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Page 1 of 11930 · PDF PAGE 31
…résent, ail of which hâve their peculiar unity. ïi is of the utmost importance to tlie “Clairvoyant” or Hraveller in the fine body to be able to find bis way to any desired plane, and operate therein as itts rnler. The Neopliyte of A.*. A.’, is examined most strictly in tliis practice before he is passed to the degree of Zelaîor. In “Rising on the Planes” one must usuallv pass clear through the Astral to the Spiritual. Sonie will be unable to do this. The “fine body” which is good enough to subsist on lower planes, a shadow among shadows, will …
1930 · PDF PAGE 27
…f ail the devils. Your may also try “rising on the planes”.2 With a little practice, especially if you hâve a good Guru, you ought to be able to slip in and out of your astral body as easily as you slip and out of a dressing-gown. It will then no longer be so necessary for your astral body to be sent far off ; without moving an inch you will be able to “turn on” its eyes and ears — as simplv as the man with the microscope (mentioned above) can transfer his complété attention from one eye to the other. Now, however unsuceessful your geîting ouï …
1930 · PDF PAGE 35
…ere the method may be described as mixed. In such a case, it is not enough to invoke the place you wish to visit, because you may not be able to endure its pressure, or to breathe its atmosphère. Several instances occur in that record where the seer was unable to pass through certain gateways, or to remain in certain contemplations. He had to undergo certain Initiations before he was able to proceed. Thus, it is necessary that the technique of Magick should he perfected. The Body of Light nmst be rendered capable of going every- where and doing…
1930 · PDF PAGE 69
…eparate case. There is a Eucharist for every Grâce that we may need; we must apprehend the essential characters in each case, select suitable Eléments, and devise proper processes. To consider the classical problems of Alchemy: the Medicine of Metals must be the quintessence of some substance that serves to détermine the structure (or rate of vibration) whose manifestation is in characteristic metallic qualities. This need not be a Chemical substance at ail in the ordinary sense of the Word. The Elixir of Life will similarly consist of a living…
1930 · PDF PAGE 82
…ions. The principle is quite universal. You do not train a violonist to play the Beethoven Concerto 3 you train him to play every conceivable consecution of notes with perfect ease, and you keep him at the most monotonous drill possible for years and years before you allow him to go on the platform. You make of him an instrument perfectly able to adjust itself to any musical problem that may be set before him. This technique of Yoga is the most important detail of ail our work. The Master Therion has been himself somewhat to blâme in representi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 44
…It is, in fact, commonly the case, or so says the expérience of The Master Therion, that the most promising Magicians are the most déplorable diviners, and vice versa. It is only when the aspirant approaches perfection that he becomes able to reconcile these two apparently opposing faculties. Indeed, there is no surer sign of all-round success than this ability to put the whole of one’s powers at the service of any type of task. With regard to the mind, again, it would seem that concentra¬ tion on the question makes more difficult the necessary…
1930 · PDF PAGE 8
…he natural use of His abilities, though they hâve made Him famous through the whole world, nor by the utmost rnight of his Magick, is He able to acquire material wealth beyond the minimum necessary to keep Him alive and at work. It is in vain that He protests that not He but the Work is in need of money ; He is barred by the strict Jetter of His Oath to give ail that He hath for His magical Attainment. Yet more awful is the doom that He hath invoked upon Himself in renouncing His right as a man to enjoy the Love of those whom He loves with pass…
1930 · PDF PAGE 57
…, that God conceived in a more or less material and personal fashion. These Rituals are therefore well suited for such persons as are capable of understanding the spirit of Magick as opposed to the letter. One of the great advantages of them is that a large number of persons may take part, so that there is consequently more force available; but it is important that they should ail be initiâtes of the same mysteries, bound by the same oaths, and filled with the same aspirations. They should be associated only for this one purpose. Such a company…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
one’s minci until one can be positive, beyond the possibility of error, that one is able to detach oneself entirely from the question. The oracle is a judgej it must be beyond bribery and préjudice. It is impossible in practice to lay down rules for the inter¬ prétation of symbols. Their nature must be investigated by intel- lectual methods such as the Qabalah, but the précisé shape of meaning in any one case, and the sphere and tendency of its application, must be acquired partlv by expérience, that is, by induction, by recording and classifyi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 36
…ecessary. This art is divination. The answers to one’s questions in divination are not conveyed directly but through the medium of a suitable sériés of symbols. These symbols must be interpreted by the diviner in terms of his problem. It is not practicable to construct a lexicon in which the solution of every difficulty is given in so many words. It would be unwieldy 3 besides, nature does not happen to work on those lines. The theory of any process of divination may be stated in a few simple terms. 1. We postulate the existence of intelligence…
1930 · PDF PAGE 53
… Chess played on an infinité boarci with men whose moves are indeterminate, and made still more difficult by the interférence of impondérable forces and unformulated laws; while its conduct demands not only the virtues, themselves rare enough, of intellectual and moral integrity, but intuition combining delicacy with strength in such perfection and to such extremes as to make its existence appear monstrous and miraculous against Nature. To admit this is not to discrédit oracles. On the contrary, the oracles fell mto disrepute just because they …
1930 · PDF PAGE 65
…s. In a Word, the alchemist is to take a dead thing, impure, valueless, and powerless, and transform it into a live thing, active, invaluable and thaumaturgie. The reader of this book will surely find in this a most striking analogy with what we hâve already said of the processes of Magick. What, by our définition, is initiation ? The First Matter is a man, that is to say, a perishable parasite, bred of the earth’s crust, crawl- ing irritably upon it for a span, and at last returning to the dirt whence he sprang. The process of initiation consi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 24
…ive the universe which we do normally perceive, so although in this body I can pass through the roof, it does not follow that I shall be able to tell what the weather is like. I might do so, or I might not; Dut if I could not, it would not prove that I was deceiving myself m supposing that I had passed through the roof. This body, which is called by varions authors the Astral double, body of Light, body of fire, body of desire, fine body, scin-laeca and numberless other naines is naturally fiited to perceive objects of ils own class... in parti…
1930 · PDF PAGE 5
Oath of love, and therefore would never be able to murder her later, as we find to be the not uncommon case. The explanation is as follows. It is perfectly true that when Bill Sykes desires to possess Nancy, he does in fact evoke a spirit of the nature of Venus, constraining him by his Oath of Love (and by his magical power as a man) to bring him the girl. So also, when he wants to kiJl her, he evokes a Martial or Saturnian spirit, with an Oath of hâte. But these are not pure planetary spints, moving in well- dehned spneres by rigidlv righteous…
1930 · PDF PAGE 7
…ver conceive was torn out and trampled with such infernal ingenuity in intensifying torture that His endurance is beyond belief. Inexplicable are the atrocities which accompanied every step in His Initiation! Death dragged away His children with slow savagery; the women He loved drank themselves into delirium and dementia before His eyes, or repaie! His passionate dévotion with toad-cold treachery at the moment when long years of loyalty had tempted Him to trust them. His friend, that bore the bag, stole that which was put therein, and betrayed…
1930 · PDF PAGE 45
…the Will of that intelligence. (It is of course understood that he has not become so familiar with geomancy by dint of practice as to be able to calculate subconsciously what figures he will form; form; for this would vitiate the experiment entirely. It is, in fact, one of the objections to geomancy that sooner or later one does become aware at the time of tracing them whether the dots are going to be even or odd. This needs a spécial training to correct). Physio-psychological theory will probably maintain that the “automatic” action of the han…
1930 · PDF PAGE 42
…rned by some little whisper in his heart that he was about to make a fool of himself, which he is determined to do, and only wants to be able to blâme his best friend, or the oracle, when he is overtaken by the disaster which his own interior mentor foresees ? Those who embark on divination will be wise to consider the foregoing remarks very deeply. They will know when they are getting deep enough by the fact of the thought beginning to hurt them. It is essential to explore oneself to the utmost, to analyse — 162
1930 · PDF PAGE 32
He was at first unable to pierce their veils. In fact, as the Book shows, it was only by virtue o£ successive and most exalted initia¬ tions undergone in the Aethyrs themselves that He was able to penetrate beyond the I5th. The Guardians of such fortresses know how to guard. The Master Therion has published the most important prac- tical magical secrets in the plainest language. No one, by virtue °£ being clever or learned, has understood one word; and those unworthy who hâve profaned the sacrament hâve but eaten and drunken damnation to themse…
1930 · PDF PAGE 84
The object is to possess a Body wkicli is capable of doing easily any particular task tbat may lie before it. There musî be no sélection of spécial expérience which appeals to one’s immédiate desire. One must go steadily through ail the possible pylons. Frater Perdurabo was very unfortunate in not having magical teachers to explain these things to Him. He was rather encouraged in unsystematic working. Very fortunate, on the other hand, was He to hâve found a Guru who instructed Him in the proper principles of the technique of Yoga, and He, havi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 50
…r. It should go without saying that until the Magician has attained to the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel he is liable to endless déceptions. He does not know Himself; how can he explain his business to others ? How can those others, though they do their best for him, aid in anything but tri fies ? One must therefore be prepared for dis- appointment at every stage until one attains to adeptship. This is especially true of divination, because the essence of the horror of not knowing one’s Angel is the utter bewilderment an…