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…inaccessible to profane research, and available only to that unscientific and empirical MAGICK (of tradition) which I came to destroy in order that I might fulfil. I send this book into the world that every man and woman may take hold of life in the proper manner. It does not matter if one’s présent house of flesh be the hut of a shepherd; by virtue of my MAGICK he shall be such a shepherd as David was. If it be the studio of a sculptor, he shall so chisel from himself the marble that masks his idea that he shall be no less a master than Rodin.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 133
…culty lends most powerful aid to the Magician. It is unwise for him to attempt it until he has received regular initiation in the true 2 Order of the Rosy Cross, 1. Note : This paragraph was written in the summer of 1911 e.v., just three years before its fulfilment. 2. It is here désirable to warn the render against the numerous false orders which hâve impudently assumed the name of Rosicrucian. The Masonic Societas Rosicruciana is honest and harmless; and makes no false pretences; if its members happen as a rule to be pompous busy-bodies, enla…
1929 · PDF PAGE 58
…of the whole ceremony considered as a unity, not merely of that formula in which Yod is the God invoked, Hé the Archangel, and so on. In order to understand the ceremony under this formula, we must take a more extended view of the functions of the four weapons than we hâve hitherto done. The formation of the Yod is the formulation of the first créative force, of that father who is called “self-begotten,?, and unto whom it is said: <cThou hast formulated thy Father, and made fertile thy Mother”. The adding of the Hé to the Yod is the marriage of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 59
…st step of this is the attainment of th^ Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, which constitutes the Adept of the Inner Order. The re-entry of these twin spouses into the womb of the mother is that initiation described in Libe»* 418, which gives admission to the Inmost Order of the A.*. A.*. Of the last step we cannot speak. It will now be recognised that to devise a practical magical ceremony to correspond to Tetragrammaton in this exalted sense might be difficult if not impossible. In such a ceremony the Rituals of purificati…
1929 · PDF PAGE 78
… still more improper to speak in this place. So holy a mystery is the Arcanum of the Masters of the Temple, that it is here hinted at in order to blind the presumptuous who may, unworthy, seek to lift the veil, and at the same time to lighten the darkness of such as may be requiring only one ray of the Sun in order to spring into life and light. Il Abrahadabra is a Word to be studied in Equinox I, V., aThe Temple of Solomon the King”. It represents the Great Work complété, and it is therefore an archétype of ail lesser magical operations. It is…
1929 · PDF PAGE 70
…codile in the Nile. We find the symbolism of the Ark, the Coffin of Osiris, etc. The Lotus is the Yoni; the Water the Amniotic Fluid. In order to live his own life, the child must leave the Mother, and overcome the temptation to return to her for refuge. Kundry, Armida, Jocasta, Circe, etc., are svmbols of this force Which tempts the Hero. He may take her as his servant1 when he has mastered her, so as to heal his father (Amfortas), avenge him (Osiris), or pacify him (Jéhovah). But in order to grow to manhood, he must cease to dépend on her, ea…
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
…omenon is observed when a gentleman who has taken an “honours degree” in modem languages at Cambridge arrives in Paris, and is unable to order his dinner. To exclaim against the Master Therion is to act like a person who, observing this, should attack both the professors of French and the inhabitants of Paris, and perhaps go on to deny the existence of France. Let us say, once again, that the magical language is nothîng but a convenient System of classification to enable the magician to docket his expériences as he obtains them. Yet this is tru…
1929 · PDF PAGE 49
…tual 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 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 aest…
1929 · PDF PAGE 131
…Godhead — the exact goal of its efforts through countless incarnations. On the other hand, the practice cf torturing animais to death in order to obtain the elemental as a slave is indefensible, utterly black magic of the very worst kind, involving as it does a metaphysical basis of dualism. There is, however, no objection to dualism or black magic when they are properly understood. See the account of the Master Therion’s Great Magical Retirement by Lake Pasquaney, where He “crucified a toad in the Basilisk abode”. 2. A wolf would be still bett…
1929 · PDF PAGE 99
…reatest importance was attached by the Adepts of old to this, and it made the task of the Magician no easy one. He wanted a wand; and in order to eut and trim it he needed a knife. It was not sufficient merely to buy a new knife; he felt that he had to make it himself. In order to make the knife, he would require a hundred other things, the acquisition of each of which might require a hundred more; and so on. This shows the impossibility of disentangling one’s self from one’s environment. Even in Magick we cannot get on without the Help of othe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
…ndamental conception is identical with that of modem science; underlying the whole System is a faith, implicit but real and firm, in the order and uniformity of nature. The magician does not doubt that the same causes will always produce the same effects, that the performance of the proper ceremony accompanied by the appropriate spell, will inevitably be attended by the desired results, unless, indeed, his incantations should chance to be thwarted and foiled by the more potent charms of another sorcerer. He supplicates no higher power: he sues …
1929 · PDF PAGE 60
…¬ position with Hé sanctifies that fire to the Yod of Tetragrammaton. Similarly we find Lamed for Earth, where we should expect Tau — in order to emphasize the influence of Venus, who rules Libra. ALHIMy therefore, represents rather the formula of Consécra¬ tion than that of a complété ceremony. It is the breath of bénédiction, yet so potent that it can give life to clay and light to darkness. In consecrating a weapon, Aleph is the whirling force of the thunderbolt, the lightning which flameth out of the East even 1. “Gods” are the Forces of Na…
1929 · PDF PAGE 75
…ight line. In the West he gains energy. In the East he is prevented from dissipating the same. So fortified, he may be received into the order as a néophyte by the three principal officers, thus uniting the Cross with the Triangle. He may then be placed between the pillars of the Temple, to receive the fourth and final consécration. In this position the secrets of the grade are communicated to him, and the last of his fetters is removed. Ail this is sealed by the sacrament of the Four Eléments. It will be seen that the effect of this whole cere…
1929 · PDF PAGE 22
principles whose interplay învolves different orders of idea connected with each other in a way beyond our présent compréhension. (Illustration: We are able to light cities by rule-of-thumb methods. We do not know what consciousness is, or how it is connected with muscular action ; what electricity is or how it is connected with the machines that generate it; and our methods dépend 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 p…
1929 · PDF PAGE 20
…o is forced from his own course, either through not understanding himself, or through external opposition, cornes into conflict with the order of the Universe, and suffers accordingly. XVIII
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
… the pantacle is inert. In fine, the formula of the wand is the only one with which we need 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…
1929 · PDF PAGE 83
…ion that conscious individuality constitutes existence led it to consider its own apparently catastrophic character as pertaining to the order of nature. 1. Thelemites agréé that manifested existence implies Imperfection. But they understand why Perfection devises this disguise. The Theory is developed fully in Liber Aleph, and in Part IV of this Book 4. See also Cap V Paragraph on F final of Fiaof. 2. The Vaishnava theory, superficially opposed to this, turns out on analysis to be practically identical. 47
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…y and paralyses muscle. This is an essential difficulty of the magical process, and can only be overcome by practice and expérience.2 In order to aid concentration, and to increase the supply of Energy, it has been customary for the Magician to employ assist¬ ants or colleagues. It is doubtful whether the obvious advantages of this plan compensate the difficulty of procuring suitable persons 3, and the chance of a conflict of will or a misunderstanding in the circle itself. On one occasion Frater Perdurabo was disobeyed by an assistant ; and ha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…n. 1. See Equinox (I, V. Supplément: Tenth Aethyr) for an Account of an Operation where this was done. Magical phenomena of the créative order are conceived and germinate in a peculiar thick velvet darkness, crimson, purple, or deep blue, approximating black: as if it were said, In the body of Our Lady of the Stars. See 777 for the correspondences of the various forces of Nature with drugs, perfumes, etc. 2. Such details, however, may safely be left to the good sense of the Student. Expérience here as elsewhere is the best teacher. In the Sacri…
1929 · PDF PAGE 138
… the internai purification must be even more carefully performed. We may eat méat, provided that in doing so we affirm that we eat it in order to strengthen us for the spécial purpose of our proposed invocation. 2 the atmosphère would crush us if we “banished” that of our bodies; and we should crumble to dust if we rebelled successfully against cohésion. A man who is normally an “allround good sorr* often becomes intolérable when he gets rid of his collection of vices; he is swept into monomania by the spiritual pride which had been previously …