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…he reader should consult “The Soldier and the Hunchback” in Equinox I, I, and “Konx Om PaxT Unity transcends consctoiisness. It is above ail division. The Father of thought — the Word —* is called Chaos — the dyad. The number Three, the Mother, is called Babalon. In connection with this the reader should study “The Temple of Solomon the King” in Equinox I, V, and Liber 418. This first triad is essentially unity, in a manner transcending reason. The compréhension of this Trinity is a matter of spiritual expérience. Ail true gods are attrîbuted t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 156
Our Magician, with this in his minci, will most probably leave thunderstorms to stew in their own juice; but, should he décidé (after ail) to enliven the afternoon, he will work in the manner following. First, what are the éléments necessary for his storms ? He .must hâve certain stores of electrical force, and the right kind of clouds to contain it. He must see that the force does not leak away to earth quietly and slyly. He must arrange a stress so severe as to become at last so intolér¬ able that it will disrupt explosively. Now he, as a man…
1929 · PDF PAGE 155
…which is exceedingly rare, and when found is usually marked by an absolute apathy on the subject of any attempt to achieve any Magick at ail. Suppose that I wish to produce a thunderstorm. This event is beyond my control or that of any other manj it is as useless to work on their minds as my own. Nature is independent of, and indifferent to, man’s affairs. A storm is caused by atmospheric conditions on a scale so enormous that the United efforts of ail us Earth-vermin could scarcely disperse one cloud, even if we could get at it. How then can a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 71
… sexes in one person. FIAOF: 93, the full formula, recognizing the Sun as the Son (Star), as the pre-existent manifested Unit from which ail springs and to which ail returns. The Great Work is to make the initial FF of Assiah (the world of material illusion) into the final FIF of Atziluth,2 the world of pure reality. Spelling the Name in full, FF -f- IFD -f- ALP -f- OIN -f- FI -j~ 309 = Sh T = XX -f- XI = 31 the secret Key of the Law. F is the manifested Star. I is the secret Life. Serpent — Light . Lamp — Love . Wand — Liberty . Wings — Silenc…
1929 · PDF PAGE 158
called “Golden Rule”, which should not be in the impérative but the indicative mood. Every vibration awakens ail others o£ its par- ticular pitch. There is thus some justification for the assumption of previous writers on Magick that the Link is implicit, and needs no spécial attention. Yet, in practice, there is nothing more certain than that one ought to confirm one’s will by ail possible acts on ail possible planes. The ceremony must not be confined to the formally magical rites. We must neglect no means to our end, neither despising our com…
1929 · PDF PAGE 114
…ures of Personal triumph. “Magick takes every thought and act for ifs apparatus; it has the Universe for its Library and its Laboratory; ail Nature is its Subject; and its Game, free from close seasons and protective restrictions, always abounds in infinité variety, being ail that exists.* 1 Prologue.) of being forced to attribute the qualities of human conscious- ness to inanimate things (Poincaré, “La mesure du temps”), and of asserting that we know anything of the universe in itself, though the nature of oui senses and our minds necessanly d…
1929 · PDF PAGE 17
“Prove ail things; hold fast that which is good”. St. Paul. “Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword: these he shall learn and teach. “He must teach ; but he may make severe the ordeals. “The word of the Law is 0EAHMA.” LIBER AL vel xxxi: The Book of the Law. This book is for ALL: for every man, woman, and child. My former work has been misunderstood, and its scope limited, by my use of technical terms. It has attracted only too many dilettanti and eccentrics, weaklings seeking in “Ma…
1929 · PDF PAGE 101
…agician! That which he has, he has not; but that which he is, he is; and that which he will be, he will be. And neither God nor Man, nor ail the malice of Choronzon, can either check him, or cause him to waver for one instant upon the Path. This command and this promise hâve been given by ail the Magi without exception. And where this command has been obeyed, this promise has been most certainly fulfilled. III In ail actions the same formulae are applicable. To invoke a god, i.e. to raise yourself to that godhead, the process is threefold, PURI…
1929 · PDF PAGE 100
boggling and hacking at things, no clumsiness and no hésitation. If you strike a blow at ail, strike with your strength! “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with ail thy might!” If you are going to take up Magick, rnake no compromise. You cannot make révolutions with rose-water, or wrestle in a silk hat. You will find very soon that you must either iose the hat or stop wrestling. Most people do both. They take up the magical path with ou t sufficient reflection, without that détermination of adamant which made the author of this book excl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 37
… their relative merits in a popular manual of this sort. They may be studied in Erdmann’s “History of Philosophy” and similar treatises. Ail are reconciled and unified in the theory which we shall now set forth. The basis of this Harrnony is given in Crowley’s “Berashith” — to which reference should be made. Infinité space is called the goddess NUIT, while the infini tely small and atomic y et omniprésent point is called HADIT. 1 These are unmanifest. One conjunction of these infinités is called RA-HOOR-KHUIT, 2 3 a Unity which includes and hea…
1929 · PDF PAGE 137
…One finds one’s analogy in electricity. If insulation is imperfect, the whole current goes back to earth. It is useless to plead that in ail those miles of wire there is only one-hundredth of an inch unprotected. It is no good building a ship if the water can enter, through however small a hole. The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable. 1 If one littlest thought intrude upon the mind of the Mystic, his concentration is absolutely destroyed; and his consdousness remains on exactly …
1929 · PDF PAGE 147
…d j and to tins extrait, due reflection of ourselves may be false even in respect of its symbolk présentation. In that Light, therefore, ail that we do is to discover ourselves by means of a sequence of hieroglyphics, and the changes which we apparently operate are in an objective sense illusions. But the Light serves us in this way. It enables us to see ourselves, and therefore to aid us to initiate ourselves by showing us what we are doing. In the same way a watchmaker uses a lens, though it exaggerates and thus falsifies the image of the Sys…
1929 · PDF PAGE 40
number len. * Ail these numbers are o£ course parts of the mogician himself considérée! as the microcosm. The microcosm is an exact image o£ the Macrocosm; the Great Work is the raising of the whole man in perfect balance to the power of ïnfinity. The reader will remark that ail criticism directed against the Magical Hierarchy is futile. One cannot call it incorrect — the only line to take might be that it was inconvénient. In the same way one çannot say that the Roman alphabet is better or worse than the Greek, since ail required sounds can be…
1929 · PDF PAGE 128
…onsider carefully the problems con- necœd with the bloody sacrifice, for this question is indeed traditionally important in Magick. Nigh ail ancient Magick revolves around this matter. In particular ail the Osirian religions — the rites of the Dying God — refer to this, The slaying of Osiris and Adonis ; the mutilation of Attis; the cuits of Mexico and Peruj the story of Hercules or Melcarth; the legends of Dionysus and of Mithra, are ail connected with this one idea. In the Hebrew religion we find the same thing inculcated. The first ethical l…
1929 · PDF PAGE 129
…need they do so. As St. Paul says, “Without shedding of blood there is no remission” ; and who are we to argue with St. Paul? But? after ail that, it is open to any one to hâve any opinion that he likes upon the subject, or any other subject, thank God! At the same time, it is most necessary to study the business, whatever we may be going to do about it; for our ethics themselves will naturally dépend upon our theory of the universe. If we were quite certain, for example, that everybody went to heaven when he died, there could be no serious obj…
1929 · PDF PAGE 106
most important is the bell \ though this is used not so much for actual conjuration as to mark stages in the ceremony. Of ail these the tom-tom will be found to be the most generally useful. While on the subject of barbarous names of évocation we should not omit the utterance of certain suprême words which enshrine (a) the complété formula of the God invoked, or (3 the whole ceremony. Examples of the former kind are Tetragrammaton, I.A.O., and Abrahadabra. An example of the latter kind is the great Word StiBeTTChe- PhMeFSHiSS, which is a line d…
1929 · PDF PAGE 98
…ed duality or falsehood, and is to that extent qliphotic 3 and dangerous. Even an idea like “truth” is unsafe unless it is realized that ail Truth is in one sense falsehood. For ail Truth is relative ; and if it be supposed absolute, will mislead.4 “The Book of Lies falsely so called” (Liber 333) is worthy of close and careful study in this respect. The reader should also consult Konx Om Pax, “Introduction”, and “Thien Tao” in the same volume. Ail this is to be expressed in the words of the ritual itself, and symbolised in every act performed. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 57
…nt on an “astral journey,” and everything seen by him was without exception harmonious with Venus. This was true down to the smallest detail. He even obtained ail the four colour-scales of Venus with absolute correctness. Considering that he saw something like one hundred symbols in ail, the odds against coincidence are incalculably great. Such an expérience (and the records of the A.’. A.*, contain dozens cf similar cases) alfords proof as absolute as any proof can be in this world of Illusion that the correspondences in Liber 777 really repre…
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
Law, these methods may be advantageously combined ; en the one hand infinité frankness and readiness to communicate ail secrets ; on the other the sublime and terrible knowledge that ail real secrets are incommunicable. 1 It is, according to tradition, a certain advantage in conjurations to employ more than one language. In ail probability the reason of this is that any change spurs the flagging attention. A man engaged in intense mental labour will frequently stop and walk up and down the room — one may suppose for this cause — but it is a sig…
1929 · PDF PAGE 73
to command, being a forcible breath controlled by the firm circle of the mouth. He is the Open Eye of the exalted Sun, before whom ail shadows flee away: also that Secret Eye which makes an image of its God, the Light, and gives it power to utter oracles, enlightening the mind. Thus, he is Man made God, exalted, eager; he has corne consciously to his full stature, and so is ready to set out on his journey to redeem the world. But he may not appear in this true form; the Vision of Pan would drive men mad with fear. He must conceal Himself in his…