This ritual
builds up the middle pillar of the Tree of Life in your aura
thereby awakening the higher currents within you. The exercise
is well-known also from tantra and taoism where it balances sexual, loving
and spiritual energies that are regarded as seperate by cultural
conventions. The Middle Pillar Exercise should be carried out
slowly and with great care, attention and devotion. Do not go
on with the exercise until a powerful visualisation carrying
a significant energy level has been achieved at the previous
step. This may require several minutes of concentration on each
part.*
1 Stand
upright facing west, hands to your side, eyes closed, inhale
and expired your breath steadily. Let the mind be quiet, calm,
and still. Perform the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.*
2 Now visualise yourself
standing in a Temple with the pillars of the Tree of Life felt
right behind your back. There is a Black Pillar of Severity on
your right, a White Pillar of Mercy on your left. You are the
Middle Pillar, standing between them. Imagine that the Black
Pillar of Severity is reflected in the right part of your body,
and the White Pillar of Mercy in the left part.*
3 Take a deep breath
and raise yourself to your Kether, a sphere of pure brilliance
emanating above your head. Breathe in deeply and vibrate the
godname EHEIEH (pronounced "Eh-hay-yay",
'I am', 'I will be' or 'I am that I am').*
4 See the light above
your head flowing down through Daath, at the nape of your neck.
Here it forms another flaming sphere of brilliant indigo, slightly
smaller than the previous sphere. Now you inhale deeply and vibrate
the godname YHVH
ELOHIM
(pronounced "Ye-ho-wah El-o-heem" - 'Lord God' or 'Lord
of Gods' - which is in fact the godname of Binah as Daath is
not truly a Sephirah).*
5 Experience the light
continue to Tiphareth in your heart into a sphere of clear pink
rose as you vibrate the godname YHVH ELOAH VA DAATH (pronounced "Ye-ho-wah El-o-aah
Vah Daard" - 'Lord God of all Knowledge').*
6 Let the light flow
further down into Yesod in your hip and genital area forming
a flaming sphere of fluctuating indigo. Take a deep breath and
vibrate the divine name SHADDAI EL CHAI (pronounced "Sha-di el-chie"
- 'Almight God of Life').*
7 Finally, the light
reaches Malkuth at the base between your legs (or even under
your feet) where it forms a flaming sphere of brilliant yellow.
Now vibrate its godname ADONAI HA-ARETZ (pronounced "Ah-don-i ha-aretz"
- 'Lord of the Earth').*
8 Now see the light
ascending vertically behind your back along the spine, then feel
it descend vertically in front of you, creating a dynamic circle
of flaming light moving rapidly around you. Let another circle
form itself around your waist, beginning from left to right in
front of you, then running in a clockwise current. Feel the new
life these currents are giving your entire aura. Observe them
for a while, as they are circulating around the four brilliant
spheres on a stream of light.*
9 Thank the powers
that have been involved. Take a deep breath and feel the images
fade to become invisible. Perform The Qabalistic Cross to balance the energy and close
the ritual.*
balancing masculine and feminine currents
If the ritual is carried out with the purpose of circulating sexual energy that has been accumulated through tantra, it may be neccesary to make a specific balancing
of the masculine and feminine currents, respectively the Pillar of Severity
(Pingala, hot) and the Pillar of Mercy (Ida, cold). The following extension of the
exercise
should be carried out if tension is still experienced in the
sexual organs:
...10 Concentrate your
consciousness at the testicles (if male) or the ovaries (if female),
both of them, left and right. Take a deep breath and vibrate
the divine name SHADDAI
EL CHAI (pronounced
"Sha-di el-chie" - 'Almight God of Life' - godname
of Yesod). *
11 Lift the energy,
breathing in from these two sexual
organs upwards in two seperate currents. Let the two currents
cross through your heart
in a sphere of clear pink rose as you mentally vibrate the godname
YHVH
ELOAH VA DAATH
(pronounced "Ye-ho-wah El-o-aah Vah Daard" - 'Lord
God of all Knowledge').*
12 While still breathing
in, raise the energy
further to the level of your brain, the current from your left
sexual organ entering the opposite right half of the brain and
the current from the right entering the opposite left brain.
View the entire brain becoing a flaming sphere of brilliant indigo.
Exhale excess energy through the brian halves and vibrate the
two godnames YHVH
ELOHIM
(pronounced "Ye-ho-wah El-o-heem" - the godname of
Binah, for the right brain)
and YHVH (pronounced "Ye-ho-wah"
- the godname of Chokmah, for the left brain).*
Tantric practices
working with the balance between masculine and feminine energies
may lead to an intermediate imbalance of energy. If a woman experiences
an excessive sensation of cold feminine energy, or if a male
feels too hot, this breathing exercise must be performed focusing
on only the opposite current which balances the excessive one.
A woman experiencing too
much cold should breathe only through the masculine hot current,
from the right sexual organ to the left brain (YHVH). A man experiencing too much heat should breathe
only through the feminine cold current, from the left sexual
organ to the right brain (YHVH ELOHIM).*
13 Thank the powers
that have been involved. Take a deep breath and feel the images
fade to become invisible. Perform The Qabalistic Cross to balance the energy and close
the ritual.*
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