Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

introduced by the accidents of environment, and that his Knowledge and Conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel destroys ail doubts and delusions, confers ail blessings, teaches ail truth, and containa ail delights. But it is important that the Adept should not rest in mere inexpressible realization of his rapture, but rouse himself to make the relation submit to analysis, to render it in rational terms, and thereby enlighten his mind and heart in a sense as superior to fanatical enthusiasm as Beethoven’s music is to West African war-drums. Section Gg. The adept should hâve realised that his Act of Union with the angel implies (i) the death of his old mind save in so far as his unconscious éléments preserve its memory when they absorb it, and (2) the death of his unconscious elementa themselves. But their death is rather a going forth to renew their life through love. He then, by conscious compréhension of them separatefy and together, becomes the “Angel” of his Angel, as Hermes is the Word of Zeus, whose own voice is Thunder. Thus in this section the adept utters articulately so far as words may, what his Angel is to Himself. He says this, with his Scin-Laeca wholly withdrawn into his physical body, con- straining His Angel to indwell his heart. Line 1. “I am He” asserts the destruction of the sense of separateness between self and Self. It affirms existence, but of the third person only. “The Bornless Spirit” is free of ail space, “having sight in the feet”, that they may choose their own path. “Strong” is G B R, the Magician escorted by the Sun and the Moon (See Liber D and Liber 777) The “Immortal Fire” is the Creative Self ; imper- sonal energy cannot perish, no matter what forms it assumes. Combustion is Love. - 287 —