The High Art of Magic

It is a natural desire of people to become masters of spells that can transform a villain or even make him disappear. The poor wish for wealth, the sick for health at any cost. The unloved want the sexual attention of their object of desire through a love potion. There is always a pressing desire for an inner deficiency to be remedied by a magical formula like a miracle. Magic appears to the outsider as a universal answer to all of life’s problems. To the ignorant, magic is a secret system that promises power over one’s environment and fellow human beings. The resulting failures are pre-programmed into this belief. The human desire for pleasure grows and develops according to a certain order. In the first stage, man has a craving for simple, animalistic pleasures. As his desires develop, he seeks wealth and prestige. A further growth of desire leads him to seek power. Rarely does a person develop an even stronger desire, which is the top of the pyramid and is the pure desire for spirituality. Once you have perceived the desire for spirituality, you automatically begin the search to satisfy this desire.

Seeker of Light

Since the beginning of time, seekers of the Light have made long journeys, endured great hardships, and invested all their wealth to learn less than what is so clearly presented in this book. The danger of underestimating it is great because it is so easily and inexpensively available. Suppose a rich person gives a very valuable seed to a poor person, but the poor person’s field is overgrown with weeds. In this case, the valuable seed is of little use to the poor person because he lacks the conditions to sow the seed. So how well a person can use the information in this book also depends on whether his mental field is receptive to this seed. It is important to remove the old weeds that have spread before to make room for the new seed. The biblical parable of the wheat and the chaff serves as a model for this.

Confronting death

Facing and dealing with death is a crucial aspect of life. The most important holiday in the Christian religion involves the mystery of death and resurrection. Most religions try to prepare people for death and support them through the sacraments. There are reports that near-death experiences are becoming more common. The people who have them have been pronounced clinically dead and yet have seen a white and luminous tunnel. This is only an interpretation by the living, these people were not really dead. The experience of death cannot be transferred as long as the person lives in this earthly world. The transformation to the next level has not happened, so there is no such thing as “death” in this context.

Man is incapable of pulling himself out of the swamp by his own hair, although that is what so many modern New Age methods promise. The trouble-free world remains a figment of the imagination of the blinded and simple-minded. Almost convulsively, people search for methods and means to stay healthy or to protect themselves against an unpleasant future. The only result is an increase in neurotic dependencies on fleeting illusions. Such New Age teachers attract their followers by promising a comfortable life if the student also follows certain rules and lives positively in the present. These methods have now reached the status of ersatz religions.

Most esotericists have great literature, but instead of adhering to and following the teachings contained therein, they demand more and more books and texts to satisfy their thirst for knowledge. The best book for the study of magic is, as already mentioned, Nature. It is available everywhere and free of charge. Nature doesn’t care whether it agrees with the views of scholars or the opinions of philosophers. You can only read this book correctly when the spiritual light within you awakens, which lifts you to inner growth. Everything else is just daydreaming born of self-interest and vanity. The magician experiences firsthand.

All true paths of magic lead to this union. In the process, the lower aspects of the self are purified and freed from darkness. The contact is initiated from above and brought about only by higher grace. Only through initiation and magical intervention can connections be made step by step. This union is known in alchemy as the “Chymical Wedding”. For the uninitiated it is completely unimaginable to experience such a thing. There are some intermediate goals that gradually lead to this experience. In alchemy this is called the completion of the Great Work. The dross of the personality is refined into the gold of union with the Higher Self.

Then, as now, the Mysteries could only be passed on under the obligation of absolute secrecy. The candidate swore on his life to keep it secret. This means to keep silent about everything that the candidate receives as a grace on the holy day of his initiation. This sacred secrecy concerns the greatest and most sublime thing accessible to man.

(Excerpt from the book “Magic: The Legacy of the Rosicrucians” by Elias Rubenstein)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
THE SECRET KNOWLEDGE OF THE MYSTERIES
THE SCOPE OF THE MYSTERIES
THE BONDAGE OF TRADITION
FREEMASONRY
THE HERMETIC ORDER OF THE GOLDEN DAWN
EDUCATION IN THE MYSTERY TRADITION
THE MYSTERY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS
HISTORICAL RESEARCH
THE POWER OF THE ORDER
FRATERNAL HARMONY
THE MEMBERS OF THE ORDER
THE ESOTERIC BOOM
CONFRONTATION WITH ONESELF
THE MEANING OF POLARITY
THE TRICKS OF THE EGO
MAGIC AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE
THE MAGIC WILL
MYSTICISM AND MAGIC
CEREMONIAL MAGIC
THE POWER OF SYMBOLS
THE MAGICAL LANGUAGE
DANGERS OF MAGIC
animal sacrifice
DRUG ABUSE
SHAMANISM
PAGANISM
WICCA
VOODOO
PSYCHO-GROUPS AND SECTS
GURUS
ASCENDED MASTERS
REINCARNATION RESEARCH
SORCERY BOOKS
PSYCHIC POWERS
TELEPATHy
CLAIRVOYANCE
CLAIRAUDIENCE
THE POWERS OF THE MAGICIAN
PSYCHOLOGICAL SELF DEFENSE
THE ETHICAL TRAINING
THE GREAT TEST: “MONEY”
RELIGION – MAGIC
THE MYSTERY OF THE RESURRECTION
KABBALAH
THE TREE OF LIFE
SPIRITUAL LIGHT
THE HIGH ART OF MEDITATION
THE MAGICAL PARTNERSHIP
THE MYSTERY OF SEXUAL MAGIC
THE KEY TO HEALING
VEGETARIaniSM
THE GREAT WORK OF ALCHEMY
THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE
THE GOLD OF THE ALCHEMISTS
THE GREAT WORK
THE ELEMENTS OF ALCHEMY
METAPHYSICS
DEATH AND REBIRTH
THE SYMBOLS OF THE TAROT
ASTROLOGY AND THE POWER OF THE STARS
CHANNELING
INITIATION – THE GATEWAY TO IMMORTALITY
THE NEW WORLD ORDER
INITIATION LEVELS
DEATH
PORTALS OF WISDOM
EPILOGUE