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Page 1 of 11930 · PDF PAGE 54
…arguments of Aristotle were dépendent on the atmospheric pressure which prevented his blood from boiling away. Tliere is notiiing in the universe wliicli does not influence every otlier thing in one way or another. There is no reason in Nature why the apparently chance combinations of half-a-dozen sticks oï tortoise-shell should not be so linked both with the human mind and with the entire structure of the Universe that the observation of their fall should not enable us to rneasure ail things in heaven and earth. With one piece of curved glass …
1930 · PDF PAGE 74
…ture are wild beasts; they must be tamed, trained to the saddle and the bridle; they will bear you well. There is nothing useless in the Universe: do not wrap up your Talent in a napkin, because it is only “dirty money”! With regard to Pacts, they are rarely lawful. There should be no bargain struck. Magick is not a trade, and no hucksters need apply. Master everything, but give generouslv to your servants, once they hâve unconditionally submitted. There is also the question of alliances with various Powers. These again are hardly ever allowabl…
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…n fact, some Systems of shorthand hâve done so. But a System of symbols suitable for divination must be a complété représentation of the Universe, 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 u…
1930 · PDF PAGE 71
…m a defect of understanding. Until tlie Great Work lias been performed, it is presumptuous for the magician to prétend to understand the universe, and dictate its policy. Only the Master of the Temple can say whether any given act is a crime. “Slay that innocent child?” (I hear the ignorant say) “What a horror!” “Ah!” replies the Knower, with foresight of history, “but that child will become Nero. Hasten to strangle him!” lhere is a third, above these, who understands that Nero was as necessary as Julius Caesar. The Master of the Temple accordi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 3
…ceremony, and proves tliat it is necessary to perform it and to sncceed in its performance. He then takes an oath before the Lord of the Universe (not before the particular Lord whom he is invoking) as if to call Him to witness to the act. He swears solemnly that he will perform it — that nothing shall prevent him from performing it — that he will not leave the operation until it is successfully performed — and once again he strikes upon the bell. Yet, having demonstrated himself in that position at once infinitely lofty and infinitely unimport…
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 15
… 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 sonie hostile force is at …
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
…hed; every day spent on it adds new ornaments. The Qabalah is therefore a living Temple of the Holy Ghost. It is the man himseif and his universe expressed in terms of thought whose 1. Both these subjects may be studied in the Equinox in several articles appearing in several numbers. 2. It is easy to teach the General Princi.ples of exegesis, and the main doctrines. There is a vast body of knowledge common to ail cases; but this is no more than the basis on which the student must erect his original Research. 159 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 35
… one is doing, and to be sure that one is acting wisely. Acute sensitiveness is always associated with genius; the power to perceive the universe accurately, to analyse, coordinate, and judge impressions is the foundation of ail great Work. An army is but a blundering brute unless its intelligence department Works as it should. The Magician obtains the transcendental knowledge necessary to an intelligent course of conduct directly in consciousness by clairvoyance and clairaudience; but communication with superior — 155
1930 · PDF PAGE 61
… incarna¬ tion; a real renewal of body and brain, than content himself with a stagnant immortality upon this mote in the Sunlight of the Universe which we call earth ? 1. The Lance and the Graal are fïrstly dedicated to the Holy Spirit of Life, in Silence. The Bread and Wine are then fermented and manifested by vibration, and received by the Virgin Mother. The éléments are then intermingled and consumed after the Epiphany of Iacchus, when “Countenance beholdeth Countenance”. 2. J. K. Huysmans, who was afraid of them, and tried to betray the lit…
1930 · PDF PAGE 38
…ook of the science is to be found in Equinox I, II. The objection to its use lies in the limited number of the symbols. To represent the Universe by no more than 16 combinations throws too much work upon them. There is also a great restriction arising from the fact that although 15 symbols appear in the final figure, there are, in reality, but 4, the remaining 11 being drawn by an inéluctable process from the “Mothers”. It may be added that the tables given in the handbook for the interprétation of the figure are exceedingly vague on the one ha…
1930 · PDF PAGE 31
…esired. In Liber 418 an example of perfection is given. The Adept who explored these Aethyrs did not hâve to pass through and beyond the Universe, the whole of which yet lies within even the inmost (30th) Aethyr. He was able to summon the Aethyrs he wanted, and His chief difficulty was that sometimes I. The Hon. Bertrand Russell’s Princifia Mathemcitica may be said to “lie beyond” Colenso’s School Arithmetic; but one can take the former book from one’s shelves — as every one should — and read it without first going ail through the latter again.
1930 · PDF PAGE 24
…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 prove that I was deceiving myself m supposing that I had passed through the roof. This body, which is called by varions authors the Astral double, body of Light, body of fire, body …
1930 · PDF PAGE 52
…rom the oldest prophet with his “literally-inspired word of God” to the newest German professor with his single-track explanation of the Universe) lies in trying to prove too much, in defending themselves against critics by stretch- ing a propably excellent theorv to mclude ail the facts and th^ fables, until it bursts like the overblown bladder it is. Divination is no more than a rough and ready practical method which we understand hardly at ail, and operate only as empincs. Success for the best diviner alive is no more certain m any particula…
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
…the solar-phallic-hermetic “Lucifer” is His own Holy Guardian Angel, and “The Devil” Satan or Hadit of our particular unit of the Starry Universe. This serpent, Satan, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade “Know Thyself!” and taught Initiation. He is “the Devil” of the Book of Thoth, and His emblem is Baphomet, the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection. The number of His Atu is xv, which is Yod Hé, the Monogram of the Eternal, the Father one with the Mother, the Virgin Seed one …
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 …