Train your imagination. Explore divination. Make room for ritual. Discover the methods behind the books, and try them for yourself.
Choose a guide to read its source and begin.
Picture your likeness carrying a simple message to a willing partner, then compare separate records.
From C. W. Leadbeater’s The Devachanic Plane, or the Heaven World: Its Characteristics and Inhabitants
Picture a rose-coloured wing-form with a yellow heart, carrying a wish for a loved one’s peace.
From Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater’s Thought-Forms
Gather a small circle, offer an invitation, sit quietly together and record impressions before sharing.
From John Lobb’s Talks with the Dead
Study a teacher’s words, picture them opposite you and imagine a reply grounded in their work.
From Éliphas Lévi · translated by A. E. Waite’s Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual
Study Stolas’s seal, call him in a symbolic evocation, ask one question and close the audience.
From L. W. de Laurence · editor’s The Lesser Key of Solomon: Goetia
Hold a keepsake, record impressions of its owner and compare them with the object’s history.
From James Coates’s Seeing the Invisible
Gather imagined mist into your likeness, then picture your astral double rising above your resting body.
From Sylvan J. Muldoon and Hereward Carrington’s The Projection of the Astral Body
Enter an imagined thought-world shaped by one belief, then change its governing rule.
Prepare a memorial, call a deceased loved one by name, sit quietly and close the invocation.
Address air, fire, water and earth through the four directions in a simplified banishing rite.
Lay and interpret a physical Celtic Cross, recording ten cards with their source associations.
From Dr. L. W. de Laurence’s The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
Rebuild a pleasant remembered dream scene, imagine moving within it, and carry an intention to revisit it into sleep.
Hold a found holed stone, speak words of gratitude and invoke Diana, then keep the stone as your charm.
From Charles G. Leland’s Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches
Observe one plain point, recall it, then keep returning to the same image without the painting.
From Annie Besant’s Thought-Power: Its Control and Culture
Learn your pulse rhythm, then use it to count equal, comfortable inhalations and exhalations.
From Yogi Ramacharaka’s The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath
Contemplate the flame as your soul and the light within it as the divine.
From Swami Vivekananda’s Yoga Philosophy: Lectures Delivered in New York, Winter of 1895–6, on Râja Yoga, or Conquering the Internal Nature
Build a rose in your imagination, open its petals, then hold the whole flower without the painting.
From Annie Besant’s Thought Power
Dedicate an upright pentagram through five names, breath, water and the four directions.
From Éliphas Lévi’s Transcendental Magic
Gather imagined prana at the solar plexus, then distribute it through the body with an easy exhalation.
Speak the four movements of an Isis chant, joining voice and imagination in an act of invocation.
From Aleister Crowley’s The Works of Aleister Crowley, Volume I
Learn one continuous inhalation through the abdomen, ribs and upper chest, followed by a slow exhalation.
Prepare a crystal, say the angelic call to Michael and follow a complete scrying sitting from prayer to closing.
From L. W. de Laurence’s Crystal-Gazing and Spiritual Clairvoyance
Follow the opening prayer discipline of the Abramelin tradition: give thanks, examine your conduct and ask for guidance.
From Abraham of Worms · translated by S. L. MacGregor Mathers’s The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage
Attempt a projection technique using imagined climbing while your body rests.
From Sylvan J. Muldoon & Hereward Carrington’s The Projection of the Astral Body
Practise directing your attention and will while imagining a protective boundary around yourself.
From Yogi Ramacharaka’s Raja Yoga or Mental Development
Build the book’s landscape in your mind, add its details, then withdraw the drawing aid.
From L. W. de Laurence’s Clairvoyance and Thought-Transference
Use a question and rows of dots to make a divinatory chart, then read its figures in Hartmann’s system.
From Franz Hartmann’s The Principles of Astrological Geomancy