Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

Section C. Section D. Section E. their tendencies. They do not crave hydrogen; therefore combination with that gas is an event which does not happen. Ail expériences contribute to make us complété in ourselves. We feel our- selves subject to them so long as we fail to recognise this; when we do, we perceive that they are subject to us. And whenever we strive to évadé an expérience, whatever it may be, we thereby do wrong to ourselves. We thwart our own tendencies. To live is to change; and to oppose change is to revoit against the law which we hâve enacted to govern our lives. To resent destiny is thus to abdicate our sovereignty, and to invoke death. Indeed, we hâve decreed the doom of death for every breach of the law of life. And every failure to incorporate any impression starves the particular faculty which stood in need of it. This Section B invokes Air in the East, with a shaft of golden glory. The adept now invokes Fire in the South; flamc red are the rays that burst from his Verendum. He invokes Water in the West, his Wand billowing forth blue radiance. He goes to the North to invoke Earth; flowers of green flame flash from his weapon. As practice makes the Adept perfect in this Work, it becomes automatic to attach ail these complicated ideas and intentions to their correlated words and acts. When this is attained he may go deeper into the formula by amplifying its correspondences. Thus, he may invoke water in the manner of water, extending — 282 —