Practical Guide to Psychic Self-Defense: Strengthen Your Aura - Softcover

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Melita Denning and Osborne Phillips are internationally-recognized authorities on the mainstream Western Mysteries and are two of the foremost exponents of the Ogdoadic Tradition, that premier hermetic school whose keywords are knowledge and regeneration, and whose influence and works are historically traceable for the past one thousand years.

The authors received their major esoteric training in the magical order Aurum Solis, a society which was founded in 1897 and which has continued in active existence to the present day. On July 8, 1987, the authors, then heads of Aurum Solis, retired from the Order; but on June 23, 1988, at the unanimous request of the members, they resumed office.

In 1997, Melita Denning passed from this earth.

Melita Denning and Osborne Phillips are internationally recognized authorities on the Western Mysteries and two of the foremost exponents of the Ogdoadic Tradition, the premier hermetic school whose influence and works are historically traceable for the past one thousand years. The authors both served as Grand Masters in the magical order Aurum Solis, which was founded in 1897 and is still active today. Phillips lives in the United Kingdom. Denning passed from this earth in 1997.

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3 Deep Waters in Occultism and Religion

Study Points
1. Stories of occult terrors are usually just that-stories. They are usually based on a lack of accurate perspective of historical facts, or they are outright fiction.
a. Many times there is nothing "occult" at all involved, but rather superstition, gullibility, and propaganda intended to place blame for an actual event other than where it belongs, or to foment antipathy toward an enemy nation or religion.
b. There are also genuine occult phenomena-such as "psychic vampires": ordinary people who lack vitality and drain healthy people of their energies-usually without conscious intention of doing so.
c. It is also true that a few malcontents, emotionally sick or immature persons have committed acts of vandalism or terrorism clothed in popular misconceptions about occultism to disguise their enjoyment of the resulting shock or notoriety. No occult power or genuine occult practice is involved. Organized occultism presents no cause for fear to people outside of it. Most occultists are too busily involved with their own self-development and with exploration of various modes of existence to be concerned with playing such games.

2. As in any other field, there are charlatans who disguise themselves as occultists to prey upon the weak and gullible-and the best defense is not to be weak and gullible. Again, genuine occultism is not involved, and these charlatans should be avoided.

3. As in any other field, there may be cases where a real occultist (more often a dabbler or rash experimenter), as a result of jealousy or imagined threat, will employ occult means in a genuine psychic attack on another person, usually another occultist.
a. In these cases, the Tower of Light fortification of the aura will provide a perfectly adequate defense, provided the attacker is not able to weaken the intended victim's aura from within by manipulating the defender's own imagination.
b. The common method by which attack from within is attempted is by inducing feelings of guilt.
c. The best defense is not to take such feeling seriously; and if you do have guilt feelings you can trace to a mistake you have made-forgive yourself.
d. One of the best psychic "antiseptics" is laughter-and you can always find the humorous side of almost anything.
e. In addition, the aura's defensive shield can be further reinforced with an individually chosen spiritual sign.
f. When religious people interfere with your life, your own expression of your spiritual direction will often win their respect and recognition of your right to freedom of belief.

4. Some occult students-especially in their earlier years of inner progress-will be the center of unsought psychic phenomena: various noises, poltergeist phenomena, isolated instances of ESP, involuntary out-of-body experiences, phantoms, etc.
a. If the person is a member of a genuine initiate order, the student will have ample guidance in such matters.
b. All such phenomena result from the uncontrolled release from the student's astral body of energy material-usually in response to the psychic development exercises undertaken, or-in the case of young people-as part of the excess of free-flowing energy that is a natural part of adolescence.
c. Sometimes groups-such as church congregations-also experience unsought psychic phenomena as the result of released, but undirected, energies.
d. Occasionally, such release of energy material at the astral level will attract "elementals."
e. In cases associated with psychic development work, stop the development program and practice the Tower of Light aura fortification three times daily.
f. In cases where the disturbances may be the result of out-of-balance ritual experiments, an "antidote" ritual can be the best answer.
g. In other cases, giving direction to the excess energies-as in healing prayers for specific people-will bring the unsought phenomena to an end as well as producing a worthwhile program.

5. Keeping a dream diary will often reveal the nature and source of psychic disturbances, whether of actual psychic attacks, or "astral bleeding," etc.

6. Psychic attack is never truly one-sided: the attacker uses something of yours to implant something of his or her own in your psyche-and this interchange opens a two-way channel you can use to "reverse the current."
a. To prevent attack, keep control over your personal possessions and castoffs from your body: hair, clippings, etc. Also keep information about yourself and your plans to yourself. Give nothing to your enemy.
b. Never extend hospitality to your suspected attacker, and take nothing from him or her.
c If you have something from the attacker, get rid of it. Look for small things that may have been "planted" on your person or in your home.
d. If you have to talk with the suspected attacker, be aware of your shining protective aura as a shield between you and the attacker.
e. Perform the Tower of Light every night before you go to sleep.

Does occultism itself constitute a threat to uninvolved people? Not at all.

If two countries go to war, other people get involved. Bombs can fall on noncombatants; food and other essential supplies may cease to be available to former buyers, and world prices are likely to be affected. The products of much explosion, combustion, and possible nuclear fission rise into our long-suffering atmosphere, and so on. Civil unrest, likewise, tends to spread among the innocent.

Occultism, despite some people's misgivings, is a much more self-contained world than that. Most occultists, like other folk, have little spare time these days, and they are far too busy giving what attention they can to self-development and to the exploration of various modes of existence to be concerned with attacking other people. Besides, dueling magicians, even when such exist, do not devastate countrysides with errant thunderbolts, nor is any innocent person likely to find his or her cutlery twisted up from a psycho- kinesis contest held by unknown persons on the astral plane overnight. Anyone who wakes in the morning to find his or her hair tied in knots, or a leering face scrawled on the ceiling, pretty surely has at least a suspicion of the reason why.

So, what about the stories one hears? What about uninvolved people being kidnapped and ritually murdered? What about the occasional desecration of churches or graves, with strange symbols left thereon? What of the continued (and rather eerie) persistence of such things as the Charles Manson cult? What about killings by vampires?

Here we have a representative assortment of very unpleasant mysteries that have equally varied backgrounds. Many of the older stories turn simply upon conflicting views as to the value of human life. A number come from the Middle Ages, or from more recent feudal settings, in which a feudal lord (such as the fifteenth-century Gilles de Rais for instance) was used to having power of life and death over the people on his lands, whether he employed that power for military purposes, occult purposes, or any other purpose.

Normally, the rights of such a man over his lieges, like the life-and-death rights often held also by parents over their children, were balanced by the equal power held by the religious and secular authorities over the lords and the parents; but where an influential man chose to flout those authorities, his score could only be settled when they ultimately trapped him.

The same situation, of course, applied to an influential woman. There was nothing really "occult" about the deaths of numerous young girls at the hands of the sixteenth-century Countess Bathory, even though she is often referred to as a "vampire." She...