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…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 it by advertising my loss in the hope of reaching it, being careful to calm it by promising it immunity, and to appeal to its own known motive by offering a reward. I also attempt to use the opposite formul…
1929 · PDF PAGE 56
…f the Qabalah. It is just possible that the magi wrote their conjurations on this crude hypothesis in order to avoid the clouding of the mind by doubt and metaphysical spéculation. He who became the Master Therion was once confronted by this very difficulty. Being determined to instruct mankind, He sought a simple statement of his object. His will was sufficiently informed by common sense to décidé him to teach man T he Nexi Step, the thing which was immediately above him. He might hâve called this “God”, or “The Higher Self”, or “The Augoeides…
1929 · PDF PAGE 153
…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 Will; misunder…
1929 · PDF PAGE 151
…o induce in others the incorporeal idea of satisfying mine. I made my Will manifest to sense} sense swayed the Wills of my fellow- meii} mind wrought on mind through matter. I did not “sit for” a medical baronetcy by wishing I had it, or by an “act of faith”, or by praying to God “to move Pharaoh’s heart”, as our modem mental, or our mediaeval, mystic, miracle- mongers were and are muddlers and maudlin enough to advise us to do. A few general observations on the Magical Link may not be amiss, in default of details} one cannot make a Manual of H…
1929 · PDF PAGE 155
…olling 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). This class of operations demands not only immense knowledge of the technique of Magick combined with tremendous vigour and skill, but a degree of IVIystical attainment which is exceedingly rare, and when found is usually marked by an absolute apathy on the subject of any attempt to achieve any Magick at ail. Suppose that I wish to produce a thunderstorm. This event …
1929 · PDF PAGE 139
…tual pride. We hâve understood the saying: “To the pure ail things are pure”, and we hâve learnt how to act up to it. We can analyse the mind far more acutely than could the ancients, and we can therefore distinguish the real and right feeling from its imitations. A man may eat méat from self-indulgence, or in order to avoid the dangers of asceticism. We must constantly examine our- selves, and assure ourselves that every action is really subservient to the One Purpose. It is ceremonially désirable to seal and affirm this mental purity by Ritua…
1929 · PDF PAGE 150
… light sufficiently to impress its intention to a certain extent on such people as happen to be sensitive. It is much surer to use one’s mind and muscle in service of that hâte by devising and making a dagger, and then applying the dagger to the heart of one’s enemy. One must give one’s hâte a bodily form of the same order as that which one’s enemy has taken for his mani¬ festation. Your spirit can only corne into contact with his by me^yis of this magical manufacture of phantomsj in the same way, one can only measure one’s mind (a certain part…
1929 · PDF PAGE 137
…k of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable. 1 If one littlest thought intrude upon the mind of the Mystic, his concentration is absolutely destroyed; and his consdousness remains on exactly the same level as the Stockbroker’s. Even the smallest baby is incompatible with the virginity of its mother. If you leave even a single spirit within the circle, the effect of the conjuration will be entirely absorbed by it. 2 1. See, however, the Essay on Truth in “Konx oin Pax”. The Circle (in one aspect) …
1929 · PDF PAGE 65
…inité weariness and détestation of the work. The simplest and easiest acts become almost impossible to perform. Such impotence fills the mind with appréhension and despair. The intensity of this loathing can hardly be understood by any person who has not experienced it. This is the period of Apophis. It is followed by the arising not of Isis, but of Osiris. The ancient condition is not restored, but a new and superior condition is created, a condition only rendered possible by the process of death. The Alchemists themselves taught this same tru…
1929 · PDF PAGE 26
…tire Universe, and its effects continue eternally throughout ail space. Every thought, however swiftly suppressed, has its effect on the mind. It stands as one of the causes of every subséquent thought, and tends to influence every subséquent action. A golfer may lose a few yards on his drive, a few more with his second and third, he may lie on the green six bare inches too far from the hole1, but the net resuit of these trifling mishaps is the différence of a whole stroke, and so probably between halving and losing the hole.) (26) Every man ha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 89
… were generally accepted, the above considérations would make out a strong case. Frater Perdurabo was quite convinced in one part of his mind of this identity, long before he got any actual memories as such.1 II • « • * 1 * , . . Unless one has a groundwork of this sort to start with, one must get back to one’s life as best one can by the methods above indicated. 1. Long since writing the above, the publication of the biography of Eliphas Levi by M. Paul Chacornat has confirmed the hypothesis in innumerable striking ways. 53
1929 · PDF PAGE 59
…g this will be a calmer and more reflective but even more powerful flow of will, the irrésistible force of a mighty river. This State of mind will be foliowed by an expansion of the consciousness ; it will penetrate ail space, and this will finally undergo a crystallization resplendent with interior light. Such modifications of the original Will may be observed in the course of the invocations when they are properly performed. The peculiar dangers of each are obvious — that of the first is a flash in the pan — a misfire; that of the second, a f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…al and physical reactions. As soon as tho development is secured, there will be automatic reflex “justesse”, exactly as in normal aEairs mind and body 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
1929 · PDF PAGE 87
… of thoughts whose origin puzzles us. Sojne of these apparently belong to former incarnations. By cultivating these departments of one’s mind we can develop them; we become expert ; we form an organized cohérence of these originally disconnected éléments ; the faculty grows with astonishing rapidity, once the knack of the business is mastered. It is much easier (for obvious reasons) to acquire the Magical Memory when one has been sworn for many lives to reincarnate immediately. The great obstacle is the phenomenon called Freudian forgetfulness;…
1929 · PDF PAGE 29
…ts ordinary sense. It is not my fauJt if being is baffling, and doing desperate! Y et, once the above principles are firmly fixed in the mind, it is easy enough to sum up the situation very shortly. One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, who one is, what one is, why one is. This done, one may put the Will which is implicit in the “Why” into words, or rather into One Word. Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eli…
1929 · PDF PAGE 140
…s invoked. Let the banishing therefore be short, but in no wise slurred — for it is useful as it tends to produce the proper attitude of mind for the invocations. “The Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram” (as now rewritten, Liber 333, Cap. XXV) is the best to use.1 Only the four éléments are specifically mentioned, but these four éléments contain the planets and the signs2 — the four éléments are Tetragrammaton; and Tetragrammaton is the Universe. This spécial précaution is, however, necessary: make exceeding sure that the ceremony of banishing i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 38
… 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 here. This abyss has no number, for in it ail is confusion. Below this abyss we find the moral qualifies of Man, of which there are six. The highest is symbolised by the number Four. Its nature is fatherly s; Mercy and Authority are the attributes of its dignity. The number Five is balanced against it. The attributes of Five are Energy and Justice. Four and Five a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 144
…belows, is perfectly good Magic of its kind, its negroid kind. The idea is correct enough: matter is an illusion created by Will through mind, and consequently susceptible of alteration at the behest of its creator. But the practice has been lacking. They hâve not developed a scientific technique for applying the Will. It is as if they expected the steam of Watts’ kettle to convey people from place to place without the trouble of inventing and using locomotives. Let us apply these considérations to Magick in its restricted sense, the sense in w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 138
…ortion. They fasted, so that the body itself might destroy anvthing extraneous to the bare necessity of its existence. They purified the mind by spécial prayers and conservations. They avoided the contamination of social intercourse, especially the conjugal kind; and their servi tors were disciples specially chosen and consecrated for the work. In modem times our superior understanding of the essentials of this process enables us to dispense to some extent with its external rigours; but the internai purification must be even more carefully perf…
1929 · PDF PAGE 49
…; 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 by repeated prayers or conjurations to the highest conception of the God, until, in one sense or another of the Word, He appears to us and floods our consciousness with the light of His divinity. The Third Method is the Dramatic, perhaps the most attractive of ail; certainly it is so to the artist’s tempérament, for it appeals to his imagination through his aesthetic sense. Its disadvantage lies principal…