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One of the commonest ways in which the Major Arcana or Tarot trumps are used, are as 'keys' to a
particular area of what has been termed the 'astral plane'. The technique is simple to explain and to
read about, but requires a considerable amount of really hard, disciplined work on the part of a
beginner to this sort of activity. 'Practice makes perfect' in magic, as well as in other perhaps more
mundane aspects of life, however, and familiarity with the technique breeds, not contempt, but an ever-
growing enrichment of psychic experience.
Briefly, the technique may be described as follows:
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a. Clear the working area using the Banishing Ritual of the Lesser Pentagram.
b. Visualize the card; also have the card physically present.
c. Use the visualized card as a 'door' or 'curtain' through which to penetrate.
d. Have a look at what appears on the other side of the 'door'.
e. Come back through the 'door'.
f. Visualize the card in place against the closed door.
g. Re-affirm one's presence in the physical world.
h. Signify the end of the working by using the Banishing Ritual of the Lesser Pentagram.
i. Write up the experience in full.
Most of the above points appear self-explanatory, but a few further comments are needed:
a. Clear the working area
This is usually done ritually by means of the Banishing Ritual of the Lesser Pentagram.
b. Visualize the card
It will be readily seen that before one is able to clearly visualize a single card in this way, one must be
extremely familiar with the card in question. An extended period of meditation on and contemplation
of the cards is therefore recommended before attempting to do a path working.
c. Use the visualized card as a 'door' or 'curtain'
In order to perform this part of the technique, a certain facility with the use of the imagination is
necessary. Having clearly visualized the card in detail, the operator must enlarge his visualization to
door-size whilst losing none of the detail of his original visualization. Actually passing through the
door may be done in several ways.
i. One can astrally project and then pass through the door.
ii. Visualize your own figure on the other side of the curtain, and transfer consciousness to that figure.
iii. Visualize a heavy curtain with the card on it gradually becoming more transparent until the
landscape beyond is clear enough to see in detail.
iv. Use a symbolic gesture, such as the Portal sign of rending the veil. This is simply a movement of
the hands as if parting a curtain.
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