The Middle Pillar exercise by the Golden Dawn

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Hello.

I have been doing quite a bit of research in the forum. I found multiple sources speaking highly of the middle pillar exercise by the Golden Dawn.

  1. However, I was wondering, does this train up psychic senses like clairvoyance and clairaudience?
  2. If I do the middle pillar exercise 2x times every day for many years, do you reckon I will be able to communicate effectively with spirits while in the theta-gamma state?

Also, I know many prefer Qigong over the Middle Pillar exercise. Personally, I feel like I want to get into the middle pillar. Although, if you would like to drop comments about the middle pillar VS qigong, feel free to :).

Thanks.

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To a certain extent, but not efficiently, just as a side effect of removing energetic blocks and spending time getting to know your energy system. To train psychic skills, try doing them and ou work those “muscles” directly.

Probably not - practice the skill you want to get good at it, not a different skill.

Like, practicing violin can get you transferable skills to play piano better, hear the music easier etc., but if you don’t know how to play piano, it’s not going to teach you that.

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I always thought the middle pillar was much like the pillar like ritual in the NAP books. It increases your magical power for a ritual.

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Gotcha. Understood.

Though I thought it would develop astral senses because Llewellyn’s website ( Encyclopedia: Middle Pillar Exercise | Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. ) states the following:

A very powerful and effective daily ritual/exercise for activating the five psychic centers of the Middle Pillar in the body. In ways, it resembles the arousing of chakras, but follows the Kabbalistic pattern, and the concept of Light descending and then circulating. Each center is visualized as a sphere of colored light about six inches across one at a time, and then its God Name vibrated four times. After all five centers are established, then currents of energy are visualized rising internally from the base and then descending externally to enter again to energize the aura.

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Like physical senses, you have many astral aka psychic senses. Practicing being aware of and reading your own energy is what you are doing here.

That’s not quite the same thing as practicing hearing, seeing, smelling or touching in your minds eye. I’d say you get a bit more exposure to visualizing, and some clairsentience, but to exercise those there are better exercises, such as shamanic journeying, where you remember to so and use all the senses - ask yourself what you can smell, taste and hear as well as see.

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The Middle Pillar exercise is designed to flood your body with power and will initially awaken your abilities and allow you to feel the movement of energy through you. However, in the Golden Dawn curriculum, next would come the LBRP and the LBRH, rituals which would then further aid the student in opening up their perceptions and ability to visualize.

To refine the ability to see and hear spirits, once the student has gained proficiency in the rituals described above, they would move on to learning how to scry. Scrying is like the gym for the astral senses. Once your perceptions are opened, you then have to learn how to use them, and a scrying medium is the barbell.

EA Koetting uses a similar method of development in his book Evoking Eternity. Once you learn an initial meditation, he then has you power up with a technique he calls the Invocation of Omnipotence, which is basically filling yourself with divine light.

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I believe that qigong originating from Neigong which is energy work through visualization and other things, qigong was created to start with the outside and work its way inside, where Neigong starts with the inside. So if your primary focus is energy level growth, do the middle pillar, cause qigong will make your start with your physical power first.

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MPR alone is useless (well not useless I meant merging energy and intent with the ritual) but not as effective for the work you are wanting it for without the corresponding exercises like the circulation of the body of light at the very bare minimum.

The one that swirls from your toes to your head and around from the end of the ritual.

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Looks a little like that.

Circulation of the body of light:

A: While keeping the visualization of the Middle Pillar, refocus your attention on the white brilliance just above your head. Visualize this brilliance in a state of extreme strength, needing to radiate out even more energy. Visualize it sending a current of energy down into the head and to the left shoulder. Let this energy pass down the left side of your body to your left foot. Feel it move to your right foot, up the right side of your body, to your head, and back up into the brilliance. This motion should be synchronized with your breath. When you exhale, feel the energy go down your left side. When you inhale, feel the energy go up your right side. You should have the sensation of a circle of energy swirling around you. Move the energy, with your breath, in six to ten cycles. Feel free to extend the energy out further to the sides (the most common is about three feet away from your body).

B: This is similar to the first method, but instead of directing the energy down one side and up the other, here you should direct the energy down the front of your body and up the back. be sure to synchronize your breathing so that as you exhale the energy goes down the front of your body and as you inhale, it goes up the back, up to your head and into the brilliance. Do this six to ten times.

C: Re-visualize the entire Middle Pillar. This time, focus your attention on the brilliance at your feet. From the upper right side of this power center visualize the energy curling up in a tight spiral to the front of the left leg. from here it continues around the back and continues moving upward in a counter-clockwise spiral. It is as if you are being wrapped like an Egyptian mummy, from the feet to the head. Instead of cloth, however, you are being wrapped in energy. You should feel a whirling of spiritual power as the pure spiritual light and energy rises up in spirals to the brilliance above your head. When it reaches this brilliance, you should visualize the energy exploding out like a water fountain in all directions. This energy lands at your feet and begins to rise in the spiral again. As you inhale, feel the energy rise towards the top, as you exhale, feel it explode out towards your feet. Do this for six to ten cycles. Then, take a very deep breath, and as you exhale, see the energy disappear visually, but know that it is still there invisibly.

There is also the inner astral temple (visualisation focused) and a few others with the merkabah rotations..

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Okay despite all the words I’ve heard of visualization practices similar to that.

A lot of people don’t realize there’s a difference between visualizing energy moving in your body, and actually feeling it move. Had have some Taoist energy work books made by a man named Mantak Chia that actually helped me very well with this, it gives more detail then most western, actually all western books on the energy points on the body, especially ones you didn’t know about at all.

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Its just breath control and visualisation. It’s not like instant microwave chips to ‘make you suddenly psychic’.
It’s more of a sort of yogic prayer to the powers of the Cabbala imo. That is, your Higher Self. You are announcing, in Hebrew, that what YOU really are is the Lord of The Sun and the Earth and Lord of all Gods etc.

How’s that for a LHP statement?.Lol.

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Like the way you wrote it. But I practice my own way so I didn’t understand it at all what you said. Sorry but after all, every master or beginner has to do it the way that works and makes sense to them.

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