MAGICK 6 -- THOUGHTFORMS AND SPIRITS

 ** MAGICK 6 -- THOUGHTFORMS AND SPIRITS **

        Although there are hundreds of kinds of divination,

the principle ones are astrology, geomancy, the tarot, the

I Ching, and direct psychic means (especially clairvoyance).

True divination is more than a mechanical system, for it

implies true psychic interpretation (receiving). Some form of

divination is often used in magick ritual to communicate with

the entity invoked.

        Since divination operates through the mind, it is

affected and biased by the mind. Our attitudes and fears may

alter it. Sometimes results are very detailed, and accurate

-- but not always. Often the future is plastic and changeable

anyway, and the use of magick may alter the result. Thus

divination shows tendencies only, which may be helpful, but

must not rule us.

DEVELOPING CLAIRVOYANCE

        It is possible to improve your natural ability with

clairvoyance through practice. A good start might be to look

around you, then close your eyes and try to picture your

surroundings. This is also good exercise for visualization. And

visualization is an essential talent in magick. Open your eyes

again and check your accuracy. Then close your eyes and try it

again. When you use your physical eyes, look at everything

like a child seeing it for the first time. Let the vividness

of color and form burn into you, until everything takes on a

veritable glow. Try to capture that glow when you close your

eyes now and picture your surroundings. It's just a simple

step to extend what you see with your eyes closed into what

you remember seeing in the next room, or what you *imagine*

seeing in the next building, the next city, even the other

side of the world. Don't expect perfect results, especially at

first. Just try to be even partly right. Another exercise is

to picture a clock face, and thereby tell the time

clairvoyantly.

THE AURA

        Under the right conditions, it is possible to

clairvoyantly observe a colored light around other people.

This is known as the 'aura'.  Sometimes the aura is seen as

multi-colored emanations around the person, built up of

various differently colored layers and zones.  Although many

occult dabblers claim to be able to see the aura easily and

under many varied conditions, I seriously doubt that they do.

There are optical illusions and qualities of sight which can

sometimes trick one into thinking he sees what he does not

see. In this area, the quality of sight known as after image

is especially pertinent. Do this: stare at any solidly colored

bright object for a few moments. Very intense red, green, or

blue are especially good for this. Now look away at a white

surface and you will see a phantom image of the object in its

complementary color (a red object will show green, a blue one

orange, etc.).  If the bright object is in front of a light

surface, you may observe a fringe of complementary color

around the object after a few moments. This is all very

normal, and is used by some magical groups as an aid to

visualization sometimes called 'flashing colors'. Some silly

people will stare at other people in the same way. And when

they see the after image of the person's clothing, they think

they are seeing his aura. What is more, various meanings have

been attributed to the colors of the aura. A psychic who can

see the aura is supposed to be able to determine that persons

emotional state. Thus psychic frauds can have a marvelous

time with auras.  One deluded psychic taught a class I

attended in which he performed instant psychoanalysis on the

basis of the supposed aura. It was obvious that he was

actually observing after images from the students clothes!

        This brings us to the chart of aura colors on the next

page.  It is a general guide, based mostly on Theosophical

material.  Various groups may attribute different meanings to

the colors.  The colors we show on the chart are emotional in

nature; useful if you plan to create an artificial elemental

or do healing.  Surrounding yourself with a particular color

will tend to produce the specific psychological effect

described in the chart.  That quality of color is useful in

magick ritual.

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                        COLORS OF THE AURA

BLACK   malice

                        dark gray       depression

                        pale gray       fear

BROWN   materialism

                        muddy gray      selfishness

                          or

                        dull rust

RED     energy

                        bright red      anger and force

                        dirty red       passion and sensuality

                        dull red        selfish love

                        rose            unselfish love

ORANGE  pride

                        orange cloud    irritability

                        bright orange   noble indignation

YELLOW  intellect

                        yellow-green    low intellect

                        earthy yellow   selfish thought

                        lemmon          high intellect

                        bright gold     logical thinking

                        brt. red-yel.   spiritual thought

GREEN   empathy

                        gray-green      deceit, jealously

                        greenish-brown  jealousy

                        emerald green   unselfish resourcefulness

                        foliage green   sympathy & empathy

                        brt. apple-grn  strong vitality

                        brt. turquoise  deep sympathy & compassion

BLUE    devotion        (religious feeling)

                        gray-blue       fetishism

                        light blue      noble spiritual devotion

                        dark blue       religious feeling

                        brt. lilac-blu  lofty religious idealism

VIOLET  spiritual                       psychic & spiritual

                                          faculty

WHITE   purity/protection

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THOUGHTFORMS AND SPIRITS

        Whenever we concentrate our thoughts, we draw psychic

energy together.  This is called a thoughtform.  Usually the

energy dissipates as soon as we break the concentration, but

it is possible to purposely concentrate energy in this way,

producing very strong thoughtforms.  Such thoughtforms are

vortexes or centers of psychic energy.  They can exist as

entities by themselves, at least for a while.  They are

basically inanimate, non-thinking forces.  Talking to one is

about as logical as talking to a chair.  In this way,

thoughtforms are similar to elementals, ghosts, and spirits.

All of these psychic entities consist of a psychic energy

vortex which could be described as a localized field or as a

discontinuity of the physical world.

        Psychic entities respond to certain electrostatic and

magnetic fields, and to other energy vortexes. That is why

they respond to magick ritual. Someday, we may accomplish the

same thing with electronic machines. Psychic entities are

sometimes able to affect our thought processes.

        Thoughtforms, elementals, and ghosts are usually not

very smart.  If they display any intelligence at all, it is

limited.  They are the morons of the spirit world.  Their

behavior is usually automatic, repetitive, robot-like (just

like some people).  We see that artificial elementals

are little more than astral robots.  Spirits and deities are

more intelligent and volitional.

DIRECTED ATTENTION

        Your mind follows your attention. Wherever you direct

your attention, there will your thoughts go too. By directing

attention to a specific place or purpose you *focus* mental

energy upon it.

        For example: you're having lunch in a cafeteria

crowded with people. It is a large place, and everyone there

is talking at once, so that the room is a constant jumble of

noise. You happen to notice a man accross the room; he

reminds you of someone. All at once he drops his fork and you

hear it hit the table. But would you have noticed the sound

of his fork if you had not been looking? No. Only by focusing

your attention there were you able to pick out that

individual event and associated sound.

        It is a dark night. You are walking and the only

light you have is from the flashlight you hold in your hand.

As you move the flashlight around, the beam of light from it

directs your attention first one way then another. Now, the

mind is something like that flashlight in the dark. And by

directed attention, you point the mind to one place or

another. As with that flashlight beam, you see where the mind

is pointed; nothing more. The rest is 'noise'. And so we

could define mental noise as anything not focused upon. In

another way, noise could be considered as negative emotions,

attitudes, and thoughts which make it more difficult to

direct the attention.

        Your emotions follow your thoughts quite easily. Your

emotions are not YOU, but are rather reactions prompted by

your model and ego -- like a performance or an act, while

the real you watches. In a similar way, directing your

attention toward a specific emotion will cause you to

experience that emotion.

REVIEW QUESTIONS

1) What is the aura?

2) What is a thoughtform?

3) How can you develope clairvoyance?

BOOK LIST

Annie Bessant and Charles Leadbeater, Thought Forms.

W.E. Butler, How to Develop Clairvoyance.

J.H. Brennan, Astral Doorways.

Piero Ferrucci, What We May Be.

Kilner, The Human Aura.

Swami Panchadasi, The Human Aura.

A.E. Powell, The Etheric Double.

Harold Sherman, How to Make ESP Work for You.

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Phil Hansford, 12/86

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