Step V: Space Magic, Akasa, & Dynamic Fluids

1. Magic Mental Training: Space Magic (Depth & Center Concentration)

In earlier steps, you projected your consciousness into external objects, animals, or people. Step V deepens this into perceiving the center of gravity and internal volume of any form, leading to the mastery of the fourth dimension (Space Magic).

• Focusing on the Center Point:
  • Choose a object or shape (e.g., a sphere, a cube, or a tree).
  • Instead of perceiving it from the outside, transfer your consciousness directly into the innermost core/center point of the object.
  • The Sensation: Feel the object expanding out from your central point of awareness in all directions simultaneously. You become the focal point of its existence.
• Expansion of Awareness:
  • Gradually expand this technique to larger structures—from small inanimate items to an entire room, a building, and eventually landscapes.
  • Goal: Learn to perceive any physical or mental form not as a surface, but from its absolute structural center.

2. Magic Psychic Training: Mastering the Akasa Principle (The Causal World)

Step V introduces the conscious entry into Akasa—the non-physical, etheric space from which all four elements originate.

                            [ THE AKASA PRINCIPLE ]

                            (The Etheric / Causal Void)

                                                        |

             +------------------+------------------+

             |                                         |

    [ Electric Fluid ]              [ Magnetic Fluid ]

   (Fire / Air - Active)         (Water / Earth - Passive)

             |                                          |

             +-------------------+------------------+

                                                          |

                                [ Physical Manifestation ]

• Inducing the Akasa Trance State:
  1. Sit in your normal posture (Asana) and quiet your mind into complete vacuity.
  2. Imagine yourself transferred into an infinite, borderless space that is completely dark, weightless, timeless, and silent—the universal Akasa.
  3. Absorbing Akasa: Breath in this black/violet ethereal space through your pores into your entire body.
  4. The Result: You experience a profound state of timelessness, detachment, and supreme peace. In this state, your mind sits directly at the causal layer of reality, where any intention imprinted into Akasa must eventually manifest.

3. Magic Physical Training: Controlling the Electric and Magnetic Fluids

Step V introduces the working mechanics of the two fundamental polar fluids that drive all life and creation: the Electric Fluid (Fire/Air side) and the Magnetic Fluid (Water/Earth side).

• Accumulating the Electric Fluid:
  • Qualities: Hot, expanding, energetic, light, dynamic.
  • Procedure: Enter a trance state and draw Fire/Air elements or electric energy from the universe, compressing it into the upper region of your body (head and chest). Feel an intense, radiant, heat-like electrical tension.
• Accumulating the Magnetic Fluid:
  • Qualities: Cool, contracting, heavy, tranquil, magnetic.
  • Procedure: Draw Water/Earth elements or cool magnetic power from the cosmos into the lower region of your body (abdomen and legs). Feel a soothing, heavy, magnetic pull.
• Balancing the Fluids:
  • Practice circulating both fluids without allowing them to clash destructively, maintaining precise balance in your physical frame before dissolving them completely back into the universe.

What Changes in Step V? 

Perspective

• Steps I–IV: Seeing/projecting onto surfaces and outward shapes
• Step V: Concentrating inside the absolute center point of forms

Energy Medium

• Steps I–IV: Raw 4 Elements & Vital Force (Prana)
• Step V: Direct Akasa (Fifth Element) & Polar Fluids

Trance State

• Steps I–IV: Deep mental focus & body relaxation
• Step V: Conscious Akasa Trance (Timeless/Spaceless state)

In Step VI, Bardon moves from the internal control of polar fluids to awakening the astral/mental senses and working directly with higher entity creation.

Here is the breakdown of Step VI from Initiation Into Hermetics -->