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…me practical importance, and are guarded in the Sanctuary with a two-edged sword flaming every way 2 y for this sacrament is the Tree of Life itself, and whoso partaketh of the fruit thereof shall never die 3. Unless he so will. Who would not rather work through incarna¬ tion; a real renewal of body and brain, than content himself with a stagnant immortality upon this mote in the Sunlight of the Universe which we call earth ? 1. The Lance and the Graal are fïrstly dedicated to the Holy Spirit of Life, in Silence. The Bread and Wine are then fer…
1930 · PDF PAGE 69
…fore 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 Grâce that we may need; we must apprehend the essential characters in each case, select suitable Eléments, and devise p…
1930 · PDF PAGE 22
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 18
… 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 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 60
material plane. It is the Medicine of Metals, the Stone of the Wise, the Potable Gold, the Elixir of Life that is consumed therein. The altar is the hosom of Isis, the eteraal motlier ; the chalice is in effect the Cnp of our Lady Bah al on lier self ; the Wand is that which Was and Is and Is To Corne. The Eucharist of two éléments has its matter of the passives, The wafer (pantacle) is of corn, typical of earth; the wine (cup) represents water. (There are certain other attributions. The Wafer is the Sun, for instance : and the wine is appropri…
1930 · PDF PAGE 72
… excuse, even if Nature accepted excuses, 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…
1930 · PDF PAGE 64
of a Magician; that Paracelesus applied himself to the cure of disease and the prolongation of life as the first considération, ai- though his greatest achievements seem to modem thinkers to hâve been ratifier his discoveries of opium, zinc, and hydrogen; so that we tend to think of him as a chemist no less than we do of Van Helmont, whose conception of gas ranks him as one of those rare geniuses who hâve increased human knowledge by a fundamentally important idea. The literature of Alchemy is immense. Practicaliy ail of it is wholly or partial…
1930 · PDF PAGE 34
…d find that he has stopped without 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 …
1930 · PDF PAGE 8
…rment, mental despair, and moral paralysis. Yet He, who hath power over Death, with a breath to call back health, with a touch to beckon life, He must watch His own child waste awav month by month, aware that His Art may not anywise avail, who hath sold the signet ring of his personal profit to buy him a plain gold band for the félon finger of his bride, that worn widow, the World! 128 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 3
…self to be a weak human being humbly aspiring to something higher; a créature of circumstance utterly dépendent — even for the breath of life — upon a sériés of fortunate accidents. I. This is not merely to prove himself a person in authority. It is to trace the chain of causes that hâve led to the présent position, so that the operation is seen as karma. 123 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 11
…metaphysical antithesis that Magick is the Art of the Will-to-Live, Mysticism of the Will-to-Die; but—“Truth cornes bubbling to my brim; Life and Death are one to Him!”. 2. The earliest and truest Christians used what is in ail essentials this method. See “Fragments of a Faith Forgotten” by G. R. S. Mead, Esa. B. A., pp. 80-81. There is a real connexion between what the vulgar call blasphemy and 131 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 62
…ome sort sliould most assuredly be cou* summated daily by every magician, and be sboitld regard if as the main sustenance 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 …
1930 · PDF PAGE 66
…y of the éléments. The doctrines of Evolution hâve brought the alchemical and monistic theory of matter into line with our conception of life ; the collapse of the wall between the animal and vegetable kingdoms has shaken that which divided them from the minerai. But even though the advanced chemist might admit the possibi- lity of transmuting lead into gold, he could not conceive of that I. See R. K. Duncan, “The New Knowledge”, for a popularisation of recent results. Aleister Crowley held this doctrine in his teens at a period when it was the…
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
…fered 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 significance which helps the diviner to understand them by stimulating his aesthetic perceptions. The Master Therion finds that the Tarot is infallible in material questions. The successive operations describe the cour…
1930 · PDF PAGE 35
…ng. It is, therefore, always the question of drill which is of importance. You hâve got to go out Rising on the Planes every day of your life, year after year. You are not to be disheartened by failure, or too much encouraged by success, in any one practice or set of practices. What you are doing is what will be of real value to you in the end j and that is, developing a character, creating a Karma, which will give you the power to do your Will. IV Divination is so important a bran ch of Magick as almost to demand a separate treatise. Genius is…
1930 · PDF PAGE 40
…h opens the gates of the most exalted palaces of initiation is equally effective when employed to advise one in the ordinary business of life. The Master Therion has found the Yi King entirely satisfactory in every respect. The intelligences which direct it show no inclination to évadé the question or to mislead the querent. A further advantage is that the actual apparatus is simple. Also the System is easy to manipulate, and five minutes is sufficient to obtain a fairly detailed answer to any but the most obscure questions. With regard to the …
1930 · PDF PAGE 65
…o the being whom he intends to invoke. He banishes ail impurities there- fiom, prevents ail interférence therewith, and proceeds to give life to the subtle substance thus prepared by instilling his soûl. - 185 -
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…yphic 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 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 pyromanc…
1930 · PDF PAGE 81
…ind of work, concentration on which will unfit them for other tasks by depriving them of the elasticity which is the proper condition of life. 1 In Magick and méditation this principle applies with tremend- ous force. It is quite useless to teach people how to perform magical operations, when it may be that such operations, when thev hâve learned to do them, are 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 e…
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
…h is Yod Hé, the Monogram of the Eternal, the Father one with the Mother, the Virgin Seed one with all-containing Space. He is therefore Life, and Love. But moreover his letter is Ayin, the Eye; he is Light, and his Zodiacal image is Capricornus, that leaping goat whose attribute is Liberty. (Note that the “Jéhovah” of the Hebrews is etymologically connected with these. The classical example of such antinomy, one which has led to such disastrous misunderstandings, is that between Nu and HAD,North and South, Jésus and John. The subject is too ab…