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…ness half an inch. Let the Néophyte by his understanding and ingenium devise a symbol to represent the Universe. Let his Zelator approve thereof. Let the Néophyte engrave the same upon his plate with his own h and and weapon. Let it when finished be consecrated as he hath skill to perform, and kept wrapped in silk of emerald green. The Dagger. Let the Zelator take a piece of pure Steel, and beat it, grind it, sharpen it, and polish it, according to the art of the swordsmith. Let him further take a piece of oak wood, and carve a hilt. The length…
1930 · PDF PAGE 136
… the diameter 3 inches. Let him by his understanding and ingenium devise a Number to represent the Universe. Let his Philosophus approve thereof. Let the Practicus engrave the same upon his cup with his own hand and instrument. Let it when finished be consecrated as he hath skill to perform, and kept wrapped in silk of azure blue. Let the Philosophus take a rod of copper, of length eight inches and diameter half an inch. Let him fashion about the top a triple flame of gold. Let him by his understanding and ingenium devise a Deed to represent th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 130
… the Abyss. 6. And because there is no life therein, the guardian of the Abyss shall bid 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 Inf…
1930 · PDF PAGE 131
…fore I charge you that ye corne unto me in the Beginning; for if ye take but one step in this Path, ye must arrive inevitably at the end thereof. 20. This Path is beyond Life and Death; it is also beyond Love, but that ye know not, for ye know not Love. 21. And the end thereof is known not even unto Our Ladv, J s nor to the Beast whereon She rideth, nor unto the Virgin her daughter, nor unto Chaos her lawful Lord; but unto the Crowned Child is it known ? It is not known if it be known. 22. Therefore unto Hadit and unto Nuit be the glory in the …
1930 · PDF PAGE 124
…ifted from Him. 14. Let Him beware of abstinence from action. For the curse of His grade is that he must speak Truth, that the Faisehood thereof may enslave the soûls of men. Let Him then utter that without Fear, that the Law may be fulfilled. And according to His Original Nature will that law be shapen, so that one may déclaré gentleness and quietness, being an Hindu- and another fierceness and servility, being a Jew; and yet another ardour and manüness, bemg an Arab. Y et this matter toucheth the mystery of Incarnation, and is not here to be …
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… shall résolve it into cohérent and intelligible symbols, and he shall hear the articulate utterance of that Fire, interpret the thunder thereof as a still small voice in his heart. And the Fire shall reveal to his eyes his own image in its own true glorv; and it shall speak in his ears the Mystery that is his own right Name. This then is the virtue of the Magick of The Beast 666, and the canon of its proper usage: to destroy the tendency to discriminate between any two things in theory, and in practice to pierce the veils of every sanctuary, p…
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…Repeat the Cross Qabalistic, as above, and end as thou didst begin. I. The secret sense of these words is to be sought in the numération thereof. — 327
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…mself towards the left, and pace with the stealth and swiftness of a tiger the precincts of his circle, until he complété one révolution thereof. 3. Let him give the Sign of Horus (or The Enterer) as he passeth, so to project the force that radiateth from Boles¬ kine before him. 4. Let him pace his path until he cornes to the North; there let him hait, and turn his face to the North. 5. Let him trace with his wand the Averse Pentagram proper to invoke Air (Aquarius). 6. Let him bring the wand to the centre of the Pentagram and call upon NUIT ! …
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…nd worship unto Thee, Sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree! (These words are to jorm the substance of the anthem; but the whole or any fart thereof shall be set to musicy which may be as elaborate as art can. But even should other mthems be authorised by the Father of the Church, this shall hold its place as the first of its kindy the father of ail other s b) VIII. Of the Mystic Marriage and Consummation of the Eléments. (The PRIEST takes the Paten between the index and médius of the right hand. The PRIESTESS clasps the Cup in her right hand b) Th…
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…t 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
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…f the Magick of Light. Also that the Temple should be ceremonially open as thou hast knowledge and skill to perform, and that at the end thereof the closing should be most carefully accomplished. But in the preliminary practice it is enough to cleanse thyself by ablution, by robing, and by the rituals of the Pentagram and Hexagrarm 0-2 should be practised at first, until some réalisation is obtained; and the practice should always be followed by a divine invocation of Apollo or of Isis or of Jupiter or of Serapis. Next, after a swift summary of…
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…eaches 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 first method, enter the preliminary practice of the second method. 27. Second M…
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…ay be omitted. It is by virtue of this completeness that no human love may in a 113/ way attain to more than to foreshadow a little part thereof. 34. Concerning Mortifications. — These are not necessary to this method. On the contrary, they may destroy the concentration, as counter-irritants to, and so alleviations of, the suprême mortifi¬ cation which is the Absence of the Deity invoked. Yet as in mortal love arises a distaste for food, or a pleasure in things naturally painful, this perversion should be endured and allowed to take its course.…
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…t if thou wert in truth a lover, ail this wouldst thou do of thine own nature without the slightest 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 …
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…such ritual as may seem him best. And let ail be done with intensity and minuteness. 8. Concerning the feriod of dévotion, and the hours thereof: — Let a fixed period be set for the worship ; and it is said that the least time is nine days by seven, and the greatest seven years by nine. And concerning the hours, let the Ceremony be performed 391
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… 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 the healing dew be of such virtue that he leapeth to his feet. 8. Let there be now placed within his egg a red cross, then a green cross, then a golden cross, then a silver cross j …
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… his walks. Let him repeat a sacred sentence (mantra) or let him count, in such a way that his footfall beats accurately with the rhythm thereof, as is done in dancing. Then let him practise Pranayama, at first without the Kumbhakam, and paying no atten¬ tion to the nostrils otherwise than to keep them clear. Let him begin by an indrawing of the breath for 4 paces, and a breathing out for 4 paces. Let him increase this gradually to 6.6, 8.8, 12.12, 16.16 and 24.24, or more if he be able. Next let him practise in the proper proportion 4.8, 6.12,…
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… water among the greater hills and the lesser hills and through the ramparts of the hills and through the plains, and water at the mouth thereof when it leaps forth into the mighty sea, yea, into the mighty sea. (The Interprétation of this Book will be given to members of the Grade of Dominus Liminis on application, each to his Adeptus.) 4.34
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…ive that sublimely stupendous outrage to Reason, the Cône! Utterly inscrutable to him, he is yet well aware that he exists in the nature thereof, that he is necessary thereto, that he is ordered thereby, and that therefrom he is sprung, frcm the loins of so fearful a Father! His own infinity becomes zéro in relation to that of the least fragment of the solid. He hardly exists at ail. Trillions multiplied by trillions of trillions of such as he coula not cross the frontier even of breadth, the idea which he came to guess at only because he felt …