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…l seem to him as if he were raised by divine hands 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…
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 5
Oath of love, and therefore would never be able to murder her later, as we find to be the not uncommon case. 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…
1930 · PDF PAGE 13
…appearance of the spirit, or the manifestation of the force in the talisman which is being consecrated, it is necessary to bind it by an Oath or Charge. A spirit should be made to lay its hand visibly on the weapon by whose might it has been evoked, and to aswear obedience and faith to Him that liveth and triumpheth, that reigneth above him in His palaces as the Balance of Righteousness and Truth” by the Names used in that évocation. It is then only necessary to formulate the Oath or Charge in language harmonious with the previously announced p…
1930 · PDF PAGE 15
…an should also consider 1 whether die évoca¬ tion be in trnth a necessary part of the Karma of the Universe, as he has stated in his own Oath (See Cap. XVI. i), For if this be a delusion, success is impossible. It will then be best to go back to the beginning, and recapitulate with greater intensity and power of analysis the Oath and the Invocations. And this may be done thrice. But if this be satisfactorily accomplished, and the spirit be y et disobedient, the implication is thaï sonie hostile force is at work îo hinder the operation. It will …
1930 · PDF PAGE 8
…live and at work. It is in vain that He 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…
1930 · PDF PAGE 16
…nd of your operation, it may send the spirit, full of hypocritical submission, to destroy you. Such a spirit will probably pronounce the oath amiss, or in some way seek to avoid his obligations. It is a dangerous trick, though, for the Black Lodge to play; tor if the spirit corne properly under your control, it will be forced to disclose the transaction, and the current will return to the Black Lodge with fulminating force. The liars will be in the power of their own lie; their own slaves will rise up and put them into bondage. The wicked fall …
1930 · PDF PAGE 61
…ted as talismans. The circle and other furniture of the Temple should receive the usual benefit of the banishings and consécrations. The Oath should be taken and the Invocations made. When the divine force mani- fests in the éléments, they should be solemnly consumed. There is also a simpler method of consécration reserved for initiâtes of high rank, of which it is here unlawful to speak. According to the nature of the Sacrament, so will its results be. In some one may receive a mvstic grâce, culminating in Samadhi ; in others a simpler and mor…
1930 · PDF PAGE 28
…centrate thought, to follow an 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 …
1930 · PDF PAGE 7
given”, there are still certain Orgia beyond Him to perform, oecause to do so would be to affirm what He hath denied in those Oaths by whose virtue He is Ihat He is. This is the case, even when the spirit of such Orgia is fully consonant with His Will. Ihe literal sense of His original Oath insists that it shall be respected. The case offers two instances of this principle. Frater Perdurabo specifically swore that He would renounce His Personal possessions to the last penny5 also that He would allow no human affection to hinder Elim. Ihese tern…
1930 · PDF PAGE 6
… of Magick. But for that very reason he is now utterly impotent 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 a…
1930 · PDF PAGE 84
…the “Universal Joke”. But in Magick any one Operation debars its performer from accomplishing some other. The reason of this is that the Oath of any Work bonds the Magi- cian once and for ail to be the principles implied therein. See Chapter XVI Part I. Further, it is obviously possible to reach the essence of anything without interfering with other things which obstruct each other. Cross- country journeys are often scarcely practicable. 204 —