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…mistake is the combing-out oi some tangle in the hair of the bride as she is being coiffed for marriage. On the other hand, although the adept is in daily communica¬ tion with his Angel, he ought to be careful to consult Him only on questions proper to the dignity of the relation. One should not consult one s Angel on too many details, or indeed on any matters vvhich corne within the office of one’s familiar spirits. One does not to go the King about petty personal trifles. The romance and rapture of the ineffable union which consentes Adeptshi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 76
…werful magicians of the last few centuries hâve employed books. In private matters these Works are very easy, if they be neces- sary. An adept known to The Master Therion once found it necessary to slay a Circe who was bewitching brethren. He merely walked to the door of her room, and drew an Astral T (“tradi- tore”, and the symbol of Saturn) with an astral dagger. Within 48 h ours she shot herself. 1 7. Works of création and dissolution, and the higher invoca¬ tions. There are also hundreds of other operations 3 2 to bring wanted objects — gol…
1930 · PDF PAGE 78
… of the pit. No spiritualistic manifestation has ever taken place in the 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 spiritua…
1930 · PDF PAGE 77
…ces to invoke those Undines even where the case is hopeless; maybe it is necessary to ycu and to the child that it should die. An Exempt Adept on the right road will make no error here — an Adept Major is only too likely to do so. A through appréhension of this book will arm adepts of every grade against ail the more serious blunders incidental to their unfortunate positions. IV Necromancy is of sufficient importance to demand a section to itself. It is justifiable in some exceptional cases. Suppose the magician fail to obtain. access to living…
1930 · PDF PAGE 70
…rue Operation the Exaltation is equilibrated by an expansion in the other three arms of the Cross. Hence the Angel immediately gives the Adept power over the Four Great Princes and their servitors. 1 If the magician needs to perform any other operation than this, it is only lawful in so far as it is a necessary preliminary to That One Work. There are, however many shades of grey. It is not every magician who is well armed with theory. Perhaps one such may invoke Jupiter, with the wish to heal others of their physical ills. This sort of thing is…
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
…the attention, or disturbing the judgment, of the person whom it is wished to deceive. There are, however, “real” transformations of the adept himself which are very useful. See the Book of the Dead for methods. The assumption of God-Forms can be carried to the point of actual transformation. 5. Works of Love and Hâte, which are also performed (as test of the acceptance of the Law of Thelema. Whoso déniés “Do what thou wilt shall be the Whole of the Law” confesses that he still clings to the conflict in his own nature; he is not, and does not w…
1930 · PDF PAGE 30
…he Magical plane is thus the most comprehensive of ail. Egyptian Gods are typical inhabitants of this plane, and it is the home of every Adept. The spiritual planes are of several types, but are ail distinguished by a reality and intensitv to be found nowhere else. Their inhabitants are formless, free of space and time, and distinguished by incomparable brilliance. There are also a number of sub-planes, as, for example, the Alchemical. This plane wiil often appear in the practice of uRising on the Planes” ; its images are usually those of garde…
1930 · PDF PAGE 72
…selves up”, who refuse their blood to the Cup, who hâve trampled Love in the Race for self-aggrandisement. As far as the grade of Exempt Adept, they are en the same path as the White Brotherhood; for until that grade is attained, the goal is not disclosed. Then only are the goats, the lonely leaping mountain-masters, separated from the gregarious huddling vallev-bound sheep. Then those who hâve well learned the lessons of the Path are ready to be torn asunder, to givc up their own life to the Babe of the Abyss which is — and is not — they. The …
1930 · PDF PAGE 49
…kind is improper in matters directly concerning the Great Work itself. In the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel, the adept is possessed of ail he can possibly need. To consult any other is to insnlt one’s
1930 · PDF PAGE 31
…ice. He will be able by suitable invocation to travel directly to any place desired. In Liber 418 an example of perfection is given. The Adept who explored these Aethyrs did not hâve to pass through and beyond the Universe, the whole of which yet lies within even the inmost (30th) Aethyr. He was able to summon the Aethyrs he wanted, and His chief difficulty was that sometimes I. The Hon. Bertrand Russell’s Princifia Mathemcitica may be said to “lie beyond” Colenso’s School Arithmetic; but one can take the former book from one’s shelves — as eve…
1930 · PDF PAGE 82
…is is not the right attitude. 1. This does not conflict with the “go-as-you-please” plan put forward in the previous note. An autocratie Adept is indeed a blessing to the disciple, not because he is able to guide the pupil “aright” in the particular path which happens to suit his personality, but because he can compel the beginner to grind away at the weariest work and thus acquire all-round ability, and prevent him from picking out the plums which please him from the Pie of Knowledge, and making himself sick of a surfeit of sweets to the negle…
1930 · PDF PAGE 29
…m seriously ill. But in attempting the same thing with Pasteur they produced no effect whatever, because Pasteur was a great genius — an adept in his own line far greater than she in h ers — and because millions of people were daily blessing him. It cannot be too clearly nnderstood that magical force is snbject to the same ïaws of proportion as any other kind of force. It is useless for a mere millionaire to try to bankrupt a man who has the Bank of England behind him. I. Anna Kingsford, so far as her good work is concerned, was only the rubber…
1930 · PDF PAGE 7
…r Will than this j so ail that He doth is unto this end. Ail His Orgia bear fruit; what was the work of a month when He was a full Major Adept is to day wrought in a few minutes by the Words of Will, uttered with the right vibrations into the prepared Ear. — 127 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 6
…uitively when a careless word or gesture may wound, and, vigilant, shuns them as being of the family of murder. In Magick, likewise, the Adept who is sworn to attain to the Know¬ ledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel may in his grosser days hâve been expert as a Healer, to find that he is now incapable of any such work. He will probably be puzzled, and wonder whether he has lost ail his power. Y et the cause may be no more than that the Wisdom of his Angel deprecates the interférence of ignorant kindlmess with diseases which may hâv…
1930 · PDF PAGE 32
…to themselves. One may bring down stolen fire in a hollow tube from Heaven, as The Master Therion indeed has done in a way that no other adept dared to do before him. But the thief, the Titan, must foreknow and consent to his doom to be chained upon a lonely rock, the vulture devouring his liver, for a season, until Hercules, the strong man armed by virtue of that very fire, shall corne and release him. The Teitan 1 — whose number is the number of a man, six hundred and three score and six — unsubdued, consoled by Asia and Panthea, must send fo…
1930 · PDF PAGE 26
…ey are not like material things — they are not like mental pictures — they seem to lie between the two. After some practice has made you adept, so that in the course 146