Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

LIBER A’ASH vel CAPRICORNI PNEUMATICI SUE FIGURA CCCLXX. o. Gnarled Oak of God ! In thy branches is the lightning nested ! Above thee hangs the Eyeless Hawk. 1. Thou art blasted and black! Supremely solitary in that heath of scrub. 2. Up ! The ruddy clouds hang over thee ! ït is the storm. 3. There is a flaming gash in the sky. 4- Up. 5. Thou art tossed about in the grip of the storm for an aeon and an aeon and an aeon. But thou givest not thy sap; thou fallest not. 6. Only in the end shalt thou give up thy sap when the great God F.I.A.T. is enthroned on the day of Be-With-Us. 7. For two things are done and a third thing is begun. Isis and Osiris are given over to incest and adultery. Horus leaps up thrice armed from the womb of his mother. Harpocrates his twin is hidden within him. SET is his holy covenant, that he shall display in the great day of M.A.A.T., that is being interpreted the Master of the Temple of A .\ A whose name is Truth. 8. Now in this is the magical power known. 9. It is like the oak that hardens itself and bears up against the storm. It is weather-beaten and scarred and confident like a sea- captain. 10. Also it straineth like a hound in the leash. 11. It hath pride and great subtlety. Yea, and glee also ! 12. Let the Magus act thus in his conjuration. 13. Let him sit and conjure3 let him draw himself together in that forcefulness ; let him rise next swollen and straining; let him dash back the hood from his head and fix his basilisk eye upon the sigil of the démon. Then let him sway the force of him to and fro like a satyr in silence, until the Word burst from his throat. 14. Then let him not fall exhausted, although he might hâve been ten thousandfold the human; but that which floodeth him is — 432