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…erefore do ail things obey my word.” Yet in the fourth part, which begins: “Therefore do thou corne forth unto me”, it is not really the magician who is addressing the God; it is the God who hears the far-off utterance of the magician. If this invocation has been correctly performed, the words of the fourth part will Sound distant and strange. It is surprising that a dummy (so the magus now appears to Himself) should be able to speak! The Egyptian Gods are so complété in their nature, so perfectly spiritual and yet so perfectly material, that t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 103
…hink intently and with dévotion of the symbols which he draws. This circle may then be initiated by a circumambulation, during which the magician invokes the names of God that are on it. Any person without sufficient ingenuity to devise proper methods of préparation for the other articles required is unlikely to make much of a magician; and we shall only waste space if we deal in detail with the préparation of each instrument. There is a definite instruction in Liber A vel Armorum, in the Equinox, Volume I, Number IV, as to the Lamp and the Fou…
1929 · PDF PAGE 54
…f the invocation, the voice of the god is heard, and His characteristic utterance is recited. In the thirâ fortion of the invocation the magician asserts the identity of himself with the god. In the fourth fortion the god is again invoked, but as if by Himself, as if it were the utterance of the will of the god that He should manifest in the magician. At the conclusion of this, the original object of the invocation is stateci. Th us, in the invocation of Thoth which is to be found in the rite of Mercury (Equinox I, VI) and in Liber LXIV, the fi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 102
Further, the attitude of the magician to his weapous should be tliat of the God to the suppliant who invokes Him. It should he the love of the father for his child, the tenderness and care of the hridegroom for his bride, and that peculiar feeling which the creator of every work of art feeïs for his masterpieee. Where this is clearly understood, the magician will find no difficulty in observing the proper ritual, not only in the actual cérémonial consécration of each weapon, but in the actuai prépara¬ tion, a process which should adumbrate this…
1929 · PDF PAGE 126
…nts a tremendous gain to the animal. 3 It competely fulfils its ambition by an alliance of this extremely intimate sort with a Star. The magician, on the other hand, is able to transform and retransform himself in a thousand ways by accepting a retinue of such adhérents. In this way the projection of the “astral” or Body of Light may be made absolutely tangible and practical. At the same time, the magician must réalisé that in undertaking the Karma of any elemental, he is assuming a very serious responsibility• The bond which unités him with th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…ions, 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. The dagger will therefore appear principally in the b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 101
…y land or in the water, of whirling air or of rushing fire, or any spell or scourge of God which is not obedient to the necessity of the Magician! That which he has, he has not; but that which he is, he is; and that which he will be, he will be. And neither God nor Man, nor ail the malice of Choronzon, can either check him, or cause him to waver for one instant upon the Path. This command and this promise hâve been given by ail the Magi without exception. And where this command has been obeyed, this promise has been most certainly fulfilled. II…
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…bove the earth, that should reabsorb itself into that illimitable radiance of which it is a spark. 1 The great difficulty for the single Magician is so to perfect himself that these multifarious duties of the Ritual are adequately performed. At first he will find that the exaltation destroys memory and paralyses muscle. This is an essential difficulty of the magical process, and can only be overcome by practice and expérience.2 In order to aid concentration, and to increase the supply of Energy, it has been customary for the Magician to employ …
1929 · PDF PAGE 119
…e theoretically appropriate instrument, the bell. It may nevertheless be admitted that they become more important in the ceremony if the Magician considers it worth while to take up 1 an instrument whose single purpose is to produce them. Let it first be laid down that a knock asserts a connection between the Magician and the object which he strikes. Thus the use of the bell, or of the hands, means that the Magician wishes to impress the atmosphère of the whole circle with what has been or is about to be done. He wishes to formulate his will in…
1929 · PDF PAGE 61
…us or Indra, the God of Air. Lamed is the Ox-goad, the driving force; and it is also the Balance, representing the truth and love of the Magician. It is the loving care which he bestows upon perfecting his instruments, and the équilibration of that fierce force which initiâtes the ceremony \ Yod is the créative energy — the procreative power ; and yet Yod is the solitude and silence of the hermitage into which the Magician has shut himself. Mem is the letter of Water, and it is the Mem final, whose long fiat lines suggest the Sea at peace ; n…
1929 · PDF PAGE 47
…refore 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 he fail to do this, his appréhension of the Universe when he attains Samadhi will lack the conception of maternity. The resuit will be a metaphysical and — by corollary —…
1929 · PDF PAGE 39
…n the King”. Such is a crude and elementary sketch of this System. The formula of Tetragrammaton is the most important for the practical magician. Here Yod = 2, Hé = 3, Vau = 4 to 9, Hé final =10. The Number Two represents Yod, the Divine or Archétypal World, and the Number One is only attained by the destruction of the God and the Magician in Samadhi. The world of Angels is under the numbers Four to Nine, and that of spirits under the I. The balance of the Sephiroth: Kether (0 “Kether is in Malkuth, and Malkuth is in Kether, but after another …
1929 · PDF PAGE 76
…and III. It is the formula of the Néophyte Ceremony of G.D. It should be employed in the consécration of the actual weapons usecl by the magician, and may also be used as the first formula of initiation. In the book called Z 21 (Equinox I, III) are given full details of this formula, which cannot be too carefully studied and practised. It is unfortunately, the most complex of ail of them. But this is the fault of the first matter of the work, which is so muddled that many operations are required to unify it. i. Those sections dealing with divin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 106
…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 him at the first onset of the divine possession. So uttered, they cannot fail of effect, for they hâve become the effect. Every wise magician will hâve constructed (according to the principles of the Holy Qabalah) many such words, and he should hâve quintessentialised them ai…
1929 · PDF PAGE 41
…ou would be able to hâve a much more comprehensive grasp of your affairs than would otherwise be the case. By the use of this System the magician is able ultimately to unify the whole of his knowledge — to trans¬ mute, even on the Intellectual Plane, the Many into the One. * The reader can now understand that the sketch given above of the magical Hierarchy is hardly even an outline of the real theory of the Universe. This theory may indeed be studied iii the article already referred to in No. V of the Equinox, and, môre deeply, in the Book of t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 117
…hen takes its place as the enemy of Will. It 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 t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 116
…if widdershins 3 they banish 4. In the spiral the tread is light and tripping, almost approximating to a dance : while performing it the magician will usually turn on his own axis, either in the same direction as 1. In Part II of this Book 4 it was assumed that the Magician went barefoot. This would imply his intention to make intimate contact with his Circle. But he may wear sandals, for the Ankh is a sandal-strap; it is borne by the Egyptian Gods to signify their power of Going, that is their eternal energy. By shape the Ankh (or Crux Ansata)…
1929 · PDF PAGE 152
…ice ad hoc to effect contact between the Circle and the Triangle. Operations of this class are therefore often successful, even when the Magician has little or no technical knowledge of Magick. Almost any duffer can “pull hinself together”, devote himself to study, break off a bad habit, or conquer a cowardice. This class of work, although the easiest, is yet the most important ; for it includes initiation itself in its highest sense. It extends to the Absolute in every dimension; it involves the most intimate analysis, and the most comprehensi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 157
…tics, insane with one over-emphasised truth, may infect a whole country for a time bv inflaming that thought in their neighbours, so the Magician créâtes a commotion by disturbing the balance of power. He transmits his particular vibration as a radio operator does with his ray 5 rate-relation détermines exclusive sélection. In practice, the Magician must aevoke the spirits of the storm” by identifying himself with the ideasof which atmospheric phenom- ena are the expressions as his humanity is of him; this achieved, he must impose his Will upon…
1929 · PDF PAGE 144
…n extended it to cover the entire operations of Nature. What is the theory implied in such rituals as those of the Goetia? What does the Magician do? He applies himself to invoke a God, and this God compels the appearance of a spirit whose function is to perform the Will of the Magician at the moment. There is no trace of what may be called machinery in the method. The exorcist hardly takes the pains of preparing a material basis for the spirit to incarnate except the bare connection -— 108