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… microcosm is so weak that its imperfection of impurity would vitiate the Macrocosm of which it is the image, Eidolon, or Reflexion. For example, God is above sex; and therefore neither man nor woman as such can be said fully to understand, much less to represent, God. It is therefore incumbent on the male magician to cultivate those female virtues in which he is déficient, and this task he must of course accomplish without in any way impairing his virility. It will then be lawful for a magician to invoke Isis, and identify himself with her; if…
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
advance to any of them. But an example of such an operation may be studied in Equinox I, VII, “The Temple of Solomon the King”, where an invocation of Horus on this formula is given in full. Note the réverbération of the ideas one against another. The formula of Horus has not yet been so fully worked out in details as to justify a treatise upon its exoteric theory and practice; but one may say that it is, to the formula of Osiris, what the turbine is to the reciprocating engine. III There are many other sacred words which enshrine formulæ of gr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 93
… tendencies to imagine one thing rather than another. 1 Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of wine. Try as you will, you can find no reason for your idiosyncrasy. Suppose, then, that when you explore some previous incarnation, you remember that you died by a poison administered in a wine of that character, your aversion is explained by the proverb, aA burnt. child dreads the fire.” It may be objected that in such a case your libi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 49
…e method of Catholic Christianity, and consists in the dramatization of the legend of the God. The Bacchae of Euripides is a magnificent example of such a Ritual; so also^ though in a less degree, is the Mass. We may also mention many of the degrees in Freemasonry, particularly the Third. The 5° — 6° Ritual published in N° III of the Equinox is another example. In the case of Bacchus, one commémorâtes firstly his birth of a mortal mother who has yielded her treasure-house to the Father of AU, of the jealousy and rage excited by this incarnation…
1929 · PDF PAGE 123
… part of the battery against the corresponding part. This would be particularly necessary in an operation such as we hâve chosen for our example. 87 -
1929 · PDF PAGE 115
…he circle). 4. The Knocks or Knells. I Attitudes are of two Kinds: natural and artificial. Of the first kind, prostration is the obvious example. It cornes natural to man (poor créature!) to throw himself to the ground in the presence of the object of his adoration.1 Intermediate between this and the purely artificial form of gestures cornes a class which dépends on acquired habit. Thus it is natural to an European officer to offer his sword in token of surrender. A Tibetan would, however, squat, put out his tongue* and place his hand behind hi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 104
…re several main types. The “preliminary invocation” in the “Goetia” consists principally of corruptions of Greek and Egyptian names. For example, we find “Osorronnophris” for “Asor Un-Nefer”.1 The conjurations given by Dr. Dee (vide Equinox I, VIII) are an a language called Angelic, or Enochian. Its source has hnherto baffled research, but it is a language and not a jargon, for it possesses a structure of its own, and there are traces or grammar and syntax. However this may be, it works. Even the beginner finds that “things happen” when he uses…
1929 · PDF PAGE 118
To take a simple example, suppose that, in an Evocation of Bartzabel, the planet Mars, whose sphere is Geburah (Severity) were situated (actually, in the heavens) opposite to the Square of Chesed (Mercy) of the Tau in the Circle, and the triangle placed accordingly. It would be improper for the Magus to stand on that Square unless using this formula, “I, frora Chesed, rule Geburah through the Path of the Lion”; while — taking an extreme case -— to stand on the square of Hod (which is naturally dominated by Geburah) would be a madness which only…
1929 · PDF PAGE 106
…ld 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 drawn on the Tree of Life (Coptic attributions) in a certain manner.1 2 With ail such words it is of the utmost importance that they should never be spoken until the suprême moment, and even then they should burst from the magician almost despite himse…
1929 · PDF PAGE 117
… is through the mutual destruction of these antagonisms in the mental and moral being of the magician that Samadhi is begotten. III Good examples of the use of change of position are given in the manuscripts Z.i and Z.3; 1 explanatory of the Néophyte Ritual of the G. D., where the candidate is taken to various stations in the Temple, each 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 mak…
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…ail His trials, and emerges triumphant from beyond death. He must, however, be warned against mistaking the symbolism. In this case, for example, the doctrine of individual immortality has been dragged in, to the destruction, of truth. It is not that utterly worthless part of man, his individual consciousness as John Smith, which défiés death — that consciousness which dies and is reborn in every thought. That which persists (if anything persist) is his real John Smithiness, a quality of which he was probably never conscious in his life. " Even…
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…gh such 1. This is said of the partial or lesser Works of Magick. This is an elementary treatise; one cannot discuss higher Works as for example those of “The Hermit of Aesopus Island”. 2. See “The Book of Lies”; there are several chapters on this subject. But Right Exaltation should produce spontaneously the proper mental and physical reactions. As soon as tho development is secured, there will be automatic reflex “justesse”, exactly as in normal aEairs mind and body respond with free unconscious rightness to the Will. 3. The organic developme…
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…ink it his duty to act in a certain way, through having made a fancy picture of himself, instead of investigating his actual nature. For example, a woman may make hei self misérable for life by thinking that she prefers love to social considération, or vice versa. One woman may stay with an unsympathetic nusband when she would really be happy in an attic with a lover, while another may fool herself into a romande elopement when her only true pleasures are those of presiding at fashionable functions. Again, a boy’s instinct may tell him to go to…
1929 · PDF PAGE 29
…qualifies which will enable it to combat successfully the external conditions which threaten to oppose its purpose. We hâve had a recent example in the case of the young German Empire, which, knowing itself and its will, disciplined and trained itself so that it conquered the neighbours which had oppressed it for so many centuries. But after 1866 and 1870, 1914! It mistook itself for superhuman, it willed a thing impossible, it failed to eliminate its own internai jealousies, it failed to understand the conditions of victory, it did not train i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 105
…ht — to the right people. Various considérations impelled Him to attempt conjurations in the English language. There already existed one example, the charm of the witches in Macbeth ; although this was perhaps not meant seriously, its effect is indubitable. * 1 He has found iambic tetrameters enriched with many rimec both internai and external very useful. “The Wizard Way” (Equinox 1,1) gives a good idea of the sort of thing. So does the Evocation of Bartzabel in Equinox I, IX. There are many extant invocations throughout his works, in many kin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…cian will be able to use his own blood, or possibly that of a disciple, and that without sacrificing the physical life irrevocably. 2 An example of this sacrifice is given in Chapter 44 of Liber 333. This Mass may be recommended generally for daiiy practice. One last Word on this subject. There is a Magical Operation of maximum importance: the Initiation of a New Aeon. When it becomes necessary to utter a Word, the whole Planet must be bathed in blood. Before man is ready to accept the Law of Thelema, the Great War must be fought. This Bloody S…
1929 · PDF PAGE 57
… to the corrélation of the various beings of the hierarchy with the observed facts of Magick. In the simple matter of astral vision, for example, one striking case may be quoted. Without telling him what it was, the Master Therion once recited as an invocation Sappho’s “Ode to Venus” before a Proba- tioner of the A.-. A.\ who was ignorant of Greek, the language of the Ode. The disciple then went 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 obta…
1929 · PDF PAGE 144
Let us take a very simple example of a Magical Act: that of a man blowing his nose. What are the conditions of the success of the Operation? Firstly, that the man’s Will should be to blow his nose; secondly, that he should hâve a nose capable of being blown; thirdly, that he should hâve at command an apparatus capable of expressing his spiritual Will in terms of material force, and applying that force to the object which he desires to affect. His Will may be as strong and concentrated as that of Jupiter, and his nose may be totally incapable of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 97
…to the reader. It is the Symbol of Nuit, the totality of the possible ways in which he may repo¬ sent himself and fulfil himself. 4. For example, as when Firmness with one’s self or another is the truest kindness; or when amputation saves life. 5. See Liber 418, nth Aethyr. 61
1929 · PDF PAGE 110
…o the same to ail the other fools in the world. He accordingly wrote a song, and produced the desired resuit. This is the most notorious example in recent times of the power exerted by a barbarous name of évocation. A few words may be useful to reconcile the general notion of Causality with that of Magick. How can we be sure that a person waving a stick and howling thereby produces thunderstorms ? In no other way than that familiar to Science ; we note that whenever we put a lighted match to dry gunpowder, an unintelligibly arbitrary phenomenon…