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Page 1 of 11930 · PDF PAGE 45
…the necessary counterpoise to its own déviation from the norm of nothingness. \\ e may recapitulate the above reflections in a practical form. We will suppose 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 hi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 46
…he 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 formulated, and proceed to concentrate it on tlie figure as a whole, aîmost as if it were tlie object of bis méditation. One need hardly repeat that in both these operations detachment from one’s personal partialities is as necessary as it was in the first part of the work. In…
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…selves at the suprême moment. Following the climax there should always be an unre- hearsed ceremony, an impromptu. The most satisfactory form of this is the dance. In such ceremonies appropnate libations may be freely used. The Rite of Luna (Equinox I. VI) is a good example of this use. . Here the climax is the music of the goddess, the assistants remaining in silent ecstasy. In the rite of Jupiter the impromptu is the dance, in that of Saturn long periods of silence. It will be noticed that in these Rites poetry and music were large!y employed…
1930 · PDF PAGE 59
…oing 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. This sacrament is secret in every respect. For those who may be worthy, although not officially recognized as such, this Eucharist has been described in detail and without concealment, somewkere in the published…
1930 · PDF PAGE 57
…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 should be very full. Such ceremonies should be care- fully rehearsed; but in rehearsals care should be taken to omit the climax, which should be studied by the principal character in private. The play should be so arranged that this climax dépends on him alone. By this means one prevents the ceremony from becoming mechanical or…
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
…, to be used only by advanced magicians, and then with great care. 4. Works of fascination, such as operations of invisibility, and transformations of the apparent form of the person or thing concerned. This consists almost altogether in distracting the attention, or disturbing the judgment, of the person whom it is wished to deceive. There are, however, “real” transformations of the adept himself which are very useful. See the Book of the Dead for methods. The assumption of God-Forms can be carried to the point of actual transformation. 5. Wor…
1930 · PDF PAGE 68
…st possess the activity of a “nascent” substance, just as “nascent” hydrogen combines with arsenic (in “Marsh’s test”) when the ordinary form of the gas is inert. Again, oxygen satisfied by sodium or diluted by nitrogen will not attack combustible materials with the vehemence proper to the pure gas. We may summarize this thesis by sayîng that Àlcîiemy includes as many possible operations as tliere are original ideas inberent in nature. Alchemy resembles évocation in its sélection of appropriate material bases for the manifestation of the Will5 …
1930 · PDF PAGE 30
To sum up, the first task is to separate the astral form from the physical body, the second to develop the powers of the astral body, in particular those o£ sight, travel, and interprétation 3 third, to unify the two boclies without muddling them. This being accomplished, the magician is htted to deai with the invisible. Il It is now useful to continue with considérations of other planes, which hâve commonly been classed under the Astral. There is some reason for this, as the délimitations are somewhat vague. Just as the vegetable kingdom merge…
1930 · PDF PAGE 11
…methods of Invocation, of which we may give three. The first method concerns the so-called astral body. The Magician should practise the formation of this body as recom- mended in Liber O, and learn to rise on the planes according to the instruction given in the same book, though limiting his arising” to the particular Symbol whose God he wishes to invoke. The second is to recite a mantra suitable to the God. The third is the assumption of the form of the God — by transmuting the astral body into LIis shape. This last method îs really essential…
1930 · PDF PAGE 60
…r Legis. This is used in the exoteric Mass of the Phoenix (Liber 333, Cap:44) mixed with the bloocl of the Magus. This mass should be performed daiJy at snnset by every magician. Corn and wine are équivalent to flesh and blood; but it is casier to couvert live substances into the body and blood of God, than to perform this miracle upon dead matter. The Eucharist of three éléments has for basis the symbols of the three Gunas. For Tamas (darkness) take opium or nightshade or some sleepy medicine ; for Rajas (activity) take strychnine or ocher exc…
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 27
…ecessary to use every effort to bring it properly back. Make the Body of Light coincide in space with the physica! body, assume the God- Form, and vibrate the name of lïarpocrates with the utmost energy; then recover unity of consciousness. If you fail to do this properly you may find vourself in serious trouble. Your Body of Light may wander away uncontrolled, and be attacked and obsessed. You will become aware of this through the occurrence of headache, bad dreams, or even more serious signs such as hysteria, fainting fits, possibly madness o…
1930 · PDF PAGE 69
serve as an element in some Sacrament; also, each spiritual Grâce should possess its peculiar form of Mass, and therefore its own “materia magica77. It is utterly unscientific to treat “God77 as a universal homogeneity, and use the same means to prolong life as to bewitch cattle. One does not invoke “Electricity77 indiscrimi- nately to light one7s house and to propel one’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 Gr…
1930 · PDF PAGE 40
…efoie make his own investigations mto the mean- ing of the 64 hexagrams as best he can. The Yi King is mathematical and philosophical in form. lîs structure is cognate with that of the Qahalah $ the identity is so intimate that the existence of two such superficially different Systems is transcendent testimony to the truth of hoth. It is in some ways the most perfect hieroglyph ever constructed. It is austere and sublime, yet withal so adaptable to every possible emergency that its figures may be interpreted to suit ail classes of questions. On…
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…n, 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 literary compilation but a …
1930 · PDF PAGE 42
…nes a Hindu, the ultimate answer will be what the Hindu imagines will best please the inquirer. The same difficulty appears in a grosser form when one receives a perfectly true reply, but insists on interpreting it so as to suit one’s desires. The vast majority of people who go to “fortune- tellers” hâve nothing else in mind but the wish to obtain super- natural sanction for their follies. Apart from Occultism alto- gether, every one knows that when people ask for advice, they only want to be told how wise they are. Hardly any one acts on the m…
1930 · PDF PAGE 33
…previous experiment has little value, and leads to few results of importance. But it is susceptible of a development which merges into a form of Dharana — concentration — and as such may lead to the very highest ends. The principal use of the practice in (fortiheci with that memory) would not be the same atom; yet it is, because it has gained nothing from anywhere except this memory. Therefore, by the lapse of time, and by virtue of memory, a thing could become something more than itself; and thus a real development is possible. One can then se…