Franz Bardon
10 degrees of initiation
(Excerpts from the book Gates of Initiation)

Any person commits either conscious or poluosoznannye or barely conscious actions that impulse instilled him outside and he almost did not attach much importance.

The following exercise teaches him how to consciously make small at first and then more steps and you should strive to extend the duration of conscious action. The word "knowingly" does not mean that their thoughts and attention you glued to the case, you are present in your imagination and sense of what makes the spirit of this action with the crude material of the soul and the body. If for example, I go outside, I do not think that I'm going, and that is on my mind and moves the astral and the crude material feet. The same thing happens with the hands, and the other parts of the body. If you have at least ten minutes to perform an action in such a way, that means that you have completely mastered this exercise. The longer you soak this state without attacks of dizziness, feeling of fatigue, impaired balance, the better. Therefore, you should start with simple actions of short duration and increase the duration, until you get used to this setting at any time be able to increase the duration of the action.

This exercise is very important because it enables the student, both spiritually and astral bring action in connection with the crude material body, depending on whether they were employed by a mental or astral body. Such an action is called a magic action. Now the student will understand why magic rituals at the uninitiated and untrained magic people do not have success, because these people do not have the ability to perform ritual magic, that is, they are not prepared and adjusted to ensure that the mental and astral work in conjunction with the crude material substance.

If, for example, magnetiser healer lay hands on the patient or the patient starts magnetic strokes, but at the same time does not make her radiate both spiritual and astral arm and is at the same time that the spiritual power of the spirit to shine through, astral force - the astral body and the crude material force - the crude material body of the patient, as well as to influence them, such magnetiser reach only partial success because the patient is composed of all three constituent parts: the body, soul and spirit. For the magician goes without saying that the mental body can only affect the mental sphere or spirit, the astral body - only on the astral plane, that is, per capita, and the crude material body - only the material world. This law requires respect. As a consequence, it is necessary that the magician has learned both spiritual and emotional install and perform actions or as a spirit, or in close connection with the soul. If he knew it well enough, and had learned that owns such a practice, it can move forward in its development.