This exercise invovlves a candle, table, and chair.
You light the candle and set it in a holder on the table, and you set the chair 4' away and regard the candle, letting it fill your mind.
After, you will the flame to be straight.
Then, you walk--with your astral body--into the candle flame, and feel it soaking you from your feet to your head. Then, make your astral body larger, and make the flame grow with it.
When you are finished, go back to your normal size astral body, and walk backwards into your body.
I'm not getting the flame to go higher for long periods of time. It jumps a bit, and sometimes, it stays but only about 1/4-1/2 inch more...
Anyone else have any experience with this exercise? Any ideas?
You light the candle and set it in a holder on the table, and you set the chair 4' away and regard the candle, letting it fill your mind.
After, you will the flame to be straight.
Then, you walk--with your astral body--into the candle flame, and feel it soaking you from your feet to your head. Then, make your astral body larger, and make the flame grow with it.
When you are finished, go back to your normal size astral body, and walk backwards into your body.
I'm not getting the flame to go higher for long periods of time. It jumps a bit, and sometimes, it stays but only about 1/4-1/2 inch more...
Anyone else have any experience with this exercise? Any ideas?
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Re: Candle Working
Wed, March 5, 2008 - 9:48 AM*After, you will the flame to be straight. *
Honey, I don't will anything to be straight. Especially flames.
on another side, what is the purpose of this exercise? Are you just trying to strengthen and exercise your astral body? If the flame won't go higher then that, then I would venture to guess its indicative of the relative power of your astral form. If you keep working at it, it should get higher, over time, as all these things do. -
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Re: Candle Working
Wed, March 5, 2008 - 11:41 PMOne point of the exercise is to use the magicians will to influence an element, in this case the flame.
Though, your point about exercise of the magical body is an interesting one, and may be where I need my work.
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Re: Candle Working
Fri, March 7, 2008 - 11:54 AMbe careful with fire. i dont want your room to catch ablaze. you might be the next Carrie. lol
i have worked with candle flames and fire stoves . i have a story actually .
i believe the mind is very powerful and you have to tell your mind what you want and dont want because as magicians we can get very unexpected results.
i was working with fire in the fire stove to make a strong fire. then in my minds eye i saw a fire. i freaked me out . i usually tell my mind what want and dont want after strange visions. well i was so freaked out that i didnt do that and i immeaditaely stop doing that work. my boyfriend put a block of wood on the stove so that it would smell like like lanolin in the house. it never burned or got hot enough to smoulder. well 30 minutes later i walked in to the main room while my bf was playing video games and i smelled smoke and ran to stove and saw the block of wood smouldering and was red hot. may be it was just coincidence but i will be more careful doing work with fire in the future. -
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Re: Candle Working
Fri, March 7, 2008 - 4:14 PMhahahaha
Denis and I were talking about what would happen if we were playing cyclops with the cars on the freeway and suddenly someone had a blowout.
Careful is always good :)
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