This technique can be done sitting or standing. In either case, the back should be held as straight as possible and you should perform The Vase Breath and The Universal Center before beginning. Take a deep breath 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 comlumba!(The descent of the dove!)Take another deep breath and imagine that a reddish 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 attavistic. 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 body. Feel the connection between the earth and sky, the underworld and the heavens. Now turn your attention to the crown of your head. Imagine an empty sphere that extends above and inside your physical head. Breathe in and see a clear energy fill this sphere. It corresponds to the element of Azoth and brings increased clarity and spacious awareness. Sound the name: IAO. Move the mind downward and see a sphere at the throat. Breathe in an airy bright yellow energy that feels warm and wet, like humid air and moves around rapidly within the sphere. Sound the name: IAO again to activate the sphere of air. Move the mind to the sphere at the heart. Breathe in a deep blue energy that feels cool, wet, and fluid. After the sphere is full of the element of Water, sound the name again: IAO. Move the mind downward again to a point just below and behind the naval. Breathe in a red, hot, dry, and expansive energy into this sphere. Sound again: IAO. Move the mind downward again to the perineum between the legs, behind the genitals. See a dark earth-tone energy fill this sphere that is dense, cool, and dry. When the sphereis filled, sound IAO. Rest the mind a few minutes and contmplate the elements within the body.