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…ree Breath. (U) through Willed Breath. (M) and Stopped Breath. (GN) to Continuous Breath, thus symbolizing the whole course of spiritual 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 enormou…
1930 · PDF PAGE 63
…EU Phl-ThETA-SOE aO breathing, flowing Sun!” “O Sun IAF! O Lion-Serpent Sun, The Beast that whirlest forth, a thunder- bolt, begetter of Life!” aThou that flowest! Thou that goest!” aThou Satan-Sun Hadith that goest without Will!” “Thou Air ! Breath ! Spirit ! Thou without bound or bond ! ” “Thou Essence, Air Swift-streaming, Elasticity! ” aThou Wanderer, Father of Ail!” “Thou Wanderer, Spirit of Ail!” “Thou Shilling Force of Breath! Thou Lion-Serpent Sun! Thou Saviour, save ! ” IB “Thou Ibis, secret solitary Bird, inviolate Wisdom, whose Word …
1930 · PDF PAGE 68
AD-ON-A-I1 EDE EDU “My Lord! My secret self beyond self, Hadith, Ail Father! Hail, ON, thou Sun, thou Life of Man, thou Fivefold Sword of Flame! Thou Goat exalted upon Earth in Lust, thou Snake ex- tended upon Earth in Life! Spirit most hoiy! Seed most Wise! Inno¬ cent Babe. Inviolate Maid! Begetter of Being! Soûl of ail Soûls! Word of ail Words, Corne forth, most hidden Light!” “Devour thou me!” “Thou dost devour Me!” ANGELOS TON ThEON “Thou Angel of the Gods!” ANLALA “Arise thou in Me, free flowing, Thou who art Naught, who art Naught, and ut…
1930 · PDF PAGE 84
… phenomena which accompany his Attainment. This means the récognition of the Angel as the True Self of his subconscious self, the hidden Life of his physical life. The Adept réalisés every breath, everv word of his Angel as charged with Creative fire. Tiphereth is the Sun, and the Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soûl of the Adept. Here is summed the entire process of 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…
1930 · PDF PAGE 89
…hen, lift up thine hands! Centre thee in thine heart one scarlet thought Limpid with brilliance of the Light above! Draw into naught Ail life, death, hatred, love: Ail self concentred in the sole desire — Hear thou the Voice of Fire!” ~ 293 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 25
… ? All’s relation !” science sighed. In bondaae with thy brother beast, Love tortured thee, as Love’s hope died And Love’s faith rotted. Life no least Dim star descried. Thy cringing carrion cowered and crawled To find itself a chance-cast clod Whose Pain was purposeless; appalled That aimless accident thus trod Its agony, that void skies sprawled On the vain sod ! Ail soûls eternally exist, Each individual, ultimate, Perfect -— each makes itself a mist Of mind and flesh to celebrate With some twin mask their tender tryst Insatiate. — 229
1930 · PDF PAGE 24
…ives methods for attaining the magical memory, or memory of past lives, and an insight into the function of the Aspirant in this présent life. Equinox VII, p. 105. Liber CMXXXIV. The Cactus. An elaborate study of the psychological effects produced by Anhalonium Lewinii (Mescal Buttons), compiled from the actual records of some hundreds of experiments. Unpublished. Liber DCCCCLXIII. The Treasure House of Images. A superb collection of Litanies appropriate to the Signs of the Zodiac. Equinox III, Supplément. Liber MMCCMXI. A Note on Genesis. A mo…
1930 · PDF PAGE 92
… union to be perfect, the Adept need not retain any memory soever of what has occurred. He may be merely aware of a gap in his conscious life, and judge of its contents by observing that his nature has 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 lim…
1930 · PDF PAGE 27
…esignate the grades.) The general characteristics and attributions of these Grades are indicated by their correspondences on the Tree of Life, as may be studied in detail in the Book 777. Strident. — His business is to acquire a general intellectua! knowledge of ail Systems of attainment, as declared in the prescribed books. (See curriculum in Appendix I.)
1930 · PDF PAGE 62
…u didst commit Thy Mysteries, the Ceremonies of KHEM. 2. Thou didst produce the moist and the dry, and that which nourisheth ail created Life. 3. Hear Thou Me, for I am the Angel of PTAH - APO- PHRASZ - RA (vide the Rubnc) : this is Thy True Name, handed down to the Prophets of KHEM. 266
1930 · PDF PAGE 10
…al apologues, and recounts many taies of folk-lore and magical rites. Kim, by Rudyard Kipling. An admirable study of Eastern thought and life. Many other stories by this author are highly suggestive and informative. For Mythology, as teaching Correspondences: Books of Fairy Taies generally. Oriental Classics generally. Sufi Poetry generally. ' Scandinavian and Teutonic Sagas generally. Celtic Folk-Lore generally. This course is of general value to the beginner. While it is not to be taken, in ail cases, too seriously, it will give him a general…
1930 · PDF PAGE 78
…stiny is thus to abdicate our sovereignty, and to invoke death. Indeed, we hâve decreed the doom of death for every breach of the law of life. And every failure to incorporate any impression starves the particular faculty which stood in need of it. This Section B invokes Air in the East, with a shaft of golden glory. The adept now invokes Fire in the South; flamc red are the rays that burst from his Verendum. He invokes Water in the West, his Wand billowing forth blue radiance. He goes to the North to invoke Earth; flowers of green flame flash …
1930 · PDF PAGE 71
…tion 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 87
…dian 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; this is the natural conclusion of the Ritual. Cf. CCXX.III. 75. 2. These needs are modified during the process of Initiation both …
1930 · PDF PAGE 7
…nvalidable to ail students. The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine. Excellent, though elementary, as a corrective to superstition. Rivers of Life, by General Forlong. An invaluable text-book of old Systems of initiation. Tliree Dialogues, by Bishop Berkeley. The Classic of sub¬ jective idealism. Essays of David Hume. The Classic of Academie Scepticism. First Principles, by Herbert Spencer. The Classic of Agnos- ticism. Prolegomena, by Emanuel Kant. The best introduction to Metaphysics. The Canon. The best text-book of Applied Qabalah. The Fourth Di…
1930 · PDF PAGE 83
…ry when they absorb it, and (2) the death of his unconscious elementa themselves. But their death is rather a going forth to renew their life through love. He then, by conscious compréhension of them separatefy and together, becomes the “Angel” of his Angel, as Hermes is the Word of Zeus, whose own voice is Thunder. Thus in this section the adept utters 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. …
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
…ing, 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 Word of his Angel. He hails his Angel not only as “un-nefer” the P…
1930 · PDF PAGE 69
…ho hâte that evil should be wrought in the World! 4. I am He, that lighteneth and thundereth! 5. I am He, from whom is the Shower of the Life of Earth! 6. I am He, whose mouth ever flameth! 7. I am He, the Begetter and Manifester unto the Light! 8. I am He, The Grâce of the Worlds! 9. “The Heart Girt with a Serpent” is my name! Section H The 64Charge to the Spirit”. Corne thou forth, and follow me: and make ail Spirits subject unto Me so that every Spirit of the Firmament, and of the Ether, upon the Earth und under the Earth: on dry Land, or in…
1930 · PDF PAGE 45
…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 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” i…
1930 · PDF PAGE 93
…e 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, inflames the idolised idea, and produces fanatical faith fierce even to frenzy, with intolérance and insanely disordered energy which is yet so powerful as to effect the des…