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…ech, action and thought.” In (4), (9.d), (11), and (21). [Liber 4, A/.A/..] Liber ABA. Book 4. “A general account in elementary terms of magical and mystical powers.” In four parts: 1. Mysticism. In (3) and (4). 2. Magick (Elementary Theory). In (3) and (4). 3. Magick in Theory and Practice. In (4) and as (21). 4. oeahma: The Law. In (4) and as (10). [Liber 7, A.-. A.-..] “Liber Liberi vel Lapidis Lazuli, Adumbratio Kabbalse TEgyptiorum sub figura VII.” “Gives in magical language an account of the Initiation of a Master of the Temple. ” In (29)…
1996 · PDF PAGE 69
…nd to prevent the dangers of abortion by eliminating discordant elements. For instance: a man seeking to regain health should assist his Magical Will by taking all possible hygienic and medical measures proper to amend his malady. A man wishing to develop his genius as a sculptor will devote himself to study and training, will sur round himself with beautiful forms, and, if possible, live in a place where nature herself testifies to the touch of the thumb of the Great Architect. He will choose the object of his passion at the nod of his Silent…
1996 · PDF PAGE 22
… that these two infinities cannot exist apart. This extensive subject must be studied in our other writings, nota bly Berashith, my own Magical Diaries, especially those of 1919, 1920 and 1921,1 2 and The Book of Wisdom or Folly.3 See also “The Soldier and the Hunchback.”4 Further information concern ing Nuit and Hadit is given in the course of this Book; but I must here mention that the Brother mentioned in connection with the “Wizard Amalantrah” etc. (Samuel bar Aiwaz)5 identifies them 1 The Proton and the Electron, in a metaphysical sense,…
1996 · PDF PAGE 298
…9,171,173,174,176,177-181. 182,184,185 at first sight 159 eternal 103 Lust(AtuXI) 78 machinery 42 machines 162 macrocosm 29,103 magi 169 magical link 62,69,75 magical memory 26.79,125,126 magical protection 126 magick 40,59,60,64.68,69.70,71.75, 85,89,95,100,123,127,138,147-148, 150,163,184 definition of 39 sexual 116,124.134,135 two main types 116 magnetism, sexual 70 Malkuth 163 Malory, Thomas, Morte d’Arthur 171 Manichseanism 33,91 Mara 170,171 marriage 42-43,53.57-58,71.103,104, 177 Mars 152 Marsyas 47 Mary 31,63.170,172,178 masochism 51,13…
1996 · PDF PAGE 133
…expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughterful than a caress of Hell’s own worm. Commentary: This verse conceals a certain Magical Formula of the loftiest initiation. It refers to a method of using the breath, in connection with the appropriate series of ideas, which is perhaps not to be taught directly. But it may be learnt by those who have attained the necessary degree of magical technique, suggested automatically to them by Nature herself, just as newly- hatched chickens pick up corn without instruction. 64. Oh! thou art overc…
1996 · PDF PAGE 140
…ung and had no sense?” Each of us is Hadit, the core of our Khabs, our Star, one of the Company of Heaven; but this Khabs needs a Khu or Magical Image, in order to play its part in the Great Drama. This Khu, again, needs the proper costume, a suitable “body of flesh,” and this costume must be worthy of the Play. We therefore employ various magical means to increase the vigour of our bodies and the energy of our minds, to fortify and to sublime them. The result is that we of Thelema are capable of enormously more achievement than others, even in…
1996 · PDF PAGE 99
100 The Law is for All the fulfilment of the Magical Formula of Hadit and Nuit. And to know Nuit is the very definition of “joy.” The next verse confirms this: “thou” (the Beast) “wast the knower” (Hadit) “and” (united with) “me” (Nuit, as in Cap. I, verse 51 and others). Finally, Nuit is indicated by two different symbols, “not” (Grk. OY) and “me” (Grk. MH). Now OY MH was my Motto in the Grade of Adeptus Exemptus; Aiwaz thus subtly reminds me that I was pledged to deny the assertions of my intellectual and moral consciousness. He combines in t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 294
…deptus 7°=4° 100 Magister Templi 8°=3” 76.79,96 Magus 9°=2° 77,113,149,169 Abbey of Thelema 158,181 Abel 184 Abelard 116 abortion 52,177 magical 70 Abrahadabra 31,155,168,189 Abraham 180 Abramelin, oil of 164 Abrasax 24,30 Absolute 26,27,104,105,106,108 Abyss, the 89,90,95 annihilation of ego in 95 crossing of 92 Achilles 52,142 Adad 24,30 Adam 53,67 addiction 51 adepts, ancient 142 Adjustment (Atu VIII) 21,78 Adonai 30,134 Adonis 30,47,163 adultery 42,55,180 Agapé 31 agnosticism 122 Ain 91 Ain Soph 27 Aitken, Canon 55 Aiwass 28,31,32 Aiwaz 13.…
1996 · PDF PAGE 78
…ed to Tiphareth, the Grade of Adept; (2) to Binah, the grade of Master of the Temple. The certainty concerning death is conferred by the Magical Memory, and various Experiences without which Life is unintelli gible. “peace unutterable” is given by the Trance in which Matter is destroyed; “rest” by that which finally equilibrates Motion. “ecstasy” refers to a Trance which combines these. “nor do I demand aught in sacrifice”—the ritual of worship is samadhi. But see later, verse 61. 59. My incense is of resinous woods & gums; and there is no blo…
1996 · PDF PAGE 157
…. It follows, in the words in which it was originally written, An. xvn, 0 in I, (£ in ®, June 8, 1921 E.v., with no preliminaries, in my Magical Diary, at the Abbey of Thelema in Cephalœdium of Trinacria. These verses are very subtly worded. How should I under stand this allusion to the Stèle; how “count well its name” without knowing it? I tried to count “Abomination of Desolation”, but that is what “they shall call” it, not its proper name. It seemed that this name, when found, ought to add to 718, or to be identical with some other word or …
1996 · PDF PAGE 162
…hich is the true life of Man, beyond his “veils” of incarnation. We have to thank Freud—and especially Jung—for stating this part of the Magical Doctrine so plainly, as also for their develop ment of the connection of the Will of this “child” with the True or Unconscious Will, and so for clarifying our doctrine of the “Silent Self” or “Holy Guardian Angel.” They are of course totally igno rant of magical phenomena, and could hardly explain even such terms as “Augoeides”; and they are seriously to blame for not stating more openly that this Tr…
1996 · PDF PAGE 292
Works Cited 291 35 The Bible. Crowley notes that “The Hebrew and Greek Originals are of Qabalistic value. It contains also many magical apologues, and recounts many tales of folk-lore and magical rites.” 36 Blake, William. The Marriage of Heaven & Hell. London, c. 1790- 93; facs. ed., London and New York: Oxford up, 1975. In Blake’s Complete Writings, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (London and New York: Oxford up, 1974). Crowley noted that “the Writings of William O’Neill (Blake) [are] invaluable to all students.” 37 Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland. A…
1996 · PDF PAGE 295
…8 Cefalu 158 celestial mechanics 106 Cervera y Topete, Pascual 181 change 39,40.41.74,90,93.125,126, 171 Chariot (Atu VII) 138 chastity, magical 59,60 chemistry 114 Chesterton, G.K., The Flying Inn 186 child abuse 51 childbirth, feast for 124 “child”-consciousness 168 children 43,49,51,54.57.66,67,126, 179,181 magical 66-69 responsibility of the state for 147 Chinese philosophy 23 Chloe 63 Chokmah 89 as Will 119 as Wisdom 90 Choronzon 45.172 Christianity 18-19,49,102,113,125, 130,132,133,152,157,161,169,170, 172,173,180,181-182,186 Evangelical …
1996 · PDF PAGE 302
…cally 119 free 51,185 and fate 77 of woman 173,176,177,181 hindrances to, as sin 41,92 in psychology 163 lack of, in the average man 183 magical 70 non-identity of any two wills 70 of the father, effect on child 67 of the soul 74 program for realization of 40 -41 pure 46 subconscious 66,119 to change 74 to create 60,68,179 to die 147 to “go” 155 to live 132,133,137,147 to love 70,75 transcendent of mind 118 true 31.40,41,54,56.64.67.68,71, 95.96.101,110,132,148,150,163 of the body 143,146 two as the number of 138 unconscious 60 womb 29 women 84…
1996 · PDF PAGE 134
…f this and the next verse were actual indications as to how to behave, so as to get the full effect of the Trance. This too is a general Magical Formula, convenient even in the Work of the physical image of the Godhead. It is of the utmost importance to resist the temptation to let oneself be carried away into trance. One should summon one’s reserve forces to react against the tendency to lose normal con sciousness. More and more of one’s being is gradually drawn into the struggle, and one only yields at the last moment. (It needs practice and…
1996 · PDF PAGE 32
…ur own Khabs is our one sole Truth. 10. Let my servants be few & secret: they shall rule the many & the known. Commentary: The nature of magical power is quite incom prehensible to the vulgar. The prophet Ezekiel besieging a tile in order to destroy Jerusalem,1 and the adventures of Hosea with Gomer,2 seem as absurd to the “practical” man as do the researches of any other scientific man until the Sunday News papers have furnished him with a plausible explanation which explains nothing. (Book 4, Part III, must be read in this connection.) 1 [E…
1996 · PDF PAGE 291
290 The Law is for All 20 ------------ . The Magical Record of the Beast 666, ed. John Symonds and Kenneth Grant. London: Duckworth, and Mon tréal: Next Step/93 Publishing, 1972. 21 ------------ . Magick in Theory and Practice (being Part III of Book 4). The Master Therion [pseud.] 4 vol. Paris: private printed, 1929-30. 1 vol. subscriber’s ed. issued as Magick in Theory and Practice (London, 1930). 22 ------------ . Orpheus. A Lyrical Legend, 2 vols. Foyers, uk: sprt, 1905. In (7). 23 ------------ . Liber LXXVII. [Liber] Oz. 1st ed., London a…
1996 · PDF PAGE 62
… moral accidents circumstantial of the particular incident—is the realization of love as a sacrament. The use of the physical means as a Magical Operation — whose formula is that by uniting two opposites,by dissolving both, anni hilating both (to create a third thing which transcends that oppo sition), the phase of duality which constitutes the consciousness of imperfection is perceived as the absolute negative whose appre hension is identical with that duality—is the accomplishment of the Great Work. The anacephalepsis1 of these considerati…
1996 · PDF PAGE 183
…pugilist. Don’t boast! Don’t squeal! If you’re down, get up and hit him again! Fights of that sort make fast friends. There is perhaps a magical second-meaning in this verse, a ref erence to the Ritual of which we find hints in the legend of Cain and Abel, Esau and Jacob, Set and Osiris, et cetera. The “Elder Brother” within us, the Silent Self, must slay the younger brother, the conscious self, and he must be raised again incorruptible. 60. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. Commentary: There are of course lesser laws than this, detail…
1996 · PDF PAGE 37
…e, to become aware of himself by bringing his secret motives to the surface. Some of the Rituals have been made accessible, that is, the Magical Formulas have been published.1 2 Note the reference to “not” and “all.” Also the word “known” contains the root ^gn, “to beget” and “to know”; while “concealed” indicates the other half of the Human Mystery.