Notes on Astral Traveling

by an Illuminatus
By Hermann Medinger/Vienna, Fra.∴ Manfred I.O. (Illuminaten Orden)/Austria

Translated by Richard Tschudi

Nowadays, when we Illuminati, who struggle to bring enlightenment to all areas, concern
ourselves with Astral Traveling, let me make it obvious to all, right from the beginning:
Astral Traveling it is not something unusual or special, but it is a plain and simple fact!

Every person has experienced Astral Traveling countless times. In fact, we do it while we
sleep, although mostly we do not remember it.

Therefore sleep is nothing else than pure, natural Astral Traveling. The memory of what
we experience during those travels fades away most of the times at the moment when we
wake up. Only distorted fragments remain sometimes in our waking consciousness in the
form of dreams.

While we sleep, the fluid body i.e. the astral body and spirit separate from the physical
body in order to receive nourishment in higher spheres; the same as the physical body
needs nourishment for its sustenance. When a clairvoyant person looks at a sleeping
person then he can see accurately while the physical body rests in the bed, that the fluid-
body which connects to the physical body with the so-called silver cord, floats up into the
realm of the spirit – into the astral and mental sphere. It should be mentioned that the
body remains connected by that cord with the spirit. The “silver cord” will break at the
moment of death.

Only after our physical death we will realize what we did and experienced during sleep
and that we didn’t waste or time but that we used the time for our spiritual evolvement
(we sleep away one third of our lives).

There is an other important fact which unfortunately is not known to most people: The
state of consciousness in which we are at the moment when the connection between the
fluid-body and earthly sheath is loosened, is the condition that gives us the abilities of
clairvoyance, using the sidereal pendulum and dowsing etc. It is the principal
requirement of any mediumistic capability. People, who in contrast, enclose themselves
with a materialistic wall, will never be able to develop such mediumistic abilities. To
penetrate into the spiritual sphere it is most important to “loosen up”. The motto: “I must
loosen up” should be written in big letters above the door of every lluminatus!

In this regard we can achieve a lot with spiritual exercises. The most basic “loosening up”
exercise consists by trying consciously capturing and remembering the moment of falling
asleep. This state of transition, is so to speak the “turning-point between the waking and
sleeping consciousness and is the safest starting-point to all spiritual exercises.

Danger lurks when we take the so called “short cuts’ to assist us in “loosening up”. When
we use alcohol, hashish etc. to help us. The true adept does not need any of those means
and he has his body and spirit under firm control

I know people (and I myself often can often observe this on myself), whose fluid-body
has the tendency to “fly away”, which is not always pleasant. This happened to me one
day suddenly while I was driving my car. A serious accident was only averted by the help
of my guardian spirit.

Let us remember the “witch-flights” of the old hags and magicians. They achieved this
with the assistance of all kinds of narcotics (for ex. with henbane).

To conclude this article I like to recommend to you dear Fratres∴ and Sorores∴ , the
following “loosening up” exercises which will give you the ability to do astral traveling.

1. Exercise: Place two chairs (facing each other) a short distance apart. Sit on one of the
chairs while you keep the other chair in your eyes. Then “loose up:” and attempt to leave
(in your fluid-body) your chair and move over the other chair. After some time and
trying, you feel yourself sitting there.

2. Exercise: Lie down on your bed and by deep rhythmic breathing (magical breathing),
try to “loosen up” the astral-body and to float away to a distant place and look around
there. However most of the times you will only succeed if you know the ”other place”
accurately. Even in the waking state you find a place easily, if you know the way to go
there, from before.

3. Exercise: (However dangerous and hardly advisable). Should everything else fail, then
try “loosening up’ with all kinds of drugs – evtl. also alcohol. This way perhaps the wall
between the material body and the fluid-body might be loosened up.
(Note of the translator: I only translated this 3rd exercise for completeness sake. I do not
recommend it. If you persist with exercise 1 and 2 you will succeed.)

I myself loosened up” many times, more often than it was pleasant. There are also
disadvantages to be pulled out of your body at any time.

Never “walk away” from yourself. Always look at the metaphysical, from the secure
wrapping of your own physical body; because drugs and alcohol entice first and only
dangerous demons. If you take this advice nothing bad will happen and the “silver-cord”
will not be damaged. This is the advice to you from an old Illuminatus who has done a lot
of astral raveling.

Explanatory not by the translator:

This article first appeared in the periodical: “Der Illuminat” - December 1969 issue.
Published in Frankfurt am Main – Edessa – . Imprimatur Ordo Militiae Caelestis.

Hermann Medinger (now deceased) was the leader of the “Weltbund der Illuminaten”
(World league of the Illuminati) in the Illuminati province of Austria.

The “Weltbund der Illuminaten was founded by Leopold Engel in 1893 as a successor
organization of Adam Weishaupt’s Illuminati Order.