‘THE MYSTERIES OF EROS ‘The Grades of Eros ‘The and objec oie mysteries of Eos isto bud. up. the ividuality of each Acolyte to the end of evolving the Sarthe Reber ar cating ie Sehelt. Bach person is a mina Jearn to role justly. Each individual is a responsible being, a "out the problem of his own redemption from the thraldom inherited from ancestry and importance we first come to the grand doctrine and science of Formu- lation, : I FORMULATION Execution and Reception. Th own special lines with one of radiating and projecting this borrowed energy upon the lines, special forms and ‘angles of his own formation (mental creation). Reception is the re- ‘ceptive quality of the soul, whereby ‘man receives and again trans- its to the planes below him the grosser forms or the finer essencesheart, courage and persistence for its noblest and most suecessful cul- ture. After the card has been in daily use for sit months or more it be abandoned either for the wWafered mirror, the head of a ee nalls; zinc, copper and iron (horse- le whose sides are one inch in length; z¢_should be wound around the three left hand whi ‘The effect is serves to render the attention more fitm, positive and in a receptive mood. Tt may and probably will require years practice before mental conceptions can be for those herein recommended, ividual power, mental and sat aLimising re prsentat=( at. we att Kew ‘calm, non-turbulent, non-muscular exertion of the human that object has become a thing of the past;—reproducin cexease this and render it practically and magneticall the phantoms 1 Lis in reality reproducing th eg dally practice Is requied. Observe and before yau, Tt'may be only a few seconds of time, ‘eu id brief, it It the past, and careful daily pra round white card with a black centre against the wal, Neophyte to become more and more potent in tl and aa ar aa i : steadily one minute, willing at the same ogy, and render it possible for him to ha i jon; then ise the Attention, Concentration and Abstraction; 1 slowk the eyes.to the bank wall the opis! fest will be an 5 reversed) passing slowly acro eee or there may be tice the number should and will inerease to four, seven ‘more. The card may _Bhantoms will be the exact Soporte mati bee ; feof tot Only teasing and oremecing the past history of any lity, through the law of principle of Formation may in the path of the soul's ultimate is that of the real Master of Mysteries, second principle, and is purely volitional 1g, ordering, commanding and mentally sire and Will;—to say, think, feel andike potent for good or. evil. Its action therefore, re ‘the mind during the executive instant, for this ordaining, especially after the exercise of the Formative), leaps from ting, traversing space and centering ‘between, oF Vast spaces divide; yet ive principle consists in placing one's ie of body, mind and feeling, the most important and difficult of the tional self in a receptive posi to receive the mesa thece great principles, and iste correspond attracts good, evil realy a ir development of attent mn to the exercise of the F¢ merely as regards any special Receptive condition itsell. When we the body, hands, face, eyes, nostrils he higher or sa perphysical, metaphysical, mental and ethereal regions of our vast being, and it must be enforced in order to reach the sublimest of all fe, There is no Magic save in Formation, Execution ; and their foundation is Love. rte our meaning, let us say for example, air and heat ru ‘a vacuum, and there can be no vacuum if anything is th ly one cannot wholly either notice, wish for, will, decree, fr receive the full measure of anything sought, or power desired, fr the entire weight of any mental or metaphysical desideratum, already occupied by something else its attention and of the heart's desire. incere desire to receive what {s sought. le req entire devotion, absorption and con- ie inner being. When a thing is to be done, an ‘both senses), hierarchy or special power is to 7 ed up from within, the mind must not only be bear upon the reception thereof, but room within must be provided for the expected visitor and the of the soul be withdrawn and vacated, except for energy ot power then sought through the coalesce with starvling souls, and never at all, evocation, development, operation and eval calmly, steadily, followed and impli II VITALIZATION ‘The second of the three great principles of the italization, whi giving, Everything is reception and reality « central point or Focus of Deity for the transmission of ‘The soul Monad projected into matter, in order to evolve the latent attributes of the divine spirit, is supplied incessantly from its and center with the life force required, and it in return to planes and states still lower than itself, involuntarily, rock and dense veins of nission. That all human (except avaricious misers), some in excess of others, must, to be in accord with the laws hercin revealed, appear perfectly plain, es- ly s0, when we comprehend t inship of humanity to material substances are mediumistic the degree in which they are capable Force. In this connection, Hermetic spirit inheres in every grade of matter as the instigator of life, force and motion, being an attendant upon the ethereal forces that permeate all worlds and every atom of ce, For in proportion to the refinement of substance is the sphere vitalized by spiritIn the brain and nervous system of the human being the Climax of Material Vitali by training gradually builds up bi physical ore “Taken in a general sense separate sections, viz; Inspiration, Exspiration and Bre latter as the most external embraces the two former. Considered separately, we have first, Inspiration “The simple senses crowned his Head, “Omega, thou art Lord’, they sad.” “Who forged that other influence ‘That heat of inward evidence?” ‘Tennyson, . its sources and rank. of the senses and intellect; senses and intellect. Hermetic m9 and exspiration, and which may be totalforms. No real divine or cel patient and continued eff while the fal energy can be evolved until, by Neophyte learns to inhale the Acther is firmly fixed upon what is in and of it. Thereby he he essence of power and the denizens of the ethereal and ‘spaces. Thus doing will he breathe the elements which gen- erate power in the Human soul, Neophyte, that Goodness alone is Pow regaineth Omnipotentence, and Love lieth at the t, and thus the soul, with ascensive kind of trance-power, known rath that grand flight-power whereby it can reach infinite sion the realm of slr galaxi strength and po The organs it accumulated loa III REALIZATION centers, Spheres, Potencies, Hierarchies, and Brotherhoods, igs on earth, ized, have their orbits and periods, iner, all conceivable powers, qualities and energies in the spaces, have the same. There are times when they are, and are not, and it is very di f not impossible, for any-one living save through the exercise eathing. m we. Fix some desired object stemal plane of objective life ‘of which man can conceive: and who respond to the de- belong to the same state of place themselves under the essential conthe mind of all but the objects at_the same nothing can be done except through Law, Order, Rule and a . definite comprehension of the underlyi i forth herein, and above all, a perfect Formulation of the objects desired advisable to consider one or two jophy now taught. There is no accident, ‘or the worlds beyond; ali Its of internal causes, and which they can be forecasted and anticipated by ing the intelligences of that sphere. We do not mean by this, I human events and occurrences are foreseen by those who ince denizens of the world we inhabit, and who for redemptive or other ends may reveal many things to their warthy proteges; but in that within this universe, there is a great central source of external things and events are the Supreme ‘man beings, who once dwelt in physical bodi again, There are electrical, ethereal, non gander, vaster and more magnificent than ‘otencigs, Rowers fore whose amazing sweep of has or can produc ‘These beings are the arbiters of the destinies of the worlds, and the Planetary Angels, originators of the grand drama of external life, fect development means the sacrifice of the lower nature upon the st within; theFSScSSSRERSHStISIEE [All good works begin and end with devout aspirations, and posing to receive the boon eraved, while desires of an opposite nature be- gin with, and end on, opposite principles. in all matters connected with the punishment of wrong, the protection of the weak, and parting power, health and prosperity to others, Execution terminates fariably. In actual practice the Neophyte must first member that the party or person to be frustrated must be present, rin person or apparitional presence, which latter can be wed by the process of Formulati force must be contained age or images stand out clearly defined be. 1k that which is required to be done and at this point the Executive force must be on ‘must never be forgotten or overlooked, is executive force is to be retained within the grasp of the op- during the climax of the formulative moment, and never pro- jected until the soul is full to overflowing, or it will fail to reach its object, and, having traversed its orbit, recoil upon the operator and produce inharmony. Let us solemnly impress upon each and every 3 fearful dangers that will overtake him should he ever a these powers for evil purposes or the injury of others; therefore, be warned and rather suffer inj has been ly the cultivation of thi ‘Occult training, or Psy franchisement of 1 iritual senses of the soul, And lastly, it jugation of every animal pass i 0 the undisputed harmonious control of the di- particular practices force and magnet inner self, that const laws of our being. PSYCHICAL CULTURE Having briefly |A brief System of Soul Development, with Rules for Practical Occult Training, specially adapted to the Natural Requirements of the Western Members of the Exterior Circle of The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor. INTRODUCTION “The primary law to be remembered in all and every species of ‘occult training, 15 that of equilibrium. The scientific evolution of the