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…y even of such safeguards. 24. Ail this being perfected, so that the memory reaches back into aeons incalculably distant, let the Exempt Adept meditate upon the fruitlessness of ail those years, and upon the fruit thereof, severing that which is transitory and worthless from that which is eternal. And it may be that he being but an Exempt Adept may hold ali to be savourless and full of sorrow. 25. This being so, without réluctance will he swear the Oath of the Abyss. 26. Second Method. — Let the Exempt Adept, fortified by the practice of the fi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 118
…on which close analysis will dispel. 13. Having begun to train his brain in this manner and obtained some little success, let the Exempt Adept, seated in his Asana, think first of his présent attitude, next of the act of being seated, next of his entering the room, next of his robing, etc. exactly as it happened. And let him most strenuously endeavour to think each act as happening backwards. It is not enough to think, “I am seated here, and before that I was standing, and before that I entered the room”, etc. That sériés is the trick detected …
1930 · PDF PAGE 116
fall altogether from the Tree o£ Life and to attain the Towers of the Black Brothers. But We hold that this is not possible for any adept who has truly attained his grade, or even for any rrian who has really sought to help humanity even for a single second x, and that although his aspiration hâve been impure through vanity or any similar imperfections. 5. Let then the Adept who finds the resuit of these méditations unsatisfactory refuse the Oath of the Abyss, and live so that his Karma gains strength and direction suitable to the task at some …
1930 · PDF PAGE 115
…t.) o. This book is not intended to lead to the suprême attainment. On the contrary, its results define the separate being of the Exempt Adept from the rest of the Universe, and discover his relation to the Universe.1 1. It is of such importance to the Exempt Adept that We cannot overrate it. Let him in no wise adventure the plunge into the Abyss until he has accomplished this to his most perfect satisfaction. 2 2. For in the Abyss no effort is anywise possible. The Abyss is passed by virtue of the mass of the Adept and his Karma. Two forces im…
1930 · PDF PAGE 119
…e becomes almost mechanical, upon the way in which effects spring from causes. This aids the mind to link its memories, and préparés the adept for the preliminary practice of the second method. 20. Having allowed the mind to return for some hundred times to the hour of birth, it should be encouraged to endeavour to penetrate beyond that period. 1 If it be properly trained to run backwards, there will be little difficulty in doing this, although it is one of the distinct steps in the practice. 21. It may be then that the memory will persuade the…
1930 · PDF PAGE 117
….*.) from which you descended, joining Works (Kamma) to the Sacred Reason (the Tao)”. io. The Resuit of the Second Method is to show the Adept to what end his powers are destined. When he has passed the Abyss and becomes Nemo, the return of the current causes him ato appear in the Heaven of Jupiter as a morning star or as an evening star” 1 In other words he should discover what may be the nature of his work. Thus Mohammed was a Brother reflected into Netzach, Buddha a Brother reflected into Hod, or, as some say, Daath. The présent manifestatio…
1930 · PDF PAGE 122
… times powerful. The springs would imply considérable skill in metals; the varnish much attainment in that craft. 35* Similarly, let the adept consider of his own case. Now that he is on the point of plunging into the Abyss a giant Why ? confronts him with uplifted club. 3 b. There is no minutest atom of his composition which can be withdrawn without making him some other than he is; no useless moment in his past. Then what is his future ? The “Victoria” is not a wagon; it is not intended for carting hay. It is not a sulky; it is useless in tro…
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LIBER XXXVI THE STAR SAPPHIRE. Let the Adept be armed with his Magick Rood [and provided with his mystic Rose]. In the centre, let him give the L.V.X. signs; or if he know them, if he will and dare do them, and can keep silent about them, the signs of N.O.X. being the signs of Puer, Vir, Puella, Mulier. Omit the sign I.R. Then let him advance to the East and make the Holy Hexagram, saying: Pater et Mater unus deus Ararita. Let him go round to the South, make the Holy Plexagram. and say: Mater et Filins unus deus Ararita. Let him go round to the…
1930 · PDF PAGE 102
…ere any true love below the Veil of the Abyss. For this reason we give this method to the Philoso¬ phus, as the reflection of the Exempt Adept, who reflects the Magister Templi and the Magus. Let then the Philosophus attain this Method as a foundation of the higher Methods to be given to him when he attains those higher grades. 402
1930 · PDF PAGE 92
…even so it is best to keep to the Wand and the Cup, and if one must choose, the Cup. For the'Robes, that of a Philosophus, or that of an Adept Within is most suitable3 or the robe best fitted for the service of the particular Deity, as a bassara for Bacchus, a white robe for Vesta. So also for Vesta, one might use for instrument the Lampj or the sickle, for Chronos. 10. Concernlng the Incense and Libations. — The incense should follow the nature of the particular Deity, as, mastic for Mercury, dittany for Persephone. Also the libations, as, a d…
1930 · PDF PAGE 99
… logic are many men destroyed. Moreover, there are those who take the image for the God; as who should say, my heart is in Tiphereth, an Adeptus is in Tiphereth; I am therefore an adept. And in this practice the worst danger is this, that the love which is its weapon should fail in one of two ways. First, if the love lack any quality of love, so long is it not idéal love. For it is written of the Perfected One: “There is no member of my body which is not the member of some god.” Therefore — 399 ~ * 7