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…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 West, make the Holy Hexagram and say Fil-ius et F ilia unus deus Ararita. Let him go round to the North, make the Holy Hexagram and then say: F ilia et Pater unus deus Ararita. Let him then return to the Centre, and so to The Centre…
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…voke, my faint fresh fire Kindling as mine intents aspire. Thee I invoke, abiding one, Thee, centre and secret of the Sun, And that most holy mystery Of which the vehicle am I. Appear, most awful and most mild, As it is lawful, in thy child! The CHORUS: For of the Father and the Son The Holy Spirit is the norm; Male-female, quintessential, one, Man-being veiled in woman-form. Glory and worship in the highest, Thou Dove, mankind that deifiest, Being that race, most royally run, To spring sunshine through winter storm. Glory and worship be to The…
1930 · PDF PAGE 133
…ghtfold Word that shall be equilibrated with the Three. *9- There is no act or passion that shall not be an hymn in mine honour. 20. Ail holy things and ail symbolic things shall be my sacraments. 21. These animais are sacred unto me 5 the goat, and the duck, and the ass, and the gazelle, the man, the woman and the child. 22. Ail corpses are sacred unto me3 they shall not be touched save in mine eucharist. Ail lonely places are sacred unto me; where one man gathereth himself together in my name, there will I leap forth in the midst of him. 23. …
1930 · PDF PAGE 65
…and harsh. 13. At the end shalt thou rise and stand in the mid-heaven, a globe of glory. And therewith shall arise the mighty Sound that holy men hâve likened unto the roaring of a Lion. 14. Then shalt thou withdraw thyself from the Vision, gathering thyself into the divine form of Osiris upon his throne. 15. Then shalt thou repeat audibly the cry of triumph of the god re-arisen, as it shall hâve been given unto thee by thy Superior. 16. And this being accomplished, thou mayest enter again into the Vision, that thereby shall be perfected in The…
1930 · PDF PAGE 126
…sign of silence, and afterward thou shalt perform the adoration that is taught thee by thy Superior. And then do thou compose Thyself to holy méditation. 6. Also it is better if in these adorations thou assume the God-form of Whom thou adorest, as if thou didst unité with Him in the adoration of That which is beyond Him. 7- Thus shalt thou ever be mindful of the Great Work which thou hast undeitaken to perform? and thus shalt thou be strengthened to pursue it unto the attainment of the Stone of the Wise? the Summum Bonum? True Wisdom and Terfec…
1930 · PDF PAGE 63
…eath, who covers him with a black cross. Let his body fall supine with arms outstretched. 6. So lying, let him aspire fervently unto the Holy Guardian Angel. 7. Now let him résumé his former posture. Two and twenty times shall he figure to himself that he is bitten by a serpent, feeling even in his body the poison thereof, And let each bite be healed by an eagle or hawk, spreading its wings above his head, and dropping thereupon a healing dew. But let the last bite be so terrible a pang at the nape of the neck that he seemeth to die, and let th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 62
…TIONS AUTHORISED BY THE A. % A. •. LIBER HHH SUB FIGURA CCCXLI. CONTINET CAPITULA TRIA: MMM, A AA, ET SSS. I. MMM. “I remember a certain holy day in the dusk of the Year, in the dusk of the Equinox of Osiris, when first I beheld thee visibly; when first the dreadful issue was fought out$ when the Ibis-headed One charmed away the strife. I remember thy first kiss, even as a maiden should. Nor in the dark byways was there another: thy kisses abide.” — Liber Lapidis Lazuli. vu. 15. 16. o. Be seated in thine Asana, wearing the robe of a Néophyte, t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 129
…eth in thy brain. Thus bind thyself, and thou shalt be for ever free. I. For instance, let A be a man of strong passions, skilled in the Holy Qabalah, a vegetarian, and a keen “reactionary” politician. Let B be a bloodless and ascetic thinker, occupied with business and family cares, an eater of méat, and a keen progressive politician. Let no thought proper to “A” arise when the ring is on the “B” finger, and vice versa. — 429
1930 · PDF PAGE 114
…jna. (6) Fix the mind on the base of the spine and then gradually move the thoughts upwards to the Ajna. (In this méditation Ajna is the Holy of Holies, but it is dark and empty.) Finally, strive hard to drive anger and other obsessing thoughts into the Ajna. Try to develop a tendency to think hard of Ajna when these thoughts attack the mind, and let Ajna conquer them. Beware of thinking of aMy Ajna”. In these méditations and practices, Ajna does not belong to y ou; Ajna is the master and worker, you are the wooden monkey. 414 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 29
…ll: I light the Flamej I utter the mysterious Name. ABRAHADABRA He strikes eleven times upon the Bell. Now I begin to pray: Th ou Child, Holy Thy name and undefiled ! Thy reign is corne ; Thy will is done. Here is the Bread; here is the Blood. Bring me through midnight to the Sun! Save me from Evil and from Good! That Thy one crown of ail the Ten Even now and here be mine. AMEN. He puts the first Cake on the Fire of the Thurible. I burn the Incense-cake, proclaim These adorations of Thy name. He makes them as in Fiber Le gis, and strikes again …
1930 · PDF PAGE 53
… about us without diminution of substance or effulgence for ever. The PEOPLE. So mote it be. (THE LORD) The DEACON. Lord secret and most holy, source of light, source of life, source of love, source of liberty, be thou ever constant and mighty within us, force of energy, fire of motion; with diligence let us ever labour with thee, that we may remain in thine abundant joy. The PEOPLE. So mote it be. (THE MOON) The DEACON. Lady of night, that turning ever about us art now visible and now invisible in thy season, be thou favourable to hunters, and…
1930 · PDF PAGE 45
…ies on each side of it. Below the stélé is a place for the Book of the Law, with six candies on each side of it. Below this again is the Holy Graal, with roses on each side of it. There is room in front of the Cup for the Paten. On each side beyond the roses are two great candies. Ail this is enclosed within a great veil. Forming the apex of an équilatéral triangle whose base is a line drawn between the pillars, is a small black square altar, of two super-imposed cubes. Taking this altar as the middle of the base of a similar and equal triangle…
1930 · PDF PAGE 104
…others, and in this case thou mayst act with tempérance, lest her personality overcome and destroy that of thy Deity. 48. Concerning the Holy Guardian Angel.'—Do thou in no wise confuse this invocation with that. 49. The Bénédiction. — And so may the love that passeth ail Understanding keep your hearts and minds through IAÜ AAONAI 2ABAQ and through BABALON of the City of the Pyramids, and through Astarté, the Starry One green-girdled, in the name ARARITA. Amen. 404 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 64
… this Egg is the Disk of the Sun, setting in the west. 10. Let it sink into blackness, borne in the bark of heaven, upon the back of the holy cow Hathor. And it may be that thou shalt hear the moaning thereof. 11. Let it become blacker than ail blackness. And in this méditation thou shalt be utterly without fear, for that the black¬ ness that will appear unto thee is a thing dreadful beyond ail thy compréhension. And it shall corne to pass that if thou hast well and properly
1930 · PDF PAGE 128
…rs. Thus bind thyself, and thou shalt be for ever free. III. o. The Ox is Thought. Man, rule thy Thought! How else shalt thou master the Holy Spirit, and answer the High Priestess in the Middle Gateway of the Crown ? 1. Here are practices. Each may last for a week or more. (a) Avoid thinking of a definite subject and ail things con- nected with it, and let that subject be one which commonly occu- pies much of thy thought, being frequently stimulated by sense- perceptions or the conversation of others. — 428 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 130
…d the angels of the winds pass by. And the angels thereof shall be no more. 7' N°w therefore that thou mayest achieve this ritual of the Holy Graal, do thou divest thyself of ail thy goods. 8. Thou hast wealth ; give it unto them that hâve need thereof, yet no desire toward it. 9. Thou hast health$ slay thyself in the fervour of thine abandonment unto Our Lady. Let thy flesh hang loose upon thy bones, and thine eyes glare with thy quenchless lust unto the Infinité, with thy passion for the Unknown, for Her that is beyond Knowledge the accursed …
1930 · PDF PAGE 54
…izedeck, Khem and Amoun and Mm tu y Heraclesy Orpheus and Odysseus; with Vergilius, CatulluSy Martialis, Rabelais, Swinburne and many an holy bard; Apollonius TyanaeuSy Simon Magus, Mânes, Pythagorasy Basilides, Valentinus, Bardesanes and Hippolytusy that transmitted the light of the Gnosis to us their succès sors and their heirs; with Merlin, Arthur, Kamuret, Parzival, and many another, prophet, priest and king, that bore the Lance and Cup, the Sword and Disk, against the Heathen, and these alsoy Carolus Magnus and his paladins, with William o…
1930 · PDF PAGE 132
…r to incest and adultery. Horus leaps up thrice armed from the womb of his mother. Harpocrates his twin is hidden within him. SET is his holy covenant, that he shall display in the great day of M.A.A.T., that is being interpreted the Master of the Temple of A .\ A whose name is Truth. 8. Now in this is the magical power known. 9. It is like the oak that hardens itself and bears up against the storm. It is weather-beaten and scarred and confident like a sea- captain. 10. Also it straineth like a hound in the leash. 11. It hath pride and great su…
1930 · PDF PAGE 108
…ice. — Let the Zelator at any time during the practices, especially during the periods of Kumbhakarn, throw his will utterly towards his Holy Guardian Angel, directing his eyes inward and upward, and turning back his tongue as if to swallow it. 1. Note that in the early stages of concentration of the mind, such annoyances become negligible. 408 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 94
…ghtest flaw or failure in the minutest part thereof. 19. Concerning the Lections. — Let the Philosophus read solely in his copies of the holy books of Thelema, during the whole period of his dévotion. But if he weary, then let him read books which hâve no part whatever in love, as for récréation. But let him copy out each verse of Thelema which bears upon this matter, and ponder them, and comment thereupon. For therein is a wisdom and a magick too deep to utter in any other wise. 20. Concerning the Méditations. — Herein is the most potent metho…