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These AOBL excerpts are from a much larger work in progress, which is going to take a long time to complete and much of the later volumes won't even have an audience until there is a group of third year students ready for the work. In the interest of disseminating the data as quickly as possible to our members I'm going to issue these as standalone articles. Please don't redistribute these elsewhere. It's fine to print them off for home archive purposes. The Anatomy of the Body of Light is a series of seven volumes on the subject of Abrahadabra and Mutational Alchemy, pertaining to the Body of Light and its mastery. A large portion of it was written by m1thr0s, with some of it ghostwritten by me under m1thr0s' direction. The author of the book is m1thr0s, while I am the "editor." Some of the portions were purpose written while still others are articles chained together in the most logical fashion, as well as content from the booklets. - Izi
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Note: I havn't had time to fill in all of the table of contents - Izi
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Volume I
Philosophical and Metaphysical Overview of Mutational Alchemy and Abrahadabra
First Principles
A Brief Word on Syncretism
Western Metaphysics
Hermeticism and Hermetic Qabbala
Adam Kadmon
Pythagoreanism
Alchemy
Eastern Metaphysics
The Eight Limbs of Yoga
The Far East
Tantricism
Global Trends in the Nu Aeon
Abrahadabra
The Great Work
Sigil
Active Scrying
Dialecticism, Doubt and Right Thinking
Entheogens
Shadowism/LHP
Avante-Garde
War Meditation, Action and Raising Energy
Evocation and Invocation
What to Expect
Telekinesis
Telepathy
Visio Praeterem (Paranormal Vision)
Paranormal Sounds, Voices
Miracles
Sigil
On the Importance of Memorization
Volume II
The Elements
Introduction
Bigrams, and the Constitution of an Element
The Three Elements
The Four Elements and the Four Elemental Worlds
The Rational Ordering of the Elements in Mutational Alchemy
The Nature of the Tree and Nothing
Akasha
Fire
Air
Earth
The Sephira
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Volume III
Alchemical Projection
Volume IV
Mutational Alchemy: Code
Mathematical Coherence
The Elemental Lo Shu, or, The Celestial Lo Shu, called Srid Pa Ho
Some Revealing Lo Shu Square Arrangements
The Great Seal of Saturn and the Lo Shu Square’s Flying Star Paths
The Tetractys of the Decad and the Lo Shu Square
The Qabbalah of 9 Chambers
The Proximity Principle: Mutational Alchemy Tree of Life Path Corrections
Mutational Alchemy Tree of Life Path Corrections
Regarding the Work of Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm
Geomathematical Proximity
Proximity Principle: Hebrew Letters/Numbers:Eliphas Levi’s great idea…
Aleister Crowley’s Inroads…
Creating Tables of Attributes Correcting Attribution Errors
Book of Thoth: Atu Corrections
Book of Thoth: Alchemical Assignments
The Hidden Diamond: An Unexamined Bridge to Star Consciousness
The Generic Tree of Life
Historical Oversight
The Qabbalistic Tree of Life
A Map of Manifest Macrocosm
The Alchemical Breakdown
The Four Elemental Worlds
The 16 Hidden Paths
The Complete Tree of Life: Using the Hidden Diamond
The Word of Perfection
The TwinStar
The Tetractys & The Tree of Life
Crunching the Numbers
Qabbalistic Lightning Bolts
TwinStar Numerations
Putting it All Together
Centering & Grounding
Akasha, Mezla, Chi, Shakti, etc...
A Word About the Flower of Life
Volume V
Mutational Alchemy: Fields
Volume VI
Completion
Volume VII
Summation
The manual that follows is unique and mysterious. There is nothing like it anywhere in the world, or I would not be compiling it at this time. Its subject matter is so austere and people so apparently oblivious of its principles that I had long ago resigned myself to unraveling its mysteries on my own initiative. There has always seemed to me to be very little point in attempting to solicit any support for this work, since it has been my experience that the very same people and institutions who are the first to tout the importance of new ideas are also the first to undermine them. Finding no organizations I could form any useful alliance with anyway, I resolved that any sufficiently important body of original metaphysical research would have little choice but to evolve by stealth. I have subsequently contented myself with being a free agent exploring a noble model on its own merits, with no social obligations attached.
The situation has changed. Even the remotest of mystics cannot always remain aloof from the troubles that plague his world. Economic opportunism has accrued unprecedented wealth and power through the routine plundering of anything in its path. Suddenly it finds itself caught in a cowardly dilemma – what once seemed only a casual coincidence turns out to be an embedded truth: its very continuance altogether depends upon artificially induced strife and suffering. Corporate thugs are normally a rather stupid lot who until recently never fully appreciated the game they were playing and have only rarely enjoyed the carte blanche sanction of government. With the help of hired tutors they have finally figured it all out so the economics of disaster are suddenly being perpetrated everywhere with extreme deliberation. Since the 1970’s alone roughly one third of all wildlife on Earth has been pushed to extinction with human populations falling hard on its heels, including whole nations and many millions of people. Synchronous to this stepped-up onslaught against non-essential life forms everywhere has come the systematic dismantling of individual rights and freedoms – the one thing they seem to fear above all others. Armageddon is upon us here and now and its architects are engineering it from the highest levels on down. In the face of this long anticipated evil we are left stunned and disbelieving, while a callous criminal elite pursues its genocidal agenda with murderous precision. I needn’t invent such facts as these. No sane person would believe them if I did.
It appears that the story of humankind’s inalienable birthright must be told sooner than later, whether people are ready to hear it or not. I am, in many respects, reticent to reveal it in advance of its perfected mastery, though it is physically impossible to exploit it for foul purposes. If I do not disclose these facts, there exists a very real possibility that they will fail to be understood in time to make a positive difference of any kind. I also appreciate that many people have been haphazardly seeking out this cosmological master key without necessarily understanding its form. This creates an additional incentive for me to come forward, since I have always felt that a subject matter of this magnitude should be dealt with by as many good minds as could be drawn into it and not be left to be sorted out in tortured isolation. Although it has been the habit of Hermetic Alchemists to keep their esoteric secrets to themselves, there comes a time when even reasonable habits must give way to other prudence. We have entered into the Information Age carrying a great deal of excess baggage.There are players in this drama who have dug their heels in hard against any prospect of conscious evolution, who would (if they could) usher in a great Dark Age instead. In the face of such insidious aggressions, an enhanced self-awareness is inevitably one’s best (and perhaps only) possible defense.
It would be an easy matter for me to play to the popular media in ways it both expects and (more often) demands. I could easily claim to have received the following cosmological blueprint in a dream or a vision or via some alien intelligence from a distant galaxy or any one of a thousand other childish scenarios aimed at bolstering my credibility with those who are unable or unwilling to scrutinize ideas according to their intrinsic merits. There would even be a certain amount of truth in this since I have drawn to powerful spiritual forces in the development of this technology that have almost certainly assisted me in unseen ways. But the bottom line is that what I have arrived at I have arrived at the hard way, through asking a lot of very difficult questions and insisting upon their answers, by taking the risks that needed to be taken and adhering to the rules that needed to be adhered to. The end result is a model of transcendent reality that hides from nothing and has no fear of being scrutinized, built upon falsifiable proofs where other models are built upon hearsay and hand-me-down traditions long ago stripped clean of anything so menial as deductive reasoning.
While the star-theory of human evolutionary potential has actually been with us for a very long time (albeit masked in diverse ways), there has never been a comprehensive accounting of the anatomical properties that could render this anything more than a metaphorical allusion. This manual plugs that fatal gap and goes on to outline a concise methodology of star-body distillation and assimilation. Its value will not diminish over time and no other teaching on earth trumps it. It lays out a comprehensive visualization technique for realizing the Body of Light at levels never before attempted in such a comprehensive manner. It defines what the human *star* is and how it can be brought to bear in human experience on a daily basis. It affords all human beings a tangible model of perfection, which can be seized upon both intellectually and physically. It provides a detailed systemic for analyzing and simulating that supreme perfection, such that all rational people will have some concrete way of confronting it devoid of internal contradictions. It combines *right thinking* with *right action* to such a high degree that it will at first seem utterly impossible to achieve, yet over time will be seen to be so profoundly accessible as to completely overwhelm all other concerns and hesitations. It is a form of meditation principle and practice expressly tailored to the here-and-now, whose immediate relevance to the human condition can be expected to last indefinitely.
The model presented in this manual is not in conflict; neither with itself nor any other viable reality construct of any kind. Its task is to define humankind on a universal scale and nothing less. It will eventually be vindicated as the Philosopher’s Stone, a direct emanation of the wisdom of antiquity come full circle into the present to pave a solid pathway to the future of humankind. Its parallels are identifiable everywhere one might happen to look, yet nowhere is its exact form anywhere to be found. It is the product – not only of a single lifetime – but many generations of intensive self-inspection, stretching all the way back to the roots of civilization, as we know it. It amounts to an expert distillation of the world’s store of esoteric wisdom. It requires no specialized belief system to explore its tenets and is inherently opposed to none.
Since the main objective of this manual is to outline a course of action, it is necessary to trim out a great deal of background information that would render it both cumbersome and intimidating to most readers. So dynamic is this metaphysical synthesis that there is hardly a scrap of spiritual or physical knowledge anywhere to be found that does not lend support to its assertions. Because of the relative urgency surrounding its immediate application, I have opted to minimize supportive arguments and focus primarily on the methodology itself. That is the most important thing to be conveyed, offering readers the surest practical guide with the least conceptual encumbrances. Depending upon how it is received, other books may follow that delve more deeply into underscoring mysteries of many kinds. But a book of this kind can be expected to catch the world off its guard. It may be some time before people begin asking the kinds of questions that should be asked of so bold a model of reality as this one. This immediate draft goes out to those who may have already acquired the scrutinizing skills to recognize its worth with a minimum of tutorial embellishment.
The *Body of Light*is a generic term pertaining to the notion of an *etheric* body (and bodies) that is thought to exist in tangent to the physical body itself. Similar in concept to the rings of a rainbow, the idea is that the physical body, as we know it, is actually only the lowest rung in a lattice network of bodies descending from the Highest (subtlest) to the Lowest (coursest). Various *models* of this extended anatomical network of bodies have been asserted over time, some asserting as few as 3, others as many as 7 or more grand divisions within this overall Body of Light framework. At the time of this writing, if you run a search on Wikipedia on the Body of Light you will come upon a kind of misinformation that has done enormous damage to the correct understanding (and productive discussion) of the Body of Light as it has been asserted since the dawn of history by many different cultures in many different ways. While it is true that Thelema has its own rendition(s) of this ancient metaphysical thesis, any knowledgable Thelemite will be able to tell you that this is drawn primarily from Golden Dawn teachings, which themselves are largely drawn from traditional and hermetic qabbalah sources. There is in fact no such thing as a uniquely Thelemic Body of Light standard (though there is, in fact, a new model to be weighed, which I will come to presently). A more responsible contemporary treatise on the Body of Light in western magickal tradition can be found in Mark Stavish’s condensed essay The Body of Light in the Western Esoteric Tradition.
This book introduces a new way of looking at (and working with) the Body of Light, through the practice of Mutational Alchemy with special attention to Abrahadabra. It has had a respectable trial period of over 40 years at this writing and still brings me new insights and startling phenomena on a regular basis. In the language of the YiJing the time has come to make the matter known at the court of the King and you, dear reader, are the King.
What first compelled me to try the strategy I will be revealing is beyond any rational understanding I can pinpoint but what kept me going back for more was simply that it worked so incredibly well. While I had been taught to treat Abrahadabra as an internal property of the Tree of Life I began being haunted by the idea that the reverse might actually be the wiser course of action, viewing Abrahadabra as the first manifestation of both mind and matter to which the Tree of Life was actually a subset, and thus an internal property of Abrahadabra itself. It occurred to me that so many complex questions might find practical solutions that it was worth the gamble even if it did not finally pay off in the end. But instead it has paid off hundreds of times better than I could ever have imagined at the start.
What draws me to a magickal philosophy is much easier to sort out since I come from a syncretic persuasion quite naturally and found magick’s tendency to blend with many schools of thought perfectly suited to my own natural inclinations. Approaching magick from a Taoist perspective as I did I found it to be a seamless transition, particularly regarding the Great Work alongside magickal notions of perfection.
The pursuit of perfection underscores every major religion on earth, yet perfection has virtually never been defined in a way that is pragmatically sensible from a logical point of view. It is only in the years following the end of World War II that such a definition might even have been a practical possibility, since prior to this it would never have been thought possible that humankind might come to threaten the balance of Nature itself on a global scale. Now we know differently and as I sit here hammering out this book in 2015 the discussion of perfection takes on the question of sustainability more than at any time in human history. Avoiding the consequences of global warming would amount to a practical application of perfection! Reversing the damage done to our environment and restoring Nature’s rich bounty would amount to a caliber of perfection requiring a miraculous change of events in human behavior, not at all likely to occur. Suddenly perfection is adopting a very real and a very urgent definition.
Religion, generally, has maintained a pretty dismal view of Earth, portraying it over and over again as something to be disparaged and escaped. Called the Realm of Exploitation, Christianity, Islam, Vedic Hinduism and Buddhism have portrayed Earth as a place of unspeakable suffering, the only solution of which was either to reject it altogether as a kind of throwaway world or to quit the cycle of birth and rebirth that draws us to it time and time again. While not universally viewed in this way in Judaism, distortional spin-off religions have generally followed suit with this view of the world so that perfection has been viewed as a matter of successfully escaping its clutches by one means or another. So long as Earth is viewed as the enemy of perfection there is very little chance of including it in any plans that share an imagined perfection with the Earth itself. If it turns out that either Heaven or Hell are internal states and not external places then the possibility of realizing Heaven on Earth is decidedly disadvantaged by this grim outlook of Earth.
The most noteworthy exception to this anti-earth attitude is Qabbalah which defines Earth simply as Kingdom and does not assign characteristics of good or evil to it. Taoist Yin/Yang philosophy also does not succumb to this notion of an inherently evil Earth. Here Earth is viewed as the Yin Principle co-creating with Heaven as the Yang. Tantric Hinduism, with its emphasis on the balancing of opposites, does not hold with the idea that Earth must be subdued in order for Heaven to prevail. Heaven out of balance is just as detrimental to our collective well being as Earth run amok, so this notion of Earth as an inherently bad place is not universally held to but has become a kind of fetish among the proponents of apocalypse for whom the path to perfection has become synonymous with the suppression of Earth. The exaltation of Life, Light, Love and Liberty are viewed as universal qualities generated internally where man himself is the right and proper focus of this miraculous attainment. The thing for us to stay attuned to is the how with respect to the pursuit of perfection. Thus Pythagoras advocates To Know Thyself as the root of philosophical inquiry. Without a keen sense of who we are on a cosmic scale we cannot hope to achieve a balancing of opposites that has any enduring meaning.
This means staying abreast of new knowledge that emerges and constantly updating our esoteric knowledge to attune itself to exoteric knowledge about ourselves and our environments. This is why the creation of maps plays such an important role in the ongoing pursuit of perfection. The cross-referencing of ancient maps with modern knowledge yields new maps better geared to the knowledge we have on tap - knowledge that is bought and paid for through the dedicated labors of our best minds over extended periods of time. These new maps put us in a position of strength pertaining to the ancient goals which do not really change so much in themselves. Rather, what changes are the strategies which our new maps reveal.
The following chart demonstrates how the four bigrams (two line structures) pair against guanine (G), cytosine (C), thymine (U) and adenine (A) to give us a new and revolutionary system of 64 hexagrams that 5,000 years of Chinese assignments could not have given us. This eventually leads us to a new kind of binary hexagrams, the possibilities of which are as startling as they are universal.
This next chart redefines the Lo Shu diagram with its 9 ternary bigrams that gives us the elemental properties of its 9 internal chambers. This has never been accomplished before until now and would not be possible without the syncretic nature of Mutational Alchemy. Staying abreast of all available knowledge at our disposals is what Qabbalah is all about.
Qabalistic philosophy is inherently syncretic in nature which puts more on its plate than most since it is constantly cross-referencing everything that comes before its view. This is the only way that important new knowledge can be identified and adjusted. In 1953 a body of new knowledge was introduced that will forever change the way we look at geomantic magick.
Franklin, Watson and Crick and their publication of the DNA code language was not intended to advance the state of 21st century alchemy but clearly does so notwithstanding. The binary nature of the YiJing had already been identified in the 1600’s by Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz but what could not have been known was the stunning similarities between the YiJing and DNA. Several important books and dozens of scholastic articles have been written on this subject since but my purpose here is to hyphenate how unexpected breakthroughs in scientific understandings can radically impact our sense of spirituality and perfection.
For an informed qabbalist, the Tree of Life is divided into 32 Paths of Wisdom. The 64 binary hexagrams have always been paired into 32 complementary opposites. Once we know that the 64 DNA templates are a direct parallel to the traditional 64 YiJing hexagrams, we only need some way to align the hexagrams to the Tree of Life to give us a map sufficient to assert perfection against the Tree. We also need a word or method to exercise this assertion. It happens that Mutational Alchemy answers to all of these issues and more. Thus we have every good reason for a high level of confidence that Mutational Alchemy puts us squarely on the road to Perfection, though in truth there are still certain mysterious elements lacking. These have to do with the external environment, a very difficult thing to control with exact precision. This is one of the reasons some practitioners confine their work to special caves deemed suitable for visualization work. Others establish and maintain temple space reserved for visualization practice. Though not 100% crucial, controlling one’s external environment is a routine protocol in the ongoing pursuit of perfection. We need more capable individuals working along lines that can actually succeed instead of wasting their lives away on fantasy projections which cannot fulfill their needs, or following in the footsteps of frauds and dinosaurs who have no earthly idea where perfection lies or how it can be secured.
It was necessary for me to forge a completely new path set cleanly apart from all occult organizations, religions and orders, taking only the essentials from certain scholars and leaving the rest of their followers to consort with each other as they wished, which at all times appeared to have nothing to do with my aims and interests. Even though Mutational Alchemy contains much thesis work on the magickal formula of Abrahadabra which is touted as the word of the Aeon for Thelema, we have little to do with modern broader Thelemic discussion. Nothing against *thelema* except perhaps for the fact that Crowley seems intent on trading religion for religion and thus only achieves lip-service to the axiom *the method of science – the aim of religion*. The *method of science* demands that we work from falsifiable models and test those models meticulously for their qualitative & quantitative yields. moreover, I see a lot of *thelemites* basically parroting what they have read and seen others do, the same as most religious affiliations. That really wasn’t the point of Crowley’s work which was aimed hard at individuals developing the tools and skills required to advance their own magickal destinies. I think it’s something of a numbers game though like with most new approaches to anything, most will only get the *packaging* and content themselves with going along with the crowd. Only a relative few will recognize the underpinning principles at play and thereby take the next logical steps in an unfolding *praeter-humanism* inclusive of all human beings on a global scale.
It used to bug me more than it does now. I used to say (typically American) things like *those who call us *thelemites* are liable to catch a brick across their teeth!* because i really cannot condone the whole *simon-says* approach to Completion. it creates unnecessary obstacles…more useless cliques shoving their embarrassing brand of self-righteousness at the rest of us…some very hard-working people who can never seem to get a word in edgewise for all the carnival hype surrounding the latest esoteric *fad* etc. But like I said – it’s a numbers game and these things will be the way they are whether it upsets me personally or not. best to take it all in stride and keep on pumping out the jams…
There are many layers to the Mutational Alchemy doctrine & subsequent methodology…sometimes it seems virtually infinite and indeed, it may well be. So we get through a few doors and a few more will open and this process seems to just keep on going. I’ve been tracking this thing for over 40 years and still uncover new things all the time! After awhile you get enough under your belt that you become confident to confront and grapple with various limitations and/or apparent shortcomings – whether at the theoretical level or at the level of implementation where there exist a number of unknown factors preventing us from getting the furthest possible advantage from these tools that we should be getting all the time. That’s one of the real distinguishing characteristics of Mutational Alchemy stuff…it’s self scrutinizing and remarkably self-correcting…so that acknowledging weak areas only ever leads to a more advanced understanding of synergistic alchemy.
It behooves us in that case to always be completely honest with ourselves regarding what is working vs what is not. This model is completely unafraid of any such probing…but we are dealing with a bona fide physics here and science – (even super-science) – has no special regard for persons. Laws and principles are what they are and not other so when we get things right everything works perfectly. When we take a wrong turn things generally will still work but not as perfectly as we may want. The gradual perfecting of all these little details is a vital part of the manifestation process as a whole. It unfolds like a flower, outer petals revealing inner petals expanding fractally in all directions.
Always be aware of objective reality when encountering statements of any kind in alchemical studies, especially absolutisms. Reality is ever looming, and can kick you in the teeth harder than you’d like if you’re not willing to face it. Dogmatic principles and other all-to-human constructs turn to ash within nanoseconds within the environments this praxis is capable of catapulting you into. Although being thrown into the outer *spheres* is enjoyable and desirable for any intrepid alchemists, what is not desirable is finding one self ill-prepared, burdened with shitty human constructs and falsehoods, in the face of *reality*. Dealing with this kind of situation, while its pounding down the synapses of your brain during an exotic *episode*, is not fun. It can certainly lead you down the road towards the grim task of dispensing with the awful remnants of the current, diseased human meta, but this is not how one would normally wish to spend their time and there is a real danger of being thrown off track. There are many examples out there of individuals being disturbed so much by what they experience that they are put off magickal practice altogether, so preparation is advisable. Still, it is difficult to impossible to know everything about yourself. You don’t know what you don’t know. Each and every little axiom, quip, technique and ritual taught in this manual are meant to get you as far out into the deep end of the pool *with help* as possible, but in the end it’s going to be up to you to swim out across the pool.
It’s important as Mutational Alchemists that we keep one foot in the real world. If you feel like you’re going off the deep end and getting to lost or confused in the abstract for comfort, take a step back, gently. Anything that is *real* is not going to get scared off by any kind of balanced integration and cautious appraisal. It can seem that way in the moment, but this is, more often than not, falsehood speaking. It needs to be banished. I am reminded of this whenever I’m dealing with more sensitive individuals, as there is a tradeoff between sensitivity and adequate grounding that must be addressed.
Very often in our field of work, fantasy is presented as fact, and the most basic precautions and knowledge go unheeded. These types of people often feed off of each other’s fearful delusions and paranoia. Don’t follow in the footsteps of people who are too scared to face their own fragile constructs. Ours will not fall apart on you, whiles theirs often will. They may be broken and scarred and have every good reason for being a neurotic basket case, but while it’s okay to pity them, you should not allow them to drag you and your practice down into the dirt with them. Misery loves company.
A little digging can reveal a farce, if you’re not sure about what you are being told. It’s better to find out in one’s library than in the field, when you’re armpit-deep in trouble, that the banishing technique you learned was completely ineffective and based on inadequate trials and faulty knowledge or assumptions. Persons will argue with you all day long about their love for their special snowflake methodologies, but if physics doesn’t agree with their imagination there isn’t a whole lot imagination, as powerful as it is, can do for their special brand of dumbassery. This is particularly true for banishing and grounding techniques. Only use those methods which have proven to work out in the field. You should be testing every exercise we give you even. We have not and will never ask you to trust something on blind faith. There is a time and a place for that, but finding your bearings with Abrahadabra and Mutational Alchhemy has never required a leap of faith. The results are self-evident and readily available to anyone who can trace lines and dedicate five or ten minutes a day to the exercises - all of which have been available to the public on Abrahadabra.com for more than a decade, as of the time of this writing.
When you are training, rely on the methods that have been taught as fundamentals by The Abrahadabra Institute, especially during any crises that may emerge. You *should* see instant success if you are lucky enough to encounter any kind of *problem*. Sometimes I feel like I should warn people that the TwinStar likes to *show off* its good nature and its efficacy by creating little ripples in your life where it can make itself known. If this occurs it should be considered a very good sign indeed.
I am not saying this to scare you. It is a very high and sacred art with foundations having been practiced in various cultures around the world, notably by the followers of Pythagoras as well as (to some extent) the Ancient (anonymous) Chinese Sages. These techniques have been used in real crisis though and they do in fact work. There is an intelligence behind this study and powerful thread of continuity rational types will pick up on immediately. I do not mean that you should use these tactics instead of going to a hospital. Our *reality* includes the *fact* that hospitals are a part of reality for good reasons. We embrace all of science and the medical community. As faulty as they may be, it’s what we have on this planet, and it’s high time alchemists started acting like they are a part of science and medicine once more. After all, our predecessors gave birth to it. So don’t run the TwinStar if you need to go to the hospital for any reason. You may do these practices in addition to practical ideas - but don’t use Mutational Alchemy as an excuse to escape from reality. This is the wrong kind of magick for you if that’s what you’re after. For those not into escaping reality, we have a lot to teach you about how to manifest control, grace and intelligence into your life, but for now, the basics of navigating everyday existence are what is important. The big stuff happens afterwards.
It is almost inevitable you’ll run into some turbulence in your life. The tools The Abrahadabra Institute is supposed to teach you are taught to you for a reason. They are the best way to guard against problems and they minimize risk. Life is not 100% risk free, and just as not everything is safe screwing in a lightbulb, there are dangers to the work we undertake in the occult. But mark my words, you would have a better chance here at Abrahadabra than in any other alchemical school of thought in the world.
We don’t have any fancy initiations or vows to bind you to us or any other entity except for yourself. This isn’t a lodge, school or coven that requires blind obedience nor are we in competition with any other occult organization. The techniques we teach are for the whole human species, and Man is very far behind indeed. I don’t have time to play around with politics in other organizations and so you won’t be required to be *exclusive*, however other “covens” probably won’t feel the same way in all cases. That be said we are superior to every other organization, religious, occult or otherwise, and are not afraid to state that, obviously. We teach the Royal Art of Tetragrammaton itself, and it is nothing less than the evolutionary imperative of Man that interests us. Therefore to say that we are somehow in competition with *lesser* organizations is to say nothing at all unless they are set against Man somehow. It isn’t *encouraged* to study with other organizations as I have found most of them to be complete frauds during the time in which I was a seeker, most notably with the OTO. This does not mean everyone involved with such organizations are misguided and have nothing to say, but in general the doctrines of these institutions have stagnated to the point where there is not point in calling themselves “occult” anything. One of the biggest problems in these institutions is the complete lack of support for researchers and explorers, upon whose shoulders Hermeticism would not exist at all.
Initiation exercises and rituals may be held as much as we should see fit, if it is of the interest of participants. This freedom to participate or not rubs some people the wrong way, as if they want to be *controlled*. Those people are best left joining other organizations. We need free, independent thinkers who can handle steering their own course through life and through The Abrahadabra Institute’s material and methodology.
I do not believe our esoteric choices today are limited to an east vs west set of options. That might have been true in the past but we are rapidly evolving into a very different kind of world today in which the east & west, north and south are all beginning to merge into a global synthesis in part through the advent of science and technology but also as a result of media and education. This *third option* is the one we really want to keep our eyes on as this is where the greatest potential is likely to unfold...so we don't want to limit ourselves to an east vs west paradigm in the face of that.
A B R A H A D A B R A
The Anatomy of the Body of Light
Volume I: Philosophical and Metaphysical Overview of Mutational Alchemy and Abrahadabra
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Dedicated to the Tetractys of the Decad,
Without whose guidance these mysteries would not have been found,
Or if observed, would not have been comprehended
and Izi Ningishzidda
Note: I havn't had time to fill in all of the table of contents - Izi
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Volume I
Philosophical and Metaphysical Overview of Mutational Alchemy and Abrahadabra
First Principles
A Brief Word on Syncretism
Western Metaphysics
Hermeticism and Hermetic Qabbala
Adam Kadmon
Pythagoreanism
Alchemy
Eastern Metaphysics
The Eight Limbs of Yoga
The Far East
Tantricism
Global Trends in the Nu Aeon
Abrahadabra
The Great Work
Sigil
Active Scrying
Dialecticism, Doubt and Right Thinking
Entheogens
Shadowism/LHP
Avante-Garde
War Meditation, Action and Raising Energy
Evocation and Invocation
What to Expect
Telekinesis
Telepathy
Visio Praeterem (Paranormal Vision)
Paranormal Sounds, Voices
Miracles
Sigil
On the Importance of Memorization
Volume II
The Elements
Introduction
Bigrams, and the Constitution of an Element
The Three Elements
The Four Elements and the Four Elemental Worlds
The Rational Ordering of the Elements in Mutational Alchemy
The Nature of the Tree and Nothing
Akasha
Fire
Air
Earth
The Sephira
[...]
Volume III
Alchemical Projection
Volume IV
Mutational Alchemy: Code
Mathematical Coherence
The Elemental Lo Shu, or, The Celestial Lo Shu, called Srid Pa Ho
Some Revealing Lo Shu Square Arrangements
The Great Seal of Saturn and the Lo Shu Square’s Flying Star Paths
The Tetractys of the Decad and the Lo Shu Square
The Qabbalah of 9 Chambers
The Proximity Principle: Mutational Alchemy Tree of Life Path Corrections
Mutational Alchemy Tree of Life Path Corrections
Regarding the Work of Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm
Geomathematical Proximity
Proximity Principle: Hebrew Letters/Numbers:Eliphas Levi’s great idea…
Aleister Crowley’s Inroads…
Creating Tables of Attributes Correcting Attribution Errors
Book of Thoth: Atu Corrections
Book of Thoth: Alchemical Assignments
The Hidden Diamond: An Unexamined Bridge to Star Consciousness
The Generic Tree of Life
Historical Oversight
The Qabbalistic Tree of Life
A Map of Manifest Macrocosm
The Alchemical Breakdown
The Four Elemental Worlds
The 16 Hidden Paths
The Complete Tree of Life: Using the Hidden Diamond
The Word of Perfection
The TwinStar
The Tetractys & The Tree of Life
Crunching the Numbers
Qabbalistic Lightning Bolts
TwinStar Numerations
Putting it All Together
Centering & Grounding
Akasha, Mezla, Chi, Shakti, etc...
A Word About the Flower of Life
Volume V
Mutational Alchemy: Fields
Volume VI
Completion
Volume VII
Summation
Preface
The manual that follows is unique and mysterious. There is nothing like it anywhere in the world, or I would not be compiling it at this time. Its subject matter is so austere and people so apparently oblivious of its principles that I had long ago resigned myself to unraveling its mysteries on my own initiative. There has always seemed to me to be very little point in attempting to solicit any support for this work, since it has been my experience that the very same people and institutions who are the first to tout the importance of new ideas are also the first to undermine them. Finding no organizations I could form any useful alliance with anyway, I resolved that any sufficiently important body of original metaphysical research would have little choice but to evolve by stealth. I have subsequently contented myself with being a free agent exploring a noble model on its own merits, with no social obligations attached.
The situation has changed. Even the remotest of mystics cannot always remain aloof from the troubles that plague his world. Economic opportunism has accrued unprecedented wealth and power through the routine plundering of anything in its path. Suddenly it finds itself caught in a cowardly dilemma – what once seemed only a casual coincidence turns out to be an embedded truth: its very continuance altogether depends upon artificially induced strife and suffering. Corporate thugs are normally a rather stupid lot who until recently never fully appreciated the game they were playing and have only rarely enjoyed the carte blanche sanction of government. With the help of hired tutors they have finally figured it all out so the economics of disaster are suddenly being perpetrated everywhere with extreme deliberation. Since the 1970’s alone roughly one third of all wildlife on Earth has been pushed to extinction with human populations falling hard on its heels, including whole nations and many millions of people. Synchronous to this stepped-up onslaught against non-essential life forms everywhere has come the systematic dismantling of individual rights and freedoms – the one thing they seem to fear above all others. Armageddon is upon us here and now and its architects are engineering it from the highest levels on down. In the face of this long anticipated evil we are left stunned and disbelieving, while a callous criminal elite pursues its genocidal agenda with murderous precision. I needn’t invent such facts as these. No sane person would believe them if I did.
It appears that the story of humankind’s inalienable birthright must be told sooner than later, whether people are ready to hear it or not. I am, in many respects, reticent to reveal it in advance of its perfected mastery, though it is physically impossible to exploit it for foul purposes. If I do not disclose these facts, there exists a very real possibility that they will fail to be understood in time to make a positive difference of any kind. I also appreciate that many people have been haphazardly seeking out this cosmological master key without necessarily understanding its form. This creates an additional incentive for me to come forward, since I have always felt that a subject matter of this magnitude should be dealt with by as many good minds as could be drawn into it and not be left to be sorted out in tortured isolation. Although it has been the habit of Hermetic Alchemists to keep their esoteric secrets to themselves, there comes a time when even reasonable habits must give way to other prudence. We have entered into the Information Age carrying a great deal of excess baggage.There are players in this drama who have dug their heels in hard against any prospect of conscious evolution, who would (if they could) usher in a great Dark Age instead. In the face of such insidious aggressions, an enhanced self-awareness is inevitably one’s best (and perhaps only) possible defense.
It would be an easy matter for me to play to the popular media in ways it both expects and (more often) demands. I could easily claim to have received the following cosmological blueprint in a dream or a vision or via some alien intelligence from a distant galaxy or any one of a thousand other childish scenarios aimed at bolstering my credibility with those who are unable or unwilling to scrutinize ideas according to their intrinsic merits. There would even be a certain amount of truth in this since I have drawn to powerful spiritual forces in the development of this technology that have almost certainly assisted me in unseen ways. But the bottom line is that what I have arrived at I have arrived at the hard way, through asking a lot of very difficult questions and insisting upon their answers, by taking the risks that needed to be taken and adhering to the rules that needed to be adhered to. The end result is a model of transcendent reality that hides from nothing and has no fear of being scrutinized, built upon falsifiable proofs where other models are built upon hearsay and hand-me-down traditions long ago stripped clean of anything so menial as deductive reasoning.
While the star-theory of human evolutionary potential has actually been with us for a very long time (albeit masked in diverse ways), there has never been a comprehensive accounting of the anatomical properties that could render this anything more than a metaphorical allusion. This manual plugs that fatal gap and goes on to outline a concise methodology of star-body distillation and assimilation. Its value will not diminish over time and no other teaching on earth trumps it. It lays out a comprehensive visualization technique for realizing the Body of Light at levels never before attempted in such a comprehensive manner. It defines what the human *star* is and how it can be brought to bear in human experience on a daily basis. It affords all human beings a tangible model of perfection, which can be seized upon both intellectually and physically. It provides a detailed systemic for analyzing and simulating that supreme perfection, such that all rational people will have some concrete way of confronting it devoid of internal contradictions. It combines *right thinking* with *right action* to such a high degree that it will at first seem utterly impossible to achieve, yet over time will be seen to be so profoundly accessible as to completely overwhelm all other concerns and hesitations. It is a form of meditation principle and practice expressly tailored to the here-and-now, whose immediate relevance to the human condition can be expected to last indefinitely.
The model presented in this manual is not in conflict; neither with itself nor any other viable reality construct of any kind. Its task is to define humankind on a universal scale and nothing less. It will eventually be vindicated as the Philosopher’s Stone, a direct emanation of the wisdom of antiquity come full circle into the present to pave a solid pathway to the future of humankind. Its parallels are identifiable everywhere one might happen to look, yet nowhere is its exact form anywhere to be found. It is the product – not only of a single lifetime – but many generations of intensive self-inspection, stretching all the way back to the roots of civilization, as we know it. It amounts to an expert distillation of the world’s store of esoteric wisdom. It requires no specialized belief system to explore its tenets and is inherently opposed to none.
Since the main objective of this manual is to outline a course of action, it is necessary to trim out a great deal of background information that would render it both cumbersome and intimidating to most readers. So dynamic is this metaphysical synthesis that there is hardly a scrap of spiritual or physical knowledge anywhere to be found that does not lend support to its assertions. Because of the relative urgency surrounding its immediate application, I have opted to minimize supportive arguments and focus primarily on the methodology itself. That is the most important thing to be conveyed, offering readers the surest practical guide with the least conceptual encumbrances. Depending upon how it is received, other books may follow that delve more deeply into underscoring mysteries of many kinds. But a book of this kind can be expected to catch the world off its guard. It may be some time before people begin asking the kinds of questions that should be asked of so bold a model of reality as this one. This immediate draft goes out to those who may have already acquired the scrutinizing skills to recognize its worth with a minimum of tutorial embellishment.
The *Body of Light*is a generic term pertaining to the notion of an *etheric* body (and bodies) that is thought to exist in tangent to the physical body itself. Similar in concept to the rings of a rainbow, the idea is that the physical body, as we know it, is actually only the lowest rung in a lattice network of bodies descending from the Highest (subtlest) to the Lowest (coursest). Various *models* of this extended anatomical network of bodies have been asserted over time, some asserting as few as 3, others as many as 7 or more grand divisions within this overall Body of Light framework. At the time of this writing, if you run a search on Wikipedia on the Body of Light you will come upon a kind of misinformation that has done enormous damage to the correct understanding (and productive discussion) of the Body of Light as it has been asserted since the dawn of history by many different cultures in many different ways. While it is true that Thelema has its own rendition(s) of this ancient metaphysical thesis, any knowledgable Thelemite will be able to tell you that this is drawn primarily from Golden Dawn teachings, which themselves are largely drawn from traditional and hermetic qabbalah sources. There is in fact no such thing as a uniquely Thelemic Body of Light standard (though there is, in fact, a new model to be weighed, which I will come to presently). A more responsible contemporary treatise on the Body of Light in western magickal tradition can be found in Mark Stavish’s condensed essay The Body of Light in the Western Esoteric Tradition.
This book introduces a new way of looking at (and working with) the Body of Light, through the practice of Mutational Alchemy with special attention to Abrahadabra. It has had a respectable trial period of over 40 years at this writing and still brings me new insights and startling phenomena on a regular basis. In the language of the YiJing the time has come to make the matter known at the court of the King and you, dear reader, are the King.
What first compelled me to try the strategy I will be revealing is beyond any rational understanding I can pinpoint but what kept me going back for more was simply that it worked so incredibly well. While I had been taught to treat Abrahadabra as an internal property of the Tree of Life I began being haunted by the idea that the reverse might actually be the wiser course of action, viewing Abrahadabra as the first manifestation of both mind and matter to which the Tree of Life was actually a subset, and thus an internal property of Abrahadabra itself. It occurred to me that so many complex questions might find practical solutions that it was worth the gamble even if it did not finally pay off in the end. But instead it has paid off hundreds of times better than I could ever have imagined at the start.
What draws me to a magickal philosophy is much easier to sort out since I come from a syncretic persuasion quite naturally and found magick’s tendency to blend with many schools of thought perfectly suited to my own natural inclinations. Approaching magick from a Taoist perspective as I did I found it to be a seamless transition, particularly regarding the Great Work alongside magickal notions of perfection.
The pursuit of perfection underscores every major religion on earth, yet perfection has virtually never been defined in a way that is pragmatically sensible from a logical point of view. It is only in the years following the end of World War II that such a definition might even have been a practical possibility, since prior to this it would never have been thought possible that humankind might come to threaten the balance of Nature itself on a global scale. Now we know differently and as I sit here hammering out this book in 2015 the discussion of perfection takes on the question of sustainability more than at any time in human history. Avoiding the consequences of global warming would amount to a practical application of perfection! Reversing the damage done to our environment and restoring Nature’s rich bounty would amount to a caliber of perfection requiring a miraculous change of events in human behavior, not at all likely to occur. Suddenly perfection is adopting a very real and a very urgent definition.
Religion, generally, has maintained a pretty dismal view of Earth, portraying it over and over again as something to be disparaged and escaped. Called the Realm of Exploitation, Christianity, Islam, Vedic Hinduism and Buddhism have portrayed Earth as a place of unspeakable suffering, the only solution of which was either to reject it altogether as a kind of throwaway world or to quit the cycle of birth and rebirth that draws us to it time and time again. While not universally viewed in this way in Judaism, distortional spin-off religions have generally followed suit with this view of the world so that perfection has been viewed as a matter of successfully escaping its clutches by one means or another. So long as Earth is viewed as the enemy of perfection there is very little chance of including it in any plans that share an imagined perfection with the Earth itself. If it turns out that either Heaven or Hell are internal states and not external places then the possibility of realizing Heaven on Earth is decidedly disadvantaged by this grim outlook of Earth.
The most noteworthy exception to this anti-earth attitude is Qabbalah which defines Earth simply as Kingdom and does not assign characteristics of good or evil to it. Taoist Yin/Yang philosophy also does not succumb to this notion of an inherently evil Earth. Here Earth is viewed as the Yin Principle co-creating with Heaven as the Yang. Tantric Hinduism, with its emphasis on the balancing of opposites, does not hold with the idea that Earth must be subdued in order for Heaven to prevail. Heaven out of balance is just as detrimental to our collective well being as Earth run amok, so this notion of Earth as an inherently bad place is not universally held to but has become a kind of fetish among the proponents of apocalypse for whom the path to perfection has become synonymous with the suppression of Earth. The exaltation of Life, Light, Love and Liberty are viewed as universal qualities generated internally where man himself is the right and proper focus of this miraculous attainment. The thing for us to stay attuned to is the how with respect to the pursuit of perfection. Thus Pythagoras advocates To Know Thyself as the root of philosophical inquiry. Without a keen sense of who we are on a cosmic scale we cannot hope to achieve a balancing of opposites that has any enduring meaning.
This means staying abreast of new knowledge that emerges and constantly updating our esoteric knowledge to attune itself to exoteric knowledge about ourselves and our environments. This is why the creation of maps plays such an important role in the ongoing pursuit of perfection. The cross-referencing of ancient maps with modern knowledge yields new maps better geared to the knowledge we have on tap - knowledge that is bought and paid for through the dedicated labors of our best minds over extended periods of time. These new maps put us in a position of strength pertaining to the ancient goals which do not really change so much in themselves. Rather, what changes are the strategies which our new maps reveal.
The following chart demonstrates how the four bigrams (two line structures) pair against guanine (G), cytosine (C), thymine (U) and adenine (A) to give us a new and revolutionary system of 64 hexagrams that 5,000 years of Chinese assignments could not have given us. This eventually leads us to a new kind of binary hexagrams, the possibilities of which are as startling as they are universal.
This next chart redefines the Lo Shu diagram with its 9 ternary bigrams that gives us the elemental properties of its 9 internal chambers. This has never been accomplished before until now and would not be possible without the syncretic nature of Mutational Alchemy. Staying abreast of all available knowledge at our disposals is what Qabbalah is all about.
Qabalistic philosophy is inherently syncretic in nature which puts more on its plate than most since it is constantly cross-referencing everything that comes before its view. This is the only way that important new knowledge can be identified and adjusted. In 1953 a body of new knowledge was introduced that will forever change the way we look at geomantic magick.
Franklin, Watson and Crick and their publication of the DNA code language was not intended to advance the state of 21st century alchemy but clearly does so notwithstanding. The binary nature of the YiJing had already been identified in the 1600’s by Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz but what could not have been known was the stunning similarities between the YiJing and DNA. Several important books and dozens of scholastic articles have been written on this subject since but my purpose here is to hyphenate how unexpected breakthroughs in scientific understandings can radically impact our sense of spirituality and perfection.
For an informed qabbalist, the Tree of Life is divided into 32 Paths of Wisdom. The 64 binary hexagrams have always been paired into 32 complementary opposites. Once we know that the 64 DNA templates are a direct parallel to the traditional 64 YiJing hexagrams, we only need some way to align the hexagrams to the Tree of Life to give us a map sufficient to assert perfection against the Tree. We also need a word or method to exercise this assertion. It happens that Mutational Alchemy answers to all of these issues and more. Thus we have every good reason for a high level of confidence that Mutational Alchemy puts us squarely on the road to Perfection, though in truth there are still certain mysterious elements lacking. These have to do with the external environment, a very difficult thing to control with exact precision. This is one of the reasons some practitioners confine their work to special caves deemed suitable for visualization work. Others establish and maintain temple space reserved for visualization practice. Though not 100% crucial, controlling one’s external environment is a routine protocol in the ongoing pursuit of perfection. We need more capable individuals working along lines that can actually succeed instead of wasting their lives away on fantasy projections which cannot fulfill their needs, or following in the footsteps of frauds and dinosaurs who have no earthly idea where perfection lies or how it can be secured.
It was necessary for me to forge a completely new path set cleanly apart from all occult organizations, religions and orders, taking only the essentials from certain scholars and leaving the rest of their followers to consort with each other as they wished, which at all times appeared to have nothing to do with my aims and interests. Even though Mutational Alchemy contains much thesis work on the magickal formula of Abrahadabra which is touted as the word of the Aeon for Thelema, we have little to do with modern broader Thelemic discussion. Nothing against *thelema* except perhaps for the fact that Crowley seems intent on trading religion for religion and thus only achieves lip-service to the axiom *the method of science – the aim of religion*. The *method of science* demands that we work from falsifiable models and test those models meticulously for their qualitative & quantitative yields. moreover, I see a lot of *thelemites* basically parroting what they have read and seen others do, the same as most religious affiliations. That really wasn’t the point of Crowley’s work which was aimed hard at individuals developing the tools and skills required to advance their own magickal destinies. I think it’s something of a numbers game though like with most new approaches to anything, most will only get the *packaging* and content themselves with going along with the crowd. Only a relative few will recognize the underpinning principles at play and thereby take the next logical steps in an unfolding *praeter-humanism* inclusive of all human beings on a global scale.
It used to bug me more than it does now. I used to say (typically American) things like *those who call us *thelemites* are liable to catch a brick across their teeth!* because i really cannot condone the whole *simon-says* approach to Completion. it creates unnecessary obstacles…more useless cliques shoving their embarrassing brand of self-righteousness at the rest of us…some very hard-working people who can never seem to get a word in edgewise for all the carnival hype surrounding the latest esoteric *fad* etc. But like I said – it’s a numbers game and these things will be the way they are whether it upsets me personally or not. best to take it all in stride and keep on pumping out the jams…
There are many layers to the Mutational Alchemy doctrine & subsequent methodology…sometimes it seems virtually infinite and indeed, it may well be. So we get through a few doors and a few more will open and this process seems to just keep on going. I’ve been tracking this thing for over 40 years and still uncover new things all the time! After awhile you get enough under your belt that you become confident to confront and grapple with various limitations and/or apparent shortcomings – whether at the theoretical level or at the level of implementation where there exist a number of unknown factors preventing us from getting the furthest possible advantage from these tools that we should be getting all the time. That’s one of the real distinguishing characteristics of Mutational Alchemy stuff…it’s self scrutinizing and remarkably self-correcting…so that acknowledging weak areas only ever leads to a more advanced understanding of synergistic alchemy.
It behooves us in that case to always be completely honest with ourselves regarding what is working vs what is not. This model is completely unafraid of any such probing…but we are dealing with a bona fide physics here and science – (even super-science) – has no special regard for persons. Laws and principles are what they are and not other so when we get things right everything works perfectly. When we take a wrong turn things generally will still work but not as perfectly as we may want. The gradual perfecting of all these little details is a vital part of the manifestation process as a whole. It unfolds like a flower, outer petals revealing inner petals expanding fractally in all directions.
Always be aware of objective reality when encountering statements of any kind in alchemical studies, especially absolutisms. Reality is ever looming, and can kick you in the teeth harder than you’d like if you’re not willing to face it. Dogmatic principles and other all-to-human constructs turn to ash within nanoseconds within the environments this praxis is capable of catapulting you into. Although being thrown into the outer *spheres* is enjoyable and desirable for any intrepid alchemists, what is not desirable is finding one self ill-prepared, burdened with shitty human constructs and falsehoods, in the face of *reality*. Dealing with this kind of situation, while its pounding down the synapses of your brain during an exotic *episode*, is not fun. It can certainly lead you down the road towards the grim task of dispensing with the awful remnants of the current, diseased human meta, but this is not how one would normally wish to spend their time and there is a real danger of being thrown off track. There are many examples out there of individuals being disturbed so much by what they experience that they are put off magickal practice altogether, so preparation is advisable. Still, it is difficult to impossible to know everything about yourself. You don’t know what you don’t know. Each and every little axiom, quip, technique and ritual taught in this manual are meant to get you as far out into the deep end of the pool *with help* as possible, but in the end it’s going to be up to you to swim out across the pool.
It’s important as Mutational Alchemists that we keep one foot in the real world. If you feel like you’re going off the deep end and getting to lost or confused in the abstract for comfort, take a step back, gently. Anything that is *real* is not going to get scared off by any kind of balanced integration and cautious appraisal. It can seem that way in the moment, but this is, more often than not, falsehood speaking. It needs to be banished. I am reminded of this whenever I’m dealing with more sensitive individuals, as there is a tradeoff between sensitivity and adequate grounding that must be addressed.
Very often in our field of work, fantasy is presented as fact, and the most basic precautions and knowledge go unheeded. These types of people often feed off of each other’s fearful delusions and paranoia. Don’t follow in the footsteps of people who are too scared to face their own fragile constructs. Ours will not fall apart on you, whiles theirs often will. They may be broken and scarred and have every good reason for being a neurotic basket case, but while it’s okay to pity them, you should not allow them to drag you and your practice down into the dirt with them. Misery loves company.
A little digging can reveal a farce, if you’re not sure about what you are being told. It’s better to find out in one’s library than in the field, when you’re armpit-deep in trouble, that the banishing technique you learned was completely ineffective and based on inadequate trials and faulty knowledge or assumptions. Persons will argue with you all day long about their love for their special snowflake methodologies, but if physics doesn’t agree with their imagination there isn’t a whole lot imagination, as powerful as it is, can do for their special brand of dumbassery. This is particularly true for banishing and grounding techniques. Only use those methods which have proven to work out in the field. You should be testing every exercise we give you even. We have not and will never ask you to trust something on blind faith. There is a time and a place for that, but finding your bearings with Abrahadabra and Mutational Alchhemy has never required a leap of faith. The results are self-evident and readily available to anyone who can trace lines and dedicate five or ten minutes a day to the exercises - all of which have been available to the public on Abrahadabra.com for more than a decade, as of the time of this writing.
When you are training, rely on the methods that have been taught as fundamentals by The Abrahadabra Institute, especially during any crises that may emerge. You *should* see instant success if you are lucky enough to encounter any kind of *problem*. Sometimes I feel like I should warn people that the TwinStar likes to *show off* its good nature and its efficacy by creating little ripples in your life where it can make itself known. If this occurs it should be considered a very good sign indeed.
I am not saying this to scare you. It is a very high and sacred art with foundations having been practiced in various cultures around the world, notably by the followers of Pythagoras as well as (to some extent) the Ancient (anonymous) Chinese Sages. These techniques have been used in real crisis though and they do in fact work. There is an intelligence behind this study and powerful thread of continuity rational types will pick up on immediately. I do not mean that you should use these tactics instead of going to a hospital. Our *reality* includes the *fact* that hospitals are a part of reality for good reasons. We embrace all of science and the medical community. As faulty as they may be, it’s what we have on this planet, and it’s high time alchemists started acting like they are a part of science and medicine once more. After all, our predecessors gave birth to it. So don’t run the TwinStar if you need to go to the hospital for any reason. You may do these practices in addition to practical ideas - but don’t use Mutational Alchemy as an excuse to escape from reality. This is the wrong kind of magick for you if that’s what you’re after. For those not into escaping reality, we have a lot to teach you about how to manifest control, grace and intelligence into your life, but for now, the basics of navigating everyday existence are what is important. The big stuff happens afterwards.
It is almost inevitable you’ll run into some turbulence in your life. The tools The Abrahadabra Institute is supposed to teach you are taught to you for a reason. They are the best way to guard against problems and they minimize risk. Life is not 100% risk free, and just as not everything is safe screwing in a lightbulb, there are dangers to the work we undertake in the occult. But mark my words, you would have a better chance here at Abrahadabra than in any other alchemical school of thought in the world.
We don’t have any fancy initiations or vows to bind you to us or any other entity except for yourself. This isn’t a lodge, school or coven that requires blind obedience nor are we in competition with any other occult organization. The techniques we teach are for the whole human species, and Man is very far behind indeed. I don’t have time to play around with politics in other organizations and so you won’t be required to be *exclusive*, however other “covens” probably won’t feel the same way in all cases. That be said we are superior to every other organization, religious, occult or otherwise, and are not afraid to state that, obviously. We teach the Royal Art of Tetragrammaton itself, and it is nothing less than the evolutionary imperative of Man that interests us. Therefore to say that we are somehow in competition with *lesser* organizations is to say nothing at all unless they are set against Man somehow. It isn’t *encouraged* to study with other organizations as I have found most of them to be complete frauds during the time in which I was a seeker, most notably with the OTO. This does not mean everyone involved with such organizations are misguided and have nothing to say, but in general the doctrines of these institutions have stagnated to the point where there is not point in calling themselves “occult” anything. One of the biggest problems in these institutions is the complete lack of support for researchers and explorers, upon whose shoulders Hermeticism would not exist at all.
Initiation exercises and rituals may be held as much as we should see fit, if it is of the interest of participants. This freedom to participate or not rubs some people the wrong way, as if they want to be *controlled*. Those people are best left joining other organizations. We need free, independent thinkers who can handle steering their own course through life and through The Abrahadabra Institute’s material and methodology.
I do not believe our esoteric choices today are limited to an east vs west set of options. That might have been true in the past but we are rapidly evolving into a very different kind of world today in which the east & west, north and south are all beginning to merge into a global synthesis in part through the advent of science and technology but also as a result of media and education. This *third option* is the one we really want to keep our eyes on as this is where the greatest potential is likely to unfold...so we don't want to limit ourselves to an east vs west paradigm in the face of that.