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…IX THE PANTACLE AS the Magick Cup is the heavenly food of the Magus, so is the Magick Pantacle his earthly food. The Wand was his divine force, and the Sword his human force. The Cup is hollow to receive the influence from above. The Pantacle is flat like the fertile plains of earth. The name Pantacle implies an image of the All, 07n?ie in paruo; but this is by a magical transformation of the Pantacle. Just as we made the Sword symbolical of everything by the force of our Magick, so do we work upon the Pantacle. That which is merely a piece of …
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…d shoot forth venom, there is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one." The serpent is also the Kundalini serpent, the Magical force itself, the manifesting side of the Godhead of the Magician, whose unmani- fested side is peace and silence, of which there is no symbol. In the Hindu system the Great Work is represented by saying that this serpent, which is normally coiled at the base of the spine, rises with her hood over the head of the Yogi, there to unite with the Lord of all. The serpent is also he who poisons. It is that force wh…
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…usness. The mouse is the Ego ; " Mus,'' a mouse, being only Sum, " I am," spelt Qabalistically backwards. This Ego or Prana or Kundalini force being driven up the spine, the clock strikes one, that is, the duality of consciousness is abolished. And the force again subsides to its original level. " Hickory, dickory, dock!" is perhaps merely the mantra which was used by the Adept who constructed this rime, thereby hoping to fix it in the minds of men, so that they might attain to Samadhi by the same method. Others attribute to it a more profound …
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…de upon Dharana. It would almost seem as if one could not suc- cessfully practice meditation until the will had become so strong that no force in the Universe could either bend or break it. Before con- centrating the lower principle, the mind, one must con- centrate the higher principle, the Will. Failure to understand this has destroyed the value of all attempts to teach "Yoga," " Menti- culture," " New Thought," and the like. There are methods of training the will, by which it is easy to check one's progress. Every one knows the force of habi…
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62 exalted; nor can Their force, the force of Their great oaths, avail against the weakest oath of the most trivial of beginners. The attempt to interfere with the Magical Will of another person would be wicked, if it were not absurd. One may attempt to build up a Will when before nothing existed but a chaos of whims; but once organization has taken place it is sacred. As Blake says: "Everything that lives is holy"; and hence the creation of life is the most sacred of tasks. It does not matter very much to the creator what it is that he creates…
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… for Thoth is the God of Truth, of Wisdom, and the Teacher of Magick. The Ateph Crown has two ram's horns, showing energy, dominion, the force that breaks down obstacles, the sign of the spring. Between these horns is the disk of the sun; from this springs a Lotus upheld by the twin plumes of truth, and three other sun-disks are upheld, one by the cup of the lotus, the others beneath the curving feathers. There is still another Crown, the Crown of Amoun, the concealed 139
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…ned,^ so must he build up in consciousness this power of inhibition until it sinks below consciousness, adding to his store of automatic force, so that he is free to devote his conscious energy to a yet higher task. It is impossible to overrate the value of this inhibition to the man when he comes to meditate. He has guarded his mind against thoughts A, B, and C; he has told the sentries to allow no one to pass who is not in uniform. And it will be very easy for him to extend that power, and to lower the portcullis. Let him remember, too, that …
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71 There is the lotus of three petals in the Sacrum, in which the Kunda- lini lies asleep. This lotus is the receptacle of reproductive force. There is also the six-petalled lotus opposite the navel — which receives the forces which nourish the body. There is also a lotus in the Solar plexus which receives the nervous forces. The six-petalled lotus in the heart corresponds to Tiphereth, and receives those vital forces which are connected with the blood. The sixteen-petalled lotus opposite the larynx receives the nourish- ment needed by the brea…
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… beginner. Ultimately the Magical Will so identifies itself with the man's whole being that it becomes unconscious, and is as constant a force as gravitation. One may even be surprised at one's own acts, and have to reason out their connection. But let it be understood that when the Will has thus really raised itself to the height of Destiny, the man is no more hkely to do wrong than he is to float off into the air. One may be asked whether there is not a conflict between this development of the Will and Ethics. The answer is Yes. In the Grand …
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98 Its function is to keep off the enemy or to force a passage through them —and though it must be wielded to gain admission to the palace, it cannot be worn at the marriage feast. One might say that the Pantacle is the bread of life, and the Sword the knife which cuts it up. One must have ideas, but one must criticize them. The Sword, too, is that weapon with which one strikes terror into the demons and dominates them. One must keep the Ego Lord of the impressions. One must not allow the circle to be broken by the demon; one must not allow any…
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…wc find in fact that man is in just such a mess. While he is working day and night at some unimportant detail of his affairs, some giant force may be advancing /d'^^ claudo to overtake him.
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…bligations." So when any one wanted to break his vow he had no difficulty in discovering a very good reason for it. The vow lost all its force. When Buddha took his seat under the blessed Bo-Tree, he took an oath that none of the inhabitants of the 10,000 worlds should cause him to rise until he had attained; so that when even Mara the great Arch-Devil, with his three daughters the arch-temptresses appeared, he remained still. Now it is useless for the beginner to take so formidable a vow; he
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…mp ; these are the *' Fortresses upon the Frontiers of the Abyss." See the eleventh Aethyr, Liber 418 ("Equinox V"). They keep off those forces of darkness which might otherwise break in. The names of God form a further protection. The Magician may consider what names he will use; but each name should in some way symbolise this Work in its method and accomplishment. It is impos- sible here to enter into this subject fully; the discovery or construction of suitable names might occupy the most learned Qabalist for many years. These nine lamps wer…