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…IT WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE CONSTRAINTS AND CURSES OCCASIONALLY NECESSARY I On the appearance of the spirit, or the manifestation of the force in the talisman which is being consecrated, it is necessary to bind it by an Oath or Charge. A spirit should be made to lay its hand visibly on the weapon by whose might it has been evoked, and to aswear obedience and faith to Him that liveth and triumpheth, that reigneth above him in His palaces as the Balance of Righteousness and Truth” by the Names used in that évocation. It is then only necessary to …
1930 · PDF PAGE 15
…ay be done thrice. But if this be satisfactorily accomplished, and the spirit be y et disobedient, the implication is thaï sonie hostile force is at work îo hinder the operation. It will then become advisable to discover the nature of that force, and to attack and desîroy it. This makes the ceremony more useful than ever to the Magician, who may thereby be led to irnveil a black magical gang whose existence he had not hitherto snspected. His need to check the vampiring of a lady in Paris by a sorceress once led Frater Perdurabo to the discovery…
1930 · PDF PAGE 29
…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 of black magicians under Anna Kingsford1 once attempted to kill a vivisector who was not particularly well known; and they succeeded in making him serio…
1930 · PDF PAGE 12
…ty, in the fact that the Christian îegend is an écho of a Phallic rite. There is also a true and positive connexion between the Creative force of the Macrocosm, and that of the Microcosm. For this reason the latter must be made as pure and consecrated as the former. The puzzle for most people is how to do this. The study of Nature is the Key to that Gâte. 132 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 10
…ne essence 3 ail else is but an accident and an illusion. The subséquent invocations, the graduai development and materialization of the force, require no effort. It is one great mistake of the beginner to concentrate his force upon the actual stated purpose of the ceremony. This mistake is the most frequent cause of failures in invocation. A coroliary of this Theorem is that the Magician soon discards évocation almost altogether — only rare circumstances demand any action what ever on the material plane. The Magician devotes himself entirely t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 62
…tenance of bis magica! life, It is of more importance than any other magical ceremony, because it is a complété circle. The whole of the force expended is completely re-absorbed 3 yet the virtue is that vast gain represented by the abyss between Man and God. The magician becomes füled with God, fed upon God, intoxicaîed with God. Lit lie by little Ms hody will bec orne pnrified by fbe internai lustration of God; day by day bis mort ai frame, shedding its earihly éléments, will become in very truth the Temple of tbe Holy Gliost. Day by day matte…
1930 · PDF PAGE 72
ail magic power is dangerous. There are even more debased and evil forms, things in themselves black. Such is the use of spiritual force to material ends. Christian Scientists, Mental Healers, Professional Diviners, Psychics and the like, are ail ipso facto Black M agi ci ans. Thev exchange gold for dross. They sell their higher powers for gross and temporary benefit. That the most crass ignorance of Magick is their principal characteristic is no excuse, even if Nature accepted excuses, which she does not. If you drink poison in mistake for win…
1930 · PDF PAGE 59
…ngs, 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 of the Eucharist is ihat in which the Elément consecrated is One» It is o…
1930 · PDF PAGE 9
… 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 himself in a Creative frenzy, so must it be for the Magician. It is impossible to lay down rules for the obtaining of this spécial stimulus. To one the mystery of the whole ceremony may appeal; another may be moved by the strangeness of th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 57
…d to the letter. One of the great advantages of them is that a large number of persons may take part, so that there is consequently more force available; but it is important that they should ail be initiâtes of the same mysteries, bound by the same oaths, and filled with the same aspirations. They should be associated only for this one purpose. Such a company being prepared, the story of the God should be dramatised by a well-skilled poet accustomed to this form of composition. Lengthy speeches and invocations should be avoided, but action shou…
1930 · PDF PAGE 19
…cessful this anti-climax is merely formai. The Magician should rest permanently on the higher plane to which he has aspired. 1 The whole force of the operation should be ahsorhed; but there is almost certain to be a residuum, since no operation is perfect; and (even if it were sol there would be a number of things, sympathetic to the operation, attracted to the Circle. These must be duly dispersed, or thev will degenerate and become evil. It is always easy to do this where invocations are concerned; the mere removal of the strain imposed by the…
1930 · PDF PAGE 16
…ligations. It is a dangerous trick, though, for the Black Lodge to play; tor if the spirit corne properly under your control, it will be forced to disclose the transaction, and the current will return to the Black Lodge with fulminating force. The liars will be in the power of their own lie; their own slaves will rise up and put them into bondage. The wicked fall into the pit that they themseives digged. And so perish ail the King’s enemies! V The charge to the spirit is usually embodied, except in Works of pure évocation, which after ali are c…
1930 · PDF PAGE 79
…“The Key of the Mysteries”. 2. It occurs in certain rare cases that a very unusual degree of personal purity combined with integrity and force of character provides even the ignorant with a certain natural defence, and attracts into his aura only intelligent and beneficent entities. Such persons may perhaps practise — 199
1930 · PDF PAGE 47
…ces of error inhérent I. The astronomer himself has to enter a caveat. He can only calculate the probability on the observed facts. Some force might interfère with the anticipated movement. — 167
1930 · PDF PAGE 20
…ry that the Magician should sit down and write up his magical record. However much he may hâve been tired 1 by the ceremony, he ought to force himself to do this until it becomes a habit. Verily, it is better to fail in the magical ceremony than to fail in writing down an accurate record of it. One need not doubt the propriety of this remark. Even if one is eaten alive by Malkah be-Tarshishim ve-Ruachoth ha-Schehalim, it does not matter very much, for it is over so very quickly. But the record of the transaction is I. He ought to be refreshed, …
1930 · PDF PAGE 54
…laxies of suns; with another, endless orders of existence in the infinitésimal. With the prism we hâve analysed light so that matter and force hâve become intelligible only as forms of light. With a rod we hâve summoned the invisible energies of electricity to be our familiar spirit serving us to do our Will, whether it be to outsoar the condor, or to dive deeper into the démon world of disease than any of our dreamers dared to dream. Since with four bits of common glass mankind has learnt to know so much, achieved so much, who dare deny that t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 35
…t to demand a separate treatise. Genius is composed of two sidesj the active and the passive. The power to execute the Will is but blind force unless the Will be enlightened. At every stage of a Magical Operation it is necessary to know what one is doing, and to be sure that one is acting wisely. Acute sensitiveness is always associated with genius; the power to perceive the universe accurately, to analyse, coordinate, and judge impressions is the foundation of ail great Work. An army is but a blundering brute unless its intelligence department…
1930 · PDF PAGE 34
… willing to do so, and that figures appear, let him at ail costs rise above them. Yea, though his very life tremble on his lips, let him force his way upward and onward ! “5. Let him continue in this so long as the breath of life is in him. Whatever threatens, whatever allures, though it were Typhon and ail his hosts loosed from the pit and leagued against him, though it were from the very Throne of God himself that a voice issues bidding him stay and be content, let him struggle on, ever on. “6. At last there must corne a moment when his whole…
1930 · PDF PAGE 41
…mbles the exquisite sensibility of touch which is found in the great billiard player whose fingers can estimate infinitésimal degrees of force, 1. This does not mean that they are malignant. They hâve a proper pride in their office as Oracles of Truth; and they refuse to be profaned by the contamination of inferior and impure intelligences. A Magician whose research is fuily adapted to his Neschamah will hnd them lucid and reliable. 2. Malicious or pranksome elementals instinctively avoid the austere sincerity of the Figures of Fu and King Wan.…
1930 · PDF PAGE 61
…should receive the usual benefit of the banishings and consécrations. The Oath should be taken and the Invocations made. When the divine force mani- fests in the éléments, they should be solemnly consumed. There is also a simpler method of consécration reserved for initiâtes of high rank, of which it is here unlawful to speak. According to the nature of the Sacrament, so will its results be. In some one may receive a mvstic grâce, culminating in Samadhi ; in others a simpler and more material benefit may be obtained. The highest sacrament, that…