Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

or in what order you hâve corne ; so that although you hâve become a servant to the body, you may again rise to that Order (the A.*. A.*.) from which you descended, joining Works (Kamma) to the Sacred Reason (the Tao)”. io. The Resuit of the Second Method is to show the Adept to what end his powers are destined. When he has passed the Abyss and becomes Nemo, the return of the current causes him ato appear in the Heaven of Jupiter as a morning star or as an evening star” 1 In other words he should discover what may be the nature of his work. Thus Mohammed was a Brother reflected into Netzach, Buddha a Brother reflected into Hod, or, as some say, Daath. The présent manifestation of Frater P. to the outer is in Tiphereth, to the inner in the path of Léo. IL First Method. Let the Exempt Adept first train himself to think backwards by external means, as set forth here following.— (a) Let him learn to write backwards, with either hand. (b) Let him learn to walk backwards. (c) Let him constantly watch, if convenient, cinematograph films, and listen to phonograph records, reversed, and let him so accustom himself to these that they appear natural and appréciable as a whole. (d) Let him practise speaking backwards: thus for “I am He” let him say, “Eh ma I”. (e) Let him learn to read backwards. In this it is difficult to avoid cheating one’s self, as an expert reader sees a sentence at a glance. Let his disciple read aloud to him backwards, slowly at first, then more quickly. (f) Of his own ingenium, let him devise other methods. 12. In this his brain will at first be overwhelmed by a sense of utter confusion j secondly, it will endeavour to évadé the difficulty by a trick. The brain will prétend to be workmg backwards when i. The formula of the Great Work “Solve et Coagula” may be thus interpreted. Solve, the dissolution of the self in the Infinité; Coagula, the présentation of the Infinité, in a concrète form, to the outer. Both are necessary to the Task of a Master of the Temple. He may appear in any other Heaven, according to his general nature, in his magical mask of initiation. — 4L —