Seven Steps in Practical Occultism E-Book

Paul Foster Case

• Herausgeber: Andura Publishing
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

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Experience the life-changing power of Paul Foster Case with this unforgettable book.

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Leseprobe

Seven Steps in Practical Occultism

Paul Foster Case

LESSON ONE

The practical instruction given in the first seven lessons of our curriculum has just one aim. It is intended to show you just what to do in order to attain health, happiness and security. It is designed to meet the needs of those who are interested in the practical application of occultism to their personal problems. It avoids technicalities and speculation, to the end that those who read it and put it into practice may begin to live the fundamentals it explains. It clarifies basic occult principles for those who have studied other systems of metaphysics.

The welfare of humanity as a whole depends on the well-being of the personal units in the social order. The world is good to live in if one knows how to live. Knowledge of force, laws and methods which will make you a better and more serviceable unit in the social order is set forth in these pages. Put this instruction into practice and you will be doing a service to all mankind. When you are happy, your daily living will add to the sum total of human effectiveness and fulfillment.

True health is contagious. When you express it, your mere presence will heal. A free, cheerful spirit showers blessing on all who enter its presence. Be full of joy and you will make your neighbor happy also. No man lives unto himself. Apply this knowledge. Use the methods given in these lessons to make yourself secure and inevitably you will add to the riches of the world.

Because these things are true, this course is concerned primarily with just you. By concentrating on expressing the wonderful powers of human personality, you will be doing the best that can be done to help all your friends, relatives and associates.

You will be given plain, specific instruction. Carry it out precisely, giving full attention to every detail.

These pages contain a clear statement of procedures which have been tried and tested over a long period of time. Study each lesson carefully, so that you know exactly what it means. Then put it into practice. Give at least a week to the work outlined in each lesson. Make haste slowly.

The first step is very simple, yet it is of utmost importance. Many persons never take it. Their failure to do so accounts for their failure in everything else. Possibly you have already attended to this indispensable preliminary. If you have done so, you will understand how important it is, and you will realize that, in beginning this study, you cannot do better than to start with a reaffirmation of your decision.

First of all then, before turning this page, take pencil and paper and write your answer to the question below:

WHAT DO YOU WANT?

By thus formally making up your mind, you have taken the first step in the right direction. What you have just written is probably rough, and far too long a statement. Try now to put what you want first (your most urgent desire) into a single sentence that shall embody your purpose as you now conceive it. Begin thus: “I will apply all my powers to achieve the following aim:”

Then set down exactly what you seek to accomplish. Remember, your sentence should give expression to a single purpose.

If your ultimate objective is a long-range project, which includes several intermediate steps, begin by directing your practice to the logical first step while keeping in mind the final goal. As soon as the first step has been accomplished successfully, begin applying your practice to the next. Do not permit yourself to linger by the way side. The importance of this first step cannot possibly be over-emphasized. Until you have taken it read nothing beyond this page. Until one purpose prefaced by the specific declaration of intention given above, is actually written out, you are simply wasting time and energy if you read any more of this lesson. So stop, and do it now!

Why do this? Because, provided only that your desire is in accordance with the laws of life and justice, you can be whatever you what to be, do whatever you want to do, have whatever you want to have.

Note that echoing verb. It indicates imperiousness of craving or need. Not puny, timid wishing. A real want has in it the quality of royalty… imperiousness which is “befitting an emperor or sovereign; commanding, ascendant.” Furthermore, the old Latin root of the kingly adjectives imperative and imperious is a verb meaning “to set in order, to regulate.”

This is the magic of a real want. lt heads you in the right direction. It regulates the exercise of all your powers. It brings your life into harmony with the universal order. It prepares you for success, because the literal meaning of success is “getting things and events to follow one another in the correct sequence.”

You can be, do and have whatever you really want, because the mental and emotional state which is expressed by this verb enables you to put your desire into specific imagery. Wishes are vague. Hopes are hazy. Genuine wants are sharply defined. A clear mental image tends to materialize itself as an actual condition or event.

Memorize that statement. Definite images have a driving power. Like seeds, they have life of their own. You have now begun to use this magic power. You have taken the first step to bring it under your direction so that you can build with it.

YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT!

You have chosen your goal, From now on, you will make steady progress toward it. Every stage of the journey is clearly mapped out for you by others who have been over the road. In this instruction there is no guesswork. It is neither theoretical nor experimental. These methods have been tried and proven by thousands who bear witness to their practical value and uplifting power.

You are now associated with a company of men and women who are on the highroad to attainment. Their power is linked with yours through the sharing of common interest and the practice of like methods. You now enjoy the privilege of being engaged with them in a concerted effort for the betterment of the human race through the improvement of its personal units.

No matter how far off the fulfillment of your aim may seem to be, today you have turned your face in the right direction. Most persons never make this beginning. They have no dominant purpose, no destination. Thus they never “get anywhere”, when they might achieve creditable success if only they would decide on somewhere to go.

This you have done. Now you must set to work. Mere aspiration will not take you to your chosen goal. There must also be activity. Concerning this we can give you nothing better than the words of the great French writer, Eliphas Levi (Alphonse Louis Constant), who said:

“Every intention which does not assert itself by deeds is vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech. It is action which proves life and establishes will. Hence it is said in the sacred and symbolic books that men will be judged, not according to their thought and their ideas, but according to their works. We must act in order to be…

“In order to do a thing, we must believe in the possibility of our doing, and this faith must forthwith be translated into acts. When a child says: “I cannot,” his mother answers: “Try.” Faith

does not even try: it begins with the certitude of completing, and it proceeds calmly, as if omnipotence were at its disposal and eternity before it. Dare to formulate your desires, then set to work at once, and do not cease acting after the same manner and for the same end; what you want shall come to pass, and by you and for you it has indeed already begun.”

“As if omnipotence were at your disposal.” In this phrase Eliphas Levi tells us a great secret. For omnipotence, or All Power, is really and truly at our service. Eliphas Levi’s knowledge of the All Power was derived form the same source to which BOTA are deeply indebted for the greater part of the instruction given in our curriculum. In his day men of science scoffed at him, but the grandchildren of his incredulous contemporaries have accepted his doctrine through few of them even heard his name, or even know what he put into writing so long ago as 1859. Yet our electrical and atomic age is a concrete realization of the French adept’s lucid conception of the ALL POWER. Study carefully what he wrote about it.

“There exists a force in nature which is far more powerful than steam, by means of which a single man who can master it, and knows how to direct it, might throw the world into confusion and transform its face. It is diffused through infinity; it is the substance of heaven and earth. When it produces radiance it is called light. It is substance and motion at one and the same time; it is a fluid and a perpetual vibration. The will of intelligent beings acts directly upon the light, and by means thereof, upon all nature, which is make subject to the modifications of intelligence.

“By the direction of this agent we can change the very order of the seasons, produce in the night the phenomena of day, correspond instantaneously from one end of the earth to the other, heal or hurt at a distance, and endow human speech with a universal reverberation and success. To know how to master this agent so as to profit by and direct its currents is to accomplish the Magnum Opus (Great Work) , to be master of the world, and the depository even of the power of God.

“Being the instrument of life, this force naturally collects at living centers: it cleaves to the kernel of plants as to the heart of man (and by heart we understand the great sympathetic), but it identifies, itself with the individual life of the existence it animates. We are, in fact, saturated with this light, and continually projects it to make room for more. The settlement and polarization of this light about a center produces a living being; it attracts all the matter necessary to perfect and preserve it.

“This force has four properties–to dissolve, to consolidate, to quicken, and to moderate. These four properties, directed by the will of man, can modify all phases of Nature.”

Eliphas Levi’s ideas are now advanced by those who have worked out the theory of matter and its constitution at present adopted by our leading physicists. His prophecies, derided when he made them, have been fulfilled. The device of our electrical age realize his predictions to the letter.

Electricity, which is called light when it produces radiance, is now held to be the substance and motion at one and the same time. It is diffused throughout the universe, over spaces measured in terms of millions of light years. From it the structure of every thing in the physical world is built up. By means of it we may so regulate the temperature of a room as to produce Arctic cold in midsummer, or torrid heat in midwinter; and in buildings of the future, electric conditioned air will release us from bondage to the seasons. More than this, since the discovery of atomic