Spiritual Meditation Techniques and Consciousness Development

a state of total calm, you will fix your thought on I AM, and repeat this affirmation while keeping your eyes fixed on a white disc, on which you will have traced a black circle containing the words I AM. This disc must be visible without straining the eyes or twisting the neck; it will therefore be hung on the wall in front, at a convenient distance, and with a diameter of 33 centimeters. By insisting for a long time, you will obtain concentration within yourselves and abstract yourselves from the world.

III Meditation various phases
1. We can state the stages of concentration as follows:
2. Choice of the object on which to concentrate.
3. Withdrawal of one's mental consciousness from the external world, so that the five senses become calmed, quieted for the entire duration of concentration.
4. Consciousness must be fixed, through concentration, in the middle of the forehead between the eyebrows, where the mental body and spirit have their center of gravity. The will, command, mental concentration have as their physical instrument the Cavernous Plexus and the Pituitary gland, at the root of the nose, almost at the point where the Bishop marks the confirmand with the sign of the Cross. This center is the naso-ciliary ramification of the cavernous plexus of the sympathetic, through the ophthalmic division of the fifth cranial nerve, ending in the ciliary muscles of the irises and at the root of the nose, through the supra-orbital canals. It has two branches. It is there that the Disciple receives orders from the Spiritual Master, and that the hypnotist influences the subject. It confers the basis for the sense of the I; it is the starting point of the descending current, and the last point where the three nervous currents meet: spinal and right and left sympathetic. The development of this plexus is subordinated to daily exercises to strengthen the I, will and concentration. From it starts the stimulus to act on the Vagus Nerve and subdue, regulating the functions of all organs innervated by it.
5. Attention turns only and exclusively to the chosen object, and there the mind fixes.
6. The imaginative perception or visualization of such object, and lightning-fast logical reasoning about it.
7. The extension of already formulated concepts, moving from the particular and specific to the general and universal.
8. Tending toward the search for what lies behind the form that the Ascetic has chosen as a support point for concentration, trying to arrive, in essence, at the idea that produced the form. This process gradually raises one's consciousness and allows those who aspire to it to transfer from form to life itself.

One will begin, meanwhile, to place attention and concentrate on objects or forms, which we can schematize into four types:
1. External objects: statues, paintings or icons, sacred images depicting Jesus, the Holy Trinity, the Celestial Mother, the patron Saint, the Master, the Guardian Angel, or some episodes from their lives.
2. Internal objects: the seven subtle points of the soul.
3. Qualities: virtues, with the intention of awakening the desire to acquire them and integrate them into one's personal life.
4. Concepts: ideas that express the ideals that give life to all forms of creation. Concepts can take the form of words or symbols.

IV Meditation
Having fixed the fluctuations of the mind and held firm the chosen object, one acquires the power to identify with it and understand what it is. Meditation is a continuous flow of thought toward a physical organ, a center of force, a symbol, God. It depends on what subject of meditation has been chosen, and the result one wants to obtain. When God is the objective of meditation, then concentrated thought flows from the soul to God like a thread of oil. The meditator gathers in fixed attention, and becomes aware only of his mind and the object on which he has focused. The mental continuum is under the constant control of the will, and it never happens that this 'continuum' is enriched with uncontrolled associations, analogies, symbols.

In meditation, the mind is directed by concentrated will into a concrete symbol (the face of a master, a rose, a compass) or an abstract symbol (Wisdom, Love, Power), until feeling one with it, then surpassing it, to fix the mind as long as possible, for minutes and even for several consecutive hours, in the conceptual content of the symbol itself. Let us imagine pouring the oil contained in a bottle into a container, and accompanying with fixed gaze and mind, the oily thread that descends from the mouth of the bottle into the container that receives it. In those moments, it is as if we were incorporated into the oil, without distractions, with the fear of wasting it should it exit the container and no longer unite with the other oil. Practically, we will have meditated on the pouring of oil. Now, if you do the same thing with a spiritual, metaphysical theme, fixing with love the mental essence of God, you will experience the perception of having been, like oil, poured into God: and this is not fantasy, but reality.

Moreover, those who train to transmit thought do nothing but direct attention toward the person to whom they intend to transmit, without stopping for a single instant. In the end, the receiver perceives the telepathic message. Sometimes it happens that the transmitting person exits from their own body and reaches the other person through splitting, that is, with the subtle body. In well-succeeded mystical meditation, one enters in spirit into the light of God, and in initiatic meditation one enters in spirit into the spirit of God. The result of good meditation consists in arriving at producing an effect in oneself (awakening of a Center of force, direction of a vital current toward a weakened organ, healing it) or outside oneself by entering into God and experiencing His divine qualities. Archeosophical meditation is the master path for the development of the Will to deify oneself with the transmutation of mind and its content, while the individual's Humanity remains vivified by the presence of Christ.

Meditation on frontal center
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