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Before we go on to a detailed description of the methods which we suggest that you should employ as
modes of obtaining astral projection we feel it worthwhile considering whether astral visions partake
of objective reality. In the last analysis this is a question which each seer must answer for himself. Our
own beliefs and the beliefs of many occultists, past and present, were admirably expressed by J.F.C.
Fuller who wrote:
'The truth is, it does not matter one rap by what name you christen the illusions of this life, call them
substance, or ideas, or hallucinations, it makes not the slightest difference for you are in them and they
in you whatever you like to call them, and you must get out of them and they out of you, and the less
you consider their names the better; for name-changing only creates unnecessary confusion and is a
waste of time.
'Let us therefore call the world a series of existences and have done with it, for it does not matter a jot
what we mean by it so long as we work; very well then; Science is a part of this series, and so is
Magic, and so are cows and angels, and so are landscapes, and so are visions; and the difference which
lies between these existences is the difference which lies between a cheesemonger and a poet, between
a blind man and one who can see. The clearer the view, the more perfect the view; the clearer the
vision the more perfect the vision. The eyes of a hawk are keener than those of an owl, and so are
poet's keener than those of a cheesemonger, for he can see beauty in a ripe Stilton while the latter can
only see two-and-sixpence a pound.
'A true vision is to awakenment as awakenment to a dream; and a perfectly clear co-ordinate vision is
so nearly perfect a Reality that words cannot be found in which to translate it, yet it must not be
forgotten that its truth ceases on the return of the seer to the Material plane. (3)
'The Seer is therefore the only judge of his visions, for they belong to a world in which he is absolute
King, and to describe them to one who lives in another world is like talking Dutch to a Spaniard ...
The vision of the adept is so much truer than ordinary vision that when once it has been attained to, its
effect is never relinquished, for it changes the whole life. Blake would have as soon doubted the
existence of his wife, his mother or of himself, as that of Urizen, Los or Luvah.
'Dreams are real, inspirations are real, delirium is real, and so is madness; but for the most part these
are Qliphothic realities, unstable, unbalanced, dangerous.
'Visions are real, inspirations are real, revelation is real, and so is genius; but these are from Kether,
and the highest climber on the mystic mountain is he who will obtain the finest view, and from its
summit all things will be shown unto him.'
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