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# Re: Levitation

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- To: <BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com>, <FranzBardonMagi@yahoogroups.com>
- Subject: Re: Levitation
- From: "sevensages" <seven.sages@...>
- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 02:26:28 -0000

    Dear wise and most generous magicians,

    Although levitation and many other magical powers are not
    the object or purpose of the practice of magic, there must
    presumably be a particular stage of development in the Bardon
    system when the power to levitate the physical body is a natural
    by product and one of the results of the completion of certain spiritual
    and developmental accomplishments.

    At what stage of the magicians career, in the Bardon system is Levitation
    a natural result of work done, even if the aquired power were never used?

    It seems that the eight Siddhi list below is equivalent to the powers and
    attainments
    mastered in Bardons third book on the "The Key To The True Kabblah"?

    I have extracted the list of eight of the Siddhis which we are told are natural
    results of the magic or meditation process from Light of the Soul by Alice
    Bailey (page 346), which is her interpretation of Patanjalis Yoga Sutras, which
    is the core meditational manual of the east.

    with all good wishes

    Zach

    In connection with the sutra which is our present consideration, the eight
    siddhis or psychic powers are frequently called the eight perfections and with
    the two others make up the ten of perfection as it concerns the lower man.
    These powers are:

    1. Minuteness . . . anima. This is the power which the yogi possesses to become
    as small as an atom, to identify himself with the smallest part of the
    universe, knowing the self in that atom to be one with himself. This is due to
    the fact that the anima mundi, or soul of the world, is universally spread
    throughout all aspects of divine life.

    2. Magnitude . . . mahima. This is the power to expand one's consciousness and
    thus enter into the greater whole as well as into the lesser part.

    3. Gravity . . . garima. This concerns weight and mass and deals with the law
    of gravity which is an aspect of the Law of Attraction.

    4. Lightness . . . Laghima. This is the power underlying the phenomenon of
    levitation. It is the capacity of the adept to offset the attractive [Page 347]
    force of the planet and to leave the earth. It is the opposite to the third
    siddhi.

    5. The attainment of the objective . . . prapti. This is the capacity of the
    yogin to achieve his goal, to extend his realization to any locality, to reach
    anything or any place he desires. It will be apparent that this will have an
    application on all the planes in the three worlds, as indeed all the siddhis
    have.

    6. Irresistible will . . . prakamya. This is sometimes described as
    sovereignty, and it is that driving irresistible force found in every adept
    which bring about the fruition of his plans, the attainment of his desires, and
    the completion of his impulses. It is this quality which is the distinguishing
    characteristic of the black and the white magician alike. It necessarily
    demonstrates with greatest force on that plane in the three worlds which
    reflects the will aspect of divinity, the mental plane. All the elements obey
    this force of will as used by the yogin.

    7. Creative power . . . isatva. This concerns the power of the adept to deal
    with the elements in their five forms and produce with them objective
    realities, and thus to create on the physical plane.

    8. The power to command . . . vasitva. The magician as he controls the
    elemental forces of nature, utilizes this power and it is the basis of mantra
    yoga, the yoga of sound or of the creative word. Creative power, the seventh
    siddhi, concerns the elements and their vitalizing, so that they become
    "effective causes;" this siddhi, the [Page 348] eighth, concerns the power of
    the Word to drive the building forces of nature into coherent activity so that
    forms are produced.

    When these eight powers are functioning, then the ninth, bodily perfection,
    results, for the adept can construct a vehicle adapted to his need, can do with
    it as he will and through its medium attain his objective. Finally, the tenth
    power will be seen in full manifestation and no form provides any hindrances or
    obstacles to the fruition of the yogin's will. He is liberated from the form
    and its qualities.

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