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Just finished both Mystical Extra Training for Franz Bardon´s Initiation into Hermetics and Autohypnosis for Franz Bardon´s Initiation into Hermetics by Ray Del Sole. I must say both books are an excellent addition to any Bardon workers libraries.

I have mentioned a few times one of the biggest problems I see for those trying to tackle IIH is that Bardon presents the bare bones structure of a system, and it is up to the initiate to fill in the body. These two books help you fill in that body. 

Bardon presents a very left brain scientific description of the process of magical development, these books would help your right brain understand them in its way. When taken together it will help make much of the work seem much easier. 

If you can only go with one go with the Autohypnosis book. It will give you what you need to spark that mystical side within towards the work. Mystical Extra training is just that, supplemental ideas, concepts and exercises one can use to to go a bit deeper. 

If you are heavy into a left brain modality these books will appear hokey at times, bordering on woo. If taken alone they would be in grave danger of sounding too woo, for sure. Taken with IIH it makes a great counter balance.

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A lovely walk-through on a Christian achieving stream entry and the Christian tradition of meditation and jhana.

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“A monk suffuses the world in the four directions with a mind of benevolence, then above, and below, and all around – the whole world from all sides, completely, with a benevolent, all-embracing, great, boundless, peaceful and friendly mind … Just as a powerful conch-blower makes himself heard with no great effort in all four cardinal directions, so too is there no limit to the unfolding of this heart-liberating benevolence. This is a way to communion with Brahma. The monk must follow this up with an equal suffusion of the entire world with mental projections of compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity regarding all beings with an eye of equality.”

— The Buddha

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“Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.”

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Take this article and print it out. Now place it between steps 9 and 10 of Bardon’s IIH.

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“…you have to be a light to yourself, not take the light of a professor, or an analyst, or a psychologist, or the light of Jesus, or the light of the Buddha. You have to be a light to yourself in a world that’s becoming utterly dark.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti (via aspiritualwarrior)

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“Everything is overflowing with Gods.”

— Proclus, 1st century CE

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“One cannot shape the world without being reshaped in the process. Each gain of power requires its own sacrifice.”

Phil Hine

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“What we are looking for is what is looking.”

St Francis of Assisi

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A really short, but good read on magickal consciousness. I think this book is useful in getting a different perspective than typical magick books in that it really digs into the experience of it and shows many examples through history of what it was like. You can think of this book as another way to think about the magickal self or the HGA.

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“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the normal people as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger. Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.”

Timothy Leary. 

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“and the universe said…”

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