#step 10

That which I have said of the operation of the Sun is accomplished & ended.

This completes my Word Press project. I will give it a few days and then go back to it, make some edits and additions over time, but it is pretty much completed.

I hope you enjoyed it and that it helps you along in whatever system you practice, not just Bardon’s training or Chaos Magic. 

After having mastered traveling through the various realms and having developed your Avatar power and abilities to even greater heights you may wonder what is next? 

The Miracle of New Avatar Power begins with describing the great users of the Avatar Power throughout history, people that the common folk thought were gods made flesh. The types of people myths were written about. Is that possible for you? To wield divine powers?

There is a next step. One you should eventually take after having refined your life so that it is in harmony with the forces represented in your mandala in their most divine form. The mandala is a perfect representation of the magical universe, and so it is a perfect reflection or image of G-D. You can even work on your mandala and refine it as you refine yourself, adjust a color, add in Zodiacal forces possibly, explore and develop those powers. But once you have a perfect representation of the magical universe there was another author published in English in 1962, who influenced a great deal of magicians through the ages, and has the last step for us on the path of becoming an Avatar of the divine.

Franz Bardon in Initiation into Hermetics, Step 10

You have, over the course of this series, built a mandala that is a perfect representation of the universe and the divine power behind it. You have built a divine image that you can use to unite with as you do in Step 10. You simply imagine the divine power emanating from it, as if your personal god is there before you. This is not new to you by now, you have been making this happen since you first started this work. You then imagine that the mandala, being a symbol for G-D and the filled with the divine attributes, and your mind and astral body merge with that symbol and become one. You do this until you are a perfect channel for the Avatar power. Until the energetic sensations bound in the mandala are harmonious to the energetic sensations within you. Until they are one.

At first it will be just like any of the other rituals and spells. You work at it daily, spending some time speaking words of power and imagining the result “as if” it were already a reality. You catch moments of success here and there. You keep at it. You live your normal life, bringing to life your growing development. Imperfect at first but always moving forward. In time you may spend an hour or longer enrapt in the bliss of the union. Your Avatar power will continuously blossom as long as you keep working with it. Even if you stopped it would flow for some time after. You would just seem lucky is all. 

(Nice example of 70′s cheese right there! Right?)

So, there you have it. A complete system made from a mix of cheesy 70′s occult grimoires. And one hardcore occult training manual from 1962.

Seriously, if you have extra cash lying around buy them. If you have enough time and diligence you can find some online. Either way, find them and experiment with them because they do payoff with some great ideas and some real gems of magic.

Thanks for reading!

In this final step one explores the rarefied elemental realms and develops a relationship with their inhabitants. This is important work for a multitude of reasons. These relationships may be passing or they can develop into a working relationship that lasts for years. Don’t just take Bardon’s word for what they appear as, they will appear as highly symbolic to you but if you have done the work you are not “fooled” by these symbols. These are beings of energy. Use your psychic senses to get a feel for them and then patiently and gracefully enter their world as a human ambassador in their form.

You develop more fully the quantity of the divine presence in the work of the soul (you already have the quality and a bit of the quantity of the divine in you even if you have never done a single spell) Your will, your intellect, your feeling and your consciousness are all qualities that when purified and developed can eventually with work encompass the quantity of the divine spirit/mind. This should give you a good starting point on the meditation and work required. The alchemy is nearing its final stages here on each of the four fundamental attributes. In step 9 one has attained a very strong connection to each attribute and has raised the soul to new heights. In this final step the initiate becomes a magician. They create what is often called now a days a Tulpa and loads the four fundamental divine attributes into it. One can even see the building of the Body of Light as akin to this. Once it is built and the magician can imagine the presence is right in front of him/her then it is just a matter of that divine form taking the place of the magicians soul, merging with it so that two become one. At this point the magician just deepens the merger over time until this god that was created can work through you. 

That is it, that is what Initiation into Hermetics is  all about. Developing your SELF to the point it can handle a merger with the divine and once that is done allow the merger to work on Earth and of course all other planes of existence. 

I hope these little commentaries help you on the way to divinity. They are by no means designed to explain it all, just me going through the work again and explaining it as easily as I can from my current development. Maybe some of my book suggestions or supplemental readings will help prevent a headache or two. 

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