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…rlier formula whose investigation will occupy Chapter VI. The Master Therion, in the Seventeenth year of the Aeon, has reconstructed the Word I A O to satisfy the new conditions of Magick imposed by progress. The Word of the Law being Thelema, whose number is 93, this number should be the canon of a corresponding Mass. Accordingly, he Has expanded I A O by treating the O as an Ayin, and then adding Vau as prefix and affix. The full Word is then wn whose number is 93. We may analyse this new Word in detail and demonstrate that it is a proper hie…
1929 · PDF PAGE 106
…o be the most generally useful. While on the subject of barbarous names of évocation we should not omit the utterance of certain suprême words which enshrine (a) the complété formula of the God invoked, or (3 the whole ceremony. Examples of the former kind are Tetragrammaton, I.A.O., and Abrahadabra. An example of the latter kind is the great Word StiBeTTChe- PhMeFSHiSS, which is a line drawn on the Tree of Life (Coptic attributions) in a certain manner.1 2 With ail such words it is of the utmost importance that they should never be spoken unti…
1929 · PDF PAGE 107
Such a word was indeed the lost Tetragrammaton \ It is said that at the utterance of this name the Universe crashes into dis¬ solution. Let the Magician eamestly seek this Lost Word, for its pronunciation is synonymous with the accomplish- ment of the Great Work. 1 2 In this matter of the efficacity of words there are again two formulæ exactly opposite in nature. A word may become potent and terrible by virtue of constant répétition. It is in this way that most religions gain strength. At first the statement “So and so is God” excites no intere…
1929 · PDF PAGE 81
…eparedness in Magick is as important as it is in War. V It should be profitable to make a somewhat detailed study of the strange-looking word AUMGN, for its analysis affords an excellent illustration of the principles on which the Practicus may construct his own Sacred Words. This word has been uttered by the Master Therion himself, as a means of declaring his own personal work as the Beast, the Logos of the Aeon. To understand it, we must make a preliminary considération of the word which it replaces and from which it was developed: the word A…
1929 · PDF PAGE 62
…t of ALHIM, which is the masculine plural of the féminine noun ALH. A moments investigation is sufficient to dissipate the illusion. The Word masculine has no meaning except in relation to some féminine corrélative. The word ALIM may in fact be considered as neuter. By a rather absurd convention, neuter objects are treated as féminine on account of their superficial resemblance in passivity and inertness with the unfertilized female. But the female produces life by the intervention of the male, while the neuter does so only when impregnated by …
1929 · PDF PAGE 122
…. As it is written in the Book of the Law: “Eleven, as ail their numbers who are of us.” Thirdly, it is the number of the letters of the Word ABRAHADABRA, which is the Word of the Aeon. The structure of this Word is such that it expresses the Great Work, in every one of its aspects. Lastly> it is possible thereby to express ail possible spheres of operation, whatever their nature. This is effected by making an équation between the number of the Sephira and the différence between that number and n. For example, 2°=9° is the formula of the grade …
1929 · PDF PAGE 84
… knowledge and génération combined in a single idea, in an absolute form independent of personality. The G is a silent letter, as in oür word Gnosisj and the sound GN is nasal, suggesting therefore the breath of life as opposed to that of speech. Impelled by these considérations, the Master Therion proposed to replace the M of AUM by a compound letter MGN, symbolizing thereby jthe subtle transformation of the apparent silence and death which terminâtes the manifested life of Vau by a continuous vibration of an impersonal energy of the nature of…
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…old fast that which is good”. St. Paul. “Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword: these he shall learn and teach. “He must teach ; but he may make severe the ordeals. “The word of the Law is 0EAHMA.” LIBER AL vel xxxi: The Book of the Law. This book is for ALL: for every man, woman, and child. My former work has been misunderstood, and its scope limited, by my use of technical terms. It has attracted only too many dilettanti and eccentrics, weaklings seeking in “Magic” an escape from …
1929 · PDF PAGE 85
Irue Word of the Néophyte, where existence is taken to import that phase of the whole which is the finite resolution of the Qabalistic Zéro. Finally, the total numération of the Word AUMGN is ioo, which, as initiâtes of the Sanctuary of the Gnosis of the O.T.O. are taught, expresses the unity under the form of complété mani¬ festation by the symbolism of pure number, being Kether by Aiq Bkr 1 2 ; also Malkuth multiplied by itself ~, and thus estab- lished in the phénoménal universe. But, moreover, this number IOO mysteriously indicates the Magi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
…; but one may say that it is, to the formula of Osiris, what the turbine is to the reciprocating engine. III There are many other sacred words which enshrine formulæ of great efficacity in particular operations. For example, V.I.T.R.I.O.L gives a certain Regimen of the Planets useful in Alchemical work. Ararita is a formula of the macrocosm potent in certain very lofty Operations of the Magick of the Inmost Light. (See Liber 813.) The formula of Thelema may be summarized thus: Q “Babalon and The Beast conjoined” — £ unto Nuith (CCXX, 1, 51) — A…
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…isleading 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 the Logos. The essential task was to emphasize the fact that nature is not catastrophic, but proceeds by means of undulations. It might be suggested that Manvantara and Pralaya are in reality com- plementary curvesj but the Hindu doctrine insists strongly on denying continuity to the successive phases…
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… 2 An example of this sacrifice is given in Chapter 44 of Liber 333. This Mass may be recommended generally for daiiy practice. 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 inte…
1929 · PDF PAGE 82
…réation 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, during which création is latent. Analysed Qabalistically, the Word is found to possess similar properties. A is the négative, and also the unity which concentrâtes it into a positive…
1929 · PDF PAGE 148
… any amateur might do, because He has matched his Will against that of the world, having undertaken the Work of a Magus to establish the Word of is Law on the whole of mankind. He will succeed, without doubt; but He hardly expects to see more than a sample of His product during His présent incarnation. But He refuses to waste the least fraction of His force on Works foreign to His Work, however obvious it may seem to the onlooker that His advantage lies in commanding stones to become bread, or otherwise making things easy for Himself. These con…
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…that he shall be no less a master than Rodin. Witness mine hand : TO META 0HPION (nnn) • The Beast 666; MAGUS 9°=2° A.*. A.*, who is The Word of the Aeon THELEMA; whose name is called V.V.V.V.V. 8° = 30 A.*. A.-, in the City of the Pyramids; OU MH 70 = 40; OL SONUF VAORESAGI 6° = 50, and . 50 = 6° A.\ A.*, in the Mountain of Abiegnus: but FRATER PERDURABO in the Outer Order or the A.'. A.*, and in the World of men upon the Earth, Aleister Crowley of Trinity College, Cambridge. XXIX —
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…dy, weary of empty clasp, Strong as a lion and sharp as an asp — Corne, O corne! I am numb With the lonely lust of devildom. Thrust the sword through the galling fetter, All-devourer, all-begetter; Give me the sign of the Open Eye, And the token erect of thorny thigh, And the word of madness and mystery, O Pan! IoPan! lo Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan Pan! Pan, I am a man: Do as thou wilt, as a great god can, O Pan! IoPan! Io Pan ! Io Pan Pan ! I am awake In the grip of the snake. The eagle slashes with beak and claw; The gods withdraw: The great beasts …
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…ntify it with my own career; and to compel mankind to respect, love, and trust that which they scorned, hated and feared. I hâve kept my Word. But the time is now corne for me to carry my banner into the thick of the press of human life. I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and justify my position by formulating a définition of MAGICK and setting forth its main principles in such a way that ALL may understand instantly that their soûls, their lives, in every relati…
1929 · PDF PAGE 68
… a'I ly refuge in Egypt, and on ambivalent) the Mount tempted by the Light, i. e. Devil. The Unconscious of Wisdom, the Inmost. Will, or Word. 32
1929 · PDF PAGE 142
…ny 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, and greater pains seem 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 h…
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…icrucian formula of the Trinity: Ex Deo nas ci mur. In Je su morimur. Per Sfiritum Sanctum reviviscimus. This is also identical with the Word Lux L.V.X., which is formed by the arrns of a cross. It is this formula which is implied in those ancient and modem monuments in which the phallus is worshipped as the Saviour of the World. The doctrine of résurrection as vulgarly understood is false and absurd. It is not even “Scriptural”. St. Paul does not identify the glorified body which rises with the mortal body which dies. On the contrary, he repea…