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from himself the perceiver. Let him call up within himself the
perception of each force that he has refined from his experience. He
shall visualize the force as a line of light passing out of his body to
its corresponding element in the lamen. He shall see the element of the
lamen glowing with the touch of the force, being charged with it as a
battery is charged, holding the force for later use. Let him also
formulate his essential self as being unaffected by the force, save when
he wills a connection between that self and the element in the lamen.
Samek. He shall repeat this exercise whenever he perceives one of the
forces being called into play by the events of his daily life.
Ayin. He shall do thus with every particular of his manifest life,
until all the elements of the lamen have been thus charged, and each
force is automatically routed through the lamen as he becomes conscious
of it, and every element of his being that is capable of being perceived
has been connected to the Lamen.
III. The Release of the Arrow.
Peh.
The magician may make diverse uses of this Lamen or pantacle.
Tzaddi. Let the magician assume the god-form of Nuit. Then let her call
up the image of the lamen, formulating it as a child within her womb.
Let the last drop of her earthly life be given unto this child as the
mother gives life to the child through the umbilicus.
Let her expand her form to the limits of her ability, maintaining the
lamen as a star in her womb. Then shall she cause this star to grow
greater within her womb. But ever shall she be conscious that the star
is not herself, but her child.
Then let her see herself in the contractions of birth. Each contraction
shall be more potent than the last until the child is at last ejected.
Let her see the child as being sent out with such force that he
immediately recedes from view in the distance, leaving nothing of
himself behind.
Then let the magician become conscious of that which remains. Thus she
escapes from herself by one of the formulas of Nuit.
Qoph. Let the magician formulate himself as a minute point within the
axle of the lamen's wheel. He shall see the forces of the lamen
concentrated within the symbols on the rim of the wheel. Let him cause
the symbols of the lamen around him to become magnetic, drawing from him
any residual forces that may be left within him after the lamen's
charging. Let every remaining particle of his being be drawn into the
wheel.
As these forces are drawn out into the lamen, let him perceive himself
as becoming ever smaller. As the last of his forces are given into the
lamen, he shall be gone.
Thus he escapes from himself by the formula of Hadit.
Resh. In doing the exercises of points Yod and Lamed above, the
magician should also have come to have some sense of the motions of the
actual planets, and the quality of their influence upon the lamen. Let
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