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Page 1 of 11930 · PDF PAGE 53
…hild, the Aeon whose Logos is The Beast 666, whose name in the Outer Order was Frater Perdurabo. The nature of the proof of the separate existence of praeter- human Intelligence, independent of bodily form, is extremely complicated. Its main divisions may be briefly enumerated. He telephoned a friend named Feilding at the latter’s house, and was answered b)' Mr. Feilding’s secretary, who said that his employer had left the house a few minutes previously, and could only be reached by telephoning a certain office in the City at between 11 o’clock…
1930 · PDF PAGE 85
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 55
…stance outside New York, and was an entire stranger to any of the staff of 7 he International. The evidence appears overwAelming for the existence or Amalantrah, that he was more expert in the Qabalah than The Master Therion himself, and that he v/as (further) possessed with the power to recail this four-months~old problem to the mind of an entirely unconnected stranger, causing him to communicate the correct answer at the same moment as the question v/as being asked many miles away. Coincidence, so completely adéquate to explain the Fielding-T…
1930 · PDF PAGE 52
There must always be some slight pang of pain in a true Astral Vision ; it hurts the Self to hâve to admit the existence of a not- Self ; and it taxes the brain to register a new thought. This is true at the first touch, even when exaltation and stimulation resuit from the joy of making an agreeable contact. There is a deeper eiïect of right reaction to a strange Self: the impact invariably tends to break up some complex in the Seer. The class of ideas concerned has always been tied up, labelled, and put away. It is now necessary to unpack it, …
1930 · PDF PAGE 56
…lling) is only explicable by his wish not to take the edge off his plan for making the Assyrian’s letter a fulminating révélation of his existence, as would hâve happened if the secret had been prematurely disclosed. The case is here cited in order to illustrate the extreme care which ought to be taken in excluding ail alternative hypothèses before admitting the existence of disembodied intelligences. It may be mentioned, however, that in this particular case there are numerous other incidents which make the télépathie theory untenable. 4. Ther…
1930 · PDF PAGE 26
…he Great White Brotherhood. Do what thou 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 41
…odorous, and time-hidden facts, such as the vanes of a revolving fan, which flies can distinguish. Hence: no a friori reason to deny the existence of conscious intelligences with insensible bodies. Indeed we know of other orders of mind (flies, etc., possibly vegetables) thinking by means of non-human brain-structures. But the fundamental problem of Religion is this: Is there any praeter-human Intelligence, of the same order as our own, 1. On considération these notes hâve been left as they were originally written. In An XVII, Sol in Virgo, Sor…
1930 · PDF PAGE 71
…f the Incarnation of any God. The combined action of these two DEVILS is to allow the God upon whom they prey to enter into enjoyment of existence through the Sacrament of dividual “Life” (Bread — the flesh of BESZ) and “Love” (Wine — the blood or venom of APOPHRASZ). He acclaims His Angel as having “eaten of the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil”; otherwise, having become wise (in the 275 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 83
…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 “Immortal Fire” is the Creative Self ; imper- sonal energy cannot perish, no matter what forms it assumes. Combustion is Love. - 287 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
…ald, 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 partake of this Eucharist which createth, sus- taineth 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 Wo…
1930 · PDF PAGE 40
…eed of its benefits, and most fit to obtain them. It is the one really important science, for it transcends the condi¬ tions of material existence and so is not liable to perish with the planet, and it must be studied as a science, sceptically, with the utmost energy and patience. The A A possesses the secrets of successj it makes no secret of its knowledge, and if its secrets are not everywhere known and practised, it is because the abuses connected with the name of occult science disincline official investigators to examine the evidence at th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 57
…conceive and express in concise terms true solutions of the main problems of the Universe. E.g. The formulae of Nuith and Hadith explain Existence in the terms of MathematicaLLogical Philosophy, so as to satisfy the difficultés of reconciling Dualism, Monism and Nihilism; aM 1. This list by no means exhausts the sériés. In particular, Frater Perdurabo discovered in 1923 that the Hebrew Word for “to will” is also of the value of 93: and its spécial technical meanings throw yet further light on the meaning of OsLrçya as used by Aiwaz. — 261 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 30
…ife as to the fact of his attainment, even to the other members of the Order. The Ipsissimus is pre-eminently the Master of ail modes of existence ; that is, his being is entirely free from internai or external necessity. His work is to destroy ail tendencies to construct or to cancel such necessities. He is the Master of the Law of Unsubstan- tiality (Anatta). The Ipsissimus has no relation as such with any Being : He has no will in any direction, and no Consciousness of any kind involving duality, for in Him ail is accomplished; as it is writ…
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…to a single pattern so many threads of proof 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 Perdu…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
…the same as a dog’s; a short-sighted man sees things differently to one of normal vision.) It is more convenient to assume the objective existence of an “Angel” who gives us new knowledge than to allégé that our invocation has awakened a supernormal power in ourselves. Such incidents as “Calderazzo” 1 and “Jacob” 2 make this more cogent. rebuttal. But most of these subtleties miss the point. Truth must be defined. It is a name, being a noun (nomen); and ail names are human symbols of things. Now Truth is the power to arouse a certain reaction (…
1930 · PDF PAGE 91
…ne must know how to deal with each internai idea as it arises. It is impossible to overcome one’s inhibitions by conscious effort; their existence justifies them. God is on their side, as on that of the victim in Browning’s înstans Tyrannus. A man cannot compel himself to love, however much he may want to, on various rational grounds. But on the other hand, when the true impulse cornes, it overwhelms ail its critics; they are powrerless either to make or break a genius; it can only testify to the fact that it has met its master. 295 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 42
… vulgar sense of the word ? 2) “Matter” includes ail that is moveable. Thus, electric waves are “matter”. There is no reason to deny the existence of Beings who perceive by other means those subtle forces which we only perceive by our instruments. 3) We can influence other Beings, conscious or no, as lion- tamers, gardeners, etc. ; and are influenced by them, as bv storms, bacilli, etc. 4) There is an apparent gap between our senses and their correspondances in consciousness. Theory needs a medium to join matter and spirit, just as physics once…
1930 · PDF PAGE 44
…s be defined in the same way as “material objects”; they are the Unknown Causes of various observed effects. They may be of any order of existence. We give a physical form and name to a bell but not to its tone, though in each case we know nothing but our own impressions. But we record musical sounds by a spécial convention. We may therefore call a certain set of qualities “Ratziel”, or describe an impression as “Saturnian” without pretending to know what anything is in itself. Ail we need is to know how to cast a bell that will please our ears…
1930 · PDF PAGE 96
… 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 assimilate himself to his Angel by continuai conscious com¬ munion. For his Angel is an intelligible image of his own true Will, to do which is the whole of the law of his Being. Also the Angel appeareth in Tiphereth, which is the heart of the Ruach, and thus the Centre of Gravity of the Mind. It i…
1930 · PDF PAGE 36
…diction with the absolute right o f every person to do his own true Will. But any True Will is of necessity in harmony with the facts of Existence; and to refuse to accept the Book of the Law is to create a conflict within Nature, as if a physicist insisted on using an incorrect formula of mechanics as the basis of an experiment. 240 —