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… 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 immanent; but his mystical State is not contagious; his fellow-men are either amused or annoyed. He can only extend to others the effect w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 152
…ry in such a case to assist the internai “spirits” by the “purification” of medicines, the “banishing” of diet, or some other extraneous means. But at least there is no need of any spécial device 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 …
1929 · PDF PAGE 153
…ly her Will, but her lover’s must be overcome by my own. I hâve no direct control of either. But my Will is in touch with the woman’s by means of our minds; I hâve only to make my mind the master of hers by the existing means of communication; her mind will then présent its recantation to her Will, her Will repeal its decision, and her body submit to mine as the seal of her surrender. Here the Magical Link exists; only it is complex instead of simple as in the First Class. There is opportunity for ail kinds of error in the transmission of the W…
1929 · PDF PAGE 121
and how we may interrupt any sériés so as to express our idea by means of structure. The general rule is that a single knock has no spécial significance as such, because unity is omniform. It represents Kether, which is the source of ail things equally without partaking of any quality by which we discriminate one thing from another. Continuing on these lines, the number of knocks will refer to the Sephira or other idea Qabalistically cognate with that number. Thus, 7 knocks will intimate Venus, 11 the Great Work, 17 the Trinity of Fathers, and …
1929 · PDF PAGE 151
…acle may be a necklace} to discover a treasure, one’s wand may be a dramatisas pen, or one’s incantation a popular song. Many ends, many means: it is only important to remember the essence of the operation, which is to will its success with suffi- ciently pure intensity, and to incarnate that will in a body suitable to express it, a body such that its impact on the bodily expression of the idea one wills to change is to cause it to do so. For instance, is it my will to become a famous physician? I banish ail “hostile spirits” such as laziness, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 155
made to impinge on the manj by the normal means of contact if possible, if not, by attacking some sensitive spot in his subconscious sensonum. But the heaviest rod will not land the smallest fish unless there be a line of some sort fixed firmly to both. The Third Class is characterized by the absence of any existing link between the Will of the Magician and that controlling the object to be affected. (The Second Class may approximate to the 1 hird when there is no possibility of approaching the second mind by normal means, as sometimes happens)…
1929 · PDF PAGE 147
…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 the image of the System of wheels which he is trying to adjust.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 150
once belonging to her, and so in subtle connection with her aura. But for material ends it is better to hâve material means. We must not rely on fine gut in trolling for salmon. Our wiil to kill a tiger is poorly conveyed by a charge of small shot fired at a range of one hundred yards. Our talisman must, therefore, be an object suitable to the nature of our Operation, and we must hâve some such means of applying its force to such a way as will naturally compel the obedience of the portion of Nature which we are trying to change. If one will the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 158
…’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 } who cares whether spirits or sh…
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
…e favour of no fickle and wayward being: he abases himself before no awful deity. Yet his power, great as he believes it to be, is by no means arbitrary and unlimited. He can wield it only so long as he strictly conforms to the rules of his art, or to what may be called the laws of nature as conceived by — XIII —
1929 · PDF PAGE 137
i CHAPTER XIII r * Of the Banishings: And of the Purifications. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and had better corne first. Purity means singleness. God is one. The wand is not a wand if it has something sticking to it which is not an essential part of îtself. If you wish to invoke Venus, you do not succeed if there are traces of Saturn mixed up with it. T-hat is a mere logical commonplace: in Magick one must go much farther than this. One finds one’s analogy in electricity. If insulation is imperfect, the whole current goes back to earth. It…
1929 · PDF PAGE 60
…mnipotent, 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 masculine Siva, or Tao, is always a concealed force. 24
1929 · PDF PAGE 28
…up in MAGICK. I trust that they will understand, not only the reasonableness, but the necessity of the fundamental truth which I was the means of giving to mankind: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” I trust that they will assert themselves as individually absolute, that they will grasp the fact that it is their right to assert themselves, and to accomplish the task for which their nature fits them. Yea, more, that this is their duty, and that not only to themselves but to others, a duty founded upon universal necessity, and not…
1929 · PDF PAGE 85
…ngine for the extension of Nothingness through the device of equilibrated opposites.3 It is moreover the value of the letter Qoph, which means “the back of the head”, the cerebellum, where the créative or repro¬ ductive force is primarily situated. Qoph in the Tarot is “the Moon”, a card suggesting illusion, yet shewing counterpartal forces operating in darkness, and the Winged Beetle or Midnight Sun in his Bark travelling through the Nadir. Its Yetziratic attribution is Pisces, symbolic of the positive and négative currents of fluidic energy, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 118
…he superb “unconsciousness” — which is magical consciousness — with which she suits the action to the melody.8 T There is no more potent means than Art of calling forth true Gods to visible appearance. 1. Tiphareth is hardly “dominated” even by Kether. It is the son rather than the servant. 2. But not “in supplication”. 3. This passage was written in 1911 e. v. “Wake Duncan with thy Knocking? I would thou couldst!” 82 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 23
…for political purposes.) (15) Every force in the Universe is capable of being transformed into any other kind of force by using suitable means. 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) T…
1929 · PDF PAGE 20
… understanding of the conditions. (Illustration: The most common cause of failure in life is ignorance of one’s own True Will, or of the means by which to fulfil that ill. A man may fancy himself a painter, and waste his life trying to become one; or he may be really a painter, and yet fail to understand and to measure the difficulties peculiar to that career.) (5) The second requisite of causing any change is the practical ability to set in right motion the necessary forces. (Illustration: A banker may hâve a perfect grasp of a given situation…
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…r 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 banishings, preliminary to the ceremony proper. The formula of the pantacle is again of no partic…
1929 · PDF PAGE 83
… 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 undulations. It might be suggested that Manvantara and Pralaya are in reality com- plementary curvesj but the Hindu doctrine insists strongly on denying continuity to the successive phases. It was nevertheless important to avoid disturbing the Trinitarian arrangement of the word, as would be done by the addition of other letters. It was equally désirable to make it clear that the letter M represents a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 80
…sly high factor, which itself progresses. 2 1. The Holy Qabalah (see Liber D in Eqiiinox I, VIII, Supplément, and Liber 777) affords the means of analysis and application required. See also Equinox I, V, “The Temple of Solomon The King”. 2. A suggestion has recently been made that the Hierarchy of the Grades should be “destroyed, and replaced by”—a ring System of 13 grades ail equal. There is, of course, one sense in which every grade is a Th in g-in-Itself. But the Hierarchy is only a convenient method 44