Ted Andrews - Simplified Qabala Magic

TED ANDREWS

Ted Andrews is a full-time author, student, and teacher in the metaphysical and spiritual fields. He conducts seminars, symposiums, workshops, and lectures throughout the country on many facets of ancient mysticism. Ted works with past-life analysis, auric interpretation, numerology, the tarot, and the Qabala as methods of developing and enhancing inner potential. He is a clairvoyant and certified in spiritual mediumship, basic hypnosis, and acupressure. Ted is also involved in the study and use of herbs as an alternative path. In addition to writing several books, he is a contributing author to various metaphysical magazines.

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OTHER BOOKS BY TED ANDREWS

Animal-Speak

Dream Alchemy

Enchantment of the Faerie Realm

The Healer's Manual

How to Develop and Use Psychic Touch

How to Heal with Color

How to Meet & Work with Spirit Guides

How to See & Read the Aura

How to Uncover Your Past Lives

Imagick

Magickal Dance

The Magical Name

The Occult Christ

The Sacred Power in Your Name

Sacred Sounds

To Kathy-whose faith, love, and support adds magic and wonder to my life.

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Chapter 1

The Qabala is a system of spiritual evolvement and consciousness unfoldment. Brief history of Qabala. Aspects of the Qabala that can be used by all. The magic and power that exists within the system of the Qabala and thus within each individual.

Chapter 2

A simple understanding of how the universe manifested and evolved. An understandable explanation of how humans fit within the universe. The energies and powers operating within the universe and within humans. Using the Qabala to release the treasures within the universe to enhance our own lives.

Chapter 3

An examination of the sephiroth in the Qabala as levels of consciousness within us. A look at how touching each of the levels opens up potentials that exist there. An examination of the types of energies that can be touched and utilized by each of us, simply by understanding how to touch each successive level of consciousness.

Chapter 4

A detailed look at each level of consciousness, each sephiroth within the Tree of Life. The forces and energies available to us at each level. The aspect of God that can influence our lives at each level. The Archangels and Angels that will assist us in awakening our own innate powers and abilities at each level of consciousness. The qualities that we awaken and begin to utilize within our daily lives by touching each level.

Chapter 5

How to touch the various levels of consciousness that make up the Qabala. How the principles of visualization, sound, resonance, and thought-forms open doors to these levels and enable us to bring forth to our everday level of consciousness the abilities and energies that he hidden within.

Chapter 6

Methods and meditations for touching and understanding each level of consciousness. Techniques for understanding the various forces and beings and worlds that exist within each level. How to apply the energies at each level to our daily lives-whether to improve and utilize greater clairvoyance or to achieve greater balance in life situations.

Chapter 7

The need for techniques upon the path of evolvement and selfinitiation. Balancing the aura and the individual energy field with the Qabalistic cross. Building and balancing the energies we draw forth by building a Tree of Life within our auric field. The Middle Pillar Exercise for protection and balance.

Chapter 8

What is pathworking and how it can be used to initiate ourselves into higher mysteries. Precautions and dangers of pathworking. The basics of the process. The need for more than just a beginner's understanding of the Qabala. How paths and sephiroth within the Qabala adapt themselves to each individual.

Chapter 9

The Qabala as a method of creating greater and more fulfilling realities. The Qabala as a means of recreating our past, as well as creating our future. The importance of perseverence and practice. Balance and imbalance within the Qabala. Precautions and reminders for those starting their path of evolution.

THIS IS A BOOK of magic. It contains no charms, no spells, and no incantations. It is not a book of sleight of hand nor prestidigitation. Neither is it a manual for talismans and conjurings. And yet with all that it is not, it is still a book of magic. It is a book of Light.

It is not important whether or not you believe in magic. It is not important whether you believe in a Divine Light operating positively and actively throughout our universe. What is important in this world, as in all worlds, is that we each have the opportunity to expand our consciousness and our awareness-and in the process learn something new. What is important is being able to open our minds to the potential that resides within each of us, a potential that can be utilized individually to impact upon our environment with an effect that is both positive and enlightening. What is important in this world is that we each realize that there is more to us than the flesh and bones that make up our physical being, that there is something within each of us well worth loving. It is this love of self that begins the process of transformation in our lives. It is what creates the miracles-the magic-the wonder of life.

Magic has been defined as a process to become more than human, to unveil the potential that resides and operates within each of us.

It is not a retreat or escape from life and the turmoils of our daily participation in the life process. Through magicthrough opening and expanding our consciousness-we find the means to transmute those turmoils, to change them. We become capable of seeing the turmoils as teachings and, thus, do what the ancient magicians attempted. We turn the dross of daily life into the gold of greater awareness. Magic is a way of initiating ourselves into a greater awareness that enables our daily life to take on increased radiance.

An occult aphorism states that "Nature unaided fails." Simply, this implies that natural life (and its processes) if left to itself, isolated and limited by no impact from a higher type of consciousness, will only result in a commonplace thing; or on a more personal level, a commonplace person. The soul by itself if left to itself will eventually seek out its source, but the process can be interminably slow and painstaking. There are means though by which the soul can seek help and assistance in moving along its growth at an accelerated pace. Through higher guidance and expanding awareness we can unfold our soul into another life, a life more filled with love and light. This and this alone is true magic.