After many millenniums of experience there is a Soul who is qualified to become a Planetary Soul. The Planetary Soul is the Soul for every person upon that planet. Think of a pie sliced into an incredible number of pieces of pie. The pie as a whole is the Planetary Soul and you are one of those pieces of the pie. The Earth is the physical body of a very advanced Soul who I have told you is the Ancient Dragon Tiamat. Many of humankind have named this Soul, Gaia/Pan. This name representing the fe/male aspect of the Earth Soul. Every human being is a part of the Soul of Earth. Moreover every part of our human body, that is causal, mental, emotional, etheric and physical is directly effected by the Earth Soul. Our entire existence is constantly effected by the Energies of this Being which plays upon our own energies. Just as you are developing and evolving magickally so is Soul Earth. Soul Earth's evolution is far greater then that of yours but all are aiming towards the One Goal; every greater unfoldment of Night Consciousness. You must take care of the Earth Body. It is your stage upon which you gain magickally and moreover it is the vehicle through which Gaia/Pan gains magickally and has its physical being. If the body of Tiamat is killed then the Soul will leave it just as if your body is killed your soul must leave it. If there is continued pollution and destruction of planetary life and resources then soon Tiamat will have to rid itself of the cancer that is causing physical destruction. I believe all of humankind should take this as a warning. It has happened before and it will happen again, Tiamat will not allow the death of its physical body before its proper time. It will do what is necessary to stop the destruction of its body just as you would. There is also another type of destruction happening on Earth and that is with alien races from the Yang matrix. I know this subject may be tough for you to deal with but consider it as you have everything else, with an open mind. This planet is a battlefield between Yang races and the Night Soul of this world, Tiamat. The opening poem was not just a piece of fiction. There are still Yang races who desire to possess the Earth for its wealth and who enjoy dominion over human beings. There are other Yang races who plan to slowly convert the Yin souls of this world into Yang souls. To change the basic polarity of all souls on this world. They believe that their polarity is the only appropriate polarity and would see the destruction of the Yin matrix of life. What evidence is there of this? I can point out to you books on the market today that deal with alien visitation and kidnapping in which there are biological experiments going on to create a human/alien yang body in which they plan on placing Earth yin souls in order to ultimately change the polarity of the souls. Turning back to the pie example given earlier, think of what happens to the pie if pieces of it are removed never to be returned. I believe Soul Death is an appropriate term. You can look at the Yang religions that were introduced by the so-called gods or god and see that through their magickal practices they slowly change a soul's vibration from Yin to Yang. These of course are the religions that have no tolerance for other religions and have gone to great lengths to force conversion on others such as Christianity. There is also my own personal experience. I will not go further in discussing my personal experience except to say it wasn't pleasant and could have led to my ultimate destruction. What can you do? You will learn many things to do in Night Magick. You will learn to place your body in attunement with the Yin Force of this planet. You are learning to unite with the consciousness of the Oversoul which is one in consciousness with the Planetary Oversoul. If enough human souls accomplish this the Night Force will become too strong for the Yang races to deal with. You have learned to take care of the Earth. Go out and help environmentalists who promote care of the planet. When you feel physically well the rest of you responds in kind and so it is with the Earth. If the Earth Body is strong and healthy the Earth Soul will be strong and its aura will repel the alien races. In your meditations and visualizations, see the Earth and Its Soul strong in the Night Force. Use your Night Pillar and extend its protection around and through the Earth. Use your Night Pillar around every human body and soul to keep them strong in the Night Force. If enough of humankind joins in there will be no destruction of the Yin life force. If you think that aliens are fiction, DON'T. If you practice Night Magick you will draw their attention to you. I have had personal experience with aliens and my battle with them continues. I advise you strongly to wear your Night Amulet and Ring at all times and keep your Night Pillar strong through constant use. I hope you will take my advice and not have to learn through experience. This is the Earth Realm where you have to live and practice Night Magick. In Earth Magick, I will introduce knowledge, rites, and exercises which will help to improve and refine your physical body. To make your body a more sensitive instrument to the Night forces around you. The more refined the instrument the greater the Night Power that will be able to be expressed through it. These exercises will not only benefit the physical but overlap into the development of the higher vehicles too. Earth Magick will give you ultimate control over your physical body and the world around you. So study with all your heart, persevere, practice, have courage and patience and you will attain the Earth. Your first subject for study and practice in the Earth Realm is Night Breathing. 14. Night Breathing Breathing is an important aspect in life and Night Magick. Breathing is essential to life and your well-being. That may seem like an obvious statement since without air you could not live, but actually breathing means more then just taking in air to sustain life. As you will see, breathing correctly and with the knowledge of what it can do for you will propel you far down the magickal road. Incorrect breathing leads to many problems in your life. Does it seem that you run out of energy well before the day is done? Are you often nervous and irritable for no real apparent reason? Through correct breathing you can eliminate these problems from your life. You will be able to go through each day with boundless energy. Tension, irritability, and nervousness will disappear from your life. What is wrong with the way you breathe? Stop right now and notice how you are breathing. Do you find that your breathing is shallow? Almost everyone in the world is a lazy breather. Deep breathing is a simple thing to do but in the beginning it will take some effort on your part for it to become a regular practice. Begin by taking a slow, deep breath and as you inhale, not only expand your chest to hold more air but force out your abdomen and feel that air going deep down into your lungs. When you have inhaled as much air as you can, try to take in just a bit more air. Really fill up your lungs. Now that you have inhaled as much air as possible, exhale very slowly and steadily. Bring your expanded abdomen in and force out the air till you are completely empty. At no time should you strain yourself in doing deep breathing. Even though you cannot go around in public being very obvious about this exercise you should, no matter where you are, breathe as deeply, slowly, and rhythmically as possible. You will do this consciously at first but soon this will become a part of your life without thinking of it. Do this and you will have a vibrant, youthful body. Why would an increase in air intake cause this increased vitality? There is an active, vital, life force that energizes the world around you. In the Eastern languages this essence is called Prana. This Force is active not only on the physical plane but on all planes or dimensions of life. On the physical level, you breathe in the air which contains one aspect of this Force and which then is transmitted throughout your body via the nerve network. When you are feeling nervous, irritable, or tense, this can be due to a lack of this vital Force. The Pranic Force is not just for the physical body. There are many aspects of the Pranic or what is called in Earth Magick, Earth Force. To utilize the Earth Force, you must learn to draw in this Energy within you. The technique outlined is termed Night Breathing. To begin with, retire to your Magician's Study and sit comfortable with spine erect in your chair. For a few minutes practice deep breathing with your feet on the floor and touching. Your hands should be resting in your lap, palms down at all times. The indrawing of the Earth Force is through the action of the mind rather then the physical act of breathing. As your attention has been on the physical act of breathing let's now move it to the Earth Force surrounding you. This Force is the Life of the world. Through it you have your well-being. Your mind must remain in a state of complete openness to the Earth Force. Your mind must be completely centered in the Earth Force alone. The mind must be without strain. You must not force the indrawing of the Earth Force. It is breathed into your being through a conscious attunement to it. Feel the Earth Force entering into your body. See it penetrating every cell in your body and causing them to be filled Earth Light. Know that as it fills your physical body with Earth Light and Life that the Earth Force also charges your higher bodies with this same Emerald Light. As you continue to absorb the Earth Force know that you will achieve a Oneness with it. You will lose identity with your physical body and forget physical limitations for in the Earth Force there are no limits. You are the Earth Force, Limitless and Free. Through Night Breathing, you will become filled with the Earth Force. This Force will keep your body in Eternal Youth. You will be free of sickness. You will have abundant energy. Not only does the Earth Force quicken the physical but also the Emotional Body. Your outlook on life will improve. It will raise the vibration of your body so that depression, loneliness, and fear will not have a part in your world. The Night Force transforms the Mental Body. It can give you perfect memory. Your mind and all that it can do will be greatly enhanced. Your memory will be able to search back to when it first was. The Earth Force will help raise your overall Being into Night Consciousness. In addition to the practice of Night Breathing and the use of the Earth Force you must also study and practice the art of the Magician's Meditation. 15. The Night Magician's Meditation The Night Magician's Meditation is the beginning level at which you will begin to awaken your Inner Self. It is an exercise that is essential to your magickal growth. In the beginning stages of meditation, your sense of awareness will take place from your physical awareness, but as you grow your conscious awareness will move into your Oversoul. There are many benefits that can be derived from meditation. Meditation will greatly benefit your health. The body will become inwardly calm and tranquil. The practice of Magician's Meditation can help to eliminate ulcers and other physical problems due to stress and tension. What meditation can do for you physically it can also do for you emotionally. You can achieve a state of emotional tranquility and stability never before thought possible. No matter the confusion going on around you, you will be able remain steady and firm as a rock. It will develop your ability to concentrate and to expand the workings of your mind. You will be able to achieve true telepathic communication with those of similar magickal standing. Your memory will be vastly enhanced. Ideas from the Higher Mental Realm will come to you. From the Mental Realm, you will be able to contact and obtain information from the Akashic Record. This Record I will speak of later. You will be able to know the past, present, and future probabilities for yourself and for others. You will be able to gain a true understanding of your life and why you are here. There are preparations and precautions to take prior to meditating. First, you must watch the food you eat. You must avoid fried foods and spicy foods close to the meditation period. Do not eat just prior to meditating for a full stomach can be quite discomforting. You will then need to set a quiet period aside each day. This period should be at the same time each day if possible. Early morning or late evening will be the best time. You should feel refreshed when you meditate so wash up prior to commencing. Now that you have taken care of your bodily needs it is time to set the proper atmosphere for meditation. Retire to your Magician's Study and be sure that you can not be disturbed for say a half hour. Put on your robe, light your incense, and sit down in a very comfortable chair. Do not light your candle for the flickering will tend to distract you. Once you have done this you are ready to begin the Magician's Meditation. Close your eyes now and place the Night Pillar around you. Follow this with Night Breathing. Now select the type of meditation. There are actually two ways of meditating, and they differ by your conscious directive. The first way of meditating will have you direct your thoughts on a particular subject. For example, the subject can be on strength. You will want to look at the different types of strength. Try to understand how strength develops and how you can become stronger. You can go on to becoming Pure Strength and the qualities needed in your life to be Strength. As you continue to look fully at the subject of strength and understand all that there is about it your conscious thoughts will slowly be overshadowed by your Oversoul, and you will be given true enlightenment on Strength, or any subject you should choose. The second way deals with entering the Silence of your Oversoul. Here you will not choose a topic but remain in a state of silence and complete Openness to the Indwelling Oversoul. You must remain completely free of thought. You must not enter into this meditation with cares or worries but surrender them into the care of your Oversoul. As you advance into the meditation you will become aware of Its Presence. You will feel Its Energy. Here the Oversoul will choose the subject of importance and instruct you directly. Remember, "to be Silent and Know". Having chosen the type of meditation, turn your attention to within yourself and give open recognition to the Oversoul within. If you feel a slight sense of shaking or a raising of the heart beat do not let it bother you. It is a good sign that what you want is taking place. Remain very relaxed and allow your thoughts to drift on the subject. Do not overtire yourself. If at first you can only do five to ten minutes then that's fine. Do not push for results. The results will come in their own good time. Meditate only as long as you feel comfortable with it. After you have finished don't get up and plunge back into the work-a-day world. Take it easy and allow yourself a few minutes or however long is necessary to adjust to a faster pace of living. In Magician's Meditation, you slowed your rate of living considerably. Strive to attain but be patient for the results to happen. You will not attain all you can be overnight but someday the Night will be yours. There is nothing greater you can do for your quest on the Night Road then the sincere practice of Night Magician's Meditation. In Night Magician's Meditation you studied a method of changing your conscious vibration and attuning it with the Oversoul's Consciousness. Now you are going to explore the very depths and heights of the Realm of Vibration. 16. The Realm of Vibration The study of vibration is important to a Night Magician. The actual magickal progression made is a result of increased vibration of the physical, emotional, mental, and causal bodies. You must therefore begin with the lowest level of vibration, the physical, and study its nature. Vibration is movement. In the physical world, vibration is based on molecular motion or movement. The physical world is composed of small particles in motion which are termed molecules. Molecules are composed of small particles known as atoms. Atoms are composed of even smaller particles which are protons, neutrons, and electrons. If you could become small enough you would see that the electrons orbit around the nucleus like the planets around the Sun. If you took the analogy farther, you would see that the human body would be composed of many solar and galactic systems. The human body is in constant molecular motion which produces something akin to electricity. There are machines today which can measure this very fine electricity. The combination of this fine electricity added to the Energy of the Oversoul causes sentient life. All forms of matter produce this fine energy due to molecular motion. Further, all matter, that is the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms, are guided in development, just as you are, by a Higher Power and therefore have Life. This Life is perhaps not as you know Life, but yet it is Life. As you have seen, all forms of matter have molecular activity. This molecular activity is very active in some forms and slower in others. The rock has a very slow molecular, or vibrational rate, whereas the air has a very high vibrational rate. This rate of vibration is termed frequency. When the vibrational rate is high the frequency is high and the opposite is also true. You have learned that matter is in a constant state of motion. That all motion has a relative vibrational rate, or frequency, dependent on the molecular activity. An important part of the physical realm of vibration which goes on to touch all levels of vibration is light and color. Light and colors are dependent on matter and its rate of vibration. Color is important in your physical life. In a moment, you will discuss how it effects the human body, but some background information on light and color will prove beneficial. Light is energy. Light is actually electromagnetic radiation. When light strikes an object the molecules absorb some of that energy, and in turn, that which is not absorbed is reflected and radiated out into the surrounding space. This radiation is perceived by the eyes as color. The different colors seen are due to the different frequencies of that radiation. This frequency is a slightly different term than that used to describe molecular activity. The frequency used to measure color is based on the fact that color is a radiation or energy. Light is separated into seven basic frequencies. These frequencies are seen as the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Red is of the lowest frequency and violet the highest. Here you have looked at the physical definitions of light and color. How, though, can light and color be of benefit to the well-being of your physical body? You are familiar with how colors can effect one's mood. A blue room for example can give one a feeling of peace and relaxation while a red room would tend to make one feel energetic or even nervous. But few of us are aware of how colors can effect the physical body directly. The entire principle behind color healing is vibration. Every part of your body vibrates at a particular frequency. Disease is the result when any part of the body develops disharmony or the wrong frequency. Color radiation when directed at the particular area of imbalance, induces a sympathetic vibration into that organ and corrects the frequency of the organ back to its original frequency, and thus, good health. How can this be done? Before explaining this procedure its best to give this WARNING!!! Do not go out based on these teachings and setup a healing practice! If you are not a doctor, are you really sure of what is wrong with the person? You could be sued if you end up hurting someone. As you progress magickally, you will know through your Oversoul what is wrong with the person and what color to use. Use this science to help only those to whom you are close to and on yourself. Be absolutely sure of what you are doing. If you have any doubts, DON'T DO IT! This is a great healing science if used wisely. Be careful. There are several methods to induce color healing. No discussion will be made here of the use of color lamps for they will be replaced soon with a more advanced machine. What will be discussed is the use of color meditation and your own physical instrument, the body. You are a channel for the higher energies. You are a magnet for these energies and by concentrating or meditating on the specific color necessary to be applied you will magnetize them to you and then be able to apply them to the one needing healing. Before discussing the actual procedure you must prepare yourself as you did in meditation. Be sure you are in good health or you could induce your illness into the one your healing. When you enter into meditation it would be good to get a sheet of paper with the color you wish to magnetize and gaze on it. As your meditation proceeds be sure your ankles and hands are crossed. This conserves the energy you are magnetizing. Visualize this color energy filling your Night Pillar. See the Pillar becoming filled with the color until it can hold no more. Then you are ready to pass it to the one in need of healing. If you are the one who needs healing see that energy penetrating the area in poor health. See that part of the body becoming whole and perfect. If it is another person or anything needing the color energy place your hands on the area that is ill. Again see that energy penetrating into that part and restoring it to perfect harmony and vibration. You do not necessarily have to be present to administer the healing energy. If the person is somewhere else see your energy moving to that person. Visualize that person and the area of illness and again see the energy making all whole and perfect. Be sure when you are finished that you wash your hands in cold running water. It will be necessary to continue the number of treatments once every hour until the condition is relieved. You should apply the healing for a period lasting fifteen minutes. These continuous treatments are necessary so that you are working in harmony with the cyclic nature of the body. This time period allows the body adequate time to use the energy being supplied to it. Also it allows you to know when to stop treatment, for sometime in the forty-five minute period, you can observe the healing process and its progress. The last subject to discuss is the colors themselves and what ailments they cure. You will begin with the lowest frequency of color, red. Red is vibrant and alive. Red is a heating, vitalizing, and stimulating color. It is directly responsible for your physical vitality. In cases where there is a lack of energy red is an exceptional color. It is effective in the treatment of anemia and cancer. It vitalizes the blood and helps to purify it. Do not use this color when there is an inflammatory condition present or when the person is of excitable temperament. The color orange has often been associated with the Sun. It is necessary for health and vitality. It influences primarily the processes of assimilation and circulation. The color helps to regulate the intake of food and is centered around the spleen. It is good for the treatment of asthma, bronchitis, colds, and epilepsy. It is further useful for the treatment of gout, inflammation of the kidneys, gall stones, cessation of menstruation, and mental debility. The color yellow acts as a tonic on the nerves. It is an inspiring and mentally stimulating color. It is good for the treatment of dyspepsia, diabetes, flatulence, and constipation. Clear golden yellow is one of the most powerful forces against depression and limitations of every kind. Yellow stimulates the brain as well as exerting great therapeutic influence on the assimilative organs of the body. Yellow also stimulates the purifying action in the body for it effects the liver, gall bladder, and intestines in stimulating them and aiding in the elimination of the body wastes. Yellow improves the texture of the skin, heals scars, and heals other blemishes. Green is the color of the Earth. It is the color of harmony and balance. It has a soothing effect upon the nerves. It has a very powerful effect on the blood supply and its distribution throughout the body. Green is an excellent tranquilizer and is further beneficial in the treatment of heart complaints, blood pressure, and headaches. Blue is the color of deep peace and harmony. It acts upon the body as a powerful antiseptic. It is excellent in the treatment of insomnia. Blue is good in the treatment of all throat diseases and in the treatment of gall bladder attacks, jaundice, skin abrasions, cuts, burns, and rheumatism. Indigo is the Healer for the eyes, ears, and nose. It is excellent in the treatment of deafness, cataract, delirium tremens, and eye inflammation. It is good in the treatment of lung disorders, pneumonia, asthma, bronchitis, and indigestion. Violet is the highest vibration of visible light. Its effect is primarily in the area of the brain. It is good in the treatment of mental disorders, cataracts, and paralysis. Creative artist and workers would benefit by surrounding their room with objects of this color and meditating and storing this color. It is excellent in the treatment of insomnia. In closing, again use the colors carefully. Do not use them excessively. At all times, you should seek the guidance of your Oversoul. Never prescribe treatment to anyone. And above all, in the case of illness Consult your Physician! You can use this science to aid your healing and that of others, but it is not meant to replace the therapeutic care given by your Physician. I have made a small beginning in discussing the realm of vibration. I spoke of the vibrating world around us and how all life is in constant motion. I discussed the special world of light and colors and their relationship to the human body. In the next topic you are going to explore some fascinating information concerning the human body and how it works. 17. Night Centers and the Physical and Etheric Bodies In the Eastern languages the Night Centers are known as chakras. Night Centers are located in each type of body that you have, from the Etheric to the Mental Body. They are, in appearance, small whirlpool-like vortices of concentrated energy. The Night Centers are responsible for a number of functions. They are conveyors of the Night Force from higher dimensions to the lower ones. They act as step-down transformers taking the higher energy and lowering it to meet the requirements of each body. They further function as message centers. They connect each dimension from the higher ones to the lower with an internal form of communication keeping your entire system of bodies in rapport with each other. They have other functions but these will be covered in later topics. You are presently going to look at two bodies, the physical and Etheric, and the role of the Night Centers to each. Let's look at the physical body first. In the physical body there is a corresponding organ and/or gland to each of the Night Centers. The lowest of the centers is at the base of the spine and relates to the gonads. The second of these centers is located over the area of the spleen and is associated with the spleen/pancreas. The third Night Center is located over the navel area or the solar plexus and corresponds to the adrenal glands. The fourth is located over the heart region and relates to the thymus gland. The fifth is located in the throat area and relates to the thyroid gland. The sixth Night Center is located in the brow area and relates to the pineal gland. The seventh Night Center is located at the top or crown of the head and is associated with the pituitary gland. What is interesting and important to observe is that the organs make up the endocrine system. These glands produce a substance called hormone which is spilled into the blood stream to regulate every cell in the body. These glands further effect the growth and development of the physical body; the way you feel; and even the way you think. The endocrine system is regulated by the nervous system. Here there is an important parallel. For every Night Center there is a nerve center that corresponds to it too. These nerve centers are closely related to the glands they regulate, which are those of the endocrine system. This leads us to the Night Centers, Etheric Body, and their relationship to your bodily control. The Etheric Body is produced by the electromagnetic energy generated by the physical body. The Etheric is an exact counterpart to the physical body. The Etheric Body interpenetrates the physical body and extends from a half inch to four inches around the physical body and can be seen by the Night Eye as a whitish blue light. The Etheric Body is the lowest body where the Night Centers can be found. The Oversoul influences the body through the transmission of Night Force through the Higher Night Centers which continues to be stepped down till the energies enter the Etheric vortices which in turn affects the nerve centers, endocrine system, and the body overall. They are all interrelated. The two Night Centers which directly effect the well-being of the physical body are the lowest two. The lowest center found at the base of the spine contains the Earth Fire. In the Eastern religions it is called Kundalini. I will discuss this Energy in a later topic but for now I will discuss the intake of Earth Force, a less concentrated form of the Earth Fire. Those who have ever lived in a high-rise apartments and worked in similar offices may recall feeling very tired and run down. This is due to lack of direct contact with the Earth. It is essential for humans to remain in contact with the Earth. When the body makes direct contact with the Earth, the base Night Center is then able to absorb the Earth's energy. Everyone should take time to get outdoors in direct contact with Mother Earth and absorb that vital energy. In a later topic, I will present a rite to help keep the Earth energies high in yourself. The second Night Center concerned with your well-being is located over the spleen/pancreas and absorbs the pranic force generated by the Sun. This is the second energy necessary for the well-being of your physical body. An adequate intake of this energy will give you good health. It will give you vitality, youth, and a zest for life. As was mentioned earlier, the Etheric extends beyond and around the outline of the body approximately a half to four inches. It is bluish grey to bluish white in color. When a person is in good health the Etheric will be strong in appearance and extend several inches beyond the outline of the body. In poor health or when one is low in energy the Etheric will be close to the body and hard to see. How do you see the Etheric? Etheric sight is the best way to begin to see magickally. Since this energy is of lesser vibration then that of auric energy it will be easier to see with the Night Eye. For a moment, let's discuss exactly what is the Night Eye and then the mechanics of how it operates. The Night Eye and its existence have been known since the time of the Ancient Ones. In the Eastern languages it's referred to as the "Third Eye" . The Night Eye is a magickal organ that when activated allows you to see the higher dimensions. The Night Eye is also capable of enlarging microscopic particles till you can see them. This is very similar to the microscope and its function. For most, the Night Eye is closed and blind to the higher realm, but through the techniques and practices in this work you will learn to use and see through the Night Eye. The mechanics of the Night Eye will be discussed in greater depth in a later topic. For now, the Night Eye is related to the sixth Night Center and the pineal gland. When they are functioning under your voluntary control then you are able to see magickally. Knowledge of the exact mechanics is not necessary in order for you to see through the Night Eye. What is necessary is knowing the techniques for opening and using the Night Eye and then plenty of practice. Therefore, let's perform some exercises to begin its development. To convince yourself more fully that there really is an Etheric Body begin with the following experiment. One night as you are in bed, lie on your back with your feet spread apart. Then slowly bring your feet together until you can feel them touch each other. When you feel them just touch try and see if you can put them together any closer. You will be surprised to find that you can. This distance is the area occupied by the Etheric. You can also do this with another person. Try touching the other person on an area of bare skin. The neck and head area is the best. Touch them with one finger very lightly and then slowly remove the finger to about one inch away. The person will not be able to tell the difference when you are touching and when you are not. Now that you are more fully convinced that there is an Etheric, let's move on and see it. It will be easier if you get another person to help you. Have that person stand against a neutral background, the best color is white, and have them relax and breathe deeply. The lighting is very important. The light should be behind you and positioned such that it will not produce a shadow on the subject. The lighting should be dim. You should now position yourself away from the subject about six to ten feet and sit or stand in a comfortable position. Relax and breathe deeply. Look at the subject and let your eyes relax. Do not concentrate on seeing anything. Look beyond the subject as if looking off into the distance. The subject's Etheric Energy will extend around the outline of the physical body. If you are alone you can still practice seeing the Etheric. Have a mirror positioned in front of you such that you can see the upper body outline. Have behind you a background of neutral color. Do the same as outlined above as if you had someone before you. In all the work, outlined above, do not become discouraged if results do not occur the first time. Be patient and know that all is, and will, work for you if you but try. No one can become a Master Night Magician without great practice and perseverance. So you, too, can be a Master of Night Magick if you will but practice and persevere. You leave the Realm of the Etheric and Magickal Sight to enter into the Realm of Magickal Sound. 18. The Power of Sound Ever see an opera singer shatter a crystal glass? It is said that words are things and once spoken may cause the very thing to happen. Can there really be so much to the spoken word? Let's explore the physical properties of the spoken word, or in other words, sound and its properties and discover the secret. You first must learn that sound is caused by vibrating structures. That for sound to travel it must move through a material substance or medium. Sound travels as a wave motion. As a sound wave travels, in a medium, small displacements occur to the molecules in that medium or substance. These small displacements are a regular collective motion in which all the molecules, in a small volume of matter, move together. Think of this motion as compared to a small volume of water held by a container in which you would see a wave moving in the volume of water. This ordered wave motion is superimposed on the random thermal agitation or vibration of the molecules. We, therefore, look at sound waves as the molecules of the substance jiggling back and forth in a regular fashion. You know that sound is the result of vibrating bodies but beyond this you must know that a traveling sound wave transports energy. When this sound wave is incident on, or striking, a body of matter there is absorption of that sound wave's energy by that body. In some cases this will force the body to vibrate at the frequency of the incident wave. A state of resonance will occur when the vibration of the body and that of the incident wave are close in natural frequency. Sound can do some phenomenal things. For example, remember the high pitched note of the singer, when it is incident upon the crystal glass, causes it to break. But even greater is the Power of the spoken word or sound energy, when that energy is transmitted on the carrier wave of creative magickal thought. The spoken word is endowed with the Night Force when the creative thought behind that word is that of Night Consciousness. Your words are endowed with Night Force when your Magickal Consciousness is that of the Oversoul. Your words are as potent as your consciousness is equal to that of Night Consciousness. For your words to be life and accomplish that where they are sent, then your consciousness must be that of the Oversoul. Your will is the selector of the words, but for them to be more then mere words they must be endowed with Night Force through Night Consciousness. Let's try it. To begin with first see yourself as the Oversoul. Feel the Night Presence of your own Oversoul selecting the words with which you wish to create with. Then speak the words knowing that it is not you that says the words, but that it is the Oversoul who says the Words. Then those Words will go forth and do as they are sent forth to do. The greater your attunement with your Oversoul, the greater will be the potency of the Words. Keep your thoughts in tune with your Oversoul at all times. For your words to take on the Night Force you must become the Oversoul in all you do. Repeat the Words over and over again till you can feel the words take on a life of their own. Repeat them till your words are endowed with Night Force then they will go forth and create as you have said. There are no limitations to what your Words in Night Consciousness may do. They can bring to you your heart's desire. They can literally move mountains. They can create life. There are no limitations to what you can do, so long as it is in accord with your Oversoul. As you are filled with the Sound of the Oversoul, now to fill yourself with the Energies of the Earth. 19. Earth Rite Your body is very much like that of the Earth. As was shown in an earlier topic, the body has interspaced in it an Etheric Body. This is your magnetic field just as the Earth has a magnetic field. It is essential to your good health to be in contact with the Earth. The Earth currents mixed with your own magnetic currents keep you in good health. You will experience less tension and frustration. If you can do nothing else you should get out into the country and go barefoot. Here though, I would like to introduce a rite which will allow you to absorb a great deal more Earth Energy. The Earth's energy is of the highest order. You may feel that the Earth is an unclean place and that its energies are of the same order. This is not true! Man's attitude is the harmful energy which is slowly destroying the Earth itself. From the Oversoul's viewpoint the Earth is covered in a dense blanket of Man's wrongful attitude concerning the Earth. The Earth is the Body of a magickally advanced Being and Its Energies are of the deepest order. Let's look specifically at how to absorb these life giving energies. The only place to do this rite is outdoors. You should select a place which is free of Man's urbanization. Go out into a park or a private woods. Go somewhere so that you won't be disturbed. Once you have selected a place that feels right sit down and get comfortable. Your bottom should be in direct contact with the Earth. Do not sit in a chair. Next begin with deep breathing, relax, and let all tension go. When you are perfectly relaxed begin to feel your own Etheric Body. Feel your magnetic current touching the magnetic current of the Earth. When you breathe in, you will draw the Earth Energy up into your body via the Night Centers. See this energy flowing up through the base center and flow on higher and higher through each center until it reaches the crown center. When it has reached this far, hold the energy there and allow it to penetrate your entire being. Then, as you exhale, see the tired and tense energies of your own body flow back out of your body and being absorbed by the Earth. The Earth will change and charge these energies with Earth Force. Continue this exercise as long as you feel comfortable. During this exercise you should feel a communion and Oneness with the Soul of the Earth. The Earth is a Magickal Fountain of the Darkest Night. Drink from it and be renewed! You have traveled far on the Earth Road. You have learned a great deal about yourself. You have come to know the hidden faculties and powers that lie within you. But as all things on Earth must end so in the next topic, you will come to know your own ending and this chapter on Earth Magick. 20. The Physical Realm of Death It has always been said that people fear the unknown. One of the greatest unknowns in life is death. Dying is as important as living on Earth. Dying does not have to be a big unknown. There does not have to be fear of death. To end the fear of dying one must look at death and understand it. Your life is sustained only so long as the silver cord is attached to your physical body. This is your lifeline from your Oversoul to that which you know as "I". In the actual physical process of dying it takes three complete days for this cord to separate. The body should be left alone and undisturbed as much as possible till then. As you are separating, you feel like a cloud drifting over your physical body. After three days, you will cast off like a ship adrift on the seas. The process of dying is entirely painless and you should have no fear. Before casting off for the next dimension, you are required to view the actual process of the preparation of your body for burial. This is to convince you that your physical body has actually died, but that you still live. Here, it might be appropriate to say something about those who are left behind. In the west, you have been taught that you should grieve for the one who has departed. It would be more appropriate to celebrate for they now have left this world for a new world of happiness and joy. In this new world there is no suffering, hunger, or struggle for survival. You grieve over another's dying for many reasons, but mostly at the loss you feel and at being alone. How can you overcome this grief? First, you should realize that you will someday be reunited with them if you wish. Only those in harmony with each other can reunite, for only harmony can exist on the other side. You should also realize that you should not grieve so much for the one gone, for you tend to disturb their rest and recuperation on the other side. What can you do to help the person who is suffering from grief? The best help you can provide is to be the "listening ear". You should do everything in your power to help the person talk out their grief. Let them talk to you about the sorrow they feel over their loss and talk about how it was in the past. Keep them company and let them cry all they want. Crying and tears are the greatest safety valve the human body has. This prevents an emotional overload causing perhaps insanity. Allow the person a reasonable time to express their grief. But this should not go on for ever and ever. Grief can not be allowed to go too far. It will cause the person to develop self-pity and this is just as bad. Dying to this world is birth to the next and higher world. There is a practice which will assist you in the process of dying. You should prepare yourself through meditation. Meditate on the subject of death as has been described here. See yourself at the time of dying. Feel and know yourself developing as a cloud of consciousness over the physical body. See yourself actually trying to get out of that old dying house. Then you should see and visualize the person you want to come help you and meet you. Feel their presence very strong and know that they are there to help you make the transition. If you have no one special to come get you, know that there are special helpers waiting to assist you into the next dimension. Have no fear for you are never alone. Know that just as soon as there is complete separation of the silver cord from the physical body that they will assist you to the next realm. Then allow yourself to relax and wait out the physical process of dying. There is no pain nor fear to experience, only the beginning of a new day in a new world. The only thing you will experience is the feeling of going home. This simple process of meditating on the transition from one world to the next can relieve much anxiety and worry when the actual time seems near. There is no way that meditating on death can bring about the actual thing. Only the Oversoul knows the time of transition and can cause it to happen. So rest assured, that in dying from the physical world, the process is simple, easy, and merely a phase of transition necessary to enter the next world beyond. Now you must also make the transition from one chapter in Night Magick to the next. You must leave behind the Earth Realm and enter the Water Realm. You have seen many wonders in the Earth Realm. You have learned better ways of breathing and things about your body you may have never known about. You are opening your Night Eye by learning about and seeing your Etheric Body. You should be acquiring better health and a sounder mind through meditation and the use of colors. I must emphasize here, before leaving Earth Magick, that no matter how far you go do not stop practicing the techniques, rites, and exercises learned early in this book. Always take time to meditate and practice Night Breathing. All the things you have learned, so far, are essential for your success later on. If you are ready to explore a fascinating realm and discover many new wonders, then let's enter into the exciting Realm of Water Magick. CHAPTER V WATER MAGICK 21. The Water (Astral) Realm Here you will enter a land of great beauty. A land of Harmony and Peace. In the last topic, you had just left your dying body, the silver cord had separated, and you were set off adrift. At this point, it is essential that you believe that there is continuity in life after physical death, otherwise you will simply drift in a dense, dark fog, until slowly you realize, that you are still conscious and alive. As soon as doubt is gone, the clouds will dissipate and your loved ones will be there to help you. In the first stage of transition, you will be allowed time to recuperate. The process of living on Earth and the troubles of the long years spent there have made you very weary. In the new realm that you have just entered, you are given time to rest from your journey on Earth and to adjust to the Astral Realm. Everyone, no matter what their magickal attainment, must enter this level of the Astral Realm. It has been referred to, by some religions, as purgatory. You are here in order to rest, purify yourself of human dross and make decisions about your magickal future. Your magickal development determines the level of purgatory you first arrive at. For souls who are of the lowest and crudest of development, there is a very low vibrational level for them. At this level, acts of the worst kind, akin to their own vibrations, are portrayed before them. The things that they did wrong on Earth are done to them. This is a very dense region. This is not a land of punishment and torture, but a place to show the individual the folly of such a life and a place to rid the soul of its denser energies. This is not Hell. There is no such place as Hell. If Hell is anywhere it is right here on Earth. It is what humankind has made of the Earth. Above this there is the next level which some go immediately to and some come up to from a lower level. This level is for souls who allowed their lower passions to rule them. For those who sought after money and power without maintaining the Eternal Night Balance. This region is very much akin to the physical plane just left behind. The Astral surroundings will be very similar to those of the Earth. Here the souls will remain, till they rid themselves of the courser Astral material, so that they may go ever higher. They rid themselves of this dense Astral material by learning control of their passions. They must make up the Eternal Balance. From here we go to the level you probably rose to from the beginning. You rise to the level where generally all begin who are of a basically good nature. This land is filled with beautiful parks and lakes. There are very beautiful buildings all around you. There are colors never before seen by you. The air is alive with energy and life. Animal life is abundant and tame. There is beautiful music everywhere in the air. Here in this realm no disharmony can occur. No one can meet anyone who would cause them unhappiness of any kind. When you first arrive, your loved ones or magickal helpers will be there to assist you. In this realm, all that you want is produced by your thoughts. Travel is by thought. If you want to wear clothes then you must think of yourself dressed as you want to be dressed. Your nourishment is all around you. All you have to do is breathe. Your physical habits that you learned on Earth will still be with you. You may feel that you still have to eat. This is fine. You need only think of the food you want to eat plus the table and so forth necessary to eat it with. But the sooner you learn to forget the old physical habits, and learn and experience your new Astral Body, the sooner you will be able to progress. This is a very real world. This world is as solid and real to its inhabitants as your own Earth is to you. But there are some who see this realm slightly different. For some souls who believe in an exact type of heaven according to their religious beliefs, or even of the opposite region, and feel that this is where they are going, then this is what they will see. If they believe that they will see the Pearly Gates and St. Pete at them, then this is what they will see. Gradually though, imperfections will show up here and there. The gates may squeak or even fall off the hinges as they start to open. The angels, flying about, may suddenly be wearing flannel shirts and play off-key on their rusty harps. When the person has enough doubts about their make-believe heaven, then like a dream, it will disappear and the real Astral Realm will appear and so their beloved ones too. It is best to keep an open mind when you make the transition. This will quicken your entry into your new realm and life. After you have become adjusted to this new realm, you will be escorted to a building where you will review your recent life and past lives you have lived. All that you have ever done will be shown to you on what has been called in some religions the Akashic Record, and by others, the Book of Records. Let's look at this Record and see what it is? The Night Record, as you will come to know it, is a special energy upon which everything that has ever occurred to anyone and anything is recorded. There is further shown, on the Night Record, the probabilities for the future. This Record not only can show what has occurred on the Earth, but for anyplace located anywhere. This Record can be seen by those who have made the Earth transition in order to look at their life just lived, and by those of high magickal development who have a need to see. The Record is not for the use of just anyone. So, you were just entering the Night Record Hall and preparing to review your life. You see the things you did and the things you shouldn't have done. You see the things you were supposed to have done and learned. No one judges you but yourself and your Oversoul! You are your own sternest judge. It is through your Oversoul that you see where you have gone wrong and what your Oversoul wanted you to accomplish in your life. You are then led out of the Hall by your guide and taken to a council of advisors. These advisors are trained to aid you in reviewing your lives and determining the best means for accomplishing the previous desired results wanted by your Oversoul and thus planning your future. You are placed in the proper circumstances, at the proper time, to achieve the desired results. After this planning, you will retire to the Astral Realm of your vibration and rest and prepare yourself for the next phase of life. You are responsible for all that you do in life. You are responsible for the debts you occur in life and for repaying your debts. No one will pay your debts except you. The bad and good you create is called Karma. Karma and the Astral Realm are deeply related. It is at this plane of life that you make decisions which will effect your future. Until you learn the lessons necessary to be learned on the Earth plane then you must continue to return until you have learned all there is to be learned. Who determines when you have learned all that there is to be learned? The Oversoul is who! In a Process not described here, your future is woven out of your magickal essence in the Astral Realm. This magickal fabric that is being woven contains the basic kinds of programs. By programs, I am referring to programs very similar to that used by the computer so that it can carry out its basic functions. One of your inner programs sets for you predetermined events which you must experience. These events are the results of energies you have set into motion from out of the past which must be again experienced and worked through. Further, they can be events, not necessarily a result of your past but of events which you need to experience to make you stronger and a better instrument for your Oversoul. The second program is for you to make. These are periods which allow you to determine the path you will choose. They are like a blank tape upon which you write your future. You know when you have entered these periods for you feel like a ship adrift on the seas. All the familiar surroundings, experiences, and securities in your life are gone. They are not easy times for you, but they are the greatest periods for your soul growth. They bring to you periods of inner growth, new directions in your life, and a chance to accelerate your magickal growth. In these periods, you are the Captain of your Destiny. By the choices you make and the opportunities you take to advance, your future is set in motion. These periods allow you to clear up excess karmic debt. They will bring to you new friends, teachers, and many changes which if taken advantaged of, will allow you to achieve great magickal growth. You must watch for these periods and take all the advantage of them you can. You have to be tough. They will test the very essence of that which you are made of. You must do the very best you can in all that you do. You must be strong and know that you are guided. You never fail in life if you can say that you did your best. You can gain these learning experiences in the Astral Realm just as you can learn them on Earth. So why would you want to leave the Astral world. In the Astral, life is full of harmony and beauty. It would take a long time to learn even the easiest of lessons. So, in order for the Oversoul to grow at a fast rate, it chooses to send a part of itself, being you, to learn quickly in the "School of Hard Knocks". You know that you grow fastest when you have to learn the hard way. You learn your lessons quickly and well. If life was all fun and games you would never learn, so life is not easy. There are some lessons that can only be learned on Earth. A hard life may not necessarily be a sign of large karmic debt, but a period of quick growth and possible advancement. How many lifetimes does it take before you don't have to come back here anymore? No one can really say how many lives it will take except your Oversoul. There is only so much that can be learned from each sojourn on Earth. There are so many things that must be learned from living on Earth. You keep coming here to the Earth until you have learned all the lessons necessary and until the Oversoul is in charge of your life. Each of your lives adds to the Eternal Essence which is your Oversoul. Yet this idea of reincarnation or the returning to life on Earth time and time again scares many. They don't like reincarnation because they are afraid that they will lose their individuality. Well, you never lose that individuality. Your Oversoul can be compared to a vessel of water. In that vessel of water, if you add some red dye the water will appear red add the color yellow and you will have orange. Each color is still there but their added essence creates a new whole. Thus you add each individuality into the Oversoul. The Oversoul grows and becomes more then it just was by that new addition. You are still that individuality but you are in cooperative union with all the other parts which make up the sum, which is the Oversoul. When you have learned all that must be learned, then you no longer have to return to the Earth. You then pass beyond the Astral World when you have learned all that you have to learn there. There are many things to learn in the Astral. There is the special group that is responsible for the souls making the transition from the Earth to the Astral. There are those who weave the soul fabric for a soul's journey to Earth. There are also teachers, doctors, nurses, advisors, and guides to those still living on Earth. You can, after gaining all that you must learn in the Astral, die or leave this dimension and go on to an even higher realm. You could also go on to a more advanced planet and civilization and begin the cycle of life and death there. The variables are endless and the choice of your Oversoul. I have referred to the Astral Realm as the Water Realm. In Night Magick, the things you will learn of this realm are known as Water Magick. From the beginning, the Ancients have likened the Astral Realm to water because things of the Astral involve the emotions. The Astral Body is the body of emotions. You feel and express emotions because you have an Astral Body. It is the purpose of Water Magick to help you gain control over, and to refine, your Astral Body. The instruction, exercises, and rites are presented here to accomplish this purpose. This is the hardest body to gain control over. The emotions in most people run wild and out-of-control. People give into their emotions without trying to gain any self-control. You have to learn to control your emotions in order to have magickal growth. You must make the Astral Body an instrument worthy of the Oversoul. It must become an Instrument through which the Oversoul pours out Its Night Energies into the world. You must strive at all times to be consciously aware that as you feel and express emotions that actually it is the Oversoul who feels and expresses through you. That control over your emotions and the expression of Night Force comes only through constant communion with your Oversoul. Strive for this communion at all times. You are the Oversoul in emotional expression here on Earth. Through the Oversoul you will succeed. Let's begin immediately learning exercises for emotional control and magickal advancement. 22. The Astral Body and Exercises for Emotional Control On each realm of life that the Oversoul lives on there is a necessity for a vehicle made up of that realm's essence in order for the Oversoul to find expression in that realm. The vehicle you are most familiar with is the physical body. It is made up of dense physical matter. You know from earlier discussions that there is a large amount of space between all the molecules of the physical body. Interspaced in the physical body can be found the Astral molecules which make up the Astral Body. In the Astral Realm, your Astral Body and all the Astral surroundings are as solid and real to you as is your physical body and surroundings, when you are in the physical realm. The Astral Body is much more refined, and vibrating at a higher vibration, then is the physical body. The Astral Body has the same identical form as your physical body. When you are in the Astral Realm though, your Astral Body is very beautiful and without imperfections. There are no signs of ageing as there are in the physical world. The Astral form is very beautiful and the face is of exquisite beauty. There is no ugliness or lack of harmony in the Astral. The Astral Body exists simultaneously with the physical body and all other bodies as well. While you are in the physical body, the Astral Body is the body through which you feel. It is the body through which the Oversoul impresses and communicates with you. At night, when you sleep, it is the body through which you experience dreams. Dreams are often distortions of your experiences in the Astral Realm. The Astral Body is the body of emotions. The Astral Body can be likened to an emotion magnet. When you express an emotion, you actually charge the surrounding Astral material with that emotion. You have experienced this happening. For example, when you have gotten someone angry, you can actually feel the atmosphere around that person become alive with anger. You have also seen this when someone expresses love for another. The Astral material which surrounds you and the physical world is made up of charged Astral Energy. For the Earth, this energy is of a dense nature. There are all kinds of emotional energies which make up the astral material around the Earth. These energies range from love to hate. On the Earth you can have inharmony and discord and harmony and accord. This is what is meant by dense. You can express any emotions while on Earth. When you express an emotion, such as hate, the energy which is of like quality in the Astral is attracted to you. You can see that your hate, added to the greater hate which is surrounding you only makes your hatred more intense. You can then become consumed with hate, so much so, that you may lose control and seriously hurt through that hate. Long after the hate seems to have left you, it still remains within your Astral Aura. The slightest thing can trigger again this hate reaction and more hate energy will be generated. This is what happens from a lack of emotional control. As I've said, the world as a whole is made up of many kinds of emotional energies. The energies are there to use and express with control. Without control, you become a pawn for domination by the emotional energies surrounding you. You must begin by learning to refine your Astral Body. To learn to place it under the control of your Oversoul. Let me introduce some exercises which will help you gain self-control. Begin by deliberately slowing yourself down. When you drive on the road always let the other person go first. Slow down when you drive. If you will drive the speed limit, or five miles an hour below it, you will be passed by all. When you walk do it slowly. Let others enter a building or room ahead of yourself. The idea is to slow down. This is the first exercise and the next involves your use of meditation. When you are in meditation, visualize a cleansing energy moving through your Astral Body and Night Centers. See that energy cleansing all emotional energy and replacing it with the Night Force. Visualize bliss, peace, and ecstasy filling your entire being. Next, visualize any act which you know produces an out- of-control emotional response within yourself. See that event occurring and you remaining in perfect control. Do this with all events and slowly you will gain control. Learn to disassociate from an emotional world of chaos. The world rids itself of an over abundance of chaotic energies through natural means. These include such events as hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, floods, and violent storms. They are the world's safety valves when the human emotional energies become too much. You can help to prevent these occurrences by correcting your own energy production. In meditation, you can visualize the entire world and do for it what you did for yourself above. See that cleansing energy fill the world. See the emotional energies of humankind balanced and in order. If you will do this daily the world will become a more stable environment. This is your first step on the Road of Water Magick. Your next involves the Astral Aura and its relationship to colors. 23. Astral Aura, Color, and Exercises Around you, shaped like an egg, is the electromagnetic energy known as the aura. Each body produces its own aura. The most studied aura is the product of the Astral Body. I will discuss the astral aura, its relationship to colors, and exercises for seeing and strengthening the aura. The aura surrounds your body like an egg with the point at the feet. In the average individual the aura extends approximately twelve to eighteen inches around the body. As you develop magickally the aura enlarges. The electromagnetic energy is perceived by the Night Eye as color. In the Astral aura, these colors reflect the emotions which make up the individual. The colors of the aura generally extend up to the eyes with the halo region just beyond that. Out of the top of the head extends a fountain of energy in the more advanced soul. This halo region is the strongest region of energy and is the easiest to see using your Night Eye. On the outer fringes of the aura is the Auric Sheath. This is a skin-like film and completely encloses the aura. On the auric sheath, which can be compared to a translucent screen, the subconscious mind projects a variety of thought pictures. On this screen can be seen images of thoughts and even past life images. Before you learn to see the aura, let's look at what the auric colors reveal about people. To begin with, some of the colors seen reflect current emotional expression. For example, anger will flash into the aura as a deep, dark blackish-red. This color will generally last only as long as a person feels the emotion, although residuals of this anger will remain for sometime. The second kind of colors seen reflect long standing emotional states. You'll remember in the last topic that the emotional energy produced by your Astral Body was a magnetic attracter for similar energy. For example, if you become angry a great deal, then this energy tends to concentrate in your aura. The concentration tends to increase for surrounding anger energy is attracted to the anger energy already in your aura. Thus, you will see a heavy concentration of blackish-red in your aura which remains there over long periods of time. It won't dissipate so long as you continue to create this energy. This applies to all kinds of emotional energy. There are seven basic colors in the aura. They are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. All the colors and their shades indicate a particular emotion or something about the character of an individual. Take each color and try to learn as much about it as it pertains to people. Some things you will learn about colors will come from your experiences over the years. Colors can first be broken down into two main groups. The red, orange, yellow group are full of energy. They represent people who are vibrant. These are people who are extroverts. They are the worlds' socialites. The second group, green, blue, indigo, and violet are the introverts. These are the quiet, less social people. They are more concerned with their interests then those of the world. The color red rules the physical world. It is the color of Earth's fertility. It is the color of activity and creativeness. When seen as a clear, bright red in the aura it signifies people who possesses the attributes of ambition, leadership, sociability, and strong character. It indicates force, vigor, and vitality in people. They will have a strong sex drive. They will be pioneers. They will love adventure and have a great need for new friends and new things. These are very aggressive people. This does lead to some problems. Red makes people very impulsive. They are apt to be abrupt and impatient in all things. They are very earthy in their ways. This is the person with clear, bright red in their aura. But there are many modifications to the color red that can be see in the aura. Dark red indicates a deep passion or emotion within. A person who is sometimes domineering and brash. A light red indicates irritability, nervousness, and one who is excitable. A bright red flashing on a black background indicates extreme anger arising from hatred and malice. A brick red is for conceit and reddish brown is for deceit. A dark scarlet is for the strongest, sensual love. A coral color pink is for immaturity in teenagers; childishness and insecurity in adults. A clear, rose pink is for a friendly, selfless loving person. The people who have red in the best and clearest colors are leaders of the world. They are one-pointed, high spirited, and seek after what they want on their high driving force. These are people of high energy and a color you could use some of in your aura. This is the color of creation. The color orange is related in some ways to the color red. The color orange is formed by the blending of the red and yellow colors. It is the color of vitality. When this color is found in the aura it indicates people who are in good health and full of vitality. Orange indicates that they are considerate towards others. They are the humanitarian. It can further indicate people who are creative, even to the extent of genius. This is a social person. Again, you see the red nature of this color. These are people who like to get along with others and be liked in return. They like to lead an adventurous life. They look for events in their lives which offer excitement. They are lovers of freedom and look forward to all that is new. Shades of orange represent many things. A dark orange indicates one full of self-pride. A brownish orange represents one who is lazy. It could also indicate someone who is subject to kidney trouble. If muddy and cloudy orange is present in the aura it indicates a person of low intellect. But yellowish golden orange in the aura shows self-control and efficiency in all things. I have indicated what orange can mean when seen in the aura. Let's go a bit further and see what orange induced into your aura through meditation can do for you. The color orange is a color which can induce change into your system. It is an energy for dealing with problems which can be changed to a more positive situation. For example, let's say you have an inferiority problem. You always feel unmatched towards any problem. You perhaps have a low opinion of yourself and never feel able to deal with life. The orange light can change this attitude. It can make you feel free of limitations. It will add zest and optimism in your life. Orange helps to induce change into your thinking processes so that you can assimilate new ideas. It also induces stability in your thinking. As you will recall, orange is made up of two colors. The first was red and the second is yellow. Yellow is the color of the mind. It signifies all there is in relation to intelligence. In the aura, a bright, clear yellow represents good mental capabilities. This color is very prominent in the halo region. An excess of this color denotes people who spend almost all their time after mental pursuits. These people have very quick minds. They are able to realize their mental capabilities. They have a desire to help other people through the products of their mental abilities. They do tend to be shy and slightly introverted. They control their anger easily. They are the concrete thinker. They deal in hard physical realities. This is a good color for scientists and professors. If the colors are of a softer, paler shades, then this is good for the writer, artist, and all creative workers. Diffused yellow, in the aura, indicates people who are tactful, cheerful, and use discrimination in all they do. They do not worry about mundane things. They are generally happy, friendly, and helpful to others. If the yellow is muddy, mustard yellow it shows craftiness. A grayish cast to the yellow shows mental cunning. A greenish yellow aura it indicates jealousy. Pinkish yellow shows astuteness in people. A dingy yellow shows cowardice and reddish yellow shows mental, moral, and physical timidity. Yellow induced into the physical body leads to the regeneration of the human cells keeping the body in beauty and health. Yellow effects the Astral Body by inducing a state of emotional well-being. It further helps the mental capabilities by sharpening them and improving the memory. It will make the mind quicker and able to more easily assimilate new material. Yellow qualities help to produce the next color. Green is the color of Earth. It is the garment that clothes the Goddess/God of Earth. This is the color which symbolizes balance, harmony, and abundance. In the Night World, this is the color of balance and harmony. In the physical world, it is the color of success and prosperity. If this color is a pure, emerald green, with just a touch of blue, it is the color of healing. This color can be found in the aura of doctors and nurses. Green is also found in the auras of teachers. Green in the aura generally indicates people of peace and harmony. They are the good neighbor and active in all community projects. They are people who have a strong inner faith in themselves and humankind. It is a color representing generosity and sympathy towards all of humankind. If there is a light green present it shows prosperity and success. A middle green denotes adaptability and versatility. An excess of green indicates people who are very individualistic and independent. Clear green denotes sympathy and dark green indicates deceit. Olive green shows treachery and a double nature. Next we have blue. Blue is the color of the Sky World. This is the color denoting peace and calm. In the aura, the deeper the shade of blue the deeper the nature of the individual. Blue is a good color regardless of its darkness. Pale blue is an indication of people who are trying to grow emotionally. They may be struggling with who they are and what they should do in life. As the blue deepens so does their emotional maturity. They are closer to knowing who they are. They are closer to seeing the true purpose of their life. They are people who are more dedicated and work harder in life. The deep shades of blue indicate people who have found their quest. They are people actively involved in their quest. They know their purpose in life and actively seek to complete it. They are totally immersed in the magickal quest. People with blue predominate in their auras are generally very calm individuals. They seek the contemplative life and friends of like nature. They are not akin to the social set. They can be very temperamental when their calm is disrupted. They are easy people to get along with and are very thoughtful. They are sensitive people towards their surroundings and other people. They enjoy times of intimacy with close friends and love the quiet and solitude. In the aura, a deep and clear blue indicates one of pure magickal devotion. A pale and etherial blue shows devotion to a noble idea. A bright blue shows one given to loyalty and sincerity. The sixth color is indigo. Indigo is the color of the true seeker on the magickal path. They are one dedicated to the magickal quest and only the magickal quest. People with indigo predominate in their aura are the ones who aim at the stars and succeed for they combine the ideal with the practical. They have developed a magickal maturity which will carry them unto their ultimate goal; the goal of Night Consciousness. The final color to study is violet. Violet is the highest vibration of color that can be seen in the aura. The souls who have this color in predominance are very rare indeed. They are supersensitive and will hold to their ideals even at the cost of personal suffering. All the great works of art owe their realization to the souls who have this color in their aura. Violet is the stimulator of ideals and provides nourishment for the brain cells in the upper brain which gives greater magickal understanding. They are people of a mature, well- rounded personality. They are strong in character with sound judgement in all things. They have excellent mental abilities and strong reasoning capabilities. They have the highest sense of personal integrity. People are strongly attracted to them. They are introspective and temperamental. They can be easily irritated because of their sensitivity. They enjoy the refinements of life, but can easily forego these and endure the most austere of lives, if it will serve their purpose in attaining their goals. So far, I have said a great deal about the colors of the aura itself. This won't help you, if you can't see them. To be able to see the aura you will need to go back to the topic on seeing the Etheric (Topic 17). If you have been studying and practicing seeing the etheric, then you will soon be able to see the Astral aura. The aura is not easy to see. The colors in the aura are of a much higher vibration then the energies of the Etheric, and this requires that you have greater development of the Night Eye. It requires that you do not become impatient and give up. The lower colors, those from red to yellow, will be the easiest to see. The higher colors may elude you for some time. Do not forget that you can also see thought images or in other words pictures projected onto the auric screen. The procedures for seeing the Astral aura are identical for seeing the Etheric. It is best to begin with a period of meditation before trying to see the aura so that you will be in the highest of magickal states and awareness. All of this will take time and practice on your part but the effort is well worth it. You will help your magickal development and learn more about people. You will come to know people for what they truly are inside when you can see their auras. The second exercise involves strengthening the aura. To strengthen the aura, you must first cross your wrists and your ankles. This will complete your bodily circuit and prevent your energies from being dissipated. You must also slow down and deepen your breathing. A few minutes of Night Breathing would be excellent. You should then see added energy flowing down your silver cord, from your Oversoul, adding tremendous Power to your aura. This will aid you when dealing with others who try to exert their own aura against you. This often takes place between people in business who are negotiating a contract between themselves. It will also aid you in trying to see someone else's aura along with your own. If you are trying to view another person's aura, and they are practicing with you, have them do this too. You will find you can see it much easier and more clearly. The progression of the colors from red to violet marks the road of a Night Magician's journey. You must develop the highest qualities and characteristics of each color. Ultimately, you must master each. Through mastery of the qualities embodied in the colors and their energy added to your aura, you will see yourself progressing towards Night Consciousness. As you learn to see your aura, you can identify the colors and the character they represent. If they are not of the highest standard then you can work for their improvement. Again, strive to achieve mastery over self. Embody within yourself the highest qualities of the colors. The next subject is intricately related to auras and colors. It is the Higher Night Centers. 24. The Higher Night Centers and Exercises In topic seventeen, you looked at the purely physical aspects of the Night Centers. Here, you are going to examine the magickal aspects of all seven. You will discover the powers that will become yours to use as each Night Center begins to function within you. You will see how colors are related to each Night Center and learn an important exercise to help advance the opening of the Night Centers. Finally, you will examine and perform an exercise that will release the Night Energy through the Night Centers into your world. First, let's have a quick review of what you learned in topic seventeen. You were able to locate the Night Centers in relation to the physical organs. The first and lowest was located at the base of the spine in relation to the gonads. The second was located over the spleen/pancreas and the third over the navel area or solar plexus. The fourth is located at the heart level. The fifth at the throat. The sixth at the brow level and the seventh at the crown of the head. The Etheric Centers have a role in your life which extends beyond the physical plane and your physical bodies. You saw that the centers are for the purpose of keeping all planes in communication with each other. As you grow magickally, the Night Centers begin to unfold more and release their energies into your life. As these centers unfold, you become aware of the higher things on those realms. As you develop magickally, all Night Centers on all realms evolve and receive continually higher energies which pour into your lives. This releases abilities and powers into your life not normally present in the lesser evolved. What are the abilities and powers of each awakening Night Center, and what do they mean to you? Let me begin by saying, "DO NOT FORCE YOUR DEVELOPMENT!" As you proceed in this topic, I will cover the powers which will awaken in you as you develop magickally and the Night Centers begin to open. In the unevolved, only the minimum of energy flows through the Night Centers to the physical body so that there is life. But as you develop magickally, the centers evolve and the Oversoul is able to send more of Its Energies through you. As long as you develop along magickal lines, the Oversoul will send ever greater Energies through you. But do not practice any form of Night Meditation, or Yoga, or whatever, which will force the development of the base Night Center. This is the seat of the Earth Fire. In the eastern languages, it is referred to as the Kundalini. The Earth Fire is Life. It is the Energies of Life itself. This Energy lies in the base Night Center of all planes. It is a powerful and special Energy which when released, will surge upward through the Night Centers and awaken each of them to their fullest extent. Only if you are fully and magickally developed and have special guidance from a magickal teacher of the Higher Realms will you survive such a forced awakening. For example, the Earth Fire, on its way up, could very easily tear through tissue and destroy various organs and cause physical death. This is the least that could happen! The second Night Center is concerned in its undeveloped state with sensual gratification, sexual desires, and reproduction. If the Fire is unleashed while the Night Center is magickally undeveloped, then all the bad traits of this center will be extremely heightened which could result in uncontrollable, depraved, sexual conduct and harm to others. This forced awakening could cause insanity. Allow the Earth Fire to awaken inside of you, naturally, as the result of your magickal development. Grow magickally and the base Night Center will awaken in you, as you are ready to handle the power that is contained within it. You will be shown how to unfold the upper Night Centers but allow the base center to unfold of itself. It will awaken naturally and easily as you unfold magickally. When this base Night Center has fully awakened, you will become the Oversoul. You will be a Night Magician of the highest degree. In the beginning of your development, this center will glow with a reddish light. When you have achieved Night Consciousness it will glow with an intense dark light of incredible power. The second Night Center relates to your passions. The deeper your passions are and involvement in lust and sexual gratification the darker the red of this center's light. As you develop magickally, a dark light begins to be added to the red till the center is all aglow in the Night. In its highest development, this Night Center will allow one to overcome disease, old age, and eventually physical death. This is a great center of vitality. It absorbs the orange light and distributes the energies throughout one's being. As this Night Center begins to awaken, you will be able to remember journeys taken into the Astral Realm at night. Upon awakening in the morning, you will begin to have vague recollections of what they did in the Astral that night as their body slept. You will probably have the feeling of flying while in the Astral Realm. The third Night Center as it awakens will give you the feeling of an awareness of Astral presences. You will become very conscious and sensitive to all manner of psychic and Astral influences. Some of these influences may feel good, while others may induce in you a sense of fear. On the lowest levels, this center is associated with power, mastery, and ego control. This is the center for engrossment in material matters and their control. On the highest levels, this center will be able to help you achieve strong magickal rapport with your fellow Astral brothers. This center is used to contact Astral entities. This Night Center should be surrounded in the Night Pillar such that the contact remains a contact and does not allow the Astral entities control over your bodily mechanism. The next Night Center is the crossroad for all centers. This is the fourth Night Center and it is located over the heart. As this center begins to open on the etheric level, you will begin to have an emotional rapport with others. You will be able to know and feel the emotions of others around you. You will have empathy with them on all levels of feeling, to include that of feeling their pains as your pains. Located within this Night Center is the "Heart of the Oversoul". This is the anchor within your magickal being placed there by your Oversoul. It is around this miniature dark star that all that you are is gathered. You can liken it to a small miniature Oversoul. It is the embryo of your Oversoul beginning. As you begin on the path of Night Magick and continue to grow magickally, you will see this embryo begin to grow into a small child of the Oversoul. The farther along you develop, the child will continue to develop and grow, until you gain Night Consciousness and the Oversoul within you is a full adult. This center actually does exist and can be seen in meditation. You will learn to do this in a later topic. It is the focal point in your world where you, as a Night Magician, can go and meet your Oversoul. In this center's fullest development, the Power of your Oversoul will pour out from you. Through the Energy pouring out of you there will be nothing you cannot do. This is the Center of the Night in which you move and have your being. Through the fifth Night Center, you gain the ability for clairaudience. Clairaudience is the ability to hear voices in the Astral Realm. You will have the sensation of hearing those on the other side, as you can hear those on this side of life. You may also be able to hear the "Music of the Night Spheres". As this center continues to develop, you will be able to clothe your thoughts in form. The thoughts you generate with your mind, through this center, will be able to take on direction and energy and go forth and do as directed. Through the development of this center, you will achieve strong will power which will see you through difficult tasks. Through this center, you will achieve true mastery over yourself and life. This is only, though, when you link up this center with that of the heart. Together, these centers in unison can do anything. In Night Magick, the sixth center is the Night Eye. As this center begins to develop, you first perceive Astral shadows. You will often see nothing more then clouds of color. As the Night Eye continues to develop, you will be able to see Astral people, landscape, and symbols. When the Night Eye is fully developed, you will be able to have true seeing which you call clairvoyance. Clairvoyance is the ability to see and know Truth in all its forms. It is seeing and knowing as the Oversoul within you sees and knows. You will be able to see the past and present. You will be able to see anyplace at anytime and be able to enlarge, in the physical world, matter ranging in size from small to microscopic. In the future, you will be able to see the probabilities of what might happen. In the future, there is little which must happen, and a great deal which can change according to your actions. Thus, according to the way things seem to be forming you can see what will probably happen. The seventh center is the link between your mind and that of your Oversoul. In the beginning, as this center begins to open, it allows for partial consciousness when you are in the Astral world. As this center unfolds, your consciousness will be more complete, and you will perceive the Astral Realm as clearly as you do the physical world. You will never know any cessation of consciousness whether you are in the physical world or the Astral world. As you grow more and more dedicated to doing the Soul's Will this Night Center will continue to open on Higher Realms allowing more and more Magickal Energy to be released into your everyday world. You will become more in tune with what your Higher Self would have you do in this world. When this center has developed far enough, in conjunction with the heart Night Center, the Oversoul Child will be born within you. When this Night Center has opened completely, your aura and your word will be filled with Night Energies and the aura will glow with a brilliant radiance of the Night. From what has just been said, there can be seen a relationship between the Night Centers and colors. Each Night Center, in its pure and developed state, vibrates to a particular color. The base Night Center vibrates to the color red. The spleen/pancreas center vibrates to the color orange. The third center, located over the solar plexus, vibrates to the color yellow. The heart center vibrates to the color green and the throat center to that of blue. The brow center, Night Eye, vibrates to that of indigo, and the highest of Night Centers, the crown, vibrates to the color violet. As all the Night Centers are developing magickally, they will attain to the purest of colors. As the Night Centers reach perfection, they will open, and the colors will flow till they can be perceived as the color of the Night. Let's look at an exercise which can be done to develop the Night Centers so that they will radiate in the Night and permit your the Night Powers to flow through you. First, refer back to topic sixteen. In that topic, we discussed meditating on the desired color you needed for healing and projecting it into your Night Pillar. You prepared yourself for meditation with a sheet of color paper, which would help you concentrate, and draw to you, the desired color energy that you wished to use. Let's again do the same technique, only this time, instead of sending the color into your Pillar, you will send it into the specific Night Center you wish to stimulate. You should first see the specific Night Center, in your mind, and feel that great wheel of Night Energy slowly rotating, and see the specific color desired flowing into the Night Center and stimulating it. See the center whirling faster and faster as the result of the inflow of color energy. See the center becoming a pure channel for the color energy and the impure energies leaving it. Further, see the added Energies of the Oversoul flowing into the center via the silver cord. Do this with all of the Night Centers except the base Night center. This is an excellent exercise will actually bring the Night Energies from the Higher Realms and then release them into the physical world around you. Stand with your feet together, and your arms and hands outstretched, as you form a living X. Palms should be facing outward. Now you must become very calm and silent within. See yourself as the Oversoul on Earth. See yourself as a Night Being. Now, you will bring into your being Two Great Energies. Through the soles of your feel, you will see the Earth Energies rise up, and at the same time, you will be drawing into you the Night Force flowing from your Oversoul down through the Crown Night Center. These Energies will meet in the heart Night Center. As they meet, see these Energies going out, under the direction of your Oversoul and the Night Gods, healing, cleansing, purifying, and touching the Earth. If you know someone in special need of the Energies, see them flowing to her or him. As you continue to practice this exercise the flow of the Energies will become stronger and stronger. You will be of true service to the Night Guild. You will truly be a Night Magician when the Night Centers radiate in the night of your world. I said earlier, that as the Crown Night Center begins to open, you have partial awareness of the Astral Realm. Yet, your awareness is often distorted. One state of awareness that you have of your Astral journeys is the dream state. In our next discussion, you will enter the Dream Realm. 25. The Dream Realm There are a great many books on the market dealing with the topic of dreams. Many of these books list the symbols which you see in your dreams and then tell you what they mean, or what is going to happen because of what you dreamed. But interpreting dreams is just not that easy. Dreams are a very personal thing to each of us. A dog, seen in one dream, may mean one thing to me and a totally different thing to you. To begin with, there are two basic types of dreams. The first type of dream is a common occurrence in most people's lives. This is the dream when upon awakening you have only vague recollections of what transpired. These are dreams which you rapidly forget what took place. They are very confusing dreams and are the mental garbage which your mind gets rid of as you sleep. The second type of dream is what you need to pay attention to. These are dreams which you remember very vividly upon awakening. You see images, and possibly colors, vividly. You feel that you were actually there and taking part in what was going on. You have a sharp recollection of what took place and you do not easily forget what transpired after awakening. If this is the kind of dream that has occurred in your life, then you are remembering an actual experience that has taken place in the Astral Realm. You can also be witnessing a message that is meant to help guide your life. The first type of dream you can forget about. This is just your mind getting rid of a lot of mental garbage and worries pressed upon it, or a distortion of a journey in the Astral Realm. The second type is important. You have often heard of the phrase, "sleep on it", in connection with solving a problem that you cannot seem to resolve. When you sleep on a problem, you are out in the Astral Realm and can meet with people on that side of life and receive an answer to your problem. The answer generally comes to you in the form of a dream. There are other things that can be done in the use of your dreams. Let's say that you have an important interview with a client coming up. The night before, you will need a picture of your client that you're going to meet. Preferably, this should be a physical picture or a strong mental picture will suffice. Then before going to sleep, you should concentrate on the picture of your client and think of the thing you would like your client to do. Think and say the things to your client that will persuade her/him your way. Then put it out of your mind and just know, that as you sleep, you will meet your client in the Astral and this will help prepare your way in tomorrow's meeting. You will be successful if you do this. You can see that there are endless variations and possibilities in the use of your dreams. You can also help improve your dreaming. The first thing you should do in helping yourself in dreaming is find out which way you sleep best. The body best picks up magickal currents by having the head facing in a certain direction. Practice sleeping with your head pointed say to the North and keep a record on how you slept for a week. Then the next week, sleep in a new direction and do the recording. You should do this for all four directions. This is the first step towards better sleeping and dreaming. To further improve dreaming do the following: when you fall asleep at night, say to yourself that you're going to remember all that you dream of clearly and sharply. Say this over and over to yourself until you fall asleep naturally. Know that you are going to dream true! Now, you will want to keep a diary of your dreams. Keep this diary by your bed along with a pen. Upon awakening from a vivid and true dream, record what you saw and the impressions of what it meant to you. If the dream is in a very symbolic form, then take that dream into your meditation periods and seek to discover the meaning of those symbols. As said before, symbols are a very personal thing to you and their meaning lies with the Oversoul and Night Teacher. You may want to record these symbols on a three by five card and arrange them alphabetically. Symbolism is used a great deal of the time by your Oversoul for communication with you. Symbolism is used so that you will spend more time in communication with your Night Teacher and Oversoul in seeking an answer. Dreams are important. It is important for you to become familiar with your dreams and their meaning. Dreams are one means by which the Oversoul may speak with you and give important information to guide your life. This could be from warnings concerning your health or well-being to job assistance or ways to improve your practice of Night Magick. Another mode of communication is the Oracle, which we will discuss in the next topic, along with a discussion of Astral Guides and the use of Trance. 26. Astral Guides, Oracleship, and Trance You are never alone in this world. You may feel that you stand on some deserted island in the middle of the ocean, yet you should take comfort in the fact that all around you your Guides and Teachers are with you each and every moment of the day and night. In addition to discussing the Guides, you will also explore communication with the Astral Guides, or oracleship, and a special state of consciousness, the Trance. To begin with, let's take a close look at who your Guides and Teachers really are? Your Guides and Teachers are actually two distinct groups of magickal helpers. The Guides are those who have remained on the Astral Realm and assist you from that dimension. They are composed of both relatives and friends of your past lives who are gaining valuable experience and magickal growth by assisting you on the physical plane. You should remember that their personalities are still very much akin to the ones they had in their last life. There are Specialist who come under this group of Guides. They assist you with special guidance if you are undertaking a special task and need their magickal expertise. They assist those in the process of transition from physical to Astral living. They are the Astral doctors and nurses. The other group is made up of those I term Teachers. They are a magickally advanced group of Beings. They administer to you from a much higher realm of existence. The Realm of the Soul. They are usually with you from the beginning of time and follow you long into your magickal development. As you reach a special development in your magickal path, the rank of the Teacher continues to advance until you work with your Night Teacher. I will discuss the Night Teachers in a later topic. Everyone on this planet has been led by inspiration at some time or another, but most have never taken the time to try and understand where that inspiration came from. Inspiration has its origins from two different sources. The first is your Oversoul and is of the highest form of inspiration. The second is guidance given to you through your Magickal Guides and Teachers. You can receive a closer rapport with your Guides and Teachers by learning to remain in a state of inner listening, by remaining in a state of inner awareness, knowing that they are always with you and that you can receive from them guidance in all that you do. You must begin by accepting their Presence and knowing that you can communicate with them. Whenever you can shut out the outer world and its problems, then can you hear them speak to you. You must always carefully weigh what they tell you and know that, ultimately, the decision is yours. They never compel you to do anything, but simply guide you as to what the probabilities are and then it's your decision. You may be able to hear the Astral message, but some are exceptionally good at hearing those from the Astral Realm. These individuals are Oracles. An Oracle is a person who through a difference in body and brain structure is able to receive messages from the Astral with an exceptional clarity. They are individuals with a delicate physical and nervous system upon which Astral Spirits may impress the message. The person enters an altered state of consciousness, whereby the Guide or Teacher is able to impress upon the nervous system the message to be given. The Highest Guide or Teacher also acts as a traffic controller regulating which Guide or Teacher will give a message and who will not, through the Oracle. The Oracle must remain in a very passive state of mind. The Oracle is only a link between this world and that of the Astral. There are degrees of passivity in consciousness for the Oracle. The Oracle may retain almost total consciousness while seeing and hearing the message, and then again, consciousness may be totally repressed by the Guide or Teacher. This total repression of consciousness, in the Oracle, is known as Trance. Trance is an altered state of consciousness, whereby the Oracle's consciousness leaves the body and that of a Higher Entity enters into it. Thus, the Higher Entity has free reign to speak and act through the body instrument without misinterpretation by the Oracle. In the other form of oracleship, the Oracle hears and interprets what s/he sees and in this case s/he does not. Generally, for the Oracle in Trance, it seems as if s/he has been pleasantly sleeping. Depending on the Oracle's development, s/he can go into Trance on the physical plane and still remain conscious and active on the Astral plane, and so can control the type of entity who is giving the message through her/his body, to those on the physical plane who are listening. Even if the Oracle cannot remain awake in the Astral, there is nothing to fear. If her/his body, emotions, and thoughts are one with the Oversoul then nothing can happen to her/him while s/he is in a state of Trance. Here is a warning to those who would attempt to practice the state of Trance. If you are without fear and know that there is nothing to be afraid of, and live in the Night Pillar of the Oversoul, then no harm can befall you. Remember this, keep your thoughts at one with the Oversoul and nothing bad will ever happen to you. If you cannot live in this state of being then do not try to reach a state of Trance. Otherwise, you are subject to entry and hold by the lower mischievous entities. Most people have a safeguard against entering Trance and that is falling asleep, but entry and hold is still possible at just the point of falling asleep, and the point of awakening. This can only occur when you are attempting to reach the state of Trance. This cannot occur if you are just normally going to sleep. Have no fear, but live in the Oversoul and no wrong entry can occur to you during the state of Trance. There are several forms of Trance. There is the kind, just mentioned above, whereby a Higher Entity uses your body to transmit a message to a group of listeners while the Oracle is in a soporific state. There is also what is called Night Trance. Here the Oracle can be fully conscious and by his own control deliberately enter the state of Trance rather then it being induced by the possessing Higher Entity. The next kind is called Magician's Trance. Here, the body is very rigid, even to the point of having hard skin. You are still in your body, but what you see can be likened to sitting on the highest peak with a telescope. In other word wherever you look, you can see what is transpiring. There is no limit as to where or what you can see. Time, distance, and/or physical structures are no obstacles to your seeing. The final kind is called Trance Projection. Here you leave the body. The flesh remains very limp and the breathing greatly reduced. The heart rate is also greatly reduced. Again, there are no limits to where you can see. Everyone, to one degree or another can receive messages from the Astral. It is important that everyone learn to take time to know and become close to their Guides and Teachers. Their messages of guidance and help can completely change the world that you live in. There is no limit to the aid that they can provide in your world. Take the time to still the mind and body so that you may hear the guidance that they have to offer you. It is not essential that you try the states of Trance. You should only induce the state of Trance under the guidance of your Magickal Teacher. Therefore, I have omitted the how-to instruction for the state of Trance. You should not try the different states of Trance unless you are sure of what you're doing and that you're entering them with the correct frame of mind and under the proper supervision. Above all learn this, "To be still and know the Oversoul." This is the key to Night Magick and Night Consciousness. We have been discussing the magickal influence of your Astral Guides and Teachers. Yet, they are only one magickal source, out of many, that influence your life. Another great source of magickal influence over your emotional and magickal life is the Goddess Diana. She is better known to you as the Presence of the Moon. 27. The Moon and Its Rites There are many roads of magickal evolution which are filled with excitement, adventure, accomplishment, and success by those who travel them. One of these roads is serving as the indwelling life force for souls within a moon, planet, or star. The stars, planets, and moons are the physical bodies of Great Beings who are on far on the road of magickal evolution. Of all these grand Bodies, the one most symbolic of this chapter on Water Magick is the Moon. The Moon of the Earth exerts great influence over the tides of the ocean. You can then extend the Moon's influence over the Tides of humankind's emotions. In this topic, you will examine this function and the magickal role that the Moon plays in your life. You will also study and perform special rites associated with the Moon. Let's begin by looking directly at the magickal role of the Moon. You see the Moon because it is lit by the reflected light from the Sun. The Moon is a source of Yin Light for it takes the Light of the Sun and transforms it into Yin Light. This Energy is at a lesser extent, when the Moon is new, for it reflects lesser quantities of the transformed Energies. The Energies of the Moon can help directly in the process of your Oversoul's gaining control over your emotions. The Energies of the Moon passing through your Oversoul where in turn, they are purified and added to your aura, go on to strengthen and build emotional stability. The Energies of the Moon are very powerful and add great Magickal Force to your life when purified. The Oversoul, acting as a filter, filters out the impurities of the Moon's Energies caused by the grey energies that come from humankind. After filterization, you have the Moon's Pure Magickal Energies, and the Moon shines in the night as a Luminous Orb of Rarified Power. When your life and aura are illumined with the Yin Light of the Oversoul and is in turn magnified by the Moon, a great reflector, then is your Power in the Night multiplied to its maximum. You are likened to the Moon, when you, as a Night Magician, use your purified Night Consciousness to reflect the Yin Light of the Moon into the world. You are the Moon, a reflector of the Night Energies. The time of the New Moon is a time of new beginnings. It is a time when a Night Magician should consecrate and dedicate her/his aspirations and life anew unto her/his Oversoul. Thus you celebrate this time with a rite of new beginning. The rite unfolds as follows: Make sure your Night Altar is ready except don't fill the chalice with any wine or grape juice. Putting on your Night Robe and arming yourself with your Night Weapons place the Night Pillar around yourself, the Night Altar, and the world. Put in your right hand the Night Wand; face the direction of North which symbolizes the element of Water; and now while making the sign of Night Magick, see fig.___, say this solemn invocation to the First of the Four Great Beings of the Cosmic Elements: "I invoke the Great Powers of the Cosmic Being of the (insert direction) to flow into my being. Fill me with the Cosmic Power of (insert element). Renew me in the Power of Night Consciousness. Make me a Being of Cosmic Yin Light. Guide me upon the Road of Night Magick." Then face the Night Altar and place a little of the correct element from the vile into the chalice. The chalice is symbolic of you and the element representing the Cosmic Being. Then face the West and repeat the entire procedure inserting the correct direction and selecting the correct element to put into the chalice. Do this for all four directions. The correct elements and directions are as follows: water representing Water and North; oil representing Air and the West; salt is of the Earth and South; and fire(candle) that of Itself and East. Now pickup the candle; make the sign of Night Magick over the chalice; and if there is just you, then repeat an invocation of dedication of your life and being to the guidance and care of your Oversoul, Night Teacher, and Guides. After this, touch your first two fingers of your left hand in the substance of the chalice, and upon your heart make the sign of Night Magick and then repeat the Night Invocation on Earth as follows: "Let the Earth be filled with the Presence of the Night. I honor the Presence of the Night in all I say and do. By the Night all things are given, by the Night all enemies removed. By the Yin Light of the Moon I shall walk the Night Road on Earth in power, and glory and victory forever. So be it." After this you will need to hum for ten to thirty minutes. Although you probably know how to hum let me make sure. With your lips shut and together make the "mmmm" sound. Hum the sound such that eventually you'll feel a resonance building in your head. As you head begins to resonate, this resonance will spread over your body and you will begin to feel yourself vibrating and pulsating. If there are others doing this with you, then select one to be the officiant. The officiant will do all that has been described so far, up to the point of saying the Night Invocation on Earth. Each member present will repeat a silent prayer of dedication to her/his life and being, and committing it to the guidance and care of her/his Oversoul, Night Teacher, and Guides. After this, the officiant will touch her/his first two fingers of her/his left hand in the substance of the chalice, and upon each member's heart s/he will make the sign of Night Magick and repeat the following: "With the substance of the Four Worlds and the Powers thereof, may you forever be guided on the Road of Night Magick and become a Night Magician." Then, repeat the Night Invocation on Earth, in unison. Everyone will then hum in unison till stopped by the officiant. This is the Rite of the New Moon. A time of joyous, beautiful renewal in Night Magick. The next rite is in celebration of the Full Moon. The Full Moon marks the time of realization, attainment, and fulfillment. The consecration and deepening within of these aspects is celebrated in a very beautiful rite. If there is just you performing this rite, then you will need only one small candle on a plate. In addition, you will need two more small plates; one containing sage and the other holding your vessel of water. With these things in hand, you are now ready to begin. Place these three things on your floor Night Altar, with the candle in the middle, the sage on the right, and the water on the left. Place them such that you will be seated facing the North with them in front of you. Then before being seated, take the candle in your right hand and with your left hand clear the four points of direction. You will begin with the East and move counterclockwise making the sign of Night Magick and repeating to each direction: "This way is the clear road to Night Magick bathed in the Yin Light of the Full Moon." Now be seated, repeat the Night Invocation of the Earth and enter into a deep silence and communion with your Oversoul and feel the achievement of knowing and being the Oversoul on Earth. Now take a small portion of the sage in your right hand and say, "This is the Spirit of the Night in form upon the Earth. It is the Essence of a Night Magician. Honor to the Night Spirit that I have achieved all that I AM". Place the sage around the candle. The candle should be lit from the beginning of the rite. Next pickup the water in your left hand and repeat "Water is the Night Spirit in pure Essence. It is the Power of the Spirit and Life on Earth. I AM the Waters of Life and the Night Soul on Earth." Pour the water around and on the sage. Now repeat, "the Night Soul united, One and forever, in Spirit, Power, and Life, within that which I am, a Night Magician. So be it". Close by humming the "mmmm" sound till you resonate deeply the sound. If there is more then one then use the following guidelines. Everyone present will have the same plates and materials before them. Selecting one as officiant, s/he will clear the four points following the same procedures outlined earlier. S/he will stand in the center of the circle formed by all the celebrants and begin in the East. Then everyone should be seated. Hum together after seated. Continue all as the same in unison. The final rite requires nothing other then yourself. Be seated comfortably on the ground at eventide, or night, when the light of the Full Moon may fall upon you. Doing this on a cloudless night is best. Put the Night Pillar around yourself and all members participating. If there are more people doing this then just yourself, then all should face towards the Moon. Begin with Night Breathing for a few minutes. Then you will visualize, and all with you, the Light of the Full Moon passing through your Oversoul. Know that the Moon's Energy is being purified of all the Earth's human dross and is flowing now into your Astral Body and aura. See yourself filled with a most intense, pure Yin Light. This Light will give you emotional stability and inner strength. Do this, feeling the Night Soul's Presence being magnified within yourself. Know that you are the Oversoul. You have learned from the Moon and its cycles, that it represents your beginning upon the path of Night Consciousness in its New Moon phase and ends with your fulfillment as the Night Soul in the Full Moon phase. Use carefully the Light of the Moon. The Light of the Moon must be purified by the Oversoul before it can be accepted into your world. Thus, you must always remain in Night Consciousness in order to reflect into your world only the Night Energies. The Moon is a very Advanced Being. The Moon is a great reflector of the Yin Light into your world during its night. The Goddess Diana is the Master of the Element Water on Earth. Now, you, too, will become Master of the Element Water in the next topic. 28. Water Rites Water is representative of the Night Spirit. Water is Life and the Night Spirit. I will introduce two rites which embody the use of water. Water is a very powerful magnet and container for the Night Energies. Water will greatly intensify your drawing power of the Night Force. The first rite that I will teach is designed simply to aid your drawing upon, and concentrating the Night Force. Begin by obtaining a glass bowl, similar to a mixing bowl, with a large open space at the top. The size you will need is based upon the number of people participating with you. You should have a bowl set aside for private use and one for group use. When your not using the bowl keep it wrapped and in a place so that no one else will disturb it. You will also need three black candles, your Night Altar that is close to the floor, and a black cloth to cover the table. Setup the Night Altar so that you, or the officiant, when seated at the altar faces North. If there are others present then they should be seated around the altar. The Night Altar should be covered with the altar cloth. Fill the bowl full of water and place it in the center of the Night Altar. Finally, everyone will be seated, but the officiant who will light the three candles and place two of them on the outer edges of the group. Now that you have these things setup your ready to begin. Light the incense with the third candle; face West of the Night Altar; and with the lit, black candle in your right hand and while making the sign of Night Magick with the left hand repeat the following invocation: "Let only the Night Spirit remain here and only the Night Spirit go out. This room is protected in the Yin Light of the Oversoul. Let the Light of the Night Brethren enter here and only the Night Force remain. The first Night Guardian shall remain this way and only the Night Spirit's Power will stay. So be it". Now turn counterclockwise to the next major direction and repeat again this invocation. Each time preceding it with the sign of Night Magick. Do this again in the third major direction, and finally over the Night Altar itself. Then take your seat on the floor before the bowl and again surround yourself with the Night Pillar. Contact your Oversoul and begin to draw into yourself the Night Force. Then reach out and touch the bowl with both your hands, one on each side of the bowl. If this is being done as a group, then all will interlock fingers when hands are placed upon the bowl by all members present. All should see the Force flowing into themselves, and then into the bowl filling the bowl with the Night Force. Continue to do this as long as you, and the members with you, feel comfortable and can control the Force. If at anytime you should begin to feel uncomfortable, you should stop and again stand and clear all four corners of the room. Then rest a while before trying this again. This is a tremendous rite for collecting the Night Force in its most concentrated form. After the rite, it is suggested that you obtain clean drinking glasses (one for each member present) and dip them into the water of the bowl and drink of it. Drink as much water as you can comfortably hold. The water has a great healing and energizing effect and will ward off illness for a long time. It is further effective in aiding ailing plants and animals. The benefit of the Force, coursing through your body, is cause enough to do this as often as possible.