Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

Ego. A <:Spell” of God is any form of conscious- ness, and a “Scourge” any form of action. The Charge, as a whole, demands for the Adept the control of every detail of the Universe which His Angel has created as a means of manifesting Himself to Himself. It covers command of the primary projection of the Possible in individuality, in the antithetical artifice which is the device of Mind, and in a balanced triplicity of modes or States of being whose combinations constitute the characteristics of Cosmos. It includes also a standard of structure, a rigidity to make reference possible. Upon these foundations of condition which are not things in themselves, but the canon to which things conform, is builded the Temple of Being, whose materials are themselves perfectly mysterious, inscrutable as the Soûl, and like the Soûl imagining themselves by symbols which we may feel, perceive, and adapt to our use without ever knowing the whole Truth about them. The Adept sums up ail these items by claiming authority over every form of expression possible to Exis¬ tence, whether it be a “spell” (idea) or a “scourge” (act) of “God”, that is, of himself. The Adept must accept every “spirit”, every “spell”, every “scourge”, as part of his environment, and make them ail “subject to” himself ; that is, consider them as contributory causes of himself. They hâve made him what he is. They correspond exactly to his own faculties. They are ail — ultimately — of equal importance. The fact that he is what he is proves that each item is equilibrated. The impact of each new impression affects the entire System in due measure. He must thereiore realize that every event is subject to him. It occurs because he had need of it. Iron rusts because the molécules demand oxygen for the satisfaction ©f — 281 —