Franz Bardon
10 stages of initiation
(Excerpt from the Gate of Initiation)

Education magic soul (V)

The next exercise is that the element is drawn from the universe, but this element does not need to fill the room, and the seal element of your chosen form, just as it was described in those exercises where the compacted form of the element within the body (solarium-Plexus) and stayed out of it, floating in the air, with the difference that the shaping is not inside the body, and just hovering in the air.

So the magician should be able to form a fire, air, water and ground balls. If he is perfectly turned out, to form other forms of floating elements in the room, and then releasing them back into the universe in the form of individual elements. He must feel every time clearly a characteristic property of each element, with which he works, he even need to ensure that the ignorant person could feel the appropriate item and see it. But this is a very good result, the result of hard work in this area. In short, the student should be able to draw from the universe and seal any element and compress it to any selected by the form. That is the purpose of the last exercise.

Experienced magician can seal element to such an extent that it becomes grubomaterialnoy force. So, with the help of fire element, you can start a fire even from a distance. First, work out in that ball of fire in the imagination, to draw from the universe, without going through your body, compressed to a small size blazing sparks. Bring that spark to cooked with a cotton swab impregnated with which flammable, such as ether, benzene, alcohol and so on. The second spark air element is prepared in the same way, and if both the sparks touch each other, then the swab turns. If a magician can this little trick, then let him try to do that with an ordinary candle wick, and then with a kerosene lamp. Let do it with close and from a distance. It can also put a spark of fire in the ordinary glass, glass jar or bottle and immediately thrown into the air spark. Once both sparks touch each other, an explosion and a glass or bottle will be torn into a thousand pieces. Magician can itself create such tricks in accordance with the knowledge of the laws and ownership.

But the real magician is not content with such magical pieces. He knows that with the help of elements it can create natural phenomena such as thunder, lightning, storm, or drive away these things, keep them or destroy. All of these forces that the average person seem a miracle, for the magician is a matter of course, and he must decide for itself whether it will stop at these events, or intends to continue to work on his magical development.

In addition, students have the ability to physically control the material sealing element in that it throws a densified form of the element in the glass with a clean, preferably distilled water and repeat this several times lower element in the glass. He found that in the experiment with elements of fire water got sour, in the case of the air - a sweetish, with water - a tart, and experiment with the land - stuffy taste. This process can be checked and chemical means, if soaked in water, so drop a litmus test. With a good and solid impregnation can be established that in the experiments with active elements, the fire and the air is acidic reaction in water and earth - alkaline.

(To be continued)