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Page 1 of 11930 · PDF PAGE 75
… exchange is foreign to magick. The dignity of the magician forbids compacts. “The Earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof”. III The operations of Magick art are difficult to classify, as they merge into each other, owing to the essential unity of their method and resuit. We may mention : 1. Operations such as évocation, in which a live spirit is brought from dead matter. 2. Consécrations of talismans in which a live spirit is bound înto “dead” matter and vivifies the same. 3. Works of divination, in which a live spirit is made to control o…
1930 · PDF PAGE 67
… the alchemists who claimed these properties for their Gold must, after ail, hâve been referring not to Chemistry, but to some spiritual operations whose sanctity demanded some such symbolic veil as the cryptographie use of the language of the laboratory. The Master Therion is sanguine that his présent réduction of ail cases of the art of Magick to a single formula will both elucidate and vindicate Alchemy, while extending chemistry to cover ail classes of Change. There is an obvious condition which limits our proposed operations. This is that,…
1930 · PDF PAGE 29
…tral forms. On the other hand, it is possible so to disintegrate the the Body of Light even of a strong man that he will fall dead. Such 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. T…
1930 · PDF PAGE 81
…e. 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 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 suc…
1930 · PDF PAGE 70
CHAPTER XXI OF BLACK MAGIC OF THE MAIN TYPES OF THE OPERATIONS OF MAGICK ART AND OF THE POWERS OF THE SPHINX I As was said at the opening of the second chapter, the Single Suprême Ritual is the attainment of the Knowledge and Conver¬ sation of the Holy Guardian Angel. It is the raisin g of the complété man in a vertical straight line. Any déviation from tliis line tends to become black magic. Any otlier operation is black magic. In the True Operation the Exaltation is equilibrated by an expansion in the other three arms of the Cross. Hence the …
1930 · PDF PAGE 57
…kneyed, and the element of surprise I. The Word is unwarrantably universal. It would not be impractic- able to adopt this method to such operations as Talismanic Magick. For example, one might consecrate and charge a Pantacle by the communication by AIWAZ to the Scribe of the BOOK :of the LAW, the Magician repre- senting the Angel, the Pantacle being the Book, and the person on whom the Pantacle is intended to act taking the part of the Scribe. in —
1930 · PDF PAGE 68
…ible 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 but differs from it in proceeding without personification, or the intervention of alien planes. 1 It may be more closely compared with Initiation; for the effective element of the Product is of the essence of its own nature, and inhérent there…
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
…em by stimulating his aesthetic 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 spiritua…
1930 · PDF PAGE 76
…ithin 48 h ours she shot herself. 1 7. Works of création and dissolution, and the higher invoca¬ tions. There are also hundreds of other operations 3 2 to bring wanted objects — gold, books, women and the like; to open locked doors, to discover treasure; to swim under water3 to hâve armed nen at command — etc., etc. Ail these are really matters of detail 3 the Adeptus Major will easily understand how to perform them if necessary. 3 1. As explained above, in another connexion, he who' “destroys” any being must accept it, with ail the responsibil…
1930 · PDF PAGE 41
… question has really been put to another mind, understood rightly, and answered from knowledge ? It is obviously possible to check one’s operations by clairvoyance, but this is rather like buying a safe to keep a brick in. Expérience is the only teacher. One acquires what one may almost calî a new sense. One feels in one’s self whether one is right or not. The diviner must develop this sense. It resembles the exquisite sensibility of touch which is found in the great billiard player whose fingers can estimate infinitésimal degrees of force, 1. …
1930 · PDF PAGE 65
…everywhere, and as universally esteemed of no value. The alchemist is in ail cases to take this substance, and subject it to a sériés of operations. By so doing, he obtains his product, This product, however named or described, is always a substance which represents the truth or perfection of the original “First Matter”; and its qualities are invariably such as pertain to a living being, not to an inanimate mass. In a Word, the alchemist is to take a dead thing, impure, valueless, and powerless, and transform it into a live thing, active, inval…
1930 · PDF PAGE 46
… 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 setting up the figure, bias would beget a Freudian phantasm to replace the image of truth which the figure ought to be; and it is not too much to say that the entire subconscious machinery of the body and mind lends itself with horrid willingness to this ape- like antic of treason. But now that th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 6
…e took serious Oaths and was admitted to the Order which we name not, those Oaths prevented him using His powers as playthings. Trifling operations, such as He once could do with a turn of the wrist, became impossible to the most persistent endeavour. It was many years before He understood the cause of this. But little by little He became so absorbed in the Work of His true Will that it no longer occurred to Him to indulge in capricious amusements. Yet even at this hour, though He be verily a Magus of A. \ A.*., though His Word be the Word of t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 77
…nal cases. Suppose the magician 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 whiche…