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Page 1 of 31944 · PDF PAGE 178
…g his house in peace”. The masculine nature of air makes it dominant. The card is almost a picture of the formation of the military clan system of society. As to the Disks, the heaviness of the symbol rather outweighs any considerations of its weakness. The card is called Power. It is the power which dominates and stabilizes every‐ thing, but manages its affairs more by negotiation, by pacific methods, than by any assertion of itself. It is Law, the Constitution, with no aggressive element. THE FOUR FIVES In the “Naples arrangement”, the introd…
1944 · PDF PAGE 264
… COSMOS This diagram has been introduced as an elucidation of the interplay of the ten‐fold sys‐ tem of the Sephiroth with the four‐fold system of Tetragrammaton, because the Chinese sys‐ tem, although based exclusively upon the principle of simple addition and subtraction, is found to harmonize exactly with our own Qabalah. The origin of the Cosmos is thus explained. The Tao is exactly equivalent to the Am or Nothingness of our Qabalah, because equally it must be comprehended as necessarily pos‐ sessing a phase of manifestation. The conception…
1944 · PDF PAGE 266
DIAGRAM 5. THE NUMBERS OF THE PLANETS This diagram illustrates the Solar system on the Tree of Life. Saturn is in the position of the non‐existent Sephira, Daäth, but it resumes the characteristics of the three Sephiroth
1944 · PDF PAGE 191
…entify her with Nature. The idea of sexual cruelty is often inherent in the highest divine nature; compare Bhavani and Kali in the Hindu system, and observe the Shiva‐ Sakti coition portrayed on many Tibetan banners. See also Liber 418, 4th, 3rd, and 2nd Aethyrs; and the description supra of Atu XI.
1944 · PDF PAGE 37
…lear evidence that the Tarot took definite and arbitrary steps to assert the new discovery in Magick some two thousand years ago; for no system is more rigid than a Hebrew system. And the system of the Sepher Yetzirah is the deepest rooted of all the ele‐ ments of the Hebrew system, the most dogmatic of them all. The Tarot is justified not by faith, but by works. The departures from the original bone‐ dry Qabalah have been justified by experience. The point (raised above) about the way in which the paths are selected to join certain numbers and…
1944 · PDF PAGE 77
…the Fool, for the letters Aleph Lamed constitute the secret key of the Book of the Law, and this is the basis of a complete qa‐ balistic system of greater depth and sublimity than any other. The details of this system have not yet been revealed. It has been thought right, nevertheless, to hint at its existence by equat‐ ing the designs of these two cards. Not only therefore, because Libra is a sign of Venus, but be‐ cause she is the partner of the Fool, is the Goddess represented as dancing, with the sugges‐ tion of Harlequin. The figure is tha…
1944 · PDF PAGE 34
…eas by referring them all to the numbers of the decimal scale. Numbers, then, are the nearest approach to Reality which is shown in this system. The number 4, for instance, is not so specially the result of adding one to three, or squaring two, or halving eight. It is a thing in itself, with all sorts of moral, sensible, and intellectual qualities. It symbolises such ideas as Law, Restraint, Power, Protection and Stability. In the Qabalistic system the original idea is Zero,1 which appears under three forms, rather as (in Chinese philosophy) th…
1944 · PDF PAGE 258
APPENDIX B—CORRESPONDENCES The Holy Qabalah is a system of classifying the Beings, By‐comings, Thoughts, Monads, Atoms, Waves, Packets of Energy, Ideas, or whatever one chooses to call them; of memorizing, discussing and manipulating the Relations between them. The Units of this system are Numbers: generally, one means the “natural numbers”; but there is no reason for excluding other mathematical terms such as √‐1, ε, π, w, θ, a, {, Ω, and so on. Each Unit is a having idea or person; to each are related in nature all other ideas in some way or …
1944 · PDF PAGE 25
…t, demands it. The Father is “Knight” because he is represented as riding on a horse. It may make it more clear to describe the two main systems, the Hebrew and the Pagan, as if they were (and had always been) con‐ crete and separate. The Hebrew system is straightforward and irreversible; it postulates Father and Mother from whose union issue Son and Daughter. There an end. It is only later philosophical speculation to derive the Father‐Mother Dyad from a Unity manifest, and later still to seek the source of that Unity in Nothing. This is a con…
1944 · PDF PAGE 210
…t, on the other hand, they are themselves unstable. They are tilted; they spill the water from the great Lotus which overhangs the whole system from one into the other. The work proper to water is complete: and disturbance is due. This comes from the influence of Mars in Pisces. Mars is the gross, violent and disrup‐ tive force which inevitably attacks every supposed perfection. His energy displays the greatest possible contrast with that of Pisces, which is both peaceful and spiritualized.
1944 · PDF PAGE 249
It is quite impossible to obtain satisfactory results from this or any other system of divination unless the Art is perfectly required. It is the most sensitive, difficult and perilous branch of Magick. The necessary conditions, with a comprehensive comparative review of all important methods in use, are fully described and discussed in “Magick”, Chapter XVII. The abuse of divination has been responsible, more than any other cause, for the dis‐ credit into which the whole subject of Magick had fallen when the Master Therion undertook the task o…
1944 · PDF PAGE 167
… Geomantic figure Conjunctio, Mercury in Virgo, corresponding very closely indeed with the Fire of Earth attri‐ bution in the Qabalistic system. To the Chinese sages, moreover, the shape of the figure gave the idea of a bird. The meaning is, accordingly, modified by human influence of the more frivolous and irresponsible kind, Shakespeare’s “little wanton harlotry”, the French cynic’s “Souvent femme vane”, and the fickle mob of Coriolanus; indeed, of History itself. But Mercury in Virgo symbolizes Intelli‐ gence (and even creative Idea) applied…
1944 · PDF PAGE 33
… form. (See diagram: The Chinese Cosmos.) This Chinese arrangement is thus tenfold, and has been shown to be admirably equivalent to the System which has been here examined. 6. The ancient scheme of the Elements, Planets and Zodiacal Signs, was summarised by the Qabalists in their Tree of Life. This identity between the two systems was masked, until quite recently1, by the fact that the Chinese continued with their doubling‐up system, and so turned their eight trigrams into sixty‐four hexagrams, while the scholars of Western Asia joined togethe…
1944 · PDF PAGE 279
… Yoni,stagnant and (Priest, Priestess, Ceremony) waiting. [scx Ga and Mn as twas tom Nuit and Hadit. The Pantacle of the Whole XXI. ‘The System,
1944 · PDF PAGE 270
DIAGRAM 9. THE ESSENTIAL DIGNITIES OF THE PLANETS This diagram shows the true symmetrical completion of the Sidereal‐ Solar System. The astronomical discoveries of Herschel (Uranus), Neptune, and Pluto have completed the tenfold scheme of the Sephiroth, and enabled the Master Therion to establish Astrology in its relation with Ceremonial Magick on a perfectly balanced basis. It is a notable witness to the triumph of Magick that all militant nations have adopted, worthily or not, magical symbols and gestures. Great Britain and the U.S.A., “Thumb…
1944 · PDF PAGE 192
… Moon. This shows the stabilization of the Energy, and its reception and reflection by the Femi‐ nine. There is no circle to enclose the system. It is self‐supporting, like the Sun.
1944 · PDF PAGE 229
…yramid viewed from above the apex. The base is formed by three wheels‐Mercury, Sulphur, and Salt; Sattvas, Rajas, and Tamas in the Hindu system; Aleph, Shin, and Mem‐Air, Fire, and Water‐the three Mother letters of the Hebrew al‐ phabet. This pyramid is situated in the great Sea of Binah in the Night of Time, but the sea is solidified; hence the colours of the back‐ ground are mottled, a cold thin dark grey with a pat‐ tern of indigo and green. The sides of the pyramid have a strong reddish tint, showing the in‐ fluence of Mars.
1944 · PDF PAGE 189
…rd of all manifested active Power. The original Will of the Two has been transmitted through the Three, and is now built up into a solid system:—Order, Law, Government. It is also referred to Venus in Aries, which indicates that one cannot establish one’s work without tact and gentle‐ ness. The wands are headed by the Ram, sacred to Chesed, the Father‐god Amoun‐Ra, as also to Aries; but at the other end of the wands are the Doves of Venus. In the symbol, the ends of the wands touch a circle, showing the completion and limita‐ tion of the origin…
1944 · PDF PAGE 30
…e a number of bodies called planets, including the Moon, a satellite of the Earth. These bodies revolve in one direction only. The Solar system is not a sphere, but a wheel. The planets do not remain in exact alignment but swing to a certain (comparatively small) extent from one side of the true plane to the other. Their orbits are elliptical. The Ancients imagined this wheel very much more clearly than modern minds are wont to do. They paid particular attention to the imaginary rim. Within the limits of this rim, they conceived that the Fixed …
1944 · PDF PAGE 107
… without prejudice the formidable problems which have been raised by the growth of civilization. Man has advanced so far from the social system, though it was not a system, of the cave man, from the primitive conception of property in human flesh. Man has advanced so far from crude anatomical classification of the soul of any given human being; he has accordingly landed himself in the most dreadful mire of psychopathology and psycho‐analysis. Tiresome and tough are the prejudices of the people that date morally from about 25,000 B.C. Largely ow…