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…e proper thing to do whenever definitely practising, in order to acquire the power of Rising. But, having obtained 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…
1930 · PDF PAGE 34
… to himself, let him Write down soberly and accurately a record of ail that hath occurred : yea, a record of ail that hath occurred.” Of course, the Rising may be done from any starting point. One can go (for example) into the circle of Jupiter, and the results, especially in the lower planes, will be very different to those obtained from a Saturnian starting point. The student should undertake a regular) sériés of such experiments, in order to familiarise himself not only with the nature of the different spheres, but with the inner meaning of …
1930 · PDF PAGE 17
…t success again made more certain and complété by the effect of this “love under will”, which one bestows upon it by using it. It is, of course, very important to keep such an object away from the contact of the profane. It is instinctive not to let another person use one’s fishing rod or one’s gun. It is not that they could do any harm in a material sense. It is the feeling that one’s use of these things has consecrated them to one’s self. Of course, the outstanding example of ail such talismans is the wife. A wife may be defined as an object …
1930 · PDF PAGE 45
…e that one wishes to divine by geomancy whether or no one should marry, it being assumed that one’s emotional impulses suggest so rash a course. The man takes his wand and his sand; he traces the question, makes the appropriate pentagram, and the sigil of the spirit. Before tracing the dashes which are to détermine the four “Mothers”, he must strictly examine himself. He must banish from his mind every thought which can possibly act as an attachment to his proposed partner. He must banish ail thoughts which concern himself, those of appré¬ hens…
1930 · PDF PAGE 59
…on of the force is a kind of consumption; but it has a more restricted application, as follows. Take a substance 1 symbolic of the whole course of nature, make it God, and consume it, There are many ways of doing this; but they may easily be clas- sifîed according to the number of the éléments of which the sacra- ment is composed. The highest form of the Eucharist is ihat in which the Elément consecrated is One» It is one substance and not two, not living and not dead, neither liquid nor solid, neither bot nor cold, neither male nor female. Thi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 70
…ess to pay good coin for perishable products; like marrying for money, or prostituting poetic genius to political purposes. The converse course, though equally — 190
1930 · PDF PAGE 23
… ilie liuman body is another body of approximately the same size and sliape; L but made of a subîler and less iilnsory materiaL It is of course not “real” 5 but then no more is the other body! Before treating of clairvoyance one must discuss briefly this question of reality, for misapprehension on the subject has given rise to endless trouble. There is the story of the American in the train who saw another American carrying a basket of unusual shape. His curiosity mastered him, and he leant across and said: “Say, stranger, what you got in that …
1930 · PDF PAGE 9
… may be moved by the strangeness of the words, even by the fact that the “barbarous names” are unintelligible to him. Some- times in the course of a ceremony the true meaning of some barbarous name that has hitherto baffled his analysis may flash upon him, luminous and splendid, so that he is caught up into i. This is Qabalistically expressed in the old Formula : Domine noster, audi tuo servo! kyrie Christel O Christel 129
1930 · PDF PAGE 15
…e to courteous command:— “a slave Whom stripes may move, not kindness.” Finally, as a last resource, one may burn the Sigil of the I. Of course this should hâve been done in preparing the Ritual. But he renews this considération from the new standpoint attained by the invocation. H5 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
…sthetic perceptions. The Master Therion finds that the Tarot is infallible in material questions. The successive operations describe the course of events with astonishing wealth of detail, and the judgments are reliable in ail respects. But a proper divination means at least two hours’ hard work, even by the improved method developed by Him from the traditions of initiâtes. Any attempt to shorten the proceedings leads to disappointment; furthermore, the symbols do not lend them¬ selves readily to the solution of spiritual questions. The Holy Qa…
1930 · PDF PAGE 20
…e c ont roi, A man’s friends are more capable of working him harm than are strangers; and his greatest danger lies in his own habits. Of course it is the very condition of progress to build up ideas into the subconscious. The necessity of sélection should therefore be obvious. True, there cornes a time when ail éléments soever must be thus assimilated. Samadhi is, by définition, that very process. But, from the point of view of the young magician, there is a right wav — strait and difficult •— of performing ail this. One cannot too frequently r…
1930 · PDF PAGE 4
…tly 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 ultimately no more distinguish “mine” from “thine”. A sympathetic change of gesture will accompany the mental change. 124
1930 · PDF PAGE 61
…and died of cancer of the tongue. 3. The use of the Elixir of Life is only justifiable in peculiar circum- stances. To go counter to the course of natural Change is to approximate perilously to the error of the “Black Brothers”. — 1S1
1930 · PDF PAGE 28
…rship. Complété absence of ail power to concentrate thought, to follow an argument, to formulate a Will, to hold fast to an opinion or a course of action, or even to keep a solemn oath, mark indelibly those who hâve thus lost parts of their soûls. They wander from one new cuit to another even crazier. Occasionally such persons drift for a moment into the surroundmgs of The Master Therion, and are shot out by the simple process of making them try to do a half-hour5s honest work of any kind. In projecting the Astral, it is a valtiable additional …
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…hich 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 literary compilation but a complex mathematical structure. It îherefore fulfiïs the required conditions. The principal means of divination in history are astrology, geo- mancy, the Tarot, the Holy Qabalah, and the Yi King. There aie hundreds of othersj from pyromancy, oneiromancy, auguries from sacrifices, and the spinning-top of some ancient oracles …
1930 · PDF PAGE 25
…e 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 experiment made. For example, Frater O. M. once gave a clairvoyant a waistcoat to psychometrize. He made 56 State- ments about the owner of the waistcoat ; of these 4 were notably rightj 17, though correct, were of that class of statement which is true of almost everybody. The remainder were wrong. …
1930 · PDF PAGE 71
…e act, although iî like Him not. But He must assume the Curse of His grade, as it is written in the Book of the Magus. * 1 There are, of course, entirely black forms of magic. To him who has not given every drop of his blood for the cup of Babalon objectionable as pollution of the purity of the planes, is at least respectable for its nobility. The ascetic of the Thebaid or the Trappist Monastery is infinitely worthier than the health-peddler and success-monger of Boston or Los Angeles; for the one offers temporal trash to gain eternal wealth, w…
1930 · PDF PAGE 78
…on of Apollonius of Tyana, which Eliphaz Levi performed. 2 The utmost care must be taken to prevent personation of the “shade”. It is of course easy, but can rarely be advisable, to evoke the shade of a suicide, or of one violently slain or suddenly dead. Of what use is such an operation, save to gratify curiosity or vanity ? One must add a Word on spiritism, which is a sort of indiscrimi- nate necromancy — one might prefer the word necrophilia — by amateurs. They make themselves perfectly passive, and, so far from employing any methods of prot…
1930 · PDF PAGE 26
…al things — they are not like mental pictures — they seem to lie between the two. After some practice has made you adept, so that in the course 146
1930 · PDF PAGE 77
… fail to obtain. access to living Teachers, or should he need some 1. The value of the evidence that your operations hâve influenced the course of events is only to be assessed by the application of the Laws of probability. The Master Therion would not accept any one single case as conclusive, however improbable it might be. A man might make a correct guess at one chance in ten million, no less than at one in three. If one pick up a pebble, the chance was infinitely great against that particular pebble; yet whichever one was chosen, the same ch…