If the rapport is perceived as a line of light, a cord, or any similar form, attached to the solar plexus, the forehead, or any other part of the body, the best way of severing the rapport is to forge a magical weapon and cut it.
In fact, if a rapport is felt, the first thing to do is to visualise the cord and try to see where it attaches; the solar plexus is the commonest place.
Next formulate the cross-handled sword as already described, and invoke God’s blessing upon it.
Then visualise a flaming torch, and invoke the power of the Holy Ghost, whose symbol it is.
Now with the sword hack through the cord or ray until every shred is severed.
Then sear the stump with the consecrated fire of the torch until it shrivels up and falls off from its point of attachment to your body.
After such a severing one must, of course, take the ordinary human precautions to prevent the link being re-formed.
Refuse to meet the person responsible for its formulation, or to either read or answer letters from him.
In fact, cut off physical communications as thoroughly and resolutely as one has cut off astral ones for a period of some months at least.
There are occasions, however, when a person is so completely overshadowed and dominated that he cannot perform this operation for himself.
The magical operation of Substitution can then be performed, if he can find a friend ready to undertake the task.
In order to perform this operation, the two friends agree that it shall be done, but the one who is to become the substitute does not tell the original victim when he proposes to undertake the operation lest that latter should be so completely in the hands of the dominator that he should give the game away involuntarily.
Choosing a time at which he is sure his friend is asleep, the substitute concentrates upon him and imagines himself to be standing beside him, and visualises the cord or ray of the rapport stretching from his friend out into space.
If he can visualise its other point of attachment in the dominator, so much the better.
He then formulates the sword and the torch as above described, and with these in his hands he imagines himself stepping right through the line of rapport, so as to break it with his body.
He must not use either sword or torch for this process, but break it with his own flesh, as it were.
Having thus severed it from his friend, he should then go for it with sword and torch with all his strength as it tries to enwrap him, as it assuredly will do, for it resembles nothing so much as the tentacle of an octopus.
He should go for it hammer and tongs, making up in zeal what he lacks in knowledge, until it has had enough, and begins to curl up and withdraw.
The combat, of course, takes place in the imagination, but if a clear and vivid image is produced it will be effectual.
In illustration of this method I may mention a case I once handled by its means.
I was asked if I could help a woman who had been a lifelong invalid, but whose case the many doctors she had consulted were neither able to diagnose satisfactorily, nor to help.
They all agreed that there was nothing organic the matter with her, and after trying in vain to get her better, they generally united in saying that it was pure hysteria.
She suffered from a chronic condition of exhaustion, indigestion, attacks of vomiting, blinding headache and palpitation of the heart.
She was, however, not in the least of a neurotic disposition, but a quiet, sensible, intellectual woman, bearing her sufferings with fortitude.
I made a psychic diagnosis and came to the following conclusion.
A form of meditation that uses imagery, imagination, or symbolic thought rather than purely empty stillness.
The method relies heavily on visualization ('visualise the cord', 'formulate the cross-handled sword', 'visualise a flaming torch') as an active magical technique.
The universal fluid or medium of occult philosophy — Lévi's Great Magical Agent — that transmits will, thought, and magical influence between minds and matter, and preserves the impress of all forms and actions as a book of consciences; cognate with akasha and the anima mundi. Distinct from cosmic_sympathy (a doctrine of hidden affinity) in being a substantival medium that can be charged, directed, and abused.
The passage describes a 'rapport' perceived as a line of light or cord attached to the body, functioning as a medium for psychic influence that can be severed.
A ritual intended to drive out an unwanted possessing or afflicting spirit from a person or place, restoring it to its unafflicted state. Distinct from spirit_conjuration (the operator summons and binds a spirit that was not already present, rather than expelling one) and from possession (the affliction this ritual answers, not the ritual itself).
The procedure described is functionally an exorcism aimed at driving out an afflicting psychic influence or domination from a person.
The doctrine that human volition, cultivated by discipline and emancipated from passion and servitude, is the primary instrument of magical operation — will confirmed by persistent acts acquires causal power over self, others, and nature; distinct from faith and from mere desire.
The efficacy of the operation depends on the operator's ability to concentrate, visualize vividly, and invoke power ('making up in zeal what he lacks in knowledge').
The doctrine and practice of one person deliberately inflicting harm on another through trained will, mind-power, or occult technique alone, without physical contact — producing exhaustion, illness, breakdown, or death in the victim; recognised cross-culturally as witchcraft, hexing, or the evil eye, and treated in Western esotericism as a genuine occult hazard requiring diagnosis and defence rather than dismissed as superstition. Distinct from magical_will (the general doctrine that trained volition has causal power, of which this is one malevolent application) and from spirit_conjuration (which subordinates an already-existing summoned spirit, rather than directing the operator's own power at a person).
The entire passage is dedicated to defending against and severing a harmful psychic link (rapport) that causes physical and mental symptoms in the victim.
Iamblichean ritual practice that engages the gods directly through consecrated material symbols and actions, on the premise that divine power descends into properly prepared matter — distinct from philosophical contemplation alone.
The practice involves consecrated actions (sword, torch) and invocation of divine power to effect change in the astral realm, aligning with theurgical principles.