Notes on Astral
Traveling
by an Illuminati
By Hermann Medinger/Vienna, Fra.\Manfred I.O. (Illuminaten
Orden)/Austria
Translated by Richard
Tschudi
When we
Illuminati, who struggle to bring enlightenment in all areas, today concern
ourselves with Astral Traveling, let me explain from the start: it is not
something unusual or special, but it is a plain and simple fact!
Every person
has experienced Astral Traveling countless times; as a matter of fact we do it while
we sleep, although mostly we don’t remember it.
Therefore
sleep is nothing else than pure, natural Astral Traveling. The memory of what
we experience during those travels fades away most of the times at the moment
when we wake up. Only distorted fragments remain sometimes in our waking consciousness
in the form of dreams.
While we
sleep, the fluid body i.e. the astral body and spirit separate from the
physical body in order to receive nourishment in higher spheres; the same as
the physical body needs nourishment for its sustenance. When a clairvoyant
person looks at a sleeping person then he can see accurately that while the
physical body rests in the bed, the fluid-body connected to the physical body
with the so-called silver cord, floats up into the realm of the spirit –
into the astral and mental sphere. It should be mentioned that the body remains
connected by that cord with the spirit. The “silver cord” will break at the moment
of death.
Only after
our physical death we will realize what we did and experienced during sleep and
that we didn’t waste or time but that we used the time for our spiritual
evolvement (we sleep away one third of our lives).
Now there is
an other important fact which unfortunately is not known to most people: The
state of consciousness in which we are at the moment when the connection
between the fluid-body and earthly sheath is loosened, is the condition that
gives us the abilities of clairvoyance, using the sidereal pendulum and dowsing
etc. It is the principal requirement of any mediumistic capability. People, who in contrast, enclose
themselves with a materialistic wall, will never be able to develop such
mediumistic abilities. To penetrate into the spiritual sphere it is most
important to “loosen up”. The motto: “I must loosen up” should be written in
big letters above the door of every lluminatus!
In this
regard we can achieve a lot with spiritual exercises. The most basic “loosening
up” exercise consists by trying consciously capturing and remembering the
moment of falling asleep. This state of transition, so to say the
“turning-point between waking and sleeping consciousness is the safest starting-point
to all spiritual exercises.
Danger lurks
when we take the so called “short cuts’ to assist us in “loosening up”. When we
use alcohol, hashish etc. to help us. The true adept does not need any of those
means and he has his body and spirit under firm control
I know people
(and I myself often can often observe in my case) whose fluid-body has the
tendency to “fly away”, which is not always pleasant. This happened to me one
day suddenly while I was driving my car. A serious accident was only averted by
the help of my guardian spirit.
Let us
remember the “witch-flights” of the old hags and magicians which they achieved with
the assistance of all kinds of narcotics (henbane).
To conclude
this article I like to recommend to you dear Fratres\ and Sorores\the following “loosening up” exercises
which will give you the ability to do astral traveling.
1.
Exercise: Place two chairs (facing each other) a short distance apart. Sit
on one of the chairs while you keep the other chair in your eyes. Then “loose
up:” and attempt to leave (in your fluid-body) your chair and move over the
other chair. After some time and trying you feel yourself sitting there.
2.
Exercise: Lie down on your bed and by deep rhythmic breathing (magical
breathing) try to “loosen up” the astral-body and to float away to a distant
place and look around there. However most of the times you will only succeed if
you know the”other place” accurately. Even in the waking state you find a place
easily if you know the way to go there from before.
3.
Exercise: (However dangerous and hardly advisable). Should everything else
fail, then try “loosening up’ with all kinds of drugs – evtl. also
alcohol. This way perhaps the wall between the material body and the fluid-body
might be loosened up.
(Note of the
translator: I only translated this 3rd exercise for completeness
sake. I do not recommend it. If you persist with exercise 1 and 2 you will
succeed.)
I myself loosened
up” many times, more often than it was pleasant. There are also disadvantages
to be pulled out of your body at any time.
Never “walk
away” from yourself. Always look at the metaphysical from the secure wrapping
of your own physical body; because drugs and alcohol entice first and only
dangerous demons. If you take this advice nothing bad will happen and the
“silver-cord” will not be damaged. This advises you an old Illuminatus who has
don a lot of astral raveling.
Explanatory
not by the translator:
This article
first appeared in the periodical: “Der Illuminat” - December 1969 issue.
Published in Frankfurt am Main – Edessa – . Imprimatur Ordo
Militiae Caelestis.
Hermann
Medinger was the leader of the “Weltbund der Illuminaten” (World league of the
Illuminati) in the Illuminati province of Austria.
The “Weltbund
der Illuminaten was founded by Leopold Engel in 1893 as a successor
organization of Adam Weishaupt’s Illuminati.]