Exercise on an Undine’s Touch

What is the magick in Istiphul's touch? Let us pursue this theme for a moment to see if we can find it within ourselves? Remaining alert, relax as if you are within a dream. Then contemplate the oceans. Note and memorize the sounds and smells, the waves and winds, and the tides rising and falling.

Concentrate on the sensations of water and spray. Feel the force of water in currents. Feel the waves swirling and splashing around you as you swim among them. Become the sea as the crab knows it, the fish, the fisherman, the bird, the sailor, and the one who lives at the edge of a bay.

Briefly, this is not so difficult, gather all your memories of the sea. Open yourself to them in a place of stillness within your heart where thoughts are unnecessary. Feel their life.

Now, draw these memories and feelings together distilling their essence. Translate this watery life, this beauty and receptivity, into one sensation you can hold in the palms of your hands. If you caress and embrace another with this love from the depths of your heart, a heart which holds the sea within it, then this is Istiphul's touch.

Istiphul says, "You blend with me like tides and sea, but there is an emptiness within you unlike anything I have ever known."

Then Istiphul looks in my eyes as if she has been by my side for countless ages as a friend and guide. She says, "You love beauty and harmony. You celebrate the illumination of lights and the turning of the seasons. But there is another side to you: you are a darkness waiting for the birth of light; a silence where sound has never fallen; a dryness in search of the scent of bliss and a longing separation has never imagined.

"You have been so lost and alone your only hope of reconciliation is mastering the divine art of becoming one with another's heart. To do this you would sail across every abyss which prevent the five senses from perceiving the beauty of the universe. I do not know the end you seek but it is obvious to me you need a woman whose passions are as deep as the sea. Her touch is healing and in her dreams the stars fall asleep and find peace.

"Oh, others can say of me that I would rescue you or make you weak. They would say my visions are illusions and that no such woman exists. But in the realm of fairy, time is the illusion. It is easy for me to see how fear blocks the five senses and despair stops the heart from seeing visions.

"Every need within the soul seeks fulfillment. Every true quest joins the inner and the outer worlds. Every true vision will one day manifest. I need no sage or theologian to tell me that one day human women will love with the power and the beauty the sea holds--for they will discover that my touch, my sight, and my heart are hidden within their own."