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…hy these things are to be used. Of course, as the student advances in knowledge by expérience he will find a progressive subtlety in the magical universe corresponding to his own; for let it be said yet again! not only is his aura a magical mirror of the universe, but the universe is a magical mirror of his aura. In this chapter we are only able to give a very thin outline of magical theory — faint pencilling by weak and wavering fingers — for this subject may almost be said to be co-extensive with one’s whole knowledge. Fhe knowledge of exoter…
1929 · PDF PAGE 124
…and too sacred to be printed. They are only communicated by the Master Therion to chosen pupils in private 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…
1929 · PDF PAGE 147
…aws are much less dissimilar from those of material physics. Magicians hâve too often been foolish enough to suppose that ail classes of Magical Operations were equally easy. They seem to hâve assumed that the “almighty power of God” was an infinité quantity in presence of which ail finites were equally insignifiant. “One day is with the Lord as a thousand years” is their first law of Motion. “Faith can move mountains” they sav, and disdain to measure either the faith or the mountains. If you can kill a chicken by Magic, why not destroy an army…
1929 · PDF PAGE 142
CHAPTER XIV Of the Consécrations : WlTH AN ACCOUNT OF THE Nature and Nurture of the Magical Link. I Consécration is the active dedication of a thmg to a single purpose. Ranishing prevents its use for any other purpose, but it remains inert until consecrated. Purification is performed by water, and banishing by air, whose weapon is the sword. Consécra¬ tion is performed by fire, usually symbolised by the holy oil.1 In most extant magical rituals the two operations are per¬ formed at once; or (at least) the banishing has the more important place,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 126
which inhabits il, and take possession. To do this by force is neither easy nor justifiable, because the magical being of the other was incarnated in accordance with its Will. And “Thou hast no right but to do thy Will.” One should hardly strain this sentence to make one’s own will include the will to upset somebody else’s will! 1 Moreover, it is extremely difficult thus to expatriate another magical being ; for though, unless it is a complété microcosm like a human being, it cannot be called a star, it is a little bit of a star, and a part of …
1929 · PDF PAGE 150
…me order as that which one’s enemy has taken for his mani¬ festation. Your spirit can only corne into contact with his by me^yis of this magical manufacture of phantomsj in the same way, one can only measure one’s mind (a certain part of it) against another man’s by expressing them in some such form as the game of chess. One cannot use chessmen against another man unless he agréé to use them in the same sense as you do. The board and men form the Magical Link by which you can prove your power to constrain him to yield. The game is a device by w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 43
…ilty of so gross a violation of the first principles of common sense. 1 A synopsis of the grades of the A.*. A.*, as illustrative of the Magical Hierarchy in Man is given in Appendix 2 “One Star in Sight.” This should be read before proceeding with the chapter. The subject is very difficult. To deal with it in full is entirely beyond the limits of this small treatise. FU RT HE R CONCERNING THE MAGICAL U NIV ERSE Ail these letters of the magical alphabet — referred to above — are like so many names on a map. Man himself is a complété microcosm. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 19
(Illustration: It is my Will to inform the World of certain facts within my knowledge. I therefore take “magical weapons”, pen, ink, and paper ; I Write “incantations” — these sentences — in the “magical language” i.e. that which is understood by the people I wish to instruct; I call forth “spirits”, such as printers, publishers, booksellers, and so forth, and constrain them to convey my message to those people. The composition and distribution of this book is thus an act of __ . MAGICK by which I cause Changes to take place in conformity with …
1929 · PDF PAGE 143
…eternae caritatis. 2 These, as initiâtes of the VIT of O.T.O. are aware, mean more than appears. II It is a strange circumstance that no Magical writer has hitherto treated the immensely important subject of the Magical Link. It might almost be called the Missing Link. It has apparently always been taken for granted; only lay writers on Magick like Dr. J. G. Frazer hâve accorded the subject its full importance. Let us try to make considérations of the nature of Magick in a strictly scientific spirit, as well as, deprived of the guidance of anti…
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
The formula of the Cup is not so well suited for Evocations, and the magical Hierarchy is not involved in the same way; for the Cup being passive rather than active, it is not fitting for the magician to use it in respect of anything but the Highest. In practical working it consequently means little but prayer, and that prayer the “prayer of silence”.1 The formula of the dagger is again unsuitable for either pur- pose, since the nature of the dagger is to criticise, to destroy, to disperse j and ail true magical ceremonies tend to concentration…
1929 · PDF PAGE 62
… ALIM, the congress of dead éléments, only fructifies by the brooding of Spirit. This being so, how can we describe ALIM as containing a Magical formula ? Inquiry discloses the fact that this formula is of a very spécial kind. The word adds up to 81, which is a number of the moon. It is thus the formula of witchcraft, which is under Hecate 2. It is only the romantic mediaeval perversion of science that represents young women as partaking in witchcraft, which is, properly speaking, restricted to the use of such women as are no longer women in th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 41
…é lo apprehend Him by formula ting our minds according to these measures. 1 lo return, each letter of this alphabet may hâve its spécial magical sigil. The student must not expect to be given a cut- and-dried définition of what exactly is meant by any of ali this. On the contrary, he must work backwards, putting the whole of his mental and moral outfit into these pigeon-holes. You would not expect to be able to buy a filing cabinet with the names of ali y our past, présent and future correspondents ready indexed: y our cabinet has a System of l…
1929 · PDF PAGE 125
…ss judgment. One can leave the decision to the will of each magician. The Book of the Dead contains many chapters intended to enable the magical entity of a man who is dead, and so deprived (according to the theory of death then current) of the material vehicle for executing his will, to take on the form of certain animais, such as a golden hawk or a crocodile, and in such form to go about the earth “taking his pleasure among the living.” * 1 As a general rule, material was supplied out of which he could construct the party of the second part a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 158
…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 less cruel than England’s. He is alive to day1…
1929 · PDF PAGE 120
…ll 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 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 spi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 131
…ere is, however, no objection to dualism or black magic when they are properly understood. See the account of the Master Therion’s Great Magical Retirement by Lake Pasquaney, where He “crucified a toad in the Basilisk abode”. 2. A wolf would be still better in the case of Mars. See 777 for the correspondences between various animais and the “32 Paths” of Nature. 3. There is also the question of its magical freedom. Sexual intercourse créâtes a link between its exponents, and therefore a responsi- bility. 4. It appears from the Magical Records o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 47
CHAPTER I The Principles of Ritual,. There is a single main définition of the object of ail magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Suprême and Complété Ritual is there- fore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; 1 or* in the language of Mysticism, Union with God. 2 Ail other magical Rituals are particular cases of this general principle, and the only excuse for doing them is that it sometimes occurs that one particular portion of the microcosm is so weak that its imperfection of impurity would vitiate th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
…ey at least made waxen images — iden- tified by baptism — of the people they wished to control. They at least used appropriate bases for Magical manifestations, such as blood and other vehicles of animal force, with those of vegetable virtue such as herbs. They were also careful to put their bewitched products into actual contact — material or astral — with their victims. The classical exorcists, on the contrary, for ail their learning, were careless about this essential condition. They acted as stupidly as people who should Write business lett…
1929 · PDF PAGE 105
and there is a certain magical voice in which they should be recited. This spécial voice was a natural gift of the Master Therion; but it can be easily taught — 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) give…
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…s 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 Sacrifice is the critical point of the Worïd- he sacrifices is not the material blood, but his Creative power. ” This initiated interprétation of the texts was sent …