Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

to command, being a forcible breath controlled by the firm circle of the mouth. He is the Open Eye of the exalted Sun, before whom ail shadows flee away: also that Secret Eye which makes an image of its God, the Light, and gives it power to utter oracles, enlightening the mind. Thus, he is Man made God, exalted, eager; he has corne consciously to his full stature, and so is ready to set out on his journey to redeem the world. But he may not appear in this true form; the Vision of Pan would drive men mad with fear. He must conceal Himself in his original guise. He therefore becomes apparently the man that he was at the beginning; he lives the life of a man; indeed, he is wholly man. But his initiation has made him master of the Event by giving him the understanding that whatever happens to him is the execution of his true will. Thus the last stage of his initiation is expressed in our formula as the final: F — The sériés of transformations has not affected his identity; but it has explained him to himself. Similarly, Copper is still Copper after Cu 4-0 = CuO : -h H2S04 = CuS.Oi^O): -h K2S = CuS(K2S04) l 4- blowpipe and reducing agent = Cu(S). It is the same copper; but we hâve learnt some of its properties. We observe especially that it is indestructible, inviolably itself throughout ail its adventures, and in ail its disguises. We see moreover that it can only make use of its powers, fulfil the possi¬ bilités of its nature, and satisfy its équations, by thus combining with its counterparts. Its existence as a separate substance is evidence of its subjection to stress; and this is felt as the ache of an incompréhensible yearning until it réalisés that every expérience is a relief, an expression of itself; and that it cannot be injured by aught that may befall it. In the Aeon of Osiris it was indeed' realised that Man must die in order to live. But now in the Aeon of Horus we know that every event is a death; subject and object slay each other in “love under will”; each such death is itself life, the means by which one réalisés oneself in a sériés of épisodes. The second main point is the completion of the A babe Bacchus by the O Pan (Parzival wins the Lance, etc.). 37