Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard

Course One: Wizardry 35

Tractor beams and repulsor beams: When

you have practiced this technique enough to get good

at it, you will be ready to try projecting psychic trac-

tor beams and repulsor beams. It’s just a matter of

extending and retracting your aura. As you forcefully

extend it, use it to push against (repulse) anything

before it. And as you retract it, use it to suck in (at-

tract) stuff in the same way. Also, for practice, try just

reaching out with your aura and “tapping” someone

on the shoulder; see if you can get them to turn around!

Candle flames: Light a candle in a darkened room,

and practice using your auric tractor and repulsor

beams to affect the flame. Make it flicker, flare up, or

die down. As you get better at this, keep moving the

candle further and further away from you, until you

can affect the flame from across the room.

Smoke weaving: I attend quite a few magickal

gatherings where the campfire is the center of all ac-

tivity (more on this later, in the Classes on “Back to

Nature” and “Rites and Rituals”). Around such camp-

fires, the smoke can often become a problem as it drifts

into our faces. When the smoke begins to drift to my

side of the fire, I use both hands to weave and shape it

away from me, and to direct it straight up. To do this,

I spread all my fingers, extending their auras. Like a

potter shaping clay on a wheel into a tall vase, I wave

my finger auras against each wisp of smoke, brush-

ing, patting, smoothing, and redirecting its flow. This

can become like dancing. And I have a policy about

this: Anytime anyone notices what I’m doing, and asks

me about it, I show them how. Most people, I’ve

found, can learn this fairly easily.

Cloud busting: This is really part of Weather-

Working, which will be discussed further in 4.I.5:

“Thaumaturgy: Sympathetic Magick.” Large-scale

weather-working should not be done casually, as there

can be unforeseen consequences. But I’ve found that

small-scale cloud-busting is pretty harmless, so I will

explain it here. If it’s a cloudy day and you’d like it to

clear up, say, for a picnic, the first thing is to find

some little patch of blue sky somewhere (this is called

“sailor’s breeches”)—or even a place where the cloud

cover seems a bit less solid. Reach toward that weak

spot in the clouds with both hands, and visualize ex-

tending your aura as far as you can in a long repulsor

beam. It may take years of practice to be able to reach

it all the way up to the clouds, but it can be done.

Hold your hands back to back, fingers extended, then

“pry” the clouds apart as if they were piles of cotton

right in front of you. As the clouds open and the blue

patch becomes larger, just keep pushing the edges of

the opening wider until the sun shines through.

Shielding: You can also learn to “harden” the outer

shell of your auric field into a psychic shield. This is

done in pretty much the same way as projecting an

auric repulsor field. But instead of making it into a

single tight beam, move your hands, palms flattened

and fingers spread wide, up, down, and all around

your body at arms’ length, while visualizing that you

are shaping and pressing against the inside of an im-

penetrable shell all around yourself. Like the Earth’s

Van Allen Belts, this shell will protect you from any

incoming psychic energy—and it can even be devel-

oped into a “cloaking field” to make you invisible.

Cloaking: Psychic invisibility does not mean that

you can stand in the middle of a room jumping up

and down and waving your arms and no one can see

or photograph you. Being invisible means that you

become so inconspicuous that people simply do not

notice that you are there at all. Their gaze will pass

right over you, sliding off your aura like it was Teflon,

or reflected elsewhere as a mirror. Afterwards, they

will not remember your having been present. In addi-

tion to “hardening” your auric shell into a cloaking

field, there are two opposite tricks of invisibility that

Wizards use; both involve your gaze.

The first works best with total strangers, as on the

street or in a crowd. In this trick, you gaze intently at

Daniel

Blair-Stewart

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