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which he lives by the installation of new officers to présidé over its initiation. This can take place only at an “Equinox of the Gods” at the end of an “Aeon”; that is, when the secret formula which expresses the Law of its action becomes outworn and useless to its further development. (Thus “Suckling” is the formula of an infant : when teeth appear it marks a new “Aeon”, whose “Word” is “Eating”). A Magus can therefore only appear as such to the world at inter- vais of some centuries ; accounts of historical Magi, and their Words, are given i…
1930 · PDF PAGE 95
…narticulate ecstasy is replaced by a more sober enjoy- ment of the éléments of the fascination. Just so one’s first dazzled delight in a new landscape turns, as one continues to gaze, to the appréciation of exquisite details of the view. At first they were blurred by the blinding rush of general beauty ; they emerge one by one as the shock subsides, and passionate rapture yields to intelligent interest. In the same way the Adept almost always begins by torrential lyrics panting out mystical extravagances about “ineffable love”, “unimaginable bl…
1930 · PDF PAGE 33
…d to aggrandise himself by predatory practices. He may indeed prosper for a while, but in the end he must perish, especially when with a new Aeon a new Word is pro- claimed which he cannot and will not hear, so that he is handi- capped by trying to use an obsolète method of Magick, like a man with a boomerang in a battle where every one else has a rifle. 9. The Grade of Adeptus Major confers Magical Powers (strictly so-called) of the second rank. His work is to use these to support the authority of the Exempt Adept his superior. (This is not to…
1930 · PDF PAGE 96
… may hâve heard “in the seventh heaven”. This may not apply to the sixth. The Adept must keep himself in hand, however tempted to make a new heaven and a new earth in the next few davs by trumpeting his triumphs. He must 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…
1930 · PDF PAGE 13
…through a willed sériés of thoughts. Unpublished. It is the active form of Liber CCCLXI. Liber XXL The Classic of Purity, by Ko Hsuen. A new translation from the Chinese by the Master Therion. Unpublished. Liber XXV. The Ritual of the Star Ruby. An improved form of the lesser ritual of the Pentagram, Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies, pp. 34 & 35. Also Appendix VI of this book. Liber XXVII. Liber T rigrammaton> being a book of Trigrams of the Muta¬ tions of the T ao with the Y in and the Yang. An account of the cosmic process: corresponding to …
1930 · PDF PAGE 17
…, p. 137. Liber CVL A Treatise on the Nature of Deathy and the proper attitude to be taken towards it. Published in “The International”, New York, 1917. Liber CXI (Aleph). The B00k of Wisdom or Folly. An extended and elaborate commentary on the Book of the Law, in the form of a letter from the Master Therion to his magical son. Contains some of the deepest secrets of initiation, with a clear solution of many cosmic and ethical problems. Unpublished. Liber CL. De Lege Libellum. 221
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…78. Full commentary by the Master Therion through whom it was given to the world, will be published shortly. Liber CCXVI. The Yi King. A new translation, with a commentary by the Master Therion. Unpublished. Liber CCXXXI. Liber Arcanorum twv ATU toü TAHUTI quas vidit ASAR in AMENNTI sub figura CCXXXI. Liber Carcerorum tov QLIPHOTH cum suis Geniis. Adduntur Sigilla et Nomina Eorum. Sun four times daily, to méditation, and of 223 —
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…mpt Adept considered under the symbols of a particular plane, not the intellectual. Equinox VI, p. 23. Liber CLVII. The Tao T eh King. A new translation, with a commentary, by the Master Therion. Unpublished. Liber CLXV. A Master of the Temple, being an account of the attainment of Frater Unus In Omnibus. The record of a man who actually attained by the System taught by the A . *. A . *. Part-published in Equinox III. I., p. 127. Liber CLXXV. A star te vel Liber Berylli. An instruction in attainment by the method of dévotion, or Bhakta-Yogi. Eq…
1930 · PDF PAGE 11
…r so it is said by the Masters of the Temple. Equinox VII, p. 5. Liber IL The Message of the Master Therion. Explains the Essence of the new law in a very simple manner. Equinox XI (Vol. III, No. 1), p. 39. Liber III. Liber Jugorum An instruction for the control of speech, action and thought. Equinox IV, p. 9 & Appendix VI of this book. Liber IV. AB A. A general account in elementary terms of magical and mystical powers. Part. 1. Mysticïsm — published. 2. Magick (Elementary Theory) — published. 3. IVIagick in Practice and Theory (this book). 4.…
1930 · PDF PAGE 71
…the old aeon) the Hierophant is the perfected Osiris, who brings the candidate, the natural Osiris, to identity with himself. But in the new Aeon the Hierophant is Horus (Liber CCXX, I 49) therefore the Candidate will be Horus too. What then is the formula of the initiation of Horus ? It will no longer be that of the Man, through Death. It will be the natural growth of the Child. His expériences will no more be regarded as catastrophic. Their hieroglyph is the Pool: the innocent and impotent Harpocrates Babe becomes the Horus Adult by obtaining…
1930 · PDF PAGE 77
…hey are ail — ultimately — of equal importance. The fact that he is what he is proves that each item is equilibrated. The impact of each new impression affects the entire System in due measure. He must thereiore realize that every event is subject to him. It occurs because he had need of it. Iron rusts because the molécules demand oxygen for the satisfaction ©f — 281 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 85
… see also the general solution of the Riddle of Existence in the Book of the Law and its Comment — Part IV of Book 4. 2. If we adopt the new orthography VIAOV (Book 4 Part III Chap. V.) we must read “The Sun-6-the Son” etc. for “ail”; and elaborate this interprétation here given in other ways, accordingly. Thus O (or F) will nat be “The Fifteen by function” instead of “Five” etc., and “in act free, firm, aspiring, ecstatic”, rather than “gentle” etc. as in the présent text. — 289 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 97
… then came he unto me abiding in my virgin heart, its Lord and Lover! Also He made me a Magus, speaking through His Law, the Word of the new Aeon, the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child. 2 Thus he fulfilled my will to bring full freedom to the race of Men. Yea, he wrought also in me a Work of Wonder beyond this, but in this matter I am sworn to hold my peace. 1. See the maps “Minutum Mundum” in the Equinex i, 2 & 3 and the general relations detailed in Liber 777, of which the most important columns are reprinted in Appendix V. 2. For the …
1930 · PDF PAGE 49
…dead. Tliese phantasms will prevent him from coming into contact with indepen- dent intelligences, from whom alone he can learn anything new. He will become increasingly interested in himself, imagine himself to he attaining one initiation after another. His Ego will expand unchecked, till he seem to himself to hâve heaven at his feet. Yet ail this will be nothing but his fool’s face of Narcissus smirking up from the pool that will drown him. Error of this kind on the Astral Plane — in quite ordinary visions with no apparent moral import — may …
1930 · PDF PAGE 32
… so that he may formulate Himself as the Finite; the acquisition of the practical secrets alike of initiating and governing His proposed new Universe and the identification of himself with the impersonal idea of Love. Any néophyte of the Order (or, as some say, an y person soever) possesses the right to claim the Grade of Master of the Temple by taking the Oath of the Grade. It is hardly necessary to observe that to do so is the most sublime and awful responsibility which it is possible to assume, and an unworthy person who does so incurs the m…
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…evelj man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself. (e) His power to interpret the Spirit of the New Aeon, the relapse into ruthless savagery of the most civilised races, at a time when war was discredited by most responsible men. ( (f) His power to comprehend and control these various orders of ideas and events, demonstrating thereby a mind and a means of action intelligible to, yet immensely above, ail human capacity; to bind the whole into a compact cryptograph displaying mastery of English, of mathema…
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…rd, that the meeting has effected a definite change in oneself. One must hâve known and felt something a lien, and not merely tried on a new dress. 255 —
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…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 (“assent”) in a man, under certain con…
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…over, that nearly four months had passed since the problem was propounded in The International? The Assyrian lived some distance 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 s…
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
…ject unto us by establishing right relation (within the possible limits) with the Universe, we shall fall into error when we develop our new instrument of direct understanding. It is vital that the Adept should train his inteilectual faculties to tell him the truth, in the measure of their capacity. To despise the mind on account of its limitations is the most disastrous blunder; it is the common cause of the calamities which strew so many shores with the wreckage of the Mystic Armada. Bigotry, Arrogance, Éewilderment, ail fcrms of mental and m…