Vishelp.

Please read also: Vishelp II , Vishelp III

In this section I would like to present 2 methods that may help you develope your visualisation skills.

W.E. Butler (in "The Magician. His Training and Work."):

The present writer has found that one of the best ways of carrying out the first part of this exercise is to place the object in a good light on a monochrome surface, either dark or light, and use a paper or cardboard tube some eight inches long and two and a half inches inside diameter, though which to gaze at it, using the left and right eyes alternately. Or the tube may be made rectangular, so that both eyes may be used at the same time.
(Addition by Paul Allen: I used 2 tubes: one for the left and one for the right eye. Additionally I used for a while a rectangular tube. Furthermore I used also field-glasses with a small amplifying ratio.)

Then, as the object is steadily held in the field of vision, the eyes should be slightly thrown out of focus, as we sometimes do when we are "day-dreaming", and the visual picture now apparently brought mentally within the head. This is a psychological "trick" which is usually only acquired after a great deal of effort and failure.

It is analogus to the knack of learning to balance when we first attempt to ride a bicycle. Once the knack has been gained, it will be found increasingly easy to bring this mental image into mental apprehencion. A further development is to close the eyes-during the first attempts only slightly, then more fully in subsequent ones, until the final stage is reached when the student is able to see clearly inside his head, as it were, the picture of the object concerned, his eyes being closed in the meantime.

Once this had been accomplished, and practice has made it fairly easy, the complementary half should be essayed. The object chosen should be observed, and the perception transferred in the usual way to the subjective mental screen. Meanwhile a monochrome surface, such as a white disc on a black backround or a black disc on a white surround, or a crystal or black concave mirror, should have been placed so that the student can use it as a screen upon which to project his mental picture. He should now open his eyes sufficiently to see the disc or mirror (which should be in a dim light) whilst still holding the picture on the mental screen. Then by a quiet, calm effort of will he should project the picture outwardly onto the screen.
Again there is a psychological knack to be gained, but once it is gained, and stabilised by subsequent practise, a very great step forward has been taken. It must again emphasised that this projection should be done deliberately at the will of the apprentice magician and any involuntary projections should be sternly resisted. When the knack has been gained, it is possible to project such a mental image so clearly that it is to all intents and purposes as though one were perceiving it with the psysical eyes.

(... end text by Butler).

(Then Butler proceeds with explanations on how these pictures should be "materialized" by the projection of ectoplasma and other similar subjects.)

1. The student learns to pierce intensly on a given picture for an extended time interval.
2. The student learns that imagined pictures dissapear and reappear when he continues to focus his attention on the imagined item (picture).
3. No time is wasted in the beginning when the student does not see anything in his imagination when he begins to practice visualization exercises.

P.B. Randolph (in "Magia Sexualis"; chapter "Volantia"):

One hangs a white disc on the wall, which is black at the centre. One stares at the black centre of the disc for 60 seconds, remaining perfectly motionless. This fortifies the capacity for concentration in the student and also his attention. When the prescribed minute elapses, one turns the face without changing the position of the eyes towards a white surface, on which the optical illusion we see is the same disc, but the colours are reversed, the background is black with the centre being white.

The illusory vision disappears after a few seconds, and is repeated again if one persists without moving. One must look at the disc four times and, later on, seven times. When the student has become familiar with this first exercise, he should repeat it with other discs, coloured successive in the order of the spectrum of the colours of the arch of heaven. Thus he develops these three capacities: attention, concentration, and attraction.

Five or six months later if he methodically exercises every day the student will have acquired the capacity to create, in calmly staring at a white surface, a mental form clothed in a corresponding astral body. This body will manifest before the student so that communication is established between the two.

The same exercise may be made with the aid of a magic mirror, in the middle of which is fixed a small white disc. The willed effect is thus obtained more easily and quickly: a figure appears suddenly on the polished surface of the mirror and you may question this figure that you see.

(... end text by Randolph).

(Here it's not the place to discuss if these "flashing colors" are really "astral" in nature, as the Golden Down people think. PA)
 

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