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…ifficulties 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, yet lack the quality of decision, or the assets, necessary to take advantage of it.) (6) “Every man and every woman is a star’. That is to say, every human being is intrinsically an independent individual with his own proper character and proper motion. ( 7 ) Every man and every woman has a course, depending partly on the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 152
…nt System of symbols. The Will is furnished by Nature with an apparatus adequately equipped to convey and execute its orders. It is only necessary to inflame the Will to the proper pitch and to issue its commands; they are instantly obeyed, unless — as in the case of organic disease — the apparatus is damaged beyond the art of Nature to repair. It may be necessary 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 spéci…
1929 · PDF PAGE 127
…thousand inhabitants with entire callousness, but when they hear of a dog having hurt its paw, they feel Weltschmertz acutely. It is not necessary to say much more than this concerning trans¬ formations. Those to whom the subject naturally appeals will readily understand the importance of what has been said. Those who are otherwise inclined may reflect that a nod is a good as a wink to a blind horse. 9*
1929 · PDF PAGE 142
…eem to be taken with it; but as the student advances to Adeptship the banishing will diminish in importance, for it will no longer be so necessary. The Circle of the Magician will hâve been perfected by his habit of Magical work. In the truest sense of that Word, he will never step outside the Circle during his whole life. But the consécration, being the application of a positive force, can always be raised to a doser approximation to perfection. Complété success in banishing is soon attained; but there can be no completeness in the advance to …
1929 · PDF PAGE 92
…one part of one’s previous character. For instance, one might devote a lifetime to settling the bill run up b y Napoléon for causing un- necessary suffering, with the 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…
1929 · PDF PAGE 140
objects, which are necessary. During many days we occupy ourselves in this process of cleansing and consécration; and this again is confirmed in the actual ceremony. The cleansed and consecrated M agi ci an takes his cleansed and consecrated instruments into that cleansed and consecrated place, and there proceeds to repeat that double ceremony in the ceremony itself, which has these same two main parts. The first part of every ceremony is the banishing; the second, the invoking. The same formula is repeated even in the ceremony of banishing its…
1929 · PDF PAGE 27
…discover the real meaning of his existence, the real motive which led him to choose that profes¬ sion. He should understand banking as a necessary factor in the économie existence of mankind, instead of as merelv a business whose objects are independent of the general welfare. He should learn to distinguish false values from real, and to act not on accidentai fluctuations but on considérations of essential impor¬ tance. Such a banker will prove himself superior to others; because he will not be an individual limited by transitory things, but a …
1929 · PDF PAGE 123
…turally hâve been careful to preserve the balance of each part of the battery against the corresponding part. This would be particularly necessary in an operation such as we hâve chosen for our example. 87 -
1929 · PDF PAGE 141
…acquired, is unmistakable. At the conclusion, it is usually well to pause for a few moments, and to make sure once more that every thing necessary to the ceremony is in its right place. The Magician may then proceed to the final consécration of the furniture of the Temple.1 i. That is, of the spécial arrangement of that furniture. Each object should hâve been separately consecrated beforehand. The ritual here in question should summarize the situation, and devote the particular arrange¬ ment to its purpose by invoking the appropriate forces. Le…
1929 · PDF PAGE 128
CHAPTER XII Of the Bloody Sacrifice : and Matters Cognate. It is necessary for us to consider carefully the problems con- necœd with the bloody sacrifice, for this question is indeed traditionally important in Magick. Nigh ail ancient Magick revolves around this matter. In particular ail the Osirian religions — the rites of the Dying God — refer to this, The slaying of Osiris and Adonis ; the mutilation of Attis; the cuits of Mexico and Peruj the story of Hercules or Melcarth; the legends of Dionysus and of Mithra, are ail connected with this o…
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…th, and place it, in a vessel which will not break, leak, or corrode, in such a manner as will not produce undesirable results, with the necessary quantity of Gold: and so forth. Every Change has its own conditions. In the présent State of our knowledge and power some changes are not possible in practice ; we cannot cause éclipsés, for instance, or transform lead into tin, or create men from mushrooms. But it is theoretically possible to cause in any object any change of which that object is capable by nature ; and the conditions are covered by…
1929 · PDF PAGE 116
between them and the mental attitude which they represent appears necessary. II The principal movement in the circle is circumambulation. 1 This has a very definite resuit, but one which is verv difficult to describe. An analogy is the dynamo. Circumambulation pro- perly performed in combination with the Sign of Horus (or “The Enterer”) on passing the East is one of the best methods of arousing the macrocosmic force in the Circle. It should never be omitted unless there be some spécial reason against it. A particular tread seems appropriate to …
1929 · PDF PAGE 59
…se might be difficult if not impossible. In such a ceremony the Rituals of purification alone might occupy many incarnations. It will be necessary, therefore, to revert to the simpler view of Tetragrammaton, remembering only that the Hé final is the Throne of the Spirit, of the Shin of Pentagrammaton. The Yod will represent a swift and violent créative energy; following 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 t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 29
…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 eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are spécially needed to control the aforesaid conditions. Let us make an analogy. A nation must become aware of its own character before it can be said to exist. From that knowledge it must divine its destiny. It must then consider the political conditio…
1929 · PDF PAGE 156
…wn juice; but, should he décidé (after ail) to enliven the afternoon, he will work in the manner following. First, what are the éléments necessary for his storms ? He .must hâve certain stores of electrical force, and the right kind of clouds to contain it. He must see that the force does not leak away to earth quietly and slyly. He must arrange a stress so severe as to become at last so intolér¬ 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 themsel…
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…actice. One last Word on this subject. There is a Magical Operation of maximum importance: the Initiation of a New Aeon. When it becomes necessary to utter a Word, the whole Planet must be bathed in blood. Before man is ready to accept the Law of Thelema, the Great War must be fought. This Bloody Sacrifice is the critical point of the Worïd- he sacrifices is not the material blood, but his Creative power. ” This initiated interprétation of the texts was sent spontaneously by Soror I. W E., for the sake of the younger Brethren. 1. See Equinox (I…
1929 · PDF PAGE 144
… unsparing in their efforts to instruct us in the préparation of the Will, but they seem to hâve imagined that no further précaution was necessary. There is a striking case of an épidémie of this error whose history is familiar to everybody. I refer to Christian Science, and the cognate doctrines of “mental healing” and the like. The theory of such people, stripped of dogmatic furbelows, 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 suscept…
1929 · PDF PAGE 138
… by counter- vailing passions. Again, there is a worse draught when an ill-fitting door is closed than when it stands open. It is not as necessary to protect his mother and his cattle from Don Juan as it was from the Hermits of the Thebaid. 1. Such destruction should be by burning or other means which produces a complété Chemical change. In so doing care should be taken to bless and liberate the native elemental of the thing burnt. This maxim ic of universal application. 2. In an Abbey of Thelema we say “Wïll” before a meal. The formula is as f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 94
…lidity than the confirmation of its prédictions by experimental evidence. The objective can always be expressed in subjective symbols if necessary. The cori- troversy is ultimately unmeaning. However we interpret the evidence, its relative truth dépends in its internai cohérence. We may therefore say that any magical recollection is genuine if it gives the explanation of our external or internai conditions. Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles. As our r…
1929 · PDF PAGE 100
…y. Such persons hâve only themselves to thank if the very street-boys mock at them. Another recommendation was this: buy whatever may be necessary without haggling! You must not try to strike a proportion between the values of incommensurable things. * 2 The least of the Magical Instruments is worth infinitely more than ail that you possess, or, if you like, than ail that you stupidly suppose yourself to possess. Break this rule, and the usual Nemesis of the half-hearted awaits you. Not only do you get inferior instruments, but you lose in some…