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the other affairs of life should lose it completely when they tackle Magick. It goes far to justify the helief of the semi- educated that Magick is rather a crazy affair after ail. However, there are none of these half-baked lunatics connected with the A.*. A.’., because the necessity for hard work, for passing examinations at stated intervals, and for keeping an intelligible account of what they are doing, frightens away the unintelligent, idle and hysterical. There are numerous models of magical and mystical records to be found in the various…
1930 · PDF PAGE 72
…uses, which she does not. If you drink poison in mistake for wine, your “mistake” will not save your life. Below these in one sense, yet far above them in another, are the Brothers of the Left Hand Path L These are they who “shut themselves up”, who refuse their blood to the Cup, who hâve trampled Love in the Race for self-aggrandisement. As far as the grade of Exempt Adept, they are en the same path as the White Brotherhood; for until that grade is attained, the goal is not disclosed. Then only are the goats, the lonely leaping mountain-master…
1930 · PDF PAGE 29
…h operations demand not only power, but judgment. Nothing can upset the sum total of destiny — everything must be paid for the uttermost farthing. For this reason a great many operations 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 you…
1930 · PDF PAGE 71
…hat Nero was as necessary as Julius Caesar. The Master of the Temple accordingly interfères not with the scheme of things except just so far as he is doing the Work which he is sent to do. Why should he struggle against imprisonment, banishment, death? It is ail part of the game in which he is a pawn. “It was necessary for the Son of Man to suffer these things, and to enter into His glory.” The Master of the Temple is so far from the man in whom He manifests that ail these matters are of no importance to Him. It may be of importance to His Work…
1930 · PDF PAGE 59
… of Magick ceremonies is the Eucharist. It consists in taking common things, transmuting them into things divine, and consuming them. So far, it is a type of every magick ceremony, for the reabsorption 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 o…
1930 · PDF PAGE 70
…er the Four Great Princes and their servitors. 1 If the magician needs to perform any other operation than this, it is only lawful in so far as it is a necessary preliminary to That One Work. There are, however many shades of grey. It is not every magician who is well armed with theory. Perhaps one such may invoke Jupiter, with the wish to heal others of their physical ills. This sort of thing is harmless,2 or almost so. It is not evil in 1. See the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage. 2. There is nevertheless the general objection t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 9
… of no importance whatever that the invocation should be “right”. There are a thousand different wavs of compassing the end proposed, so far as external things are concerned. The whole secret may be summarised in these four words: “Enflame thyself in praying.” 1 The mind must be exalted until it loses consciousness of self. The Magician must be carried forward blindly by a force which, though. in him and of him, is by no means that which he in his normal State of consciousness calls I. Just as the poet, the lover, the artist, is carried out of …
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
…of which was confined to a small section of the things which interested Him* also, they possessed a point of view of their own which was far from sympathetic with His, so that misunder- standing constantly interfered with the Work. The Tarot and The Holy Qabalah may be discussed to- gether. The theoretical basis of both is identical: The Tree of Life.1 The 78 symbols of the Tarot are admirably balanced and combined. lhey are adéquate to ail demands made upon them; each Symbol is not only mathematically précisé, but possesses an artistic signifi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 27
…our astral body as easily as you slip and out of a dressing-gown. It will then no longer be so necessary for your astral body to be sent far off ; without moving an inch you will be able to “turn on” its eyes and ears — as simplv as the man with the microscope (mentioned above) can transfer his complété attention from one eye to the other. Now, however unsuceessful your geîting ouï of the body may apparently hâve been, it is most necessary to use every effort to bring it properly back. Make the Body of Light coincide in space with the physica! …
1930 · PDF PAGE 51
…vination becomes therefore a secondary consid¬ ération, although he can now employ it with absolute confidence, and probably use it with far greater frequency than before his attainment. Indeed, this is likely in proportion as he learns that resort to divination (on every occasion when his Will does not mstantly instruct him) with implicit obedience to its counsels careless as to whether or no they may land him in disaster, is a means admirably efficacious of keeping his mind untroubled by external impressions, and therefore in the proper condi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 46
… the best plan is to banish that thought, and make sure only of not stopping too soon.1 The lines being traced, the operation is over as far as spiritual qualifies are required, for a time. The process of setting up the figure for judgment is purely mechanical. But, in the judgment, the diviner stands once more in need of his mmost and utmost attainments. He sbould exhaust tlie infcellectual sources of information at Iiis disposai, and form from them his jodgment. But having done this, lie should deîacli Iiis mind from wliat it lias just formul…
1930 · PDF PAGE 25
…ence between planes; as in the case of an Anglo-Indian’s liver and his temper. The relation appears “vague and indeterminate” only in so far as one happens to be ignorant of the laws which State the case. The situation is analo- gous to that of the chemist before the discovery of the law of “Combining Weights”, etc. 145
1930 · PDF PAGE 44
…h ourselves and our reactions toward them. One can hardly expect the diviner to make Samadhi with his question — that would be going too far, and destroy the character of the operation by removing the question from the class of concatenated ideas. It would mean interpreting the question in terms of “without limit”, and thus imply an equally formless answer. But he should approximate to this extreme sufficiently to allow ihe question entire freedom to make for itself ils own proper links with the intelligence directing the answer, — 164 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 5
…undrels, whose use of religion and respectability to cioke their villainies is a deliberate disguise dictated by their criminal cunning. Far from it, they are only too sincere in their “virtues”; their terror of death and of supernatural vengeance is genuine; it proceeds from a section of themselves which is in irreconcilable conflict with their rascality. Neither si de can conciliate, suppress, or ignore the other; yet each is so craven as to endure its enemy’s presence. Such men are therefore without pure principles; they excuse themselves fo…
1930 · PDF PAGE 45
…st banish ail thoughts which concern himself, those of appré¬ hension no less than those of ardour. He must carry his introspec¬ tion as far as possible. He must observe with ail the subtletv at his command whether it pains him to abandon any of these thoughts. So long as his mind is stirred, however slightly, by one single aspect of the subject, he is not fit to begin to form the figure. He must sink his persouality in that of the intel¬ ligence hearing the question propounded by a sîrarager to whom he is indifferent, but whom it is his busine…
1930 · PDF PAGE 81
… not in accordance with their wills. What must be done is to drill the Aspirant in the hard routine of the éléments of the Royal Art. So far as mysticism is concerned, the technique is extremely simple, and has been very simply described in Part I of this Book 4. It cannot be said too strongly that any amouni of mystical success whatever is 110 compensation for slackness with regard to the technique. There may corne a time when Samadhi itself is no part of the business of the mystic. But the character developed by the original training re¬ main…
1930 · PDF PAGE 78
…rt 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 protection, deliberately invite ail and sundrv spirits, démons, shells of the dead, ail the excre- ment and filth of earth and hell, to squirt their slime over them. This invitation is readily accepted, unless a clean man be présent with an aura good enough to frighten these foui denizens of the pit. No spiritualistic manifestation has ever taken place in the 1. The only minds…