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Page 69 of 901930 · PDF PAGE 27
…ting vision — discover whether the symbols which you hâve seen correspond with the conventional symbols of Mercury. Tliis iesting of the spirits is the most important branch of tlie whoïe tree of Magick. Without it, one is lost in the jungle of delusion. Every spirit, up to God himself, is ready to deceive you if possible, to make himself ont more important than lie is; in short, to lay in wait for your soûl in 333 separate ways. Remember thaï after ail the highest of ail the Gods is en!y the Magus, 1 Mayan, the greatest of ail the devils. Your…
1919 · PDF PAGE 382
…e that the mercy of the Mighty Ones may bestow upon thy children a drop of the poison of eld. Then the humming-bird was afflicted in his spirit, and he flew unto the flowers, and it was as if naught had been spoken between them. Yet in a little while a serpent struck him that he died. But an Ibis that meditated upon the bank of Nile the beautiful God listened and 60
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
of himself with his sigil. It is apparently assumed that the spirit already possesses the means of working on matter. The conception seems to be that of a schoolboy who asks his father to tell the butler to do something for him. In other words, the theory is grossly animistic. The savage tribes described by Frazer had a far more scientific theory. The same may be said of witches, who appear to hâve been wiser than the thaumaturgists who despised them. - They at least made waxen images — iden- tified by baptism — of the people they wished to con…
1930 · PDF PAGE 54
…ce hâve become intelligible only as forms of light. With a rod we hâve summoned the invisible energies of electricity to be our familiar spirit serving us to do our Will, whether it be to outsoar the condor, or to dive deeper into the démon world of disease than any of our dreamers dared to dream. Since with four bits of common glass mankind has learnt to know so much, achieved so much, who dare deny that the Book of Thoth, the quintessentialized wisdom of our ancestors whose civilizations, penshed though they be, hâve left monuments which dwar…
1905 · PDF PAGE 128
…n all the flower-strewn ways were green, ‘* Better love Circe than Penelope !” Yes. A govod woman’s love will forge a chain To break the spirit of the bravest Greek ; While with an harlot one may leap again Free as the waters of the western main, And turn with no heart-pang the vessel’s beak Out to the oceans that all seamen seek.
1930 · PDF PAGE 76
… in many different ways. One may fascinate and bend to one’s will a person who has of his own right the power to destroy. One may employ spirits or talismans. The more powerful magicians of the last few centuries hâve employed books. In private matters these Works are very easy, if they be neces- sary. An adept known to The Master Therion once found it necessary to slay a Circe who was bewitching brethren. He merely walked to the door of her room, and drew an Astral T (“tradi- tore”, and the symbol of Saturn) with an astral dagger. Within 48 h …
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
… to seek its levelj man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself. (e) His power to interpret the Spirit of the New Aeon, the relapse into ruthless savagery of the most civilised races, at a time when war was discredited by most responsible men. ( (f) His power to comprehend and control these various orders of ideas and events, demonstrating thereby a mind and a means of action intelligible to, yet immensely above, ail human capacity; to bind the whole into a compact cryptograph displaying mastery of Engli…
1922 · PDF PAGE 187
…’t keep track of it or of the days either. Counting things is so despicable. One feels so degraded. Surely that’s the difference between spirit and matter. It’s bestial to be bounded. Cockie agrees with me about this. He thinks I’m writing rather wonderful things. But as soon as we come down to ordinary affairs, we quarrel all the time. We snap about nothing at all. The reason is evident. Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence. It’s hateful to be interrupted; and it interrupts one to be asked to pass a cigarette. I wasn’t going to be b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 134
…heir meaning. It is also extremely désirable that he should hâve attained an absolute degree of moral émancipation *, and that purity of spirit which resnlts from a perfect understanding both of the différences and harmonies of the planes upon the Tree of Life. For this reason Frater Perdurabo has never dared to use this formula in a fully cérémonial manner, save once only, on an occasion of tremendous import, when, indeed, it was not He that made the offering, but ONE in Him. For he perceived a grave defect in his moral character which he has …
1954 · PDF PAGE 348
…ndeed "finish" this, even announced publication; it was just going to Press when War (also announced five years before by Bartzabel, the Spirit of Mars) came along in 1914. I toted the rod around the world with me (excuse my American!) and in a fatal hour of weakness, self-mistrust, took to shewing it to some of my students. Of course-I might have known-they all with one accord began: "Oh, but you haven't said anything about-"-all the subjects in the World. So I started to fill in the gaps. As I did so, I found any amount more to do on my own. …
1930 · PDF PAGE 92
…Now to some it may seem best to appoint fixed hours for the ceremony. To others it may seem that the ceremony should be performed as the spirit moves them so to do 3 for this there is no rule. 9. Concernlng the Robes and Instruments : — The Wand and Cup are to be chosen for this Art 3 never the Sword or Dagger, never the Pantacle, unless that Pantacle chance to be of a nature harmonious. But even so it is best to keep to the Wand and the Cup, and if one must choose, the Cup. For the'Robes, that of a Philosophus, or that of an Adept Within is mo…
1961 · PDF PAGE 219
…ave spoken formerly, and its Image is the Fool. O my Son, gather thou all these Limbs together in One Body, and breathe upon it with thy Spirit, that it may live; then do thou embrace it with Lust of they Manhood, and go in unto it, and know it; so shall ye be One Flesh. Now at last in the Reinforcement and Ecstasy of this Consummation thou shalt with by what Inspiration thou didst choose thy Name in the Gnosis, I mean PARZIVAL, der reine Thor, the True Knight that won Kingship in Monsalvat, and made whole the Wound of Amfortas, and ordered K…
1905 · PDF PAGE 160
…shame By strange ways: I will strike one blow to save The land from its invaders. In the name Of all our gods, I here invoke on thee The spirit of my leprosy. Have at you! [Sprizgs at the KING OF SYRIA, only to be transfixed on his drawn sword ; but he succeeds in clasping the Atng, who staggers. His sol- diers, with a shout, rush forward, drag down THE LEPER and attack the priests. All are slain. Silence: then a shield drops, clanging on the ground. KING OF SYRIA (assuming crown and sitting on throne). Salute the conqueror of the Egyptian land…
1929 · PDF PAGE 98
…that is shot against the Holy Dove must transmute itself into the wondering Virgin that receives in her womb the quickening of that same Spirit of God. Any idea that is thus in itself positive and négative, active and passive, male and female, is fit to exist above the Abyss; any idea not so equilibrated is below the Abyss, contains in itself an unmitigated duality or falsehood, and is to that extent qliphotic 3 and dangerous. Even an idea like “truth” is unsafe unless it is realized that ail Truth is in one sense falsehood. For ail Truth is re…
1910 · PDF PAGE 127
…r at 4.6 p.m. on Sunday by Hong- Kong time. She is to start at 10 a.m, Sunday by Hong-Kong time to reach me by 12.2 p.m. Saturday. These spirit journeys were to commence on the 31st of * This danger is also experienced by such as carry out Black Magical Operations, The Current of will often returns and injures the Magician who willed it. + Soror F. the same as Soror S.S.D.F, 112
1910 · PDF PAGE 127
…r at 4.6 p.m. on Sunday by Hong- Kong time. She is to start at 10 a.m, Sunday by Hong-Kong time to reach me by 12.2 p.m. Saturday. These spirit journeys were to commence on the 31st of * This danger is also experienced by such as carry out Black Magical Operations, The Current of will often returns and injures the Magician who willed it. + Soror F. the same as Soror S.S.D.F, 112
1909 · PDF PAGE 100
… humanity, from her Eden through the hell of revolt to the Paradise that so few earn! And she is still fighting in the flesh, though her spirit has its peace. Priceless and unenvied reward of suffering ! True it is, that the chosen of the Masters must leave all. The lightest breeze can stir the Feather of our Lady Maat; there must be no breath of passion or of thought, if we would live in those Halls of Hers, “Elysian, windless, fortunate abodes Beyond Heaven’s constellated wilderness.” And to one who shares, however humbly, her high hope, and …
1909 · PDF PAGE 100
… humanity, from her Eden through the hell of revolt to the Paradise that so few earn! And she is still fighting in the flesh, though her spirit has its peace. Priceless and unenvied reward of suffering ! True it is, that the chosen of the Masters must leave all. The lightest breeze can stir the Feather of our Lady Maat; there must be no breath of passion or of thought, if we would live in those Halls of Hers, “Elysian, windless, fortunate abodes Beyond Heaven’s constellated wilderness.” And to one who shares, however humbly, her high hope, and …
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
For évocations it would be more convenient to place the blood of the victim in the Triangle — the idea being that the spirit might obtain from the blood this subtle but physical substance which was the quintessence of its life in such a manner as to enable it to take on a visible and tangible shape.* 1 Those magiciens wiio object to the use of blood bave endeavored to replace it with incense. For such a purpose the incense of Abramelin may be burnt in large quantities. Dittany of Crete is also a valuable medium. Both these incenses are very cat…
1930 · PDF PAGE 65
…atched on a sheep-skin, but a wTord of Truth, imperish- able, mighty to prevail throughout the sphere of its purport. The évocation of a spirit is precisely similar in essence. The exorcist takes dead material substances of a nature sympathetic to the being whom he intends to invoke. He banishes ail impurities there- fiom, prevents ail interférence therewith, and proceeds to give life to the subtle substance thus prepared by instilling his soûl. - 185 -