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1935 · PDF PAGE 8

One Star in Sight

… will in any direction, and no Consciousness of any kind involving duality, for in Him all is accomplished; as it is written “beyond the Word and the Fool, yea, beyond the Word and the Fool”. 5. The Grade of Magus is described in Liber I vel Magi, and there are accounts of its character in Liber 418 in the Higher Aethyrs. There is also a full and precise description of the attainment of this Grade in the Magical Record of the Beast 666. The essential characteristic of the Grade is that its possessor utters a Creative Magical Word, which transfo…

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1935 · PDF PAGE 7

One Star in Sight

…, however, be constituted in harmony with the A A as regards the essential principles. All members of the Order are in possession of the Word of the existing Aeon, and govern themselves thereby. They are entitled to communicate directly with any and every member of the Order, as they may deem fitting. Every active Member of the Order has destroyed all that He is and all that he has on crossing the Abyss; but a star is cast forth in the Heavens to enlighten the Earth, so that he may possess a vehicle wherein he may communicate with mankind. The …

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1935 · PDF PAGE 10

One Star in Sight

… himself by predatory practices. He may indeed prosper for a while, but in the end he must perish, especially when with a new Aeon a new word is pro- claimed which he cannot and will not hear, so that he is handi- capped by trying to use an obsolete method of Magick, like a man with a boomerang in a battle where every one else has a rifle. 9. The Grade of Adeptus Major confers Magical Powers (strictly so-called) of the second rank. His work is to use these to support the authority of the Exempt Adept his superior. (This is not to be understood …

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1935 · PDF PAGE 13

One Star in Sight

…on with currents. So must all Members of the A. A-. work by the Magical Formula of the Aeon. They must accept the Book of the Law as the Word and the Letter of Truth, and the sole Rule of Life." They must acknow- ledge the Authority of the Beast 666 and of the Scarlet Woman as in the book it is defined, and accept Their Will* as concentratin, the Will of our Whole Order. They must accept the Crowne and Conquering Child as the Lord of the Aeon, and exert them- selves to establish His reign upon Earth. They must acknowled; that “The word of the L…

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1935 · PDF PAGE 9

One Star in Sight

…-eminently the Master of Mysticism, that is, His Understanding is entirely free from internal contradic- tion or external obscurity; His word is to comprehend the existing Universe in accordance with His own Mind. He is the Master of the Law of Sorrow (Dukkha). To attain the grade of Magus he must accomplish Three Tasks; the renunciation of His enjoyment of the Infinite so that he may formulate Himself as the Finite; the acquisition of the practical secrets alike of initiating and governing His proposed new Universe and the identification of hi…

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1935 · PDF PAGE 11

One Star in Sight

…ative will, in the shape of that Will, leaving his head and arms to form the symbol of Light, as if to make oath that his every thought, word and deed should express the Light derived from the God with which he has identified his life, his love and his liberty—symbolised by his heart, his phallus, and his legs. It is impossible to lay down precise rules by which a man may attain to the knowledge and conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel; for that is the particular secret of each one of us; as secret not to be told or even divined by any other…

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