The Pillar Exercise

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From Jason Miller.

The Pillar

The purpose of this exercise is first to energize the central and most important
energy channel of the body that runs from the crown of the head to
the genital area, by relating it to the universal axis of spirit descending and
ascending.

This exercise can be done sitting or standing and both positions should
eventually be mastered. In either case, the back should be held as straight as possible.
Take a deep inhalation and imagine that above you, emanating
from the highest heavens descends a column of pure white light. This
light enters the crown of your head and passes through you, down
into the ground. This white light is enabling and purifying. Exhale
and intone the following:

Decendat columba! (the descent of the dove)

Take another deep inhalation and imagine that a reddish colored
light from beneath you rises through the column and passes through
you upwards. Whereas the white light was purifying, this light is
vivifying. As the descending light was ennobling, this energy is atavistic.
Exhale and intone the following:

Ascendat serpens! (the ascent of the serpent)

Inhale and feel the two energies entering into you from above
and below. Exhale and feel the two energies flow throughout your
body, impregnating every cell of your being with their power. Feel
your connection between earth and sky, underworld and heavens.