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I am thy mate, I am thy man, Goat of thy flock, I am gold, I am god, Flesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod. With hoofs of Steel I race on the rocks Througli solstice stubborn to equinox. And I rave; and I râpe and I rip and I rend Everlasting, world without end, Mannikin, maiden, mænad, man, In the might of Pan. lo Pan ! Io Pan Pan ! Pan ! Io Pan ! IX
… 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 his limitations is based on expérience of the past, and every step in his progress extends his empire. There is therefore no reason to assign theoretical limits 1 2 to what lie may be, or to what he may do. (Illustration: A génération ago it was supposed theoretically impossible that man should ever know the Chemical composition of the…
… conjurations to employ more than one language. In ail probability the reason of this is that any change spurs the flagging attention. A man engaged in intense mental labour will frequently stop and walk up and down the room — one may suppose for this cause — but it is a sign of weakness that this should be necessary. For the; beginner in Magick, however, it is permissible 2 to employ any device to secure the resuit. Conjurations should be recited, not readj 3 4 and the entire ceremony should be so perfectly performed that one is hardly conscio…
to command, being a forcible breath controlled by the firm circle of the mouth. He is the Open Eye of the exalted Sun, before whom ail shadows flee away: also that Secret Eye which makes an image of its God, the Light, and gives it power to utter oracles, enlightening the mind. Thus, he is Man made God, exalted, eager; he has corne consciously to his full stature, and so is ready to set out on his journey to redeem the world. But he may not appear in this true form; the Vision of Pan would drive men mad with fear. He must conceal Himself in his…
… bole Of the living tree that is spirit and soûl And body and brain — corne over the sea, (loPan! IoPan!) Devil or god, to me, to me, My man ! my man ! Corne with trumpets sounding sbrill Over the hill ! Corne with drums low muttering From the spring! Corne with flûte and corne with pipe! Am I not ripe? I, who wait and writhe and wrestle With air that hath no boughs to nestle My body, weary of empty clasp, Strong as a lion and sharp as an asp — Corne, O corne! I am numb With the lonely lust of devildom. Thrust the sword through the galling fett…
…thought may so work on the minci of another person as to produce far-reaching physical changes in him, or in others through him.) (17) A man may learn to use any force so as to serve any purpose, by taking advantage of the above theorems. (Illustration: A man may use a razor to make himself vigilant over his speech, by using it to eut himself whenever he unguardedly utters a chosen word. He may serve the same purpose by resolving that every incident of his life shall remind him of a particular thing, making every impression the starting point o…
…cial circumstances. A Niblick should rarely be used on the tee, or a Brassie under the bank of a bunker. But also, the use of any club demands skill and expérience.) (24) Every man has an indefeasible right to be what he is. (Illustration: To insist that any one else shall comply with one’s own standards is to outrage, not only him, but oneself, since both parties are equally born of necessity.) (25) Every man must do Magick each time that he acts or even thinks, since a thought is an internai act whose influence ultimately affects action, thou…
( Illustration: A man ma y think it his duty to act in a certain way, through having made a fancy picture of himself, instead of investigating his actual nature. For example, a woman may make hei self misérable for life by thinking that she prefers love to social considération, or vice versa. One woman may stay with an unsympathetic nusband when she would really be happy in an attic with a lover, while another may fool herself into a romande elopement when her only true pleasures are those of presiding at fashionable functions. Again, a boy’s i…
true man of science learns from every phenomenon. But Nature is dumb to the hypocrite; for in her there is nothing false.1) (21) 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 i…
…ly so that her aura becomes uneasy, respond- ing no longer to her lover. Unless they diagnose the cause, a quarrel may resuit, and the woman’s bewildered and hungry Body of Light may turn in its distress to that of the Magician who has mastered it. Take a third case of this class 2. I wish to recover my watch, snatched from me in a crowd. Here I hâve no direct means of control over the muscles that could bring back my watch, nor over the mind that moves these muscles. I am not even able to inform that mind of my Will, for I do not know where it…
…yxts, 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 the moon …
…lood, and avenges itself on the heart by upsetting digestion, which disorders respiration, on which cardiac welfare dépends.) (27) Every man should make Magick the keynote of liis life. He should learn its laws and live by them. (Illustration: The Banker should discover the real meaning of his existence, the real motive which led him to choose that profes¬ sion. He should understand banking as a necessary factor in the économie existence of mankind, instead of as merelv a business whose objects are independent of the general welfare. He should …
…rgies as we do through their material bases. In fact, we use magnetic force to move iron, and solar radiation to reproduce images.) (14) Man is capable of being, and using, anytbing which he perçoives, for everything thaï he perçoives is in a certain sense a part 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 tha…
…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 crack a stone, thinking it a nut.) (4) The first requisite for causing any change is ihorough qualitative and quantitative understanding of the conditions. (Illu…
…his the reader should study “The Temple of Solomon the King” in Equinox I, V, and Liber 418. This first triad is essentially unity, in a manner transcending reason. The compréhension of this Trinity is a matter of spiritual expérience. Ail true gods are attrîbuted to this Trinity. 2 3 An immeasurable abyss divides it from ail manifestations of Reason or the lower qualifies of man. In the ultimate analysis of Reason, we find ail reason identified with this abyss. Yet this abyss is the crown of the mind. Purely intellectual faculties ail obtain h…
…earance,” it may be that our process resembles création — or, rather imagination — more nearly than it does calling-forth. The aura of a man is called the “magical mirror of the universe”; and, so far as any one can tell, nothing exists outside of this mirror. It is at least convenient to represent the whole as if it were subjective. It leads to less confusion. And, as a man is a perfect microcosm,1 it is perfectly easy to re-model one’s conception at any moment. Now there is a traditional correspondance, which modem experiment has shown to be …
…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 the Law and the Commentaries thereon: but the true understanding dépends entirely upon the work of the Magician himself…
than any other man can be. It is only the divine self within the man, a self as far above the possession of will or any other qualities whatsoever as the heavens are high above 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, …
This formula is, however, a little different in symbolism, since it is a Woman whose Cup must be filled. It is rather the sacrifice of the Man, who transfers life to his descendants. For a woman does not carry in herself the principle of new life, except tem- porarily, when it is given her. But here the formula implies much more even than this. For it is his whole life that the Magus offers to Our Lady. The Cross is both Death and Génération, and it is on the Cross that the Rose blooms. The full significance of these symbols is so lofty that it…
Let us take a very simple example of a Magical Act: that of a man blowing his nose. What are the conditions of the success of the Operation? Firstly, that the man’s Will should be to blow his nose; secondly, that he should hâve a nose capable of being blown; thirdly, that he should hâve at command an apparatus capable of expressing his spiritual Will in terms of material force, and applying that force to the object which he desires to affect. His Will may be as strong and concentrated as that of Jupiter, and his nose may be totally incapable of…