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Page 1 of 11930 · PDF PAGE 70
…nor be standing in this circle on the square of Tiphereth, armed with his Wand and Cup; but let him perform the Ritual throughout in his Body of Light. He may burn the Cakes of Light, or the Incense of Abramelin; he may be prepared by Liber CLXXV, the reading of Liber LXV, and by the practices of Yoga. He may invoke HADIT by awine and strange drugs5’ if he so will. 1 He préparés 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. …
1930 · PDF PAGE 84
…bringing the conditioned Universe to knowledge of itself through the formula of génération1 ; a soûl implants itself in sense-hoodwinked body and reason-fettered mind, makes them aware of their Inmate, and thus to partake of its own conscious- ness of the Light. “Grâce” has here its proper sense of “Pleasant- I. That is, Yod Hé realizing Themselves, Will and Undcrstanding, m the twias Vau Hé, Mind and Body. 288 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 90
…llow his mind to loosen its grip on the astral imagery of the Star-spate, Will-Symbol, or Soul-symbol, or even to forget its duty to the body and the sensible surroundings. Nor should he omit to keep his Body of Light in close touch with the phenonema of its own plane, so that its privy consciousness may fulfil its proper functions of protecting his scattered ideas from obsession. But he should hâve acquired, by previous practice, the faculty of. detaching these éléments of his consciousness from their articulate centre, so that they become (te…
1930 · PDF PAGE 45
…irit 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 not pertinent to the discussion. The ideas of X4 and \/— 1 hâve proved useful to the progress of mathematical advance toward Truth 5 it is no odds whether a Fourth Dimension “exists”, or whether \/— 1 ha s “meaning” in the sense that \L\ has, the number of umts in the side of a square of 4 …
1930 · PDF PAGE 88
… rolls again In the excited brain: Then, O then call not to thy view that visible Image of Nature; fatal is her name! It fitteth not thy Body to behold That living light of Hell, The unluminous, dead flame, Until that body from the crucible Hath passed, pure gold! For, from the confines of material space, The twilight-moving place, The gates of matter, and the dark threshold, Before the faces of the Things that dwell In the Abodes of Night, Spring into sight Démons, dog-faced, that show no mortal sign Of Truth, but desecrate the Light Divine, S…
1930 · PDF PAGE 47
…r, or to command service 5 ail this is a question of the general Magical attainment of the student. He must be absolutely at ease in his Body of Light, and hâve made it invulnérable. He must be adept in assuming ali God- forms, in using ail weapons, sigils, gestures, words, and signs. He must be familiar with the names and numbers pertinent to the work in hand. He must be alert, sensitive, and ready to exert his authority; yet courteous, gracious, patient, and sympathetic. 16) There are two opposite methods of exploring the Astral Plane. (a) . …
1930 · PDF PAGE 12
…f testing physical clairvoyance. Gives instruction in Asana, Pranayama and Dharana, and advises the application of tests to the physical body, in order that the student may thoroughly understand his own limitations. Equinox 1, p. 25 & Appendix VI of this Book. Liber X. Liber Porta Lucis. An account of the sending forth of the Master Therion by the A.*. A.*, and an explanation of His mission. Equinox VI, p. 3. Liber XI. Liber NV. An Instruction for attaining Nuit. Equinox VII, p. 11. Liber XIII. Graduum Montis Abiegni. An account of the task of …
1930 · PDF PAGE 23
…th additions will shortly be published. Liber DCCCXL Energised Enthusiasm. Specially adapted to the task of Attainment of Control of the Body of Light, development of Intuition and Hathayoga. Equinox IX, p. 17. Liber DCCCXIII. Vel ARARITA. An account of the Hexagram and the method of reducing it to the Unity, and Beyond. Unpublished. Liber DCCCXXXI. Liber IODy formerly called VESTA. An instruction giving three methods of reducing the manifold consciousness to the Unity. Adapted to facilitate the task of the Attainment of Raja-Yoga and of the Kn…
1930 · PDF PAGE 26
…u wilt shall be the whole of the Law. i. The Order of the Star called S. S. is, in respect of its existence upon the Earth, an organised body of men and women distinguished among their fellows by the qualities here enumerated. They exist in their own Truth, which is both universal and unique. i. The Name of The Order and those of its three divisions are not disclosed to the profane. Certain swindlers hâve recently stolen the initiais A A.-, in order to profit by its réputation. 230 -
1930 · PDF PAGE 66
…iritual life. A is the formless Hero; U is the six-fold solar sound of physi- cal life, the triangle of Soûl being entwined with that of Body; M is the silence of “death”; GN is the nasal sound of génération & knowledge. “Identical Point!” “Nuith ! Hadith ! Ra-Hoor-Khuit ! ” “Hail, Great Wild Beast!” “Hail, I A O ! ” I. Sacred to AHAThOOR. The idea is that of the Female conceived as invulnérable, reposeful, of enormous swallowing capacity etc. — 270 — obedient unto Me. Sec lion F. Hear Me: AFT ABAFT BAS-AUMGN. ISAK SA-BA-FT
1930 · PDF PAGE 60
…sence of the Master. Particular pledges may be demanded, ordeals imposed, and initiations conferred. These are most serious matters; the Body of Light must be fully adult, irrevocably fixed, or it will be disintegrated at the outset. But, being fit to pass through such expériences, it is bound utterly to its words and acts. It cannot even appear to break an oath, as its fleshly fellow may do. Such, then is a general description of the Astral Plane, and of the proper conduct of the Magician in his dealings therewith. 264 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 83
…ers articulately so far as words may, what his Angel is to Himself. He says this, with his Scin-Laeca wholly withdrawn into his physical body, con- straining His Angel to indwell his heart. Line 1. “I am He” asserts the destruction of the sense of separateness between self and Self. It affirms existence, but of the third person only. “The Bornless Spirit” is free of ail space, “having sight in the feet”, that they may choose their own path. “Strong” is G B R, the Magician escorted by the Sun and the Moon (See Liber D and Liber 777) The “Immorta…
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
…ineth and redeemeth ail things. He now asserts that he is himself the “Angel” or messenger of his Angel 5 that is, that he is a mind and body whose office is to receive and transmit the Word of his Angel. He hails his Angel not only as “un-nefer” the Perfection of “Asar” himself as a man, but as Ptah-Apophrasz- Ra, the identity (Hadit) wrapped in the Dragon (Nuith) and thereby manifested as a Sun (Ra- Hoor-Khuit). The “Egg” (or Heart) “girt with a Serpent” is a cognate symbole the idea is thus expressed later in the ritual. (See Liber LXV. whic…
1930 · PDF PAGE 93
…mself to harden his soûl. To this end, I, the Beast, hâve made trial and proof of divers devices. Of these the most potent is to set the body to strive with I. Liber Al vel Legis, II, 61-68, where the details of the proper tech¬ nique are discussed. — 297 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 95
…if he were not so pitifully dangerous to himself and others. He also tends to take his new-found “truths of illumination” for the entire body of truth, and insists that they must be as valid and vital for ail men as they happen to be for himself. I. This corresponds to the emotional and metaphysical fog which is characteristic of the emergence of thought from homogeneity. The clear and concise différentiation of ideas marks the adult mind. — 299
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…of different orders that every type of mind, so it be but open and just, may be sure of the existence of AIWAZ as a being independent of body, conscious and individual, with a mind mightier than man’s, and a power beyond man’s set in motion by will. In a word, the Book of the Law proves the prime postulate of Religion. The Magician may therefore be confident that Spiritual Beings exist, and seek the Knowledge and Conversation of His own Holy Guardian Angel with the same ardour as that of Frater Perdurabo when Fie abandoned. ail r love, wealth, …
1930 · PDF PAGE 50
Lastly, Magick is a Pyramid, built layer by layer. The work of the Body of Light — with the technique of Yoga — is the foundation of the whole. One’s appréhension of the Astral Plane must be accurate, for Angels, Archangels, and Gods are derived therefrom by analysis. One must hâve pure materials if one wishes to brew pure beer. If one hâve an incomplète and incorrect view of the uni verse, how can one find out its laws? Thus, original omission or error tends to extend to the higher planes. Suppose a Magician, invoking Sol, were persuaded by a …
1930 · PDF PAGE 96
…t does not deal in ambiguities and abstractions. It possesses form, and con¬ fesses law, in exactly the same way and degree as any other body of truth. It is to the truth of the material and intellectual spheres of man very much what the Mathematics of Philosophy with its “infinité sériés” and “Cantorian continuity” is to schoolboy arith- metic. Each implies the other, though by that one may explore the essential nature of existence, and by this a pawnbroker’s profits. This then is the true aim of the Adept in this whole operation, to assimilat…
1930 · PDF PAGE 34
…atever he does leaves him without temptation to wander from the way of his True Will. Secondly, he must keep silence, while he nails his body to the tree of his Creative will, in the shape of that Will, leaving his head and arms to form the Symbol of Light, as if to make oath that his every thought, Word and deed should express the Light derived from the God with which he has identified his life, his love and his liberty — symbolised by his heart, his phallus, and his legs. It 238 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 59
…lips from thy sleek shoulders, slips from thy lissome ioins; drunk on delight of the godly grape, thou knowest no more the burden o£ the body and the vexation of the spirit. Corne, Bacchus, corne thou hither, corne out of the East; corne out of the East, astride the Ass of Priapus! Corne with thy revel of dancers and singers! Who followeth thee, forbearing to laugh and to leap? Corne, in thy name Dionysus, that maidens be mated to God-head! Corne, in thy name Iacchus, with thy mystical fan to winnow the air, each gust of thy Spirit inspiring ou…