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Angel. Moreover, it is to abandon the only person who really knows, and really cares, in favour of one who by the nature of the case, must be ignorant1 of the essence of the matter — one whose interest in it is no more (at the best) than that of a well- meaning stranger. 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 bes…
1930 · PDF PAGE 51
…n 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 Adeptship must not be profaned by the introduction …
1930 · PDF PAGE 74
…ar you in pièces at their leisure. Not at once 3 they will wait until you hâve wholly broken the link between you and your Holy Guardian Angel before they pounce, lest at the last moment you escape. Antony of Padua and (in our own times) “Macgregor” Mathers are examples of such victims. Neverthless, every magician must firmly extend his empire to the depth of hell. aMy adepts stand upright, their heads above the heavens, their feet below the hells.” 1 This is the reason why the magician who performs the Operation of the “Sacred Magic of Abramel…
1930 · PDF PAGE 70
… the opening of the second chapter, the Single Suprême Ritual is the attainment of the Knowledge and Conver¬ sation of the Holy Guardian Angel. It is the raisin g of the complété man in a vertical straight line. Any déviation from tliis line tends to become black magic. Any otlier operation is black magic. In the True 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 a…
1930 · PDF PAGE 14
…hll the heart and mïnd with the proper basis for manuestauon. The higher the nature of the God, the more true tins is. The Holy Guardian Angel has always the necessary hasis. His manifestation dépends solely on the readiness oî tue Aspirant, and ail magical ceremonies used in that invocation are merely intended to préparé that Aspirant; not in any way to attract or influence Him. It is His constant and et ornai "W ill to hecome one with the Aspirant, and the moment the coiiditions of the lutter muke it possible, That Bridai is consummaled. III.…
1930 · PDF PAGE 6
… 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 hâve been sent to the sufferer for a purpose profoundly important to his welfare. In the …
1930 · PDF PAGE 57
…ht consecrate and charge a Pantacle by the communication by AIWAZ to the Scribe of the BOOK :of the LAW, the Magician repre- senting the Angel, the Pantacle being the Book, and the person on whom the Pantacle is intended to act taking the part of the Scribe. in —
1930 · PDF PAGE 62
…ecrets 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 inévitable task; every force of his nature, unhindered, tends to that aim and goal of whose nature neither man nor god may speak, for that it is infinitely beyond speech or thought or 1. Study, in the Roman Missal, the Canon of the Mass, and the chapter of “defects”. 2. The Word Chastity is used by initiâtes to signify a certain State of soûl and of mind déterminant of a certain habit of body …
1930 · PDF PAGE 49
…ion of any 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 53
… to calculate probabilities. We obtain the use of minds who hâve access ro knowledge beyond ours, but not to omniscience. Hru; the gréai angel set over the Tarot, is beyond us as we are beyond the antj but, for ail we know, the knowledge of Hru is excelled by some mightier mind in the same proportion. Nor hâve we any warrant for accusing Hru of ignorance or error if we read the Taroi to our own delusion. He may hâve known, he may hâve spoken trulyj the fault may lie with our own insight.1 The Master Therion has observed on innumerable occasions…
1930 · PDF PAGE 48
…One must not make the mistake of calling in a famous physician to one’s sick Pekinese. One must also beware of asking even the cleverest angel a question outside his ambit. A heart specialist should not prescribe for throat trouble. The Magician ouglit therefore to make himself master of several methods of divination; using one or the other as the purpose of the moment dictâtes. He should make a point of organizing a staff of such spiriis to suit varions 168
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
…ferred to let names stand as they are, and to proclaim simply that Aiwaz — the solar-phallic-hermetic “Lucifer” is His own Holy Guardian Angel, and “The Devil” Satan or Hadit of our particular unit of the Starry Universe. This serpent, Satan, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade “Know Thyself!” and taught Initiation. He is “the Devil” of the Book of Thoth, and His emblem is Baphomet, the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection. The number of His Atu is xv, which is Yod Hé, the Mo…
1930 · PDF PAGE 78
…for him aie probably selected by the Wardens of Mankind with a view to his real necessities. One must learn to trust one’s Holy Guardian Angel to shape one’s circumstances with skill. If one be but absorbed in the ardour of one’s aspiration toward Him, short indeed is the time before Expérience instils the certain conviction that His Works and His ways are inhnitely apt to one’s needs. 2. See Rituel et Dogme de la Haute Magie; Rituel, ch. XIII.
1930 · PDF PAGE 83
…Astral Plane, taking in turn each of the most synthetic sections, the Sephiroth and the Paths. These being thoroughly understood, and an Angel in each pledged to guard or to guide him at need, he should start on a new sériés of expéditions to the PI a the fSUb°rd’nate Se.ctlons of each- He may then practice Rising on . e Planes from these spheres, one after the other in rotation. When he .s thoroughly conversant with the various methods of meeting unexpected emergencies, he may preceed to investigate the régions of the Qliphoth and the Démon,c …