Eu queria continuar a postagem sobre os exercícios de manipulação energética, mas darei um tempo pra vocês. Enquanto isso, quero sugerir uma prática muito interessante – o exercício do Pilar do Meio.
Vocês podem encontrá-lo facilmente na internet ou em algum livro do Israel Regardie. A sugestão é porque através destes exercícios práticos, além de você aperfeiçoar toda sua habilidade de visualização e controle energético, está aí uma oportunidade de aprender cabala na prática. Desde que comecei a praticar o exercício diariamente, meu entendimento acerca de cabala deu um salto enorme. Me vieram inspirações e coisas que eu não tinha percebido antes.
Portanto, recomendo.
Procurem, pesquisem na internet que acharão. Só peço que deem uma estudada na simbologia previamente.
Editando - vou copiar e colar aqui uma versão legal, tirado do livro The One Year Manual, do Israel Regardie
Some authorities have asserted that the higher spiritual
Self is not fully incarnated in the average human being, but
only overshadows him. Much of the intent of this excercise is to
heighten awareness of this divine overshadowing and to permit
a more complete permeation of the mind-body system by
the higher self or Holy Guardian Angel as it has archaically
been called.
To facilitate the development of the requisite mood, the
student might initiate the entire Ritual with a prayer such as:
Holy art thou Lord of the Universe for thy glory flows out
to the ends of the Universe, rejoicing.
Be with me now in this, the Great Work,
which I dedicate wholly to Thee.
Be my mind open to the Higher.
Be my heart a center of the Light.
Be my body a temple of the Holy Spirit.
Later, when maximum force and energy is to be
generated, it is recommended that the prayer or invocation be
followed with the Bornless Spirit invocation of the previous
chapter for additional reinforcement and exaltation.
Visualize a bright light just over the head in the form of a
sphere or ball about the diameter of a saucer or salad plate.
Concentrate upon its scintillating brilliance, imagining it
whirling and vibrating, and very soon there will be some
awareness, some sensation-feeling of something being activated
above the head. When this is felt, vibrate the word E H E I E H — pronounced Eh-huh-yeh. (Again, let me insist, the meaning of these words is of little import here; only their sound value is of use to us now.) These syllables are equally emphasized and should be vibrated slowly, getting the maximum sound out of each syllable. With a little practice, the word can be so vibrated as to appear to be wholly concentrated in that sphere of light above the head. If there is any tendency for the mind to wander — though once the sensations are felt, the mind concentrates almost automatically as though fascinated — repeat the vibration of the name. Vibrate the name several times; there is no set limit. The vibration need not be loud, a vigorous humming is really all that is required.
As time goes on, the whole procedure can be performed men-
tally, with the vibration being performed sub-vocally, that is,
silently. But only after the technique has been mastered orally —not until then.
In the event that some difficulty is experienced in feeling
where this center is, a little ancillary aid is useful. Obtain from
the local drugstore a proprietary medicine named H E E T . The
cork comes equipped with a little dauber. Find the spot on top
of the head from which the hair radiates, and apply a tiny dab
of this H E E T . Rub it in very gently with the fingers until you
can feel where the irritant is, for in reality, this product is
merely an irritant to stimulate the blood circulation to that
area. Then pause for a moment and repeat the above directions—that there is a ball of whirling light above the head.
After you have concentrated on this sphere of light above
the head for approximately five minutes, or until it feels sufficiently activated, then imagine a shaft of light issuing from it, going down through the head to the throat and neck. Here it
expands to form another sphere of light that extends from the
front to the back of the neck. Formulate this sphere as vividly
as you can, using the divine name Y H V H E L O H I M . This is
pronounced Y U H – H o h – v o h Eh-loh-heem, no one syllable being more strongly accented than the other. Vibrate the name
several times, focusing it within this second sphere, using a
similar procedure as before, until there is a clear vivid
awareness of this second sphere vibrating in the neck.
Some minutes later, visualize the shaft descending from
the neck to the chest; resting on the solar plexus — i n other
words, in the heart area. Here it forms a third sphere of bright
light, extending from the front to the back of the chest, again
the size of a salad plate. Maintain the keen visualization —or
better yet, sense-feel it. The result is unmistakable.
It is here that we can see where some of the earlier exercises
are yielding high dividends by making it easier to develop
sensory awareness and feeling these whirling spheres.
Instead of the customary Hebrew name, which is very
long and cumbersome, a Gnostic divine name w i l l be used. It is
shorter, vibrates extremely well and is much easier to use. This
name is: I AO —which is pronounced: ee-ah-oh. Repeat the
vibration of the name as often as may be required to help the
mind to stay concentrated on the center. If necessary, a little
dab of H E E T on the middle of the breast-bone will produce
enough skin sensation to help you become conscious of the
area to be activated.
In about five minutes, visualize the shaft of light descending
from the chest to the pelvic area, where a fourth sphere of
light is formed in your imagination. Vibrate the name SHADD
A L EL C H A I – shah-dye-ail-Cheye. (The Hebrew ‘ch’ i s guttural
as in the Scotch word for lake “loch”.) Visualize and feel
intense activity in this pelvic area, until the entire centre feels
alive and pulsating with energy.
Finally, see the shaft of light descend from the pelvis to
the feet, forming a fifth sphere of light. The name to be used
here i s A D O N A I h a – A R E T Z , pronounced: Ah-doh-nyehahah- retz. Vibrate the divine name often enough until it is felt in the lower extremities, stirring the sphere of light into vigorous activity. Feel it whirling and vibrating as a brilliant sphere of light-energy. Keep the mind concentrated on it for at least five minutes also.
A vast amount of spiritual energy has thus been stirred up
and thrown into the organism. It now remains to circulate this
energy throughout the entire system.
Go back in the imagination, to the top of the head and will that with the exhalation of the breath, the light-energy begins to stream down the length of the left side of the body to the feet. As you inhale, imagine this spiritual energy ascending the right side to the head center. Visualize this activity as a swiftly moving band of energy, extending out some distance from the body. Do this several times until some clear awareness of the movement has been achieved.
Then a similar imaginative gesture is to be followed with
the energy flowing down the front of the body to the feet on
exhalation, and ascending from the feet to the head at the
back, on inhalation. This too should be imagined and felt occurring several times until the realization of movement is clear.
This sets up bands of energy circulating within and around the body forming a broad electro-magnetic field or aura of white light. The field is not yet complete, however, requiring
but another gesture to round it out.
Return in the imagination to the foot center, and imagine
that the Middle Pillar reaching up to the head center, is like a
hollow pipe. On the inhalation of breath, suction is set up
drawing the energy from the foot center up the hollow pipe,
and on the exhalation it jets forth above the head center falling
on all sides like a fountain. The energy sprays around the outer
margins of the field, falling like a shower of scintillae to the
feet, where it is once again gathered into the foot center. Upon
inhalation, it is again drawn up into the Middle Pillar to be
sprayed over the head upon exhalation. This process should
be frequently repeated untl the result is a clear realization of a
brilliant, vibrating field in which the student is enclosed and
by which he is wholly permeated.
At this point, he should embark upon a meditation that
he is enclosed in the Light of the Spirit and thereby is at one
with the One Life which pulses through the universe and
which unifies all beings and all things. If it w i l l aid him to
achieve the requisite degree of exaltation, he may recite
something inspirational such as a passage from Crowley’s The
World Tragedy:
Hear then! By Abrasax! The bar
of the unshifting star
Is broken – IO! Asar!
My spirit is wrapt in the wind of light;
It is whirled away on the wings of night,
Sable-plumed are the wonderful wings,
But the silver of moonlight subtly springs
Into the feathers that flash with the pace
Of our flight to the violate bounds of space.
Time is dropt like a stone from the stars:
Space is a chaos of broken bars:
Being is merged in a furious flood
That rages and hisses and foams in the blood.
See! I am dead! I am passed, I am passed
Out of the sensible world at last.
I am not. Yet I am, as I never was,
A drop in the sphere of molten glass
Whose radiance changes and shifts and drapes
The infinite soul in finite shapes.
There is light, there is life, there is love,
There is sense
Beyond speech, beyond song, beyond evidence.
There is wonder intense, a miraculous sun,
As the many are molten and mixed into one
With the heat of its passion; the one hath invaded
The heights of its soul, and its laughter is braided
With comets whose plumes are the galaxies
Like winds on the night’s inaccessible seas
There may be another meaningful prayer or some other
form of devotion that w i l l prove exceedingly valuable to him.
The exaltation of his mind to the highest peak of enlightenment,
becomes possible at this particular juncture, depending
on how intensely he has worked in formulating the divine
white light of the spirit and how moved he has been by the contemplation
of this paean of divine praise.
To close the exercise, he should give thanks for the experience
and gradually withdraw the white sphere into himself, so that the field coincides with his own body. He should take a deep breath and tighten all his muscles to terminate the state and then stretch vigorously before getting up and going about his business.
In closing and giving thanks, the following could be used:
Unto thee, sole Wise, sole Eternal and Sole Merciful One
be the praise and the glory forever, who has permitted
me, who now standeth humbly before Thee, to enter
thus far into the sanctuary of thy mystery. Not unto me,
but unto Thy name be the glory. Let the influence of thy
divine ones descend upon my head and teach me the
value of self-sacrifice, so that 1 shrink not in the hour of
trial. But that thus my name may be written upon high
and my Genius stand in the presence of the holy Ones in
that hour when the Son of Man is invoked before the
Lord of Spirits and his name in the presence of the Ancient
of Days. Amen.
This Middle Pillar technique is another of those exercises
which may take far more than a single month to master. In any
event, the student may discover that he wishes to use it more
or less intermittently or continuously throughout the entire
course of his life. It has infinite possibilities which only persistent practice will indicate.
Fica a dica,
K.
