary to work visibly or invisibly as
the case may be. The duration of life of an elementary depends on
the purpose for which it has been created, and this purpose has to
be fixed right at the beginning of its creation. As soon as the
purpose is fulfilled, the magician must dissolve his elementary
into its original element with the help of the imagination. Never
omit this process of dissolution, because, having performed its
task, an elementary can easily become independent due to its
instinct of self-preservation, and if you forget to do so, it will
escape from your sphere of influence and become a vampire. In this
case the magician would have to face all the resulting karma
caused by such an elementary transmuted into a vampire. Therefore
carelessness and conscientiousness are seriously recommended when
you are handling elementaries. Many magicians determine, right at
the birth-act, the kind of disintegration of the elementary by
destroying the name of the elementary in question, burning it,
performing a certain rite, a sign r a gesture, or using a formula
which they fixed in advance. All this is individual and is left to
the magician's choice. Special attention has to be paid to the act
of disintegration. Provided the magician is equal to the task, he
will be able to force his elementaries to absolute obedience at
any time by threatening them with disintegration. At all events,
he should imprint on his mind that he is able to bring the
elementaries under his will and to have complete command of them.
This is very important if the magician does not wish himself to
become the plaything of the beings he created. He will make the
experience all the better and the elementary will serve him all
the more faithfully and reliably; it will become all the more
engaging and he will hate to dissolve it at all. But the magician
must never give way to this sentimentalism, because he would get
into the thrall of elementaries. For this reason it is more
opportune to destine elementaries for a short life, and to create
new ones for the same purpose if need be. This does not mean, of
course, that a new elementary should be created every week, but it
is a disadvantage to keep the same elementary for years for one
affair only.
Should the magician intend to create elementaries for his own use,
he had better form them by the projection of elements through his
body. Elementaries destined for other people, however, should be
created by the projection of elements directly from the universe.
The magician knows very well that there is an invisible connection
between him and every elementary that could be misused very easily
if he started to create elementaries by physical projection for
other human beings as well. The way to manage it will be quite
understandable to every magician without any doubt.
It is necessary to talk about the places where elementaries should
be deposited. In the Orient, elementaries (there called Yidams)
are banished into a "Kylichor" where they are preserved. A
kylichor is a diagram built from stone and corresponding to the
yidam to which no stranger will ever be admitted. The well-trained
magician, however, needs no separate place for it, but he will
hide the elementary in a spot in the wall, realizing that an
elementary is not limited to time, nor does it claim a special
space. Hence it will be quite alright in the wall as well as it
would have been accommodated in an open space. It is even more
suitable to keep it in a wall or any solid big object, because it
is better to avoid banning it to places where other people are
about all the time. Should a human being happen to come to the
same place where an elementary is kept, the person would suddenly
feel restless and other bad consequences might occur.
Furthermore, it has to be fixed right at the beginning how the
elementary ought to be called up. This can be done by whispering
the name or thinking of it, or by a gesture of the hand, or a
ritual. The magician is at liberty to do as he pleases.
Before I particularize the practical part, the proper act of
creation, I should like to remark that it is not necessary for the
magician to restrict himself to this practice, this being only a
small part of practical magic and a hint as to how the magician is
to use his power. He should not specialize thereat; on the
contrary, if he is able to manage these practices perfectly,
further possibilities are at his disposal. This part of magic is
to be followed only in the beginning, and it is up to the magician
to utilize it to help himself and other people too. And last but
not least, that is the purpose of this theme.
1. The Act of Creation ~
There are four fundamental methods devised for the creation act of
elementary:
1. The projection of one element into a ready form, no matter
whether the point in question be a mental, astral or a material
form.
2. The projection of several elements into a ready form, which may
be a mental, astral or material form.
3. The projection of one element without any direct form, which
will be produced by the element in question.
4. The projection of several elements, which will produce their
form successively.
I will explain all the four methods thoroughly in the light of
practical examples.
Method 1:
Take any object of which you want to give the form to the
elementary, and put it in front of you. Choose for example a ball,
no matte whether it is big ball of wood or glass, solid or hollow
inside. A rather large rubber ball will do as well. Draw the
desired element from the universe with the help of your
imaginative faculty and imagine it in the form that you chose, in
such a way that the shape of the object is completely filled.
Treat each element you want to work with in the same manner,
except akasa, and always engage that element which best responds
to your desire or idea. Repeat this projection several times, each
time imagining the sensation that more and more elemental matter
is forming, accumulating and compressing.
As soon as you are quite sure that this accumulation of the
element is strong enough for the realization of your desire,
impregnate this already completed elementary with the concentrated
desire or purpose you aim at. Apart from that, give a name to the
elementary, because it cannot exist without a name. At the same
time, limit the period of its lifetime, during which it has to
fulfill its task. Supposing that you operated with the element of
fire, the outcome would be a fire elementary and you have got a
fiery ball. If it has been created from the water element, the
ball will be similar to a glass ball; created from the air
element, the ball will have a bluish color, and when produced from
the earth element, the elementary will appear clay-colored.
Provided that you followed all these instructions, draw the
elementary out of the object and send it on to the job you
selected to be done. But beforehand, order the elementary to go
back into its shape immediately after having fulfilled its task.
In this manner, you have the possibility of checking the
elementary, whether or not it has done its job, by approaching the
form with a pendulum. If the elementary has returned into the
original form after finishing its work, the pendulum will present
vibrations because such an elementary has a remarkable magnetic as
well as electrical radiation. The pendulum test is very important
for you, as it demonstrated whether your order has or has not been
executed. Later on, after having acquired the maturity, you will
be able to watch the work of your elementary by clairvoyance. If
the pendulum does not show any vibration, it will prove that the
elementary still is working because the job is not yet finished.
When sending off the elementary to do its piece of work, do not
forget that there are no bounds for an elementary. Neither time
nor space can put obstacles in the way of an elementary, and it
would be able to go around the globe in an instant if necessary.
You have to be firmly convinced that it will execute your order
and obey your will within the time you have fixed, without any
exception. Not the slightest doubt about the success must ever
enter your mind. As soon as you have forwarded the elementary, cut
off the connecting link between you and it as suddenly as if you
had used a knife, and stop thinking of it instantly after sending
it off. You may have to transfer yourself into a state of vacancy
of mind, or give your attention to quite another matter. In short,
you must forget your elementary altogether. The more skillfully
you manage this, the more pervasively and undisturbed the
elementary will work. If the time you had fixed beforehand has
expired, make certain with the help of the pendulum that the
elementary has returned into its form. If so, you can then
dissolve the elementary in the way you previously determined,
namely by burning its name, with the help of a special ritual, or
by spelling its name backwards in an undertone.
This disintegration or dissolution also can be performed through
the normal imagination, similar to the method we recommended for
the projection of elements. You may use the elementary for the
same purpose somewhere else too, if you like.
If your elementary has not returned to the form it is preserved
in, after the time you set, and if you suppose that your order has
not been fulfilled satisfactorily, just call back the elementary.
Produce a more intense accumulation of the element by reinforced
imagination and projection of the respective element, and then
send the elementary off once more to do the required job. You may
repeat this loading as many ties as you like until the desired
effect has been accomplished. Such a repetition of the loading
will be necessary when you brig your elementary up against a
problem that would exceed its tension and power. Moreover, you
have to consider that the effectiveness of an elementary depends
on your own mental maturity and consequently on your ability to
condense an element. It also depends on your will, your conviction
and your emanative faith which is able to move mountains.
This is the most artless and easiest method of creating
elementaries which the magician is using for simple effects only,
narrowly limited ideas and influences that do not require any
special intelligence, for example, to give an order to another
person, to offer protection in simple affairs, etc. As mentioned
before, mental, astral and material effects can be achieved with
the help of elementaries.
In the manner quoted here, an elementary can be produced without
any material shape as well.
In such a case one has to project the desired element into a form
of thoughts, operating in exactly the same way you did in the
material production. This kind of creation of elementaries is more
difficult, it is true, but it has the advantage that the form also
can be transferred somewhere else, where a material body would not
have enough space, for example, into a corner of a wall and into
such spots where the meddling of other people is quite out of the
question.
This practice offers so many possibilities for the magician that
it is left entirely to his intuition to what purposes he likes to
use the elementaries he creates. He can, for example, shield his
house or apartment from injuries with the help of an elementary,
produce a more favorable atmosphere for himself, and similar
things. All of us know that every science can be used for noble
purposes as well as for evil ones, and so I am sorry to say, this
practice likewise can be misused for egotistic and malevolent
purposes. For example, a merchant can create an elementary that
will aid him in increasing the number of his customers. All the
haunted houses, discredited as such by spiteful magicians, may be
interpreted as a production of elementaries deliberately created
for such malicious purposes. A respectable magician will never
degrade himself to such kind of machinations.
Method 2:
Although, according to this method you may choose any object
whatever, such as a statue, doll or such as a suitable form for
your elementary, I shall also acquaint you with a very ideal
secret practice Take two parts by volume of loam and one part of
wax. Stir the loam with some warm water to a thick pulp and add
the beeswax, either completely melted or warmed to softness. Knead
both ingredients until they are very well mixed. Do not use too
much water to prepare the loam, or else the mass will turn out too
soft and it would be difficult to operate with. If genuine beeswax
is not available, any other fatty or waxy ingredient will do, such
as tallow and the like which are generally used for making
candles. This would be a last resort, because beeswax is much
better.
Now form a figure, giving it the shape you want the elementary to
have, such as a human form. With a large nail or other pointed
object, sink a wide opening while the doll is still warm and soft.
Begin with the head and move down along the spine to the feet,
producing a large hollow inside the figure. Now fill this space up
to the opening with a fluid condenser, and stop the opening while
the figure is still soft to prevent the condenser from leaking
out.
Another way is to pour the condenser into the figure after it has
cooled down and hardened, stopping the opening with liquid wax or
with a candle. As to the treatment of magic condensers, I shall
enlarge on this subject in a special chapter. If the magician
intends to create the elementary for his own purposes only, he has
to stop the opening of the figure with a cotton wool plug
containing a few drops of his own organic prima material. This is
the Alpha and Omega; therefore take a few drops of your own blood
or sperm. In our case, one or the other would be sufficient, but
if both "mumiae" of the first class were connected, it would be
still more effective. Supposing a female magician is concerned, a
drop of her own blood serves the same purpose. The cotton wool
plug prepared in this manner has to be put first into the hollow
of the figure, pouring the fluid condenser over it, only then, not
before, and finally stopping the opening. According to the magic
rules, a figure like this is the most ideal form to create an
elementary. The size of the figure does not mater at all, although
it is evident that the bigger the doll, the more fertile will be
your creative imagination. But a figure approximately 4 inches
will do for a skilled magician.
In case an elementary has to be created and a doll to be shaped
for another person, the own prima materia is not to be mixed with
the fluid condenser, otherwise serious damage will be done to the
magician. The respective person in consequence of the mental,
astral and material connection would obtain the opportunity to
influence the magician directly or indirectly to good as well as
bad effect. For example, a figure prepared with the mumia and put
into cold water will cause shivering fits in the body of the
magician who created it, and the other way around, if the doll
were exposed to great heat, a high fever would result. A great
number of possibilities are still granted by the mago-sympathetic
bond, but I will not quote them so as not to seduce the scholar to
do any bad things.
The aforementioned doll can, of course, be loaded with only one
element, and an elementary can be created in the way described in
the previous method, but I am going to particularize practice of
the second method as well.
Take your wax figure in the left hand and rub it gently with your
right hand, as if you wanted to animate it with your vital power.
Blow your breath on it as if you wanted to resuscitate the
lifeless figure. Give your developing elementary the name you have
destined to it and speak this name several times into the figure.
Religiously inclined magicians even baptize the figure in a way
similar to the christening of a newborn child, and give the name
to the figure while performing this ceremony. This of course is a
matter of opinion of any magician and not absolutely necessary. In
any case, ascertain for yourself in this experiment that in this
figure you possess a perfect body appropriate to your elementary.
After your doll has got its name, fill your whole body with the
earth element and project it through your hands or the solar
plexus outwards and fill the figure with this element, beginning
from the feet up to the neighborhood of the genitals. The earth
element has to be accumulated dynamically in these parts when
filling the figure. Now concentrate all the specific properties of
the earth such as gravity and the like into it with the firm will
and conviction that the earth element with all its properties will
remain in the figure and work there constantly. Proceed in the
same manner with the water element, which you project into the
doll's abdominal region. After that transfer the air element into
the chest region, and the fire element into the head.
As soon as you have projected all the four elements into the
figure, you may be sure to have created the astral body of your
elementary, which has adopted the doll's shape but, in conformity
with your desire, could also emanate from the doll whenever you
like to, accepting the size you prefer. The astral body of your
elementary will always remain connected by an invisible bond to
the material frame, in our case the doll, and the life as well as
the existence of the elementary depend on the physical doll, and
are bound to reassume the size of the doll after the task is
accomplished, reentering and reuniting into the doll's shape
immediately. Up to this stage, you may repeat the experiment
several times and reinforce its efficiency by deep meditation on
the act of proceeding.
Provided that you have produced the astral body of your elementary
in the manner described here, you may turn to form the mental body
of the elementary as follows:
With the help of your imagination, produce in the doll the mental
body, which you think is made from the finest etheric matter, and
see how it surrounds and wraps the entire form of the doll.
Concentrate into the head of the doll all the properties of the
soul and the mind which you want your elementary to own, and
deepen these qualities by meditation. Provided you are not
interested in any special desires, you may concentrate on the four
specific properties of the mind: will, intellect, feeling and
consciousness, and deepen them by meditating on them. If you are
sure that the figure has been sufficiently loaded and enabled to
produce the intended effect, let us deal with the awakening of
life in your elementary.
Accumulate in your right hand such an amount of light from the
universe that the hand is shining fiery hot like a sun. Take the
figure in your left hand and hold your radiant right hand some
inches above it: Exhale your warm breath to the doll's navel
region, and speak the name of the elementary aloud into it. When
doing so, imagine that the light from your right hand is entering
into the puppet. Right at the first blowing of breath into it,
imagine that the doll's heart is beginning to beat and the blood
to circulate. Your imagination must be so intense that you can
feel the life in the puppet quite distinctly, as it were
physically. A the seventh exhalation the light in your right hand
will have completely disappeared, having passed into the doll; the
astral form of your doll is throbbing and alive. At the eight
breathing into it, think that the astral body of your figure is
accepting your breath and beginning to breathe regularly. At the
ninth blowing of your breath into it, call your elementary by its
name and at the same time, shout aloud and ecstatically, "Live, do
live, be alive!" The last "be alive" must be exclaimed
enthusiastically and convincingly in the unshakable faith that the
desired elementary has been created. Be positively sure that,
according to the analogous laws of nature, a perfect being has
actually been brought into the world.
Having arrived at this point, one can either go on or wrap the
figure in a piece of silk for further use. Silk is known to be the
best magic insulating material. The figure is to be kept in a
favorable spot, inaccessible to anyone else; no foreigner must
ever come in touch with the figure. Any further work is already a
matter of imagination.
Provided you with to advance, put the figure in front of you,
imagine the astral body together with the mental body emanating
from the puppet. You have to imagine your elementary very much
like a tiny, complete human being. It is entirely up to you to see
in your elementary a male or a female being, depending on the kind
of task it is expected to fulfill. The same is true for the
clothing for it; your fantasy may decide. According to the task
ahead, you may link the elementary by imagination to a
self-selected ritual. Impress on your elementary right from the
beginning the command that it should adopt the size you choose for
it. You can have your elementary shrink to a dwarf or grow to a
giant. It depends absolutely on your will and your liking whether
you want to give the elementary an attractive or less beautiful
form. The purpose on which you decide also plays a part here. As
every astral and mental body is independent of time and space,
matter being no obstacle for it, it is necessary for you to
communicate this property to your elementary by imagination right
from the beginning. It is therefore advisable for every magician,
when operating with an elementary, to link important occurrences
to a self-chosen ritual, because this wished-for occurrence will
become a routine matter, the ritual connected to the respective
occurrence producing the necessary power and effect and liberating
the magician from using his will or imagination. When working with
the elementary for a longer period, the elementary may
automatically be condensed to such a degree that it becomes
visible even to an untrained physical eye. It is better, however,
to make the elementary work in an invisible manner, which has to
be established by instructions to the elementary. At the beginning
such an elementary first will fulfill mental, later astral, and
eventually material tasks. All depends on the purpose to which the
magician has created it. The purpose or the task is to be
incorporated into the elementary at the moment of its creation.
Afterwards it would be more difficult to impress new qualities on
it. Hence, before creating an elementary, one ought to write a
plan of action in which everything is carefully considered before
starting the creation.
Never permit an elementary to out-maneuver you, though it may have
developed to such a degree as to set free grand mental, astral or
physical effects. After it has done its duty, always confine the
elementary to its own body with the aid of your pre-established
ritual; never allow it to pursue its own will. Always be aware of
your own authority and magic power and always make sure that the
life and death of the elementary are in your hands in the form of
a wax figure representing the body of the elementary. The
destruction of this figure or the flowing away of the fluid
condenser will cause the elementary's death or its decomposition.
As the wax figure must always be wrapped in silk, one may be
certain the astral body will neither enter the figure nor slip out
of it, because the silk will stop it. It is most important to know
and remember this. When you separate the elementary from its body
to send it away or order it to produce any effects, the figure
must be unwrapped. If by any chance you have wrapped the figure in
silk when the astral body happens to be outside of it, you might
be killing the elementary, dissolving it instantly, in the same
way as if you were touching a magician whose astral body is
outside his physical body, killing him at the same moment because
the linking thread between the astral body and the mortal frame
has been torn by the touch. As you see, you will have to treat a
created elementary n exactly the same way as if you were dealing
with any human being.
The dissolution of an elementary must not take place suddenly,
because the power set free has its origin in the magician himself
and the sudden drawback could cause severe damage to the magician,
especially if his elementary is capable of producing strong
physical effects which even the magician would not be able to
accomplish. In such a case, the disintegration has to be performed
gradually. Therefore be on your guard beforehand against the
elementary growing to such an extent as to outdo the magician's
physical, astral and mental powers.
Hence I recommend the following two methods to disintegrate an
elementary. As mentioned previously, the destruction must not
happen suddenly, for example by burning the figure, without
unloading it. One should always consider that, according to the
method described here, it's a part of one's own Self, of the own
Ego that has been projected into the elementary, and that any
sudden destruction would result in a strong magical drawback.
Should the magician not be sufficiently resistant or otherwise
protected against such drawbacks, he would certainly suffer severe
damage to his health, such as dysfunctions of the heart, nervous
breakdown, paralysis of different kinds, mental defects, and so
forth. Therefore you are advised always to be careful where magic
is concerned, and one must strictly observe the directions and
instructions given here. Then you will never incur any danger with
respect to your health or otherwise. Only a fool ignoring or
disobeying the rules will injure himself or other people. A
sensible, righteous person will do good deeds only for the benefit
of mankind, thus achieving high grades in magic, because he will
never affront the laws of nature and spirit.
In the case of an elementary, the process of decomposition is
exactly the same as in the passing away of Man, unless the
dissolving moment was fixed at the very moment of creation,
thereby deciding on another process. Take the figure in your hand
and imagine the usual breathing process of the astral body in it.
You feel the beating of the heart and the throbbing of the blood.
Now load your right hand with akasa, which you imagine to be of a
black-violet color. Project the akasa pointedly to the heart of
the figure, suddenly like a streak of lightning. By doing so, you
have killed your elementary. The heart stands still, the breathing
has ceased. Withdraw the mental body from the figure, because
through the streak of the akasa, the bond between the mental and
the astral body has been torn. As soon as you imagine the mental
body being outside the puppet, dissolve it with the help of your
imagination into the universal light, like steam evaporating.
After that, pass on to the decomposition of the astral body by
having one element after another evaporate. Begin with the fire
element in the head, then the air element in the chest, the water
element in the abdomen, and finally the earth element in the feet.
Now open the hollow of the puppet - break its head off - and catch
the fluid condenser with a piece of blotting paper, which you then
have to burn. The puppet itself could be used again to make a new
elementary, when kneaded and molded, but it is more advisable to
destroy it by burning or burying it in a lonely spot. This would
be the normal way of decomposition.
Apart from that, I am going to describe another method that is
generally used when an elementary has been condensed to such a
degree that it accomplished physical tasks or else had become so
strong that it refused to obey the magician's power, having got
beyond his control. To protect yourself from any magical reaction
or the cunning of the elementary, keep exactly within the
following directions:
Prepare a very hot bath, as hot as you can endure, and get in.
Hold the figure wrapped in silk in your left and. The right hand
is loaded with akasa. Now shake off the silk wrapping with your
left hand. The very moment you are holding the naked figure
immediately above the water, direct the destructive beam of akasa
to the heart of the figure. At the same time, dip the doll below
the water and while doing so think that all the power, all
abilities, the whole life is passing with the help of the water
into your own body, soul and spirit. This process represents a
very abrupt destruction of the created being, your elementary.
Your body, soul and spirit are accepting the life in a tolerable
manner. The rest of the power remains in the water and you are
protected against any magic drawback or reaction. Now leave the
bath and dry yourself, but leave the puppet in the water until it
has cooled down. The silk in which it was wrapped might also have
fallen into the water. Let the cold water drain off, but make sure
that nobody else comes in touch with this water. If your eyes are
clairvoyant and you notice that the figure is still emanating an
aura, throw it once more into hot water and the fluid condenser
will mix with the water. You may perform this experiment in any
case even if you don't see the emanation. At least you will be
sure that all life in the elementary is extinct.
Burn or bury the remains of the doll together with the silk. With
this last operation the elementary is dead and gone for you.
Before I terminate this chapter, I would like to give a few hints
to the magician who has to work with elementaries. These hints are
of paramount importance for the practitioner. Exactly as the hours
of birth and death of man are already predestined by fate, decide
on the duration of life of your elementary in the same way at the
very act of creation; fix the exact dying hour which you have to
keep to the very minute, even if you have determined your
elementary to live for years. It is therefore recommended to write
down everything beforehand so as not to forget anything. If your
elementaries have been created and condensed to such a degree as
to be able to talk like human beings, they will try to beseech or
even threaten you not to destroy them. On no account descend to
promises of any kind, nor yield to bluffs or threats. Sooner or
later you would lose the control of the elementaries and that
would be disastrous for you, indeed. Even if the elementaries had
served you faithfully and you had become quite fond of them, it
must be all the same to you to destroy them, indifferently and in
cold blood, as soon as their hour of death has struck. Start the
act of decomposition without any pity just as if you were
performing any kind of magic operation.
Just how important it is to fix the exact hour of death of an
elementary, you may argue from the fact that, in case anything
should happen to you and you die before the elementary's time has
come, this latter would dissolve itself at the moment fixed by
you. Though departed, however, you might perform your destroying
work in the akasa sphere too, if you were yet interested in it. I
am not going to describe here how anything like that could be
managed, because it would be out of the scope of this book. Being
however on the astral level, you would as a perfect magician
understand that automatically. If in such a case the lifetime of
an elementary were not limited to terms, if the hour of death had
not been exactly fixed, the elementary would go on existing for
hundreds of yeas after the producer's death and constantly be
viable. In the meantime it would probably grow into a spook, a
hobgoblin or vampire, and in akasa its creator the magician would
be responsible for all the actions produced by the elementary.
Now the question will probably arise: how many of such or similar
elementaries may be created by a magician? This problem is left
entirely to him. He should decide how many he needs for his own
purposes and how many he wants to create for other people. Some
magicians have a throng of elementaries as their servants,
faithfully fulfilling all the tasks they are ordered to do. Thus
for example, the magician might have elementaries pointing out
every danger to him in advance, others again will protect him. Or
forward messages to him, etc. There is no need to quote all the
possibilities, because all of them are individual and depend on
the desires that the magician wants to be realized with the help
of the elementaries. The speaking pictures, columns and statures
in the temples of the ancient may certainly be interpreted as an
outgrowth of elementaries' magic. The legend concerning the Golem,
who is said to have been created by the wise Rabbi Low in Prague
likewise goes back to the creation of elementaries. But in the
case of Golem the creation has been produced with the rites of the
Quabbalah. Anybody who knows of quabbalistic mysticism is informed
about these facts. The synthesis remains the same as quoted in
this method.
Method 3:
Before I explain the practice of the third method, I would like to
remark that very little is known about it, and it is used only by
a few oriental adepts. If any magician should decide in favor or
this third method, he has of course to consider everything I have
written about the creation of elementaries up to now. First of
all, he must think out a schedule and reflect very intensely and
get a clear idea about the purpose of the elementary, and its
task.
Apart from that, he must have regard to the form that he intends
to choose and whether he means to create a male or female or
perhaps a hermaphrodite. Moreover, he has to determine the
appropriate name instantly and make a note of it. Nor ought he
forget to fix the duration of life of the elementary, timing the
exact day and hour. Supposing the elementary is meant for his
personal use only, he has to perform the loading through the
projection of his own body. In case it is meant for somebody else,
he has to execute the projection directly from the universe.
Furthermore, he has to make sure about the manner in which he
intends to call his elementary, whether by a ritual, a formula, or
a gesture. He must know if he wishes to bind it to a puppet or any
other object such as a talisman or a pentacle. He also has to
decide on the place in which the elementary has to be kept in
order not to be touched by strangers. Having considered all this
carefully and written notes of it, he may begin with the practice.
In this third method I will describe an elementary created with
the fire element, which the magician may use for his own purposes.
Draw a circle on a piece of paper, in the middle of it two
squares, one upon the other so that you get a regular octagon.
This octagon indicates that we have to do with a symbol of the
four elements in their positive and negative results. The circle
itself represents the all-comprehensive akasa-principle from which
the four elements derived. Mark the center of the octagon by any
sign you like that indicates the symbol of the elementary. The
paper you use for the drawing has to be big enough to allow the
created elementary to stand on the sign in the center of the
octagon. Now engrave the same sign on a very tiny round object,
best on copper, silver or gold disk, though any other kind of
metal will do, in a diameter of 1/2 inch.
If nothing else is available, a small piece of wood will do for
our purpose also. It is however more profitable to do the
engraving with a pointed object on a small metal disk, especially
if the elementary is destined to have a long lifetime. Lamas in
Tibet name the big drawing the great "kylichor" and the small
engraving the little kylichor, which they sometimes have hidden in
their clothing. The difference in Tibet is that the great kylichor
is not drawn on paper but is built from stones, gathered and
erected in a lonely spot where no human being will ever be
admitted. The construction of a big kylichor has a diameter of 3-4
yards. For our purposes it is sufficient to draw the big kylichor
on paper with red ink.
All these preparations being finished, let us begin with the real
creation of the elementary. Sit down comfortably in your asana,
spread the paper already prepared and put the small kylichor
exactly into the center of the big kylichor. As soon as you take
your hand of the small kylichor, call the name you chose for the
elementary. The small kylichor now is serving as a starting point
and as a stop for the projection of elements. Inhale the fire
element by pore breathing and impregnate it with your desire,
whether right away in your body, or animate it afterwards by
imagination when it has been projected outside your body.
In order to achieve a quicker success, both possibilities may be
used without incident. Now project the fire element out of your
body and accumulate it to such a degree that the entire contents
are compressed to a very small spark of fire. Confine the spark to
the surface of the small kylichor. Repeat this experiment at least
seven times so that the accumulated spark grows larger with each
repetition. After repeating it seven times the spark might have
the size of a candle flame. If you get tired, you may transfer the
flame with your sending-off and guarding method into the spot
where you intend to keep the elementary. Now remove the small
kylichor from the big one, guard it well, or carry it with you if
you find it more profitable.
Fold up the big kylichor and keep it well too, and the first task
will be finished.
Next time, all you have to do is spread out the great kylichor in
front of you, put the small one in its center, and call the being
with the name given to it, and the flame will appear on the
surface of your small kylichor. Repeat the projection with the
fire element and let the small flame grow bigger and bigger with
each accumulation until you have accumulated a flame that has the
size and height of the wanted elementary. Transmute the flame into
the desired shape by imagination, and your elementary will have
been created. Moreover, you can still load it with the fire
element for a longer time to obtain a greater intensity of the
elementary. The more frequently you repeat this exercise, the
greater will be the effectiveness of your elementary. The way of
working with it is the same as described in the two previous
methods, except that the loading always takes place I the great
kylichor, and when calling the elementary, it will suffice to use
your ritual or take the small kylichor in hand and give it the
corresponding order.
This method is very popular in Tibet and the elementaries there
are called "yidams". The destruction of a yidam is brought about
by the decomposition process with the help of imagination
according to the instructions mentioned in methods 1 and 2,
provided that you have not decided on any other individual method
of dissolution that you have decided upon. The use of such an
elementary is of manifold that I am unable to quote all the
possibilities here.
For example, there are yidams created for the treatment of sick
people, others for transferring objects, bringing messages to
scholars and friends, protecting the magician, and pointing out
any dangers to him, influencing other people, and doing many other
things of the sort according to the creator's desire. It will
always be advisable not to give too many orders to a yidam, and
what is most profitable is to develop a single ability and one
field of activity in such an elementary. One has to observe
exactly the appointed duration of life as we described it in the
previous methods. It is entirely up to you to create several
yidams if you like to. It is also remarkable that a yidam can be
produced with the other elements and even with all the four
elements in the same manner, the process undergoing a slight
change insofar as one does not begin with the fire element, but
with that of the earth, followed by the water element, the air
element, and finally the fire element. Herewith all has been said
about the handling of the third method.
Method 4:
Following this method, you may operate in the same way as
described in method 3, with a big and a small kylichor, but with
the exception that you imagine the complete shape of the
elementary right at the beginning. The elementary created in this
manner is instantly made ready and complete, its efficacy and
power being increased by frequently repeating the projection of
the elements. Although this method is somehow more difficult, an
experienced magician possessed of a good imagination will manage
it very easily as well. In the Orient, elementary yidams are
created in this way, while pictures of demons and images of gods
serve as patterns for their representation. All the other
conditions such as duration, loading, naming, calling,
preservation, sphere of activity, purpose and decomposition
process are exactly the same as in the previous three methods.
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