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Page 1 of 11930 · PDF PAGE 41
…e, but this is rather like buying a safe to keep a brick in. Expérience is the only teacher. One acquires what one may almost calî a new sense. One feels in one’s self whether one is right or not. The diviner must develop this sense. It resembles the exquisite sensibility of touch which is found in the great billiard player whose fingers can estimate infinitésimal degrees of force, 1. This does not mean that they are malignant. They hâve a proper pride in their office as Oracles of Truth; and they refuse to be profaned by the contamination of i…
1930 · PDF PAGE 69
… of vibration) whose manifestation is in characteristic metallic qualities. This need not be a Chemical substance at ail in the ordinary sense of the Word. 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 …
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…so that each is absolute, and the whole insusceptible of increase or diminution. It is (in fact) tech- nically a pantacle in the fullest sense of the word. Let us consider some prominent examples of such System. We may observe that a common mode of divination is to inquire of books by placing the thumb at random within the leaves. The Books of the Sybil, the Works of Vergil, and the Bible hâve been used ’very frequently for this purpose. For theoretical justification, one must assume that the book employed is a perfect représentation of the Uni…
1930 · PDF PAGE 32
…n; 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 Master Therion’s édition of the Tao T eh King. A rough note from His Magical Diary is appended here : “Ail éléments must at one t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 48
… In asking, “shall I be wise to marry?” one leaves it open for wisdom to be defined in divers ways. One can only expect an answer in the sense of the question. The connotation of “wise” would then imply the limitations “in your private définition of wisdom”, “in reference to your présent circumstances.” It would not involve guarantee against subséquent disaster, or pronounce a philosophical dictum as to wisdom in the abstract sense. One must not assume tliat the oracle is omniscient. By the nature of the case, on the contrary, it is the utteran…
1930 · PDF PAGE 16
… is usually embodied, except in Works of pure évocation, which after ali are comparatively rare, in sonie kind of talisman. In a certain sense, the talisman is the Charge expressed in hieroglyphics. Yet, every object soever is a talisman, for the définition of a talisman is: something upon which an act of will (that is, of Magick) has been performed in order to fit it for a purpose. Repeated acts of will in respect of i. The précisé meaning of these phrases is at first sight obscure. The spirit is merely a récalcitrant part of one’s own organis…
1930 · PDF PAGE 47
…ons 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 fundamental laws of both are identical. The right use of divination has already been explained; but it must be added that proficiency therein, tremendous as is its importance in furnishing the Magician with the information necessary to his strategical and tactical plans, in no wise enables him to accomplish t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 62
… of mind déterminant of a certain habit of body which is nowise identical with what is commonly understood. Chastity in the true magical sense of the word is inconceivable to those who are not wholly emancipated from the obsession of sex. — 182 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 72
…ccepted 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 same path as the White Brotherhood; for until that grade is attained, the goal is not disclosed. Then only are the goats, the lonely leaping moun…
1930 · PDF PAGE 36
…any idea. We assume that any of these hieroglyphics will be understood by the intelligences with whom we wish to communicate in the same sense as it is by ourselves. We hâve therefore a sort of language. One may compare it to a lingua jranca which is perhaps defective in expressing fine shades of meaning, and so is unsuitable for literature, but which yet serves for the conduct of daily affairs in places where many tongues are spoken. Hindustani is an example of this. But better still is the analogy between the conventional signs and symbols em…
1930 · PDF PAGE 51
…ou disclose Thy tricks of toilet to Eros, Or let him learn that those love-breathing Lyrical lins that whisper, wreathing His brows with sense-bewitching gold, Are equally expert to scold; 1 hat those caressing hands will maybe Yet box his ears and slap the baby ! ”
1930 · PDF PAGE 49
occasions. These shouid be “familiar” spirits, in the strict sense; members of bis family. He shouid deal with them constantly, avoiding whimsical or capricious changes. He shouid choose them so that their capacities cover the whole ground of his workj but he shouid not multiply them unneccessarily, for he makes himself responsible for each one that he employs. Such spirits snould be ceremonially evoked to visible or semi-visible appear- ance. A strict arrangement shouid be made and sworn. This must be kept punctiliously by the Magician, and it…
1930 · PDF PAGE 53
…sisting that events shall accommodate themselves to our egoism and vanity. It is comically unscientific to adduce i. The question of the sense in which an answer is true arises. One not mix up the planes. Yet, as Mr. Russell shows, Of Cit. f. 61, the worlds which lie behind phenomena must possess the same structure as our own. Every proposition having a communicable significance must lie in just that essence of individuality which, for that very reason, is irrelevant to science , Just so : but this is to confess the impotence of science to atta…
1930 · PDF PAGE 24
… 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 use the word, is on another plane 2. Now this fine body perceives a uni verse which we do not ordinarily . perceive. It does not necessarily perceive the universe which we do normally perceive, so although in this body I can pass through the roof, it does not follow that I shall be able to tell what the weather is like. I might do so, or I might not; Dut if I could not, it would not …
1930 · PDF PAGE 21
… you every kind of an ass. It is at least, it was — perfectly incredible to The Master Th er ion that people who exhibit ordinary common sense in • 1 \r °ne 1S a ^tai* in t^e Body ^uith, every successive incarnation is a Veil, and the acquisition of the Magical Memory a graduai UnveilinP- of that Star, of that God. 6
1930 · PDF PAGE 5
…e flame consuming ail that is not utterly God. Very soon he is aware that he cannot consciously contradict himself. He develops a subtle sense which warns him that two trains of thought which he had never conceived as connected are incompatible. Yet deeper drives “Do what thou wiit”$ subconscious 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 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 7
…ths 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 ternis were accepted; He was granted infinitely more than He had imagined possible to any incarnated Man. On the other hand, the pri…
1930 · PDF PAGE 17
…ane. It is instinctive not to let another person use one’s fishing rod or one’s gun. It is not that they could do any harm in a material sense. It is the feeling that one’s use of these things has consecrated them to one’s self. Of course, the outstanding example of ail such talismans is the wife. A wife 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 magi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 84
…e other hand, was He to hâve found a Guru who instructed Him in the proper principles of the technique of Yoga, and He, having suffirent sense to recognize the universal application of those principles, was able to some extent to repair His original defects. But even to this day, despite the fact this His original inclination is much stronger towards Magick than towards mysticism, he is much less competent in Magick.1 A trace of this can be seen even in His method of combining the two divisions of our science, for in that method He makes concen…
1930 · PDF PAGE 26
…he time to test that is later on. As soon as you feel more or less at home in the fine body, let it rise in the air. Keep on feeling the sense of rising; keep on looking about you as you rise until you see landscapes or beings of the astral plane. Such hâve a quality ail their own. They are not like material things — they are not like mental pictures — they seem to lie between the two. After some practice has made you adept, so that in the course 146