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occupy the samc space at the same time without interferîng wkh each other or losing their outlines. In that Light, objects can change their appearance completely without suffering change of Nature. The same thing can reveal itself in an infinité number of different aspects5 in fart, it iden¬ tifies itself by so doing, much as a writer or a painter reveals himself in a succession of novels or pictures, each of which is wholly himself and nothing else, but himself under varied conditions, though each appears utterly différent from its fellows. In…
1929 · PDF PAGE 124
…instruction. II The essential magical work, apart from any particular operation, is the proper formation of the Magical Being or Body of Light. This process will be discussed at some length in Chapter XVIII. We will here assume that the magician has succeeded in developing his Body of Light until it is able to go anyy/here and do anything. There will, however, be a certain limitation to his work, because he has formed his magical body from the fine matter of his own element. Therefore, although he may be able to penetrate the utmost recesses of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
…e everywhere implies that it is essential to the Work. He evaded the question by making the petitio principii of assigning to the Astral Light the power of transmitting vibrations of ail kinds. He nowhere enters into detail as to how its effects are produced. He does not inform us as to the qualitative or quantitative laws of this light. (The scientifically trained student will observe the analogy between Levi’s postulate and that of ordinary science in re the luminiferous ether.) It is déplorable that nobody should hâve recorded in a syste- ma…
1929 · PDF PAGE 147
…cloudcd, or cracked 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 th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 116
…should never be omitted unless there be some spécial reason against it. A particular tread seems appropriate to it. This tread should be light and stealthy, almost furtive, and yet very purposeful. It is the pace of the tiger who stalks the deer. The number of circumambulations should of course correspond to the nature of the ceremony. Another important movement is the spiral, of which there are two principal forms, one inward, one outward. They can be performed in either direction ; and, like the circumambulation, if performed deosil2 they inv…
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
…v àXrrcXayxts, xuXXavtaç ytovoxTU~Gt<. TiiTpata; àîîo SeipdSoç çàvY]ô\ co (kcov yopoTcét’ ava^ SOPH. AJ. Thrill with lissome lust of the light, O man ! My man ! Corne careering out of the night Of Pan ! Io Pan! Io Pan ! Io Pan ! Corne over the sea From Sicily and from Arcady ! Roaming as Racchus, with fauns and pards And nymphs and satyrs for thy gnards, On a milk-white ass, corne over the sea To me, to me, Corne with Apollo in hridal dress (Shepherdess and pythoness) Corne with Artémis, silken shod, And wash thy white thigh, beautiful God, In …
1929 · PDF PAGE 56
…astically a person whom we know not to exist, we are rebuking that mind. Yet we should not refrain altogether from philosophising in the light of the Holy Qabalah. We should accept the Magical Hierarchy as a more or less con- venient classification of the facts of the Universe as they are i. He could do this provided that he can travel with à speed exceeding that of Light, as he does. See A. S. Eddington aSpace, Time, and Gra¬ vitation”. Also : what means “at once”? 20
1929 · PDF PAGE 149
…t there is one law only to govern the small as the great. The same laws describe and measure the motions of the ant and the stars. Their light is no swifter than that of a spark. In every operation of Magick the link must be properly made. The first requisite is the acquisition of adéquate force of the kind required for the purpose. We must hâve electricity of a certain potential in sufficient amount if we wish to heat food in a furnace. We shall need a more intense current and a greater supply to light a city than to charge a téléphoné wire. N…
1929 · PDF PAGE 46
…frica, or a chemist to one subgroup of compounds. Each surh detailed piece of work may be very valuable, but it does not as a rule throw light on the main principles of the universe. Its truth is the truth of one angle. It might even lead to error, if some inferior person were to generalize from too few facts. Imagine an inhabitant of Mars who wished to philosophise about the earth, and had nothing to go by but the diary of some man at the North Pôle! But the work of every explorer, on whatever branch of the Tree of Life the Caterpillar he is a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 68
…l in Cloak, and therein ; the desert. Christ taking Serpent). se x u a'I ly refuge in Egypt, and on ambivalent) the Mount tempted by the Light, i. e. Devil. The Unconscious of Wisdom, the Inmost. Will, or Word. 32
1929 · PDF PAGE 77
…the original price paid for magick power. And if by magick power we mean the true power, the assimilation of ail force with the Ultimate Light, the true Bridai of the Rosy Cross, then is that blood the offering of Virginity, the sole sacrifice well-pleasing to the Master, the sacrifice whose only reward is the pain of child-bearing unto him. But “to sell one’s soûl to the devil”, to renounce no matter what for an équivalent in personal gain % is hlack magic. You are no longer a noble giver of your ail, but a mean huckster. 1. There is no moral …
1929 · PDF PAGE 60
…ula 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 absolute. • 2. It represents Sakti, or Teh; femininity always means form, mani¬ festation. The mas…
1929 · PDF PAGE 28
…niversal necessity, and not to be shirked on account of any casual circumstances of the moment which may seem to put such conduct in the light of inconvenience or even of cruelty. I hope that the principles outlined above will help them to understand this book, and prevent them from being deterred from its study by the more or less technical language in which it is written. The essence of MAGICK is simple enough in ail conscience. It is not otherwise with the art of government. The Aim is simply prosperity; but the theory is tangled, and the pr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 71
… 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 the Atu “The Hermit”. They are the powers of the Yod, whose extension is the Vau. Yod is the Hand wherewith man does his Will. It is also the Virgin ; his essence is inviolate. A is the Babe “who has formulated his Father, and made fertile his Mother” — Harpocrates, etc., as before; but he develops to O The exalted “D…
1929 · PDF PAGE 22
…lay 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 powers. Even his idea of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 23
…ans. There is thus an inexhaustible suppiy of any particular kind of force that we may need. (Illustration: Heat may be transformed into light and power by using it to drive dynamos. The vibrations of the air may be used to kill men by so ordering them in speech as to inflame war-like passions. The hallucinations connected with the mysterious energies of sex resuit in the perpétuation of the species.) (16) The application of any given force affects ail the orders of being which exist in the object to which it is applied, whichever of those orde…
1929 · PDF PAGE 20
…his treatment injures his patient. There may be failure to apply the right kind of force, as when a rustic tries to blow out an electric light. There may be failure to apply the right degree of force, as when a wrestler has his hold broken. There may be failure to apply the force in the right manner, as when one présents a chèque at the wrong window of the Bank. There may be failure to employ the correct medium, as when Leonardo da Vinci found his masterpiece fade away. The force may be applied to an unsuitable object, as when one tries to crac…
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
…ets 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 Justice — y) the Holy Graal — p. The Water therein — a The Babe in the Egg (Harpocrates on the Lotus.) That of Agape is as follows: Dionysus (Capital A) — The Virgin Earth y — The Babe in the Egg (small a — the image of the Father) — The Massacre o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
…s and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams.” Dr. J. G. FRAZER, «The Golden Bough “So far, therefore, as the public profession of magic has been one of the roads by which men hâve passed to suprême power, it has contributed to emancipate mankind from the thraldom of tradition and to elevate them into a larger, f reer life, with a broader outlook, on the worid. This is no small service rendered to humanity. And when we remember further th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 59
… expansion of the consciousness ; it will penetrate ail space, and this will finally undergo a crystallization resplendent with interior light. Such modifications of the original Will may be observed in the course of the invocations when they are properly performed. The peculiar dangers of each are obvious — that of the first is a flash in the pan — a misfire; that of the second, a falling into dreaminess or reverie; that of the third, loss of concentration. A mistake in any of these points will prevent, or injure the proper formation of, the f…