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…od proved unequal to the task. This form of dishonesty reaches its climax in the expurgating of the classics. " The Bible is the Word of God, written by holy men, as they were inspired by the Holy Ghost. But we will cut out those passages which we think unsuitable." " Shakespeare is our greatest poet — but, of course, he is very dreadful." " No one can surpass the lyrics of Shelley, but we must pretend that he was not an atheist." Some translators could not bear that the heathen Chinese should use the word Shang Ti, and pretended that it did no…
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…'Equinox III. Aethyrs. See Equinox V and VII. Aima. The Great Fertile Mother Nature. Ama. The Great Mother not yet fertile. A?noufi. The God Amen = Zeus = Jupiter, etc., etc. Ankh. The Symbol of " Life." A form of the Rosy Cross. 6*6'^Equinox III. Apophis. The Serpent-God who slew Osiris. See Equinox III. Babalon., Our Lady. 5tv Equinox V, The Vision and the \'oice, 14th Aethyr. Babe of the Abyss. See Equinox VIII, Temple of Solomon. Bhagavadij^ita. Sacred Hymn of India, translated by Sir Edwin Arnold in the "Song Celestial." Bi7iah. Understand…
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…of action tends. Whether Genesis be true or geology be true, a geologist who be- lieves in Genesis will go to Gehenna. " Ye cannot serve God and Mammon."
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…ffy was in bed. I took a carving knife, And cut off Taffy's head. Taffy is merely short for Taphtatharath, the Spirit of Mercury and the God of Welshmen or thieves. " My house " is of course equivalent to " my magick circle." Note that Beth, the letter of Mercury and " The Magus," means "a house." The beef is the symbol of the Bull, Apis the Redeemer. This is therefore that which is written: " Oh my God, disguise thy glory I Come as a thief, and let us steal away the sacraments ! " In the following verse we find that Taffy is " in bed," owing t…
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… is more satisfactory. St. Paul says : " Where sin abounded, there did grace much more abound. Then shall we do evil that good may come? God forbid." But (clearly!) it is exactly what God Himself did, or why did He create Satan with the germ of his " fall " in him? Instead of condemning the three qualities outright, we should consider them as parts of a sacrament. This par- ticular aspect of the Scourge, the Dagger, and the Chain, suggests the sacrament of penance. The Scourge is Sulphur: its application excites our slug- gish natures; and it m…
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…. David said: " I hate thoughts." The Hindu says: "That which can be thought is not true." Paul said: "The carnal mind is enmity against God." And every one who meditates, even for an hour, will soon discover how this gusty aimless wind makes his flame flicker. "The wind bloweth where it listeth." The normal man is less than a straw. ^ ' But as it is said, Shnilia similibus curanttir, we find this Ruach also the symbol of the Spirit. RVCh ALHIM, the Spirit of God, is 300, the number of the holy letter Shin. As this is the breath, which by its n…
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…ttitude and that of the Master of the Temple. What can possibly be more selfish than this interpretation of everything as the dealing of God with the soul? But it is God who is all and not any part; and every "deaHng" must thus be an expansion of the soul, a destruction of its separateness. Every ray of the sun expands the flower. The surface of the water in the Magick Cup is infinite; there is no point different from any other point. ^ Thus, ultimately, as the wand is a binding and a limitation, so is the Cup an expansion —into the Infinite. A…
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…bove the square of Tiphereth; and the Oil, whose phial is so small that it will suit any altar. On the Circle are inscribed the Names of God; the Circle is of green, and the names are in flaming vermilion, of the same colour as the Tau. Without the Circle are nine pentagrams equidistant,' in the ^ Some magicians prefer seven lamps, for the seven Spirits of God that are before the Throne. Each stands in a heptagram, and in each angle of the heptagram is a
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… that which is without. For these lights are only apparently hostile to intrusion ; they serve to illuminate the Circle and the Names of God, and so to bring the first and outmost sym- bols of initiation within the view of the profane. These candles stand upon pentagrams, which symbolize Geburah, severity, and give protection; but also represent the microcosm, the four elements crowned by Spirit, the Will of man perfected in its aspira- tion to the Higher. They are placed outside the Circle to attract the hostile forces, to give them the first …
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…verything by the force of our Magick, so do we work upon the Pantacle. That which is merely a piece of common bread shall be the body of God ! The Wand was the will of man, his wisdom, his word ; the Cup was his understanding, the vehicle of grace; the Sword was his reason; and the Pantacle shall be his body, the temple of the Holy Ghost. What is the length of this Temple? 117
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… crimson cap of maintenance, which falls to the shoulders. Instead of this, the Ateph Crown of Thoth is sometimes worn; 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…
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… out an imaginary meaning for this "nonsense" sets one thinking of the Mysteries; one enters into deep contemplation of holy things, and God Himself leads the soul to a real illumination. Hence also the necessity of Incarnation: the soul must descend into all falsity in order to attain All-Truth. For instance: Old Mother Hubbard Went to her cupboard To get her poor dog a bone ; When she got there, ' This chapter was dictated in answer to a casual remark by Soror Virakam. Fra. P. said jokingly that everything contained the Truth, if you knew how…
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…to supposing them significant and true. Every emotion is an obsession; the most horrible of blas- phemies is to attribute any emotion to God in the macrocosm, or to the pure soul in the microcosm. How can that which is self-existent, complete, be moved} It is even written that "torsion about a point is iniquity." But if the point itself could be moved it would cease to be itself, for position is the only attribute of the point. The Magician must therefore make himself absolutely free in this respect. It is the constant practice of Demons to att…
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… The "bride." The unredeemed soul. Malkuth. "The kingdom," loth "emanation" of the Absolute. Mantrayoga. A practice to attain union with God by repetition of a sacred sentence. .Master of the Temple. One of grade 8" — 3". Fully discussed in Equinox. Microcosvi. Man, considered as an exact image of the Universe. Nephesch. The "animal soul"' of man. .\etzach. Victory, the 7th "emanation" of the Absolute. \ibbana. The state called, for want of a better name, annihilation. The final goal. .Xirvatta. See Nibbana. \u:t. See " Liber Legis." Paths. See…
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…demons corresponding to Kether. Two contending forces. Theosophist. A person who talks about Yoga, and does no work. Thoth. The Egyptian god of Speech, Magick, Wisdom. TiphcrctJi. " Beauty" or " Harmony," the 6th " emanation " of the Absolute. Typhon. The destroyer of Osiris. Udana. One of the imaginary "nerves" of Hindu pseudo-physiology.
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…hree supernals. To what cupboard did she go? Even to the most secret caverns of the Universe. And who is this dog? Is it not the name of God spelt Qabal- istically backwards? And what is this bone? This bone is the Wand, the holy Lingam ! The complete interpretation of the rune is now open. This rime is the legend of the murder of Osiris by Typhon. The limbs of Osiris were scattered in the Nile. Isis sought them in every corner of the Universe, and she found all except his sacred lingam, which was not found until quite recently {vide Fuller, "T…
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…e second. The Master of the Temple, whose grade corresponds to Binah, is sworn to "interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with his soul." ^ See the " Interlude " follo\A'ing. ^ See Equinox V, "The Training of the Mind"'; Equinox II, "The Psychology of Hashish"; Equinox VII, "Liber DCCCCXIII."'
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86 This is one of the more exoteric of these rimes. In fact, it is not much better than a sun-myth. Tom is Toum, the God of the Sunset (called the Son of Apollo, the Piper, the maker of music). The only difficulty in the poem concerns the pig; for anyone who has watched an angry sunset in the Tropics upon the sea, will recognize how incom- parable a description of that sunset is given in that wonderful last line. Some have thought that the pig refers to the evening sacrifice, others that she is Hathor, the Lady of the West, in her more sensual …
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…of all things to the standard of men's welfare. They even became stupid: Bernardin de St. Pierre (was it not?) said that the goodness of God was such that wherever men had built a great city. He had placed a river to assist them in conveying merchandise. But the truth is that in no way can we imagine the Universe as devised. If horses were made for men to ride, were not men made for worms to eat?
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… But one hardly dare comment upon a theme which has been so fruit- fully treated by Ludovicus Carolus, that most holy illuminated man of God. His masterly treatment of the identity of the three reciprocating paths of Daleth, Teth, and Pe, is one of the most wonderful passages in all the Holy Qabalah. His resolution of what we take to be the bond of slavery into very love, the embroidered neckband of honour bestowed upon us by the King himself, is one of the most sublime passages in this class of literature. Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, Had a wi…