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the True WiJl of the seer; if not, though it be never so true objectively, it is not true for him, because not useful for him. (Said we not a while ago that Truth was no more than the Most Convenient Manner of Statement?) . ^ may intoxicate and exalt the Seer, it may inspire and fortify him in every way, it may throw light upon most holy mysteries, yet withal be no more than an interprétation of the individual to himself, the formula not of Abraham but of Onan. These plastic "Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man” are well enough for those who…
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…of the Law is 0EAHMA and that “Love is the Law, love under Will.” Each member must make it his main work to discover for himself his own true will, and to do it, and do nothing else. 2 He must accept those orders in the Book of the Law that apply to himself as being necessarily in accordance with his own true will, and execute the same to the letter with ail the energy, courage, and ability that he can command. This applies especially to the work of extending the Law in the world, wherein his proof is his own success, the witness of his Life to…
1930 · PDF PAGE 87
…nd ail, saying, Such are the Words ! 1 For b y this he maketh proclamation before ail them that be about his Circle that these Words are true and puissant, binding what he would bind, and loosing what he would loose. Let the Adept perform this Ritual aright, per- fect in every part thereof, once daily for one moon, then twice, at dawn and dusk, for two moons, next, thrice, noon added, for three moons, afterwards, midnight making up his course, for four moons four times every day. Then let the Eleventh Moon be consecrated wholly to this Work; le…
1930 · PDF PAGE 91
…s of analysis must hâve been carried out very thoroughly. The Adept must hâve become aware of his deepest impulses, and understood their true significance. The “résistance” here mentioned is automatic; it increases indefinitely against direct pressure. It is useless to try to force oneself in these matters; the uninitiated Aspirant, however eager he may be, is sure to fail. One 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…
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 96
…mplies 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 is also directly inspired from Kether, the ultimate Self, through…
1930 · PDF PAGE 48
…l Plane, His Qabalistic discoveries, His instructions in Magick. They may be correct in the main for most men; yet they cannot be wholly true for any save Him, even as no two artists can make identical pictures of the same subject. More, even in fundamentals, though these things be Truth for ail Mankind, as we carelessly say, any one particular Magician may be the one man for whom they are false. May not the flag that seems red to ten thousand seem green to some one other? Then, every man and every woman being a Star, that which is green to him…
1930 · PDF PAGE 36
… of those three éléments of literary composition. 3. This is not in contradiction 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 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 12
…he Aspirant from Probationer to Adept. Equinox III, p. 3. Liber XV. Ecclesiæ Gnosticœ Catholicœ Canon Missœ. Represents the original and true pre-Christian Christianity. Equinox XI (vol. iii, part 1) and Appendix VI of this book. 216 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 15
with a true account of the catastrophe, so called, which ended in its disappearance. Unpublished. Liber LV. The Chymical J ous tin g of Brother Perardua with the seven Lances that he brake. An account of the Magical and Mystic Path in the ianguage of Alchemy. Equinox i, p. 88. Liber LVIII. An article on the Qabalah in Equinox V, p. 65. Liber L1X. A cross the Gulf. A fantastic account of a previous Incarnation. Its principal interest lies in the fact that its story of the overthrowing. of Isis by Osiris may help the reader to understand the mean…
1930 · PDF PAGE 62
…nd 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 84
…d defects of his Attainment. This refers to the 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-hoodw…
1930 · PDF PAGE 90
…their adventures. This being so, the Adept will be free to concentrate his deepest self, that part of him which unconsciously orders his true Will, upon the realization of his Holy Guardian Angel. The absence of his bodily, mental and astral consciousness is indeed cardinal to success, for it is their usurpation of his attention which has made him deaf to his Soûl, and his préoccupation with their affairs that has prevented him from perceiving that Soûl. — 294 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 81
…aint away into Nothing. For if there abide unabsorbed even one single atom of the false Ego, that atom should stain the virginity of the True Self and profane the Oath; then that atom should be so inflamed by the approach of the Angel that it should overwhelm the rest of the mind, tyrannize over it, and become an insane despot to the total ruin of the realm. But, ail being dead to sense, who then is able to strive against the Angel ? He shall intensify the stress of His Spirit so that His loyal légions of Lion-Serpents leap from the ambush, awa…
1930 · PDF PAGE 57
… key of it ail” after The Beast Himself had failed to do so in 14 years of study. (d) His power to 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…
1930 · PDF PAGE 49
…y wiîi prétend to show him marvellous my s Sériés, pageants of heauty and wonder unspeakably splendid; he will incline to accept them as true, for the very reason that they are images of himself idealized by imagination. But his real progress will stop 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 see…
1930 · PDF PAGE 31
…into the sphere of the Eléments. The essential Attainment is the perfect annihilation of that personality which limits and oppresses his true self. The Magister Templi is pre-eminently the Master of Mysticism, that is, His Understanding is entirely free from internai contradic¬ tion or external obscurity; His word is to comprehend the existing Universe in accordance with His own Mind. He is the Master of the Law of Sorrow (Dukkha). To attain the grade of Magus he must accomplish Three — 235 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 50
…low, and Yellow a component of Green which merges into Blue, what harm if a Fiend in Vermilion appears instead of an Angel in Azuré? The true, the final test, of the Truth of one’s visions is their Value. The most glorious expérience on the Astral plane, let it dazzle and thrill as it may, is not necessarily in accordance with - 254
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
… the nature of this power. It is inhérent in ail things, since ail possible propositions, or their contra- dictories, can be affirmed as true. Its condition is identity of form (or Structure) of the Monads involved. It requires a quality of mind beyond the <£normal” to appreciate 0°=X, etc., directly, just as H. H. Joachim’s reasoning demands a point-of-view beyond that of the Bushman. 1 See the story, infra, about the origin of Book 4. 2 See the story, infra, about Amalantrah. 247
1930 · PDF PAGE 34
…d the fulfilment of every action by its complément, so that whatever 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 —