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RULE IX
Condensation next ensues. The fire and waters meet, the form swells and grows. Let the magician set his form upon the proper path.
This rule is very briefly summed up in the injunction: Let desire and mind be so pure and so equally apportioned and the created form so justly balanced that it cannot be attracted towards the destructive or "left-hand" path.
RULE X
As the waters bathe the form created, they are absorbed and used. The form increases in its strength; let the magician thus continue until the work suffices. Let the outer builders cease their labors then, and let the inner workers enter on their cycle.
One of the fundamental concepts which is grasped by all magical workers, is that both will and desire are force emanations. They differ in quality and vibration, but are essentially currents of energy, one forming an initial vortex or center of activity, being centrifugal, and the other being centripetal, and the main factor in the accretion of matter into a form around the central vortex. This can be seen demonstrating in an interesting way in the case of the Egoic lotus, where we have the will aspect forming the "Jewel in the Lotus," or the inner center of electrical energy, and the desire or love aspect forming the Egoic lotus itself, or the form which hides the center.
It is the same basic concept which governs thought-form building, and which enables a magician of white magic to produce objective phenomena on the Physical plane. He works with the two types of energy, will and desire, and their equilibrizing is what leads to the balancing of the pairs of opposites, and the subsequent release of energy-substance in the formation of the Physical plane structure.
The magician has to know the following facts:
In creation, three vibratory spheres work as a unit, and in the occult teaching, during the earlier stages of creation, must not be separated or distinguished apart.
This rule may be interpreted as stating that in the magical work, the energy of the waters becomes paramount, and desire for the form and the fulfillment of its objective increases. This takes place after the will energy has formed the central nucleus by being brought into contact with the desire force. The magician, through desire or strong motive, increases the vitality of the form until it is so powerful and intense in its own separated life that it is ready to go forth on its mission upon the Physical plane. The building Devas who have been impelled to construct the form out of the myriads of elemental lives available, have completed their work, and now cease from constructing; this particular type of energy no longer drives the lesser lives in any specific direction, and the final cycle of work upon the Astral plane is entered upon.
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