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… ; that is, every “sainC’ or magician must give the last drop of his life’s blood to tliat cup. It is the original price paid for magick power. And if by magick power we mean the true power, the assimilation of ail force with the Ultimate Light, the true Bridai of the Rosy Cross, then is that blood the offering of Virginity, the sole sacrifice well-pleasing to the Master, the sacrifice whose only reward is the pain of child-bearing unto him. But “to sell one’s soûl to the devil”, to renounce no matter what for an équivalent in personal gain % i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 23
… of which he is conscious to his individual Will. (Illustration: Man has used the idea of God to dictate his Personal conduct, to obtain power over his fellows, to excuse his crimes, and for innumerable other purposes, including that of realizing himself as God. He has used the irrational and unreal conceptions of mathematics to help him in the construction of mechanical devices. He has used his moral force to influence the actions even of wild animais. He has employed poetic genius for political purposes.) (15) Every force in the Universe is c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
…y 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 immanent; but his mystical State is not contagious; his fellow-men are either amused or annoyed. He can only extend to others the effect which his love has had upon himself by means of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 120
…of Régénération. To trike with the hand on the dagger déclarés that one demands he use of the dagger as a tocl to extena one’s executive power. The reader will recall how Siegfried smote Nothung, the sword of Need, upon the lance of Wotan. By the action Wagner, who was instructed how to apply magical formulæ by one of the heads of our Order, intended his hearers to understand that the reign of authority and paternal power had corne to an end 5 that the new master of the world was intellect. The general object of a knock or a knell is to mark a …
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
…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 the favour of no fickle and wayward being: he abases himself before no awful deity. Yet his power, great as he believes it to be, is by no means arbitrary and unlimited. He can wield it only so long as he strictly conforms to the rules of his art, or to what may be called the laws of nature as conceived by — XIII —
1929 · PDF PAGE 89
…nt to strike a chord composed of as many conflicting éléments as possible. The pleasure seems to be derived from gratifying the sense of power, the power to compel every possible element of thought to contribute to the spasm. If the theory of reincarnation 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 mu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 61
… his instruments, and the équilibration of that fierce force which initiâtes the ceremony \ Yod is the créative energy — the procreative power ; and yet Yod is the solitude and silence of the hermitage into which the Magician has shut himself. Mem is the letter of Water, and it is the Mem final, whose long fiat lines suggest the Sea at peace ; not the ordinary (initial and médial) Mem whose hieroglyph is a wave 2 And then, in the Centre of ail, broods Spirit, which combines the mildness of the Lamb with the horns of the Ram, and is the letter…
1929 · PDF PAGE 19
…sults, 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 the above postulate.) III. THEOREMS. ( 1 ) Every intentional act is a Magical Act. 1 (Illustration: See “Définition” abo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 85
…ustrate 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 106
… - Geburch - Mem - Hod - Shin - Malkuth, the descent from 1 to 10 via the Pillar of Severity. 3. This réluctance is Freudian, due to the power of these words to awaken the suppressed subconscious libido. — 70 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 92
…o worship. Therefore, however well a man might remember his incarnation as Julius Caesar, there is no necessity for his representing his power to set ail upon the hazard of a die by imagining the Rubicon. Any spiritual State can be symbolized by an infinité variety of actions in an infinité variety of circum¬ stances. One should recollect only those events which happen to 56 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
…d intncate mechanism of the worid. Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike hâve exercised on the human mindj hence the powerful stimulus that both hâve given to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the présent by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and shew him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with…
1929 · PDF PAGE 101
…urse of Fortunatus. No matter in what extremity you may seem to be, at the last moment your difficulties will be solved. For there is no power either of the firmament or of the etlier, or of the eartli or under the earth, on dry land or in the water, of whirling air or of rushing fire, or any spell or scourge of God which is not obedient to the necessity of the Magician! That which he has, he has not; but that which he is, he is; and that which he will be, he will be. And neither God nor Man, nor ail the malice of Choronzon, can either check hi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 116
…mate contact with his Circle. But he may wear sandals, for the Ankh is a sandal-strap; it is borne by the Egyptian Gods to signify their power of Going, that is their eternal energy. By shape the Ankh (or Crux Ansata) suggests the formula by which this Going is efîected in actual practice. 2. i. e. 'In the same direction as the hands of a watch move. 3. i. e. In the opposite direction. 4. Such, at least, is the traditional interprétation. But there is a deeper design which may be expressed through the direction of rotation. Certain forces of th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 125
…om 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, which could very readily be adapted to some such purpose as we are now discussing. The second method sounds very easy and amusing. You take some organism already existing, which happens…
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
…re implies that it is essential to the Work. He evaded the question by making the petitio principii of assigning to the Astral Light the power of transmitting vibrations of ail kinds. He nowhere enters into detail as to how its effects are produced. He does not inform us as to the qualitative or quantitative laws of this light. (The scientifically trained student will observe the analogy between Levi’s postulate and that of ordinary science in re the luminiferous ether.) It is déplorable that nobody should hâve recorded in a syste- matic form t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 157
…whole country for a time bv inflaming that thought in their neighbours, so the Magician créâtes a commotion by disturbing the balance of power. He transmits his particular vibration as a radio operator does with his ray 5 rate-relation détermines exclusive sélection. In practice, the Magician must aevoke the spirits of the storm” by identifying himself with the ideasof which atmospheric phenom- ena are the expressions as his humanity is of him; this achieved, he must impose his Will upon them by virtue of the superiority of his intelligence and…
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… 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, 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 th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 154
…romising letter, which is really as much part of him as his liver; he may then master the will of that man by intimidating his mind. His power to publish the letter is as effective as if he could injure the man’s body directly. These “natural” cases may be transposed into subtler terms; for instance, one might master another man, even a stranger, by sheer concentration 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 —…
1929 · PDF PAGE 110
…ls in the world. He accordingly wrote a song, and produced the desired resuit. This is the most notorious example in recent times of the power exerted by a barbarous name of évocation. A few words may be useful to reconcile the general notion of Causality with that of Magick. How can we be sure that a person waving a stick and howling thereby produces thunderstorms ? In no other way than that familiar to Science ; we note that whenever we put a lighted match to dry gunpowder, an unintelligibly arbitrary phenomenon, that of sound, is observedj a…