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…on. 2. In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth, and the Paths, of Spirits and Conjurations ; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether they exist or not. By doing certain things certain results follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophie validity to any of them. 3. The advantages to be gained from them are chiefly these: (a) A widening of the horizon of the mind. (b) An improvement of the control of the mind. 4. The student, if he a…
1930 · PDF PAGE 133
…ld 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. I am …
1930 · PDF PAGE 131
…vail thee in this; for from the dust shall a white ash be prepared by Hermes the Invisible. 17. And this is the wrath of God, that these things should be thus. 18. And this is the grâce of God, that these things should be thus. 19. Wherefore 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 …
1930 · PDF PAGE 121
…e spécifie gravity and other physical properties of water, and let him perceive ultimately through ail this the necessity and concord of things, not concord as the school- men of old believed, making ail things for man’s benefit or convenience, but the essential mechanical concord whose final law is inertie. And in these méditations let him avoid as if it were the plague any spéculations sentimental or fantastic. 32. Second Method. The Practice Proper. — Having then perfected in his mind these conceptions, let him apply them to his own career, …
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Thou, centre and secret of the Sun, Thou, hidden spring of ail things known And unknown, Thou aloof, alone, Thou, the true fire within the reed Brooding and breeding, source and seed Of life, love, liberty and light, Thou beyond speech and beyond sight, Thee I invoke, 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…
1930 · PDF PAGE 44
…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, pressing forward to embrace every image ; for there is none that is not very Isis. The Inmost is one with the Inmostj yet the form of the One is not the form of the otherj intimacy exacts fitness. He therefore who liveth by air, let him not be bold to breathe water. But mastery cometh by measure: to him who with labour, courage, and caut…
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…. (THE PRINCIPLES) The DEACON. Mysterious energy triform, mysterious Matter, in fourfold and sevenfold division ; the interplay of which things weave the dance of the Veil of Life upon the Face of the Spirit, let there be harmony and beauty in your mystic loves, that in us may be health and wealth and strength and divine pleasure according to the Law of Liberty; let each pursue his Will as a strong man that rejoiceth in his way, as the course of a Star that blazeth for ever among the joyous company of Heaven. The PEOPLE. So mote it be. (BIRTH) …
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
… Ascertain for how long you can keep silence. 8. Investigate any other capacities and aptitudes which may occur to you. 9. Let ail these things be carefully and conscientiously recordedj for according to your powers will it be demanded of you. VIL A Course of Reading. 1. The object of most of the foregoing practices will not at first be clear to you; but at least (who will deny it?) they hâve trained you in détermination, accuracy, introspection, and many other qualities which are valuable to ail men in their ordinary avocations, so that in no …
1930 · PDF PAGE 104
Nevertheless, forget not that this practice is dangerous, and may cause the manifestation of evil things, hostile and malicious, to thy great hurt. 45. Concerning a further sacrifice. — Of this it shall be under- stood that nothing is to be spoken; nor need anything be spoken to him that hath wisdom to comprehend the number of the para- graph. And this sacrifice is fatal beyond all,unless it be a sacrificium indeed. Yet there are those who hâve dared and achieved thereby. 46. Concerning yet a further sacrifice. — Here it is spoken of actual mut…
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…s, right foot poised on its toes, the heel covering the phallus 5 arms stretched out over the knees 3 head and back straight. 7. Various things will happen to you while you are practising these positions j they must be carefully analysed and described. 8. Note down the duration of practice j the severity of the pain (if any) which accompanies it, the degree of rigidity attained, and any other pertinent matters. 9. When you hâve progressed up to the point that a saucer filled to the brim with water and poised upon the head does not spill one dro…
1930 · PDF PAGE 128
… 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 —
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…fallest not. 6. Only in the end shalt thou give up thy sap when the great God F.I.A.T. is enthroned on the day of Be-With-Us. 7. For two things are done and a third thing is begun. Isis and Osiris are given over 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 li…
1930 · PDF PAGE 120
…ined his will, and trace out that in similar fashion; and let this process be continued for many days until the inter- dependence of ail things is a truth assimilated in his inmost being. 420
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…speech the PRIESTESS must hâve divesied her self completely of her robey See CCXX.1.61. The PRIESTESS. But to love me is better than ail things: if under the night-stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt corne a little to lie in my bosom. For one
1930 · PDF PAGE 102
…re. This method is harder and higher than that of Liber E. For a simple object as there suggested is of the same nature as the commonest things of life, while even the meanest Deity is beyond uninitiated human understanding. On the same plane, too, Venus is nearer to man than Aphrodite, Aphrodite than Isis, Isis than Babalon, Babalon than Nuit. Let him décidé therefore according to his discrétion on the one hand and his aspiration on the other ; and let not one overrun his fellow. 42. Further concerning the value of this Method. — Certain objec…
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…he 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. Yet not to the interférence with natural bodily health, whereby the instrument of the soûl might be impaired. And concerning sacrifices for love’s sake, they are natural to this Method, and right. But concerning voluntary privations and tortures, without use save as against the devotee, they are generally not natural to…
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…resh complexities and organizations, each with its own peculiar powers and pleasures, each pursuing its path through the world where ail things are possible. It revealed the omniprésence of Hadit identical with Himself, yet fulfilling Himself by dividing his interplay with Nuit into épisodes, each form of his energy isolated with each aspect of Her receptivity, delight developing delight continuous from complex to complex. It was the voice of Nature awakening at the dawn of the Aeon, as Aiwaz uttered the Word of the Law of Thelema. 343
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…a décoc¬ tion of nightshade for Melancholia, or of Indian hemp for Uranus. 11. Concernlng the harmony of the ceremonies: — Let ail these things be rightly considered, and at length, in language of the utmost beauty at the command of the Philosophus, accom- panied, if he has skill, by music, and interwoven, if the particular Deity be jocund, with dancing. And ail being carefully prepared and rehearsed let it be practised daily until it be wholly rhythmical with his aspirations, and as it were, a part of his being. 12. Concernlng the variety of t…
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…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 or those things which these shadow forth. Herein is silence j for he that hath rightly performed the méditation will understand the innei mean- ing hereof, and it shall serve as a test of himself and his fellows. 9. Let him now remain in the Pyramid or Cône of Light, as an Egg, but no more of blackness. 10. Then let his body be in the position of the Hanged Man, and let him aspire with ail his force unto the Holy Guard…
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…ith its Becoming, to médiate between identical extremes as their mean — the secret that sunders and seals them. It déclarés that ail somethings are equally shadows of Mothing, and justifies Nothing in its futile folly of pretending that something is stable, by making us aware of a method of Magick through the practice of which we may partake in the pleasure of the process. The Magician should devise for himself a definite technique for destroving “evil”. The essence of such a practice will consist in training the mind and the body to confront t…