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magick so often involves argues a poverty o£ nature, a narrowness, a lack of generosity. Nature is infinitely prodigal — not one in a million seeds ever cornes to fruition. Whoso fails to recognise this, let him invoke Jupiter.1 2 The danger o£ cérémonial magick — the subtlest and deepest danger —is this: that the magician will naturally tend to invoke that partial being which most strongly appeals to him, so that his natural excess in that direction will be still further exaggerated. Let him, before beginning his Work, endeavour to map out his…
1929 · PDF PAGE 83
…the curse of the Manvantara. The cardinal révélation of the Great Aeon of Horus is that this formula AUM does not represent 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 …
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
…ed to proper Patients, strange and admirable effects will thereby be produced. Whence magicians are profound and diligent searchers into Nature j they, because of their skill, know how to anticipate an effect, the which to the vulgar shall seem to be a miracle.” The Goetia of the Lemegeton of King Solomon. “Wherever sympathetic magic occurs in its pure unadulterated form, it is assumed that in nature one event follows another necessarily and invariably without the intervention of any spiritual or personal agency. Thus its fundamental conception…
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
… 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 instinct may tell …
1929 · PDF PAGE 156
… able that it will disrupt explosively. Now he, as a man, cannot pray to God to cause them, for the Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves* But, as a Mystic, he knows that ail things are phantoms of One Thing, and that they may be withdrawn therein to reissue in other attire. He knows that ail things are in himself, and that he is All-One with the Ail. There is therefore no theoretical difficulty about converting the illusion of a clear sky into that of a tempest. On the other hand, he is aware, as a Magiciany that illusions are…
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
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…
1929 · PDF PAGE 38
…onfusion. 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 are again combined and harmonized in the number Six, whose nature is beauty and harmony, mortality and immortality. In the number Seven the féminine nature is again prédominant, 1. Ail advance in understanding demands the acquisition o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 84
The undulatory formula of putréfaction is represented in the Qabalah by the letter N, which refers to Scorpio, whose triune nature combines the Eagle, Snake and Scorpion. These hiero- glyphs themselves indicate the spiritual formulæ of incarnation. He was also anxious to use the letter G, another triune formula expressive of the aspects of the moon, which further déclarés the nature of human existence in the following manner. The moon is in itself a dark orb; but an appearance of light is communicatec! to it by the surij and it is exactly in th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 121
…e from a practical standpoint that our danger lies in vagueness. A knock should be well definedj its meaning should be précisé. The very nature of knocks suggests smartness and accuracy. We must therefore devise some means of making the sequence significant of the spécial sense which may be appropriate. Our only resource is in the use of intervals. It is evidently impossible to attain great variety in the smaller numbers. But this fact illustrâtes the excellence of our system. There is only one way of striking 2 knocks, and this fact agréés wit…
1929 · PDF PAGE 60
…mula of Alhim, and that of Alim. A LH IM (Elohim) is the exoteric word for Gods.1 It is the masculine plural of a féminine noun, but its nature is principally féminine.2 It is a perfect hieroglyph of the number 5. This should be studied in “A Note on Genesis” (Equinox LU). The Eléments are ail represented, as in Tetragrammaton, but there is no development from one into the others. They are, as it were, thrown together — untamed, only sympathising by virtue of their wild and stormy but elastically resistless energy. The Central letter is Hé — th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 22
… 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 fixed stars. It is kno…
1929 · PDF PAGE 82
…s so shaped as to modify the sound from A to O (or U), to the closed lips, when it becomes M. Symbolically, this announces the course of Nature as proceeding from free and formless création through controlled and formed préservation to the silence of destruction. The three sounds are harmonized into one; and thus the Word represents the Hindu Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva; and the operations in the Universe of their triune energy. It is thus the formula of a Manvantara, or period of manifested existence, which alternâtes with a Pralaya, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 155
… to produce a thunderstorm. This event is beyond my control or that of any other manj it is as useless to work on their minds as my own. Nature is independent of, and indifferent to, man’s affairs. A storm is caused by atmospheric conditions on a scale so enormous that the United efforts of ail us Earth-vermin could scarcely disperse one cloud, even if we could get at it. How then can any Magician, he who is above ail things a knower of Nature, be so absurd as to attempt to throw the Hammer of Thor? Unless he be simply insane, he must be initia…
1929 · PDF PAGE 44
the référencé is usually not to the actual planets, but to parts of the earth which are of the nature attributed to these planets. Thus, when we say that Nakhiel is the “Intelligence” of the Sun, we do not mean that he lives in the Sun, but only that he has a certain rank and character; and although we can invoke hinij we do not necessarily mean that he exists in the same sense of the Word in which our butcher exists. When we “conjure Nakhiel to visible appearance,” it may be that our process resembles création — or, rather imagination — more n…
1929 · PDF PAGE 112
…r. “The conclusion is that one should do one’s Will ‘without lust of resuit’. If one is working in accordance with the laws of one’s own nature, one is doing ‘right’; and no such Wo^k can be criticised as ‘useless’, even in cases of the character here discussed. So long as one’s Will prevails, there is no cause for complaint. “To abandon one’s Magick would shew lack of self-confidence in one’s powers, and doubt as to one’s inmost faith in Self and in Nature.1 Of course one changes one’s methods as expérience indicates; but there is no need to c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 150
…rly 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 death of a sinner, it is not sufficient to hâte him, even if we grant that the vibrations of thought, when sufficiently powerful and pure, may modify the Astral light sufficiently to impress its intention to …
1929 · PDF PAGE 142
CHAPTER XIV Of the Consécrations : WlTH AN ACCOUNT OF THE Nature and Nurture of the Magical Link. I Consécration is the active dedication of a thmg to a single purpose. Ranishing prevents its use for any other purpose, but it remains inert until consecrated. Purification is performed by water, and banishing by air, whose weapon is the sword. Consécra¬ tion is performed by fire, usually symbolised by the holy oil.1 In most extant magical rituals the two operations are per¬ formed at once; or (at least) the banishing has the more important place,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 71
…alled Satan or Shaitan, and regarded with horror by people who are ignorant of his formula, and, imagining themselves to be evil, accuse Nature herself of their own phantasmal crime. Satan is Saturn, Set, Abrasax, Adad, Adonis, Attis, Adam, Adonai, etc. The most serious charge against him is only that he is the Sun in the South. The Ancient Initiâtes, 1. Ail these ideas may be explained by reference to anthropology. But this is not their condemnation, but their justification; for the customs and legends of mankind reflect the true nature of the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 143
…only lay writers on Magick like Dr. J. G. Frazer hâve accorded the subject its full importance. Let us try to make considérations of the nature of Magick in a strictly scientific spirit, as well as, deprived of the guidance of antiquity, wc may. What is a Magical Operation? It may be defined as any event in Nature which is brought to pass by Will. We must not exclude potato-growing or banking from our définition. 1. The Hebrew legends furnish us with the reason for the respective virtues of water and lire. The world was purified by water at the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 118
…Certain positions, however, such as Tiphareth *, are so sympa- thetic to the Magus himself that he may use them without reference to the nature of the spirit, or of the operation; unless he requires an exceptionally précisé spirit free of ail extraneous éléments, or one whose nature is difficultly compatible with Tiphareth. To show how these positions may be used in conjunction with the spirals, suppose that you are invoking Hathor, Goddess of Love, to descend upon the Altar. Standing on the square of Netzach you will make your invocation to He…