Conclusion
Conclusion
and Exercises
written by Christine Breese, D.D., Ph.D.
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
This
course has given an account of some of the historical information available
on the subject of magic and magical practices. A few exercises are given
at the end of this course, but how to perform magic is not covered because
it is such a huge topic unto itself. There are some instructions given in
the UMS courses: Witchraft, Solstice, Equinox & Moon Ceremonies, and
Altars & Rituals. However, the practice of magic is a highly personal
endeavor, and no magician, adept, or witch practices quite the same way.
Much of the magic that is practiced is invented on the spot according to
the present needs of the individuals and groups, or the events surrounding
the situation. There are thousands of books in print on the topics of casting
spells, mixing potions and other magical practices. There are millions of
ways to practice magic, so if you are interested in this, you must seek
out the techniques that resonate most with you. These techniques are available
in every bookstore and library, if you are interested in detailed instructions.
However, you have already begun the spiritual path of the Adept and the
Wizard. You are already being trained in the ways of the Magician. Simply
studying metaphysics, meditation, and philosophy is the beginning of your
magical training as an adept. You are already attempting to realize yourself
as more than the human you have been trained to believe yourself to be.
As you learn more, gather techniques, and observe the results of your experimentations
in metaphysics, you will become “as gods among mankind.”
First, you are being taught knowledge and history here at the University
Of Metaphysical Sciences. Second, you are being taught the techniques of
the adept, such as astral projection, lucid dreaming, aura viewing, channeling/divination,
self mastery, energy movement and the opening of the heart and mind. Third,
you are required to expound on your own ideas about metaphysical subjects,
as the graduates of the ancient mystery schools were required. UMS is a
modern day version of the ancient mystery schools where the student is educated
in the practices of a magus.
The one difference in the distance learning format is that the student must
apply oneself to the task and practice of the techniques offered, exerting
self-discipline and vigilance from within rather than having these influences
being enforced from outside the self, as was done in the ancient mystery
schools. Schedules, instruction and discipline were structured and non-negotiable.
In modern times, these secret techniques and practices are no longer a mystery
and can be found in any bookstore or library, even the internet. The hard
part is self discipline, such as daily meditation, daily pranayam and yoga
practices, strict policing of the mind and emotions, practicing to attain
the siddhis (i.e.: lucid dreaming, astral travel, intuitive powers, aura
viewing, and other “super-human” abilities). These things do
take time and practice and cannot be achieved simply by reading about them.
I encourage you to fully pursue the techniques being offered at UMS in your
education, and exercise self-discipline to work on these practices as a
daily practice, especially meditations, pranayama yoga and clean thinking.
These are the most important foundational practices for the adept wizard
of magician. The ability to have a still mind, even while going about daily
tasks in everyday life, is of utmost importance, for this is the mental
state needed for working magic. Stillness in the mind is the doorway to
the worlds beyond the physical. The magician straddles the physical world
and the spiritual world. Between the worlds is where magic takes place.
When you are in meditation and you feel that sudden sense of wholeness,
peace and out-of-body feeling you are between the worlds. When you can stay
there comfortably without wavering, this is when you can work magic. When
you are able to bring this stability into your daily life, and stand between
the worlds as eternal consciousness, you have become an avatar, a magus.
There are a few main ingredients in magical practices, one of them being
the still mind. Another is intention and belief that all things are possible.
Physical laws can be bent, and the magician must realize that one is not
bound by them. Magic is the bending of physical laws, otherwise
it would not be magic.
Besides bending physical laws, magic also has to do with the understanding
of certain physical laws that are not common knowledge to the common person.
For instance, it is an actual law of the universe that thought affects and
manipulates matter. This is the ultimate alchemy! Thus, the magician can
work effortlessly with some natural laws that are already in place, but
with conscious knowledge of how they work, rather than the haphazard way
that the uneducated common person does. The magician knows that all that
is necessary for some “magic” is the changing of attitudes,
thoughts and beliefs which in turn cause physical reality to rearrange itself.
The magician knows that to believe oneself whole, healthy and healed is
to be so. Disease cannot exist in a person who believes oneself to be healthy
and behaves as such. Physical reality is just a reflection machine that
responds to consciousness. What consciousness holds, physical reality reflects.
The magus understands these very basic and fundamental workings of the universe,
and what might look like magic to the common person is only an educated
maneuver by the magician within existing laws of the universe. This is but
one example of the many ways that the adept operates in the world simply
by knowing certain natural laws of the universe and using them appropriately.
Good luck on your endeavors in the worlds of magic. Magic is available to
everyone and anyone who begins to explore its properties and natural laws.
"As Above, So Below” ABRACADABRA...So Be It,
Amen.