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…of Magick. He had originally intended his essay to conclude with the sixth chapter, and he had scrupulously avoided any reference to the magical and mystical side of my work; nay, even to the philosophical side so far as that was concerned with transcendentalism. But I showed him that the {540} study must be incomplete unless he added a chapter expounding my views on these subjects. Thus chapter seven came to be written. It is a very complete and just exposition of my views, and it is especially to be noticed that within the one hundred and thi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 423
…, Wisdom and Magick. LIBER LXVI. The Book of the Ruby Star describes an extremely powerful ritual of practical Magick; how to arouse the Magical Force within the operator and how to use it to create whatever may be required. LIBER XC. The Book of the Hermetic Fish-Hook summons mankind to undertake the Great Work. It describes the conditions of initiation and its results in language of great poetic power. LIBER CLVI. The Wall of Abiegnus (the Sacred Mountain of the Rosicrucians) gives the formula of Attainment by devotion to our Lady {673} Babal…
1929 · PDF PAGE 242
…med to me gratuitously atrocious. My soul, infinitely sad at the universal sorrow, was passionately eager to raise humanity. And lo! the Magical Formula denounced pity as damnable, acclaimed war as admirable and in almost every other way was utterly repugnant to my ideas. I did not understand the fundamental principles of {403} the initiation of mankind; and (in my own case) I did not realize that Aiwass was not necessarily responsible for the character of his message any more than the newspaper for reporting an earthquake. The Secret Chiefs ha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 424
…his way, he resumes his aspiration to the Knowledge and Conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel, with whose reappearance he perfects his Magical Powers so that he is ready to undertake the Work of annihilating the universe, which, being done, he becomes a full Master of the Temple. LIBER DLV. This is a paraphrase of the instructions given in The book of the Law for attaining Hadit. LIBER DCCCXXXI, The Book of Vesta. This book describes three main methods of reducing the multiplicity of thoughts to one. (The magical method is to banish ceremonia…
1929 · PDF PAGE 216
…ons into the Enochian or Angelic language; edited and annotated the text, prefixed a "Preliminary Invocation", added a prefatory note, a Magical Square (intended to prevent improper use of the book) and ultimately an Invocation of Typhon when the First Magical War of the Aeon of Horus was declared. This essay throws a very clear light upon my position. I could not deny the facts of Ceremonial Magick. It is impossible to explain why a dog squeals when you hit him with a stick; but we do not therefore deny that this happens, or at least that ther…
1929 · PDF PAGE 530
…ces of income dried up completely. I therefore borrowed a canoe, tent and camp outfit from a friend and started up the Hudson on a Great Magical Retirement with two dollars and twenty-five cents as my total capital, no prospect of obtaining more when that was exhausted, and full confidence that the Secret Chiefs would supply my physical needs. It was my business to do their work and theirs to look after their servant. This Magical Retirement proved of critical importance. A week's paddling put me in perfect physical and mental condition. I foun…
1929 · PDF PAGE 121
121 My magical work was pushed into the background by the arrival of Eckenstein. He openly jeered at me for wasting my time on such rubbish. He being brutally outspoken, and I shy and sensitive, I naturally avoided creating opportunities for him to indulge his coarse ribaldry on a subject which to me was supremely sacred. Occasionally, however, I would take advantage of his unintelligence by talking to him in terms which I knew he would not understand. I find that it relieves my mind and helps me to clarify my thoughts if I inflict my jargon on…
1929 · PDF PAGE 317
…n my life had been arranged by the gods to be of use to me in the accomplishment of the Great Work. I did not need an aeroplane: I had a magical carpet. I could travel in my astral body to my temple and perform the Operation, perhaps even more conveniently than in the flesh. Per contra, I could construct my own temple about me and perform the Operation in my physical body. For various reasons, I preferred the latter method. I was still entirely "off" The Book of the Law. I had with me my unique vellum copy of The Goetia and I proposed to use th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 389
…". I knew that even my holiest, mine inmost self, might not protect me from the grim abominations of the Abyss. We therefore changed our magical procedure. We went far out from the city into a hollow among the dunes. There we made a circle to protect the scribe and a triangle wherein the Abyss might manifest sensibly. We killed three pigeons, one at each Angle, that their blood might be a basis whereon the forces of evil might build themselves bodies. {622} The name of the Dweller in the Abyss is Choronzon, but he is not really an individual. T…
1929 · PDF PAGE 422
… the story of Esther, the Crucifixion and the murder of Hiram Abif, to the plays of Shakespeare, Ibsen and many others. I now turn to my magical writings during this astounding summer. In my spare time I began to make a list of Greek words connected with Magick and similar subjects, arranging them by their numerical order. The idea was to construct a dictionary of the Greek Cabbala1 similar to that of the Hebrew Cabbala on which I had been at work since 1899 and ultimately published in The Equinox, vol. I, No. VIII. But the Greek Cabbala presen…
1929 · PDF PAGE 511
…nged. The Monkey went to England to wind up certain of her affairs and the Owl had no string on me. I was thus able to undertake a Great Magical Retirement in June. For this purpose I went to live in a cottage on the shores of Lake Pasquaney in New Hampshire. My initiation now took on a more strictly magical character. I was able to enter into direct communication with the realities of existence instead of conducting them by means of symbolic gestures. My very first experience was the announcement of the birth of my "son", as above mentioned. I…
1929 · PDF PAGE 1
…42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 {199} PART THREE: The Advent of the Aeon of Horus Chapter 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57 {391} PART FOUR: Magical Workings Chapter 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68 {507} PART FIVE: The Magus Chapter 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79 {663} PART SIX: At the Abbey of Thelema Chapter 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96 {789} LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS An idealized self-portrait frontispiece The Magician, 1911 224-225 Crowley´s mother Crowley´s father
1929 · PDF PAGE 512
…ffect of my operations was now to increase the energy of each of them, but in reasonable proportion. I was now able to begin my proposed magical research. In order to erect the temple of the New Aeon, it appeared necessary to make a thorough clearance of the rubbish of its ruined predecessors. I therefore planned and executed a Magical Operation to banish the "Dying God". I had written in "the Wizard Way": He had crucified a toad In the Basilisk abode and now I did so. The theory of the Operation was to identify the toad with the "Dying God" an…
1929 · PDF PAGE 114
…ficial, and the ethical suggestions of Lévi puerile and perverse; or, more correctly, intentionally misleading. They conceal a number of magical formulae of minor importance by major practical value, and the curious should conduct such research as they feel impelled to make in the light of the Cabbala. Their numerical values, Yetziratic attributions, and the arcana of the Atus of Tahuti, supply an adequate clue to such intelligences as are enlightened by sympathy and sincerity. The general idea was to have an ever-burning lamp in a temple furni…
1929 · PDF PAGE 415
…ing his throat cut across, his tongue torn out, and all the rest of it; the oath becomes a farce. In the A.'. A.'., which is a genuinely Magical Order, there are no extravagant oaths. The candidate is pledged quite simply to himself only, and his obligation binds him merely "to obtain the scientific knowledge of the nature and powers of my own being". There is no penalty attached to the breach of this resolution; yet, just as this resolution is in contrast with the oaths of other orders in respect of simplicity and naturalness, so also with reg…
1929 · PDF PAGE 365
365 components, collected in one place, confined and directed by the Magician. The critical temperature corresponds to such magical conditions as quiet and inviolability; the cylinder to the constraint imposed by the Magician to prevent the dissipation of his invoked ideas. Such indeed is an outline of the theory of calling forth spirits to visible appearance (by "visible" we always intend audible --- too dangerously often tangible, and too unpleasantly often capable of producing impressions of the olfactory nerves). In practice, however, there…
1929 · PDF PAGE 381
…cret Chiefs to initiate me fully as a Master of the Temple, three years since my prudent refusal to accept it. {610} 66 I had no special magical object in going to Algiers, which I reached on November 17th. As my chela, I took Frater Omnia Vincam, a neophyte of the A.'. A.'. disguised as Victor Neuburg. We merely wanted to rough it a bit in a new and interesting corner of the planet of which we were parasites. We hastily bought a few provisions, took the tram to Arba and after lunch started south, with no particular objective beyond filling our…
1929 · PDF PAGE 507
…n to interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with his soul, so is the Magus to make his every act an expression of his magical formula. Being in course of initiation at the time, I did not realize what was going on. It is only on reflection that I have come to understand that my relations with these two women constituted an ordeal; a test of my fitness for the Grade. It is written "as below, so above"; and my reaction to these women furnished a sure indication of how I should act in the greatest circumstances. For having succe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 120
120 Meanwhile my magical condition was making me curiously uncomfortable. I was succeeding beyond all my expectations. In the dry pure air of Mexico, with its spiritual energy unexhausted and uncontaminated as it is in cities, it was astonishingly easy to produce satisfactory results. But my very success somehow disheartened me. I was getting what I thought I wanted and the attainment itself taught me that I wanted something entirely different. What that might be it did not say. My distress became acute; and, as I had done at the beginning, I s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 240
… THE BOOK OF THE LAW. Every cosmography implies some sort of ethical theory. The Aeon of Osiris had been succeeded by that of Horus. The Magical Formula of the Aeon being no longer that of the Dying god but that o the Crowned and Conquering Child, mankind is to govern itself accordingly. A "righteous" act may be defined as one which fulfils the existing Magical Formula. The motives which were valid in the Aeon of Osiris are sheer superstition today. What were those motives and on what basis did they rest? The old conception was that man was bor…