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CHAPTER XVIII Of CLAIRVOYANCE AND OF THE BODY OF LIGHT Il'S POWER AND ITS DEVELOPMENT A.LSO CONCERNING DIVINATION I Within ilie liuman body is another body of approximately the same size and sliape; L but made of a subîler and less iilnsory materiaL It is of course not “real” 5 but then no more is the other body! Before treating of clairvoyance one must discuss briefly this question of reality, for misapprehension on the subject has given rise to endless trouble. There is the story of the American in the train who saw another American carrying …
1930 · PDF PAGE 32
…know 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 forth constant showers of blessing not onlv upon Man whose incarnation he is, but upon the tyrant and the persecutor. His infinité pain must thrill his heart with joy, since every pang is but the écho of …
1930 · PDF PAGE 25
…g at the same thing might give totally different accounts of what they saw; yet they might each make correct déductions. In looking at a man the first clairvoyant might say : “The lines of force are ail drooping”; the second : “It seems ail dirtv and spotty”; a third; “The Aura looks very ragged.” Yet ail might agréé in deducing that the man was in ill-health. In any case, ail such déductions are rather unreliable. One must be a highly skilled man before one can trust one’s vision. A great many people think that they are extremely good at the b…
1930 · PDF PAGE 6
… to achieve anything that is not in absolute accordance with his Original Oath, with his True Will, by virtue whereof he incarnated as a man. With Bill Sykes love and murder are not mutually exclusive, as they are with King Arthur. The higher the type of man, the more sensitive he becomes; so that the noblest love divines intuitively 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 …
1930 · PDF PAGE 71
… he struggle against imprisonment, banishment, death? It is ail part of the game in which he is a pawn. “It was necessary for the Son of Man to suffer these things, and to enter into His glory.” The Master of the Temple is so far from the man in whom He manifests that ail these matters are of no importance to Him. It may be of importance to His Work that man shall sit upon a throne, or be hanged. In such a case He informs his Magus, who exerts the power intrusted to Him, and it happens accord¬ ingly. Yet ail happens naturally, and of necessity,…
1930 · PDF PAGE 48
… utterance of a being whose powers are partial and limited, though not to such an extent, or in the same directions, as one’s own. But a man who is advised to purchase a certain stock should not complain if a general panic knocks the bottom ont of it a few weeks later. The advice only referred to the prospects of the stock in itself. The divination must not be blarned any more than one would blâme a man for buying a house at Ypres three vears before the World-War. As against this, one must insist that it is obviously to the advan- tage of the d…
1930 · PDF PAGE 55
…bscure to-day as was that of spectrum analysis a génération ago. That the Chemical composition of the fixed stars should become known to man seemed an insane imagining too ridiculous to discuss. To-day it seems equally irrational to enquire of the desert sand concerning the fate of empires. Yet surely it, if any one knows, should know! To-day it may Sound impossible for inanimate objects to reveal the inmost secrets of mankind and nature. We cannot say whv divination is valid. We cannot trace the process by which it per- forms its marvels.1 But…
1930 · PDF PAGE 33
is man. In man are ail things hidden, Of these the Gods, Nature, Time, ail the powers of the universe are rebellions slaves. It is these that men must fight and conquer in the power and in the name of the Beast that hath availed them, the Titan, the Magus, the Man whose number is six hundred and three score and six. III Ihe practice of Rising on the Planes is of such importance that spécial attention must be paid to it. It is part of the essential tech¬ nique of Magick. Instruction in this practice has been given with such conciseness in Liber …
1930 · PDF PAGE 50
…iring with ardour towards one’s Angel, and comforted I. No intelligence of the type that opérâtes divination is a complété Microscosm as Man is. He knows in perfection what lies within his own Sphere, and little or nothing beyond it. Graphiel knows ail that is know- able about Martial matters, as no Man can possibly do. For even the most Martial man is limited as to Madim by the fact that Mars is only one element in his molécule; the other éléments both inhibit concentration on their colleague, and veil him by insisting on his being interpreted…
1930 · PDF PAGE 10
… may excite him effec- tively, or perhaps the physical ecstasy of the magick dance. Every Magician must compose liis ceremony in siieh a manner as to produce a drasnatic climax. At the moment when the excitement hecomes ungovernable, when the whole conscious being of the Magician undergoes a spiritual spasm, at thaï moment must lie utter the suprême adjuration. One veiy effective method is to stop short, by a suprême effort of will, again and again, on the very brink of that spasm, until a time arrives when the idea of exercising that will fail…
1930 · PDF PAGE 62
…té 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 become in very truth the Temple of tbe Holy Gliost. Day by day matter is repîaeed by Spirit, tbe bmnau by the divine ; ulîimately the change will be complété; God manifest in fl…
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
interprétation very difficult. Moreover, it seemed to Him that the geomantic intelligences themselves were of a low order, the scope of which was confined to a small section of the things which interested Him* also, they possessed a point of view of their own which was far from sympathetic with His, so that misunder- standing constantly interfered with the Work. The Tarot and The Holy Qabalah may be discussed to- gether. The theoretical basis of both is identical: The Tree of Life.1 The 78 symbols of the Tarot are admirably balanced and combine…
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…nds from that prostrate position; with a thrill of holy exaltation he renews joyfully the Oath, feeling himself once again no longer the man but the Magician, yet not merely the Magician, but the chosen and appointed person to accomplish a task which, however apparently unimportant, is yet an intégral part of universal destiny, so that if it were not accomplished the Kingdom of Heaven would be burst in pièces. He is now ready to commence the invocations. He consequently pauses to cast a last glance around the Temple to assure himself of the per…
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…k to the normal; yet the power of the trained and consecrated will in a well-deveioped astral body is such that it can even produce a permanent change in the material upon whose Body of Light you are working, e.g. ; one can heal the sick bv restoring a healthy appearance to their astral forms. On the other hand, it is possible so to disintegrate the the Body of Light even of a strong man that he will fall dead. Such operations demand not only power, but judgment. Nothing can upset the sum total of destiny — everything must be paid for the utter…
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
…ur whole will. This is an universal magical truth, and applies to every other being as much as to the Devil. For the whole will of every man is in reality the whole will of the Uni verse. It is, however, always easy to call up the démons, for they are always calling you; and you hâve only to step down to their level i. “The Devil” is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes. This has led to so much confusion of thought that The Beast 666 has preferred to let names stand as they are, and to proclaim simply that Aiwaz — t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 77
…d 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 to invoke those Undines even where th…
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…e 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 hath power over Death, with a breath to call back health, with a touch to beckon life, He must watch His own chil…
1930 · PDF PAGE 70
…ngle 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 any other operation than this, it is only l…
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
a microcosm in itself — and even archangels reach rarely to this centre of balance — is fit to treat on an equality with Man. The proper study of mankind is God; with Him is his business; and with Him alone. Some magicians hâve hired légions of spirits for some spécial purpose; but it has always proved a serious mistake. The whole idea of exchange is foreign to magick. The dignity of the magician forbids compacts. “The Earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof”. III The operations of Magick art are difficult to classify, as they merge into ea…
1930 · PDF PAGE 68
…attack combustible materials with the vehemence proper to the pure gas. We may summarize this thesis by sayîng that Àlcîiemy includes as many possible operations as tliere are original ideas inberent in nature. Alchemy resembles évocation in its sélection of appropriate material bases for the manifestation of the Will5 but differs from it in proceeding without personification, or the intervention of alien planes. 1 It may be more closely compared with Initiation; for the effective element of the Product is of the essence of its own nature, and …