☥ ∞ As Above ☼ So Below ∞ ☥

ALL THAT IS AND IS TO BE 

From : Compendium of Occult Laws

 

All the Initiates of the past and present exalt temperance in all things and insist that their Acolytes live within the Law of Necessity and not abuse any good thing. Of these classes of religious thinkers, the Christians should be the most faithful in the observance of this law, since it was charged upon them by both example and precept of the Founder of their faith, the Nazarene, and was prescribed as an essential of Spiritual discipline. Another mode of preparatory exercise for Spiritual exaltation was the practice of certain prescribed devotions. 

Prayer, not in the mere routine of verbal solicitation, but a sincere aspiration of the Soul toward the great Source of all Life, Light and inspiration - this form of prayer, which is a living Spiritual service, must be supplemented by solitary communion with the inner Soul Consciousness. During this process there should be a complete abstraction of the senses from all outward manifestations; a Soul musing of the Creative energy; the I Am that I Am to be; and that deep absorption of the reflective powers upon the Spiritual self within, which constitutes the triumph of the Soul matter and all its belongings. 

He who can comprehend this and apply it will have all of the powers described by the Ancient Initiates because he will contact and become a part of the ALL THAT IS and ALL THAT IS TO BE.Ablution, too, is another method of preparing the physical man for the influx of the magnetic force.By frequent ablutions, the skin - the vast system of dual functioning of evaporation and absorption -is prepared for a free transmission and reception of all the forces in Nature which constitute the Magical-Occult elements. During intervals of physical rejuvenation, light fast, consisting chiefly of vegetables and fruits, should be observed; while all stimulants and salacious substances calculated to excite the senses and pamper the appetite should be carefully avoided. Such are the preliminaries that help to make the Initiation possible.