Visualization-meditations

When the meditation session is completed, use this variation of the Qabalistic Cross to seal your aura. Stand upright and visualize an infinite... 

The key to the whole method is the use of the projected castle. This ensures that the concentration of mental energies is focused on the etheric body, which has been built up by the involved visualization. This projected etheric vehicle, when withdrawn back into the physical at the end of the meditation practice, continues to work in a perfectly safe and self-regulated manner. 

Meditate upon (name of protective ideal) for as long as possible. Visualize him as a form produced by a magician,... 

One useful meditation technique is to relax, close one s eyes and visualize a landscape with a cave or some kind of entrance into the earth. (One merely sets the scene. The unconscious psyche will provide the rest of the imagery. If done properly one be- comes a participant-observer in a kind of inner movie.) In the imagination one enters the cave and follows it to another landscape, either the upper or the lower world of the Shamanic imaginal realm. There one looks for a power animal which will then lead one to whatever it is that one needs to know. Jung used a process very similar to this and called it "active imagination." In other esoteric traditions the same idea is applied within symbolic parameters specific to each belief system. Kabbalists work with the Tree of Life glyph, for example. Several years ago, a book was published which described a very effective way to use the symbols of the Tarot deck in this way. 8... 

Novices of Tibetan monasteries practice, not for a long time, before a Charnel House, what their masters call the Meditation upon the Horrible . The teaching consists of visualizing, beneath the form of a living being, the skeleton wh ich it will one day fatally become, a symbol of the Death which is carried within in latent form. 

At the same time, though, Shangqing also integrated several features of the earlier southern traditions into its own doctrines and practices, and incorporated some of their texts into its own revealed literature. The best-known instance of integration of earlier methods concerns the meditation and visualization techniques described in the Scripture of the Yellow Court Huangting jing), a third-century work that represents the human being as... 

Seidel, La divinisation de Lao tseu, 47-48 and 128. On Laozi as an inner deity to be visualized in meditation practices see also Baopu zi, 273-74 (trans. Ware, 256-57). 

The technique of purifying sexual desire consists of a course of meditations, void of all fumigations, in which one visualizes an ideal woman (or ideal man ), of the kind one has... 

---