Golden Dawn — The Middle Pillar, the Body in Yetzirah, and the Theoricus Meditation

Middle Pillar 3

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.

The Body in Yetzirah

The Body in Yetzirah is built on the color scale of the World of Formation. After performing the Middle Pillar exercise, move your

chair to the center of your circle and sit facing east toward the Enochian Tablet of Air. Turn your attention to your body of light. See it as a uniform, luminous, silver-white image in the shape of your body, contained within your skin. It also has an aura of light hovering about one handspan above the skin. This etheric body is penetrated and illuminated by the Middle Pillar, which passes through it from the crown to the ground. Draw a current of sparkling white energy down the Middle Pillar to Malkuth while vibrating the following name:

Yehovah

Now vibrate each name 4 times in accordance with its location, color, and scent.

After completing the ascent, pronounce the names again as you descend from top to bottom. Visualize the shapes and their colors in their places, then rejoice in the glow of your work for 20 minutes.

Theoricus Meditation

1- Facing east: “Practice lunar breathing [close your mouth, bring the thumb of your right hand beside the right nostril, and press it shut so that you breathe only through the left nostril], while mentally saying the word “AUM”. Meditate on the waxing and waning crescent while visualizing the silver crescent against an indigo background. Now name before your mind the signs of the airy triplicity and, in association with them, contemplate the numbers nine and five, as well as the shapes of the pentagram. Now rise in imagination above the mineral world to the world of trees and flowers, and identify yourself in love and sympathy with the elemental powers behind these. Perceive the mental world where mind controls matter, and meditate on the ideas of appearance and reality.”