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… of thorny thigh, And the word of madness and mystery, O Pan! IoPan! lo Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan Pan! Pan, I am a man: Do as thou wilt, as a great god can, O Pan! IoPan! Io Pan ! Io Pan Pan ! I am awake In the grip of the snake. The eagle slashes with beak and claw; The gods withdraw: The great beasts corne, Io Pan! I am borne To death on the horn Of the Unicom. I am Pan ! Io Pan ! Io Pan Pan ! Pan ! VIII —
1929 · PDF PAGE 106
… 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 himself — so great should be his réluctance 3 to utter them. In fact, they should be the utterance of the God in hi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 107
… into dis¬ solution. Let the Magician eamestly seek this Lost Word, for its pronunciation is synonymous with the accomplish- ment of the Great Work. 1 2 In this matter of the efficacity of words there are again two formulæ exactly opposite in nature. A word may become potent and terrible by virtue of constant répétition. It is in this way that most religions gain strength. At first the statement “So and so is God” excites no interest. Continue, and you meet scora and scepticism: possibly persécution. Continue, and the controversy has so far die…
1929 · PDF PAGE 87
…s much easier (for obvious reasons) to acquire the Magical Memory when one has been sworn for many lives to reincarnate immediately. The great obstacle is the phenomenon called Freudian forgetfulness; that is to say, that, though an unpleasant event may be recorded faithfully enough by the mechanism of the brain, we fail to recall it, or recall it wrong, because it is painful. “The Psychopathology of Everyday Life” analyses and illustrâtes this phenomenon in detail. Now, the King of Terrors being Death, it is hard indeed to look it in the face.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…But the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious; and for nearly ail purposes human sacrifice is the best. The truly great Magician 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 ut…
1929 · PDF PAGE 70
Aeon of his. Matriarchal Age. The Great Work conceived as a straightforward simple affair. We find the theory reflected in the customs of Matriarchy. Parthenogenesis is supposed to be true. The Virgin (Yod-Virgo) contains in herself the Principle of Growth — the epicene Her- metic seed. It becornes the Babe in the Egg (A — Harpocrates) by virtue of the Spirit (A = Air, impregnating the Mother- Vulture) and this becomes the Sun or Son (F = the letter of Tiphareth, 6, even when spelt as Oméga, in Coptic. See 777). Aeon of Osiris. Patriarchal âge.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
…nts are arguments in a circle. * But discussions of the details of purely imaginary : qualifies are frivolous and may be deadly. For the great danger of this magical theory is that the student may mistake the alphabet for the things which the words represent. An excellent man of great intelligence, a iearned Qabalist, once amazed the Master Therion by stating that the Tree of Life was the framework of the Universe. It was as if some one had seriously maintained that a ait was a créature constructed by placing the letters C. A. T. in that order.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 90
…eunine Magical Memory; to mention a few sources of error, and to lay down critical mies for the vérification of one’s results. The first great danger arises from vanity. One should always beware of “remembering” that one was Cleopatra or Shakespeare. x4gain, superficial resemblances are usually misleading. One of the great tests of the genuineness of any recollection is that one remembers the really important things in one’s life, not those which mankind commonly classes as such. For instance, iUeister Crowley does not remember any of the décis…
1929 · PDF PAGE 121
…er of knocks will refer to the Sephira or other idea Qabalistically cognate with that number. Thus, 7 knocks will intimate Venus, 11 the Great Work, 17 the Trinity of Fathers, and 19 the Féminine Principle in its most general sense. Analyzing the matter a little further, we remark firstly that a battery of too many knocks is confusing, as well as liable to over- weight the other parts of the ritual. In practice, 11 is about the limit. It is usually not difficult to arrange to cover ail necessary ground with that number. Secondly, each is so ext…
1929 · PDF PAGE 120
erform the Great Work by the formula of Régénération. To trike with the hand on the dagger déclarés that one demands he use of the dagger as a tocl to extena one’s executive power. The reader will recall how Siegfried smote Nothung, the sword of Need, upon the lance of Wotan. By the action Wagner, who was instructed how to apply magical formulæ by one of the heads of our Order, intended his hearers to understand that the reign of authority and paternal power had corne to an end 5 that the new master of the world was intellect. The general objec…
1929 · PDF PAGE 139
…l? ” “It is my will to eat and drink ” “To what end?” “That my body may be fortified thereby.” “To what end?” “That I may accomplish the Great Work.” “Love is the law, love under will.” “Fall to!” This may be adapted as a monologue. One may also add the inquiry “What is the Great Work?” and answer appropriately, when it seems useful to specify the nature of the Operation in progress at the time. The point is to seize every occasion of bringing every available force to bear upon the objective of the assault. It does not matter what the force is …
1929 · PDF PAGE 135
… or its energy may be as it were poisoned. It must also not be too large: * 1 2 3 the amount of energy disengaged is almost unimaginably great, and out of ail anticipated proportion to the strength of the animal. Con- sequently, the Magician may easily be overwhelmed and obsessed by the force which he has let loose; it will then probably manifest itself in its lowest and most objectionable form. The most intense spirituality of purpose is absolutely essential to safety. In évocations the danger is not so great, as the Circle forms a protection …
1929 · PDF PAGE 129
…t earth is not such a pleasant place as heaven. However, there is a mystery concealed in this theory of the bloody sacrifice which is of great importance to the student, and we therefore make no further apology. We should not hâve made even this apology for an apology, had it not been for the solicitude of a pious young friend of great austerity of character who insisted that the part of this chapter which now follows — the part which was originally written — might cause us to be misunderstood. This must not be. The blood is the life. This simp…
1929 · PDF PAGE 18
what that implied; it was a passionately ecstatic sense of identity. In my third year at Cambridge, I devoted myself consciously to the Great Work, understanding thereby the Work of becoming a Spiritual Being, free from the constraints, accidents, and déceptions of material existence. I found myself at a loss for a name to designate my work, just as H. P. Blavatsky some years earlier. “Theosophy”, “Spiritua- lism”, “Occultism”, “Mysticism”, ail involved undesirable con¬ notations. I chose therefore the name. “MAGICK” as essentially the most sub…
1929 · PDF PAGE 96
…lop-sided. If you hâve anything in the North, you must put something equal and opposite to it in the South. The importance of this is so great, and the truth of it so obvious, that no one with the most médiocre capacity 1. The full significance of this aphorism is an Arcanum of the grade of Ipsissimus. It may, however, be partially apprehended by study of Liber Aleph, and the Book of the Law and the Commentaries thereon. It explains Existence. 2. This is the case because we happen ourselves to be Microcosms whose Law is “love under will”. But i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
… 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 and unlimited. He can wield it only so long as he strictly conforms to the rules of his art, or to what may be called the laws of nature as conceived by — XIII —
1929 · PDF PAGE 58
…: <cThou hast formulated thy Father, and made fertile thy Mother”. The adding of the Hé to the Yod is the marriage of that Father to the great co-equal Mother, who is a reflection of Nuit as He is of Hadit. Their union brings forth the son Vau who is the heir. Finally the daughter Hé is produced. She is both the twin sister and the daughter of Vau.2 His mission is to redeem her by making her his bride -, the resuit of this is to set her upon the throne of her mother, and it is only she whose youthful embrace can reawaken the eld of the 1. mm ; …
1929 · PDF PAGE 71
…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 — Silence . Cloak These symbols are ail shewn in t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 48
…he ‘first noble truth’ uttered by Buddha, that Everything is sorrow. Nature, it seems, is a tragedy. He has perhaps even experienced the great trance called Sorrow. He should then consider whether there is not some Deity who expresses this Cycle, and yet whose nature is joy. He will find what he requires in Dionysus. There are three main methods of invoking any Deity. The First Method consists of dévotion to that Deity, and, being mainly mystical in character, need not be dealt with in this place, especially as a perfect instruction exists in L…
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
… the formula of Osiris, what the turbine is to the reciprocating engine. III There are many other sacred words which enshrine formulæ of great efficacity in particular operations. For example, V.I.T.R.I.O.L gives a certain Regimen of the Planets useful in Alchemical work. Ararita is a formula of the macrocosm potent in certain very lofty Operations of the Magick of the Inmost Light. (See Liber 813.) The formula of Thelema may be summarized thus: Q “Babalon and The Beast conjoined” — £ unto Nuith (CCXX, 1, 51) — A The Work accomplished in Justic…