Step VI: Astral Awakening & Entity Creation

1. Magic Mental Training: Becoming Conscious of the Mental Matrix

In this phase, you work directly with the mental body—the pure spirit detached from both the physical body and the astral shell.

• Awareness of the Spirit in Action:
  • Observe yourself performing physical actions (e.g., walking, writing, eating). 
  • Shift your center of identity so that you realize it is not the physical body performing the act, but your pure spirit moving the physical vehicle via the mental matrix. 
• Decoupling Mental Consciousness:
  • Learn to maintain full self-awareness as a spirit operating independently of physical sensory inputs, laying the foundation for mental travel. 

2. Magic Psychic Training: Awakening the Astral Senses

Step VI focuses on opening the "astral organs" (clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience) through Akasa immersion.

                  [ AKASA TRANCE STATE ]

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         |                                          |                                         |

   [ Clairvoyance ]       [ Clairaudience ]      [ Clairsentience ]

   (Astral Sight)             (Astral Hearing)     (Astral Touch/Feeling)

• Clairvoyance (Astral Sight):
  • Enter the Akasa trance. Focus your attention on the center between your eyebrows (the third eye area). 
  • Project the desire to see beyond the physical spectrum into Akasa. 
  • Practitioners begin to perceive colors, lights, astral forms, and distant events across time and space. 
• Clairaudience & Clairsentience:
  • Apply the same Akasa state to the ears (to hear distant sounds, voices, or entities) or the heart/solar plexus (to feel astral presence and emotional currents). 

3. Magic Physical Training: Creating Elementars

While Step IV covered Elementals (basic thought-forms built from vital force or single elements), Step VI introduces the creation of Elementars—far more complex, conscious entities built directly out of the mental and astral principles.

• What is an Elementar?
  • An intentional, semi-intelligent being fashioned by the practitioner to perform complex, long-term tasks (e.g., intense protection, complex mental tasks, retrieving distant information). 
• The Construction Process:
  • Shape & Image: Form an exact mental image of the entity (human, animal, or symbolic). 
  • Animation via Akasa & Elements: Fill the form with condensed elemental power and project a spark of your own mental/astral matrix into it. 
  • Naming & Character: Give it a distinct name, explicit personality traits, intelligence, and duties. 
  • Control & Dissolution: Establish strict rules for its behavior, where it resides when inactive, and a mandatory dissolution plan once its purpose is fulfilled. 

Progression Summary: Steps IV through VI - Metrics

Primary Domain

• Step IV: External Element Projection
• Step V: Akasa & Polar Fluids
• Step VI: Mental Matrix & Astral Senses

Perception

• Step IV: Externalizing heat/cold/weight
• Step V: Center-point & spatial depth
• Step VI: Clairvoyance & Astral organs

Creation Work

• Step IV: Elementals (simple thought-forms)
• Step V: Fluid Balancing
• Step VI: Elementars (complex conscious entities)

In Step VII, the curriculum moves into the full activation of the astral body, balancing the psychic self, and mastering direct magic with the senses.

Here is the exact breakdown for Step VII from Initiation Into Hermetics -->