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Page 1 of 21929 · PDF PAGE 128
… 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 lesson in the Bible is that the only sacrifice pleasing to the Lord is the sacrifice of bloodj Abel, who made this, finding favour with the Lord, while Cain, who offered cabbages, was rather naturally considered a cheap sport. The idea recurs again and again. We hâve the sacrifice of the Passover, following on the story of Abraha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 121
and how we may interrupt any sériés so as to express our idea by means of structure. The general rule is that a single knock has no spécial significance as such, because unity is omniform. It represents Kether, which is the source of ail things equally without partaking of any quality by which we discriminate one thing from another. Continuing on these lines, the number 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 …
1929 · PDF PAGE 98
…t the Holy Dove must transmute itself into the wondering Virgin that receives in her womb the quickening of that same Spirit of God. Any idea that is thus in itself positive and négative, active and passive, male and female, is fit to exist above the Abyss; any idea not so equilibrated is below the Abyss, contains in itself an unmitigated 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 …
1929 · PDF PAGE 84
…ve of whether earth perceives it or not. Now it so happens that the root GN signifies both knowledge and génération combined in a single idea, in an absolute form independent of personality. The G is a silent letter, as in oür word Gnosisj and the sound GN is nasal, suggesting therefore the breath of life as opposed to that of speech. Impelled by these considérations, the Master Therion proposed to replace the M of AUM by a compound letter MGN, symbolizing thereby jthe subtle transformation of the apparent silence and death which terminâtes the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 151
…pure intensity, and to incarnate that will in a body suitable to express it, a body such that its impact on the bodily expression of the idea one wills to change is to cause it to do so. For instance, is it my will to become a famous physician? I banish ail “hostile spirits” such as laziness, alien interests, and conflicting pleasures, from my “circle” the hospital} J. consecrate my “weapons” (my various abilities) to the study of medicine} I invoke the “Gods” (medical authorities) by studying and obeying their laws in their books. I embody the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 22
principles whose interplay învolves different orders of idea connected with each other in a way beyond our présent compréhension. (Illustration: We are able to light cities by rule-of-thumb methods. We do not know what consciousness is, or how it is connected with muscular action ; what electricity is or how it is connected with the machines that generate it; and our methods dépend on calculations involving mathematical ideas which hâve no correspondence in the Universe as we know it. *) (12) Man is ignorant of the nature of his own being and p…
1929 · PDF PAGE 38
is faased upon actual spiritual expérience, but the trained reason 1 can reach a réflexion of this idea by the method of logical con¬ tradiction which ends in reason transcending itself. The 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, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 97
…ttle he move to the right, let him balance it by an équivalent movement to the left; or if forwards, backwards; and let him correct each idea by implying the contradictory contained therein. If he invoke Severity, let him recount that Severity is the instrument of Mercy; 4 if Stability, let him show the basis of that Stability to be constant change, just as the stability of a molécule is secured by the momentum of the swift atoms contained in it. 5 In this way let every idea go forth as a triangle on the base of two opposites, making an apex tr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 31
…K he shall be such a shepherd as David was. If it be the studio of a sculptor, he shall so chisel from himself the marble that masks his idea that he shall be no less a master than Rodin. Witness mine hand : TO META 0HPION (nnn) • The Beast 666; MAGUS 9°=2° A.*. A.*, who is The Word of the Aeon THELEMA; whose name is called V.V.V.V.V. 8° = 30 A.*. A.-, in the City of the Pyramids; OU MH 70 = 40; OL SONUF VAORESAGI 6° = 50, and . 50 = 6° A.\ A.*, in the Mountain of Abiegnus: but FRATER PERDURABO in the Outer Order or the A.'. A.*, and in the Wor…
1929 · PDF PAGE 64
…he Rédemption of Mankind. I is Isis, Nature, ruined by A, Apophis the Destroyer, and restored to life by the Redeemer Osiris.1 The sanie idea is expressed by the Rosicrucian formula of the Trinity: Ex Deo nas ci mur. In Je su morimur. Per Sfiritum Sanctum reviviscimus. This is also identical with the Word Lux L.V.X., which is formed by the arrns of a cross. It is this formula which is implied in those ancient and modem monuments in which the phallus is worshipped as the Saviour of the World. The doctrine of résurrection as vulgarly understood i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 37
…, e.v.) This profoundly mystical conception 1. I présent this theory in a very simple form. I cannot even explain (for instance) that an idea may not refer to Being at ail, but to Going. The Book of the Law demands spécial study and initiated appréhension. 2. More correctly, HERU-RA-HA, to include HOOR-PAAR- KRAAT. 3. The basis of this theology is given in Liber CCXX, AL vel Legis which forins Part IV of this Book 4. Hence I can only outline the matter in a very crude way; it would require a separate treatise to discuss even the true meaning of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 71
genesis-idea persists, but is now the formula for incarnating demi-gods, or divine kings; these must be slain and raised from the dead in one way or another. 1 Aeon of Horus. Two 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…
1929 · PDF PAGE 23
… of his being. He may thus subjugate the whole Universe of which he is conscious to his individual Will. (Illustration: Man has used the idea of God to dictate his Personal conduct, to obtain power over his fellows, to excuse his crimes, and for innumerable other purposes, including that of realizing himself as God. He has used the irrational and unreal conceptions of mathematics to help him in the construction of mechanical devices. He has used his moral force to influence the actions even of wild animais. He has employed poetic genius for pol…
1929 · PDF PAGE 62
…al operation can be performed by the formula of ALIM. Ail the works of witchcraft are illusory; and their apparent effects dépend on the idea that it is possible to aiter things by the mere rearrangement of them. One 1. AMA is 42, the number of sterility; AIMA, 52, that of fertility, of BN, the SON. 2. See A. Crowley “Orpheus" for an Invocation of this Goddess. 26
1929 · PDF PAGE 107
…s exactly the same chance as the real. Persistence is the only quality required for success. The opposite formula is that of secrecy. An idea is perpetuated because it must never be mentioned. A Freemason never forgets the secret words entrusted to him, though these words mean, absolutely nothing to him, in the vast majority of cases; the only reason for this is that he has been forbidden to mention them, although they hâve been published again and again, and are as accessible to the profane as to the initiate. In such a work of practical Magic…
1929 · PDF PAGE 88
…. The motive of this play is a Magical Operation of a very peculiar kincl The formula which Aleister Crowley supposed to be his original idea is mentioned by Levi. We hâve not been able to trace it anywhere else with such exact correspondent in every dtail. 4. Aleister Crowley found a certain quarter of Paris incom- prehensibly familiar and attractive to him. This was not the ordinary phenomenon of the déjà vu, it was chiefly a sense of being at home again. He discovered long after that Levi had lived in the neighbourhood for many years. 5. The…
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
… There is no limit to the extent of the relations of any man with the Universe in essence; for as soon as man makes himself one with any idea the means of measurement cease to exist. But liis power to utilize that force is limited by his mental power and capacity, and by the circumstances of his human environment. (Illustration: When a man falls in love, the whole world becomes, to him, nothing but love boundless and immanent; but his mystical State is not contagious; his fellow-men are either amused or annoyed. He can only extend to others the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 105
…as 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 kinds of métré, of many kinds of being, and for many kinds of purposes. (See Appendix). Other methods of incantation are on record as efficacious. For instance Frater I. A., when a child, was told that he could invoke the devil by repeating the “Lord’s Prayer” backward…
1929 · PDF PAGE 45
… access, except in the most indirect way, to any other celestial body than our own. In the last few years, the semi-educated hâve got an idea that they know a great deal about the universe, and the principal ground for their fine opinion of themselves is usually the téléphoné or the airship. It is pitiful to read the bombastic twaddle about progress, which journalists and others, who wish to prevent men from thinking, put out for consumption. We know infinitesimally little of the material universe. Our detailed knowledge is so contemptibly minu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 140
…s important to remember this fact, as it helps one to grasp what ail these terms really mean. None of the “Thirty-two Paths” is a simple idea; each one is a combination, differentiated from the others by its structure smd proportions. The chemical éléments are similarly constituted, as the critics of Magick hâve at last been compelled to admit. 104 —