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noises, focus your sight, until you know exactly where you are. Ask
yourself questions like; 'Is it day or night here?', 'Am I inside or
outside?', 'what kind of clothing am I wearing?'. In this way slowly
piece together the scene bit by bit until the entire picture is constructed
sensory experience by sensory experience.
(6) Once you know where you are, you want to travel to three kinds of
experience:
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(a) The primary kind of activity you were involved in during this life
(that you want to remember. E.g. being an artist, warrior,
teacher, whatever).
(b) The high point of that life. (i.e. the most stimulating experience
you had as, artist, warrior, teacher or whatever)
(c) A time towards the end of that life when you were alone,
undisturbed, and in contemplation.
In the last instance 'c' you can then step out of your past life personality (count
yourself out if necessary) and stand next to yourself now being as you are in
this life. This situation gives you the opportunity to question your past life self
about salient points of interest in that life, or to receive an inspirational
message from the past life self.
(1) When you are finished the session simply reopen the 'time door'
(wherever you are) and step back through it into the Magick circle in
the desert. Ensure you thank the past life self (and any others you
meet) for their assistance before returning.
(2) Close the time door with a sweep of your hand. Remind yourself that as
you do this the connection between the activities of that past memory
and your present life are now sealed off again.
(3) Take a few moments to re-centre yourself before performing the
awakening protocol.
We remind you to read the preceding instructions carefully and if necessary
read the previous lessons on trance work, or question your tutor further, to
ensure that you are aware of all the proper operating procedures before
beginning your first attempt.
Record every detail immediately in your journal.
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Probationers Trance Exercise 4
The Language of the Birds
"Finally I would add that argot (cant) is one of the forms derived from the
language of the Birds, parent and doyen of all other languages - the one spoken
by Philosophers and Diplomats. It was knowledge of this language that Jesus
revealed to his Apostles, by sending them his Spirit, the Holy Ghost. This is the
language which teaches the Mystery of things and unveils the most hidden
truths."
(Fulcanelli - 'The Mystery of the Cathedrales')
Trancework exercise four involves learning a process that allows you to
analyse and understand your dreams in a deep significant way. Going into the
desert and working there with subpersonalities and archetypes is one way of
gaining information about yourself, but to a degree that method is artificial and
requires much skill and knowledge to work effectively. Accessing dreams, on
the other hand, provides another very important point of view of your internal
mechanism. Dreams are a natural product of the unconscious and therefore
their analysis allows us to see into the deepest levels of our minds and to look
at things as they are developing in their natural state.
It should be understood, though, that both the wilderness process nor dream
analysis is better than the other, and we should never develop exclusive
preference for one over the other. The use of both these methods alternately
allows us to see ourselves from different angles providing us with a fuller
understanding of our progress.
The basic process of dream analysis through trancework is simple. You select
a dream that you have had recently whose contents you are curious about, or
which you feel is significant in some way. If you are keeping accurate notes
about your dreams it should not be too difficult to choose one from your recent
past on which to experiment.
Begin the trancework by entering the circle in the desert. When you are fully in
the astral environment imagine a door outside, but close to the edge of, your
Magick circle. Tell yourself that this door leads through into that part of your
mind where memories of all your dreams are stored. Feel that storehouse of
dream memory behind the door. Next tell yourself which dream you desire to
relive. Remember the basics of the dream and label it, based on some
significant event in it, for example: I want to go back to relive the 'death of a
friend' dream.
Now, focus on the door, tell yourself that on the count of, say, five, you will
step through the door and back into the memory of that dream. Will yourself to
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go back to the beginning of the dream. As with the past life work, when you
find yourself on the other side of the door, stop and take a moment to re-
enforce your senses in the dream environment. As soon as the dream is
strongly built up around you again allow the progress of the dream to begin to
unfold.
As you move through the dream again choose significant objects, scenes,
people, etc., that you feel may help you to understand the message of the
dream. Remember that everything in a dream is a word in the language of the
unconscious. Dreams are, therefore, types of books where the details of our
spiritual lives are described in minute detail.
As you come to interesting objects, etc., ask them (and yourself) "what does
this mean to me?" The idea of this question is that we understand that all
objects/symbols/metaphors, etc., we become aware of in dreams have a
specific meaning that our personal unconscious gives them. For example, a
tree may represent 'shade and protection' to one person (in dream language),
but to another it might represent 'life'. We should, then, never assume we
know what any significant symbol in a dream represents for us. We must, in
order to understand accurately, re-investigate every symbol impartially,
piecing each idea together in a chain until we have reconstructed the entire
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