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Page 1 of 21930 · PDF PAGE 16
…le 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 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 th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 56
on our part will bring our work to naught. The same is exactly 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 57
…erstanding the spirit of Magick as opposed to the letter. One of the great advantages of them is that a large number of persons may take part, so that there is consequently more force available; but it is important that they should ail be initiâtes of the same mysteries, bound by the same oaths, and filled with the same aspirations. They should be associated only for this one purpose. Such a company being prepared, the story of the God should be dramatised by a well-skilled poet accustomed to this form of composition. Lengthy speeches and invoc…
1930 · PDF PAGE 85
Very different is His record after the training in 1901 e. v. had put Him in the wav of discipline. 1 At the conclusion of this part of this book, one may sum up the whole matter in these words : There is no object whatever worthy of attainment but the regular development of tbe being of the Aspirant by steady scientific work; he should not attempt 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…
1930 · PDF PAGE 4
… 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 perfect readiness of ail things necessary, and to light the incense. The Oath is the foundation of ail Work in Magick, as it is an affirmation of the Will. An Oath binds…
1930 · PDF PAGE 24
…yet the Magician dies. In this dilemma the facts must be restated. One should preferably say that the Magician becomes tonscious of that part of himself which he calls the immortal Osins j and that Part does not “die”. Now this interior body of the Magician, of which we spoke at the begmning of this chapter, does exist, and can exert certain powers which his natural body cannot do. It can, for example, pass tirough matter , and it can move freelv in every direction * ni ough space. But this is because “matter”, in the sense in which we commonly…
1930 · PDF PAGE 81
…he 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 mystical success whatever is 110 compensation for slackness with regard to the technique. There may corne a time when Samadhi itself is no part of the business of the mystic. But the character developed by the original training re¬ mains an asset. In other words, the person who has made himself a first-class brain capable of elasticity is…
1930 · PDF PAGE 13
CHAPTER XVI (Part II) Of THE CHARGE TO THE SPIRIT WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE CONSTRAINTS AND CURSES OCCASIONALLY NECESSARY I On the 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 i…
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 63
…emonstrate 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 that it may be considered simply as a particular case of the general proposition — differing from evocatory a…
1930 · PDF PAGE 10
orgasm. The smell o£ a particular incense 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 w…
1930 · PDF PAGE 15
…the Invo¬ cations than to proceed at once to curses. The Magician 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 s…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
… 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 intuition, whichever one likes to call it. It is proper in cases where the sphere of the question is well marked to begin the divination by invocations of the forces thereto appropriate. An error…
1930 · PDF PAGE 47
…f the true purport of the answerj and one obtains it armed with a sanction superior to any sensible suggestions. It cornes from and to a part of the individual which is independent of the influence of environment ; is adjusted to that environment by true necessity, and not by the artifices of such adaptations as our purblind conception of convenience induces us to fabricate. The student will observe from the above that divination is in one sense an art entirely separate from that of Magick; y et it interpénétrâtes Magick at every point. The fun…
1930 · PDF PAGE 76
…. 3 1. As explained above, in another connexion, he who' “destroys” any being must accept it, with ail the responsibilities attached, as part of himself. The Adept here in question was therefore obliged to incorporate the elemental spirit of the girl — she was not human, the 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, i…
1930 · PDF PAGE 49
…sitive. They suffer agonies of remorse on realising that they hâve injured their Master5 for he is their God; they know themselves to be part of him, their aim is to attain to absorption in him. They understand therefore that his interests are theirs. Care must be taken to employ none but spirits who are fit for the purpose, not only by reason of their capacity to supply information, but for their sym- pathy with the personality of the Magician. Any attempt to coerce unwilling spirits is dangerous. They obey from fear; their fear makes them fla…
1930 · PDF PAGE 67
…ts said : “To make gold you must take gold”; their art was to bring each substance to the perfection of its own proper nature. No doubt, part of this process involved the withdrawal of the essence of the “First Matter” within the homogeneity of “Hyle”, just as initiation insists on the annihilation of the individual in the Impersonal Infinity of Existence to emerge once more as a less confused and deformed Eidolon of the Truth of Himself. This is the guarantee that he is uncontaminated by alien éléments. The 187 -
1930 · PDF PAGE 46
… aîmost as if it were tlie object of bis méditation. One need hardly repeat that in both these operations detachment from one’s personal partialities is as necessary as it was in the first part of the work. In setting up the figure, bias would beget a Freudian phantasm to replace the image of truth which the figure ought to be; and it is not too much to say that the entire subconscious machinery of the body and mind lends itself with horrid willingness to this ape- like antic of treason. But now that the figure stands for judgment, the same bia…
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…Execu- •tioner, acted out the scene of the dance and the beheading, on the lines of Oscar Wilde’s drama, “Peter Paul” being cast for the part of John the Baptist. This ceremony was devised and done on the spur of the moment, and its spontaneity and simplicity were presumably potent factors in its success. On the point of theology, I doubt whether Dom Gorenflot sucessfully avoided eating méat in Lent by baptizing the pullet a carp. For as the sacrament — by its intention, despite its defects of form — could not fail of efficacy, the pullet must …
1930 · PDF PAGE 5
…ious oppositions are evoked to visible appearance. The secret sanctuaries of the soûl are cleansed. “Do What thou Wilt” purges his every part. He has become One, one only. His Will is consequently released from 125 —