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Page 1 of 11930 · PDF PAGE 32
… in the Aethyrs themselves that He was able to penetrate beyond the I5th. The Guardians of such fortresses know how to guard. The Master Therion has published the most important prac- tical magical secrets in the plainest language. No one, by virtue °£ being clever or learned, has understood one word; and those unworthy who hâve profaned the sacrament hâve but eaten and drunken damnation to themselves. One may bring down stolen fire in a hollow tube from Heaven, as The Master Therion indeed has done in a way that no other adept dared to do befo…
1930 · PDF PAGE 38
… principles.1 This science had better be discarded unless the student chances to feel strongly drawn toward it. It is used by the Master Therion Himself with fairly satisfactory results, but only in spécial cases, in a strictly limited sphere, and with par- ticular précautions. Even so, He feels great diffidence in basing His conduct on the resuit so obtained. Geomancy has the advantage of being rigorously mathematical. A hand-book of the science is to be found in Equinox I, II. The objection to its use lies in the limited number of the symbols…
1930 · PDF PAGE 40
…alah, the shadows of transitory things are instantly banished. Xhe Y i King is the most satisfactory System for general work. The Master Therion is engagea in the préparation of a treatise on the subject, but the labour involved is so great that He cannot pledge Himself to hâve it ready at any definite time. The ôtudent must theiefoie make his own investigations mto the mean- ing of the 64 hexagrams as best he can. The Yi King is mathematical and philosophical in form. lîs structure is cognate with that of the Qahalah $ the identity is so intim…
1930 · PDF PAGE 59
…cognized as such, this Eucharist has been described in detail and without concealment, somewkere in the published writings of the Master Therion. But He has told no one where. It is reserved for the highest initiâtes, and is synonymous with the Accomplished Work on the i. This may be of a composite character.
1930 · PDF PAGE 68
… as one case — as the critical case — of the Art of the Alchemist. The reader will hâve observed, perhaps with surprise, that The Master Therion describes several types of Eucharist. The reason is that given above; there is no substance incompetent to I. Some alchemists may object to this statement. I prefer to express no final opinion on the matter. — 188
1930 · PDF PAGE 63
ecstasy or silence. Samadhi and Nibbana are 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 essent…
1930 · PDF PAGE 79
presence even of Frater Perdurabo; how much less in that of The Master Therion ! 1 Of ail the créatures He ever met, the most prominent of English spiritists (a journalist and pacifist of more than European famé) had the filthiest mind and the foulest mouth. He would break off any conversation to tell a stupid smutty story, and could hardi y conceive of any society assembling for any other purpose than “phallic orgies7’, whatever they may be. Utterly incapable of keeping to a subject, he would drag the conversation down again and again to the s…
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
…, but possesses an artistic significance which helps the diviner to understand them by stimulating his aesthetic perceptions. The Master Therion finds that the Tarot is infallible in material questions. The successive operations describe the course of events with astonishing wealth of detail, and the judgments are reliable in ail respects. But a proper divination means at least two hours’ hard work, even by the improved method developed by Him from the traditions of initiâtes. Any attempt to shorten the proceedings leads to disappointment; furt…
1930 · PDF PAGE 76
…st few centuries hâve employed books. In private matters these Works are very easy, if they be neces- sary. An adept known to The Master Therion once found it necessary to slay a Circe who was bewitching brethren. He merely walked to the door of her room, and drew an Astral T (“tradi- tore”, and the symbol of Saturn) with an astral dagger. Within 48 h ours she shot herself. 1 7. Works of création and dissolution, and the higher invoca¬ tions. There are also hundreds of other operations 3 2 to bring wanted objects — gold, books, women and the li…
1930 · PDF PAGE 53
… we read the Taroi to our own delusion. He may hâve known, he may hâve spoken trulyj the fault may lie with our own insight.1 The Master Therion has observed on innumerable occasions that divinations, made by him and dismissed as giving untrue answers, hâve justified themselves months or years later when he was able to revise his judgment in perspective, untroubled by his Personal passion. It is mdeed surprising how often the most careless divinations give accurate answers. When things go wrong, it is almost always possible to trace thæ error t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 69
…dealing with forms of Matter-Motion so subtle as these, it is not enough to pass the Pons Asinorum of intellectual knowledge. The Master Therion has possessed the theory of these Powers for many years; but Elis practice is still in progress towards perfection. Even efficiency in the préparation is not ail; there is need to be judicious in the manipulation, and adroit in the admi¬ nistration, of the product. Ele does not perform haphazard miracles, but applies His science and skill in conformity with the laws of nature.
1930 · PDF PAGE 28
…. 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 m a properïy con- secrated circle. Proceed with great caution, then, but proceed. In time your Body of Light will be as strong against the spirits as your other body against the winds of Heaven. Ail dépe…
1930 · PDF PAGE 82
…tself to any musical problem that may be set before him. This technique of Yoga is the most important detail of ail our work. The Master Therion has been himself somewhat to blâme in representing this technique as of value simply because it leads to the great rewards, such as Samadhi. He would hâve been wiser to base His teaching solely on the ground of évolution. But probably He thought of the words of the poet : UY ou dangle a canot in front of her no se. And she go es wherever the canot go es For, after ail, one cannot explain the necessity …
1930 · PDF PAGE 67
…ritual operations whose sanctity demanded some such symbolic veil as the cryptographie use of the language of the laboratory. The Master Therion is sanguine that his présent réduction of ail cases of the art of Magick to a single formula will both elucidate and vindicate Alchemy, while extending chemistry to cover ail classes of Change. There is an obvious condition which limits our proposed operations. This is that, as the formula of any Work eflfects the extraction and visualization of the Truth from any “First Matter”, the “Stone” or “Elixir…
1930 · PDF PAGE 46
…n. -i. It might lead one to underrate the influence of a hostile figure, or to neglect altogether some element of importance. The Master Therion has known cases where the diviner was so afraid of an unfavourable answer that he made actual mistakes in the simple mechanical construction of the figure! Finally, in the i. Practice soon teaches one to count subconsciously.yes, and that is the other difficulty again! — i66 —•
1930 · PDF PAGE 44
…revent the slighest interférence with them by any alien Will. It is, in fact, commonly the case, or so says the expérience of The Master Therion, that the most promising Magicians are the most déplorable diviners, and vice versa. It is only when the aspirant approaches perfection that he becomes able to reconcile these two apparently opposing faculties. Indeed, there is no surer sign of all-round success than this ability to put the whole of one’s powers at the service of any type of task. With regard to the mind, again, it would seem that conc…
1930 · PDF PAGE 6
…mess with diseases which may hâve been sent to the sufferer for a purpose profoundly important to his welfare. In the case af The Master Therion, he h ad originally the capacity for ail classes of Orgia. In the beginnmg, He cured the sick, bewitched the obstinate, allured the seductive, routed the aggressive, made himself invisible, and generaliy behaved like a Young-Man-About-Town on every possible plane. He would afflict one vampire with a Sending of Cats, and appoint another his private Enchantress, neither aware of any moral oxymoron, nor h…
1930 · PDF PAGE 26
…o the brain, the attention is withdrawn from them, and the man begins to see through the Astral eyes. These methods appear to The Master Therion to be unsatisfactory. Very often they do not work at ail. It is difficult to teach a person to use these methods; and, worst of ali, they are purely passive! You can see only what is shewn you, and you are probably shewn things perfectly pointless and irrelevant. The proper metnod is as followsi — Devciop the body oi Liglil until îî is jiisl ns real to y ou as your otlier body. teacli it îo travel to a…
1930 · PDF PAGE 77
…at your operations hâve influenced the course of events is only to be assessed by the application of the Laws of probability. The Master Therion would not accept any one single case as conclusive, however improbable it might be. A man might make a correct guess at one chance in ten million, no less than at one in three. If one pick up a pebble, the chance was infinitely great against that particular pebble; yet whichever one was chosen, the same chance “came off”. It requires a sériés of events antecedently unlikely to deduce that design is a w…
1930 · PDF PAGE 55
… the household of Art. Art thus progresses in perception and power by increased control or automatic accuracy of its details. The Master Therion has made an Epoch in the Art of Magick by applying the Method of Science to its problems. His Work is a contribution of unique value, comparable only to that of those men of genius who revolutionized the empirical guess- work of “natural philosophers”. The Magicians of to-morrow will be armed with mathematical theory, organized observation, and experimentally- verified practice. But their Art will rema…