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A very good exercise from Josephine,about how to use the cube.

As you should know, the cube is a containment pattern of energy
in matter: physical expression. That shape can be used to contain
something and limit its expression. It mirrors angelic patterns and, as
such, depending on what you are doing, it can trigger angelic power
around you to assist you.

This can be very useful if you are doing exorcism work or are in an
everyday situation where a powerful and destructive being suddenly
turns up, or you come across one accidentally. It can also be used when
there has been a very sudden death and the dead person’s spirit tries to
cling to you. You can contain them and hold them until you get to a safe
place where you can bridge them where they need to go.

The starting technique is the same as the seven pattern, except that
you do not step into it. If you do, you will contain yourself.
Such selfcontainment can be useful if you are suddenly dying and not at the end
of your measure, so that, for example, you can survive some accident.

But normally it is used to contain something in front of you. As
you walk briskly, project the cube before you and keep it there as you
walk. If you are walking down a street filled with people, see the people
pass through the cube unhindered. Once you can hold that visual, then
practice projecting the letter B in the air before you. Once you have
formed the B and it stays in the air before you as you walk, quickly form
the cube around it to encase it. Keep walking and see the cube with the B trapped in its centre.
This part of the exercise trains you to spot something, lock onto it, then limit it in the cube.

Once you can hold it no longer then, as you walk, see the cube descend
down into the land and vanish. Send it down to the Underworld. Again,
this trains you to deposit something in the Underworld while walking
and working visually with the cube.

The key to this technique is to spot something, hold it in your vision
while walking, form the cube around it, then lower it down into the land.
You should be able to do this and hold it if someone stops and talks to
you. One of the major adept skills is magical multitasking: working in
your mind on one thing while holding a conversation with someone or
doing some physical task.

Practise this skill until you get good at it—and like all of the skills in
this lesson, practise it fairly regularly so that it stays sharp. You never
know when you may need these techniques. When I am bored and have
to walk through town, I practice these skills to keep them in full working
order.