>>26902I'm going to lay down a formula for getting pretty much anything you ever want to do done.
>“Earnest Desire—Confident Expectation—and Firm Demand—these form the Triple Key of Occult Attainment.”You may as well write that shit down and repeat it to yourself before every magick operation and every time you get up (although not immediately, when you get up first recall what you were doing in the astral, then when you've sufficiently recalled all the details of that and are getting up to go and actually start your day that is when you can recite it).
>The Master Formula of Attainment is as follows: “(1) Definite Ideals; (2) Insistent Desire; (3) Confident Expectation; (4) Persistent Determination (5) Balanced Compensation.” Reduced to popular terms, it is as follows: “You may have anything you want, provided that you (1) know exactly what you want, (2) want it hard enough, (3) confidently expect to obtain it, (4) persistently determine to obtain it, and (5) are willing to pay the price of its attainment.”Personally, I'm going to print this shit out, probably on the back pages of the papers I've already printed out for Montalk's reality manifestation stuff (PDF related). I'd write it down but my hands for my current body are HUGE, shaky, and just no good at all for writing with any pens or pencils. I guess you can write it down or paint it or something.
Now if you want to do some shit, get an idea of what exactly it is you are doing, and what is involved. Read the relevant occult books on the topic and then keep within your conscious mind the gist of the thing. The main purpose of all that reading is to sink a lot of shit into your subconscious so it's there and will be available to you again provided the right conditions exist to call it fourth… but you'll only have to really strongly memorize and begin using the technique as it can be understood "in a nutshell".
http://www.yogebooks.com/english/atkinson/1909memory.pdfhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2b96Astj1QFor example, if you want to get good at memorizing shit, Atkinson has a huge fucking book on it (you can find it as an audiobook too) and it's worth reading. However memorization basically comes down to fascination and investing loosh (that's "memorization in a nutshell". If you are really interested in something or you have very strong emotional release corresponding (Muh 2nd Hermetic Principle) with the event it burns strongly into your memory and can easily be accessed and recalled. If you want to practise memorizing lots of shit, become extremely fascinated by absolutely everything, and unleash tons of loosh while doing so. You will end up creating astral memories of everything. Practising a lot will help… but then it should be apparent there are several other things you will want to know.
…now of course everything is interconnected. As you know you need loosh to memorize shit. So techniques to develop the will, to manage your loosh, etc. are other shit you're going to want to learn to get better at memorization. So you'd read Atkinson's books related to that.
http://www.yogebooks.com/english/atkinson/1922personalpower.pdfhttp://www.yogebooks.com/english/atkinson/1909will.pdfThe desire section of the personal power book appears to be about loosh generation. A subject only briefly touched upon it seems in his other books such as
Mind Power: The Secret of Mental Magic. There's also a section on Will and Atkinson also has a whole book on just will.
Anyways, I'm getting distracted here, but if you want to figure any shit out just use the Master Formula of Attainment, read the relevant books, remember very strongly the "how do it in a nutshell", and then break it down by the 7 hermetic axioms. I identify how each of the 7 is used. I do this for everything. It also helps to know the aphorisms given in The Arcane Teachings as they expand upon how you use the 7 hermetic axioms. If you're going to do anything involving elements too, you will want to know that shit, and clearly conceive of how you are going to do something along elemental ways.
In a few hours of intensely thinking it over in bed or whatever, you can come up with a solution for anything then, and do amazing things. The hermetic knowledge seems to some useless, theoretical, etc. but in reality it is extremely powerful and essential knowledge to solving any problems you might ever be faced with.
I also found this picture here at random while searching around for any images that might exist pertaining to the transmutation of the circle into the ascending spiral by movement of the central point upwards via the union of the opposites through the excluded middle…. and it is very true and useful thing to keep in mind.
Really, you could probably do some mindblowing shit right now in your room, if you just use the principle of rhythm, vibration, polarity… well all of them at once and then set your mind to generating some strange mental phenomena at a high level of intensity. You could for example go to the astral right now. I should write instructions for that in another thread. Getting to the astral is really easy if you have the loosh and can concentrate (no annoying music looping thoughtforms or other bullshit like that draining and distracting you).