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…more than this : that, more minds having been at work on the former we hâve learnt to master its tricks with greater success than in the case of the latter.
…ems ail dirtv and spotty”; a third; “The Aura looks very ragged.” Yet ail might agréé in deducing that the man was in ill-health. In any case, ail such déductions are rather unreliable. One must be a highly skilled man before one can trust one’s vision. A great many people think that they are extremely good at the business, when in fact they hâve onlv made some occasional shrewd guesses (which they naturallv remember) in the course of hundreds of forgotten failures. The onlv way to test clairvoyance is to keep a careful record of every experime…
…e will. This is an example of a very complicated magical operation, extending over centuries. But, theoretically, it is just an ordinary case of talismanic magick. It is for this reason that so much trouble has been taken to prevent a wife having contact with the profane; or, at least, to try to prevent her. Readers of the Bible will remember that Absalom publicly adopted David’s wives and concubines on the roof of the palace, in order to signify that he had succeeded in breaking his father’s magical power. Now, there are a great many talismans…
…ther reflection appears necessary; namely, that the Eucharist, with which this chapter is properly preoccupied, must be conceived as one case — as the critical case — of the Art of the Alchemist. The reader will hâve observed, perhaps with surprise, that The Master Therion describes several types of Eucharist. The reason is that given above; there is no substance incompetent to I. Some alchemists may object to this statement. I prefer to express no final opinion on the matter. — 188
…her-child combinations, were appropriated Wholesale by the Christians. The miracle is, however, of a somewhat dangerous type, as in this case, where enlightenment has corne through the researches of archaeologists. It has been shown that the so-called images of Mary and Jésus are really nothing but imitations of those of Isis and tiorus. Honesty is the best policy in Magick as in other lines of life. 138 —
…cations of his former Oath conflict with those proper to invoke the Unity of the Godhead of Saturn. Zazel will refuse to obey him in the case of the woman whom he has sworn that he loves. To this some may object that, since ail acts are magical, every man who loves a woman implicitly takes an 1. Compare the remarks in a previous chapter. But this is a particular case. We leave its justification as a problem. 2. Of course this is for the beginner. As soon as it is assimilated as true, he will say : “My will which is thine be done ! ” And ultimat…
…this power, it is, of course, legitimate to rise to any particular plane that may be necessary for the purpose of exploration, as in the case of the visions recorded in Liber 418, where the method may be described as mixed. In such a case, it is not enough to invoke the place you wish to visit, because you may not be able to endure its pressure, or to breathe its atmosphère. Several instances occur in that record where the seer was unable to pass through certain gateways, or to remain in certain contemplations. He had to undergo certain Initiat…
…s brougham; one Works by measured application of one7s powers to intelligent analytical compréhension of the conditions of each separate case. There is a Eucharist for every Grâce that we may need; we must apprehend the essential characters in each case, select suitable Eléments, and devise proper processes. To consider the classical problems of Alchemy: the Medicine of Metals must be the quintessence of some substance that serves to détermine the structure (or rate of vibration) whose manifestation is in characteristic metallic qualities. This…
…theoretical justification, one must assume that the book employed is a perfect représentation of the Universe. But even if this were the case, it is an inferior form of construction, because the only reasonable conception of the Cosmos is mathematical and hieroglyphic rather than literary. In the case of a book, such a book as the Book of the Law which is the suprême truih and the perfect rule of life, it is not répugnant to good sense to dérivé an oracle from its pages. It will of course be remarked that the Book of the Law is not mereiy a lit…
…ond Him to perform, oecause to do so would be to affirm what He hath denied in those Oaths by whose virtue He is Ihat He is. This is the case, even when the spirit of such Orgia is fully consonant with His Will. Ihe literal sense of His original Oath insists that it shall be respected. The case offers two instances of this principle. Frater Perdurabo specifically swore that He would renounce His Personal possessions to the last penny5 also that He would allow no human affection to hinder Elim. Ihese ternis were accepted; He was granted infinite…
…ump and try to save him; it won’t do to invoke the Undines. Nor is it lawful in ail circumstances to invoke those Undines even where the case is hopeless; maybe it is necessary to ycu and to the child that it should die. An Exempt Adept on the right road will make no error here — an Adept Major is only too likely to do so. A through appréhension of this book will arm adepts of every grade against ail the more serious blunders incidental to their unfortunate positions. IV Necromancy is of sufficient importance to demand a section to itself. It i…
… does not always obtainj the spirit may refuse to be controlled, and may refuse to départ — even after having sworn obedience. In such a case extreme danger may arise. In the ordinary way, the Magician dismisses the spirit with these words: “And now I say unto thee, départ in peace unto thine habitations and abodes — and may the blessing of the Highest be upon thee in the name of (here mention the divine name suitable to the operation, or a Name appropriate to redeem that spirit) 3 and let there be peace between thee and me 3 and be thou very r…
…owing descrip¬ tion to establish it as essentially a branch of the subject, and to show that it may be considered simply as a particular case of the general proposition — differing from evocatory and talismanic Magick only in the values which are represented by the unknown quantities in the pantomorphous équations. There is no need to make any systematized attempt to decipher the jargon of Hermetic treatises. We need not enter upon an historical discussion. Let it suffice to say that the Word alchemy is an Arabie term consisting of the article …
…of symbols. Their nature must be investigated by intel- lectual methods such as the Qabalah, but the précisé shape of meaning in any one case, and the sphere and tendency of its application, must be acquired partlv by expérience, that is, by induction, by recording and classifying one’s experiments over a long période and — this is the better part — by refining one’s ratiocination to the point where it becomes instinct or intuition, whichever one likes to call it. It is proper in cases where the sphere of the question is well marked to begin th…
…dish experiment, or asserts that, if fountain pens undoubtedly work now and then, their doing so is mer ely coincidence. The fact of the case is that the laws of nature are incomparably more subtle than even science suspects. The phenomena of every plane are intimately interwoven. The arguments of Aristotle were dépendent on the atmospheric pressure which prevented his blood from boiling away. Tliere is notiiing in the universe wliicli does not influence every otlier thing in one way or another. There is no reason in Nature why the apparently c…
…e himself not only with the nature of the different spheres, but with the inner meaning of each. Of course, it is not necessary in every case to push the 154
…de in being trusted by him. It îs sometimes better to act on the advice of a spirit even when one knows it to be wrong, though in such a case one must take the proper précautions against an undesirable resuit. The reason for this is that spirits of this type are very sensitive. They suffer agonies of remorse on realising that they hâve injured their Master5 for he is their God; they know themselves to be part of him, their aim is to attain to absorption in him. They understand therefore that his interests are theirs. Care must be taken to emplo…
…l his forces uncler his own control,, and to prevent the slighest interférence with them by any alien Will. It is, in fact, commonly the case, or so says the expérience of The Master Therion, that the most promising Magicians are the most déplorable diviners, and vice versa. It is only when the aspirant approaches perfection that he becomes able to reconcile these two apparently opposing faculties. Indeed, there is no surer sign of all-round success than this ability to put the whole of one’s powers at the service of any type of task. With rega…
…tions theoretically possible cannot be performed. Suppose, for example, you see two men of similarly unhealthy astral appearance. In one case the cause may be slight and temporary. Your help suffices to restore him in a few minutes. The other, who looks no worse, is really oppressed by a force incalculably greater than you could control, and you would only damage yourself by attempting to help him. The diagnosis between the two cases could be made by an investigation of the deeper strata of the astral, such as compose the “causal body”. A body …
Oath of love, and therefore would never be able to murder her later, as we find to be the not uncommon case. The explanation is as follows. It is perfectly true that when Bill Sykes desires to possess Nancy, he does in fact evoke a spirit of the nature of Venus, constraining him by his Oath of Love (and by his magical power as a man) to bring him the girl. So also, when he wants to kiJl her, he evokes a Martial or Saturnian spirit, with an Oath of hâte. But these are not pure planetary spints, moving in well- dehned spneres by rigidlv righteous…