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introduced by the accidents of environment, and that his Knowledge and Conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel destroys ail doubts and delusions, confers ail blessings, teaches ail truth, and containa ail delights. But it is important that the Adept should not rest in mere inexpressible realization of his rapture, but rouse himself to make the relation submit to analysis, to render it in rational terms, and thereby enlighten his mind and heart in a sense as superior to fanatical enthusiasm as Beethoven’s music is to West African war-drums. Sect…
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…gations of his Oaths to Our Holy Order! (The Beast 666 Himself used “Ankh-f-n-khonsu” and aKhem” in this section.) The Adept reminds his Angel that He has created That One Substance of which Hermes hath written in the Table of Emerald, whose virtue is to unité in itself ail opposite modes of Being, thereby to serve as a Talisman charged with the Spiritual Energy of Existence, an Elixir or Stone composed of the physical basis of Life. This Commémoration is placed between the two Per¬ sonal appeals to the Angel, as if to claim privilège to partak…
1930 · PDF PAGE 96
…ust give time a chance to redress his balance, sore shaken by the impact of the Infinité. As he becomes adjusted to intercourse with his Angel, he will find his passionate ecstasy develop a quality of peace and intelligi- bility which adds power, while it informs and fortifies his mental and moral qualifies instead of obscuring and upsetting them. He will by now hâve become able to converse with his Angel, impossible as it once seemedj for he now knows that the storm of Sound which he supposed to be the Voice was only the clamour of his own con…
1930 · PDF PAGE 72
…e formula of Equilibrium which is now His own, being able to apply Himself accurately to His self-appointed environment. He acclaims His Angel as having laid down the Law of Love as the Magical formula of the Universe, that He may résolve the phénoménal again into its noumenal phase by uniting any two opposites in ecstasic passion. He acclaims His Angel as having appointed that this formula of Love should effect not only the dissolution of the separateness of the Lovers into His own impersonal Godhead, but their co-ordina¬ tion in a “Child” qui…
1930 · PDF PAGE 70
…réparés the circle by the usual formulæ of Banishing and Consécration, etc. He recites Section A as a rehearsal before His Holy Guardian Angel of the attributes of that Angel. Each phrase must be realized with full concentration of force, so as to make Samadhi as perfectly as possible upon the truth proclaimed. Line i He identifies his Angel with the Ain Soph, and the Kether thereof; one formulation of Hadit in the boundless Body of Nuith. Lines 2, 3, 4 He asserts that His Angel has created (for the purpose of self-realisation through projectio…
1930 · PDF PAGE 80
…e dew, where his Soûl hides trembling. He takes them to be the first formulation in his consciousness of the nature of His Holy Guardian Angel. The “Gods” include ail the conscious éléments of his nature. The “Universe” includes ail possible phenomena of which he can be aware. The “Winds” are his thoughts, which hâve prevented him from attaining to his Angel. His Angel has made “Voice”, the magical weapon which produces “Words”, and these words hâve been the wisdom by which He hath created ail things. The “Voice” is necessary as the link betwee…
1930 · PDF PAGE 67
… Soûl of Myself” (Vide Supra) “Sun-lion Serpent, hail! Ail Hail, thou Great Wild Beast, thou I AO!” “Breaths of my Soûl, breaths of mine Angel.” “Lust of my Soûl, lust of mine Angel!” (Vide Supra). “Ho for the Sangraal! Ho for the Cup of Babalon! Ho for mine Angel pouring Himself forth within my Soûl!” “The Eye! Satan, my Lord! The Lust of the Goat! ” “Mine Angel! Mine initiator! Thou one with me — the Sixfold Star! ” — 271 — IOU PUR IAFTh IAEO IOOU ABRASAX SABRIAM OO FF
1930 · PDF PAGE 84
… such that it demands to be defined by com- plementals. Thus, an hyperbola is a simple idea, but its construction exacts two curves. The Angel, as the adept knows him, is a being Tiphereth, which obscures Kether. The Adept is not officially aware of the higher Sephiroth. He cannot perceive, like the Xpsissimus, that ail things soever are equally illusion and equally Absolute. He is in Tiphereth, whose office is Rédemption, and he déplorés the events which hâve caused the apparent Sorrow from which he has just escaped. He is also aware, even in …
1930 · PDF PAGE 82
and that His Angel is indeed himself, with inti- macy so intense as to become identity, and that not in a single Ego, but in every unconscious element that shares in that manifold uprush. This rapture is accompanied by a tempest of brilliant light, almost always, and also in many cases by an outburst of sound, stupendous and sublime in ail cases, though its character may vary within wide limits. 1 The spate of stars shoots from the head of the Will-Symbol, and is scattered over the sky in glit- tering galaxies. This dispersion destroys the con¬…
1930 · PDF PAGE 81
…es his consciousness within his Twin-Symbol of Self, and endeavours to send it to sleep. But if the operation be performed properly, his Angel shall hâve accepted the offering of Dew, and seized with fervour upon the extended symbol of Will towards Himself. This then shall He shake vehementlv with vibrations of love reverberating with the Words of the Section. Even in the physical ears of the adept there shall resound an écho thereof, yet he shall not be able to describe it. It shall seem both louder than thunder, and softer than the whisper of…
1930 · PDF PAGE 94
…, yet strongly. Keep mastery over the mind by muttering forcibly and audibly. But lest such muttering tend to disturb communion with the Angel, speak only His Name. Until the Adept hâve heard that Name, therefore, he may not abide in the perfect possession of his Beloved. His most important task is thus to open his ears to the voice of his Angel, that he may know him, how he is called. For hearken! this Name, understood rightly and fully, declareth the nature of the Angel in every point, wherefore also that Name is the formula of the per¬ fecti…
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…s Babe becomes the Horus Adult by obtaining the Wand. “Der reine Thor” seizes the Sacred Lance. Bacchus becomes Pan. The Holy Guar¬ dian Angel is the Unconscious Créature Self — the Spiritual Phallus. His knowledge and Conversa¬ tion contributes occult puberty. It is therefore advisable to replace the name Asar Un-nefer by that of Ra-Hoor-Khuit at the outset, and by that of one’s own Holy Guardian Angel when it has been communicated. He hails Him as BESZ, the Matter that destroys and devours Godhead, for the purpose of the Incarnation of any Go…
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ness”. The existence of the Angel is the justifica¬ tion of the device of création. 1 Line 9. This line must be studied in the light of Liber LXV (Equinox XL p. 65). Section H, This récapitulation demands the going forth together of the Adept and his Angel ato do their pleasure on the Earth among the living.” Section J. The Beast 666 having devised the présent method of using this Ritual, having proved it by his own practice to be of infallible puissance when properly performed, and now having written it down for the World, it shall be an ornam…
1930 · PDF PAGE 93
receive a visual impression of his Angel in a physical form which is sublimely quintessential of his idéal. A musician may be rapt away by majestic mélodies such as he never hoped to hear. A philosopher may attain appréhension of tremendous truths, the solution of problems that had baffled him ail his life. Conformably with this doctrine, we read of illuminations experienced by simple-minded men, such as a workman who “saw God” and likened Him to “a quantity of little pears”. Again, we know that ecstasy, impinging upon unbalanced minds, inflame…
1930 · PDF PAGE 91
…ncentrate the necessary spiritual forces from every element, and fling them simultaneously into the aspiration towards the Holy Guardian Angel ; and (e) to attract the Angel by the vibration of the magical voice which invokes Him. The method of the Ritual is thus manifold. There is firstly an analysis of the Adept, which enables him to calculate his course of action. He can décidé what must be banished, what purified, what concentrated. He can then con¬ centrate his will upon its one essential element, over-coming its résistance — which is auto…
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… been subtly trans- figured. Such an expérience might indeed be the proof of perfection. If the Adept is to be any wise conscious of his Angel it must be that some part of his mind is prepared to réalisé the rapture, and to express it to itself in one way or another. This involves the perfection of that part, its freedom from préjudice and the limita¬ tions of rationality so-called. For instance: one could not receive the illumination as to the nature of life which the doctrine of évolution should shed, if one is passionately persuaded that hum…
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…NE) sub figura DCCC being the Ritual employed by the Beast 666 for the Attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel during the Semester of His performance of the Operation of the Sacred Magick of ABRAMELIN THE MAGE. (Prepared An XVII © in np at the Abbey of Thelema in Cephalædium by the Beast 666 in service to FRATER PROGRA- DIOR.) OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of A.-. A.-. Class D for the Grade of Adeptus Minor. — 265 —
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…nd Dharana. Adeptus (without). — Is expected to perform the Great Work and to attain the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. Adeptus (within). — Is admitted to the practice of the formula of the Rosy Cross on entering the College of the Holy Ghost. Adeptus (Major). — Obtains a general mastery of practical Magick, though without compréhension. Adeptus (Exemptus). — Complétés in perfection ail these mat- ters. He then either (a) becomes a Brother of the Left Hand Path or, (b) is stripped of ali his attainments and of him- self …
1930 · PDF PAGE 87
… Beast in this Attainment, was thus : INVOKE OFTEN 4 So may ail men corne at last to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel : thus sayeth the Beast, and prayeth His own Angel that this book be as a burning Lamp, and as a living Spring, for Light and Life to them that read therein. 666 !• The consonants of LOGOS, “Word”, add (Hebrew values,) to 93. And EIIH, “Words”, (whence “Epie”) has also that value: EIAE TA EUH might be the phrase here intended: its number is 418. This would then assert the accomplishment of the Great Work…
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…ctive énergies of the simoom, as “jinn”. (c) We may analyse any of these symbols, obtaining a finer formj thus the “spirit” contains an “angel”, the angel an “archangel”, etc. (d) We may synthesize any set of symbols, obtaining a more general form. Thus we may group various types of earth-spirit as gnomes. (e) Ail these may be attributed to the Tree of Life, and dealt with accordingly. (f) The Magician may préparé a sensible body for any of these symbols, and evoke them by the proper rites. 13) The “reality” or “objectivity” of these symbols is…