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Page 1 of 31930 · PDF PAGE 54
…se that the observation of their fall should not enable us to rneasure ail things in heaven and earth. With one piece of curved glass we hâve discovered uncounted galaxies of suns; with another, endless orders of existence in the infinitésimal. With the prism we hâve analysed light so that matter and force hâve become intelligible only as forms of light. With a rod we hâve summoned the invisible energies of electricity to be our familiar spirit serving us to do our Will, whether it be to outsoar the condor, or to dive deeper into the démon worl…
1930 · PDF PAGE 53
…to do more than they could. To divine concerning a matter is little more than 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 wi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 82
…elf somewhat to blâme in representing this technique as of value simply because it leads to the great rewards, such as Samadhi. He would hâve been wiser to base His teaching solely on the ground of évolution. But probably He thought of the words of the poet : UY ou dangle a canot in front of her no se. And she go es wherever the canot go es For, after ail, one cannot explain the necessity of the study of Latin either to imbécile children or to stupid educationalists; for, not having learned Latin, they hâve not developed the brains to learn anv…
1930 · PDF PAGE 74
and fraternize with them. They will then tear 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 th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 68
…lating it from its accretions. Now just as the Aspirant, on the Threshold of Initiation, finds himself assailed by the “complexes” which hâve corrupted him, their externalization excruciating him, and his agonized réluctance to their élimination plunging him into such ordeals that he seems (both to himself and to others) to hâve turned from a noble and upright man into an unutterable scoundrel ; so does the First Matter blacken and putrefy as the Alchemist breaks up its coagu¬ lations of impurity. The student may work out for himself the varion…
1930 · PDF PAGE 56
…true of divination. The différence between the two sciences is no more than this : that, more minds having been at work on the former we hâve learnt to master its tricks with greater success than in the case of the latter.
1930 · PDF PAGE 72
…hem in another, are the Brothers of the Left Hand Path L These are they who “shut themselves 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,…
1930 · PDF PAGE 27
… plane j invoke Mercury, for example, and examine carefully your record of the resulting vision — discover whether the symbols which you hâve seen correspond with the conventional symbols of Mercury. Tliis iesting of the spirits is the most important branch of tlie whoïe tree of Magick. Without it, one is lost in the jungle of delusion. Every spirit, up to God himself, is ready to deceive you if possible, to make himself ont more important than lie is; in short, to lay in wait for your soûl in 333 separate ways. Remember thaï after ail the high…
1930 · PDF PAGE 76
a rule) by a fascination. These Works are too easy 3 and rarely useful. They hâve a nasty trick of recoiling on the magician. 6. Works of destruction, which may be done in many different ways. One may fascinate and bend to one’s will a person who has of his own right the power to destroy. One may employ spirits or talismans. The more powerful 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 w…
1930 · PDF PAGE 44
when he reads a paragraph into which a few lines hâve strayed from another column. It is equally necessary that the muscles with wliicli he manipulâtes the apparatus of divination must he entirely independent of any volition of his. lie must lend them for the moment to the intelligence whom he is Consulting, to be guided in their movement to make the necessary mechanical actions which détermine the physical factor of the operation. It will be obvions that this is somewhat awkward for the diviner who is also a magician, for as a magician he has …
1930 · PDF PAGE 21
… is like tiying to run a business without book-keeping. There are a great manv people who quite misunderstand the nature of Magick. They hâve an idea that it is something vague and unreal, instead ot being, as it is, a direct means of coming into contact with reauty. It is these people who pay themselves with phrases, who are always using long words with no definite connotation, who p aster themselves with pompous titles and décorations which mean nothing whatever. With such people we hâve nothing to do But to those who seek reality the Key of …
1930 · PDF PAGE 32
… 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 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…
1930 · PDF PAGE 77
…o bring Gold — your rich uncle dies and leaves you his moneyj books — you see the book wanted in a catalogue that very day, although you hâve advertised in vain for a year; woman — but if you hâve made the spirits bring you enough gold, this operation will become unnecessary. 2 It must further be remarked that it is absolute Black Magic to use any of these powers if the object can possibly be otherwise attained. If your child is drowning, you must jump and try to save him; it won’t do to invoke the Undines. Nor is it lawful in ail circumstances…
1930 · PDF PAGE 22
…rical. There are numerous models of magical and mystical records to be found in the various numbers of the Equinoxy and the student will hâve no difficulty in acquiring the necessary technique, if he be diligent in practice. — 142
1930 · PDF PAGE 18
people hâve recognised its talismanic virtue, that is to say, its power as an instrument of the wilL But with many ikons and images, it is easy to steai their virtue. This can be done sometimes on a tremendous scale, as, for example, when ail the images of Isis and Horus, or similar mother-child combinations, were appropriated Wholesale by the Christians. The miracle is, however, of a somewhat dangerous type, as in this case, where enlightenment has corne through the researches of archaeologists. It has been shown that the so-called images of M…
1930 · PDF PAGE 85
… to run before he can walk; he should not wish to go somewhere until he knows for certain whither he wills £0 go. 1. Recent developments hâve enabled Him to correct these conditions, so that this Book (as now hnally revised for the Press) may be considered practically free from serious defect in this particular. — 205
1930 · PDF PAGE 80
V Of the powers of the Sphinx much has been written. * 1 Wisely they hâve been kept in the forefront of true magical instruction. Even the tyro can always rattle off that he has to know, to dare to will and to keep silence. It is difficult to Write on this subject, for these powers are indeed comprehensive, and the interplay of one with the other becomes increasingly évident as one goes more deeply into the subject. But there is one general principle which seems worthy of spécial emphasis in this place. These four powers are thus complex becaus…
1930 · PDF PAGE 64
… cure of disease and the prolongation of life as the first considération, ai- though his greatest achievements seem to modem thinkers to hâve been ratifier his discoveries of opium, zinc, and hydrogen; so that we tend to think of him as a chemist no less than we do of Van Helmont, whose conception of gas ranks him as one of those rare geniuses who hâve increased human knowledge by a fundamentally important idea. The literature of Alchemy is immense. Practicaliy ail of it is wholly or partially unintelligible. Its treatises, from the aAsch Metza…
1930 · PDF PAGE 66
…onceptions 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 the essential heterogeneity of the éléments. The doctrines of Evolution hâve brought the alchemical and monistic theory of matter into line with our conception of life ; the collapse of the wall between the animal and vegetable kingdoms has shaken that which divided them from the minerai. But even though the advanced chemist might admit the poss…
1930 · PDF PAGE 28
…argument, to formulate a Will, to hold fast to an opinion or a course of action, or even to keep a solemn oath, mark indelibly those who hâve thus lost parts of their soûls. They wander from one new cuit to another even crazier. Occasionally such persons drift for a moment into the surroundmgs of The Master Therion, and are shot out by the simple process of making them try to do a half-hour5s honest work of any kind. In projecting the Astral, it is a valtiable additional safe- gnard to perform the whole operation m a properïy con- secrated circ…