Step 1: Make the basic Cosmic Light Attunement (note: substitute the

Middle Pillar for this). Feel the loving caress of the Cosmic Light as it
beams down on you in a shaft of white brilliance. Let the Light flow into your
mind, cleansing it and producing an attitude of positive expectation. Let the
Light flow through your body; feel it relax cleanse and heal your body.
Step 2: Build a mental image (thoughtform) of a magnifying glass in threedimensional living color. Make it as bright and real as you can. We will use it
to focus the Cosmic Light in the same way you would use a real magnifying
glass to focus the sun's rays and burn a hole in a piece of paper. Direct your
mental magnifying glass to float around behind you and position itself in the
shaft of Cosmic Light to focus a good measure of Light on the base of your
spine at your root center (note: I find the magnifying glass image to be
silly and distracting, so I instead imagine a warm spark or dot of
light forming in my root chakra and igniting it. I then have it travel
along the course of the beam of light mentioned in the remainder of
the exercise). Feel the gentle warmth and tingling as the purification
process begins; then feel the beautiful red flame of the root center as it grows
and whirls; and as the center expands, feel a surge of vitality flowing into
your physical body. Feel the blood dancing in your veins while every cell of
your body vibrates with fresh life energy. Accept this as a wonderful first step
in your balanced unfoldment, and:
Step 3: Lift your focused Cosmic Light to your spleen center. (For this
purpose, you will find the spleen energy center along the spine about halfway
between the root center and the solar plexus.) Feel the brilliant orange flame
of the spleen center grow and whirl, and as this center expands, feel the
sharpening of your mental faculties. Feel how much more readily you handle
impressions and concepts whether they reach you through the "normal" five
senses or from your psychic receptors. Feel the orange flame washing away
any blocks of anxiety, resentment, or confusion that may have been in the
way of your clear thinking. Feel your mind getting sharper and sharper, and
accept this as an excellent second step in your balanced unfoldment.
Step 4: Lift your focused Cosmic Light to your solar plexus center. Feel the
bright yellow flame grow and whirl, and as this center expands, feel your
growing sense of aspiration and a positive quickening of your intuition and
mood sensitivity. Feel the bright yellow flame setting up magnets in your aura
to attract people and conditions that are positive, constructive, and uplifting,
and to repel the other kind. Thus it helps you maintain your poise and
effectiveness in all situations and is another excellent step in your balanced
unfoldment.
Step 5: Lift your focused Cosmic Light to your heart center, and feel the
gorgeous green flame begin to grow and whirl. Enjoy the richness of the

shading (feel it whether you see it or not) - from the pale greens of new
growth, through the richer greens of love and givingness, ripening to the
deep greens of the harvest, abundance, and prosperity. As the center
expands, feel it reaching out to bathe all mankind with its goodness. That's
part of the natural givingness of the heart center, but there is no danger of an
energy loss. You are positively connecting all of your centers to the Infinite
Energy, so there is all you can use or give away, and always plenty to spare.
In spare moments you may meditate on the symbolic balance of the heart
center as a point of pure love between the heat of the lower centers and the
sharp coldness of the higher centers, but in the exercise it is best to continue:
Step 6: Lift your focused Cosmic Light to your throat center, and feel the
sparkling electric blue flame as it grows and whirls. As this center expands,
feel the powerful flow of healing, creative energy just tumbling and bubbling
into your life expression. Feel it directing the healing of your mind, body, and
affairs, and accept its creative power as the fresh solution to any immediate
problems, and the inspiration to new undertakings. Bask in the sparkling
creative blue atmospher, and:
Step 7: Lift your focused Cosmic Light to your brow center. Take a few extra
moments to be sure the Light has time to cleanse and purify the indigo flame,
then let it grow and whirl; as the center expands, feel it open the symbolic
trapdoor in the center of your forehead, opening your complete receptivity to
the higher psychic realms. Know that in the bright indigo flame you are
perfectly safe. You are responsive and receptive only to the highest, the best,
and the true. Then feel the loving presence of your spirit teachers and loved
ones who always draw near at this point in your exercise. Greet your spirit
friends in love and invite them to participate in the fullest, not only in the rest
of the exercise but also in all of your life activities. Enjoy the beauty of the
spirit response, and:
Step 8: Lift your focused Cosmic Light to your crown center and feel the
brilliant violet flame as it grows and whirls. Feel it whirling like a huge, flat
violet diamond there in the top of your head; as the center expands, feel it
open a vortex of receptivity to the tangible response of your own highest
concept of God. Feel it penetrate not just your physical body, but the astral
and mental as well, and know that you can go out the vortex just as easily as
the responses come in. Be ready to go out, but first:
Step 9: Pause to feel all of your centers vibrating at a peak of effectiveness.
Feel the power in your aura. You are bringing the Infinite Energy in through
your centers, letting it flow into your aura to clean and brighten it and flow
forth from you as a stream of good. When you are in this condition, you must
have an uplifting effect on everyone who comes near you, and certainly
nobody else's negativity can rub off on you. It would have to be burned up or

at least washed away; it can't stick to that stream of good. Thus we strive
always to keep our centers "turned on," and do nothing to diminish that
powerful energy flow. And it is from this happy "turned-on" condition that we
seek the full power of the mystic experience - not as an escape, but to add
richness, meaning, and effectiveness to all areas of your life.
Step 10: Return your attention to your root center, and will the beautiful red
flame to well up bright and pure, and begin to rise up the serpent channels of
your spine through each psychic center in turn. Feel the power gather the
energy, the color, the beauty, and essence of each center as it rises, blending
them into a magnificent whole. As the energy reaches the crown center, feel
it complete a perfect wheel of living, flaming color by blending the red and
violet flames to produce the red-violet.
Step 11: Let the energy expand right out the vortex we opened in the top of
your head, taking your consciousness along to the ceiling; let it expand again
and again until you feel that your are touching your own highest concept of
God. Feel the loving response from the Infinite in its most personal form. Bask
in it, and willingly share it in oneness with all that is. When you are ready to
come back, bring the oneness back with you and turn it into complete
effectiveness in your every undertaking, and positive, happy peace in your
environment. When you are "back," give thanks for the joy and privilege of
sharing the Light and for the fresh power of accomplishment you feel with
you forevermore.