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.Her condition when Ilast saw her was deplorable - emaciated, wild-eyed and twitching with convulsive movements.67 of 103A Collection of Sacred Magick | The Esoteric Library | www.sacred-magick.comWould anyone believe the story of such a woman? Obviously no one, unless they had seen the letters that I had seen.Nor is this the only case; a fellow-worker of mine told me of two precisely similar ones which had come to herknowledge in connection with Mr.X.It is cases such as these which make the honest investigator of occult phenomenathankful that there is upon our statute-book a law which enables magistrates to deal effectually with occultists whoprostitute their powers.It is so generally known that no initiate may use the occult arts for gain that it is difficult tosympathise with people who pay some advertising occultist his half-crown or half-guinea and then find themselves letin for unpleasantness.What conclusions may we draw from the incidents that I have related, for the facts of which I can vouch from personalknowledge? Four women are persuaded to embark upon a meditation process whose aim is to pour out force.Thenature of the force that is to be poured out is indicated by the fact that the married women are instructed not to live withtheir husbands and the unmarried girl is encouraged to fall in love with the man who is made the focus of the operation.This man is the head of a group of people known to be occupied with practical occultism and ceremonial.Theconclusion I draw is that an occult experiment was afoot, and that, regardless of the consequences to them, thesewomen were being made use of in order to carry it out, the procurer being the well-known psychic, Mr.X., and theoperator the notorious Mr.Z.The same group have to their credit a recurring series of scandals in connection with unnatural vice.If this were merelyvice as such it would not come within the purview of these pages, but it appears to be used systematically as a means ofobtaining occult power.Those who have any knowledge of the deeper aspects of occultism know that sex force is oneof the manifestations of kundalini, the serpent- fire that according to Tantric philosophy lies coiled at the base of thespine, or in the terms of Western occultism, the sacral plexus.The control and concentration of the kundalini force is animportant part of the technique of practical occultism.There is a right way of directing it through thought-control, thetechnique of which I have explained in my little book, The Problem of Purity (Rider); but there is also another method,which consists in stimulating this force, and then directing it into abnormal channels where it will not be absorbed, butremain available for magical purposes.It is for this reason that in certain forms of the Black Mass the altar is the nakedbody of a woman who may either be still living, or have been slain sacrificially.A.E.W.Mason gives an account ofsuch a transaction in his book, The Prisoner in the Opal.Less expert operators, however, cannot control this form of force; as soon as they generate it, it has to go to its logicalconclusion.They therefore employ another type of stimulus, not the woman, but the boy or youth.The practice ofpaederasty in connection with occultism is very old, and was one of the causes of the degeneration of the GreekMysteries.I have dealt with these subjects in some detail in another book of mine, Sane Occultism.Particulars of the actual casescan be found by reference to the files of Truth, the journal already referred to.Chapter XIVTHE MOTIVES OF PSYCHIC ATTACK.IIIT is a matter of general knowledge among occultists that it is not a pleasant thing to fall foul of an occult fraternityof which one has been made a member by means of a ceremonial initiation and to which one is bound by oaths.As wehave already seen, the malignant mind of a trained occultist is a nasty weapon; how much more so the group-mindformed out of a number of trained minds, especially if concentrated by means of ritual?But in addition to the individual mental force of the members of a fraternity, and in addition to the collective force of itsgroup-mind, there is another factor to be reckoned with when a genuine occult organisation is concerned in operations68 of 103of either protection or destruction [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]