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Page 1 of 21930 · PDF PAGE 64
…ssessing divers virtues; in particular, those 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 …
1930 · PDF PAGE 12
…or this reason the latter must be made as pure and consecrated as the former. The puzzle for most people is how to do this. The study of Nature is the Key to that Gâte. 132 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 32
…ince every pang is but the écho of some new flame that leaps upon the earth lit by his crime. For the Gods are the enemies of Man; it is Nature that Man must overcome ere he enter into his kingdom. 2 The true God 1. TEITAN — 300+5+ 10+300+1+50 = 666. 2. In another sense, a higher sense, Nature is absolutely right through- out* The position is that the Magician discovers himself imprisoned in a distorted Nature of Iniquity; and his task is to disentangle it. This is ail to be studied in the Book of Wisdom or Folly (Liber ALEPH, CXI) and in The M…
1930 · PDF PAGE 68
… 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 inhérent therein; the Work similarly consists in isolating it from…
1930 · PDF PAGE 15
…sobedient, the implication is thaï sonie hostile force is at work îo hinder the operation. It will then become advisable to discover the nature of that force, 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 …
1930 · PDF PAGE 62
… 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 which is nowise identical with what is commonly under…
1930 · PDF PAGE 66
…ated a vital and powerful being of truth and beauty. It would indeed be surprising to anybody who lias corne to a clear compréhension of nature if there were any différence in the essence of these various formulas. The laws of nature apply equally in every possible circumstance. We are now in a position to nnderstand wliat alcliemy is. We miglit even go further and say tliat even if we liad ne ver lieard of it, we know wliat it mu si be. Let us emphasize the fact that the final product is in ail cases a living thing. It has been the great stumb…
1930 · PDF PAGE 14
…ods are beyond most material conditions. It is necessarv to 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 t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 54
…ts that, if fountain pens undoubtedly work now and then, their doing so is mer ely coincidence. The fact of the case is that the laws of nature are incomparably more subtle than even science suspects. The phenomena of every plane are intimately interwoven. The arguments of Aristotle were dépendent on the atmospheric pressure which prevented his blood from boiling away. Tliere is notiiing in the universe wliicli does not influence every otlier thing in one way or another. There is no reason in Nature why the apparently chance combinations of hal…
1930 · PDF PAGE 69
…ord. The Elixir of Life will similarly consist of a living organism capable of growth, at the expense of its environment ; and of such a nature that its “true Will75 is to cause that environment to serve it as its means of expression in the physical world of human life. The Universal Medicine will be a menstruum of such subtlety as to be able to penetrate ail matter and transmute it in the sense of its own tendency, while of such impartial purity as to accept perfectly the impression of the Will of the Alchemist. This substance, properly prepar…
1930 · PDF PAGE 65
…an to the final product or products. Yet beneath this diversity, we may perceive an obscure identity. They ail begin with a substance in nature which is described as existing almost everywhere, and as universally esteemed of no value. The alchemist is in ail cases to take this substance, and subject it to a sériés of operations. By so doing, he obtains his product, This product, however named or described, is always a substance which represents the truth or perfection of the original “First Matter”; and its qualities are invariably such as pert…
1930 · PDF PAGE 67
gold as other than metallic, of the same order of nature as the lead from which it had been made. That this gold should possess the power of multiplying itself, or of acting as a ferment upon other substances, seemed so absurd that he felt obliged to conclude that the alchemists who claimed these properties for their Gold must, after ail, hâve been referring not to Chemistry, but to some spiritual operations whose sanctity demanded some such symbolic veil as the cryptographie use of the language of the laboratory. The Master Therion is sanguine…
1930 · PDF PAGE 5
…The explanation is as follows. It is perfectly true that when Bill Sykes desires to possess Nancy, he does in fact evoke a spirit of the nature of Venus, constraining him by his Oath of Love (and by his magical power as a man) to bring him the girl. So also, when he wants to kiJl her, he evokes a Martial or Saturnian spirit, with an Oath of hâte. But these are not pure planetary spints, moving in well- dehned spneres by rigidlv righteous laws. They are gross concré¬ tions of confused impulses, “incapable of understanding the nature of an oath”.…
1930 · PDF PAGE 55
…rely 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 the same objections apply equally well to the téléphoné. No man knows what electricity is, or the nature of the forces which détermine its action. We know only that by doing certain things we get certain results, and that the least error I. The main différence between a Science and an Art is that…
1930 · PDF PAGE 59
…force is a kind of consumption; but it has a more restricted application, as follows. Take a substance 1 symbolic of the whole course of nature, make it God, and consume it, There are many ways of doing this; but they may easily be clas- sifîed according to the number of the éléments of which the sacra- ment is composed. The highest form of the Eucharist is ihat in which the Elément consecrated is One» It is one substance and not two, not living and not dead, neither liquid nor solid, neither bot nor cold, neither male nor female. This sacramen…
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
…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 want to be, true to himself. A fortiori, he will prove false to you. — 195 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 63
…but its shadows cast upon the universe. II If the Master Therion effects by tliis book noihing else but to demonstrate the continuily of nature and the uniformity of Law5 He will feel that Mis work bas not been wasted. In his original design of Part III he did not contemplate any allusion to alchemy. It has somehow been taken for granted that this subject is entirely foreign to regular Magick, both in scope and method. It will be the main object of the following descrip¬ tion to establish it as essentially a branch of the subject, and to show t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
…udgej it must be beyond bribery and préjudice. It is impossible in practice to lay down rules for the inter¬ prétation of symbols. Their nature must be investigated by intel- lectual methods such as the Qabalah, but the précisé shape of meaning in any one case, and the sphere and tendency of its application, must be acquired partlv by expérience, that is, by induction, by recording and classifying one’s experiments over a long période and — this is the better part — by refining one’s ratiocination to the point where it becomes instinct or intui…
1930 · PDF PAGE 72
… powers for gross and temporary benefit. That the most crass ignorance of Magick is their principal characteristic is no excuse, even if Nature accepted excuses, which she does not. If you drink poison in mistake for wine, your “mistake” will not save your life. Below these in one sense, yet far above them 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 …
1930 · PDF PAGE 36
… practicable to construct a lexicon in which the solution of every difficulty is given in so many words. It would be unwieldy 3 besides, nature does not happen to work on those lines. The theory of any process of divination may be stated in a few simple terms. 1. We postulate the existence of intelligences, either within or without the diviner, of which he is not immediately conscious. (It does not matter to the theory whether the communicating spirit so-called is an objective entity or a concealed portion of the diviner’s mind.) We assume that…