SEALED LESSONS 

POWER 
First Series 
First Series 

Lesson 1 
How to Become a Power 

your Town, Job, Club, etc. 
by Ophiel 
OPHEL, and the Gnostic Institute, present the following instructions on how to become a POWER TO BE RECKONED 

in your Town, Firm. Community, Group, Job, ek. OPHKL hopes that you 

master these instructions and that you will 

by them 
fully and succeed in using them in your daily life from now on. 
Before I start giving you the actual instruction for this Lesson, there is an important 
matter that should first be called to your attention. 

Before you start an OCCULT-MAGICAL OPERATION, 

any other kind of work, an effort should be made to bring the operation into relationship with whatever cycle is running in the physical cosmos at the time. One mapr reason that many operations fail, and why other kinds of operations and projects fail as well, is that the work done does notcoincide with whatever cosmic cycle is running at the time -unless by accident, or by your intuition 


you that the time is ripe for this particular type of work. 

cycle detail is what distinguishes the real and operator 


the inept dabbler. To explain a little more fully. TlME 

ALL TlME -Time 

at this moment, is not always "right" for just any kind of work that you might want to start and finish. The could be right, as said before, but it could also be 


wrong time. That is, the situation present in your logical 

might not be REAOY for the changes in the physical set-up that you desire to bring about by your work, and there 

then be delays. This is 





example, this cycle is 

with inventors. Many men invent things, and then the things they have invented do not come into use until afler their death or patent has run out. This is often true of artists too. Countless artists have painted pictures that were rejected by the world during the artists' lifetime, only to be sold at fabulous prices afler the artist had starved to death. You could say that the artists' and the inventors' horoscopes brought about an invention or masterpiece 


the world's 
horoscope caught up with it. 
This sort of thing is very annoying, to say the least. But 


be understood, and by paying attention to the study of 


and the timing of 

to coincide 
with the right cycles. 
It is because of this that many 



work projects do not to move ahead after the occult work has been started. The delay may be merely that a particular Moon Cycle is in a dormant state, and if the student had just waited and worked a short time more the cycle would have changed and the work gone to completion and 
There is now published a little book called the Moon Sign Book, and with it goes an This book is the only real 

astrological book I have ever seen that is of value to the 


a great deal of practical information that will enable you to note the cycles daily, and to act accordingly. It is published annually in October with all the data for the following year. I want to respectfully suggest that you get this book and calendar. The price 
Student. It 


is 


Now we can get on with the 
instructions that may enable you to become a power in your Town, Job, Club, etc. Note that these instructions work with GROUPS OF PEOPLE, and not with individuals. If you want to control and persons, then send a dollar to the Gnostic for the Sealed Lesson Now to Control and Dominate Others. 
Whether you are aware of it of not, this 
Plane is the end result of a of "layers," also called "planes." 

Physical Plane, and, viewed from the lnner Planes, the Physical Plane is "outer" in to them, and is so called, as you know. 

All these planes, while apparently separate from each other by great differences, are really lined together in many more ways than in the ways that they are separated. 
You can see, when the physical eyes, the way in which the planes are separated, but you have to "see" through the effects the planes have on each other to see how they 

Thus it can be truthfully said that ANYTHING you can See, Feel, Hear. 

or Taste on the Physical Plane had its start, its origin, creation, fulfilling development on the lnner 

FIRST, and the final end result "came 

on the Physical Plane as the 

product of "inner" causes. 
You can readily understand from the above that persons and physical things could and 


have a 

on the lnner Planes, which duplicate is called in the A 
COUNTERPART. 
Now while it is easy to believe that persons and things have a counterpart on the lnner 
Planes, it is not easy to think that ORGANIZATIONS, CLUBS. TOWNS, CITES, 
STATES, NATIONS, POLITICAL PARTES, BUSINESS FIRMS, etc. -any kind of group 
or community that is organized -also have duplicates on the lnner Planes. 


the above 

also easily understand that, as long as all physical creation is the result of "inner activity first on the lnner Planes, if you want to influence this physical, you should first influence the "inner." This could be called creating 'CAUSES" TO CREATE"PHYSICAL 


You now possess all the necessary 

needed to enable you to use the following set of instructions. Knowing the existence of an 

for the 'Wing" or "group" you wish to influence, and through this lnner Group-Soul the powers that this group possesses, you can now 
the group to your own 
is the way to do it. 


FIRST.....check the Moon Sign Book and the your own intuition, to find a good time to start the work. Or, if you do not wish do this, then start the work with the determination to hold fast to the work until it is and you have succeeded in your no matter how long it takes or how apparent delay there is. Generally it is best to start a new work during the early phases of the Moon, three or four days the New Moon. 
Be patient, and determined. is very important to have firmly fixed in your mind WHAT YOU WANT TO DO AND WHAT YOU WANT TO ACCOMPLISH. The way to do this is to write down carefully and in detail what you plan do, and what your goal is. Make this a report, as it in reverse, of what you going to do and what you want to accomplish. Keep this record from all but yourself. 
SECOND .... seat yourself quietly and ON THE YOU WANT TO You know of the existence of an inner counterpart of the group you want 
to influence. As soon as you think of this counterpart, YOU  IN TOUCH  IT.  
This counterpart naturally has no  YOU CAN  IT.  
You can give it a body!  
You create a body for the group counterpart by  A  IN YOUR  
IMAGINATION.  A BODY IN  IMAGINATION AT  YOU  
ARE THINKING OF THE GROUP COUNTERPART.  

You are going to give this group counterpart any body shape you want to give it. This is your power. Therefore picture a form that suits you. (Ioften use a formless to save trouble). 
As soon as you picture this form, and meditate on the group soul counterpart of the group) you are working with. GROUP TO OCCUPY THE FORM YOU HAVE IT. 
You have now the soul. The more times you this work easier it is for you to capture this soul group again. 



The first part of the 

is now completed. 

you begin the real work. You talk to the group soul 

if it were 

real person. You talk and tell it 'Mat is 

.... You tell it what to do and how to do it. You order it to make no opposition to your directions. not ask it to do things; 


it to do them! COMMAND it to do things and to follow 

IT 

HAVE 

WHAT YOU 

IT TO-DO! 
Now use common sense. The first few times you do this operation concentrate on perfecting your control over this group soul form. THERE IS GOING TO BE .RESISTANCE, especially if you try to take over an old established group too quickly. Be subtle and cunning. Gain your ends by 

work, by round-about and indirect means. Exercise your control slowly but surely. If you a great deal of resistance then do this: 
Picture a jail house. Then see the group soul form in this jail house. If necessary, picture this group soul form in chains. Keep this form confined until it obeys your demands. 
Remember, though, about the Moon Sign 

and allow for adverse cycles in your work. Don't give up! YOU CANNOT FAIL! If you keep up your work, the time will surly come when the cycles will change in your favor and all resistance to your commands will collapse. 
Now again use common sense. It is more than likely that if you are trying to gain control over an old established group of strong characters, you will meet with great opposition. In this case don't 


ahead and force your will on through. If you do, you might break up the group and the strong character, that you really want to control, will go off and start another group rather than submit 



you even if they do not know what it is all about Do 



that their resistance is due to a cycle running in their favor, and you will have to wait it out until the 

changes in your favor. 
If you find that they are resisting you too strongly, then let up a little. Use the same kind 


First 

Lesson 2 
HOW TO 


A FAMILIAR TO 

YOU THROUGH LKE 

and The Gnostic present the following on how to create a FAMILIAR. Ophiel hopes that you will master and use these instructions fully and that you use them in your daily life from now on. 
A "familiar" is an old-time name for a sort of assistant-associate-extension of himself which the Occultist living in medieval times was able to create, out of PLANE MATERIAL, using Knowledge-methods adapted from the knowledge-System of the 
(spelled variously) also as "Kabbalah", "Quabalah", etc.). 
Naturally, it goes without saying, that the Roman Catholic Church then in power was very much opposed to these private occult and did succeed in their suppression and actually killed many of the Occultists who did this operation, driving them underground -and also discrediting them by labelling them as Witches and Warlocks. 
The forces of world opinion have again come around to the place where the power of the Roman Catholic Church has been greatly curtained and much Occult has been and is being rediscovered and recovered from the great store house of 
IMAGES, and is being made available to you so that you can help yourself to better life on the Physical Plane. The the creation of a better physical life for you on this Physical Plane, is the avowed object of this series of lessons from the Gnostic 
Institute.  
In the following  you will learn how to create a  
vehicle of the  of the  Planes, which  you  
can learn to  "live in" -and learn to use and operate in many different ways and  

for many different kinds of work. 

The opposition cannot resist the "Inner Plane work." All they have is the 


and if 
you control the "inner" you have the key to the fort. 
DO NOT 
about questions of right and wrong. All groups in this world are 

in the same way, but usually this control is unconscious. You are going to the trouble and expense of learning about these lnner things. Therefore you are entitled to the fruits of your labor. 
YOU HAVE TAKEN THE TROUBLE TO KNOW. ppeThe 

knowledge is available to them, but if they do not believe in it and do not want to know or use this knowledge, then they deserve anything that ha ns to them or whatever you choose to do to them. 
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! 


Now at the start of this study Iwant to those of you who may have some about this work there is nothing harmful or about it. The embodied in this Lesson is a step for you to learn in your efforts to this physical life. You will make no real progress in and on the Physical Plane until you have some knowledge and ideas of what goes on "behind all physical forms. 
Much of I am going to teach you in this lesson you now do, and do all the time naturally, and always have done it naturally. The difference is that you are now going learn to do it consciously and on purpose, with knowledge and with power. 
In teaching this operation to you, I intend to use several different methods enable you to get an grip on the main idea behind the instruction. This main idea is 
for you to know and understand that all  -ALL  -are not  
to this Physical Plane alone, but extended up and through all the  You cannot  
do  physical without also doing something  Astral,  and Casual.  
You use  the planes at once, and at the same time.  YOU  
SOMETHING PHYSICAL.  

This idea will be shown clearly in the first exercise that you will do -the WORK-STUDY 
OF YOUR HAWS. The second will show you how to extend the 
the whole of the body. This will be followed by exercises, first in the and then 
in Astral Plane, and then both together, and then in the Astral alone. 

First, as in all real systems of YOU START WITH 
PLANE. In this exercise you start with the fingers of your right hand. right 
hand up in front of you. your hand both ways and in all directions. at it as if 
you never saw it before. Then, holding your right hand with the palm you, move 
the thumb over the palm of your hand and say as you do this: 'THUMB". Then, 
the thumb bent over the palm, bend the first finger down the and say: 
"FIRST FINGER". Then bend the second finger down over the and say: 
"SECOND FINGER. Then bend the third finger down over the and say: 
"THIRD FINER". And then bend the little finger down over the and say: 



FINGER. Now reverse this procedure by raising the little finger and again saying: FINGER, and so on back down to the thumb. REPEAT this exercise about five times during the first day, and increase it several times each day for a week. 

a work on your right hand you should then switch to the left hand, increasing the time the same way you did before. Take your time about this. Don't rush and don't force or pressure yourself to increase the movements too fast. Rather, do the movements 
naturalness and earnestness and with deep feelings of the meaningfulness or 

two or three weeks of work in the hands individually start using both hands and 
up to about twenty movements of each hand. In three or four weeks you should be able to close your eyes and see an image of your lnner Hands and see them doing the same work as your physical hands are doing and at the same time. When this time comes, close your eyes and watch the Etheric-Astral hands do the movements with the exercising of the physical hands. Don't force this, just experiment a little on it. 

Next, lie on your back and put your right leg up in the air as you did with your right hand, first studying your leg as if you never saw it before and then working with your leg in much the same way as you did with your hand -but you develop your own "calls" on the movements. If you can use your toes then do so with these calls. But do what seems best for you and suits you best. Take a week with each leg, but ako keep up with the work on your hands. 
Next, sit down in a chair and bend forward and backward as far as you can and then bend from side to side, saying words 

or calls -to fit the actions. Take a week for this, but keep up with the other exercises. From time to time you can shut your eyes and study the image of your lnner Body that should begin to appear to you. This is what are building up. This lnner Body should appear as a grey-white shadow outline form You can begin to 


moving this lnner Body 

and more by itself and in connection with your physical body. 


NOTE -It is important that you should remember the 

in regard to the MOON 

BOOK given in the Sealed Lesson HOW TO 

A POWER IN YOUR TOWN, JOB, CLUB, ETC. There are cosmic cycles that sometimes work for and sometimes against you. Keep track of the good times and the 


times. 
Note carefully when the work is easy for you and when it is hard. For 
keep a record 



a 

of diary -of this and 

study the 

This is the only way that you can find out your own best times, and this kind of knowledge is what makes a good 

Student as there is no substitute for this kind of knowledge. 

MOON BOOK is published annually in October with data 

the 

year, 

and costs $1.50. 
After five of six weeks have passed with these preliminary exercise-work you will now 
enter into a period of extended exercising of your 


For the purpose of this 
extended exercise you will use a 


The use of this ritual which I am about 

give you has the added advantage of giving you to of which you 


vitally helpful in your MEMORIZE the following material, and memorize it so well that you will recite it without stopping to think what comes next. It sounds easy and it is easy, but it 


continue to study Ophiel's lessons from the Gnostic Institute you will in deeper, inner meanings of this ritual and of these words, but the ritual will still work well enough for you now. 

1. 	
Touch the forehead and say 
(Thou 

2. 	
Touch the breast and say (The 

3. 	
Touch the right shoulder and say 



the Power) 
4. 	
Touch the lefl shoulder and say 



(and the Glory) 
5. 	
Clasping the hands and fingers together before the breast say 
(forever, AMEN). 





This CABALISTIC CROSS RITUAL is the preamble lo the next section. 


it -
Face 

Visualize a 

dagger in your right hand. Trace a five-pointed star 

a banishing Earth Star -called a "Pentagram" according to whether it is morning or night as indicated in the diagram at the end of this lesson. After completing the star, stab it in the center and say 'Y H V H -(which is pronounced 

Turn South, still holding out your arm with the dagger while turning. Trace another star in the same way, then stab it in the 

and say "A 


N I" -(pronounced 



West, trace the star, stab it, and say "A 

I 
North, trace the star, stab it, and say "A 


LA" 

Return on around to the East. Extend the arms out sideways in the form of a cross 
facing the East and say: 
"Before me is Raphael. Behind me is Gabriel. On my right hand is 


and on my 
lefl hand is Auriel. 
"For before me flames the pentagram and behind me shines the six-rayed star." 
Repeat the Cabalistic Cross. 
Repeat the 



ritual morning and night, noting the difference in the way the stars are drawn as indicated in the diagram. Learn it thoroughly. Take about a month to work it carefully. Apart from this you should 

this ritual everyday as it does have a definite good effect on your whole being -from the physical to the spiritual. Do not force the ritual. Later you will learn to expand it in several directions and dimensions. Remember, do it morning and night. And continue with your other work. 
After you have 

the entire ritual for some weeks and know it very well, do the following: Take a teaspoonful of whisky, brandy, or ordinary rubbing alcohol and place it on a dish or some fireproof material. Do this in a dark room or at night. (Don't waste it flame and how it WAVERS as it bums. Watch the flame burn and get 



and wavering motion in your mind. Do this until you can 


the 

and the wavering when you close your eyes. You can also use a piece of blue paper or fabric the same color as 


flame to assist you in recalling this particular shade of blue, but looking at the flame is best. Practice this for a couple 


weeks until you can bring the appearance of the flame to mind without effort. 


In the meantime you are, of course, to keep up you work with the (the entire ritual described previously), with this addition: As you take the dagger in hand, visualize it outlined in the blue flame. As you turn with the dagger pointing out from you see the 

you are making outlined in the blue flame, and 

the stars as you 
make them. 
When you have finished the movements you should be standing in the center of a 
circle of blue flame with four blue flame stars 


quarter of the Earth, 

the and the stars will continue to be seen after you have traced then so that now you them all. 


At times 

work will 

easily and the visualization will be quite 

At other times your work will be hard to do and the visualizations will be dull. Note these in your Record along with the data from the MOON 


BOOK and see if 

find anything about these times that are 

Remember that all this time you have been working with the ritual you have continuing your work of seeing and moving the 


Body. When you have the point where the ritual is letter 


and your 

of the blue flame is you can "see" your Inner Astral Body of Light very 

then do as follows -Get ready to perform the ritual. Bring a chair with you into the circle 


Start and finish the ritual, and then seat yourself in 


SEATED PHYSGAL BODY AND 

IN FRONT OF YOU. YOU ARE THROUGH THE RITUAL-WORK MANY TIMES. 



Practice this many times. Use all the ways you can think of. the ritual physically. Have the Body of Light do the ritual alone. the ritual with the physical body and the Body of Light together. With practice you will develop a very good control over this Astral Body. be impatient! is a great art-work. 
This body you have of yourself is your FAMILIAR. From now on it is just a matter of training-work-training-work. Naturally the more you the Body of Light the more it will become trained, just as your physical body has become trained through use. 
You will discover, very soon, that this Body of Light will possess some will and life and independent movement of its own. However, as you have developed it inside the circle you should have no trouble with it. No outside forces can control it. The more you work with it the more of yourself and your knowledge and and life powers you can transfer to it. Just as an athlete must train his physical body and keep in "practice", so must the train his Astral and keep on practicing using it. 
When you are not using your Familiar, keep it inside you. Draw it back into you. Give your Familiar a name. Talk to it. In time it will develop a kind of independent existence of its own, but do not be alarmed about this as it exists only as an extension of yourself and you can end its independence anytime that you want by bringing it back into yourself. Remember, even your physical body has a kind of independence from yourself -it may be fatigued when you are filled with ideas and desires you want the physical body to carry out. How much less real independence this Familiar you have 
yourself created can have then is obvious. Are you going to work against  Of  
course not, and neither is this extension of yourself that you have  to help you  
through life.  

Whatever you may have heard to the contrary, or whatever may have been told, all that any FAMILIAR ever was is just what I have shown you how to create. It is an extension of yourself. You do not really "create" this extension either; it was there all 
indifferent and learn to use it consciously. 



Series 

Lesson 3 
How to Win the 


and Affection of Others 
by Ophiel 

and The Gnostic 

the 

instructions on how to 
CONTROL AND 




OVER 


which essentially means that you will Dominate the Attention of those you wish to control and influence , and attract what you desire from them. Ophiel hopes that you will master these instructions fully and that you will use them to help you in your daily life from now on. 
In this Physical World it 

that you control other people or that you are by others. It is just a fad of life that everybody is under some kind of control by others, or controls others himself. Therefore it is as much to protect yourself from such domination by other people, as to give you the power to command 


I am giving to the following 

Secrets. I trust 

you will make good use of them in both these ways. It makes no difference to me what you wish to make of these secrets; 
that responsibility is yours entirely. Much of the unhappiness in this 

is caused by the inability to get other people to 

with you in the ways that you desire. Please note that I am making no reference to any questions of right or wrong. (Again, that is your responsibility.) No one else can make these decisions for you, or bear the weight of responsibility for your choices of action. 
The most common trouble comes from a lack of love-responsein another person whose response seems most desirable to you. But, please be prepared to discover that, after you have started this work, you may have lost all interest in this one 

person whom you now desire. This happens so many times, and while it impossible to you now in this 

case, you can get quite a shock when you find it is true. Why this happens involves a deeper understanding of psychology than is important for this keep an open mind about the now-desired person and 



prepared in it 

happen. 
The next 

common trouble comes from a lack of 

and 

of a lack of appreciation, on the part of your superior for whom you work, and next on the part of those with whom you work. 
To enable you to handle these situations, and the others that into your life, I will first give you enough Occult theory to enable you to understand what you are going to do (I 

cannot work without knowing and understanding what I am doing and why, and Ihope that you are the same way), and then enough working enable you to put these theories to work for you to your satisfaction. Of a complete presentation of this 


take many pages 

bee given in this short and specific lesson. If you do want 

know more, you 

some of the more advanced study programs with the Gnostic Institute. 
To proceed, there are certain "rules" of the physical Universe that are 

but which are not widely known and are rarely understood by the average 

Student. (I trust that you are an 

Student, and hence I will not go into a great deal of detail.) Some of the least understood rules are: 
1. 	
The Physical Universe is "made up" of planes, or layers. 

2. 	
These planes or layers differ from each other in well 



ways. 
3. 	One of the least obvious and most important ways that 

differ from each other is that the 

or "outer" planes are 

to the "higher" or "inner" planes, 

the lower 

must always be affect 

actions 

in the high planes. 
4. 	Therefore, it follows that the only real way 
to the Physical Plane is through work done first on the higher, Planes. 
You can take the following statement as a 
fact: ALL THINGS ON THE PHYSICAL, OUTER PLANE THE IN THE Now, there is another rather subtle matter which must be taken into account in this relationship between the lnner and Outer Planes, especially so in the case of purely physical actions that are the desired results of your Occult operations. This is, in a sense not quite as you are used to thinking, that "actions" done on the lnner Planes are always reversed from on the outer planes. To accomplish a desired effect on the Physical Plane an entirely opposite action must be started on the lnner Plane. In other words, your lnner Plane action must seem to be just the opposite of the kind of action that would be needed to produce the effect on the Physical Plane. 

,This 

probably be somewhat difficult for you to understand at first, but to go into this 'reversal effect any deeper is beyond the purpose of this lesson. There are reasons for this effect, but for now it will be for you to know about it and allow for it. In your Occult studies you will find many things somewhat difficult to understand at first, until your range of experience and background knowledge has 

extended, and then these earlier complexities will simply fall into place. 
Now for one more matter, and then Ithink we can go on to the actual working methods. 
While it is true, as I said above, that the planes are reversed to each other, it is also true that you can reverse the 

And this is the reason that you are able to develop the ability to control others, to dominate their attention, and to get them to do what you desire. The planes are positive and negative to each other, the usual situation being the lower negative to the higher, and the higher positive to the lower. But you, by your natural 

powers, can reverse your actions and thoughts so that you consciously reverse your usual polarity to these planes and accomplish what you want -either 

on" the positive attraction or 

on" the negative repukion. people do these actions NATURALLY, and all love, money, and honors flow their way their whole lifetime. This statement is too obviously true for contradiction. Correct? Itrust you will go back over the above before proceeding with the Lesson, and that you will study it for a long time. More Occult Knowledge is there in a few paragraphs, as you will realize as time goes by, than in many dozens of the sugary 


"metaphysical" occult books that have been generally available. What you are going to 

do is learn to do consciously what a few have always done naturally and often unknowingly. 
Let us suppose that you wish to dominate 

attention of a certain person -male or female, your employer or someone in authority, or anyone else. 
BY DESIRING 

PERSON, BY WANTING HIS 

AND FAVOR IN THE FIRST 

YOU HAVE 

UP A 

HB IN 

YOU ARE THE NEGATIVE POLE AND HE IS THE 

POLE. 

TO HIM AND NOT HIM TO YOU. In a sense, you are driving away from 

the very thing you want. The action you have taken at the emotional level helps bring about the reverse of that which you want to take place at the physical level. 
YOU MUSTREVERSE 

POLARITY!!!! 
This is the way to do it: 
1. 	
Turn away physically and emotionally from the person. You must drop all physical 

2. 




A MENTAL 

IN YOUR 

IN YOU REVERSE THE 


YOU NOW HAVE PHYSICALLY. MAKE THE PERSON IN YOUR MENTAL 


COME 


YOU, AND TELL YOU WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR,talking and acting as he would 

he were actually doing what you have him to do all 


time. BUT YOU MUST ALSO 
ACTING CALMLY ABOUT IT! IT IS IN 
SUCCESS IN ACCEPTING HIS 
INDIFFERENCE THAT 




IN REVERSING THE POLARITY. 
Believe me, there is no other satisfactory way. 
Anyone and everything that to anyone in this physical life comes as a 

of being 


If you will study and 

any successful relationship in this earth, you will find those factors present -one of the persons is negative to the other: (there is a "negative 

If you think enough about these concepts of "negative" and "positive" you will perceive a great deal. And remember that you must think in terms of what level negative and positive things are taking place. As you mediate on these things, and as you practice the above two steps, you will find that your understanding of what happens in a relationship broadens and you will also open the door to understanding the various problems of human relations. 
I trust you will make an effort to apply this knowledge to the attracting of situation and circumstances, as well as persons, to yourself. In the case of both persons and circumstances, these methods do not need to be prolonged beyond the first statelstage. After the first work is done, and the situation is as you want it to be, you can discontinue the too positive or too negative on your part and yield 

the naturalness of the situation. To keep a relationship going is quite different from starting it. 


First Series Lesson 4 
How to Alter Your Name a Magical Name 
by Ophiel 
and The Gnostic Institute present the following instructions how you can ALTER YOUR NAME INTO A OF A NAME, which means that will change your present name into a NAME OF POWER! that you will master these instructions fully and that you will use them help you in your daily life from now on. The correct use of this Occult Knowledge give you a great deal of OCCULT POWER. How you use this POWER is up to you! 
Physical Existence is both great and wonderful, and terrible and cruel! We exist on this Physical Plane, and until an end comes we are stuck with it. For many people the Physical Plane is not a very pleasant place to live. Then again many other people 
to  derive  a  measure  of  something that enables then  their physical  
circumstances that that, if not actually happy  at least  to  a large  
degree of physical  which certainly is not  be lightly  
Now, as to the WHY of our trapped-in Physical Existence, we  never  easily;  
as to WHAT existed previous to this  Existence.  we  never know  


anything at all. But of this present itself we can find out know a 
few things. OCCULTISTS say that we are here OR A REASON! And hence, here, we must try to make the best of our physical existence. Therefore, to along as well as can we must search to find things will US through this Life. 
Whether you knew this or not, suspects it), it is that MAN IS NOT ENTIRELY HELPLESS in this seemingly heartless and where powers self. He have strange NATURAL that he can -powers that can POWERS. And the knowledge of the existence of our 'natural' powers is the positive thing that we can 



ourselves and 

physical existence! It is as if we were given these magical Powers as compensation for being 


into this 

THIS LESSON CONCERNS THE 
OF OF YOUR NATURAL 
MAGICAL POWERS. 
As in all my 

Ihope you will get, study, and master, as they were for your benefit, I will present the theoretical part first to lay the proper for the principal 


of that knowledge which follows; Thus you should know what you are doing, and WHY. 

Now, A SPOKEN WORK HAS 

IF SPOKEN 

INTENTION! TO KNOW THE NAME OF A THING IS TO HAVE A DEGREE OF POWER OVER THAT THING! This lesson 

these two Occult Power Principles. 

this lesson hard and try to use the instructions. Even if you succeed just a 

you can 

results that will gratify you. Now "study hard" means just 


There is more to these lessons than just 



few pages you now hold in your hands. The pages are just the means by which you can learn, but you don't gain Occult Power by merely reading them over. 


Go over them many times, and THINK about them until you feel that you understand. TRY THE INSTRUCTIONS, and think about what happens when you use this Power. If you study and practice these instructions 



will find that you will understandthe 




and you will slowly gain this Power. 
EVERY PHYSICAL THING HAS A NAME. (The use of the word "thing" in place of a specific 

is not condoned in good English usage, but in 

Matters the word THING seems to take on an inner 

reinforces its meaning. Therefore, watch the usage of the word 

in this lesson, and YOU substitute it for whatever specific 

you desire to deal with in your life, and in 

Work.) The name of a 

determines its form, being, use, existence, and the idea (image) "behind the Thing. Everything (THING) is brought into physical existence by being named, or, rather, by a NAME BEING 

FOR THE THING. 


The original naming of a THING goes to the first basic creation of ALL THINGS in and at the beginning Physical Existence. But, what you are in NOW is may these basic naming be adapted to your present life in such a way as reinforce your basic desire for a certain form of which you to about the Physical Plane for your 
As you know, if you are a student of the and I trust you are, the physical is made up of "planes" or "layers." These "planes" differ from-each other in various ways. It is well understood that the Physical Plane is the of these 
and what is now existing here on this Physical Plane was "started "down" from "above," or started the Planes and passed through each of these planes in until it reached point. Each of these alters the as it passes that plane, adding on or changing it in various ways. 
It thus follows, naturally, that as you desire something (THING) material, in a certain form and with certain attributes, you must get it from these lnner Planes. (All the physical things you have now, and WHAT you are now, you got from the lnner Planes yourself by your own efforts, even though they were probably unconscious efforts). You must take steps (deliberate, to arrange for things through to you. 
There are two things you can do to start these things you through to you. 
The first thing to do is to YOUR OWN NAME INTO A 
POWERFUL FORM. In this way you lay the foundations  from which to  
work later, to actively  to you the material things you want, and  qualities you  
want. The second thing to do is to  how  A  OF  
THING YOU WANT on the lnner  and by your new  PERSONAL  
NAME,  IMAGE TO  

Step one. The changing of your present name into a OF POMR is a relatively simple matter. By adding the suffix to your name you give it a link with a the means the Power and of God Almighty. This 'EL" ending added to your name, 


consciously and recalled to mind every time you speak it, brings God's Power 

Force into your 

Then the first 

is adding the ''EL" to your name. Now this combination should well. It must be euphonious. If it does not sound well then you should choose a 


new name. Ido not mean that you should change your present public name, as this would involve too much trouble. It is enough to call yourself the new name in private, and it 

be well to keep it a secret. Then too you can have several different names if you choose. 
Let us take an example. Take a 

like Green. Adding and EL to Green makes it 

does not sound bad. Therefore this ending can be added to this name easily and doing so links up the man with the powerful God force represented by EL. After adding EL to your name, you should repeat this new name to yourself many times each day, recalling as you do so the meaning of the EL ending. 

that all the names end in EL -

This 

L is the source from which they draw their power, and now that you know about this you can do the same thing in s smaller way. But enough for physical affairs. 

Step 

The building of a magical image of the thing you want, on the 

Plane, in your imagination, is an important operation. As far as I can find out this knowledge has never been given out in this form before. Ihope you will value it accordingly, and use it wisely and without talking about it. 

in any language has a basic meaning that goes back so far that the beginning is lost. Suffice it for now to say that all 

have deep meanings of 

and 

have GENDER. The knowledge about these things is endless and 

take a thousand pages to start 

explain it. It is enough for you to start at this point where you know that 

have gender, are male and female! Knowing this, you can build an image, in your imagination, of the THING YOU DESIRE TO HAVE. This image is a 

of the thing you desire. 

CAN BE GIVEN A "LIFE." 

-

into your 

Now note, 

knowledge can be one of the most important things in your life. The correct use of it can make 


sanely, use it wisely!! STUDY THE FOLLOWING TABLE 

A. Spiritual. Wings generally. Epicene, rather male than female. Rather thin. 
B. Male. Active. Slighl. 
C. Feminine. Full face. Not 

expression. 
D. 

E. I.Y. Feminine. Very white and rather F.' Use S. 

G. Feminine. Grey. Beautiful, yet changeful. Rather 

and body. 
H. Male. Fierce, strong, rather fiery. 
J. Use G. 
K. Masculine. Big and strong. 
L. Feminine. Well proportioned. 
M. Epicene, rather female than male. Reflective, dream-like. 
N. Masculine. Steady and 

Rather heavy and 

0.
U. V Masculine. Steady and strong. Rather heavy 

P. 
Feminine. Fierce, strong, resolute. 

Q. 

R. 

S. 
Epicene, rather male than female. Fierce, active. 

W. 
This is a double V, 


W. 

X. 
Is near S. 



Rather full face. 

proud and dominant. 




Maxuline. Thin. Intelligent 
This table is only approximate: you do not have to do EXACTLY as the table says. 
Slight variations will make no difference. 
The way to use the preceding table is as follows: You are going to construct, in your 
imagination, a 


to correspond with the name of the 

you are working The imaginary figure is to have a human form, 

it will have a body like a man, a head, a middle, legs, and feet. For example, let us say that your name begins with an S. Look at the table and you find that S is 


and epicene but rather male than female 

means that it is neither male nor female appearing). So the head of the figure will be fierce, active .(moving), neither distinctly male nor female but slightly more male than female. If 

was in the middle of the 

than the middle of the 

be fierce, active. etc. If S was at the end of the name then the 

of the figure would have these characteristics. 
Start your work by making up a mental image for your present name and examine it closely. If your name is 

short 

the image does not suit you, make up another name that you do like and can make a good image of. Or youcan make an image first that you do like and THEN 

UP A NAMEFROM 

IMAGE. So, the first thing to do is to 

up an image of your present name with the "EL" added. When you 

a name and image that you feel 

with, keep them, and keep them alive in your mind at all times. 

IS YOUR BASH: CONTACT 

THE 

PLANES. Speak the name out loudly many times! Talk to this image and tell it what you want! As you learn more, you can add or take away letters, as your concept of yourself changes or as your life desires change. 
Now let us suppose that 

thing. 

SPHERE OF AVAILABILITY, -(see my book The Ad and Practice of 

Things 

Through Creative Visualization) you can get it much 
by the of it on the Astral Plane and by using this image in addition to the other visualization work you do on it. Look at the picture of the thing you desire first, and then this imagination image of its name, and speak the sounds of the name. 

Another thing you can do, with this imagination image of the name of the THING want, is to blend it with your own namelimage. Do this on paper first. of down the figure of what you want, then the figure of your name, and then blend together, make up another image of what this blended figure would look like and use that as you do further work in getting 


you want into your possession. 

what word this new blended image makes and SOUND 

NAME TOO. This work is called INVOKING Use the above instructions when you want something. but do remember the laws of the Physical Plane. The 


Plane is stable and is subject to slow changes only, not to fast changes. So DO give 


time for the 

of your invoking work to 

the Physical Plane and come into your important thing to remember about the 


Plane is that the WORKINGS OF YOUR INVOKING 

NOT COME DOWN 

OUT OF 

COME ACCORDING TO THE WAYS THAT 

THINGS COME ON 

PHYSICAL PLANE. The physical things you get through your invocations will come like or 

and in a very natural way. Your friends will say that there was Work involved, but these things would have to to you anyhow! YOU KNOW BETTER!! 



First Series Lesson 
The Power of Speaking Things and Conditions Existence 
by Ophiel 
and The Gnostic Institute present the following instructions on how you can speak the THINGS and CONDITIONS you want into existence, and also limit those you don't want. Like all Occult Powers your successful use of it depends upon your full mastery of these instructions. 
Now you have many natural powers, and this POWER OF SPEAKING THINGS AND 
INTO EXISTENCE is one of these natural powers you already possess. And the Things and Conditions we are talking about are those THINGS CONDITIONS THAT ARE NECESSARY FOR YOUR HAPPINESS. 
Things and Conditions are rather closely tied together, but it follows naturally that it is easier to bring about conditions than it is to create Things. However, THINGS can be brought into your through CONDITIONS. So keep this distinction in mind when you need Things to make you happy and you determine to get then through the Magic Power of Speaking, INVOKING (in-voicing). It is a matter of Occult fact that YOU DO CREATE THINGS by Speaking them into existence, but these things exist only on the Inner Planes. THEY ARE THEN BROUGHT INTO (Your Possession) EXISTENCE THROUGH THE PHYSICAL CIRCUMSTANCES THAT YOU CREATE ON THE PHYSICAL PLAN€. 
Now, at this point, anyone with a sense is going to this getting of things I need tor my happiness is as easy as you make it sound, why do I lack anything? Why should anyone lack anything?" 
Now that Ihave made my opening remarks and have given you some idea of what it is all about, I will say it all over again in the way that it now exists for most people in the No person in 
world, BUT WHICH  NOT SO  FOR YOU AFTER YOU HAVE READ, AND  
MASTERED,  INSTRUCTIONS.  
.  




world lacks (any) EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD HAS 


BUT IT DOES 

THAT THESE THINGS ARE WHAT 

WANTS, or that these THINGS are necessary for his happiness. In fact, most of the Things we have we 

want and they are positively no our happiness, and yet WE HAVE OURSELVES. Every man and woman in the 



has created all his things for and by himself. Now, therefore, it should be obvious that 

SOMETHING WRONG 


MAN AND HIS CREATIONS! 
The solution to the problem is really quite simple after you gain some understanding of 
the 


and its basic 

40 years of 

Study and Work into this one short lesson, so I will give you some illustrations what should enable 

to get your mind started on the right and manner of 

the THINGS 

CIRCUMSTANCES THAT CAN 

YOU HAPPY. Ponder and 

on the illustrations 

I will give you, until you and the principles involved. Remember that an illustration or example is really a concentrated lesson taken from life, and there is much more to it than what first the eye. When you study it enough you see the 



taught in the lesson, in action. The "case" method 

the use of real life 

is one of the most teaching methods there is, but it requires that you 

yourself involved in the situation 


Allow yourself to feel that you are the person in the change places with all the 


in the example, think of yourself as there but only as an observer. etc. 


other words, look at the example from 

of view 

inside, outside, etc. 
The illustration I will use is a rather simple but true 

of a man and his dog. A man had a dog which he loved very much. 

man and the 

would 

on long walks which they 

enjoyed. However, there were also times when the man went of errands to town and didn't want the dog to go along with him for 

reasons. him, and thinking that the man was going for a walk, the dog would follow. There was always a great deal of 




in 

getting the dog to remain home at these times. One solution was just to shut the dog up in his kennel, but the man hated to do that as it would mean that the dog was shut up for several hours during the hottest part of the day. 
The problem was solved in an ingenious way. The man make a simple device that open the door to the kennel about three quarters of an hour 

the dog was shut in. The dog would then come out, and not being able to figure out where the man had gone, would remain quietly at home until the man back. 

My next illustration is not 

a case of history, but it will 

help you see .what is involved. In once sense we have difficulty in finding our illustrations for the simple reason that we are using material things to illustrate INNER PLANE FACTS. Many 


you certainly have used a piece of wood in some kind of project. Now have you ever really thought that you were using only one side of it? 


is pretty rare to use both sides of a board. Generally you use one side of it, and the other side is turned to the wall, or fastened to something, and is not thought of as being used. However, it is there, and must be there, or the other side of the board 



not exist. There is nothing on the Physical Universe that does not have TWO 

God has two sides!!! (I am not going to give you a list of things for which there are two sides, as such a list would be endless.) Now the two sides are generally what we think of as opposites. Make up a list of 

things that are opposite to each other, in order to condition your mind to this awareness. Such things as UP and 

BLACK and WHITE, SPIRIT and 

BIG and LITTLE, LEFT and RIGHT, etc. 
Now read over your list, and look back at the illustrations given. There are always 
sides, and it is this 



of all things that prevents us from having what we really want. When we get what we want we 

what we don't want, for that side of what we do want is followed by its opposite, just like the dog following his master. The two sides then oflen cancel each other out, like your expenses using up all your income. 
The two sides of things are really dependent upon each other. In a very 

sense they could not exist alone, without each other, or rather, they could not come into 


existence without each other. How could you use a that had only one How could a board of wood exist with only one side7 BUT YOU 00 USE THE 
OF THE BOARD YOU DO BY FASTENING THE OTHER just as the man fastened his dog in the kennel for a time. Essentially, you your results by concentrating on the you want, and by binding down the not wanted. 
To repeat: WHEN YOU, BY YOUR INNATE , POWERS, CREATE THE THAT YOU WANT OR YOUR HAPPINESS, YOU ALSO CREATE THE OPPOSITE!! (For God's sake, and your own sake, study this until you 
understand it.)  
In the examples, achieving the desired result was  by  THE  
ACTION NOT WANTED.  
All the old age magical operations had this binding  in them, but the  


instructions for binding were lefl out of books and never written down as This knowledge was really secret and passed on only by word of mouth. NOW THAT YOU KNOW OF YOU TAKE IT EVERYTHING YOU DO FOR REST YOU CAN BECOME A SUCCESS IN EVERYTHING 
The question that you should now be asking is, the is true, how is it that there are any successful people in the world? Can if be that the law of does not operate some, and only operates for some others to advantage? There people in the world who to get good with everything to do. Why doesn't it 
equally for all people? All right. Have you ever seen, or had with a very successful person? I someone who is a truly successful person -a successful gambler, a businessman, a successful physician, or even a crook? 
If you have, you must have noticed that THE PERSON NEVER, LETS ATTENTION AWAY THE ONE AND THE ONE WHAT DO. 

FAILURE AT ALL. HE THINKS ONLY OF SUCCESS, SUCCESS, SUCCESS -THE SUCCESSFUL OF WHAT HE WANTS, NEVER THE OTHER 
up to YOU to decide WHICH  YOU ARE  TO WORK FOR AND LOOK  
FOR.  
now many things that  me in the past. For many years my family was in  

the medium class hotel business where we dealt with many people who were not very successful in When I would speak to these people about things in life that were better than what they had, their reaction was one of carping and disparaging remarks of a negative nature about almost any that was brought up. Nothing is ever any good these people. 
On the other hand, when you talk to people, notice that they never talk other than optimistically about all subjects, and that their actions follow their words. This then is the binding principle that holds down the side you do not want. 
Now I do realize that it is very hard to think only of the one side when all your life you, and the rest of your world, have done the other. And all of your family and relatives do this other, and it is this that is holding you down in your efforts to improve yourself. All you can do is to make up your mind not do dixuss anything of a vital nature, or of vital 
to you, with them, and seek your company among the successful. Many times, in order to that what you really want in life, it is necessary to get away the old surroundings and seek a new set-up for living. Endless stories have been told about people who left their home surroundings to seek fortune in wider fields, and FOUND IT. You can be the success you want, if you work only for that success and eliminate from your life all the circumstances that tend to bring failure. GOOD LUCK!! LOTS OF SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS!! 


First Series Lesson 6 THE POWER OF THE LOST WORD 
by Ophiel 
Ophiel and The Gnostic Institute present to you the following information and instructions with regard to the nature and use of the "Lost Word -which, when understood and used properly, can bring you things you desire. 
The Lost Word has been Re subject of many ancient legends, and has been 
described as a Magickal word which, when spoken or  or  properly  
would bring all material things desiredto the  of the  of the  
The legends further say that the  use of this WORD  lost  thousands  
of years because the type of illuminated Man who could use the  properly  

passed away in these times when men were concerned with other things of a base 
nature. But,. now as the Earth is entering into the the minds of man are again turning to the inner, higher type of things, and many are beginning again able utilize the POWER of the "LOST WORD." Are you one of them? 
We will first give you some knowledge-material of the use of the Try it. Mediate on it. Attempt to use it in the practices that follow. Each will bring to 
When find that you are ready for more contact us again, and advanced knowledge will be available. follows the basic and about the "Lost Word." 

This is the LOST 

itself: 
The above is written in Hebrew. (If you don't know the meaning of it now, we 


not going to tell the meaning of the WORD now as you might be inclined to say: "Oh, is that all it is." If you do know the word you will not likely be the kind to treat if with flippancy.) 
As you can see, the word is composed of four rather strange looking letters. Be fore telling you about the 

we want you to note how the letters are formed. Note that the letters all seem to be formed from something like this: 

Illustration 
which seems to look like the first letter of the word (reading from right to left, 

from left to right). This letter is called 

and it looks something like a flame. If you will look closely at the letters you will see that they are all formed from this same YOD in a somewhat different form, but one still 

as a flame-YOO. The Hebrew alphabet is called the 'name" alphabet. If you will look at the other three 

of the WORD you will note this fact -in a slightly different form the 


all three 


Also in Hebrew each letter is and also has a name, and a number. Thus, besides being called YOD, the letter also means HAND. (There are other allied meanings far beyond 
the  of this lesson, which will be treated in other  offered by  and  
The Gnostic Institute.)  
In the sense we will use here,  means  THE HAND OF GOD which  all  


creation in it's grasp, which hand is now dosed, quiescent, potentially all, 
(There is another letter which also means hand, but this hand is the open hand of God.) 
The second letter is (pronounced "Hay"), and it's meaning here is WINDOW, or WINO-DOOR. A allows the pneumous-air in motion-living air, to enter a place or house., Also a window gives a view of the outside to those inside. It can ako mean a view into your inner mind, etc. 
The third letter is VAV, which means NAIL or Sword. A NAIL fastens things together. 
~-


is another 

but in 

there is a little mark 

the 


is a final Heh (remember in 

you read from 

to 

This is 

end 

the view that was 

a window. few descriptive words you have the whole "secret" of the 

of 
Word. Many of you who have studied long 

will grasp the 

nations at once. If you don't, do not be 

You need only 
more study 


IN  PHYSICAL  SUBJECT  THE  
WORD.  NOTHING  PHYSICAL-MATERIAL  CAN  
ACCOMPLISHED WITHOUT THE 'WORD  



Let us take 
example 

this example will 

all things that you may want 

get in the future you want a certain automobile. We will 


suppose that you have 
ans in your life of we do not know about, of course, but things 




be keeping you from having your desires in regard to this automobile. 


you have 

at all then your work will have to be more intense -get 



for the purpose of 

Sealed Lesson inOccult Power we will 

this entire subject, but only its basic part 

you 
and understand anyhow. You now determine to use the system of the 



of the WORD to obtain what you want. 
Tale the 

YOD. Meditate on the idea of God's hand, having all things in it. ALREADY. 

thing or things you want is there NOW NOW 

So the 
automobile you want is there NOW. 
Proceed to the second letter, 


the window. Mediate on this as long as 

like to get into the mood of the idea. Look into your mind and 

in your imagination, the 

This means that you must do all that you can to build up this inner 

andlook at the 


showroom, get pictures of it, study it, go sit in it, get to know it in all its details -every little detail about it -in and for "real." Then you must reproduce these details in your imagination picture clearly. 
This done, proceed to the next letter, 

the Nail. You know, nails are used to fasten things together. Your work is not to put your 

and your imagination-picture together. FASTEN THEN 

Now I admit that at first glance this statement will seem rather vague. This is due to the fact that in our English language there are no exact words for this sort of lnner-psychic plane action. What is meant is that you put and your imagination-picture together with FEELINGS, EMOTIONS. If you will check a large dictionary you will find that the word "emotion" means A SORT OF MOVEMENT. An inner movement. The word comes from the Latin word 


which is 

-out 

-to move, or out-move. So one definition is an inner feeling that moves out. You must feel that you and the 

you 

are ONE 

It will never be quite clear just HOW this kind of emotional connection will make the object come to you, BUT 

HAS TO BE DONE 

YOU CAN GET THE OBJECT YOU WANT. You have to pass through this stage with a very natural connection made between the object and yourself before the object can come to you in "real." 
And now to proceed to the last letter, the second 

The 

is the first Heh become real. The second Heh is the state of your desire fulfilled. The view from the of the first Heh is now for real. (Read over again the paragraph on the 


page dealing with 

as the window.) There is more to this, but in this sort of Sealed Lesson Icannot go too deeply into it. What Ihave given you is the foundation you will need anyhow. If you will do the work I have outlined here you cannot fail. 

long it may take 

OPERATION CANNOT FAIL! 
How long will this operation take in my case? 
It was to answer this question that Ophiel wrote the previously referred to book, THE ART 

'PRACTICE OF GETTING 

THINGS THROUGH CREATIVE VISUALIZATION. For many people the understanding of the use of the "Lost Word as 

described in this 

will be enough and they can 

to demonstrate it 

immediately; for 

other people 

this was my own 

it is not so easy to demonstrate due to many other factors of an outside nature that have 


be first taken 


of. 


you are one of these people for whom the use of the "Lost Word does not work fast enough then gel my book so that you will be able to take care of these other factors. 


The "Lost 

translated "JEHOVAH all through the Old Testament, and it is translated as "LORD". The true real 


of the word is "LAW. As you 

see from the description of the action to be used in applying this Word it is a 

of rule, or a procedure to be followed. This 

is A LAW -a LAW OF 

There is no physical process on this Earth that does not follow the action outlined in this This rule is not ... 
it is the 


W 

ALL 

is no physical 

on this Physical 

that does not 

this operational Caw. You now know its use, and you NOW HAVE ALL THE POWER THAT THERE IS. It is yours when 

as you to use it. LEARN IT. 

IT! 



Second Series 
Second Series -Lesson 1 

INTRODUCTION 
Ophiel has begun a new series of Occult essays concerning the application of basic 
Cabalistic principles to day to day living. 
Ophiel 


that many of these essay admonitions should like old 

ten times told old wives 

husbands tales, or old Sunday School precepts. But thought that as the 


did contain a modicum of workable knowledgeltruth, they might bear repeating. These essays 

contain 

of Life popped up, or 

again, from other before being traced back to their primal source, (like an old tomb that one enters from the original entrance only to find that others have made an entrance from elsewhere and have entered before unrecognized.) 


Ophiel does not mean to put himself in the position of hustling you to buy his books. but most of the basic Tree of Life Occult Knowledge was given in his book The art and Practice of the Occult. Iwill refer to these basic patterns in these and future writings. 
You and Your Desires 
by Ophiel We have all been through so much mixed-up minor stuff in our lives that we can very easily get confused and lose sight of ourselves and our goals. This is especially true for those of us who have had some Occult work knowledge and training, and ako for those of us who have had poor starts in life and are now trying to amend and correct our lives through Occult development, and the use of 

techniques based on 

conceptions of the 
What I mean to say is that many of us are in the midst of our incomplete development, 
and while we realize that we do not know enough yet to change the world, or the world 



around us, we 

forget that-there are a 

basic, simple, Occult techniques 

that are very effective which we can use consciously us along our ordinary life paths for the time being. 
Then again, many of us have contacted a number of different teachers and systems in which we were presented with a number of techniques, seemingly from the other, and coupled with dire warnings against the other guy and his works. merely add to the confusion. 
I don't know under whom you are now studying, nor do I care. I teach the 
system in my books and lessons. To me it has been the easiest understand and 
use. 
However, there are certain basic Truths which are self-evident and are in any kind and all systems. If you will go back to these, not neglecting your other more advanced studies, you can handle most everyday 
The basic of all is that you have a part of your mind which 
all the unconscious work necessary to maintain your body functions. a deeper portion of this appears to be linked to the Universal Subconscious, which can and does bring you into touch with aspects of daily living that you satisfactory and desirable for your well being and 
However, this part of you, your sub-mind, is also somewhat by your and desires. If you have, and keep, a receptive, hopeful, you will understand naturally that you are in a much position to an that 
if you were in a ''blue'' mood, closed to outside incoming  and ideas. All this is  
simple and has been harped on many times before.  simple, BUT  So don't  
get in blue, bad moods, I say.  
"Easy enough to say," you say! Well, it is simple  but  in  

blue moods all the time and stay that way while studying the Occult! It is easy to get into a blue mood. BUT IT IS EASY ONE 

There is an old hymn that you have heard many times before, so many times in fact, that the meaning of the hymn has been dulled. The name of the hymn is, 'Count Your Blessings." 
Well, you know that is really true. Stop and think BACKWARDS of what good things you have now in your possession and say, "Heck, I am basically lucky!" Doesn't sound like much, but it does open up the lnner Mind to receive more. Keep at it, and for some days feel it. It does work. 
Make this simple assertion while doing your advanced Another simple twist you can give the previous assertion is to write out all the things that you want, as if you were advertising for them. I tell you this because I wrote out an advertisement, and 


got exactly what I asked for from an unexpected source. I know that it was the writing out, the thinking out, the visualizing, that did it. It won't hurt you to try these two methods: to clear up your quiet periods by reviewing your good possessions and good points, and to put your desires down in detail in carefully chosen words on paper. The more details you put down in writing, the more you impress these into your sub-mind, whose particular form of lnner activity is supposed to bring you the thing or things you desire and visualize. 
There is also another 

which 

like to describe to help you achieve your lifelliving desires. I did 

all the things for which 


really visualized. (Many things Imildly desired but didn't to any real work on their acquirement, so Ididn't get them). 



am not aware of how (HOW) they actually came to me, (the actual transfer method, as it were), but they camelarrived, and the first 



I realized was that I had that for which Ihad 


confused and delayed the 
When I looked back I was unable to immediately trace the desired object's exact arrival. I have never been able to trace the exact path of arrival and, in fact, when I tried to do this, I now know, arrival of the desired object. When I was a 

I once conceived the idea of watching myself go to sleep. I tried 

a number of 

the effort drove me 

It was a long act of watching such an operation will invariably confuse the whole action and destroy its smooth working. As in trying to watch go to sleep, it destroys this subconscious action of letting go of the objective wakefulness. 
time  I concluded that  go  to  sleep  was  basic  
impossible.  
It was almost the same as with  a visualized  to you.  


It is desire that each of these Vignettes you are to hand draw a of Life, indicating on your drawing the place that the subject matter in the Vignette pertains Some of these Tree of Life indications are not too clear, but do your As you progress and find that you were not correct in the first attempt, change the indications as you learn more. 



Second Series 

Lesson 2 The God that is in my Mouth 
by Ophiel 
This vignette applies to day by day living and some day by day actions we indulge in. I am assuming that you want to do the best that is possible by yourself, without going deeply into metaphysical every little minute. 

The title of this vignette comes from Egypt in a very old writing. (I cannot remember 
from where exactly, but it was either from a tomb inscription of a Book of the Dead.) A little thinking, examination, and meditation on this title will show that the ancients were not dumb when it came to 

which are as 

NOW as they 
were then, and are more understandable now than then. 
You do have a God in your Mouth and, of the one meaning of this statement is 
that your Power of 


is of the same type of Power 
(speakinglcreating) that the First Cause used when he created the Physical Cosmos 
out of himself!!!! (You create your local physical sphere yourself!) 

This self-creation power of yours is quite different, and 


to explain easily. I may 
repeat myself several times in trying to cover the ramifications so, as usual, please 
excuse the repetition. 

I will go back a little to lay the foundations for this vignette. 


I would like to say that 
these vignettes are tied together in various ways, but Iam not going to arrange them 
you, as Iwant you to get the connections yourself. 


Next, we are constantly 

off' our mouths. We are constantly ''talking" -naturally -but what we talk about represents our ideas. (You will have to look in another vignette for 

as to where our ideas come from, as to what the nature of the Astral Light is, and how we impress our 

upon the Astral Light.) 

Our Ideas become feelings ABOUT ourselves and our surroundings, 

these tend to become FIXED FEELINGS in our Aura, 


personal Aura of our portion of the Astral Light), and become the personal surroundings of our personal life. 


To get this more simply, think about your personal and your speaking 
hold a thought, or hold a good thought correctly." 
of course, holding a good thought means not to speak the opposite thought. 
To give a simple example, I 

found myself saying 

my dog, "bad doggie," not actually meaning it, but saying it as a term of 

This is not a thing to do although it is true that the FORCE of the wrong wards will not be put "OUT' on the dog unless you are very angry or emotional about it. (Please read that over until you fully grasp its meaning.) BUT THE 

AND THE REPEATED SAYING, BY YOU, OF SIMILAR WORDS. 

EFRCT YOU IN RETURN, through the 

of the Astral 
Light which floods through your Inner Being all the times and does 


your basic 
attitudes. 
What you are studying now is the negative 


of expressing 

through 
speech. We will come to the positive aspect next. 
There is also a mystery here as to whom you really are. YOU speak out like a 
and so do create, and yet, you are affected by your own 



showing that YOU (WE) do not clearly understand YOU (WE) yourself or your Powers, creative or otherwise. 

you. will reexamine your 

patterns you should be surprised at the wide prevalence of your derogatory style of speech. You 

constantly say 

others. 'You are a rat!" or 'You are a bad child!" or 'You are a dumbbell!" or 'You are a damn fool!" or 'You are a 

child." You are this, this, and this, The pressure of a constant barrage of destructive 


bring about the very thing that is not really wanted by anyone, the speaker or the 

to. And this is on the part of 

speaker destructive effects of his and in many cases could not be persuaded that his ordinary talk have an effect on others and, through them, on the physical environment. My poor Mother was the victim of this type of situation. Her whole life was spent in denouncing one thing or another, but fortunately she the opposite way she spoke and some harm was avoided. 




I do not remember all the details now, but there was a girl child whom all the teachers considered impossible and dumb, and the child acted accordingly. One teacher, however, decided to treat the child better and began to use simple assertions and positive statements that she was not a "bad child, that she was not dumb, that she could improve, etc., etc., and she did respond remarkably, which, I agree, all sounds very trite and 
But is not really so. Your do govern your life more deeply than you think they do. Now whether you can change your ways much remains to be seen. 
In other Vignettes,  try to explain the mechanical  for the above previous  
statements. I can say now that the working effect of  is due to the  
actions impressed on the Astral Light by your use of  that is in your Mouth.  

So, for Heaven's sake, and your sake, use the God in your Mouth to create THINGS for yourself, and for others. It is the same power used either way. It is your choice. 
It is my desire that afler each of these Vignettes you are to hand draw a Tree of Life, indicating on your drawing the place that the subject in the Vignette pertains to. Some of these Tree of Life indications are not too clear, but do your best. As you progress and find that you were not correct in your first attempt, change the indications as you learn more. 

Second Series 

Lesson 3 
Some Ideas About God 

The general ideas about God are hardly 

by the masses 

I want to sound as if I am a non-believer 


an agnostic -for I am 

Ido 

that there is a basic First Cause somewhere, but I am quite sure the present widely ideas of God as a type of 


are quite wrong, as is the picture that Michelangelo painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel showing God as an old bearded man-like form clad in an undershirt, floating in AIR, and borne up by some other human form-like creatures called "angels." (These are not Jewish or Christian but 

to the Loroaster system of theology. These 

the Jews 
from their period of captivity in Babylon.) 
God definitely is not 



and, 

to the 

of the comes from outside the area of the beginning of the Tree of Life diagram. There are tantalizing scraps from 


(which sources, and Gnostics, destroyed by loving Christians) which hint at something called a 

or 
urgos. 
There are 



rather interesting 

in the dictionary, attached to this name 

both of them very thought provoking for us. 

of definitions by rote. 

1. 
A Platonic subordinate Deity who fashions the sensible 

2. 
A Gnostic subordinate Deity who is 



in the light of internal ideas: 

of the material It would seem from these definitions that more than likely an extremely spiritual, would have to work through some kind of agent if he 



and maintain a physical world of 




and thus this agent could well 

a sort of half-God, 

meaning "half.") 
Myths are full of stories of gods who begot, in various ways, children by mankind. Their children were usually boys who grew up to be heroes and "saved people from various dangers. and thus were saviours, corresponding in many ways to the basic story of Jesus Christ, whose mother, as you will recall, was "'overshadowed" by the most high, and thus Jesus was born of a virgin girl and not through the agency of a 
The basis idea in writing this vignette about God is to try to arrive at some idea as to how to CONTACT him 

and get results from that 

positive results and not just hit and miss actions, sometimes working and sometimes not, with no dear explanation either way. 
Obviously, as far as we can sum this up, if this Physical Plane universe is and maintained by a non-physical, tenuous, (tenuousness), ethereal, null, obscure. 

shadowy entity, how then can we possibly IT directly with our prayers, for definite material things or material actions. WELL, in view of our knowledge of the nature of this First Cause we would say that it just 

not be done. 
Yet there are undisputed evidences all through history that prayers are answered, many times, and we note this fact, 

it, and leave it for now. 
On the other hand Hitler shoved 6,000,000 Jews into the gas chambers and this God 
apparently did not lift a finger to save them. Yet the Jews still worship this God. I have 


real answer but this vignette is an attempt to search for an answer of some kind. 
The Jews worshipped a single God only, while other peoples had a multiplicity of Gods and Goddesses. 
However, the Jews had the system of the 

and if you 

and study Dion Fortune's book. The Mystical Qaballah, you will find that each of the Sephirah has a different NAME OF GOD attached to it, and this name describes the 

of God, functioning in that particular 

location. (You had best study this for 


yourself as it is 

long for this little article.) 

Now the catch is that when these different of 

were 

the translators, not having any Occult insight, translated all these different names of God as just one name -God. So the inner 
was in translations. 
All this still leaves the original question about God, and if there is an agent of God? 

This God agent, the the can be identified as the Astral Light. The 
Astral Light flows into this  from "beyond." It is  the five  
Elemental Forces in One. Another name for this is Prana -The Four  F  
Air, Fire, Water, Earth, and the bowl,  into which they are  (Another  
name if the Holy Ghost.)  
In my book The Art and Practice of the  I go  this  somewhat more  

deeply. I do not mean to hustle you to buy my the information is in this 
and my other books. 
The Astral Light is the Agent the great Agent for the First Cause God and 
this Physical Plane. 

It should be getting clear to you now as to why Creative Visualization can and 
work, as well as ordinary prayer does. It is you, YOU, ON THE ASTRAL 
LIGHT, that does it; YOU, working on the that does it. it is your 
working through your subconscious mind that your with the 

It is my desire that after each of these Vignettes you are to hand draw a Tree of 
indicating on your drawing the place that the subject matter in the 
Some of these Tree of Life indications not too clear, but do your best. As you 
progress and find that you were not correct in your first attempt, change the 


as you learn more. 

Second Series 

Lesson 4 
The Symbol Method of Astral Projection 
by Ophiel 
The Symbol method of Astral Projection is one of the oldest Astral Projection methods known. There is every reason to believe that this method came from Egypt 2000 to 3000 years ego. The Egyptians filled their temples and tombs with symbols for the things they were interested in, and used these symbols as meditation focal points for the accomplishment of their desires. 
For example, a picture of this type on the walls of Tutankhamen's tomb shows him in the action of kicking war prisoners. This picture implies clearly that Tutankhamen was successful in warfare, as it is obvious that were he not, he would have no prisoners to kick. 
This picture of the tomb's wall, drawn by and sealed with Egyptian magic, is a powerful visualization magic glyph, the proper use of which guaranteed in any war he night have had to undertake during his reign. {He actually had no war during his short reign.) 

In this case the actual 
glyph work was done by the Egyptian Temple and not by the Pharaoh personally. 
The object of this Egyptian magic symbol was, of course, to contact the lnner Planes of Forces and arrange and direct these lnner Plane Forces so as to produce an Outer as desired, which was for the welfare of Egypt. 

You may do the same thing in a smaller way, by your own efforts, for your personal benefit. 
This work is a great Art. In this lesson Ican give you directions for contacting one of the lnner Plane Forces 

the Earth 



are countless forces but the method is the for all of them. The 
that follows will start you out ion this great work. Your first requisite is to learn firm WHYS and HOWS, then you will be ready to expand your lnner Plane work as far as you are capable of doing. 
It will be necessary for you to prepare a symbol Get a square of yellow paper, and paste square in the center of an 8 x 11" of white paper, using flour paste. (No synthetic plastic of glue.) 
Start work by seating yourself in position. Arrange for a source of light fall on the symbol. The gaze at it steadily for one minute at first. Do not strain yourself. After gazing at yellow square for a minute. turn away and look at a blank sheet of white paper. You will see on the white by reflex action, an image in complementary color to yellow. (A sort of violet.) This image will appear and (it disappears into the lnner Planes). Close your eyes and you will see the again. Now attempt to grapple with the image. Attempt to enlarge the image in your combination Enlarge the image before you go to the of a large "door." With the door firmly fixed before you, "step" forward and go "through 
Now the first time Idid this, I nothing but darkness, so don't get with 
your work. Later Ibegan  dim  of  
Now you have learned the  way to  A  as a method of projection. If  
you want to go further into the Element  then read up, and follow up, on the  
directions given in the material of the  which has been reprinted by  

Publications in the two volume GoldenDawn set. This same method can be used with any material thing, using the thing as a and treating it in the same way -by looking at it and then by closing the physical and recovering the Plane image, which is then used as a "door." 
In this case the of some material object, (whatever you select), should lead up" first through the and then on back up the to the of the 

At the beginning of your lnner Plane work you might not recognize the lnner Plane that come to your consciousness. They will not seem like anything you recognize, but in time, if you persist, your lnner will resolve these scenes into situations that you can cognize. Remember that much of the lnner Plane Knowledge comes to you in the of feelings, not printed words, and these feelings are registered in the lower pit of the "stomach," actually the "Zeus Plexus," solar 
plexus). Now, you know that any  who tells you he sees printed words in the  
messages he gives you is lying.  
Now to repeat, so as to make it  clear. To gain Knowledge about a certain  

material "thing," set the "thing" up as a symbol, put lights on it, and look at it. Then close your eyes and recover the complementary image. Enlarge this are you would a "door," and then project your Self through the door. 
You should understand from this lesson and from other lessons, that every object that exists on the Physical Plane "exists" on "back up," and on all the intervening Planes, "back up" to its "creation" in the "Mind of the First Cause," or 'The First Creator," as it were. Everything is this way; everything has God for an 
This idea is nothing new. I was reading over a book about the history of Christian Science and many philosophies were quoted to indite that that had all, more or less, said that "All was God,"in dozens of ways. But here in this re-adaptation of an old action, you have the first practical way to reach the God "creating area" YOURSELF, IN PERSON. 
first person who read this asked me: "How about using this method on if you want to get someone who won't respond to your advances?" 
Well students, there way. But you cannot compel love, remember that. However, who am to judge what you should make of your life's powers? The responsibility is yours alone. 
As I said, there is a way something can be done with along these lines, to the of persons. This help you 

to press your suit if you think you are truly in  (If you are not really in  it won't  
work).  
Now, attend.  I  do not do these things myself. I have seen it tried, and  it  

worked and sometimes it didn't, but that was good, all agreed in the end it was good it didn't work). On the other hand, regarding the time it did work, the persons involved have now been happily married for nine years. 
I will not give this out freely, but I will prepare about ten hand written pages with the information on it and have the pages reproduced as ordered. I will donations only. Do not sent for the Symbol Method for People as Symbols. you are ready, methods have failed. 
"Ready," in the above, means a substantial donation, to that you are earnest. 
Please, no idle curiosity, as it will be recognized. 
If the whole idea seems of no value to you, that is good, as it indicates that you can 
pursue your quest by other means, or eke that you are not really earnest, and 
therefore can just forget it. Think long No guarantee is given, of course. 

I do this with but some may it. All donations go to the work 
and not riotous living, believe me. 
It is my desire that afler each of these Vignettes you are to hand draw a of 

on your drawing the place that the matter in the pertains to. Some of these Tree of Life indications are not too clear, but do your As you progress and find that you were not in your first attempt, change the as you more. 

Second Series 

Lesson 

The Thread 
by Ophiel 
It seems true, at least relatively true, that we all want to believe (be-live) in "GOD," (of a God), or some kind of First Cause, or power higher than ourselves, outside ourselves. In fact, many people must have some kind of God or they 

be very uncomfortable living their Physical Plane lives. 
Within the scope of this Vignette, Icannot possibly go 

deeply into the entire idea of God. A million books would not even 

the surface. So I will confine myself to one point only: "How can we make some progress in finding out something definite about God?" 
The Bible is not much help in actually delineating the exact God. In fact, it tells very little about him personally, and does not describe him at all comprehensively. There is a scripture that says that all we can ever know of God is his back parts. (Exodus Chapter 33; verses 20-23).Some verses would shock the "Hell" out of some puritan Christians if they ever read the Bible, whii they don't do. If this physical life has any meaning at all, it seems to mean that we are "trapped here to learn something (the hard way), and it seems that something that we have to learn is how to handle the proper escape from 


Plane trap. (Please note I said "seems.") 
I think Ibecame aware of this situation, reluctantly, a good many years ago. I had an unconscious feeling that we had to face the job of learning how to escape the of matter all by ourselves, using only the assets at hand, although it was against all normal conceptions of Christian Sunday School teachings. I felt deep down "inside" that God was not going to effect the release for us. As the years passed by the conviction grew inside me that the 


idea was basically 

And, as the years of Occult research passed, I came 


focus my attention on mankind's myths and legends, as having possible deep hints about Inner Plane matters. And indeed, I found many stories there which, when fully studied and with the missing restored, showed me much of the 'Way Out," whichIfollowed and you. 

There is an old which illustrates this bondage to the Physical Plane. once existed a cave-like of a of a labyrinth. In this labyrinth lives a monster, Minotaur, half man and half bull beast.'Every year a number of young men and young women were into this to be devoured by the monster. Finally, a Hero to save his from this annual sacrifice and volunteering for this tribute, he entered the labyrinth with the others. 
Now in addition to the one kind of physical danger from the monster, there was another kind of danger from the environment. Once a had the labyrinth he could never find his way back out, unless he the key to the return paths. 
The Hero, who possessed not only physical strength but inner powers as well, turned to for aid. A feminine Goddess (his mind 
gave him a ball of magic thread and him to tie of it the entrance and unwind it as he penetrated the labyrinth. he did, and found the monster, slew him, and returned safely to the outside world by following the thread back to the entrance. 
This myth, when analysis even casually, suggests that the labyrinth the physical state of incarnation. The young men and women who were annually up to the monster represent ourselves in out various incarnation phases. The is our embodied desire to be free from these cycle of incarnation. The of "return" is not 
only the connection  incarnations, but  is  an undeveloped  which  
we have retained from  done in previous incarnations. Now  us  this  
other angle of the thread subject -the angle of personal powers.  
To be general, it seems that all through history a small  of  remain  


sets from the mob. Although this in many cases, did not to "spiritual" gifts but only material these 

gifts did 


such things as spanning the country with railroads, stringing 
telegraph cables across the oceans, and endless other things. 
This difference, however, is not what 


am writing about in this Vignette. I am telling you here that YOU ALL HAVE POWERS. These powers are in you, even though that are now called "latent" and are feeble. BUT THESE POWERS ARE IN YOU and always have been there. This slender thread of POWER seems to be the only actual link we can really put our hands on that connects us with something truly higher than anything heretofore known in our lives. Although the connection is not positively clear, that something could be identified as God, or as Ibest feel it, 'The First Cause." 
I now come to a 

situation in this consideration of your Powers, which is the "So now 1 know Ihave these Powers; what then shall 

do?" 

The answer to this question 

upon how you desire to continue your existence. 
Do you want to be ruled by matter or do you want to rule It does not seem to me that you would be reading this paper if you were not a student of the Occult, (even is you are not too sure exactly what the Occult is, or what is true 

with so much conflicting material at large in the world, all claiming to be Occult Science.) 
I feel that you want to be free from 
the hodgepodge of Matter's misrule, and 
would like to bring order to your life, on up into your Inner Plane life. Sincere Occult Students! It does not take much to begin to free yourself. Everyone can do SOMETHING to free himself, although we may not all 

to great heights, of ourselves. Some will do it faster than others, but speed does not count; the results are the most 


You and your desire to be free, your desire for 

Knowledge, makes you the Hero who will enter into this incarnation (the labyrinth of physical matter) with Knowledge, 

necessary for you to become a "knowledge giant" in order to do this, or to abandon all 


your other 

pursuits which 

receive their due 

but a minimum 

The work consists of learning and using a 
This SYSTEM is the system of the 
There are other systems, but I have never found them, and until I do continue 

with the as it is Occult dynamite. 
I do not mean to hustle you to buy my books correspondence course lessons. 
(May God Ophiel is well off (through creative and does not need 

to prompt you to buy his books. BUT Knowledge is in books and the physical 
exchange for money does take place and Ican't help it 
Ophiel's books contain the Magic Knowledge in easy form. The first book. The Art and 

the Inner Planes of our Physical Cosmos 
. 
is made, and how to enter them, and "see" for yourself what is what. The second book, The Art of Getting Material Through Creative tells how to properly and correctly visualize the material things for your well being. and the Occult, the third book, is a bit advanced but gives much valuable Knowledge about the workings of the System never given out 
before,  not  in  this  form).  The fourth book,  The  Art  and Practice of  
shows how to bring out this talent in yourself fro m in side yourself. The  
fifth book  little Divination System, The Oracle of  can  you in  
many ways.  

As I Said at the start of the Vignette, we all want to believe in a God who will help us in all ways. Ido not know the complete answer (nor does anyone else), but I am fairly sure that the Knowledge in the System is 'The Thread that can lead you back up to God, The First Cause, is, and can deliver you from the labyrinth of Matter, and the monster of forced incarnations. 


Some of these Tree of Life indications are not too clear, but do your best. As you progress and find that you were not correct in your first attempt, change the indications as you learn more. 




Second Series 

Lesson 6 
Aura Seeing 


One of the subjects that a beginning Occult student learns aboutearly is the subject of the Aura. 

hears that each person is "surrounded by a glowing "halo" 

an 

and that certain "advanced Occult people can "see" this Aura and can "read" the Aura, and all kinds of wonderful and dramatic things 

be done by these highly 

people who can achieve this tremendous feat of seeing people's auras. When, however, the student asks how he can be taught to see Auras, he is usually told, as I was by the fakers I first contacted in my 

Work. that he cannot Auras until he is "ready," or 


or perhaps after he has taken some faker's 
lessons for years, 
Well dear students, don't you believe any of this trash. You can start 



to Auras 


now, as indeed, in all of Ophiel's works you are taught HOW at once, and not given the evasions you usually encounter elsewhere. (If you are an earnest student, then follow Ophiel and his 


you will always get the solid meat of the 
Occult at once.) 
The first thing the new Occult student should do is acquire some 


about how 
to go about seeing Auras. The startling "secret" is the lighting! In the beginning the 
light setup has to be a certain way. 

Perhaps the best way I can explain this light set-up clearly is by the Ophiel attends a small unpretentious 


here in Hollywood. As this church is rather crowded, Ophiel has to sit in either the front or second row. The church is held in a theatre and during the service, various are played upon the portable altar and the row of people seated there 



the 

and his One Sunday 




was idly sitting there following the 

when suddenly he noticed that, the spotlights being right, he wuld see the Auras of the pastor and the This was fascinating and Ophiel now does it all the time. Not only that, but on 

several occasions he has 

persons seated next to him how to see the 
auras and they have done it! So you can do it too. 
Here is the way. To start with, you must have a light source set up in 


you, the 
observer, are in a dark background, and the subject is against a light background. Now 
this sounds difficult, but it is not. 

I will illustrate this set-up with a few stories to show you how simple it is. Look at this 
diagram: 

See 

I have a two bedroom apartment in West Hollywood {where I teach Occult Sciences; contact me). I was slightly ill one day and the same pastor referred to previously had come over to my apartment. I was in bed at the point marked "me" and the pastor was seated by the side of the bed, as marked. Another person walked by at point one, and I caught a flash of 

Aura as he passed. I then stopped him and made him stand there for 

minutes while Itaught the pastor to see his Aura 

which he did. (It was just a coincidence that I had first seen the pastor's aura in church, told him about it, and then taught him to see it. I am trying to teach the pastor the Christian Mysteries!) 
Another time 

was visiting a friend who, just by coincidence, happened to be ill. 
was seatedby his bed with basically the same 

as before. 
The light in the closet was on; the rest of the room was dark. I was seated as shown. A 

person passed in front of the light and I saw an Aura flash so I stopped him and for the 
next hour I taught all in the place to see Auras. 
So you can see from the above descriptions, that finding a proper spot in your home 

will not be difficult when you know what to look for. So, look for the proper spot, and 


the 

of another person. 


When you find the spot, place the against the light and remain in the dark background. Relax. Fix your gaze upon the edges of your forced...do not strain the sight at any time. If your gaze is fixed on the edge of the body, first faintly and then stronger and stronger. Eventually it should 'blaze" out about 2 to 3 inches. It will come out and then fade away, back and forth, in and out. 
This is the Aura. Now there are those who might try to tell you that this phenomenon is 
a natural eye condition. This is partly true, but it is this  that is  
for you to  to see Auras.  
If you will keep on practicing this and become even dimly  of the Aura, in time  
you can, and will, see the Aura all the time, at will. You ako, in time,  to see  
some colors and other, deeper meanings of the Aura.  

This is truly the way to see the Aura. You must disregard all the other stuff you hear about wild readings of the Aura by wild with wild colors, ek. The Occult is really very simple and teaches it the simple, easy way. None of this wild, fantastic stuff you hear so much about is true. Most of it is only put out by who are after your money. Ophiel, by worldly standards, is well-off already and need to separate you from your money. 
Ophiel does intend to open School, and unless something untoward in the way of heavy increases in expenses, the tuition charges will nominal. 
It has to Ophiel's attention that a so-called teacher is selling readings of past lives for $100 to $200 (obtained by him from the he-says). Another teacher is selling meditation robes for 
Ophiel earnestly tells you that there is a very high probability that anyone "high enough to do that kind of "reading" is above money in any way, shape, or and has powers that transcend any usual need of money. And no special robe of any kind is needed for meditation. But do as you please; you have been warned. 
Plants and trees also have Auras. You can see a tree's Aura against the sky if you are downin a up. Don't give When it, study it, keep looking at it and in time you'll see more and more. Ophiel himself actually "feels" Auras more than he sees 


but now that he has written this little lesson he is seeing 
them more and more too. 
Also, ALL THINGS have Auras of a sort, although the "living" ones are a bit different 
from the inanimate one. Cook and study for yourself. 

At this point the lesson blends into other lessons. If you want additional information, 
then write me a letter. Address Ophiel: 1123 
N. Avenue, West Hollywood, 
CA 90069. If you can afford it. enclose $1 for secretary; if afford it just say 
so and ask your questions anyway. Or phone me: Area Code (213) 656-3400, am. and 


or person to person. If you are in need of money, you might profit from 
Ophiel's book, The Art and Practice of Getting Material Things Thmugh Creative 
Visualization. I don't mean to hustle you, but help you. That is the way I got my money. 

It is my desire that after each of these Vignettes you are to hand draw a Tree of Life, 
indicating on your drawing the place that the subject matter in the Vignette pertains to. 
Some of these Tree of Life indications are not too clear, but do your 


As you 
progress and find that you were not correct in your first attempt, change the indications 
as you learn more. 

The following is a list of Ophiel's writings which will prove useful to you in your 


studies: 
The Art and Practice of Astral Projection. 

The Art and Practice of Getting Material Things Through Creative Visualization. 

The Art and Practice of the Occult. 

The Art and Practice of Clairvoyance. 



Sealed Lessons in Occult Power: First Series 
1. 	
How to Become a Power in your Town, Job, Club. 

2. 	
How to create a Familiar lo 


You Through Life. 

3. 	
How to Win the Attention and Affection of Others (How to Control and Dominate Others) 

4. 	
How to Alter your Name into a 



6. The Power of the Lost Word. For more information, write to the Gnostic Institute. 



Second Series 

Lesson and Eplmetheus: What They Mean to You 


by Ophiel 
In mythologies of all nations many great truths are imbedded. These 

were put there by wise men to preserve them, so they would not be lost in the hustle and bustle of daily 

Our basic civilization came from the Greeks, including much of our language, most of our basic thought processes, and even some of our 
of ideas and outlines of laws. Therefore it can be assumed, that Greek myths and legends have some additional message for us if we will but stop and look for it. 
In the Greek myths regarding the creation of this world, quite a wild and story is told, (as you can read in the textbook, Classic Myths in English Literature, by Professor C. M. Gayley, which you should have, or one similar to it). 

When you read this Greek creation story, you cannot help but be confused by the introduction of a series of strange 

which immediately start fighting with each other, with all kinds of disastrous results to themselves and the others. 
As you know, all my teachings are based on the 

Iexplained a great deal about this basic 

system in my book The Art and 

of the 

which book please read, consult, and study, as you will find it greatly to your personal 

As you learn about the Tree of Life diagram, you will 

that all the confusion 
attendant upon the creation of this world 

the creation of a Physical World from a 
"spiritual," 

previous 

-is 

on the Tree of Life by the 
spaces from Kether, to 

and to 


In these myths, among the events happening during this (the space just 
noted), a "race" of creatures comes existence called the Titans, 
means "big" or "huge," from which the name Titaniccomes). 

Most of the Titans, especially the earlier ones, came to an untimely end or a 
situation, except for the two which we are concerned with here, Prornethsus and his 
brother Epimetheus. 

I will digress a moment to explain that these myths were thrownout the willy-

nilly as it were, (as you might say one would  bait for fish.)  Many minds  
read or hear them, and every now and then, in  minds a  would  
struck. This person would wonder what the  was and make further inquiries,  

which would show the priests in the Temple that this person was ready for higher 
things; thus they would take him into the temple and begin him these higher 
ideas. 

Another little side issue, that seems to be only another little side issue it turns out, 
can be a very decisive one, is the names that are given to the Gods and to the 
aforementioned different creations appearing on the way from spiritual to 
material. Iwill not attempt to list them all there. (Look up as many as 
and the dictionary.) 

In this Vignette we are concerned only with Titans, Prometheus 
The 'bait" in the story of two brother Titans is in their names, 
hope suspected by now). To breakdown their "pro" means "fore," 'before," 
(and still does in our language today, of which I from Greek thought). 
"Metheus" means "mental," or ''thinking." So the meaning of the word is 

or -thinking with 'Yoce-planning" or thinking you more or less do something. In Epimetheus, the name of the other brother, appears to mean and is 
used in our English words such as epic (which is a story of events that have happened or are supposed to have happened in the past.) So 'Epimetheus" means 


"afterthought," or "doing things and making moves without thinking or making plans." It could also be said that these two brothers are the positive and negative aspects of thoughtlthinking, or in a still more modern way, Prometheus is the "go-go," and Epimetheus is a "no-no"!!! 
In the myths about Prometheus, several points are 

1. 	
Prometheus was friendly to mankind. (Epimetheus was of no positive value to mankind.) 

2. 	
Prometheus had a number of clashes with Zeus over his friendship with mankind. 

3. 	
Zeus once took Fire away from mankind, or withheld it, and Prometheus entered heaven, stole some fire, and brought it back to Mankind. 

4. 	
Prometheus possessed a deep secret which concerned the future of Zeus and his powers, but he would not reveal this secret to Zeus even though Zeus was able to torture him severely at that time. 


The reference to Prometheus stealing fire from Heaven and giving it to mankind is a trifle obscure because, as is true in so much of the open Occult, much in the way of connecting links are 

out and the absence of these knowledge items is what renders most open Occult Knowledge 

to the average 

This same is true for the Christian religion in its present form. There is another nasty 

that cripples clear understanding of the Occult and that diffilty is the deadly inability to get Occult and Bible material translated properly from one language to another. I cannot go into the millions of things that crop up, but 

give two 

I am told that when Martin Luther translated the Bible into German and came to the lines where the Angel Gabriel addressed Mary, "Hail! Mary, full of Grace," he found this impossible to translate. 

to German modes of 

of' meant with," or "bursting with," or physically 'bursting full of." So he had to change the words 


to, "Hail Little Mary!" Another example is a line in 

reads, "Fair 

comes 

from the North." I am told that the true meaning of this verse is "Gold comes from North." The translator saw this statement and could make no sense of it, so he took it upon himself to change the word 'Gold" to Weather," as this made more sense to him. The truth of the matter is that the North referred to is not the north but the Elemental Quarter of the North, and those of you who have read my books know that all good material things come from the Elemental Quader of the North. This is basic 
meaning of the verse, but this additional  knowledge was hidden from  
the translator.  
Now the secret that Prometheus had, that concerned  is really  

you have the Tree of Life before you (with the additional knowledge given in my 
book The Art and Practice of the If you will consult this book you will find that is located on the right-hand side of !he Tree of Life (facing it) and that that side has been by me as 
There are only two "gods" located in that past side, and Chokmah represents the unbalanced, unsteady attendant upon the organization of raw spiritual into hard matter. But the Titans, Prometheus and also belong (Aphrodite also is of the nature of the as you will perceive with a little mental reflection.) 
Zeus, then, is of the nature of the past -something done, something arrived at already, something arrived at by a pattern of thinking and planning. And this thinking or planning involves fore-planning or forethought, and fore-thought is governed by you see the secret? 
FORE-THINKING CAN 
Now then, how does this apply to TODAY? 
Through contemplation you will find that all good physical requires advance 

thinking in order to be anywhere Almost all the troubles within our own lives, and almost all the troubles in governments and the world, come from fact that there is no real fore-thought taken about anything. All the world seems to live 


moment, like 

and then later wrestles with whatever along after it happens. Ninety percent of all trouble could be avoided by 

For example, in my own 

case, 

carry around a large bunch of keys 


the house keys, car keys, basement keys, pass keys, 



Some years ago I lost these keys and I then realized, with a shock, that I could have very easily foreseen this and prepared for it by having a duplicate set of keys made. Ever since then Ihave done this and although it has been some trouble 



keep up with the changes, I now have a 
complete set of duplicate keys ready in case I lose the daily use set. As I said, it seems as if forethought is only "horse" sense and yet in our simplest, everyday life affairs we do very little of it. 
Fore-thinking must be important if the Greeks thought enough of it to create two characters to 

this message to us. These characters, be it noted, were also early ''Earth" creation forces, so this message goes back to primitive beginnings, thus reinforcing the idea of its importance. 
Go you and do likewise! It is my desire that after each of these Vignettes you are to hand draw a Tree of Life, indicating on your drawing the place that the subject matter in 
the Vignette pertains to. Some of these Tree of Life indications are not too clear, but 

your best. As you progress and find that you were not in your first attempt, change the indications as you learn more. 
Students: copy this Tree of Life many times, and each time add something you have learned, 

instance, 'Mere does Wednesday go on this 

Explain. 




Second Series Lesson 
Self-Awareness 
by 
Among Occult students, Occult societies of various kinds, people that people that run small or big schools, those who write big books on the and all that sort of thing, there is such glib parlance about called Of course, I have heard people talking about something Self-awareness for years, but Inever knew what they were talking about. Then Iasked them. "What do you mean by Self-awareness?" I have never gotten an explanation. As I think back now of the hundreds of times I asked that question, I can't remember one single answer that ever made any sense. They all seemed to hem and haw and stammer and stutter, which just left me a complete blank. never really knew what they were talking about Self-awareness. 
There are two other "companion" words which I have heard for years -Self-realization, and the more common word (which I have used in my own writings), Self-development. 
I have contacted a new group of people here to whom I am giving some This group is called a but it was not until Ireally got down thinking. 'Mat did they mean by Self-Awareness?" that I did some work on it with an answer of As usual, now I am faced with a big an Occult development, that I hadn't been aware of for years and I find no words available to really describe it, although Iwill try. I have been fooling around for years, but Ididn't know it was called that, and when I asked these people what they meant by Self-Awareness, they certainly didn't anything which was with anything I was doing. Now, however, I know that what I was was a of Self-Awareness. 
As is usual, when I 

to a situation like this, I turn to the 

for a "first degree of illumination," or an idea, to throw some light on the subject. The dictionary definition is very poor, which is not unusual, because for many of these words, the meaning developed so slowly and sneakily into one language that it took centuries. And during this time, the meaning became so common, so well-known (or came from such ancient sources), that the exact meaning has disappeared from the dictionary and from our understanding. They have lost their esoteric, hidden meaning through these centuries of slow development. 
The dictionary does give a list of synonyms, however, which is rather illuminating. Some of these are "aware," "conscious," "alive," "awake," meaning "having knowledge of something that is not obvious or apparent." Aware usually implies vigilance in observing, and drawing conclusions from what one sees and hears. Conscious implies awareness of something allowed to enter the mind, and with fixed attention upon it. Alive adds to sensible, with the implication of acute sensitivity to something. Awake implies that one has become alive to something and is on the alert. 
Now, the word awake is really more esoterically illuminating than the word awareness. The dictionary definition of awake reads: "to 

out of sleep, or a sleep-like state, as to awake to danger, to arouse from sleep or a sleep-like state." 
Those words are very potent. If you will stop to think of our lives, and the way they appear to be, I would say that many people are in a sleep-like state all through their waking lives. 


Talk to people; watch them. If you think deeply about it, and feel deeply about it, you can sense that 

are not awake, are not aroused, are not thinking, and are not aware of what's going on. They are not aware of much of anything. They would rather get into a 

dream state, a 

state, and stay there. 
To repeat, people flounder through life wrapped up in a shell. I have never found any group or religion which woke then up even a little. Even a 

is a lot. 

People seem to get a vague life pattern for themselves, with not much planning apparent. It seems clear enough that those people who get in this are those who are awake and planning, who are vital and dynamic. Hava you ever noticed this Watch them time; study some of these people. They actually to be more alert than other people. You can even say that they are partly people are the ones that get ahead in this world, even though they are by others who don't want to be aroused much. If you the story of any really successful man you will find this strange phenomenon there. 
In the past decade or so, I read all the books written by Kenneth Roberts. (He 
many stories about early American History and the  around the  
Revolutionary War and preceding that.)  Two  books were  Passage  
and Rebelin Arms. While I admire Mr. Robert's style very much and wish  
that well, he had a strange way of continually railing  the  in history.  
He would call them names and have his characters  these people.  a while.  

whenIbecame a little bit awakened to it, Ithought it was a little funny, and I why so many of these people seemed inferior, whereas all through the moved a very dynamic people who were violently getting ahead and things. Strangely enough, one of the dynamic people was (To get the true picture of him, you would to read some history. Things were not quite the way they say. He did end up a traitor but there were some crazy ideas he had about this country falling into the hands of France, and this, we did have a lot of with France as a nation, and they still don't like us very well.) Anyway, Kenneth Roberts was comparing the actions, took place daily, of those vital wide-awake people, to those who were half asleep, dull, and unresponsive in their thinking. 
I am coming to the conclusion that this is the earthly beginning of what talk about as Self-Awareness. It does seem to me that many people in life are aware of things, and of course, aware of things that are connected with themselves and their own participation in daily things, that other are not aware of. 


This awareness of themselves, of the Physical Plane World, and then of the lnner Plane Worlds would suggest to us that the trilogy (of thinkinglaction above outlined,) is the "Open Sesame" to the cave of riches, stolen from those who were not alert. Baba and the Forty Thieves in the Arabian Nights.) 

Our physical lives are very much like 

is depicted in the 

Tarot Card, The Moon. before the Towers is the Physical Plane. The land beyond the Towers is the Astral and lnner Planes. The mountain's peak is illumination. We are the shellfish crawling out of the common amorphous pool of consciousness, an impulse of 


but still surrounded by a hard shell of personality, made up of our prejudices and idiosyncrasies, but taking the first steps on the Path upward and outward. 

On each side of the Path is a helper -Nature, represented by the wolf, and Art, 
represented by the dog. We can use these two powers to aid our journey. 
That is all that is meant and implied by the word Self-Awareness. 
The 


time you hear that word uttered by some 

would-be yo-yo, just tell him 
you're not interested because you KNOW what the word really means. 
And all the time you are developing Self-Awareness, you are also practicing Self-
development. The two go hand in hand. 

It is my desire that after each of these Vignettes you are to hand draw a Tree of 
indicating on your drawing the place that the subject matter in the 



pertains to. Some of these Tree of Life indications are not too clear, but do your best. As you progress and find that you were not in your first attempt, change the indications as you learn more. 


Second Series 

Lesson 9 
The 


Faker 
by Ophiel 
Unfortunately, in such an elusive subject as the 

there 

lots of fakers. Some of them do it on purpose and some of them are merely ignorant, 

persons. Those fakers who know they are faking are not dangerous, or as 

as those fakers who really believe in their fakery. The knowing faker will mislead who follow him only so far, and then pull out when the going gets tight, which usually brings the innocent followers to their senses; but the 


faker will continue, and carry himself and his followers to destruction, or if that 

is 

strong, disillusionment, which may be 


or serious depending upon the desired depth of the 

Student and this stage of growth at that time. How then, may a possible 

Faker (or indeed, any 

type of faker) recognized easily beforehand? 

To recognize an Occult Faker is not too 

when one is carried away with enthusiasm at the moment. When one is in the grip of enthusiasm there is 

calm appraisal possible. 
However, if you can pull yourself together long enough to stop, look, and 
you can consider the following: the motives of the Faker are always money power. (Dion Fortune mentions these two things in her books.) 
Therefore, 

for excessive demands or requests 

money. One hear of sells Akashic Readings, two kinds: a 


reading of your past lives as he reads it from the Akashic 

and a cheaper 

for 

You may believe and act as you please, but I have not the slightest hesitation 
that this man is a Iwill not reveal. 

There are such things as Akashic Records, 

The Records, 

of the reflecting Ether. But any information corning from these Records is received in the of FEELINGS, not words. I seriously doubt that there is anyone anywhere enough to be able to recover the past feelings of several of your lifetimes and translate these into a word story. You have been informed so you're on your own now. 


I have also heard that a Swami is selling a special meditation robe for 

which is put on and is supposed to be charged in some special way to enable you to mediate more effectively. MLL! 

students, I can tell you that what you wear 

not make one iota of difference in your ability to mediate. 
Now, also apart from the preceding, there is another item to lookout for, in guarding yourself against disappointments in Occult Teachers, if the teacher does not make excessive requests for money, 

or, in fact, does not even mention money but leaves that up to you. This other "teacher" will claim to have great Powers. 
Now, in the case of a faker, these Powers, are always hidden or are just around the corner. He can't or doesn't show them to you {which is all rather probable as he might be fooling himself), BUT he also is never able to 

you the secrets of his powers or show you how to develop these or any other powers. For this 

some of the following reasons are given out: 
1. 	
They are too secret to be given out. 

2. 	
You are not ready. 

3. 	
You are not worthy. 

4. 	
He will give out the secrets when he is dam good and ready. Meanwhile, pay up your dues and shut up, ek. 


He will then continue with endless Lessons and dissertations and grades and degrees. all of which kad to nowhere. 
Then to top it off, by your own efforts, you 

a degree of enlightenment, he will call your achievement low psychic development! 

About this time you should be ready to make a break for something eke. 
So be it. 
It is my desire that 

each of these Vignettes you are to hand draw a Tree of indicating on your drawing the place that the subject matter in the 


to. Some of these Tree of Life indications are not too clear, but do your best. As you progress and find that you were not correct in your first attempt, change the indications as you learn more.