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I’d like to stir some attention to the Relaxation Meditation, which is recommended to be performed preceding any ritual work. I think that with consistent practice of this meditation, it eventually evolves into a lot more than just relaxing the body and quieting the mind. It could become a blessing in its own right, and even an invocation.

Consider the warming Golden Dawn sun that starts at your feet — the center of Malkuth. This meditation in a way begins as an invocation of the Light of Tiphareth unto the Neophyte in Malkuth, or Assiah. Letting the Sun bathe your entire being as it moves up your Middle Pillar is a blessing from the Higher Genius unto the Lower Self — an empowerment of the work about to be performed.

I speak of a calm mind but that is actually contradictory. When you are truly calm, not just keeping quiet, the mind does not exist. It merges into its Source — Consciousness. This depth of calm I call great silence. I cannot speak of silent mind — silent mind is no mind … like that feeling I felt in Saturn.

Words … words … origin of thought … silence … center … the voice of the silence … life-giving or death-dealing vibrations that form into words. How can I continue? How can I maintain a calm mind? I feel like a pitcher on the mound, winding up for the pitch … I’ve got butterflies in my tummy. Breathe.

For example, if I am not speaking, there is no speech. It cannot be called quiet speech. We use this language in normal speech, like saying peace of mind. Ultimate silence, or transcendence, is nothing else than the mind merging into its Source.

An example is waves.

When waves subside, they merge into the ocean. They are not kept aside somewhere. In the same way, I cannot get away from my mind. I have to solve it, purify it and let it subside. It simply means getting to the Source of my mind: the reality, or truth, beyond it … beyond its horizon.

I cannot transcend my mind unless it is purified. An impure mind holds me back. Even if my mind is positive, I am impure because I am too much of one thing over its opposite.

But, so what? The mind should not be allowed to be a block to my Higher Genius, or a part of me to be shunned.

My mind, my intellect, my thinking self … is a child that has to be pacified and quieted, not by forceful control or threat of pressure, but by the sweet will of merging. Again, with the unity felt when I let go and allow my body to fall into a state of total relaxation.

This Relaxation Ritual is an effective way to prepare to meet your Higher Genius in transcendence.