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Page 1 of 11930 · PDF PAGE 52
…on and answer are limited in validity by their own conditions 3 and these conditions are such that truth may cease to be true, either as time goes on, or if it be flawed by the defect of failure to considei some circum- stances whose concealed operation cancels the contract. In a word, divination, like any other science, is justified of its children. It would be extraordinary should so fertile a mother be immune from still-births, monstrosities, and abomons. We none of us dismiss our servant science with a kick and a curse every time the téléph…
1930 · PDF PAGE 26
…ling the two, you begin by imagining a shape resem- bÜng yourself standing in front of you. Do not say: “Oh, it’s only imagination!” lhe time to test that is later on, when you hâve secured a fairly ciear mental image of such a body. T'ry to ima¬ gine how your own body would look if you were standing in its place j try to transfer your consciousness to the Body of Light. Your own body has its eyes shut. Use the eyes of the Body of Light to describe the objects in the room behind you. Don’t say, “It’s only an effort of subconscious memory”...the…
1930 · PDF PAGE 33
is man. In man are ail things hidden, Of these the Gods, Nature, Time, ail the powers of the universe are rebellions slaves. It is these that men must fight and conquer in the power and in the name of the Beast that hath availed them, the Titan, the Magus, the Man whose number is six hundred and three score and six. III Ihe practice of Rising on the Planes is of such importance that spécial attention must be paid to it. It is part of the essential tech¬ nique of Magick. Instruction in this practice has been given with such conciseness in Liber …
1930 · PDF PAGE 30
… types, but are ail distinguished by a reality and intensitv to be found nowhere else. Their inhabitants are formless, free of space and time, and distinguished by incomparable brilliance. There are also a number of sub-planes, as, for example, the Alchemical. This plane wiil often appear in the practice of uRising on the Planes” ; its images are usually those of gardens curiously kept, mountains furnished with peculiar symbols, hiero- glyphic animais, or such figures as that of the aHermetic Arcanum”, and pictures like the “Goldseekers” and th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 10
…tion. 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 when the idea of exercising that will fails to occur \ Inhibition is no longer possible or even thinkable, and the whole heing of the Magician, no minutes! atom saying nay, is irresistibly fJung forth. In blinding light, amid the roar of ten thousand thunders, the Union of God and man is consummated. If the Magician is stiJl seen standing in the Circle, quietly pursuing his invocations, it is that…
1930 · PDF PAGE 14
It may be that tiie place or time is wrong. One cannot easily evoke water-spirits in the Sahara, or salamanders in the English Lake District. Hismael will not readily appear when Jupiter is below the horizon. 1 2 In order to counteract a natural deficiency of this sort, one would hâve to supply a sufficient quantity of the proper kind of material. One cannot make bricks without straw. With regard to invocations of the Gods, such considérations do not apply. The Gods are beyond most material conditions. It is necessarv to hll the heart and mïnd …
1930 · PDF PAGE 27
of an hour’s journey you can reckon on having a fairly eventful time, turn your attention to rcaching a definite place on the astral plane j invoke Mercury, for example, and examine carefully your record of the resulting vision — discover whether the symbols which you hâve seen correspond with the conventional symbols of Mercury. Tliis iesting of the spirits is the most important branch of tlie whoïe tree of Magick. Without it, one is lost in the jungle of delusion. Every spirit, up to God himself, is ready to deceive you if possible, to make h…
1930 · PDF PAGE 20
…dition of progress to build up ideas into the subconscious. The necessity of sélection should therefore be obvious. True, there cornes a time when ail éléments soever must be thus assimilated. Samadhi is, by définition, that very process. But, from the point of view of the young magician, there is a right wav — strait and difficult •— of performing ail this. One cannot too frequently repeat that what is lawful and proper to one Path is alien to another. Immediately after the License to Départ, and the general closing up of the work,it is necess…
1930 · PDF PAGE 38
… this System admirable, and obtain great satisfaction from its use. Once more, the personal équation must be allowed full weight. At one time the Master Therion employed it exten- sivelyj but He was never wholly at ease with it 5 He found the 1. Nearly ail professional astrologers are ignorant of their own sub- ject, as of ail others. 158 -
1930 · PDF PAGE 28
…ditional 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 dépends upon the develop¬ ment of that Body of Light. It must be furnished with an organism as ramified and balanced as its shadowy brother, the material body. To recapitulate once more, then, the first task is to develop your own Body of Light within your own circle with out reference to any other…
1930 · PDF PAGE 40
…aration 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 intimate that the existence of two such superficially different Systems is transcendent testimony to the truth of hoth. It is in some ways the most perfect hieroglyph ever …
1930 · PDF PAGE 46
…ake sure only of not stopping too soon.1 The lines being traced, the operation is over as far as spiritual qualifies are required, for a time. The process of setting up the figure for judgment is purely mechanical. But, in the judgment, the diviner stands once more in need of his mmost and utmost attainments. He sbould exhaust tlie infcellectual sources of information at Iiis disposai, and form from them his jodgment. But having done this, lie should deîacli Iiis mind from wliat it lias just formulated, and proceed to concentrate it on tlie fig…
1930 · PDF PAGE 21
… your teacher can judge how it is best to help you. Your magical teacher has something else to do besides running around .er you ail the time, and.the most important of ail his functions is that of auditor. Now, if you call in an auditor to investigate a business, and when he asks for the books you tell him that you hâve not thought it worth while to keep any, you need not be surprised if he thinks 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…
1930 · PDF PAGE 45
…uld vitiate the experiment entirely. It is, in fact, one of the objections to geomancy that sooner or later one does become aware at the time of tracing them whether the dots are going to be even or odd. This needs a spécial training to correct). Physio-psychological theory will probably maintain that the “automatic” action of the hand is controlled by the brain no less than in the case of conscious volition; but this is an additional argument for identiiying the brain with the intelligence invoked. Having thus identified himself as closely as …
1930 · PDF PAGE 32
…d 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 time hâve been separate, — that would be the case with great heat. Now when atoms get to the sun, when we get to the sun, we get that immense, extreme heat, and ail the éléments are themselves again. Imagine that each atom of each element possesses the memory of ail his adventures in combination. By the way, that atom — 152 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 81
… 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 competent to 1. Some few forms of exercise are exempt from these strictures. Rock- climbing, in particular, trains every muscle in an endless variety of ways. It moreover compels t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 78
… Angel to shape one’s circumstances with skill. If one be but absorbed in the ardour of one’s aspiration toward Him, short indeed is the time before Expérience instils the certain conviction that His Works and His ways are inhnitely apt to one’s needs. 2. See Rituel et Dogme de la Haute Magie; Rituel, ch. XIII.
1930 · PDF PAGE 77
…make a break of a few strokes. But chance cannot account for consistent success, even if moderate, when it extends over a long period of time. And the ability of the expert to “name his shot” manifests a knowledge of the relations of cause and effect which confirms the testimony of his empirical skill that his success is not chance and coincidence. 2. This cynical statement is an absurdity of Black Magic. ï97 —