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it so closely that it must hâve been started before the time of the Work. E. g. I work to night to make X in Paris Write to me. I get the letter the next morning, so that it must hâve been written before the Work. Does this deny that the Work caused the effect? “If I strike a billiard-ball, and it moves, both my will and its motion are due to causes long antécédent to the act. I may consider both my Work and its reaction as twin effects of the eternal Universe. The moved arm and bail are parts of a State of the Cosmos which resulted necessarily…
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… just as an explorer might give his life to one corner of Africa, or a chemist to one subgroup of compounds. Each surh detailed piece of work may be very valuable, but it does not as a rule throw light on the main principles of the universe. Its truth is the truth of one angle. It might even lead to error, if some inferior person were to generalize from too few facts. Imagine an inhabitant of Mars who wished to philosophise about the earth, and had nothing to go by but the diary of some man at the North Pôle! But the work of every explorer, on …
1929 · PDF PAGE 18
…that implied; it was a passionately ecstatic sense of identity. In my third year at Cambridge, I devoted myself consciously to the Great Work, understanding thereby the Work of becoming a Spiritual Being, free from the constraints, accidents, and déceptions of material existence. I found myself at a loss for a name to designate my work, just as H. P. Blavatsky some years earlier. “Theosophy”, “Spiritua- lism”, “Occultism”, “Mysticism”, ail involved undesirable con¬ notations. I chose therefore the name. “MAGICK” as essentially the most sublime,…
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“Prove ail things; hold 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 “Ma…
1929 · PDF PAGE 65
…hes. In beginning a méditation practice, there is always 2 a quiet pleasure, a gentle natural growth; one takes a lively interest in the work; it seems easy; one is quite pleased to hâve started. This stage represents Isis. Sooner or later it is suc- ceeded by dépréssion -— the Dark Night of the Soûl, an infinité weariness and détestation of the work. The simplest and easiest acts become almost impossible to perform. Such impotence fills the mind with appréhension and despair. The intensity of this loathing can hardly be understood by any perso…
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…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 interest. Continue, and you meet scora and scepticism: possibly persécution. Continue, and the controversy has so far died out …
1929 · PDF PAGE 80
given, and the magician must himself work out his own formula for particular cases. 1 IV. It should also be remarked that every grade bas its peculiar magical formula. Thus, the formula of Abrahadabra concerns us, as men, principally because each of us represents the pentagram or microcosm ; and our équilibration must therefore be with the hexa- gram or macrocosm. In other words, 50 = 6° is the formula of the Solar operation $ but then 6°=5° is the formula of the Martial operation, and this reversai of the figures implies a very different Work.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 158
…ch these Magicians willed ? Let the Magical Link be made strong! It is “love under will”; it affirms the identity of the Equation of the work; it makes success Necessity. I. P. S. He died some months after this passage was written : but he had been enabled to live and work for nearly a quarter of a century longer than he would otherwise hâve done. 122
1929 · PDF PAGE 81
…ve details of ail these formulæ. Before beginning any operation soever the magician must make a thorough Qabalistic study of it so as to work out its theory in symmetry of perfection. Preparedness 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 o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 148
…ould make rain in Cumberland might fail lament- ably in the Sahara. One might make a talisman to win the love of a shop-girl and find it work, yet be baffled in the case of a countess; or vice versa. One might impose one’s Will on a farm, and be crushed by that of a city; or vice versa. The Master Therion himself, with ail his successes in every kind of Magick, sometimes appears utterly impotent to perform feats which almost any amateur might do, because He has matched his Will against that of the world, having undertaken the Work of a Magus to…
1929 · PDF PAGE 149
the Magical Operation of publishing it. When this was done, it was done without proper perfection. Its commands as to how the work ought to be done were not wholly obeyed. There were doubt and répugnance in Frater Perdurabo^ mind, and they hampered His work. He was half-hearted. Yet, even so, then intrinsic power of the truth of the Law and the impact of the publication were sufficient to shake the world so that a critical war broke out, and the minds of men were moved in a mysterious manner. The second blow was struck by the re-publication of …
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…sacred to be printed. They are only communicated by the Master Therion to chosen pupils in private instruction. II The essential magical work, apart from any particular operation, is the proper formation of the Magical Being or Body of Light. This process will be discussed at some length in Chapter XVIII. We will here assume that the magician has succeeded in developing his Body of Light until it is able to go anyy/here and do anything. There will, however, be a certain limitation to his work, because he has formed his magical body from the fin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 99
…perceive the true operation of the law of Karma. 2 Another notable injunction of the ancient Magick was that whatever appertained to the Work should be single. The Wand was to be eut with a single stroke of the knife. There must be no 1. It is, and the fact is still more important, utterly fatal and demora- lizing to acquire the habit of reliance on others. The Magician must know every detail of his work, and be able and willing to roll up his shirt- sleeves and do it, no matter how trivial or menial it may seem. Abra- melin (it is true) forbid…
1929 · PDF PAGE 76
… carefully studied and practised. It is unfortunately, the most complex of ail of them. But this is the fault of the first matter of the work, which is so muddled that many operations are required to unify it. i. Those sections dealing with divination and alchemy are the most grotesque rubbish in the îatter case, and in the former obscure and unpracticaî. — 40
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…n this formula is given in full. Note the réverbération of the ideas one against another. The formula of Horus has not yet been so fully worked out in details as to justify a treatise upon its exoteric theory and practice; 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 …
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…he student must not expect to be given a cut- and-dried définition of what exactly is meant by any of ali this. On the contrary, he must work backwards, putting the whole of his mental and moral outfit into these pigeon-holes. You would not expect to be able to buy a filing cabinet with the names of ali y our past, présent and future correspondents ready indexed: y our cabinet has a System of letters and numbers meaningless in them- selves, but ready to take on a meaning to you, as you fill up the files. As your business increased, each letter …
1929 · PDF PAGE 89
…for many years, and even begun to suspect the identity, had not troubled (although an extravagant buyer of books) to get this particular work. He found, to his astonishment, tha^t almost everything that he had himself intended to say was there written. The resuit of this was that he abandoned writing his original work, and instead translated the masterpiece in question. 8. The style of the two men is strikingly similar in numerous subtle and deep-seated ways. The general point of view is almost identical. The quality of the irony is the same. B…
1929 · PDF PAGE 157
…the various types of operation, so that we know what weapons, jewels, figures, drugs, perfurnes, names, etc. to employ in any particular work. But it has always been assumed that the invoked force is intelligent and competent, that it will direct itself as desired without further ado, by this method of sympathetic vibrations. The necessity of timing the force has been ignored; and so most operations, even when well performed as far as invocation goes, are as harmless as igniting loose gunpowder. But, even allowing that Will is sufficient to dét…
1929 · PDF PAGE 120
erform the Great Work by the formula 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 objec…
1929 · PDF PAGE 139
…lace in the préparation of every instrument, as has been seen in the Chapter devoted to that subject. In the préparation of the place of working, the same considérations apply. We first remove from that place ail objects; and we then put into it those objects, and only those Law.” “What is thy Will? ” “It is my will to eat and drink ” “To what end?” “That my body may be fortified thereby.” “To what end?” “That I may accomplish the Great Work.” “Love is the law, love under will.” “Fall to!” This may be adapted as a monologue. One may also add th…