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Page 1 of 21929 · PDF PAGE 140
…necessary. During many days we occupy ourselves in this process of cleansing and consécration; and this again is confirmed in the actual ceremony. The cleansed and consecrated M agi ci an takes his cleansed and consecrated instruments into that cleansed and consecrated place, and there proceeds to repeat that double ceremony in the ceremony itself, which has these same two main parts. The first part of every ceremony is the banishing; the second, the invoking. The same formula is repeated even in the ceremony of banishing itself, for in the ban…
1929 · PDF PAGE 58
…f Tetragrammaton. 1 This formula is of most universal aspect, as ail things are necessarily comprehended in it$ but its use in a magical ceremony is little understood. The climax of the formula is in one sense before even the formulation of the Yod. For the Yod is the most divine aspect of the Force —the remaining letters are but a solidification of the same thing. It must be understood that we are here speaking of the whole ceremony considered as a unity, not merely of that formula in which Yod is the God invoked, Hé the Archangel, and so on. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
…ck, however, it is permissible 2 to employ any device to secure the resuit. Conjurations should be recited, not readj 3 4 and the entire ceremony should be so perfectly performed that one is hardly conscious of any effort of memory. The ceremony should be constructed with such logical fatality that a mistake is im¬ possible/ The conscious ego of the Magician is to be destroyed to be absorbed in that of the God whom he invokes, and the process should not interfère with the automaton who is performing the ceremony. But this ego of which it is her…
1929 · PDF PAGE 75
… last of his fetters is removed. Ail this is sealed by the sacrament of the Four Eléments. It will be seen that the effect of this whole ceremony is to endow a thing inert and impotent with balanced motion in a given direction. Numerous examples of this formula are given 1. See the Néophyte Ceremony, Equinox I, II. 2. Fear is the source of ail false perception. Even Freud had a glimpse of this fact. 39
1929 · PDF PAGE 76
in Equinox I, Nos. II and III. It is the formula of the Néophyte Ceremony of G.D. It should be employed in the consécration of the actual weapons usecl by the magician, and may also be used as the first formula of initiation. In the book called Z 21 (Equinox I, III) are given full details of this formula, which cannot be too carefully studied and practised. It is unfortunately, the most complex of ail of them. But this is the fault of the first matter of the work, which is so muddled that many operations are required to unify it. i. Those secti…
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 53
…nd ail true magical ceremonies tend to concentration. The dagger will therefore appear principally in the banishings, preliminary to the ceremony proper. The formula of the pantacle is again of no particular use; for the pantacle is inert. In fine, the formula of the wand is the only one with which we need more particularly concern ourselves.2 Now in order to invoke any being, it is said by Hermes Tris- megistus that the magi employ three methods. The first, for the vulgar, is that of supplication. In this the crude objective theory is assumed …
1929 · PDF PAGE 117
… station having a symbolic meaning of its own; but in pure invocation a better example is given in Liber 831 2. In the construction of a ceremony an important thing to décidé is whether you will or will not make such movements. For every Circle has its natural symbolism, and even if no use is to be made of these facts, one must be careful not to let anything be inhar- monious with the natural attributions. 3 For the sensitive aura of the magician might be disturbed, and the value of the ceremony completely destroyed, by the embarassment caused …
1929 · PDF PAGE 59
…sion to the Inmost Order of the A.*. A.*. Of the last step we cannot speak. It will now be recognised that to devise a practical magical ceremony to correspond to Tetragrammaton in this exalted sense might be difficult if not impossible. In such a ceremony the Rituals of purification alone might occupy many incarnations. It will be necessary, therefore, to revert to the simpler view of Tetragrammaton, remembering only that the Hé final is the Throne of the Spirit, of the Shin of Pentagrammaton. The Yod will represent a swift and violent créativ…
1929 · PDF PAGE 57
… committed to writing for the purpose of memorising them, while it was forbidden to make any record of the really important parts of the ceremony. Such details of Ritual as we possess are meagre and unconvincing, and though much success h as been attained in the quite conventional exoteric way both by Frater Perdu- rabo and by many of his colleagues, yet ceremonies of this character hâve always remained tedious and difficult. It lias seemed as if the success were obtained almost in spite of the ceremony. In any case, they are the more mysteriou…
1929 · PDF PAGE 120
…had corne to an end 5 that the new master of the world was intellect. The general object of a knock or a knell is to mark a stage in the ceremony. Sasaki Shigetz tells us in his essay on Shinto that the Japanese are accustomed to clap their hands four times “to drive away evil spirits”. He explains that what really happens is that the sudden and sharp impact of the Sound throws the mind into an alert activity which enables it to break loose from the obsession of its previous mood. It is aroused to apply itself aggressively to the ideas which ha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 102
…l, not only in the actual cérémonial consécration of each weapon, but in the actuai prépara¬ tion, a process which should adumbrate this ceremony; e.g., the magician will eut the wand from the tree, will strip it of leaves and twigs, will remove the bark. He will trim the ends neatly, and smooth down the knots: —this is the banishing. He will then rub it with the consecrated oil until it becomes smooth and glistening and golden. - He will then wrap it in silk of the appropriate colour: —this is the Consécration. He will then take it, and imagin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 133
Ceremony of the Proclamation of Horus, the Crowned and Conquering Child, as Lord of the Aeon. 1 This whole matter is prophesied in the Book of the Law itself ; let the student take note, and enter the ranks of the Host of the Sun. II There is another sacrifice with regard to which the Adepts hâve always maintained the most profound secrecy. It is the suprême mystery of practical Magick. Its name is the Formula of the Rosy Cross. In this case the victim is always — in a certain sense — the Magician himself, and the sacrifice must coïncide with t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 141
…stakable. At the conclusion, it is usually well to pause for a few moments, and to make sure once more that every thing necessary to the ceremony is in its right place. The Magician may then proceed to the final consécration of the furniture of the Temple.1 i. That is, of the spécial arrangement of that furniture. Each object should hâve been separately consecrated beforehand. The ritual here in question should summarize the situation, and devote the particular arrange¬ ment to its purpose by invoking the appropriate forces. Let it be well reme…
1929 · PDF PAGE 158
…t, 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 common sense, nor doubting our secret wisdom. When Frater I. A. was in danger of death in 1899 e.v. Frater V. N. and Frater Perdurabo did indeed invoke the spirit Buer to visible manifestation that he might heal their brother; but also one of them furnished the money to send him to a climate …
1929 · PDF PAGE 96
…phra Tzeniutha I. 2.) One countenance here spoken of is the Macrocosm, the other the Microcosm.2 As said above, the object of any magick ceremony is to unité the Macrocosm and the Microcosm. It is as in optics; the angles of incidence and reflection are equal. You must get your Macrocosm and Microcosm exactly balanced, vertically and horizontally, or the images will not coincide. This equilibrium is affirmed by the magician in arranging the Temple. Nothing must be lop-sided. If you hâve anything in the North, you must put something equal and op…
1929 · PDF PAGE 64
…dy which rises with the mortal body which dies. On the contrary, he repeatedly insists on the distinction. The same is true of a magical ceremony. The magician who is destroyed by absorption in the Godhead is really destroyed. The I. There is a quite different formula in which I is the Father, O the Mother, A the child — and yet another, in which I. A. O. are ail fathers of different kir.ds balanced by H. H. H., 3 Mothers, to complété the Universe. In a third, the true formula of the Beast 666, I and O are îhe opposites which form the field for…
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
…ity of nature. The magician does not doubt that the same causes will always produce the same effects, that the performance of the proper ceremony accompanied by the appropriate spell, will inevitably be attended by the desired results, unless, indeed, his incantations should chance to be thwarted and foiled by the more potent charms of another sorcerer. He supplicates no higher power: he sues the favour of no fickle and wayward being: he abases himself before no awful deity. Yet his power, great as he believes it to be, is by no means arbitrary…
1929 · PDF PAGE 137
…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 the same level as the Stockbroker’s. Even the smallest baby is incompatible with the virginity of its mother. If you leave even a single spirit within the circle, the effect of the conjuration will be…
1929 · PDF PAGE 60
…asize the influence of Venus, who rules Libra. ALHIMy therefore, represents rather the formula of Consécra¬ tion than that of a complété ceremony. It is the breath of bénédiction, yet so potent that it can give life to clay and light to darkness. In consecrating a weapon, Aleph is the whirling force of the thunderbolt, the lightning which flameth out of the East even 1. “Gods” are the Forces of Nature; their “Names” are the Laws of Nature. Thus They are eternal, omnipotent, omniprésent and so on; and thus their “Wills” are immutable and absolut…