Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

hâve been hitherto inaccessible to profane research, and available only to that unscientific and empirical MAGICK (of tradition) which I came to destroy in order that I might fulfil. I send this book into the world that every man and woman may take hold of life in the proper manner. It does not matter if one’s présent house of flesh be the hut of a shepherd; by virtue of my MAGICK he shall be such a shepherd as David was. If it be the studio of a sculptor, he shall so chisel from himself the marble that masks his idea that he shall be no less a master than Rodin. Witness mine hand : TO META 0HPION (nnn) • The Beast 666; MAGUS 9°=2° A.*. A.*, who is The Word of the Aeon THELEMA; whose name is called V.V.V.V.V. 8° = 30 A.*. A.-, in the City of the Pyramids; OU MH 70 = 40; OL SONUF VAORESAGI 6° = 50, and . 50 = 6° A.\ A.*, in the Mountain of Abiegnus: but FRATER PERDURABO in the Outer Order or the A.'. A.*, and in the World of men upon the Earth, Aleister Crowley of Trinity College, Cambridge. XXIX —