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…, to caress or strike, wound or heal, in a manner doubtless natural, but invisible, and of the nature of prodigy. There is the secret of magic. Magic, that science which comes to us from the magi! Magic, the first of sciences! Magic, the holiest science, because it establishes in the sublimest manner the great religious truths! Magic, the most calumniated of all, because the vulgar obstinately confound magic with the superstitious sorcery whose abominable practices we have denounced! It is only by magic that one can reply to the enigmatical que…
1913 · PDF PAGE 612
…cilities for acquiring rare and uncommon Books. New Publications supplied to order. Carrlage paid withia United Kingdom, THE HISTORY, OF MAGIC. Including a clear and precise Exposition of its Processes, Rites and Mysteries. By Euivntas Livi, Translated, Annotated and Introduced by Arthur Edward Waite. With Twenty Plates. Large Demy 8vo, 9 in. x 6in., $72 pp. Handsomely bound, Cloth Gill extra, Gilt Tops. 155.net. EDITION DE LUXE. Printed on fine quality Rag Paper. Bound in White Vellum, Gilt Tops, 218. net. . eit, English translation of this ce…
1913 · PDF PAGE 253
…t eight persons saved. However, this was not the worst. The future saint (as it was written that he should become!) made incursions upon Magic, with the unhappiest results. Fundamentally incom- petent to apprehend the very nature of the question, and utterly incapable of humour, the ingenious Lévi pulled his leg to the limit. The future saint! could see only contradictions in the profundities of the master, and in complaining that Lévi was always “‘ stultifying himself” (when he was merely indulging the irony of which he was one of the most bri…
1913 · PDF PAGE 447
…idden signification shall soon be made known, that is to say, at the end of the Age.” “Oh, well, sir,” solemnly replied the Professor of Magic; “even before the end of the Age, I will explain them to you: these three qabalistic signs are the signature of the devil !” “It is impossible!” cried the old priest. “Tt is the case,” replied Eliphas, with determination. Now, the signs were these : 1°—The star of the micrososm, or the magic pentagram. It is the five-pointed star of occult masonry, the star with which Agrippa drew the human figure, the h…
1913 · PDF PAGE 568
…s of Postel the Re-arisen, and those alleged to have been in the keeping of Cagliostro. In short, we are going to speak the last word of magic. CHAPTER I OF TRANSFORMATION—THE WAND OF CIRCE—THE BATH OF MEDEA—MAGIC OVERCOME BY ITS OWN WEAPONS—THE GREAT ARCANUM OF THE JESUITS AND THE SECRET OF THEIR POWER Tue Bible tells us that King Nebuchadnezzar, at the highest point of his power and his pride, was suddenly changed into a beast. He fled into savage places, began to eat grass, let his beard and hair grow, as well as his nails, and remained in t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 592
…OMONIS REGIS (The Lesser Key of Solomon the King) The best, simplest, most intelligible and most effective treatise extant on CEREMONIAL MAGIC Careful and complete instruction; ample illustration; beau- tiful production. This book is very much easier both to understand and to operate than the so-called “Greater” Key of Solomon ONLY A FEW COPIES REMAIN FOR SALE
1913 · PDF PAGE 429
… Canidia, the devourer of little children. Clinias is disabused; he thanks his master, he is saved. The vulgar are always deceived about magic, and confuse adepts with enchanters. True magic, that is to say, the traditional science of the magi, is the mortal enemy of enchantment; it prevents, or makes to cease, sham miracles, hostile to the light, that fascinate a small number of pre- judiced or credulous witnesses. The apparent disorder in the laws of Nature is a lie: it is not then a miracle. The true miracle, the true prodigy always flaming …
1913 · PDF PAGE 455
… what it is,” said he humbly in a low voice. ‘Oh, it cost me a great deal to do it; above all, the first time, with a single blow of the magic knife to cut the throat of that innocent creature! One night I had just accomplished the funereal rites, I was seated in the circle on the interior threshold of my door, and the victim had just been consumed in a great fire of alder and cypress wood. . All of a sudden, quite close to me... . I dreamt or rather I felt it pass... I heard in my ear a heartrending wail . . . one would have said that it wept;…
1913 · PDF PAGE 421
…f the threshold of eternity, were obliged to make a second attempt. A celebrated magnetist, Baron Dupotet, teaches in his secret book on Magic that one can kill by magic as by electricity. There is nothing strange in this revelation for 123
1913 · PDF PAGE 507
… does not wish to put himself uselessly outside the pale of society. So goes the world. Charlatanism, when it is successful, is then, in magic as in everything else, a great instrument of power. To fascinate the mob cleverly, is not that already to dominate it? The poor devils of sorcerers who in the Middle Ages stupidly got themselves burnt alive had not, it is easy to see, a great empire on others. Joan of Arc was a magician at the head of her armies, and at Rouen the poor girl was not even a witch. She only knew how to pray, and how to fight…
1913 · PDF PAGE 173
… I found thee, Unsuspected still, and round thee The idle worshippers that the wind hath blown thee. It is well; for I know thee and thy magic grace, And the history of thy race, And the times of eld When thou wast born, compelled By sundawn to ope thine eyes.— Ah! Wise! Thou hast not shadowed the thunder, And thereunder Is set the manifold wonderment of thee, Star, star of the seal... 135
1913 · PDF PAGE 585
…hree stars will explain it sufficiently. They may be compared with that which we have caused to be drawn at the head of our “ History of Magic.” By reuniting the four, one may arrive at the understanding of the Great Arcanum of Arcana. 287
1913 · PDF PAGE 174
THE EQUINOX Well do I know my magic shall not avail To unveil thee. Too well I know I may not hope to impale thee On the spear of my song; my song Is thine, and thou dost not remain for long: Thou tarriest not at all, Thou guardest all men’s bale Within the web of the Mystery called Time. And so no rime Of beauty or of truth shall serve Thee, until thou shalt swerve And fall. Who shall undo the wrong? What hand shall set thee free? And who shall lend his light that it may bring An end to the light I sing? My song, my song Is blasphemy to thee, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 94
…ok forms an introduction to the series. A number of Mercury. The number of Adonai. The sum of the first 11 numbers. This book relates to Magic, whose Key is 11. The number of + a sword. The number of cards in the Tarot pack. Enumeration of the name Enoch. Tzaddi means a fish-hook. “I will make you fishers of men.” The number of ns‘ “queen,” attributed to Malkuth.
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…y A. Crowley. 12. “ Eleusis,” by A. Crowley. [These four last items are to be found in his Collected Works.] 13. ‘The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-melin the Mage.” 14. The Tao Teh King and the Writings of Kwang x) (Sacred Books of the East, Vols. XX XIX, XL). An examination in these books will be made. The Student is expected to show a thorough acquaintance with them, but not necessarily to understand them in any deeper sense. On passing the examination he may be admitted to the grade of Probationer. With the publication of No. X of THE Egu…
1913 · PDF PAGE 287
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE In the biographical and critical essay which Mr. Waite prefixes to his Mysteries of Magic he says: “A word must be added of the method of this digest, which claims to be something more than translation and has been infinitely more laborious. I believe it to be in all respects faithful, and where it has been necessary or possible for it to be literal, there also it is invariably literal.” We agree that it is either more or less than translation, and the following examples selected at hazard in the course of half-an-hour will en…
1913 · PDF PAGE 180
…on, young and bare, Autumn in London, gray and fair. . . . Through hazes of the times of eld Through mazes of the world compelled By the magic of the memory Of the love born by a sunlit sea— Through the gray dusk a faint pink glows, The aureole of a flower that blows In the garden of the gods: too long I linger lost in sense of song; Too long I stay, too late, too late I wander by the hidden gate Of the garden, and the night-wind blows Around me still, ah, Rose, my Rose! From thee the wind-borne breezes float: From thee! the secret word, the no…
1913 · PDF PAGE 565
FOURTH PART THE GREAT PRACTICAL SECRETS OR THE REALIZATION OF SCIENCE INTRODUCTION Tue lofty sciences of the Qabalah and of Magic promise man an exceptional, real, effective, efficient power, and one should regard them as false and vain if they do not give it. Judge the teachers by their works, said the supreme Master. This rule of judgment is infallible. If you wish me to believe in what you know, show me what you do. God, in order to exalt man to moral emancipation, hides Himself from him and abandons to him, after a fashion, the government o…
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THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES Powdered charcoal absorbs and retains the astral light. This explains the magic mirror of Dupotet. Figures traced in charcoal appear luminous to a magne- tized person, and take, for him, following the direction indi- cated by the will of the magnetizer, the most gracious or the most terrifying forms. The astral light, or rather the vital light, of the plastic medium, absorbed by the charcoal, becomes wholly negative; for this reason animals which are tormented by electricity, as for example, cats, love to roll themselve…
1913 · PDF PAGE 515
…two paths are the ten numbers and the twenty-two hieroglyphic letters of the Qabalah. The thirty-first refers to w, which represents the magic lamp, or the light between the horns of Baphomet. It is the qabalistic sign of the op, or astral light, with its two poles, and its balanced centre. One knows that in the language of the alchemist the sun signifies gold, the moon silver, and that the other stars or planets refer to the other metals. One 217