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Magical Comprehension
Phantoms or Phantasms are they deadly?


Next I am going to describe another group of entities existing in the mental sphere, namely the group of the phantoms or phantasms.

 

The difference between a larva and a phantasm is as follows:

 

A larva is quite unconsciously adopting a shape in the mental sphere, appropriate to the motive of the single or repeated psychic emotion, whereas a phantom accepts a certain form originating in the fantasy of Man.



Exactly in the same way as it happens to be with the larvae, the phantom is likewise reinforced, revived and animated by the repeated evocation of the picture, regardless of whatever the matter might be, and it will be capable of influencing not only the mental or astral plane, but also the material level.



Two examples may serve to illustrate this topic:



A very remarkable example is the so-called magic persecution mania that I shall describe from two certain points of view, with reference to the phantoms.

 

There are certain human beings with an innate scowl or with demoniacal features, and whose outward appearance consequently gives the impression of black magicians, but who probably haven't got the faintest idea of any human science, to say nothing at all of magic.



It is sufficient for any easily suggestible, emotionally excitable or rather conceited person to meet with such a type of man, whether in business or in personal concern, and our "test subject", as we shall call it, will instantly have the sensation of a strong dislike and antipathy towards the antagonist.



It can happen that our type is exhibiting a whimsical behavior without wanting to do so or even knowing about it. The first thought entering the test subject's mind will be that he is facing a black magician.

 

Maybe, for some reason or other, this test person is to thinking too highly of this type of man, and the first step toward selfsuggestion has already been done.

 

Sooner or later, small awkward everyday incidents will never be cleared up, but the blame for them will be set on our type of man.

 

 

From now on, the attention is stirred up, one is watching oneself, and the picture of the "type" becomes more distinct. Already one begins to feel, persecuted.



The eyes grow more glittering, his appearance reveals itself in dreams, the picture becomes more vivid and eventually emerges even in broad daylight. Finally one constantly lives under the impression of being persecuted at every turn.



With the help of a very lively imagination, the picture can be condensed to such a degree that it becomes visible even to other similarly sensitive persons.

 

 

Feeling persecuted in this manner, with the picture continually working on his mind, our test subject may be argued into anything, even the worst.

 

He looks for help, begins to pray, and does his best to scare away this terrible influence; he gets a nervous breakdown, gradually becomes insane, and ends up by committing suicide or else in a mental hospital for the rest of his life.



The phantom has fulfilled its task.



How terrific is the shock, however, if such a spirit must convince itself in the mental sphere that it is committing a well-organized magic suicide!

 

 

What a bitter disappointment!

 

 

Our "type-man" of course has not the faintest idea of what happened and will never realize that he was nothing but a means to an end.



His face and his conduct were only the form, the pattern from which our test subject created the destructive being, the phantom whose victim he became in the end.

 

Such and similar sad examples happen more frequently than you would believe, sometimes faster, more drastically, in other cases more slowly, furtively, insidiously.


But should you dare to tell the persecuted person the truth, he would never believe it because the phantom knows well how to hinder its victims from escaping.

 

 

If the guiding hand of Divine Providence leads such an unhappy persecuted person to a genuine magician who finds out the phantom's trickery, he will have a very difficult task to convince the victim, to lead him to the right path, and to teach him a different, normal mode of thinking.



At certain times, especially if the victim is under the spell of a phantom, the helper will have to interfere very firmly indeed, now and again, even drastically to restore the mental balance of the individual.

 

 

The second example shows the same occurrence but with a different underlying motive:



Here we have to deal with a phantom of eroticism: the birth of such a phantom - if one may use the expression of birth at all - takes place in the face, the beautiful body of a living person, sometimes only a photo, a pornographic illustration or something similar with the purpose of provoking the lust, the sexual instinct, regardless of the person belonging to the female or male sex.



Provided anyone being in love, having no opportunity at all of satisfying his personal longing, the stronger and more vehement this yearning will grow, and at the same time the phantom's insinuations will become stronger, because it is thriving entirely on thoughts of yearning.



The more the concerned person tries to resist this unsatisfied love, the more obtrusive the phantom will become.

 

 

At first it will turn up in dreams and allow is victim to revel in the most delightful transport of love.

 

A little later it will provoke the sexual instinct and allow sexual intercourse in the victim's dreams.

 

The pollutions produced in this way help the phantom to become denser and to influence the victim more and more, because the sperm represents the vital power that the phantom is sucking up like a vampire.



The point in question here is not the material sperm, but the animal vital power accumulated in the sperm.

 

The victim is losing the ground under his feet, his willpower is diminishing, and the phantom gradually wins the upper hand.



If fate is not so kind to such a one as to have him enlightened in good time and to find the right distraction for him, the phantom's mode of action will result in more dangerous effects.

 

The person becomes confused, stops eating, the nerves are over-excited and such like.



The love phantomcan be condensed to such a degree by unsatisfied passion that it can adopt bodily forms, seducing his victim to onanism and other artificial stimulation of the genital organs.

 

Thousands of people havefallen victims of phantoms by committing suicide as the result of disappointment in love or unsatisfied passions.

 

This problem recalls the memory of true occurrences of the medieval succubi and the trials for witchcraft connected therewith. A very dangerous pleasure indeed!



In the light of the two foregoing instances, the magician may observe the activity of the phantasms, and he will be able to form such specters himself.

 

But do not forget: sooner or later, he always will run the risk of being influenced or mastered by them.



He knows what is happening in the average individual, and how to produce these phantasms consciously in the magic way, but never will he be induced to execute such practices himself, always remembering the magic sentence: "Love is the love, but love under a strong will."



There is one theme left to be described, that of the phantasms or shadows. Phantasms are animate presentations of people already deceased.

 

I will pay particular attention to this theme to avoid many errors and enable everyone to sift the chaff from the wheat.




As soon as a human being leaves behind the mortal frame, it is at once in the fourth state of aggregation, usually called the "world beyond".

 

 

Without any mediating substance, it is impossible for a being to operate on our tridimensional sphere, just as a fish cannot swim without water. The same thing prevails upon beings already passed away to the world beyond.



Remembering, praising, mourning the deceased, any memory of or tribute to them will create and enliven imaginary pictures of the dead, which as a result of frequent repetition have a rather long duration of life.



We call these pictures, created by the living ones, phantoms. It is this kind of phantom that manifest themselves in great numbers to the so-called spiritualists, evokers, diviners, etc.

 

The spooks and hobgoblins also are nothing else but phantoms preserving, condensing and thriving on the affection and attachment of the bereaved ones, as it happens in the case of the shadows.



This can be stated without difficulty by citing a being that manifests itself in different places at the same minute at once through so called mediums, which is nothing but a manifestation of the dead person's phantom, because phantoms can be created by the hundreds.

 

It is very sad that these phantoms always are mistaken for the real dead person by the spiritualistic mediums.

 

 

A lot of mischief, self-deception, and fraud is carried out in this line.


One can observe, for instance, that one of the mediums is communicating with a famous leader or general, a second one with an artist, another with a saint, in a different place with a pharaoh, and immediately again with an angel.



Therefore it is not at all surprising that this particular field of knowledge will meet with a host of opponents and mockers, because of its amount of self-deception.

 

No wonder that a phantom has such a strong instinct of self-preservation as to present itself as a vampire to the medium or the whole circle, and indeed becomes fatal to the neighborhood as well.



Of course, all this does not mean that a genuine magician who masters the fourth state of aggregation, the akasa principle, would not be able to communicate with a deceased person or with an intellect that is not yet embodied.

 

 

I have already quoted the practice in the chapter about mediumistic writing.


Apart from that, any magician is able to forma housing, a shape, with the help of the imagination, transfer it into the fourth state of aggregation, and to persuade or even to force the true, desired being to enter this form and manifest itself to the external world.



This practice belongs to the field of necromancy or conjuring magic and has nothing at all to do with the generally known spiritualism.



The genuine magician will use this practice only in extreme cases, and he will not evoke a being away from its sphere, because anything a being of the fourth state of aggregation has to say or to fulfill in the material or astral world can be achieved likewise by the magician himself through his maturity.



My 2c ;-)

~Dr Moore.
 
The Night Hag

 

The Night Hag is one of the most terrifying demonic forces that a person can experience.

 

The Night Hag is a sort of vampirism demon, once referred to as a Succubus or Incubus, which is perceptible only to its victim.

 

A typical encounter with this malicious entity occurs with the victim awakening at night, paralyzed such that they can neither move nor scream.

 

The entity may be seen approaching the victim, or may already be upon her, but in either case the modus operandi of the attack is always exactly same.

 

The Night Hag positions itself upon the victim's chest and beings to drain their life energy.

 

Women who experience this typically claim to have been assaulted by a male shadow-being (and Incubus), and the attack can be considered a sort of spiritual rape.

 

Though less common, men who experience this assault describe their attacker as a hideous woman, often in rags, who sits upon their chest terrorizing them.

 

In rare cases, the attacker appears to be a young and beautiful woman (a Succubus or "Lilith") and some form of sexual intercourse may occur.

 

On occasionally, the Succubus may finally transform into a Hag.

 

It is also thought that some inexplicable nocturnal deaths may be caused by this class of demon.

 

Some people may only suffer this harrowing experience once in their lifetimes, but others may be tormented by the entity on a regular basis. Some extreme cases have been documented as being a nightly affair.

 

Exorcists have been highly successfully banishing Night Hags for centuries, and any traditional banishment or exorcism ritual should suffice assuming it is performed by a competent individual (such rituals can be found any in good book on occult magic or witchcraft).

 

Protection spells can also be cast in a home as precautionary measure.

 

 

~Dr Moore

 
 
Sign of psychic attack

 

IF we look at the universe around us we cannot fail to realize that there must be some overruling plan co-coordinating its infinite complexity.

 

If we take into our hands and examine minutely any living thing, however simple, equally must we realize that the ordered diversity of its parts is built up on a determining framework.

 

Science has sought in vain for this organizing principle; it will never find it on the physical plane, for it is not physical. It is not the inherent nature of

atoms which causes them to arrange themselves in the complex patterns of living tissues.

 

The driving forces of the universe, the framework upon which it is built up in all its parts, belong to another phase of manifestation than our physical plane, having other dimensions than the three to which we are habituated, and perceived by other modes of consciousness than those to which we are accustomed.

 

 

We live in the midst of invisible forces whose effects alone we perceive. We move among invisible forms whose actions we very often do not perceive at all, though we may be profoundly affected by them.

 

 

In this mind-side of nature, invisible to our senses, intangible to our instruments of precision, many things can happen that are not without their echo on the physical plane. There are beings that live in this invisible world as fish live in the sea.

 

There are men and women with trained minds, or special aptitudes, who can enter into this invisible world as a diver descends to the ocean-bed. There are also times when, as happens to a land when the sea-dykes break, the

invisible forces flow in upon us and swamp our lives.

 

Normally this does not occur. We are protected by our very incapacity to perceive these invisible forces. There are four conditions, however, in which the veil may be rent and we may meet the Unseen.

 

 

We may find ourselves in a place where these forces are concentrated.

 

 

We may meet people who are handling these forces. We may ourselves go out to meet the Unseen, led by our interest in it, and get out of our depth before we know where we are; or we may fall victim to certain pathological conditions which rend the veil.

 

 

The Threshold of the Unseen is a treacherous coast on which to bathe. There are potholes and currents and quicksand’s.

 

 

The strong swimmer, who knows the coast, may venture in comparative safety. The non-swimmer, who takes counsel of nothing but his own impulses, may pay for his temerity with his life.

 

 

But we must not make the mistake of thinking that these invisible forces are necessarily evil and inimical to humanity. They are no more inimical in themselves than are water or fire, but they are potent.

 

 

If we run counter to them, the result is disastrous for us, for we have broken a natural law; but they are not out to attack us, any more than we are out to attack them.

 

We must face the fact, however, that men and women with knowledge of these things, have, both in the past and in the present, used that knowledge unscrupulously, and that we may find our selves involved in the results of their actions.

 

It may safely be said that the Unseen is only evil and inimical to humanity when it has been corrupted and perverted by the activities of these

unscrupulous men and women, whom initiates call adepts of the Left-hand Path.

 

We must consider the outward and visible signs of psychic attack before we are in a position to analyse the nature of such attacks and indicate their source of origin. It is a fundamental rule that diagnosis must precede treatment.

 

 

There are many different kinds of psychic attacks, and the methods that will dispose of one will be ineffectual against another.

 

 

The commonest form of psychic attack is that which proceeds from the ignorant or malignant mind of our fellow human beings. We say ignorant as well as malignant, for all attacks are not deliberately motived; the injury may be as accidental as that inflicted by a skidding car.

 

This must always be borne in mind, and we should not impute malice or wickedness as a matter of course when we feel we are being victimized.

 

Our persecutor may himself be a victim. We should not accuse a man of malice if we had linked hands with him and he had stepped on a live rail.

 

 

Nevertheless, we should receive at his hands a severe shock. So it may be with many an occult attack.

 

 

The person from whom it emanates may not have originated it. Therefore we should never respond to attack by attack, thus bringing ourselves down to the moral level of our attackers, but rely upon more humane methods, which are, in reality, equally effectual and far less dangerous to handle.

 

People also come into touch with the Unseen through the influence of places. Someone who is not actually psychic, but who is sufficiently sensitive to perceive the invisible forces subconsciously, may go to a place where they are concentrated at a high tension.

 

Normally, although we move in the midst of these forces (for they sustain our universe), we are oblivious of them. Where they are concentrated, however, unless we are very dense-minded, we begin to be dimly conscious of something that is affecting us and stirring our subliminal self.

 

It may happen that the barrier between consciousness and subconsciousness is dense in some people, and they are never able clearly to realise what is going on.

 

They merely have the sense of oppression and general malaise, which lifts when they go away to another place. Consequently, the condition may never be detected, and lead to years of ill-health and misery.

 

 

More commonly, however, if there is a definite psychic attack of sufficient force to make itself noticeable at all, there will soon begin to appear characteristic dreams.

 

 

These may include a sense of weight upon the chest, as if someone were kneeling on the sleeper.

 

 

If the sense of weight is present, it is certain that the attack emanates locally, for the weight is due to the concentration of etheric substance or ectoplasm, and is sufficiently tangible to press down the scale of a balance when it is possible to capture it for measurement.

 

 

A great deal of research has been done with materializing mediums upon the nature of this tangible subtle substance, and the reader is referred to the books on the experiments conducted by Crawford with the Goligher Circle at Belfast, and in Paris with Eva C. by other experimenters, for further information and evidence on this subject.

 

It may be noted that Crawford eventually committed suicide for no known reason.

 

 

A sense of fear and oppression is very characteristic of occult attack, and one of the surest signs that herald it.

 

 

It is extremely rare for an attack to make itself manifest out of the blue, as it were. We are not in our normal state of mind, body and circumstance, and then find ourselves suddenly in the midst of an invisible battle.

 

An approaching occult influence casts its shadow on consciousness before it makes itself apparent to the non-psychic.

 

The reason for this is that we perceive subconsciously before we realise consciously, and a line of creeping shade indicates the penetrating of

the subconscious censor from below upwards.

 

As the attack progresses, nervous exhaustion becomes increasingly marked, and there may, under certain conditions, which we will consider later, be such wasting of the tissues that the victim is reduced to a mere bloodless shell of skin and bones, lying on the bed, too weak to move. And yet no definite disease can be demonstrated.

 

 

Such a case is an extreme example, proceeding unchecked to its logical conclusion. Other issues are possible, however.

 

 

The resistance may be good, in which case the attack is unable to gain a foothold on the physical plane, and is limited to that borderland between matter and mind which we perceive upon the threshold of sleep.

 

This is a very terrible experience, for the victim is afraid to sleep and cannot keep awake indefinitely. Worn out by fear and lack of sleep, mental breakdown soon supervenes.

 

Nervous exhaustion and mental breakdown are the commoner results of astral attack among white people, for in Europe at any rate it is not often that an attacker is able to bring the attack to a conclusion in the death of the victim.

 

There are, however, records of cases where the victim has died of pure fright. Kipling's terrible story, The End of the Passage, gives an account of such an occurrence.

 

 

But in addition to the purely subjective phenomena, there will also be objective ones if the attack has any degree of concentration.

 

 

The phenomenon of repercussion is well known, the phenomenon wherein that which befalls the subtle body is reflected in the dense body, so that after an astral skirmish during sleep, bruises are found on the physical body, sometimes bruises of a definite pattern.

 

I have seen the print of a goat's hoof and the ace of clubs marked upon the skin as well-defined bruises, passing from blue to yellow and dying away in the course of a few days, as bruises will.

 

Evil odours are another manifestation of an astral attack. The characteristic smell is of decomposing flesh, and it comes and goes capriciously; but while it is manifesting, there is no doubt whatever about it, and anyone who is present can smell it, whether they are psychic or not. I have also known a frightful stench of drains arise when a ritual belonging to the Element of Earth was being incorrectly performed.

 

 

Another curious phenomenon is the precipitation of slime. I have not actually seen this myself, but I have first-hand information upon good authority of one such case.

 

 

The marks are sometimes as if an army of slugs had been marching in ordered formation; sometimes there is a broad smear of slime, and at others, distinct footprints, often of gigantic size.

 

In the case to which I refer, of which I heard from an eye-witness, the marks were like the foot prints of an elephant, enormous tracks on the floor of the drawing-room of a bungalow situated near the sea.

 

Odd footprints appearing from nowhere and leading nowhere, are sometimes observed when there is snow about. I have seen them on two occasions on the roof of an out building.

 

 

They alighted upon the edge of it, as if the walker had stepped off an aeroplane, went straight across, and ended abruptly at the wall of the main building upon which the lean-to abuts.

 

 

They did not return. A single line of footprints came from nowhere and ended in a lofty wall.

 

 

A similar happening took place on a very extensive scale in Devon some fifty years ago, and an account of it is to be found in that very curious book, Oddities, by Commander Gould.

 

In this case, however, the prints were not human, but were those of what was apparently the hoof of a donkey, proceeding in a single line and going straight through walls and over roofs and covering the best part of a couple of hundred miles in a single night on both sides of an unbridged estuary.

 

 

Those who want confirmatory evidence would do well to consult Commander Gould's book, where the incident is given in detail.

 

 

There is a curious phenomenon known to occultists as the astral bell; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle makes use of it in one of his Sherlock Holmes stories.

 

This sound varies from a dear, bell-like note to a faint click. I have often heard it resemble the sound made by striking a cracked wine-glass with a knife-blade.

 

It commonly announces the advent of an entity that is barely able to manifest, and need not necessarily be a herald of evil at all. It may simply be a knock on the door of the physical world to attract the attention of the inhabitants to the presence of one who stands without and would speak with them.

 

If, however, it occurs in the presence of other symptoms of an astral attack, it would give strong evidence in confirmation of the diagnosis.

 

Inexplicable outbreaks of fire are also sometimes seen in this connection. These indicate that elemental forces, not human, are at work. Poltergeist phenomena also occur, in which objects are flung about, bells rung and other noisy manifestations take place.

 

Of course there may be multiplicity of phenomena, more than one type appearing in the same case.

 

Needless to say, the possibility of some natural, material explanation must never be ignored, even in cases where the supernatural element appears most obvious.

 

It should always be diligently sought in every possible direction before any supernormal hypothesis is considered worthy of attention.

 

 

But on the other hand, we should not be so wedded to materialistic theories that we refuse to take a psychic theory as a working hypothesis if it shows any possibility of being fruitful.

 

 

After all, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and if, working on an occult hypothesis, we are able to clear up a case which has resisted all other methods of handling, we have pretty good evidence in support of our contention.

 

We must also bear in mind that the element of deliberate fraud may enter into the most unexpected places. I have seen a drug addict successfully pass himself off for a considerable length of time as the victim of an occult attack.

 

A recent writer in the British Medical Journal declared that whenever he came across a case of bell-ringing, knocks, the dripping of water and oil from ceilings, and other untoward happenings, he always looked for the hysterical maidservant.

 

 

Occultists would be very well advised to do likewise before they begin to worry about the Devil.

 

 

But on the other hand, the wise man, whether occultist or scientist, will not insist upon the hysterical maidservant unless he can catch her red-handed, as he surely will do sooner or later if she is the guilty party.

 

Forged bank-notes would never gain currency unless there were such a thing as genuine bank-notes.

 

It would never occur to anyone to produce fraudulent psychic phenomena unless there had been some genuine psychic phenomena to act as a pattern for the forgery.

 

The acceptance of an explanation should rest upon the weight of evidence in its favour, not upon one's dislike of its alternatives.

 

I plead that the possibility of a non- material explanation should be investigated in cases where the materialistic hypothesis does not yield results.

 

Not in diseases of the brain and nervous system, nor of the ductless glands, nor in repression of the natural instincts, shall we find the explanation in all cases wherein the mind is afflicted.

 

 

There is more to man than mind and body. We shall never find the clue to the riddle of life until we realise that man is a spiritual being and that mind and body are the garments of his manifestation.

 

 

~Dr Moore

 

 
 
*Larvae* An Entities that exist within us


Let us now turn to another similar topic of physic vampire that makes us acquainted with the so-called *Larvae*

The difference between an elemental and a larva is basically the fact that an elemental is created deliberately by the magician whereas the larvae form themselves involuntarily in the corresponding mental sphere as the result of a strong physical excitement, no matter what kind of excitement this happens to be.

The stronger the excitement is, the more mental material a person is subsiding, the larva will become all the stronger, denser and more viable, especially in the case of a regular and frequent repetition of the same physical excitement.

This involuntary formation of larvae occurs in any human being, young or old, magically trained or not, regardless whether the person knows or ignores it.

 

 

If the physical excitement is fading due to the fact that no attention has been paid to the upsetting affair, the larva too will disappear by and by until finally dissolving itself.



Consequently there will be in the mental sphere a constant bringing forthand dying of larvae, naturally at the cost of the mental matter of each human being. We are causing these events by our own psychic excitement.

 

 

The reasons can be very different, usually fear, grief, sorrow, fright, hatred and envy and such like producing them.



The shape that the larva shows depends on the cause of the psychic excitement and is always symbolic.

 

Anyone who knows something about symbolism will be able to get a clear idea about this problem; for example, a thought of love will always be symbolized by a heart, a thought of hatred by an arrow or a flash, etc.

In spite of the fact that the larvae, these undesirable mental inhabitants cannot be seen by the normal human being, they still do exist, and the well trained magician can see them on the mental plane.

 

In sensitive or excitable persons, the mental matter is much more separable and the reproduction of larvae is obviously easier and more intense.

Such people wreck themselves, their health, especially their nerves, but they also damage their intellectual faculties and involve other highly suggestible people too.

 

 

All kinds of mass psychosis are originating here.

 

 

There is no need to describe mass psychosis in detail, because everybody will have made observations and had experiences regarding this problem.

The more one returns to the cause of the psychic excitement and the more attention one pays to it, the stronger the larva will become.

 

Any larva that is condensed very strongly will show a great deal of self-preservation instinct and will try to prolong its duration of life as far as possible.

For this reason, it stimulates the mind of the given person, trying at every opportunity to draw his attention to the cause of excitement and to revive it constantly.

 

Such a well-fed larva can become fatal to a sensitive or emotional individual, and numerous mental disturbances such as persecution mania and the like are the result of it.

 

Many people are living under the erroneous supposition of being haunted and destroyed by blackmagicians, whereas they are in fact victims of their own fantasies, or putting it correctly, victims of the larva they have been creating themselves.

People like this usually will not find out about this problem until they leave their mortal frame.

 

 

Only a very few persons are actually haunted magically.



Think of the numerous Inquisition victims of the past! No doubt there is a certain advantage for the average man that the old order has changed, yielding to a new one, for "If a man's belief is bad, it will not be changed by burning'.

 

But one has thrown out the baby with the bath water without touching the roots of the matter and without verifying the higher laws.

Now the magician will realize why such stress has been laid on the importance of introspection, control and mastering of the thoughts at the beginning of the practical part of this work.

 

Supposing he did not get the thoughts under control of his willpower in the course of his development, he would unconsciously create larvae that might become fatal to him sooner or later.

Next I am going to describe another group of entities existing in the mental sphere, namely the group of the phantoms or phantasms.



My 2c ;-)

~Dr Moore

 
 
Analysis of the nature of psychic attack

 

The essence of a psychic attack is to be found in the principles and operations of telepathic suggestion. If we put together what we know of telepathy and what we know of suggestion, we shall understand its modus operandi.

 

Suggestion is of three kinds: Auto-suggestion, Conscious Suggestion and Hypnotic Suggestion.

 

The distinction, however, is not as fundamental as at first sight appears; for the goal of all suggestions in the subconscious mind is the same, and they do not become operative until, it is reached.

 

Suggestion is distinguished from threats and appeals to reason by the fact that these aim at a mark in the conscious mind. If they succeed, they owe their success to the acquiescence of the conscious personality, whether coerced or voluntary.

 

 

But suggestion does not make its appeal to consciousness, but aims at laying its hands upon the springs of action in the subconsciousness and manipulating them from there.

 

 

We might compare these two processes to the operation of pulling at the bell-knob outside the front door and taking up a floor-board and twitching the bell-wires themselves. The result will be the same in both cases, the bell will ring.

 

Threats and argument pull the bell-knob with varying degrees of emphasis, from the persistent tinkling of moral suasion to the resounding peal of the blackmailer. Suggestion twitches the wires at various points in their course.

 

 

Auto-suggestion is given by one's own conscious mind to one's own subconscious mind. Now, you may ask, why can I not give orders to my subconscious mind direct, without having to resort to the paraphernalia of suggestion?

 

The answer to this question is very simple. The subconscious mind belongs to a much earlier phase of evolution than the conscious mind; belongs, in fact, to a phase prior to the development of speech.

 

To address it in words, therefore, is like speaking to a man in a language he does not understand, In order to deal with him we must have resort to signlanguage.

 

So it is with the subconscious mind. It is no use to say to it, Do this: or, Don't do that. We must make a mental picture of the thing we want done and hold it in consciousness till it begins to sink into the subconsciousness.

 

The subconscious mind will understand this picture, and act upon it.

 

The actor who wishes to cure himself of stage-fright will fail to do so if he says to his subconscious mind, "Don't be frightened," for a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.

 

Equally, if he makes a mental picture of stage fright and says to his subliminal self, "Now don't do that," the result will be disastrous, for the subliminal self will see the picture and omit the negative, because the word "not" means nothing to it.

 

In order to handle the subconscious mind effectually, we make a mental picture of the thing we want done and hold it in mind by repeated applications until the subconsciousness begins to be influenced and takes up the task of its own accord.

 

 

This is the end-result of all suggestion, and the different kinds of suggestion are distinguished, not by the difference in end-result, but by the gate through which they enter the subconscious mind.

 

 

Auto-suggestion originates in our own consciousness; waking suggestion originates in the mind of another and is conveyed to our mind by the ordinary channels of the spoken or written word; hypnotic suggestion enters the subconscious mind direct, without impinging

upon consciousness at all.

 

Hypnotic suggestion (which means, literally, suggestion made during sleep, and is to some extent a misnomer) is of three kinds: firstly, true hypnotic suggestion, made when the subject has been rendered insensible by magnetic passes or fixation of the eyes on a bright object; secondly, suggestion given during normal sleep, as Coue advises should be done with children, in my opinion a most undesirable proceeding; and, thirdly, telepathic suggestion.

 

All these modes of suggestion enter the mind behind the censor; that is to say, they are independent of consciousness, which is neither asked to co-operate, nor has the power to inhibit them.

 

In most cases, suggestions made in this way are never recognized as coming from outside, but are only discovered after they have matured in the subconsciousness and are beginning to take effect.

 

We do not see the invisible seed, that has been sown in our mind by the mind of another, but in due course germination takes place and the strong-growing shoot appears above the threshold of consciousness as if it were a native growth.

 

The skillful suggestionist always aims at making his suggestions harmonise with the bias of the personality; for if they do not, the established sub-conscious complexes will expel them before they have time to strike root.

 

All he can really do is to reinforce and stimulate the ideas and impulses that are already there, though perhaps latent. He cannot plant an entirely alien seed. He cannot graft a rose-shoot on a lilac bush, for it will merely wither and die.

 

For growth of the thought-seeds of suggestion to take place they must find a congenial soil. It is herein lies the strength of the defence. We may not be able to prevent the minds of others from sending us suggestions, but we may so purify the soil of our own natures that no harmful ones can find a congenial seed-bed.

 

 

It is a simple matter to pull up a seedling nettle, but it is quite a different business to eradicate a thickset bank of tangled roots and stinging shoots, many years old.

 

 

It has been said, and not untruly, that a person cannot be hypnotised into doing anything which is contrary to his real nature. But what is the real nature of each one of us? Have we all overcome the ape and tiger, or are they merely caged?

 

Suggestion can unbar the cage of all our secret temptations and let them loose upon us. None but the saint is naturally immune. It is possible to reduce anybody to anything provided suggestion has unchecked scope for a sufficient length of time.

 

The purest woman can be made a harlot, the noblest man a murderer under certain conditions.

 

Knowledge is necessary to protect, and it is that knowledge which I intend to give in these pages. Let us now consider exactly how a psychic attack operates. In the realms of mind there is neither time nor space as we understand them.

 

I do not propose to argue this statement philosophically, but state it as a fact of experience which anyone who is accustomed to operating on the Inner Planes will have shared. If we think of a person, we are in touch with that person.

 

If we picture them clearly, it is as if we were face to face with them. If we picture them vaguely, it is as if we saw them in the distance. Being in the mental vicinity of a person, we can create a thought- atmosphere by dwelling upon certain ideas in connection with him.

 

This is how spiritual healing is done. The affirmations of Christian Science are used in order to get the mind of the healer into a certain emotional state, and his condition effectually influences the mind of the patient with whom he has put himself en rapport.

 

 

This power, however, can be used for evil as well as good; the Founder of Christian Science was wise enough to put her teaching in such a way that her students would not readily discern the second edge of the sword.

 

 

As long as the world in general was ignorant of the powers of the mind, it was better that nothing should be said by those who knew, because the knowledge, if spread abroad indiscriminately, might do more harm than good, giving information to those who ought not to have it.

 

But now that so much is generally known and even practised concerning the powers of the human mind, it is as well that the real facts should also be known and the whole matter brought out into the open, and as far as lies in my power I am prepared to do this.

 

Any message to the subconscious mind must be couched in very simple terms, because subconscious thought is a primitive form of mentation, developed before spoken language was known to mankind.

 

The primary aim of the suggestion is to create a mental atmosphere about the soul of the person, whether that person is to be attacked or healed, until a sympathetic response or reaction is elicited within the soul itself. (I use the term soul to include both the mental and emotional processes, but to exclude the spiritual ones.)

 

 

Once this reaction is achieved, the battle is half over, for the gate of the city has been opened from within, and there is free ingress. The telepathic suggestion of definite ideas can now proceed rapidly.

 

 

It is this point which is the critical one in any occult attack. Up to this point, the defender has the advantage.

If he has sufficient knowledge, the knowledge I hope to make available through this book, he can without any undue exertion retain that advantage indefinitely, and wear his attackers down, even if unable to meet them on their own ground of occult knowledge.

 

There is nothing in this world or the next that a hypnotist can do with the person who keeps his nerve and won't pay attention.

 

There are two gates, and two only, by which the attacker can gain entrance to the city of Mansoul, and these are the Self-preservation Instinct and the Sex Instinct.

 

The hypnotic appeal must be couched in terms of one or both of these if it is to be successful.

 

 

How does the attacker proceed? He has to create an atmosphere about the soul of his victim on the Inner Planes.

 

 

He can only do this by creating that atmosphere within his own consciousness while he thinks of his victim. If he wants to perform a psychic murder, he must fill his own soul with the rage of destruction until it overflows.

 

If he wants to perform a psychic rape, he must fill his soul with lust and cruelty. The cold rage of cruelty is essential to effectual operations of this nature. Now what happens when he does this?

 

He has sounded a ringing keynote in the Abyss. It will be answered. All beings who have this keynote for the basis of their nature will respond.

 

"Dark Uriel and Azrael and Ammon on the wing - " and will join in the operation.

 

But they do not operate direct upon the victim, they work through the operator. It is like the old game of Nuts and May, in which the one who is sent "to fetch her away" is gripped round the waist by the leader of a chain of supporters.

 

The real pressure comes on his own abdominal muscles, as anyone who has played the game will remember. And when the magical operation is over, what then? Will the operator be left to enjoy his victim in peace? Is IT LIKELY?

 

 

This is the mystical basis of the story of Faust. The Devil might be not only willing but anxious to enable Dr. Faustus to win Margarita, but he came for his soul at the appointed time.

 

 

We may also remember that if Margarita had not responded to the lure of the Jewel Song she would not have fallen a victim. The weak spot in the defence was after all in her own nature.

 

We have considered the modus operandi of telepathic suggestion in detail because it forms the real basis of every kind of occult attack.

 

Whether it be a discarnate entity, a being of another order of evolution, a demon from the Pit, or merely the panic-stricken soul of a selfish friend, clinging to the life of form regardless of consequences, in all cases the opening gambit is the same.

 

Until the aura is pierced, there can be no entrance to the soul, and the aura is always pierced from within by the response of fear or desire going out towards the attacking entity.

 

If we can inhibit that instinctive emotional reaction, the edge of the aura will remain impenetrable, and will be as sure a defence against psychic invasion as the healthy and unbroken skin is a defence against bacterial infection.

 

It happens sometimes, however, that a rapport has been formed with the attacking entity in a previous incarnation, and therefore it holds, as it were, the key to the postern. Such a problem is a very difficult one, and external assistance is needed for its solution.

 

 

The difficulty is increased by the fact that the victim is often disinclined to allow the break to be made, being bound to the attacking entity, whether discarnate or incarnate, by bonds of fascination, or even genuine affection.

 

 

A case with which I was acquainted throws so much light on various aspects of psychic interference by incarnate souls operating out of their bodies that it is of value to quote it at length.

 

In the summer of 1926 I saw in the papers a short paragraph describing the death of a certain man and his wife, which took place within a few hours of each other.

 

A couple of years previously I had been consulted by a friend of the wife, who was deeply perturbed about the state of affairs, and suspected psychic interference.

 

The wife, Mrs. C. we will call her, had begun to be troubled by nightmares, waking up in a state of intense fear, hearing the echoes of menacing words ringing in her ears.

 

At about the same time the husband, Mr. C., developed what at first sight looked like epileptic fits. A careful diagnosis by specialists, however, determined that although epileptiform, they were not true epilepsy.

 

Epilepsy is due either to a congenital tendency, whose nature is not fully understood by medical science, or to some injury or disease of the brain.

 

In congenital epilepsy the disease shows itself early in life; in fits due to disease, other symptoms are present which can be detected by a physical examination, such as changes in the eye that are revealed by the opthalmoscope.

 

 

The diagnosis can therefore be definitely established. Moreover, there is one sure sign by means of which an epileptic fit can be distinguished with certainty from a hysterical or psychic seizure.

 

 

In true epilepsy the urine is involuntarily voided in the course of the fit. This is a sure sign, and when it is absent we are safe in saying that the fit is not epileptic, whatever else it may be.

 

This is a useful point for those who have to deal with the pathologies that afflict the psychic temperament, for they will see plenty of seizures, and a sure method of distinguishing those that are of organic origin is very useful.

 

We must not, however, conclude that all cases of such incontinence are epileptics, for there are many other causes, both organic and functional.

 

In the case of Mr. C. this cardinal symptom was lacking. The attacks, moreover, always took place in sleep, and it seemed as if they were more of the form of severe nightmare, verging on somnambulism.

 

It was a curious factor in the case that Mrs. CS nightmares usually heralded Mr. CS attacks.

 

These occurrences showed a certain cyclic regularity, occurring about once a month.

 

In the case of a woman this would naturally be referred to the twenty-eight day cycle of her nature, but in the case of a man, no such explanation was forthcoming, and we therefore had to look for another twenty-eight day cycle to explain his periodicity.

 

The only other cycle of this period is that of the phases of the moon.

 

We were then confronted by a correlation of epilepsy form attacks, which had no organic basis, the nightmares of a second person, and the phases of the moon.

 

 

Some theory had to be found which would resume these three and explain their inter-relationship.

 

 

A dream is commonly the first way in which psychic manifestations make themselves known, the subconscious perceptions being reflected into consciousness in this form.

 

It is held by many occultists that congenital epilepsy, as distinguished from that due to tumours of the brain, has its roots in the operations of black magic or witchcraft in which the sufferer participated in a past life, whether as practitioner or victim, the fit being an astral struggle with a discarnate entity, reflected on the physical body by means of the well-known phenomenon of repercussion.

 

 

The moon plays a very important part in all occult operations, different tides being available at different phases of her cycle. Persephone, Diana and Hecate, all aspects of Luna, is three very different persons.

 

 

It therefore appeared probable that as the physical investigation had drawn blank, a psychic investigation might yield fruits. One was performed. And with the following results.

 

Nothing at all was discerned with regard to Mrs. C. She was merely what lawyers call an accessory after the fact. But the psychic trail of Mr. C. was soon picked up and followed, and it appeared that in his last incarnation he had been associated with two women, mother and daughter, who had practised witchcraft for his benefit.

 

The younger of the two women had been for a short time his mistress. Mother and daughter had paid the penalty for their crimes, but their male partner had escaped.

 

The diagnosis was as follows: It is the younger witch that is at the bottom of the trouble. It is her astral visits which cause the seizures of Mr. C. and the nightmares of Mrs. C., and they correlate with the phases of the moon because certain phases are favourable for the operation she performs and she therefore takes advantage of them.

 

The question now remains, is this woman in incarnation or not? That is to say, is the midnight visit paid in an astral body projected from a living human being, or by an earth-bound spirit which has succeeded in evading the Second Death?

 

Mrs. C. had by now been taken into the confidence of the mutual friend who was concerned for her welfare, and lent a ready ear to the suggestion that some psychic influence might be at the bottom of the trouble, for this explanation coincided with her own intuitions in the matter, intuitions she had not dared to divulge for fear of ridicule.

 

When asked if she could identify anyone in the circle of her husband's acquaintances who might prove to be the younger witch, she replied immediately that she could with out any difficulty identify both the women, and told the following curious story.

 

 

The older witch she identified as her husband's mother, an aged lady who occupied a suite of rooms in their house.

 

 

For this inoffensive old creature Mrs. C. had always had a peculiar horror and repulsion, although admitting there were no rational grounds for it, and honestly endeavouring to do her duty by her.

 

So great was her horror of the old lady that she would never remain in the house after her husband had left for his office in the morning, but went out herself to her club if she had no other engagement.

 

Among the frequenters of the house was an intimate friend of the elder Mrs. C., a woman of peculiar psychic temperament, who always called the old lady mother and was singularly attached to her, She was also very attached to Mr. C., but her feelings never exceeded, outwardly at any rate, the bounds of propriety, and Mr. C., who was sincerely attached to his own wife, never paid the slightest attention to her, looking upon her as his mother's friend, and as such to be tolerated.

 

 

Mrs. C. unhesitatingly identified Miss X., as we will call her, as the younger witch. Enquiries were then made regarding her history, and a very curious story unfolded.

 

 

As a young girl she had become engaged to a man who, soon after the engagement was announced, had developed galloping consumption and died after a short illness with a violent hemorrhage.

 

Soon after this, Miss Xs sister also became engaged, and by a strange fatality her lover shared the same fate, dying as died the other man, in a flood of his own blood.

 

Years went by, and Miss X. became engaged again. Soon the second lover fell ill, not, this time, with galloping consumption, but with a more lingering form of the complaint, in which hemorrhage was the principle symptom.

 

He seemed to linger on from hemorrhage to hemorrhage, and this went on for years. Miss X., a woman of considerable private means, took a house, installed an aunt as a chaperone, and took her finance to live there and be nursed by her.

 

Soon the aunt developed symptoms of illness; she appeared to be drained of all vitality and for days at a time would lie unconscious, but no specific cause was ever discovered for her illness.

 

 

This peculiar menage continued for years, Miss X. living in her big house with these two moribund creatures lingering on from attack to attack.

 

 

She was a constant visitor at the home of the CS, both during the lifetime of Mr. CS first wife and that of his second, the friend of my friend.

 

On the death of Mr. CS first wife she had great hopes, it was observed, that his attentions would turn towards herself, but they did not; nevertheless she swallowed her chagrin, and succeeded in maintaining her foothold as an intimate friend of the family when the new Mrs. C. came to preside over the household.

 

Certain methods of protection were suggested to Mrs. C. which helped her considerably, but it was not possible to exclude Miss X. from the house owing to her intimacy with the old lady.

 

In due course, however, old Mrs. C. was gathered to her fathers, and then young Mrs. C. put her foot down and said she would have no more to do with Miss X.

 

 

Mr. C. concurred in this, as he had always had a repulsion for Miss X., and had only tolerated her for his mother's sake.

 

Soon after this Mrs. C. began to feel unwell, the indisposition slowly progressed, until finally, although she had no definite symptoms, she was obliged to consult a doctor on account of her steadily increasing weakness and sense of malaise.

 

A diagnosis of rapidly growing cancer of the womb was made. An operation was performed, which gave temporary relief, it was not expected to do any more, and she went downhill steadily.

 

Towards the end she lapsed into unconsciousness, and at the same time, Mr. C. also became unconscious, apparently having one of his seizures in sleep, from which he never awakened. They died within a few hours of each other.

 

Mr. C.'s first wife had also died of cancer of the womb. About this time Miss X.'s aunt and fiance died within a short time of each other, and the last that was heard of Miss X. was that she had been removed to a nursing-home in the country with a severe mental breakdown.

 

Taken separately, any of the incidents in this strange eventful history can be explained away, but taken together they make a curious story, especially when it is remembered that without any previous information a psychic investigation had "spotted" the existence of a person with abnormal faculties who was interested in Mr. C.

 

 

Cancer is a disease upon which certain occult hypotheses throw a good deal of light. It is believed to be a disease of the etheric double, not of the physical body, and that a "Cancer Elemental" is the infective factor.

 

 

To prove or disprove anything concerning the foregoing story is impossible, but the following occult hypothesis may explain much.

 

If this hypothesis be not accepted, readers may find an interesting exercise for their ingenuity in constructing another that shall explain more satisfactorily the circumstances of the case.

 

Miss X. retained subconsciously the knowledge and powers that had been hers during the previous life when she was implicated in the witch-cult.

 

She also retained her passion for Mr. C., a passion which was obviously unrequited, She employed her power of projection of the astral body to visit Mr. C. at night, during sleep.

 

In the absence of details it is impossible to decide definitely whether the "fit" of Mr. C. was a struggle or an embrace. It might be either, or it might be both, an initial struggle ending in an embrace.

 

The dreams of Mrs. C. obviously related to the same astral visitant who caused the seizures of Mr. C.

 

 

There is, unfortunately, no record to show at what phase of the moon these attacks took place, but presumably at the Hecate phase, which is the period of evil witchcraft.

 

 

The condition of Miss Xs fiance and aunt and the death of her first lover point markedly towards vampirism. It is difficult to believe that a consumptive would continue for so many years without his disease either being checked or making definite progress.

 

It is difficult to say what the connection, if any, might be between Miss X. and the death of her sister's lover, but it is a curious thing that three men, associated with this ill-omened household as prospective husbands, should lose their lives in the same way.

 

This, together with the mysterious illness of the aunt, are very suspicious. As noted before, any one of these incidents could be explained away, but taken together they call for thought.

 

It is also curious that Miss X. should keep her fiance in her house and yet not marry him, from every normal point of view an arrangement with many drawbacks and no advantages.

 

On the other hand, if her feelings were fixed upon Mr. C. and were obtaining satisfaction by astral visits, she would naturally not want to break her rapport with the man she loved by giving herself to the man she did not love.

 

If she were a vampire, her motive for keeping the aunt and lover in her house, and their condition, would be readily explained. Also her breakdown, which followed immediately upon their deaths.

 

 

The fact that Mr. CS first wife died of cancer of the womb does not in itself call for remark, but it is a curious thing that he should lose his second wife from the same disease.

 

 

Cancer is not as common as all that, and in any case, there are many available sites beside the womb. On the other hand, Diana, one of the aspects of Luna, of whom Hecate, the goddess of witches, was another, presides over the female reproductive organs.

 

 

The illness of Mrs. C. began to show itself soon after Miss X. was excluded from the house.

 

 

Finally, what shall we say concerning the deaths of the three people most intimately associated with Miss X. within a short time of each other, and her immediate break down?

 

In the absence of details any conclusion must be guesswork, but we have good grounds for supposing that Miss Xs magical operations were attended by some mishap.

 

It may be said that such a theory is the wildest improbability and does violence to all the laws of evidence.

 

Let it, however, be born in mind that two years before these matters eventuated, the work of a witch in connection with Mr. CS epileptic form attacks was suspected and the nature of her relationship to him was indicated; and subsequent inquiries revealed the curious facts in connection with Miss Xs history and menage; let it also be noted that the happenings which subsequently occurred are such as have been recorded in many accounts of witch-trials.

 

 

It is a scientific maxim that the power to foretell the course of phenomena is a good indication of the truth of a theory.

 

 

~Dr Moore
 
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