The Middle Pillar is one of the most important visualization practices in your life.  Just as athletes visualize the correct path of the ball to the goal, or power lifters visualize the perfect movement, this visualization exercise helps you develop your subtle body, the part that is unseen.

In this exercise, you are learning how to draw “the Light” (chi/prana/manna/LUX). This exercise has been handed down for centuries, and is the basis for modern magick as we know it. This process is designed to recalibrate and strengthen the subtle parts and reintegrate them, and teach the user how to harness their energy. Some practitioners also seem to have more awareness and control over their subconscious mind. This is best to practice after the LBRP and LBRH have been completed. You can store this energy in your body and harness it, or you can discharge the energy into an item.

Here is a guided visualization done by Damien Echols, one of the leading minds in the genre of the occult and magic.

The Middle Pillar:

Standing, feet together, facing east, with your eyes closed.

Make the same visualization from the Qabalistic Cross, envisioning a blinding white light in the center of the Universe. Every breath in, you visualize it glowing even brighter. Hold the breath, retaining the energy in the minds eye. On the fourth breath, imagine a shaft of light from the Source of the Universe come down into the field above your head as you exhale. At the crown of your head, a sphere of white light rests at the crown of your head.

Intensify the white sphere above the head and vibrate EH-HEH-YEH 3, 6, or 9 times, intensifying each time.

crowley’s version: NUIT

Visualize the column of light descend to binah, to form a silver sphere at the throat, and vibrate YE-HOH-VOH  E-LOH-HEEM. (Zaphkiel) x4, (aralim) x4 and visualize the grey sphere growing brighter and brighter in each breath.

crowley’s version: AIWASS

Visualize gold light the color of the Sun at Noon descending to form a sphere at the heart in tipareth, and vibrate YE-HOH-VOH EL-OAH-VA-DA-ATH. (raphael) x4 (malachim) x4, intensifying the gold sphere in each breath.

crowley’s version: RA-HOOR-KHUIT

Visualize light descending to form a purple sphere at the genitals, and vibrate SHAH-DAI EL CHAI 3, 6, or 9 times, again intensifying the purple sphere each breath.

crowley’s version: BABALON

Visualize light descending to form a black sphere at the feet, and vibrate AH-DOH-NAI HA-AH-RETZ 3, 6, or 9 times. Each breath, try and stretch your psycic awareness by imagining the sphere growing bright as you can imagine in each breath.

crowley’s version: THERION

There should be large spheres of light in your chakra centers: above the head, the throat. solar plexus, root, and under your feet, connected by a pillar of light.

The Circulation of the Body of Light

Part 1. While keeping the visualization of the Middle Pillar, refocus your attention on Kether. Visualize it sending a current of energy down into the head and into the left shoulder. Let this energy pass down the left side of your body to your left foot. Feel it move to your right foot, up the right side of your body, to your head, and back up to Kether.

When you exhale, feel the energy go down your left side. When you inhale, feel the energy go up your right side. You should have the sensation of a circle of energy swirling
around you. Move the energy, with your breath, in six to ten cycles.

Part 2. Direct the energy down the front of your body and up the back. Be sure to synchronize your breath so that as you exhale the energy goes down the front of your
body and, as you inhale, it goes up your back, to your head and up to Kether.

Part 3. From the upper right side of this power center visualize the energy curling up in a tight spiral to the front of the left leg. From here it continues around the back and continues moving upward in a counter-clock- wise spiral.
Feel a whirling of power as the pure light and energy rises up in spirals to Kether. At Kether you should visualize the energy exploding out like a water fountain in all directions. This energy lands at your feet and begins to rise in the spiral again.