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Page 68 of 811954 · PDF PAGE 370
…way, even with the best intentions , THEN-with a single blow I sever our relations, and for ever. 'Well, that's really very nice of you, Holy One' you might say; but you are not the only one to be considered, what about the Masters? Do they ride us on the snaffle? Tradition says not so." This depends wholly on you . If you are a quite ordinary Aspirant, and a few dozen incarnations one way or the other don't make such a difference, then They presumably won't bother about you at all. In the course of centuries, Karma will roll out the creases. B…
1954 · PDF PAGE 351
…op wherein the Great Work should be accomplished. It has moreover been sanctified and glorified by the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. So as each Master has his own appointed Work to perform in the world, he is cast down into the Sephira, suitable for that work. If his function is to be that of a warrior, he would find himself in Geburah ; if that of a great poet or composer, in Tiphareth ; and so on. He, the Master, inhabits this dwelling; but , having already got rid of it, he is able to allow it to carry on according t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 59
…ses the Great Work which we are pledged to accomplish. The first step of this is the attainment of th^ Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, which constitutes the Adept of the Inner Order. The re-entry of these twin spouses into the womb of the mother is that initiation described in Libe»* 418, which gives admission to the Inmost Order of the A.*. A.*. Of the last step we cannot speak. It will now be recognised that to devise a practical magical ceremony to correspond to Tetragrammaton in this exalted sense might be difficult i…
1930 · PDF PAGE 94
…ghtest flaw or failure in the minutest part thereof. 19. Concerning the Lections. — Let the Philosophus read solely in his copies of the holy books of Thelema, during the whole period of his dévotion. But if he weary, then let him read books which hâve no part whatever in love, as for récréation. But let him copy out each verse of Thelema which bears upon this matter, and ponder them, and comment thereupon. For therein is a wisdom and a magick too deep to utter in any other wise. 20. Concerning the Méditations. — Herein is the most potent metho…
1938 · PDF PAGE 20
III. THE TEMPLE OF TRUTH THE INITIATION. I, Khaled Khan, beheld that Vision and received this Voice upon the Holy Hill of Sidi Bou Said, in the country now called Tunisia, but from of old sacred with many sanctities. Thus far it is permitted me to speak freely of that which came to me in my long search for the True Wisdom; but to me in my long search for the True Wisdom; but to declare the Mode of mine Initiation, whereby I gained ingress to the Place called the Temple of Truth (but by some Dar-el-Jalal) it is forbidden. Nor may I disclose in w…
1904 · PDF PAGE 126
… Eightfold Path. Let him aspire to knowledge, and the Second Step is under his feet. The rest lies with Research. Aum ! I take my refuge holy in the Light and Peace of Buddh. Aum ! I take my refuge, slowly working out His Law of Good. Aum ! I take my refuge lowly in His Pitying Brotherhood.
1929 · PDF PAGE 125
There has been a good deal of discussion in the past within the Colleges of the Holy Ghost, as to whether it would be quite legitimate to seek to transcend this limitation. One need not présumé to pass judgment. One can leave the decision to the will of each magician. The Book of the Dead contains many chapters intended to enable the magical entity of a man who is dead, and so deprived (according to the theory of death then current) of the material vehicle for executing his will, to take on the form of certain animais, such as a golden hawk or …
1929 · PDF PAGE 152
…ole type of Magick either necessary or proper to the Adept; for it includes both the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, and the Adventure of the Abyss. The second class includes ail operations by which the Magician strives to impose his Will upon objects outside his own control, but within that of such other wills as are symbolised by means of
1954 · PDF PAGE 498
…ur fellow men and women ; and that in a sense which never so much as occurs to us when we discuss Archangels. The great exception is the Holy Guardian Angel; and this as I have shewn in another letter is for exactly the same reason; He is a Person , a macrocosmic Individual. (We do not know about his birth and so on ; but that is because he is, so to speak a private God ; he only appears to the world at all through some reference to him by his client ; for instance , the genius or Augoeides of Socrates.) Let us see how this works in practice. C…
1930 · PDF PAGE 36
…n or Satan is exalted in the House of Venus or Astarte, and it is an airy sign. Thus L is Father-Mother, Two and Naught, and the Spirit (Holy Ghost) of their Love is also Naught. Love is AHBH, 13, which is AChD, Unity, I, Aleph, who is The Fool who is Naught, but none the less an Individual One, who (as such) is not another, yet unconscious of himself until his Oneness expresses itself as a duality. Any impression or idea is unknowable in itself. It can mean — 336 ~
1913 · PDF PAGE 307
… himself a single word of this inheritance of the Word; he is a deicide, who wishes to dismember the body of the Lord. This Creed is the holy ark of charity; whoso touches it is stricken by eternal death, for charity withdraws itself from him. It is the sacred inheritance of our children, it is the price of the blood of our fathers! It is by charity that the martyrs took consolation in the prisons of the Czesars, and won over to their belief even their warders and their executioners. It is in the name of charity that St. Martin of Tours pro- te…
1913 · PDF PAGE 307
… himself a single word of this inheritance of the Word; he is a deicide, who wishes to dismember the body of the Lord. This Creed is the holy ark of charity; whoso touches it is stricken by eternal death, for charity withdraws itself from him. It is the sacred inheritance of our children, it is the price of the blood of our fathers! It is by charity that the martyrs took consolation in the prisons of the Czesars, and won over to their belief even their warders and their executioners. It is in the name of charity that St. Martin of Tours pro- te…
1930 · PDF PAGE 14
… necessarv to hll the heart and mïnd with the proper basis for manuestauon. The higher the nature of the God, the more true tins is. The Holy Guardian Angel has always the necessary hasis. His manifestation dépends solely on the readiness oî tue Aspirant, and ail magical ceremonies used in that invocation are merely intended to préparé that Aspirant; not in any way to attract or influence Him. It is His constant and et ornai "W ill to hecome one with the Aspirant, and the moment the coiiditions of the lutter muke it possible, That Bridai is con…
1907 · PDF PAGE 220
… Waking thy choral wail From Mitylene to remotest seas ! THE RIVER HEBRUS, Was e’er a stream before So sad a burden bore Rolling a melancholy sorrow down from shore to shore ? CALLIOPE. O this is bitterness beyond belief. Grief beyond grief. Boots it to weep? I holp him not with force : What should avail—remorse? RIVER HEBRUS. Hear upon high the melancholy Antistrophe Matching the strophe’s agony ! Tides on a terrible sea ! CALLIOPE. Bear, bear the laureiled head Of him I loved, him dead, O Hebrus, ever downward on thy bosom iron-red ! RIVER HE…
1919 · PDF PAGE 382
…ant land? There was also an humming-bird that spake unto the horned cerastes, and prayed him for poison. And the great snake of Khem the Holy One, the royal Ureus serpent, answered him and said: I sailed over the sky of Nu in the car called Millions-of-Years, and I saw not any creature upon Seb that was equal to me. The venom of my fang is the inheri- tance of my father, and of my father’s father; and how shall I give it unto thee? Live thou and thy children as I and my fathers have lived, even unto an hundred millions of generations, and it ma…
1929 · PDF PAGE 80
…ween grade and grade increases as it were by a geometrical progression with an enormously high factor, which itself progresses. 2 1. The Holy Qabalah (see Liber D in Eqiiinox I, VIII, Supplément, and Liber 777) affords the means of analysis and application required. See also Equinox I, V, “The Temple of Solomon The King”. 2. A suggestion has recently been made that the Hierarchy of the Grades should be “destroyed, and replaced by”—a ring System of 13 grades ail equal. There is, of course, one sense in which every grade is a Th in g-in-Itself. B…
1954 · PDF PAGE 509
…lical revival" the number was fantastic-who got there through fear that they had somehow committed that aforesaid "blasphemy against the Holy Ghost ." The unknown again. The Bible does not tell us what it is; only that it is unpardonable . Nor Grace, nor Faith, nor Predestination avail in the least ; for all you know , you may have committed it. Reassurance is impossible ; no ceinture de chastete avails to avert this danger. Again with drugs, it is the unknown which is the horrific factor. Most people get their information on the subject from t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 353
…QUINOX. His charm lays principally in the independence of his thought, the delicacy of his touch, in his spirit of pure joy, in his most holy childishness. He shows certainly a great lack of literary experience, an accumulation of various contra- dictory feelings which seem to fight one another for the conquest of his spirit. The scientific training of our order will give him that Mastery over self which alone can bring forth the full blossom of his rich imagination. There is every reason for us to expect much of Mr. Raffalovich. Is he not a Ge…
1910 · PDF PAGE 353
…QUINOX. His charm lays principally in the independence of his thought, the delicacy of his touch, in his spirit of pure joy, in his most holy childishness. He shows certainly a great lack of literary experience, an accumulation of various contra- dictory feelings which seem to fight one another for the conquest of his spirit. The scientific training of our order will give him that Mastery over self which alone can bring forth the full blossom of his rich imagination. There is every reason for us to expect much of Mr. Raffalovich. Is he not a Ge…
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…ate of Religion. The Magician may therefore be confident that Spiritual Beings exist, and seek the Knowledge and Conversation of His own Holy Guardian Angel with the same ardour as that of Frater Perdurabo when Fie abandoned. ail r love, wealth, rank, famé, to seek Him. Nay, this he must do or condemn himself to be — 262 —