This is the practice part of Capricorn, 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 paragraph cut at its full stops and commas into numbered steps, nothing added and nothing left out.
The exercise of the coffin is given twice, each card in its own book's words: first as he wrote it in 1967, his
later word, then as he gave it in the Zodiacal Course of 1951. The full teaching, with every passage
around these, is in the main booklet, Capricorn.
The exercise of Capricorn
Practice 1
During the sign of Capricorn, imagine a coffin on the ground
When
During the sign of Capricorn
How
when you walk, you will bend the knees, as if to jump over the obstacle
The knees
causing the knees to spin from right to left, with the mind concentrated on them
Intention
having the firm intention for them to become charged with the lead of Saturn
During the sign of Capricorn, imagine a coffin on the ground.
Walk over that imaginary coffin, but imagining it in the middle of the legs;
when you walk, you will bend the knees, as if to jump over the obstacle, as if to pass the legs over the coffin,
but causing the knees to spin from right to left, with the mind concentrated on them, having the firm intention for them to become charged with the lead of Saturn.
Masonic Masters will be able to understand this exercise of Saturn very well, because they are the same steps of the Master Mason when entering the Lodge.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Practice 2
A coffin should be imagined on the floor
When
during the sign of Capricorn
How
he will walk with bent knees as if to clear an obstacle
The knees
making the knees spin from left to right
Intention
with the intention that they become charged with the lead of Saturn
The following exercise should be practiced during the sign of Capricorn:
A coffin should be imagined on the floor and the disciple should walk over this imagined coffin but leaving it between his legs,
and he will walk with bent knees as if to clear an obstacle,
and making the knees spin from left to right, with the intention that they become charged with the lead of Saturn, such as our great guru “Huiracocha” taught us
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Practice 3
It is also urgent to practice the exercises of internal meditation daily
When
daily
How
praying to our “INNER BEING” to transport himself to the sidereal temples
The genii
Sagdolon and Semakiel
It is also urgent to practice the exercises of internal meditation daily,
praying to our “INNER BEING” to transport himself to the sidereal temples to bring before us the principal genii of that constellation,
so that they may awaken the chakras and powers of the knees.
Capricorn: Sagdolon and Semakiel.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
The key of FARAON
Practice 4
The key consists in reducing an eggshell to powder
How
apply these powders over the chest and armpits
Words to sound
FARAON
Like this
FAAAAAAAAA RAAAAAAAAAA ONNNNNNNNNN
Then
when the student feels that he has become numb, he should rise from his bed and head towards the Gnostic Church
The key consists in reducing an eggshell to powder.
The disciple will apply these powders over the chest and armpits;
he will then lie down on his bed, and cover himself properly with his blankets.
The student will then lull himself to sleep, pronouncing the mantram “FARAON”, like this: FAAAAAAAAA RAAAAAAAAAA ONNNNNNNNNN
This can be pronounced mentally,
and when the student feels that he has become numb, he should rise from his bed and head towards the Gnostic Church.
The first syllable “Fa” corresponds to the Chinese Gong, or the musical fa which resounds in the entire creation.
We have to pronounce this note to become attuned with mother nature.
The second syllable “Ra”, corresponds to a very ancient mantram that vibrates all the chakras of the astral body;
this mantram is not pronounced with “r” but with “rr” instead, like this: rrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaa.
And the last syllable “On” corresponds to the “Hindu” mantram Om, but is here pronounced as: Onnnnnnnnnnnn.
This mantram “FARAON” can be vocalized with the mind or better yet, with the heart.
Therefore, the powerful Egyptian mantram “Faraon” serves to “travel” in the astral body.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
The planetary hours
Practice 5
The disciple should choose the hours to work with the stars
When
In the hours of the Moon, he can work with the Moon; in the hours of Mercury, he can work with Mercury, etc.
The disciple should choose the hours to work with the stars.
In the hours of the Moon, he can work with the Moon; in the hours of Mercury, he can work with Mercury, etc.
Saturn is the abode of the green hierarchies.
These hierarchies gave man the “animal-soul”, or mental body.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
The perfume of Capricorn
Practice 6
Sick people must smell their zodiacal perfume on a daily basis
For
Sick people
When
on a daily basis
Perfume
perfume of Pine extract
Sick people must smell their zodiacal perfume on a daily basis:
: perfume of Pine extract
Occult Medicine and Practical Magic, 1955 (ed. 1978)
Where to practise
CapricornThe 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 sign before this one in the zodiac, with its own practices.