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… 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 merges into the animal, and as the material plane has beings which encroach upon the boundaries of the astral, so do we hnd it in the higher planes. The mental images which appear during méditation are subjec¬ tive, and pertain not at ail to the astral…
1930 · PDF PAGE 83
…altation of that üody by the use of rituals of invocation. 3- The éducation of that Body by expérience. It must learn to travel on every plane; to break down every obstacle which may confront it This expérience must be as systematic and regular as possible ; for it is of no use merely to travel to the spheres of Jupiter and Venus, or even to explore the 30 Aethyrs, neglectin^ unattractive meridians. 1 6 TxrdSp,rant Sh°U d remenlber that be « a Microcosm. “Universus sum et Nihil univers, a me alienum puto” should be his motto. He should make it …
1930 · PDF PAGE 24
…e freelv in every direction * ni ough space. But this is because “matter”, in the sense in which we commonly use the word, is on another plane 2. Now this fine body perceives a uni verse which we do not ordinarily . perceive. It does not necessarily perceive the universe which we do normally perceive, so although in this body I can pass through the roof, it does not follow that I shall be able to tell what the weather is like. I might do so, or I might not; Dut if I could not, it would not prove that I was deceiving myself m supposing that I ha…
1930 · PDF PAGE 19
…ly follow. But if the ceremony has been successful 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; th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 10
…rem 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 to the invocation of a god 3 and as soon as his balance approaches perfection he ceases to invoke any partial god 3 only that god vertically above him is in his path. And so a man who perhaps took up Magick merely with the idea of acquiring knowledge, love, or wealth, finds himself irrevocably committed to the performance of The Great Work. I. This forgetfulness mus…
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 27
of an hour’s journey you can reckon on having a fairly eventful time, turn your attention to rcaching a definite place on the astral plane j invoke Mercury, for example, and examine carefully your record of the resulting vision — discover whether the symbols which you hâve seen correspond with the conventional symbols of Mercury. Tliis iesting of the spirits is the most important branch of tlie whoïe tree of Magick. Without it, one is lost in the jungle of delusion. Every spirit, up to God himself, is ready to deceive you if possible, to make h…
1930 · PDF PAGE 54
…cidence. The fact of the case is that the laws of nature are incomparably more subtle than even science suspects. The phenomena of every plane are intimately interwoven. The arguments of Aristotle were dépendent on the atmospheric pressure which prevented his blood from boiling away. Tliere is notiiing in the universe wliicli does not influence every otlier thing in one way or another. There is no reason in Nature why the apparently chance combinations of half-a-dozen sticks oï tortoise-shell should not be so linked both with the human mind and…
1930 · PDF PAGE 35
…tising, in order to acquire the power of Rising. But, having obtained this power, it is, of course, legitimate to rise to any particular plane that may be necessary for the purpose of exploration, as in the case of the visions recorded in Liber 418, where the method may be described as mixed. In such a case, it is not enough to invoke the place you wish to visit, because you may not be able to endure its pressure, or to breathe its atmosphère. Several instances occur in that record where the seer was unable to pass through certain gateways, or …
1930 · PDF PAGE 28
…nvocation — wrhile the physical body remains silent and still. In doing this it will often be necessary to create a Temple on the astral plane. Il is excellent practice to create symbols. This one précaution is needed: after using them, they should be reabsorbed. 148
1930 · PDF PAGE 31
The are also planes corresponding to various religions past and présent, ail of which hâve their peculiar unity. ïi is of the utmost importance to tlie “Clairvoyant” or Hraveller in the fine body to be able to find bis way to any desired plane, and operate therein as itts rnler. The Neopliyte of A.*. A.’, is examined most strictly in tliis practice before he is passed to the degree of Zelaîor. In “Rising on the Planes” one must usuallv pass clear through the Astral to the Spiritual. Sonie will be unable to do this. The “fine body” which is good…
1930 · PDF PAGE 25
…périence, to deduce facts about material things from the astral aspect which they présent to the eyes of the Body of Light.1 This astral plane is so varied and so changeable that several clairvoyants looking at the same thing might give totally different accounts of what they saw; yet they might each make correct déductions. In looking at a man the first clairvoyant might say : “The lines of force are ail drooping”; the second : “It seems ail dirtv and spotty”; a third; “The Aura looks very ragged.” Yet ail might agréé in deducing that the man …
1930 · PDF PAGE 45
preserving its position on its own plane, and evoking 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…
1930 · PDF PAGE 6
…llured the seductive, routed the aggressive, made himself invisible, and generaliy behaved like a Young-Man-About-Town on every possible plane. He would afflict one vampire with a Sending of Cats, and appoint another his private Enchantress, neither aware of any moral oxymoron, nor hampered by the implicit incongruity of his oaths. But as He advanced in Adeptship, this coltishness found its mouth bittedj as soon as He took serious Oaths and was admitted to the Order which we name not, those Oaths prevented him using His powers as playthings. Tr…
1930 · PDF PAGE 78
…rvals, and the best éléments of such minds are bound up in the “Unconscious Self” of the Adept, not left to wandei idly about the Astral Plane. It will thus be more profitable to try to get into touch with the “Dead Teacher” in his présent avatar. Moreover, Adepts are at pains to record their teachings in books, monu¬ ments, or pictures, and to appoint spiritual guardians to preserve such heirlooms throughout the générations. Whenever these are destroyed or lost, the reason usually is that the Adept himself judges that their usefulness is over,…
1930 · PDF PAGE 26
… in the air. Keep on feeling the sense of rising; keep on looking about you as you rise until you see landscapes or beings of the astral plane. Such hâve a quality ail their own. They are not like material things — they are not like mental pictures — they seem to lie between the two. After some practice has made you adept, so that in the course 146