Golden Dawn — The Middle Pillar and Building the Body in Assiah

Middle Pillar 2

You should sit in the east and face west. The glowing white Tree of Life that you have just visualized in the east should be formed behind you in your mind’s eye. Perform the Middle Pillar exercises as in the beginner grade. The sphere of Malkuth can be visualized in the ground directly beneath your chair, or at your foot.

– Direct your attention to a sphere of light half an inch above the crown chakra and pronounce the name: EHEIEH.

2- See a ray emerging from it and descending to the throat, forming a faint white sphere. Pronounce 4 times: YHVH ELOHIM

“Yah-hoh-vah El-oh-heem”

3- See the ray of light descending to the solar plexus and forming a faint sphere of light there. Vibrate the name 4 times: IAO – Ee-ah-oh

4- Allow the ray of light to descend to the genitals and the thigh and form a sphere of light there, while pronouncing the name 4 times: SHADDAI EL CHAI.

5- Let the ray of light descend to the feet and the ground, forming a sphere with half above the ground and half below it. Vibrate the name 4 times: ADONAI HA-ARETZ

Ah-doh-nai hah-Ah-retz

5- Breathe calmly, and with each inhalation and exhalation draw the light between the right and left sides of the body for 4 rounds. Then, for another 4 breathing rounds, draw the light to the front and back of the body.

6- Draw the energy upward through the sphere above the head. Then pause for a moment and let the energy burst forth from above like rain, descending over the body and into the sphere at the feet. Perform this circulation four times.

7- See the energy of the pillar gently expanding and permeating an oval shape around your body. Feel as though you are floating in this light. Remain in this state for 20 minutes, allowing all thoughts and tensions to subside.

Building the Body in Assiah

Building the Body in Assiah is an extension of the Middle Pillar, designed to integrate the Sephiroth into the physical body. To do this, it uses the color scales of one of the four Qabalistic worlds.

1- After performing the Middle Pillar, move your seat to the center of your circle

and sit facing north. Turn your attention to the physical body and visualize it as made of a uniform earthy substance, as though it were a dense mass of iron filings gathered around the influence of an invisible magnet. This “magnet” is the upright pillar of light created in your body by the Middle Pillar. Draw a current of energy down this pillar to Malkuth while vibrating the following divine name once: ADONAi

Now begin vibrating the Assiah name of each Sephirah 4 times, starting at Malkuth and ascending to Kether, while visualizing each Sephirah in its own color. Meditate for several minutes on each Sephirah before moving to the next. Continue ascending through the Tree of Life, and so on.

Table of the Sephiroth, their colors, their names in Assiah, and their meanings:

Second stage: descend through the Sephiroth from top to bottom:

Sit before the Earth Tablet and return your attention to the sphere of light above your head. See it as a luminous sphere in the color of Kether in Assiah: white patterned with gold. Vibrate the name of each Sephirah four times as you descend from one to the next in light and lightning. When you finish with Malkuth, spread your visualization throughout the whole body. See all the Sephiroth in their Assiah colors as your aura around and within your body. Float in the Tree of Assiah for up to twenty minutes. See your aura glowing white from the presence of the Sephiroth, as though their presence stirs the inherent energy. Intensify the visualization, making it as bright as possible. Then relax in the glow of your work.