E.A. KOETTING Questing After Visions Making Conscious Contact By E.A. Koetting 1 Questing After Visions Questing After Visions: Making Conscious Contact Copyright © 2014 Become A Living God All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted without written permission of the copyright holder. Printing a copy for personal study is allowed. For permission requests, write to: [email protected]. Ordering Information To view my complete catalog of magick books and trainings, go to: http://www.BecomeALivingGod.com/Catalog Loyalty Reward If you report a case of torrent piracy against Become A Living God, and it leads to the successful removal of our entries from the offender’s database, then we’ll reward you with cash discounts on our programs. To report a case of piracy, write to: [email protected] 2 E.A. KOETTING Table of Contents Introduction .......................................................................5 Part I: The Nature of Visions ..........................................10 Chapter One: The Vision Within ..............................................13 Chapter Two .............................................................................19 External Visions .......................................................................19 Chapter Three ...........................................................................27 Degrees of Revelation ..............................................................27 Part II: Beginning to See .................................................39 Chapter Four: Dreamscapes of Prophecy ................................41 Chapter Five: Entering the World Within ................................51 Chapter Six: Scrying Eyes .......................................................66 Chapter Seven: Bodies of Spirit ...............................................75 3 Questing After Visions Chapter Eight: Crossing the Threshold ..................................103 Part III: Stimulating the Sight .......................................111 Chapter Nine: Coercing the Vision ........................................114 Chapter Ten: Forcing the Vision ............................................125 Part IV: The Prophet’s Mantel .......................................132 Chapter Twelve: The Fury of Faith ........................................150 Chapter Thirteen: Pure Vision ................................................163 Works Cited ..................................................................172 4 E.A. KOETTING Introduction I have spent a good deal of my life searching for visions, for the miraculous – searching for the face of god, or even just for a glimpse of His finger. When I was a child growing up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints I would hear the stories of the heroes of the Bible, The Book of Mormon, and the lost books of Abraham, Moses, and those which have been called the “Dead Sea Scrolls,” and how each one of the prophets and warriors was led to power and glory not by intellect or even mere inspiration, but by a vision. I somehow knew, at that young age I somehow understood that visions were not given to a person because he was important, but that these men and women became important because of the vision, because they were able to receive it, and because they followed that specific vision as they were directed, and the importance of that person grew as they did so. I prayed to God, in the name of Jesus Christ, for a vision, for the ministering of angels, for a concrete sign that the spiritual realities which I knew were indeed real. No vision materialized. I believed, but I still wanted to see. I knew that immeasurable and countless worlds existed beyond the flesh, and that those worlds could be revealed if only I could discover the method and the formula of the revealing. 5 Questing After Visions I held to my childhood and childlike faith into my early adolescence, and even while I began to study the history and philosophy of traditional witchcraft I denounced the practice of anything other than Christianity, claiming my study to be just that and nothing more than “getting to know my enemy” – the Devil. My curiosity and starvation for solid spiritual contact would not be quelled with research alone, however, and that which I had been learning graduated into application. Although I immediately snatched every opportunity to use and to display my occult abilities for mundane and often trivial ends, it was the vision that obsessed me. More often than any other ritual, I performed rites of evocation, attempting to materialize a messenger, either from heaven or from hell, simply to burn my eyes with a thing which they should not behold. Scrying also fascinated me, as it seemed to be a method by which the Operator was able to actually view the realms of spirit, and to see and communicate with the unseen entities of those realms. One of the greatest draws to the occult was its entire verifiability – a ritual is performed, a command is given, and reality aligns itself in perfect accordance with the Sorcerer’s intention. It was a perfect laboratory in which I could conduct my experiments, record the results, and reproduce them through the same measures. I have always counted my occult study and practice as one of the great rungs in my Ascent, and as one of the great teachers of my past. As I gained membership in several orders and temples, both esoteric and orthodox, and as I learned the mythos and the mystery behind each, the avatars and icons seemed less to me like figures from the past, and more like mentors in the present. All that they had accomplished, all that they had done I knew that I could do as well. Their power is universal, and flows through every embodiment equally. I could feel it flowing through me, and I could manifest its effects in the world with ease, but it was the vision which still obsessed me, and which still eluded me. All of my Work began to move towards its attainment, and the visions did begin to unfold before me. 6 E.A. KOETTING I was eventually discovered and contacted by spiritual Masters who guided me into the most ancient disciplines of power and attainment. With their guidance, I found the one-percent of gold in the thousands of religions on this earth, and discovered that truth and power does not lie in one system, and that no one religion possesses a patent on exaltation, but that the things for which I searched were available everywhere, for everyone. My search for visions has continued throughout my life, beginning before my age could even be counted in double-digits and moving through every religion and spiritual discipline that I encountered. I have tried everything from Yoga and Hinduism to Buddhism, Mormonism to Satanism, evocation, invocation, narcotics, hallucinogens, and remote viewing. After decades of searching, I found my visions, not in one of these methods alone, but in all of them. An apex was reached wherein the vision could no longer flee from me, and it seemed that regardless of the medium in which I worked, miracles and magic chased after me. I had attained a critical spiritual mass, and it was no longer where I was looking that mattered, but instead it was how I was looking. The nature or the bad habit of man seems to constantly turn him towards the supernatural for the satiety of his curiosity, his intellect, his ambition, and his greed. The Oracle at Delphi thrived off of the human need to know, and remains today the archetype of the ability to receive esoteric knowledge. The Biblical Book of Samuel gives an accounting of a witch possessing the ability to see both into the future and into the realm of the dead, who is visited by King Saul and contracted to produce the shadow of the prophet Samuel1. The people of the early Christian church wrote to Saint John the Divine asking for knowledge of a vision from God, some general revelation that would affirm the divinity of the Church. John declined, and they asked again, until finally he submitted to their needs and received what is still known as the most terrifying and ominous set of visions ever recorded: The Book of Revelation. 2 7 Questing After Visions In present times, psychics, astrologers, tarot, palm, and tea- leaf readers collect millions of dollars from hopeless and helpless querants who need the most unanswerable questions divined. On the opposite side of the same occult coin, new-age motivational speakers sell the “secret” ability to manifest desired wealth and love, to find happiness and prosperity in even the most meager situations, and to turn each negative experience into a positive force towards success. The urge to turn to the most mysterious powers for answers is not considered “bad” because it involves the forbidden mysteries of the occult, nor because the sacred nature of Divine Power is being used for mundane, unworthy goals. The habit of turning towards the supernatural for answers to causal life is spiritually destructive simply because the querant is far quicker to travel across oceans, to pay an unhealthy ransom, or to trust otherwise untrustworthy people than to quiet their curiosity long enough to still the waters inside themselves and allow the answers that are so obvious to the mute monk to be heard. The pilgrimage to see an oracle, the exchange of souls for sight into the future, millions of dollars spent on inspirational speakers and spirit mediums do not demonstrate the hopeful idea of man nearing godhood and spirituality, but instead demonstrate his inability to trust himself. These powers are already within you. All that you are, you already are. We all have the ability to access the powers of prophecy. We were born with it. We do not necessarily need to develop these abilities, for they are as natural to us as breathing; we just need to learn to clear the channels of communication and allow the visions to come. We are bombarded daily with celestial abundance, yet our eyes have been shut to its glory pouring from the skies and its radiance drifting everywhere around us. All that we need to do is reach into that shimmering cloud and gently take hold of that which we desire. 8 E.A. KOETTING All of the gifts of spirituality are available to you. All that the Eternal Source has to offer is yours to take. All of the power, the glory, the peace, the love, and the abundance in existence is offered to you daily. Divinity is in a constant state of reaching out to you, extending a hand to lift you into the heavens. All that is required is that you recognize and you accept that offer, and that you prepare yourself to receive the highest blessings of Godhood. I have written this book not as one who is questing, but as one who has attained. This book is written by a prophet, a seer, a revelator, and a revealer. We are blessed – not fortunate, but blessed – to exist on this earth at this time, when the veil between the worlds has worn very thin, and the Eternal realms can be viewed simply by looking. Every answer waits just behind the doors of knowledge, the likes of which are offered here. 9 Questing After Visions Part I: The Nature of Visions Obtaining a vision can become the most important event in the spiritual growth, and indeed in the eternal existence of not only the prophets, the Masters, or the Saviors, but for each person who desires a connection with their spiritual Source. Interestingly, very few people search as I have searched specifically for a vision. Most, instead, are searching for something else, something less definable yet still with an obsession equaling if not rivaling the intensity of my quest. The fact that they could receive direct communication from spiritual entities and forces is beyond their belief, however, like a mythical gift relegated only to the saints, the mystics, and the insane. The idea of having or experiencing a vision is unrealistic to most. Several years before the inspiration to write this book had even come to me, I had the opportunity to revisit and converse with an old friend of mine on the subject of visions. This particular friend had been one of my closest co-workers in the occult, a naturally gifted and powerful person who had helped me immensely in the art of evocation and spirit communication. He had stood next to me in my Temple and had called into materialization some of the most ancient fiends that I have myself 10