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Page 1 of 21930 · PDF PAGE 83
…rehending. . lheLtechmque of Magick is just as important as that of mysti- asm, but here we hâve a very much more difficult problem, because the original unit of Magick, the Body of Light, is alreadv something unfamiliar to the ordinary person. Nevertheless, this body must be developed and trained with exactly the same rigid iscipline as the brain in the case of mysticism. The essence of the echnique of Magick is the development of the body of Light which must be extended to include ail members of the organism,’ and mdeed of the cosmos. The mos…
1930 · PDF PAGE 38
…ds on fonda¬ mental principles.1 This science had better be discarded unless the student chances to feel strongly drawn toward it. It is used by the Master Therion Himself with fairly satisfactory results, but only in spécial cases, in a strictly limited sphere, and with par- ticular précautions. Even so, He feels great diffidence in basing His conduct on the resuit so obtained. Geomancy has the advantage of being rigorously mathematical. A hand-book of the science is to be found in Equinox I, II. The objection to its use lies in the limited nu…
1930 · PDF PAGE 67
…e 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, as the formula of any Work eflfects the extraction and visualization of the Tru…
1930 · PDF PAGE 17
any object consecrate it without further ado. One knows what miracles can be clone with one’s favourite mashie! One has used the mashie again and again, one’s love for it growing in proportion to one’s success with it, and that success again made more certain and complété by the effect of this “love under will”, which one bestows upon it by using it. It is, of course, very important to keep such an object away from the contact of the profane. It is instinctive not to let another person use one’s fishing rod or one’s gun. It is not that they cou…
1930 · PDF PAGE 26
…hese methods appear to The Master Therion to be unsatisfactory. Very often they do not work at ail. It is difficult to teach a person to use these methods; and, worst of ali, they are purely passive! You can see only what is shewn you, and you are probably shewn things perfectly pointless and irrelevant. The proper metnod is as followsi — Devciop the body oi Liglil until îî is jiisl ns real to y ou as your otlier body. teacli it îo travel to any desired Symbol, and enable it te perform ail neeessary Rites and Invocations. In sbort, edncate it. …
1930 · PDF PAGE 8
But neither by the natural use of His abilities, though they hâve made Him famous through the whole world, nor by the utmost rnight of his Magick, is He able to acquire material wealth beyond the minimum necessary to keep Him alive and at work. It is in vain that He protests that not He but the Work is in need of money ; He is barred by the strict Jetter of His Oath to give ail that He hath for His magical Attainment. Yet more awful is the doom that He hath invoked upon Himself in renouncing His right as a man to enjoy the Love of those whom He…
1930 · PDF PAGE 80
…subject. But there is one general principle which seems worthy of spécial emphasis in this place. These four powers are thus complex because they are the powers of the Sphinx, that is, they are func- tions of a single organism. Now those who understand the growth of organisms are aware that évolution dépends on adaptation to environment. If an animal which cannot swim is occasionally thrown into water, it may escape by some piece of good fortune, but if it is thrown into water continuously it will drown sooner or later, unless it learns to swim…
1930 · PDF PAGE 47
…irely separate from that of Magick; y et it interpénétrâtes Magick at every point. The fundamental laws of both are identical. The right use of divination has already been explained; but it must be added that proficiency therein, tremendous as is its importance in furnishing the Magician with the information necessary to his strategical and tactical plans, in no wise enables him to accomplish the impossible. It is not within the scope of divination to predict the future (for example) with the certainty of an astronomer in calcuiating the return…
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
…tion from one eye to the other. Now, however unsuceessful your geîting ouï of the body may apparently hâve been, it is most necessary 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 t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 51
…the Adept divination becomes therefore a secondary consid¬ ération, although he can now employ it with absolute confidence, and probably use it with far greater frequency than before his attainment. Indeed, this is likely in proportion as he learns that resort to divination (on every occasion when his Will does not mstantly instruct him) with implicit obedience to its counsels careless as to whether or no they may land him in disaster, is a means admirably efficacious of keeping his mind untroubled by external impressions, and therefore in the …
1930 · PDF PAGE 41
… the System which lie adopts. He must not leave the smallest loop-hole for being tricked, befogged, or mocked. He must not allow them to use casuistry in the interprétation of his questions. It is a common knavery, especially in geomancy, to render an answer which is literally true, and yet deceives. For instance, one might ask whether some business transaction would be profitable, and find, after getting an affirmative answer, that it really referred to the other party to the affair! There is, on the surface, no difficulty at ail in getting re…
1930 · PDF PAGE 49
…smal projections of themselves to personate them; and these phantasms, besides being worthless, become the prey of malicious daemons who use them to attack the Magician in various ways whose prospect of success is enhanced by the fact that he has him¬ self created a link with them. One more observation seems désirable while on this subject. Divination of any kind is improper in matters directly concerning the Great Work itself. In the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel, the adept is possessed of ail he can possibly need. To c…
1930 · PDF PAGE 61
…smans, who was afraid of them, and tried to betray the little he knew of them, became a Papist, and died of cancer of the tongue. 3. The use of the Elixir of Life is only justifiable in peculiar circum- stances. To go counter to the course of natural Change is to approximate perilously to the error of the “Black Brothers”. — 1S1
1930 · PDF PAGE 53
…trous and miraculous against Nature. To admit this is not to discrédit oracles. On the contrary, the oracles fell mto disrepute just because they pretended to do more than they could. To divine concerning a matter is little more than to calculate probabilities. We obtain the use of minds who hâve access ro knowledge beyond ours, but not to omniscience. Hru; the gréai angel set over the Tarot, is beyond us as we are beyond the antj but, for ail we know, the knowledge of Hru is excelled by some mightier mind in the same proportion. Nor hâve we an…
1930 · PDF PAGE 69
…culiar 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 Grâce that we may need; we must apprehend the essential characters in each case, select s…
1930 · PDF PAGE 28
A great majority of “spiritualists”, “occultists”, “Toshos- ophists”, are pitiable examples of repeated losses from this cause. The emotional type of religionist also suffers in this way. Dévotion projects the fine body, which is seized and vampirized by the démon masquerading as “Christ” or “Mary”, or whoever may be the object of worship. Complété absence of ail power to concentrate thought, to follow an argument, to formulate a Will, to hold fast to an opinion or a course of action, or even to keep a solemn oath, mark indelibly those who hâve…
1930 · PDF PAGE 24
as trutli in the perceptible imiverse; every idea when analysecl is fornid to contain a contradiction. It is quite useless (except as a temporary expédient) to set up one class of ideas against another as being "more real”. The advance of man towaids God is not necessarily an advance towards truth. Ail philosophical Systems hâve crumbled. But each class of ideas possesses true relations within itself. It is possible, with Berkeley, 1 to deny the existence of water and of wood; but, for ail that, wood fioats on water. The Magician becomes identi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…- 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 mostly published pièces by well-known authois and composers. It would be better …
1930 · PDF PAGE 5
…. But these are not pure planetary spints, moving in well- dehned spneres by rigidlv righteous laws. They are gross concré¬ tions of confused impulses, “incapable of understanding the nature of an oath”. They are also such that the idea of murder is nowise offensive to the Spirit of Love. It is indeed the cntenon of spiritual caste that conflicting éléments should not coexist in the same consciousness. The psalm- singing Puritan who persécutes publicans, and secretly soaks himself in hre-water; the bewhiskered philanthropist in broad- cloth who…