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CHAPTER THREE ENTERING THE DARKNESS<br />
shifting, agitating, becoming unstable and chaotic. Let these feelings<br />
shake you and disturb the mental quiet gained in the opening<br />
meditation.<br />
Instead of seeing the energy of the burning of the candle resting<br />
on the wick, as was done with the black candle, gaze into the flame and<br />
see that the energy spills out into the room, refusing to be contained.<br />
Sense the power of it sweeping through the air and diving to the floor.<br />
See its attempts to annihilate all that it touches, trying so hard to<br />
incinerate the temple.<br />
Stretch your arms out to your sides, palms up, and inhale slowly.<br />
Feel the spiritual fire produced by the red candle being drawn to you,<br />
rushing into your body. Visualize it filling you with a force which<br />
cannot be controlled, moving up and down your spine and finally<br />
spilling back out of yourself.<br />
Once such contact has been made with the energy of the red<br />
candle, blowout the flame and wait for the astral maelstrom to subside.<br />
After a period of rest, replace the red candle with the violet one,<br />
moving the red candle back and to the left, always keeping the triangle<br />
in tact. Enter into the being-state conducive to the flow of the currents<br />
of Black Magick, seeing and sensing the darkness as before.<br />
Light the violet candle. Gaze into the flame and, rather than<br />
seeing the power invoked spreading through the room or resting near<br />
the flame, visualize and sense a violet ray of light coming up through<br />
the stem of the candle from below. See also a ray of light descending<br />
from directly above, beaming into the candle, the two connecting in<br />
the burning wick.<br />
The violet candle and the energies of that color produce a result<br />
that is entirely unique to each person. It will uplift the spirit, or it will<br />
humiliate the ego. It will confound or enlighten. It will cast you down<br />
as a beast or raise you up as a God.<br />
The spiritual darkness with which you have communed will<br />
react to the burning of the violet candle and the accompanying<br />
visualizations in a more subtle way than the others. Nevertheless, it<br />
will be noteworthy, and will be felt on the deepest levels of the<br />
consciousness and psyche.<br />
Let the violet energies radiate as they will, absorbing the tangent<br />
waves as much as you are able. Sit in the chair and drift in the divinity<br />
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