If we should happen to come in possession of spells or incantations without knowing the proper use of them—better not use them!
But how do we attain to that state just described?
I can not define the way nor teach anybody how to do so, but I think that the way must be very much like that travelled by the Lord Buddha and now followed by “the Adepts.”
But, as it is not our immediate duty to prepare for the performance of miracles, we have been warned to abstain from such vain pursuits.
Far better is it for us to follow the directions given for moral life:
“Try to get as near to wisdom and goodness as you can in this life. Trouble not yourself about the gods. Disturb yourself not by curiosities or desires about any future existence. Seek only after the fruit of the noble path of self-culture and of self-control.” These are words from Buddhist Scriptures.
It is not only by mind that we may control the Elementals and the Elementary spirits. The hand forms a most important element among the tools used in occult science.
I shall not define the science of chiromancy, but describe the magnetic points of the fingers.
Have you given any thought and attention to the hand? Generally we consider the head of a man and put our estimate upon him according to the size of his brain. But we neglect the hand. And yet the hand is as important a factor in the execution of spiritual acts as is the brain.
The hand is the executive organ of the dynamico-mysterious actions of the Spirit of man. Through the hand its psychico-somatic operations take place, through it its whole spiritual-psychical energy flows out, when laid upon the sick, for instance.