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amount of "effort" in the usual sense will avail. Infinite
patience will barely suffice. The attention must be
continually turned to the eye image until the thinking
eventually gives up. Any sort of distortion of the image is
symptomatic of thinking and to be avoided.
Success is characterized by certain phenomena for which
it is useless to strive. There may be a loss of physical
perspective or body image. The body may begin to feel vast
or microscopic. These phenomena are characteristic of
sensory deprivation. They are not the desired result but
indicative of a loosening of belief.
The eyes are then closed and the void is entered as
completely as possible. Some image may be used as a
receptacle of thought if it be not completely annulled. A
visualized shape will do. Hopefully this too can be
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allowed to fade, leaving Kia hovering in an immensity.
From this condition of transcended desire it can hurl itself
into any form of magic. Inspiration or atavisms can be
dredged up from recondite corners of the awareness by
sigils; will and perception can be extended into new
dimensions.
If the foregoing proves insufficient to achieve gnosis, the
magician stands on tip toe, eyes closed with arms locked
behind, the neck stretched and the back arched, the whole body
straining to the limit. The breathing becomes deep and
spasmodic as the crucifixion continues. Oblivious to
everything except the strain and tension which rack his entire
being, he may attain the Void, as this too is suddenly removed
and he falls exhausted supine to the floor.
Death Posture Transcendence )
Normal Congress Inspiration )
Autoerotic Congress Reification )
Reverse Congress Exhaustion ) of Desire
Figure 8. The Quadriga Sexualis and their magical uses.
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At this point he evokes the sensation of laughter. Reflecting on
the meaninglessness of anything as he becomes conscious of it,
he laughs aimlessly at everything. He may be granted the grace
of being swept up onto the divine madness of ecstatic
laughter.
The death posture is chief among the rites of Thanateros for it
can be applied to inspire, reify, and exhaust, as well as
transcend, desire.
Normal congress, the genital embrace of persons of opposed
sexes, should in any manifestation, magical or not, inspire the
participants with something, if only mutual attachment.
Employed magically it can provide amplified inspiration for
almost anything.
The lunar current of the priestess is observed for a day in
which the libido is strong. In the priest, the libido is
strengthened by conservation. Retiring to the place of working,
each attains the silence of the mind by any favored method. For
example, they may kneel before each other in the dragon
position and perform the preliminaries of the death posture.
Then they become conjoined in a stimulatory embrace. As
congress occurs the subject for inspiration or its sigil is
meditated on as the mountain of excitation is gradually
climbed. As the final step is taken the desire is abandoned to
the subconscious. After the cataclysm the cele brants aim to
remain vacuous but alert, to allow the inspiration to manifest.
The reification, or making real, of a desire is possible through the
autoerotic mode of the quadriga sexualis. In this the mind is
kept blank while the sexuality is ignited and brought to a pitch
by touch alone. The body is in a supine position, eyes closed
with all other senses annulled as far as possible. As the initiate
climbs the mountain of excitation the mind must reject all
images and fantasies. As the body goes into the orgasm phase,
and in the seconds following, the whole force of the will and
perception is focused on the desire, or more conveniently, its
sigil. In that brief instant when he is no more, the alignment is
made, the obsession formed, the demon bom, or the sigil
charged, his will sent forth.
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Eroto-comatose lucidity is a variant of this form of congress in
which the desire is to reach the borderland state between
consciousness and unconsciousness through which the
subconscious images and divinatory impressions flow. The
sexuality is stimulated again and again and if need be, again
and again and again until the consciousness slips into the
shadow world. In practice the body should be neither too tired
nor too comfortable, so preventing the unconsciousness of
deep sleep. The body may be unable to sustain many orgasms,
particularly if male. Karezza, excitation stopping short of orgasm
but repeatedly approaching it, may be employed. Exhaustion of
desire is a magical process which works on the principle that
wished-for events so often seem to occur after we have
forgotten about them consciously. It is because the life force
then acts through the aetheric tensions we first created, but of
which we are no longer aware. The chosen desire is concentrated
on through all phases of the arousal, discharge and aftermath of
these forms of congress for as long as it takes until the mind
begins to react against or get sick of it.
The conscious desire, rather than any sigilized form of it,
should be used. As soon as the reaction against the desire begins
to manifest, the whole thing is banished from the mind by a
forcible turning of the attention to other matters. Conscious
desire and reaction annulled, the desire will manifest at some
time in the future.
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RANDOM BELIEF
Various stages in the belief cycle of the self are provided in the
following sections. Try each or any of them for a week, a
month, or a year. This exercise may save one an unnecessary
incarnation or two. It may also help to make clear the aeonic
mechanism which creates the various psychic milleniums of
past and future history. The beliefs are g in order, with
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Number 1 understood to follow on from Number 6 in a circle.
Atheism and Chaoism are presented in both their early and
degenerate phases to make clear the stages of change, and to
permit the use of the sacred cube.
Dice Option Number 1: Paganism
The gods show themselves in all things. In the elements,
tempestuous and placid by turns; in the seas, the mountains,
the green fields, in the hail and in the lightning. They show
themselves as various animals and they show themselves in
metals and in stones. Most of all they show themselves in the
mind of man impelling him to love, to war, to fortune, or to
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