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…ed in the case of a countess; or vice versa. One might impose one’s Will on a farm, and be crushed by that of a city; or vice versa. The Master Therion himself, with ail his successes in every kind of Magick, sometimes appears utterly impotent to perform feats which almost any amateur might do, because He has matched his Will against that of the world, having undertaken the Work of a Magus to establish the Word of is Law on the whole of mankind. He will succeed, without doubt; but He hardly expects to see more than a sample of His product durin…
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…j 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 manifested life of Vau by a continuous vibration of an impersonal energy of the nature of génération and knowledge, the Virgin Moon and the Serpent furthermore operating to include in the idea a commémoration of the legend so grossly def…
1929 · PDF PAGE 154
…ause, 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 is. But I know it to be a mind fund- amentally like my own, and I try to make a Magical Link with …
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…as taken an “honours degree” in modem languages at Cambridge arrives in Paris, and is unable to order his dinner. To exclaim against the Master Therion is to act like a person who, observing this, should attack both the professors of French and the inhabitants of Paris, and perhaps go on to deny the existence of France. Let us say, once again, that the magical language is nothîng but a convenient System of classification to enable the magician to docket his expériences as he obtains them. Yet this is true also, that, once the language is master…
1929 · PDF PAGE 94
of the Master Therion, it is assuredly the easiest and most reasona- ble explanation to assume an identity between the two men. Nobodv is shocked to observe that the ambition of Napoléon has diminished the average stature of Frenchmen. We Know that somehow or other every force must find its fulfilment; and those people who hâve grasped the fact that external events are merely symptoms of external ideas, cannot find any difficulty in attributing the correspondences of the one to the identities of the other. Far be it from any apologist for Magic…
1929 · PDF PAGE 67
…day, however, it represents considérable attainment; and there is a much earlier formula whose investigation will occupy Chapter VI. The Master Therion, in the Seventeenth year of the Aeon, has reconstructed the Word I A O to satisfy the new conditions of Magick imposed by progress. The Word of the Law being Thelema, whose number is 93, this number should be the canon of a corresponding Mass. Accordingly, he Has expanded I A O by treating the O as an Ayin, and then adding Vau as prefix and affix. The full Word is then wn whose number is 93. We …
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… seen the soûl issuing like a vapour from the mouth of persons in articulo mortis; but his expériences as an explorer hâve convinced the Master Therion that méat loses a notable portion of its nutritive value within a very few minutes after the death of the animal, and that this loss proceeds with ever-diminishing rapidity as time goes on. It is further generally conceded that live food, such as oysters, is the most rapidly assimilable and most concentrated form of energy. * 1 Laboratory experiments in food-values seem to be almost worthless, f…
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… 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 World of men upon the Earth, Aleist…
1929 · PDF PAGE 95
…ents of the day. The truth is to be apprehended by the correct translation of the symbolic language. The last section of the Oath of the Master of the Temple is: “I swear to interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soûl.” The Magical Memory is (in the last analysis) one manner, and, as expérience testifies, one of the most important manners, of performing this vow. 59
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…ign tragrammaton. (See Cap. ris throned W, or vo- r u 1 e d by III). The Pentagram & crowned, wel between Venus ; the which shows Spirit master with Wand. 0 and U» Moon exalt- & reconciler of the Four ma’ajab and ed therein* Eléments. ma’aruf. but male.) Four Wor~ Liberty, i.e. The Hexagram which unités shippers; the free will. God and Man. The cons- four ele- ciousness or Ruach. ments. Parzival as the Child in his widowed mother’s care : Horus, son of Isis and the slain Osiris. Parzival as King & Priest in Montsalvat performing the miracle of …
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…ts of this section, inasmuch as they concern Our Lady, are too important 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 ce…
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…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 implication here. But to choose A implies to refuse not-A: at least, that is so, below the Abyss. 2. Supfosed personal gain. The…
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…Part II. It should be said that in expérience no bell save His own Tibetan bell of Electrum Magicum has ever sounded satisfactory to the Master Therion. Most bells jar and repel. 2. It represents the descent of a certain Influnce. See the Evocation of Taphtatharath, Equinox I, III. The attributions are given in 777. This Word expresses the current Kether - Beth - Binah - Cheth - Geburch - Mem - Hod - Shin - Malkuth, the descent from 1 to 10 via the Pillar of Severity. 3. This réluctance is Freudian, due to the power of these words to awaken the…
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…object of starting afresh, clear of debt, in a life devoted to reaping the reward of the Corsican’s invaluable services to the race. The Master Therion, in fact, rernembers several incarnations of almost uncompensated wretchedness, anguish and humiliation, voluntarily undertaken so that he might résumé his work un- hampered by spiritual creditors. These are the stigmata. Memory is hall-marked by its corre- spondence with the facts actually observed in the présent. This correspondence may be of two kinds. It is rare (and it is unimpor- tant for …
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… and again, and are as accessible to the profane as to the initiate. In such a work of practical Magick as the preaching of a new 1. The Master Therion has received this Word; it is communicated by Him to the proper postulants, at the proper time and place, in the proper circumstances. 2. Each man has a different Great Work, just as no two points on the circumference of a circle are connected with the centre by the same radius. The Word will be correspondingly unique. 71 —
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…esent the facts of nature. 1 he point of view is based upon misapprehension of the character of existence. It soon became obvious to The Master Fherion that AUM was an inadéquate and misleading hieroglyph. It stated only part of the truth, and it implied a fundamental falsehood. He consequently determined to modify the Word in such a manner as to fit it to represent the Arcana unveiled by the Aeon of which He had attained to be the Logos. The essential task was to emphasize the fact that nature is not catastrophic, but proceeds by means of undu…
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…y respond with free unconscious rightness to the Will. 3. The organic development of Magick in the world due to the créative Will of the Master Therion makes it with every year that passes easier to find scientifically trained co-workers. 73
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…of something which is the logical conclusion of the prémisses postulated by the past. As an example, we may cite certain memories of the Master Therion. He followed a train of thought which led him to remember his life as a Roman named Marius de Aquila. It would be straining probability to présumé a connection between (a) this hieroglyphically recorded mode of self-analysis and (J3) ordinary introspection conducted on principles intelligible to himself. He remembers directly various people and various events connected with this incarnation ; an…
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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…
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… But Spiritual Expérience goes yet deeper, and destroys the Canon of the Law of Contradiction. There is an immense amount of work by the Master Therion on this subject; it pertains especially to His grade of 90 = 2°. Such profundities are unsuited to the Student, and may unsettle him seriously. It will be best for him to consider (provisionally) Truth in the sense in which it is taken by Physical Sicence. 62