IIH step 1 questions
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 2:58 pm
I assume this topic goes in modern magicks, since IIH came out in the 20th century and I saw another IIH post on the first page, although then again, that century gets further and further away every day (sorry if I just made you feel old [lol] ). I know there's been a large amount of questions about the first few steps of IIH, but I looked and couldn't find any answers to the ones that've been troubling me.
so lets start with the easy ones and get more complicated:
first actually isn't directly linked to IIH. I was wondering what things if any would accelerate one's rate of growth on a magickal path? for instance: if I put in an hour of meditation a day would I proceed faster than if I did a half an hour? and if so, would it be doubly fast just slightly faster, ie would it suffer diminishing returns? Also, would doing multiple trainings at the same time like IIH+quareia+DMK help, hinder, or not do anything good or bad? And if there's anything else that'd help please tell me.
second, a question about the soul mirror. I've found a couple of things I guess you could call complexes of traits, in that I'd have one trait, then like 6 other traits that are all a subset of that main trait. should I then count the complex as a whole as one trait, or the elements that make up the complex? because it seems as though since they're interconnected in step two I could eliminate all of them at once, and about 3 of these complexes would just about balance my mirror (it's already almost balanced if a complex only gets treated as one trait).
third, and most complicated is with respect to the steps leading up to VOM. I think I succeeded quite well at the first step, the observation. I found that thoughts really move across my mind like a projectile, and if I just observed them they'd be smaller and weaker, but if I focused on one it gained more energy and got bigger, and these are the ones that form my internal dialogue ie the voice inside my head. My question is with the second step should it only be words or also images or both and should it be given energy or made on of the smaller ones? in other words, what should the thoughts being held be like? It's been a couple weeks now I've been on this step, and what I'd do is, for lack of anything better the meditate on, to focus on an element. not accumulate or pore breathe it or anything but just think on it, and cycle through them. so I'd repeat the word air over in my head innumerable times while visualizing first clouds, then the empty sky, then the feeling of the wind, and just cycle through any pictures and sometimes a feeling or sound. If this is alright I just got my ten minutes perfect today, though I don't know if a picture and a word is too much or if I shouldn't have given any focus or energy to the word or if the word isn't supposed to be repeated but held in place. Altogether, can I move on to the last meditation step or did I do the second completely wrong?
If you're reading this you've probably read my whole massively long post of questions, in which case I sincerely thank you for using some of your time on me, even if you don't have the answers I seek.
so lets start with the easy ones and get more complicated:
first actually isn't directly linked to IIH. I was wondering what things if any would accelerate one's rate of growth on a magickal path? for instance: if I put in an hour of meditation a day would I proceed faster than if I did a half an hour? and if so, would it be doubly fast just slightly faster, ie would it suffer diminishing returns? Also, would doing multiple trainings at the same time like IIH+quareia+DMK help, hinder, or not do anything good or bad? And if there's anything else that'd help please tell me.
second, a question about the soul mirror. I've found a couple of things I guess you could call complexes of traits, in that I'd have one trait, then like 6 other traits that are all a subset of that main trait. should I then count the complex as a whole as one trait, or the elements that make up the complex? because it seems as though since they're interconnected in step two I could eliminate all of them at once, and about 3 of these complexes would just about balance my mirror (it's already almost balanced if a complex only gets treated as one trait).
third, and most complicated is with respect to the steps leading up to VOM. I think I succeeded quite well at the first step, the observation. I found that thoughts really move across my mind like a projectile, and if I just observed them they'd be smaller and weaker, but if I focused on one it gained more energy and got bigger, and these are the ones that form my internal dialogue ie the voice inside my head. My question is with the second step should it only be words or also images or both and should it be given energy or made on of the smaller ones? in other words, what should the thoughts being held be like? It's been a couple weeks now I've been on this step, and what I'd do is, for lack of anything better the meditate on, to focus on an element. not accumulate or pore breathe it or anything but just think on it, and cycle through them. so I'd repeat the word air over in my head innumerable times while visualizing first clouds, then the empty sky, then the feeling of the wind, and just cycle through any pictures and sometimes a feeling or sound. If this is alright I just got my ten minutes perfect today, though I don't know if a picture and a word is too much or if I shouldn't have given any focus or energy to the word or if the word isn't supposed to be repeated but held in place. Altogether, can I move on to the last meditation step or did I do the second completely wrong?
If you're reading this you've probably read my whole massively long post of questions, in which case I sincerely thank you for using some of your time on me, even if you don't have the answers I seek.