Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

Section F. Section Ff. his will with majestic and irrésistible motion, mindful of its impulse gravitation, yet with a suave and tranquil appearance of weakness. Again, he may apply the formula of water to its peculiar pur- pose as it surges back into his sphere, using it with conscious skill for the cleansing and calming of the réceptive and emotional éléments in his character, and for the solution or sweeping away of those tangled weeds of préjudice which hamper him from freedom to act as he will. Similar applica¬ tions of the remaining invocations will occur to the Adept who is ready to use them. The Adept now returns to the Tiphereth square of his Tau, and invokes Spirit, facing toward Boleskine, by the active Pentagrams, the sigil called the Mark of the Beast, and the Signs of L.V.X. (See plate as before). He then vibrâtes the Names extending his will in the same way as before, but vertically upward. At the same time he expands the Source of that Will — the secret symbol of Self — both about him and below, as if to affirm that Self, duplex as is its form, reluctant to acquiesce in its failure to coincide with the Sphere of Nuith. Let him now imagine, at the last Word, that the Head of his will, where his consciousness is fixed, opens its fissure (the Brah- marandra-Cakkra, at the junction of the cranial sutures) and exudes a drop of clear crystalline dew, and that this pearl is his Soûl, a virgin offering to his Angel, pressed forth from his being by the intensity of his Aspiration. With these words the Adept does not withdraw his will within him as in the previous Sections. He thinks of them as a reflection of Truth on the 283