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…is offered, and they are hereby warned that the key to the treasure-house is no good without the combination; and the combination is the magical record. From one point of view, magical progress actually con- sists in deciphering one’s own record. 1 For this reason it is the most important thing to do, on strictly magical grounds. But apart from this, it is absolutely essential that the record snould be clear, fu.ll and concise, because it is only by such a record that your teacher can judge how it is best to help you. Your magical teacher has s…
1930 · PDF PAGE 17
…ife may be defined as an object specially prepared for taking the stamp of one’s Creative will. This is an example of a very complicated magical operation, extending over centuries. But, theoretically, it is just an ordinary case of talismanic magick. It is for this reason that so much trouble has been taken to prevent a wife having contact with the profane; or, at least, to try to prevent her. Readers of the Bible will remember that Absalom publicly adopted David’s wives and concubines on the roof of the palace, in order to signify that he had…
1930 · PDF PAGE 62
…ed daily by every magician, and be sboitld regard if as the main sustenance of bis magica! life, It is of more importance than any other magical ceremony, because it is a complété circle. The whole of the force expended is completely re-absorbed 3 yet the virtue is that vast gain represented by the abyss between Man and God. The magician becomes füled with God, fed upon God, intoxicaîed with God. 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 …
1930 · PDF PAGE 3
CHAPTER XVI (Part /) Of THE OATH The third operation in any magical ceremony is the oath or proclamation. The Magician, armed and ready, stands in the centre of the Circle, and strikes once upon the bell as if to call the attention of the Umverse. Ele then déclarés who he isy reciting his magical history by the proclamation of the grades which he has attained, giving the signs and words of those grades. 1 He then States tlie purpose of tlie ceremony, and proves tliat it is necessary to perform it and to sncceed in its performance. He then takes…
1930 · PDF PAGE 22
…ping an intelligible account of what they are doing, frightens away the unintelligent, idle and hysterical. 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 30
…ne. Only verv rarely do astral images occur during méditation. It is a bad break in the circle, as a rule, when they do. There is also a Magical Plane. This touches the material, and even includes a portion of it. It includes the Astral, chiefly a fuli- blooded type of the Astral. It reaches to and includes most, if not ail, of the spiritual planes. The 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 ai…
1930 · PDF PAGE 16
Spirit in a black box wiîh stinking substances, alï îiaving been properly prepared beforehand, and tlie magical links properîy made, so that lie is really tortured by the Operation. 1 This is a rare event, however. Only once in the whole of his magical career was Frater Perurabo driven to so harsh a measure. IV In this connexion, beware of too ready a compliance on the part of the spirit. If some Black Lodge has got wind of your operation, it may send the spirit, full of hypocritical submission, to destroy you. Such a spirit will probably prono…
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 20
…y after the License to Départ, and the general closing up of the work,it is necessary that the Magician should sit down and write up his magical record. However much he may hâve been tired 1 by the ceremony, he ought to force himself to do this until it becomes a habit. Verily, it is better to fail in the magical ceremony than to fail in writing down an accurate record of it. One need not doubt the propriety of this remark. Even if one is eaten alive by Malkah be-Tarshishim ve-Ruachoth ha-Schehalim, it does not matter very much, for it is over …
1930 · PDF PAGE 76
…sheath of a Star, but an advanced planetary daemon, whose rash ambition had captured a body beyond its capacity -to conduct — in his own magical vehicîe. He thereby pledged himself to subordinate ail the sudden accession of qualities — pas- sionate, capricious, impulsive, irrational, selfish, short-sightedness, sensual, fickle, crazy, and desperate, to his True Will; to discipline, co-ordinate, and employ them in the Great Work, under the penalty of being torn asunder by the wild horses which he had bound fast to his own body by the act of “des…
1930 · PDF PAGE 32
…ate 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 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 c…
1930 · PDF PAGE 81
…n of life. 1 In Magick and méditation this principle applies with tremend- ous force. It is quite useless to teach people how to perform magical operations, when it may be that such operations, when thev 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 myst…
1930 · PDF PAGE 8
…e 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 passion so selfless, so pure, and so intense in return for the power so to love Mankind that He be chosen to utter the Word of the Aeon for their sake, His reward universal abhorrence, bodily torment, mental despair, and moral paralysis. Yet He, who hat…
1930 · PDF PAGE 63
…tion. Modem research (by profane scholars) leaves it still doubtful as to whether Alchemical treatises should be classified as mystical, magical, medical, or Chemical. The most reasonable opinion is that ail these objects formed the pre-occupation of the alchemists in varying proportions. Hermes is alike the God of Wisdom, Thau- maturgy, therapeutics, and physical science. Ail these may con- sequently claim the title Hermetic. It cannot be doubted that such writers as Fludd aspired to spiritual perfection. It is equally sure that Edward Kelly w…
1930 · PDF PAGE 15
…, and to attack and desîroy it. This makes the ceremony more useful than ever to the Magician, who may thereby be led to irnveil a black magical gang whose existence he had not hitherto snspected. His need to check the vampiring of a lady in Paris by a sorceress once led Frater Perdurabo to the discovery of a very powerful body of black magicians, with whom he was obliged to war for nearly îo years before their ruin was complété and irrémédiable as it now is. Such a discovery will not necessarily impede the ceremony. A general curse may be pron…
1930 · PDF PAGE 60
…ey, and oil (carbohydrates, fats, and proteids, the three necessaries of human nutrition) : also perfume of the three essential types of magical and curative virtue; the subtle principle of animal life itself is hxed in them by the introduction of fresh living blood.
1930 · PDF PAGE 64
…se of healing disease, extending the span of life, increasing human abilities, perfecting the nature of man in every respect, conferring magical powers, and transmuting material substances, especially metals, into 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 m…
1930 · PDF PAGE 14
…s 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. The obstinacy of a spirit (or the inertia of a talisman) usually implies a defect in invocation. The spirit cann…
1930 · PDF PAGE 4
…Zazel will refuse to obey him in the case of the woman whom he has sworn that he loves. To this some may object that, since ail acts are magical, every man who loves a woman implicitly takes an 1. Compare the remarks in a previous chapter. But this is a particular case. We leave its justification as a problem. 2. Of course this is for the beginner. As soon as it is assimilated as true, he will say : “My will which is thine be done ! ” And ultimately no more distinguish “mine” from “thine”. A sympathetic change of gesture will accompany the ment…
1930 · PDF PAGE 35
… sidesj the active and the passive. The power to execute the Will is but blind force unless the Will be enlightened. At every stage of a Magical Operation it is necessary to know what one is doing, and to be sure that one is acting wisely. Acute sensitiveness is always associated with genius; the power to perceive the universe accurately, to analyse, coordinate, and judge impressions is the foundation of ail great Work. An army is but a blundering brute unless its intelligence department Works as it should. The Magician obtains the transcendent…