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… this death of the individual, the cycle would be broken. A chapter will be consecrated to removing the practical diffi- culties of this method of Invocation. It will doubtless hâve been noted by the acumen of the reader that in the great essentials these three methods are one. In each case the magician identifies himself with the Deity invoked. To invoke is to call in, just as to evoke ïs to call forth. This is the essential différence between the two branches of Magick. In invocation, the macrocosm floods the consciousness. In évocation, the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 48
…is not some Deity who expresses this Cycle, and yet whose nature is joy. He will find what he requires in Dionysus. There are three main methods of invoking any Deity. The First Method consists of dévotion to that Deity, and, being mainly mystical in character, need not be dealt with in this place, especially as a perfect instruction exists in Liber 175 (See Âppendix). The Second Method is the straightforward cérémonial invocation. It is the method which was usually employed in the Middle Ages. Its advantage is its directness, its disadvantage …
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…d more particularly concern ourselves.2 Now in order to invoke any being, it is said by Hermes Tris- megistus that the magi employ three methods. The first, for the vulgar, is that of supplication. In this the crude objective theory is assumed as true. There is a god named A, whom you, B, proceed to pétition, in exactly the same sense as a boy might ask his father for pocket-mcney. The second method involves a little more subtlety, inasmuch as the magician endeavours to harmonize himself with the nature of the god, and to a certain extent exalt…
1929 · PDF PAGE 125
…as créative force, seeking manifestation; as a God, seeking incarnation. There are two ways by which this aim may be effected. The first method is to build up an appropriate body from its éléments. This is, generally speaking, a very hard thing to do, because the physical constitution of any material being with much power is, or at least should be, the outcome of âges of évolution. However, there is a lawful method of producing an homunculus which is taught in a certain secret organization, perhaps known to some of those who may read this, whic…
1929 · PDF PAGE 49
crudity. The “Goetia” gives clear instruction in this method, and $o do many other Rituals, white and black. We shall presently devote some space to a clear exposition of this Art. In the case of Bacchus, however, we may roughly outline the procedure. We find that the symbolism of Tiphareth expresses the nature of Bacchus. It is then necessary to construct a Ritual of Tiphareth. Let us open the Book 777 ; we shall find in line 6 of each column the various parts of our required apparatus. Having ordered everything duly, we shall exalt the mind b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 114
…requires a Continuum to be commensurable with it: (5) that Empiricism is inéluctable, and therefore that adjustment is the only possible method of action; and (6) that error may be avoided by opposing no résistance to change, and registering observed phenomena in their own language. 1. The elasticity of Magick makes it equal to ail possible kinds of environment, and therefore biologically perfect. “Do what thou wilt” implies self-adjustment, so that failure cannot occur. One’s true Will is necessarily fitted to the whole Universe with the utmos…
1929 · PDF PAGE 96
CHAPTER VIII Of Equilibrium, and of the General and Particular Method of Préparation of the Furniture of the Temple and of the Instruments of Art. I “Before there was equilibrium, countenance beheld not count¬ enance.” 1 So sayeth the holiest of the Books of the ancient Qabalah. (Siphra Tzeniutha I. 2.) One countenance here spoken of is the Macrocosm, the other the Microcosm.2 As said above, the object of any magick ceremony is to unité the Macrocosm and the Microcosm. It is as in optics; the angles of incidence and reflection are equal. You mu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 85
…ested existence. The above are the principal considérations in the matter of AUMGN. They should suffice to illustrate to the student the methods employed in the construction of the hieroglyphics of Magick, and to arm him with a mantra of terrifie power by virtue whereof he may apprehend the Universe, and control in himself its Karmic conséquences. i. A method of exegesis in which i — io = 100, 2 — 20 — 200, etc. 2. I0“= 100. 3. rp = IOO (‘20 -f* 80). 3 = X = Notarigon). s] — = <ï>a)Ao; (by 49 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 143
The method of consécration is very simple. Takc thc wand, or the holy oil, and draw upon the object to be consec rated the suprême symbol of the force to which y on dedicate it. Confirm this dedication in words, invoking the appropriate God to indwell that pure temple which you hâve prepared for Him. Do this with fervour and love, as if to balance the icy detachment which is the proper mental attitude for banishing.1 The words of purification are: Asperges me, Therion, hyssopo, et mundabor; lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor. Those of consécr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 62
…ger capable of corresponding to the formula of the male, and are therefore neuter rather than féminine. It is for this reason that their method has always been referred to the moon, in that sense of the term in which she appears, not as the féminine corré¬ lative of the sun, but as the burnt-out, dead, airless satellite of earth. No true Magical operation can be performed by the formula of ALIM. Ail the works of witchcraft are illusory; and their apparent effects dépend on the idea that it is possible to aiter things by the mere rearrangement o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
…formula of the invocation of that God.1 It would therefore be impossible, even were it désirable, to analyse ail such names. The general method of doing so has been I. Members of the IV° of the O. T. O . are well aware of a Magick Word whose analysis contains ail Truth, human and Divine, a Word indeed potent for any group which dares to use it. 43
1929 · PDF PAGE 50
… for incident, in the story of Christ. This legend is but the dramatization of Spring. The magician who wishes to invoke Bacchus by this method must therefore arrange a ceremony in which he takes the part of Bacchus, undergoes ail His trials, and emerges triumphant from beyond death. He must, however, be warned against mistaking the symbolism. In this case, for example, the doctrine of individual immortality has been dragged in, to the destruction, of truth. It is not that utterly worthless part of man, his individual consciousness as John Smit…
1929 · PDF PAGE 29
…id for the mastery of the race of man. The sincere student will discover, behind the symbolic techni- calities of this book, a practical method of making himself a 1. At least, it allowed England to discover its intentions, and so to combine the world against it. XXVII
1929 · PDF PAGE 80
… 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
1929 · PDF PAGE 134
… Frazer’s “Golden Bough”, which is strongly recommended to the reader. Actual cérémonial details likewise may be left to experiment. The method of killing is practically uniform. The animal should be stabbed to the heart, or its throat severed, in either case by the knife. Ail other methods of killing are less efficacious; even in the case of Crucifixion death is given by stabbing.8 One may remark that warm-blooded animais only are used as victims: with two principal exceptions. The first is the serpent, which is only used in a very spécial Rit…
1929 · PDF PAGE 45
…are themselves profoundly mathematical. The whole basis of our theory is the Qabalah, which corresponds to mathematics and geometry. The method of operation in Magick is based on this, in very much the same way as the laws of mechanics are based on mathematics. So far, therefore as we can be be said to possess a magical theory of the universe, it must be a matter solely of fundamental law, with a J* Knowledge is, moreover, an impossible conception. Ali propositions corne ultimately back to “A is A”. 9 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 157
…ays been assumed that the invoked force is intelligent and competent, that it will direct itself as desired without further ado, by this method of sympathetic vibrations. The necessity of timing the force has been ignored; and so most operations, even when well performed as far as invocation goes, are as harmless as igniting loose gunpowder. But, even allowing that Will is sufficient to détermine the direc¬ tion, and prevent the dispersion, of the force, we can hardly be sure that it will act on its object, unless that object be properly prepar…
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is faased upon actual spiritual expérience, but the trained reason 1 can reach a réflexion of this idea by the method of logical con¬ tradiction which ends in reason transcending itself. The reader should consult “The Soldier and the Hunchback” in Equinox I, I, and “Konx Om PaxT Unity transcends consctoiisness. It is above ail division. The Father of thought — the Word —* is called Chaos — the dyad. The number Three, the Mother, is called Babalon. In connection with this the reader should study “The Temple of Solomon the King” in Equinox I, V, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 154
… of will, ceremonially or otherwise wrought up to the requisite potential. But in one way or another that will must be i. The cérémonial method would be to transfer to the watch — linked naturally to me by possession and use — a thought calculated to terrify the thief, and induce him to get rid of it at once. Observing clairsentiently this effect, suggest relief and reward as the resuit of restoring it.
1929 · PDF PAGE 144
…f 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