Step VII: Astral Analysis, Magic Senses, & Element Creation

1. Magic Mental Training: Analysis of the Mental Body

In this phase, you build total conscious awareness of your mental body (spirit) operating within the astral and physical shells.

• Deconstructing the Mental Mechanism:
  • Observe how the spirit uses the mental matrix to interact with thought, perception, and action. 
  • Practice isolating the spirit’s core faculties—Will (Fire), Intellect (Air), Feeling (Water), and Consciousness (Earth)—in real-time while processing thoughts or making decisions. 
  • Goal: Achieve total mental mastery, ensuring that no stray mental impulse or raw thought can affect your intent. 

2. Magic Psychic Training: The Magical Equilibrium of the Elements

Earlier steps required balancing the personality using the Black and White Soul Mirrors. Step VII requires maintaining absolute elemental harmony within the astral body itself.

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

                |   ASTRAL ELEMENTAL HARMONY      |

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

                | Fire  <---> Water (Heat/Cold)   |

                | Air   <---> Earth (Light/Weight)|

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

                                |

                                v

               [ Immutable Psychic Equilibrium ]

• Polishing the Astral Mirror:
  • Revisit your Black and White Soul Mirrors. At this stage, no dominant negative element should remain in your temperament. 
  • If any elemental imbalance persists (e.g., lingering anger/Fire or laziness/Water), use targeted elemental breathing to neutralize it permanently. 
  • Goal: Develop an astral body so balanced that external elemental influences, astral entities, or hostile psychic environments cannot disrupt your inner stability. 

3. Magic Physical Training: Magic Through the Senses (The Act of Projection)

Step VII turns your physical senses into direct conduits for magical influence and projection.

• Magical Sight (The Eye):
  • Learn to project willpower, intentions, or elemental forces directly through the eyes. 
  • By looking at a person, object, or space, you can instantly project energy, heal, command, or influence environments without spoken words or gestures. 
• Magical Sound & Touch:
  • The Voice: Impregnate your voice with specific elemental or vital energies so that your spoken words carry dynamic power and immediate subconscious effect. 
  • The Touch: Channel magnetic or electric fluids instantly through the hands or fingertips upon physical contact to heal, balance, or charge items. 

Evolution Across the Steps

Step V

• Focus Area: Space & Fluids
• Practical Manifestation: Mastering Akasa trance & dual polar fluids

Step VI

• Focus Area: Astral Awakening
• Practical Manifestation: Opening clairvoyance & creating Elementars

Step VII

• Focus Area: Sense Magic & Harmony
• Practical Manifestation: Total psychic equilibrium & projecting energy through eyes/voice/touch

In Step VIII, the curriculum reaches a major turning point: transitioning from internal preparation and basic energy manipulation to Mental Travel (Mental Projection) and direct interaction with non-physical entities.

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