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Lesson #12

In the teachings, Lesson 12 began with a review of relaxation, both mental and physical. I am not going to do that here.

I am also not going to repeat what is taught in the course, but rather my take on the topics presented. I have taken the information and wisdom offered and combined it with my own experiences.

There is enough self-help stuff out there, I don’t feel the need to add much more too it!

Rather, I would have you figure these things out for yourself. I can rant on for hours, but that doesn’t do anyone any good. You must learn these things through experience, or you will not live them.

All emotions arise from within. The surrounding condition can influence them, but only as far as you allow it. This is not something which can be changed overnight. Serenity is something that comes with much work. Meditation, relaxation and exploring your emotions is the only way to come to understanding happiness.

Your happiness in in your own hands. As feelings arise, do not repress them, but watch them. Accept and learn from them. Soon, you will come to understand them, then they will no longer control you.

One thing which I do when I feel stressed, agitated or upset about a situation beyond my control is to remember that “this too will pass.” No matter how good or bad a situation may seem while you are in it, it will not last forever. If you can change it, then do so. If not, then why worry?

This all starts with acceptance. Acceptance is based on relaxation. When you relax into a situation or condition, when you are mindful of it, then you can come to accept it. Once you stop with the internal resistance, then you can see the situation as it really is, and decide if there is something you can do about it.

When we label a situation, or are resistant to it mentally or emotionally, then we twist our perception of the situation, and make it harder to deal with it correctly. Still your mind, breath, and step back emotionally. Look at the situation without labeling, as best you can. This skill must be practiced, first in meditation, then in your daily life.

When the resistance and labeling drop away, the true nature of the situation arises in your perception, and you can determine the best course of action/inaction.

This is my path to happiness. What is yours?

Meditation practice will help you to understand your desires. When they arise, watch them, and let them arise. Relax into them. Soon you will come to understand them. Then, you will be able to know which you should try to fulfill and which should be worked through until they are gone.

Either way, burning desires are rarely fulfilled, and when they are, they are never what they seemed to be. Often they will seem to be fulfilled, but the desire its self just changes what it wants.

This constant chasing after something “future” is the cause of much human misery and suffering.

At the same time, “fake it till you make it” really works. If you want something enough, you will do what ever it takes to get it. If you behave like you already have it, often it will manifest. This must be used with caution, however. Apply common sense here, if you don’t have $1,000,000,000, don’t spend it! If you don’t have a parachute, don’t jump out of the plane. Apply this mentally and emotionally first. Then, follow through, if only in private, with pretending that you have it.

Writing goals down is a great way to achieve them too.

A quick note on money, while we are on the topic of desire. Spending less than you have coming in is an excellent way to reduce stress and increase happiness. Getting out of debit is another. There is a lot of free advice on this topic.

The fasts way into debt is credit cards. These are absolute evil, if anything could be absolute! They charge high rates for you to use money you don’t have. Avoid them.

No one who is rich ever said “I made my fortune with credit cards!” , well, unless they were the owner of a credit card company. Many successful people don’t have them. Those who do, use them sparingly, and pay them off every month.

I say, avoid them. They are a great waste of money, and a huge source of stress for millions of people.

Just a few gems from the course will be included here.

Write everything important down. No memory recall is perfect, record important information. This will also help you to remember it.

Emotion and repeated usage are the two main components of memory. If you attach a strong emotional feeling to a memory, you will be able to recall it better. This is also why when we, as humans, get into a situation which reminds us of another situation, we will experience similar emotions. The emotions themselves can remind us of the situations in which we felt them.

Repetition, repetition, repetition, is one of the most effective, if boring methods.

A technique to recall a forgotten memory: Visualize yourself in your brain. Imagine you are in a small room with a window in on wall. On the other side of the window is a clerk, the memory retrieval clerk. Tell the clerk what information you want, and give him or her any relevant facts you do remember. Go back to what you were doing, and avoid thinking about it. The information will often come back to you in a little while.

Here’s mine. Prayer works in the same way magick does, through the law of attraction. Like vibrations attract like vibrations.

Try it out, and remember to be sincere about it. You don’t have to address any God or Goddess, or you can address any Gods or Goddesses. It makes no difference.

Gratitude puts you in harmony with the frequency of the cosmic vibration. When you are ungrateful for what you have, you are setting up barriers for improvement. Ingratitude is a form of attachment to what you don’t like. By being thankful, you open your life up to the universe around you.

It is often useful to make a list of all you are grateful for. People, things, places, whatever! Make a list and keep it. When you get to feeling down, you can look at the list, and remember that even though it may be rough now, things have been good before and will be good again. This will help until you get let the attachments of good and bad situations drop away, and realize that all of that is just a matter of opinion.

You may want to tape a copy of this list to the wall in your bedroom.

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In the course, the breathing which I gave you in Lesson 6 on psychic healing is repeated again. I am not going to do that here either.

According to the theory of elemental magick presented here, your physical and spiritual bodies are made up of the same basic elemental energy with which all other things are made. This system works with the chakras presented earlier, and more details will be given later about how to do this (Lessons 17 & 32).

The course lists all 25 of the sub-elements, like spirit of spirit, water of spirit, fire of air, and earth of water. I am not going to. You can look at the pictures of the elemental stars and figure this out yourself. There are 5 elements, stick one element with another and you have a sub-element.

These sub-elements are not separate elements of themselves, but are basic combinations of energy. They do work differently, as the elements play on each other, and the best way to understand them is to meditate on each combination, and write down what YOU discover. These teachings are only the beginning of your understanding of these elements.

As an example, say I am feeling obsessed or paranoid. This falls under the negative side of the fire of air sub-element. This could be countered by meditating on or sending myself the energy of positive fire of air, which is creative though, genius.

Some characteristics of the air element are: clarity, carrier (of energy and items), reflective, expandable, easy flow, reactive to any energy input, malleable shape, mutable, insulator, inherently stable, mediator for fire, forms bridge between fire and water and fire and earth, lightweight, masculine, mind/thought/knowledge, outward view, enlightenment/understanding. Its colors are white and clear, though many systems say yellow or even blue.

Its faults are: frivolity, self-presumption, boasting, gossiping.

Fire (life force, creativity, destruction, will power, hot & dry) acts upon Air (Movement, wind, intellect, thought, vastness, warm and moist) to produce the effect of heating the air to cause hot winds, gets the intellect moving. It makes the thoughts more active, and energizes thinking to make it more spontaneous and creative.

Earth (materialism, stability, practical, bulk) acts upon Air (movement,…) to materialize thoughts and make practical thoughts.

Air acts upon Air to produce pure air. The breath of life, pure intellect and total thought.

Water (psychic, emotion, feelings, wet and cold) acts upon Air to produce the effect of emotional thinking, intuition, mentally psychic.

Spirit (the All, everything) acts upon Air to produce thoughts of the highest order, with a focus on the spiritual and divine.

According to the teachings, it was through these methods that the ancient wise men performed miracles. It says that each student will be different, but with diligence, great things are possible.