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The Eucharist of six éléments has Father, Son, and Holy Spirit above j breath, water, and blood beneath. It is a sacrament reserved for high initiâtes. 1 2 The Eucharist of seven éléments is mystically identical with that of one. Of the melhod of consecrating tlie éléments it is only necessary to say that they should be treated as talismans. The circle and other furniture of the Temple should receive the usual benefit of the banishings and consécrations. The Oath should be taken and the Invocations made. When the divine force mani- fests in the…
1930 · PDF PAGE 60
…e chalice is in effect the Cnp of our Lady Bah al on lier self ; the Wand is that which Was and Is and Is To Corne. The Eucharist of two éléments has its matter of the passives, The wafer (pantacle) is of corn, typical of earth; the wine (cup) represents water. (There are certain other attributions. The Wafer is the Sun, for instance : and the wine is appropriate to Bacchus). The wafer may, however, be more complex, the “Cake of Light” described in Liber Legis. This is used in the exoteric Mass of the Phoenix (Liber 333, Cap:44) mixed with the …
1930 · PDF PAGE 66
…l standpoint it has seemed not à 'priori impossible that lead should be turned into gold. Our recent discovery of the periodicity of the éléments has made it seem likely, at least in theory, that our apparently immutable éléments should be modi¬ fications of a single one. 1 Organic Chemistry, with its metatheses and synthèses dépendent on the conceptions of molécules as geomet- rical structures has demonstrated a praxis which gives this theory body; and the properties of Radium hâve driven the Old Guard from the redoubt which flew the flag of t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 33
… to that theory is that God has to create things which are ail parts of himself, so that their interplay is false. If we présupposé many éléments, their interplay is natural. It is no objection to this theory to ask who made the éléments, — the éléments are at least there, and God, when you look for him, is not there. Theism is obscurum per obscurius. A male star is built up from the centre outwards; a female from the circumference inwards. This is what is meant when we say that woman has no soûl. It explains fully the différence between the se…
1930 · PDF PAGE 32
…(Liber ALEPH, CXI) and in The Master Therion’s édition of the Tao T eh King. A rough note from His Magical Diary is appended here : “Ail éléments must at one time hâve been separate, — that would be the case with great heat. Now when atoms get to the sun, when we get to the sun, we get that immense, extreme heat, and ail the éléments are themselves again. Imagine that each atom of each element possesses the memory of ail his adventures in combination. By the way, that atom — 152 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 59
…ture, make it God, and consume it, There are many ways of doing this; but they may easily be clas- sifîed according to the number of the éléments of which the sacra- ment is composed. The highest form of the Eucharist is ihat in which the Elément consecrated is One» It is one substance and not two, not living and not dead, neither liquid nor solid, neither bot nor cold, neither male nor female. This sacrament is secret in every respect. For those who may be worthy, although not officially recognized as such, this Eucharist has been described in…
1930 · PDF PAGE 62
…. Lit lie by little Ms hody will bec orne pnrified by fbe internai lustration of God; day by day bis mort ai frame, shedding its earihly éléments, will become in very truth the Temple of tbe Holy Gliost. Day by day matter is repîaeed by Spirit, tbe bmnau by the divine ; ulîimately the change will be complété; God manifest in flesh will be bis naine, This is the most important of ail magical secrets that ever were or are or can be. To a Magician thus renewed the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel becomes an i…
1930 · PDF PAGE 64
…to more valuable forms. The subject is further complicated by the fact that many authors were unscrupulous quacks. Ignorant of the first éléments of the art, they plagiarized without shame, and reaped a harvest of fraudulent gain. They took advantage of the general ignorance, and the convention of mystery, in just the same way as their modem successors do in the matter of ail Occult sciences. But despite all.this, one thing is abundantly clear; ail serious writers, though they seem to speak of an infinity of different subjects, so much so that …
1930 · PDF PAGE 14
…elementary treatise to explain the exact nature of the connexion between the rays of the actual planet called Jupiter and the Jupiterian éléments which exist in varions degrees in terrestrial objects. 2. Since this Knowledge and Conversation is not universal, it seems at first as if an omnipotent will were being baulked. But His Will and your will together make up that one will, because you and He are one. That one will is therefore divided against itself, so long as your will fails to aspire steadfastly. Also, His will cannot constrain yours. …
1930 · PDF PAGE 20
…ress to build up ideas into the subconscious. The necessity of sélection should therefore be obvious. True, there cornes a time when ail éléments soever must be thus assimilated. Samadhi is, by définition, that very process. But, from the point of view of the young magician, there is a right wav — strait and difficult •— of performing ail this. One cannot too frequently repeat that what is lawful and proper to one Path is alien to another. Immediately after the License to Départ, and the general closing up of the work,it is necessary that the M…
1930 · PDF PAGE 38
… gressed horoscopes, to say nothing of prénatal, mundane, and even horary figures. To appreciate the entire mass of data, to balance the éléments of so vast a concourse of forces, and to draw a single judgment therefrom, is a task practically beyond human capacity. Besides ail this, the actual efîects of the planetary posi¬ tions and aspects are still almost entirely unknown. No two astro- logers agréé on ail points 5 and most of them are at odds on fonda¬ mental principles.1 This science had better be discarded unless the student chances to fe…
1930 · PDF PAGE 69
serve as an element in some Sacrament; also, each spiritual Grâce should possess its peculiar form of Mass, and therefore its own “materia magica77. It is utterly unscientific to treat “God77 as a universal homogeneity, and use the same means to prolong life as to bewitch cattle. One does not invoke “Electricity77 indiscrimi- nately to light one7s house and to propel one’s brougham; one Works by measured application of one7s powers to intelligent analytical compréhension of the conditions of each separate case. There is a Eucharist for every Gr…
1930 · PDF PAGE 67
…erge once more as a less confused and deformed Eidolon of the Truth of Himself. This is the guarantee that he is uncontaminated by alien éléments. The 187 -
1930 · PDF PAGE 5
…lso such that the idea of murder is nowise offensive to the Spirit of Love. It is indeed the cntenon of spiritual caste that conflicting éléments should not coexist in the same consciousness. The psalm- singing Puritan who persécutes publicans, and secretly soaks himself in hre-water; the bewhiskered philanthropist in broad- cloth who swindles his customers and sweats his employées: these men must not be regarded as single-minded scoundrels, whose use of religion and respectability to cioke their villainies is a deliberate disguise dictated by …
1930 · PDF PAGE 81
…v hâve learned to do them, are not in accordance with their wills. What must be done is to drill the Aspirant in the hard routine of the éléments of the Royal Art. So far as mysticism is concerned, the technique is extremely simple, and has been very simply described in Part I of this Book 4. It cannot be said too strongly that any amouni of mystical success whatever is 110 compensation for slackness with regard to the technique. There may corne a time when Samadhi itself is no part of the business of the mystic. But the character developed by …
1930 · PDF PAGE 78
…he 1. The only minds likeîy to be useful to the Magician belong to Adepts sworn to suffer reincarnation at short intervals, and the best éléments of such minds are bound up in the “Unconscious Self” of the Adept, not left to wandei idly about the Astral Plane. It will thus be more profitable to try to get into touch with the “Dead Teacher” in his présent avatar. Moreover, Adepts are at pains to record their teachings in books, monu¬ ments, or pictures, and to appoint spiritual guardians to preserve such heirlooms throughout the générations. Whe…
1930 · PDF PAGE 50
…n possibly do. For even the most Martial man is limited as to Madim by the fact that Mars is only one element in his molécule; the other éléments both inhibit concentration on their colleague, and veil him by insisting on his being interpreted in refer- ence to themselves. No entity whose structure does not include the entire Tree of Life is capable of the Formulae of Initiation. Graphiel, consulted by the Aspirants to Adeptship, would be bound to regard the Great Work as purely a question of Combat, and ignore ail other considérations. His adv…