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THE WAND
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…atch and so preserve this dew by turning back the tongue in the mouth. Concerning the water in this Cup, it may be said that just as the wand should be perfectly rigid, the ideal solid, so should the water be the ideal fluid. The Wand is erect, and must extend to Infinity. The surface of the water is flat, and must extend to Infinity. One is the line, the other the plane. But as the Wand is weak without breadth, so is the water false with- out depth. The Understanding of the Magus must include all things, and that understanding must be infinite…
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THE WAND, CUP, SWORD, AND DISK OR PANTACLE (drawn tO SCale).
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THE MACrlCIAX IN HIS ROBE AND CROWN, ARMED WITH WAND, CUP, SWORD, PANTACLE, BELL, BOOK, AND HOLY OIL.
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42 This Magical Will is the wand in your hand by which the Great Work is accomplished, by which the Daughter is not merely set upon the throne of the Mother, but assumed into the Highest.^ The Magick Wand is thus the principal weapon of the Magus; and the name of that wand is the Magical Oath. The will being twofold is in Chokmah, who is the Logos, the word; hence some have said that the word is the will. Thoth the Lord of Magic is also the Lord of Speech; Hermes the messenger bears the Caduceus. Word should express will: hence the Mystic Name …
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CHAPTER 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 p…
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…ainable that it escapes altogether; and the true artist, like the true mystic, can never rest. To him the Magician is but a servant. His wand is of infinite length; it is the creative Mahalingam. The difficulty with such an one is naturally that his wand being very
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CHAPTER VII THE CUP AS the Magick Wand is the Will, the Wisdom, the Word of the Magician, so is the Magick Cup his Under- standing. This is the cup of which it was written: " Father, if it be Thy Will, let this cup pass from Me!" And again: " Can ye drink of the cup that I drink of?" And it is also the cup in the hand of OUR LADV BABALON, and the cup of the Sacrament. This Cup is full of bitterness, and of blood, and of intoxication. The Understanding of the Magus is his link with the Invisible, on the passive side. His Will errs actively by op…
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CHAPTER VIII THE SWORD '* 'nr^HE word of the Lord is quick and powerful, and sharper than a X two-edged sword." As the Wand is Chokmah, the Will, "the Father," and the Cup the Understanding, "the Mother," Binah; so the Magick Sword is the Reason, "the Son," the six Sephiroth of the Ruach, and we shall see that the Pantacle corresponds to Malkuth, " the Daughter." The Magick Sword is the analytical faculty; directed against any demon it attacks his complexity. Only the simple can withstand the sword. x\s we are below the Abyss, this weapon is th…
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…Altar is composed of ten squares. The top is Kether, and the ' It represents the extension of Will. Will is the Dyad (see section on the Wand) ; 2x2 = 4. So the altar is foursquare, and also its ten squares show 4. 10 = i + 2 + 3 + 4- 21
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CHAPTER VI THE WAND THE Magical Will is in its essence twofold, for it presupposes a beginning and an end; to will to be a thing is to admit that you are not that thing. Hence to will anything but the supreme thing, is to wander still further from it— any will but that to give up the self to the Beloved is Black Magick —yet this surrender is so simple an act that to our complex minds it is the most difficult of all acts; and hence training is necessary. Further, the Self surrendered must not be less than the All-Self; one must not come before t…
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…dia, translated by Sir Edwin Arnold in the "Song Celestial." Bi7iah. Understanding, the 3rd "emanation"' of the Absolute. Caditceus. The Wand of Mercury. See Equinox II and III. 175
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…upon this Lamp naught else exists. The Instruments lie idle on the Altar; that Light alone burns eternally. The Divine Will that was the Wand is no more; for the path has become one with the Goal. The Divine Understanding that was the Cup is no more; for the subject and Object of intelligence are one. The Divine Reason that was the Sword is no more : for the complex has been resolved into the Simple. And the Divine Substance that was the Pantacle is no more; for the many has become the One. Eternal, unconfined, unextended, without cause and wit…
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…f 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, "The Star in the West "). Let us take another example from this rich storehouse …
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72 This Cup must also be hidden from the profane. The Wand must be kept secret lest the profane, fearing it, should succeed in breaking it; the Cup lest, wishing to touch it, they should defile it. Yet the sprinkling of its water not only purifies the Temple, but blesseth them that are without : freely must it be poured ! But let no one know your real purpose, and let no one know the secret of your strength. Remember Samson ! Remember Guy Fawkes ! Of the methods of increasing Understanding those of the Holy Qabalah are perhaps the best, provide…
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…ibrate with the hilt, for steel is the metal of Mars, as copper is of Venus. Those two planets are male and female —and thus reflect the Wand and the Cup, though in a much lower sense. The hilt is of Venus, for Love is the motive of this ruthless analysis — if this were not so the sword would be a Black Magical weapon. The pommel of the Sword is in Death, the guard extends to Chesed and Geburah; the point is in jNIalkuth. Some magi make the three spheres of lead, tin, and gold respectively; the moons are silver, and the grip contains quicksilve…
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…ery useful for a man who was unable intelligently to use his wealth for the single end proposed; to another it would be 1 The Top of the Wand is in Kether — which is one ; and the Qliphoth of Kether are the Thaumiel, opposing heads that rend and devour each other.
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…ht must be offered up as a sacrifice. The Cup can hardly be described as a weapon. It is round like the pantacle — not straight like the wand and the dagger. Reception, not projection, is its nature.^ 1 As the Magician is in the position of God towards the Spirit that he evokes, he
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…er. 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. And this is the danger of the Cup; it must necessarily be open to all, and yet if anything is put into it which is out of proportion, unbalanced, or impure, it takes hurt. And here again we find difficulty with our thoughts. The grossness and stupidity oi simple wipressio7is cloud the water; emotions trouble it; perceptions are …
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…the real Magical Will must be toward the highest attainment, and this can never be until the flowering of the Magical Understanding. The Wand must be made to grow in length as well as in strength ; it need not do so of its own nature.
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