This is the practice part of Cancer, in his words only, set out step
by step. Each card has a line of his at the top, a small box with how and when, taken from his own sentences,
and then his paragraphs cut at their full stops, colons and clauses into numbered steps, nothing added and
nothing left out. The prayer, the invocation, the preparing of the body and the seal of Solomon with its vowel
come from the Zodiacal Course of 1951; the daily meditation on the seal and the Retrospective Exercise
come from the Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology of 1967; the perfume comes from Occult
Medicine and Practical Magic. The prayer, the invocation and the vowel are printed letter for letter as he
prints them. The full teaching, with every passage around these, the phases of the Moon among them, is in the
main booklet, Cancer.
The prayer
Practice 1
Sit on a comfortable chair; close thy eyes; remove all thought from thy mind
Pray to
thy Inner-Self
The prayer
I beg you Lord to enter the heart-temple of the Moon to bring me the Angel Gabriel
Sit on a comfortable chair;
close thy eyes;
remove all thought from thy mind;
focus the mind on thy Inner-Self and pray like this:
“Father: you who art my true Being, I beg you Lord to enter the heart-temple of the Moon to bring me the Angel Gabriel. Do the Salutes, my Lord...Amen”.
Where it comes from: Zodiacal Course, 1951
The invocation
Practice 2
perform the following invocation of the Angel Gabriel
Where
direct thyself to the four cardinal points
How
blessing the north, south, east and west
Then, direct thyself to the four cardinal points and perform the following invocation of the Angel Gabriel, blessing the north, south, east and west:
“Thirteen thousand rays has the Sun, thirteen thousand rays has the Moon, thirteen thousand times may the enemies I have, repent!”
Where it comes from: Zodiacal Course, 1951
Preparing the body
Practice 3
The disciple will pray to the Angel Gabriel to prepare his body
How long
practiced our entire lifetime
Take care
The invocation will always be done blessing the four cardinal points
The Magician should “prepare” his body for the exercise of practical magic.
The magician’s body is different from others because it is prepared.
The disciple will pray to the Angel Gabriel to prepare his body to become invisible, or to transform his face, stop a bullet or knife in a moment of danger, or to materialize any superior entity, Lamblichus, the great theurgist, made the sidereal Gods visible in the physical world because he had his body well prepared.
The Angel Gabriel will occultly treat the spleen and certain centers of the spinal column in the disciple.
When the latter can already make visible and tangible the Angel Gabriel in the physical plane, it is because his body is “prepared”.
Then, in a moment of danger he will do the invocation of the Angel Gabriel and if the disciple wants to become invisible, the Angel Gabriel will erase him from the sight of the enemies, or will transform his face if the disciple so desires.
The invocation will always be done blessing the four cardinal points.
These exercises, to prepare the body, are practiced our entire lifetime.
Where it comes from: Zodiacal Course, 1951
The seal of Solomon
Practice 4
imagine this marvelous encounter of the cosmic forces forming the seal of Solomon at the thymus gland
How
Seated
The vowel
“A”
How long
one hour daily
The forces that descend from heaven, on arriving at our “thymus gland”, meet the forces that ascend through our organism from the earth, and there, in the “thymus gland”, the two triangles of the superior and inferior forces interlace to form the seal of Solomon.
Seated, imagine this marvelous encounter of the cosmic forces forming the seal of Solomon at the thymus gland and sunk in profound inner meditation,
pray to thy Inner-Self to enter the sidereal temple of the principal star of Cancer, to bring thee the principal hierarchies of that constellation, so that they may awaken thy inner powers and give that gland a treatment.
Vocalize the letter “A” one hour daily.
Where it comes from: Zodiacal Course, 1951
Practice 5
The disciple should meditate daily on this Seal of Solomon being formed in the Thymus Gland
When
daily
The Cosmic Forces which ascend through our organism meet at the Thymus Gland with the forces which descend and the two interlaced triangles, Solomon’s seal, is formed.
The disciple should meditate daily on this Seal of Solomon being formed in the Thymus Gland.
Where it comes from: Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Looking back
Practice 6
practice, before falling asleep in their bed, a Retrospective Exercise of their own life
When
before falling asleep in their bed
How
like someone who is watching a movie from the end to the beginning
If sleep comes
If the student falls asleep during the Retrospective Exercise, so much the better
During the period of Cancer, our Gnostic disciples should practice, before falling asleep in their bed, a Retrospective Exercise of their own life,
like someone who is watching a movie from the end to the beginning, or like someone who reads a book from the end to the beginning, from the last to the first page.
The objective of this Retrospective Exercise of our own life, is to auto-know, autodiscover ourselves, to recognize our good and evil actions, to study our own Lunar Ego, to make Conscious the Subconscious.
It is necessary to arrive in a retrospective manner at our birth and remember it.
A superior effort will permit the student to connect his Birth with the Death of his previous physical body.
Drowsiness combined with Meditation, with the Retrospective.
Exercise will permit us to remember our present life and the previous one and the past existences.
The Retrospective Exercise permits us to become conscious of our own Lunar Ego, of our own errors.
Let us remember that the Ego is a bunch of memories, desires, passions, anger, covetousness, lust, pride, laziness, gluttony, self-esteem, resentments, vengeances, etc.
If we want to dissolve the Ego, we should first study it.
The Ego is the root of ignorance and pain.
Only the Being, Atman, is perfect, but he is not born, neither does he die nor reincarnate; this is how Krishna said it in the Bhagavad Gita.
If the student falls asleep during the Retrospective Exercise, so much the better, because in the internal worlds, he will be able to know himself, remember his entire life and all of his past lives.
Where it comes from: Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The perfume
Practice 7
Sick people must smell their zodiacal perfume on a daily basis
For
Sick people
When
on a daily basis
Perfume
perfume of Camphor
Sick people must smell their zodiacal perfume on a daily basis:
: perfume of Camphor
Where it comes from: Occult Medicine and Practical Magic, 1955 (ed. 1978)
Where to practise
CancerThe main booklet: every passage on the sign, with these practices in their place.
ScorpioThe first booklet of the zodiac series, with its own practices.
SagittariusThe second booklet of the zodiac series, with its own practices.
CapricornThe third booklet of the zodiac series, with its own practices.
AquariusThe fourth booklet of the zodiac series, with its own practices.
PiscesThe fifth booklet of the zodiac series, with its own practices.
AriesThe sixth booklet of the zodiac series, with its own practices.
TaurusThe seventh booklet of the zodiac series, with its own practices.
GeminiThe sign before this one in the zodiac, with its own practices.
Zodiacal CourseHis practice for every sign of the zodiac, the Angel Gabriel and the seal of Solomon among them.
The Retrospective ExerciseEvery passage he gives on looking back over the day and the life, before sleep.
Manual of Practical MagicHis book of practical magic, the invocations and the works of the magician.
The MantrasThe vowels and mantrams, as he gives them.
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