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Page 1 of 21930 · PDF PAGE 73
… would be a God L. It was said by the Sorcerer of the Jura that in order to invoke the Devil it is only necessary to caîl him with y our whole will. This is an universal magical truth, and applies to every other being as much as to the Devil. For the whole will of every man is in reality the whole will of the Uni verse. It is, however, always easy to call up the démons, for they are always calling you; and you hâve only to step down to their level i. “The Devil” is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes. This has led …
1930 · PDF PAGE 9
…tion should be “right”. There are a thousand different wavs of compassing the end proposed, so far as external things are concerned. The whole secret may be summarised in these four words: “Enflame thyself in praying.” 1 The mind must be exalted until it loses consciousness of self. The Magician must be carried forward blindly by a force which, though. in him and of him, is by no means that which he in his normal State of consciousness calls I. Just as the poet, the lover, the artist, is carried out of himself in a Creative frenzy, so must it b…
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
…d with Him alone. Some magicians hâve hired légions of spirits for some spécial purpose; but it has always proved a serious mistake. The whole idea of 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 t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 85
…after the training in 1901 e. v. had put Him in the wav of discipline. 1 At the conclusion of this part of this book, one may sum up the whole matter in these words : There is no object whatever worthy of attainment but the regular development of tbe being of the Aspirant by steady scientific work; he should not attempt to run before he can walk; he should not wish to go somewhere until he knows for certain whither he wills £0 go. 1. Recent developments hâve enabled Him to correct these conditions, so that this Book (as now hnally revised for t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 10
…mpose liis ceremony in siieh a manner as to produce a drasnatic climax. At the moment when the excitement hecomes ungovernable, when the whole conscious being of the Magician undergoes a spiritual spasm, at thaï moment must lie utter the suprême adjuration. One veiy effective method is to stop short, by a suprême effort of will, again and again, on the very brink of that spasm, until a time arrives when the idea of exercising that will fails to occur \ Inhibition is no longer possible or even thinkable, and the whole heing of the Magician, no m…
1930 · PDF PAGE 45
… question propounded by a sîrarager to whom he is indifferent, but whom it is his business to serve faithfully. He must now run over the whole affair in his mind, making sure of his utter aloofness therefrom. He must also make sure that his muscles are perfectly free to respond to the touch of the Will of that intelligence. (It is of course understood that he has not become so familiar with geomancy by dint of practice as to be able to calculate subconsciously what figures he will form; form; for this would vitiate the experiment entirely. It i…
1930 · PDF PAGE 59
…sorption of the force is a kind of consumption; but it has a more restricted application, as follows. Take a substance 1 symbolic of the whole course of nature, make it God, and consume it, There are many ways of doing 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 femal…
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 19
…en 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; the mere removal of the strain imposed …
1930 · PDF PAGE 16
…and tlie magical links properîy made, so that lie is really tortured by the Operation. 1 This is a rare event, however. Only once in the whole of his magical career was Frater Perurabo driven to so harsh a measure. IV In this connexion, beware of too ready a compliance on the part of the spirit. If some Black Lodge has got wind of your operation, it may send the spirit, full of hypocritical submission, to destroy you. Such a spirit will probably pronounce the oath amiss, or in some way seek to avoid his obligations. It is a dangerous trick, tho…
1930 · PDF PAGE 62
… 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 ai frame, shedding its earihly éléments, will become in very truth the Temple of tbe Holy Gliost. Day…
1930 · PDF PAGE 54
…ny that such a book may be possessed of unimaginable powers? It is not so long since the methods of modem science were scoffed at by the whole cultured world. In the sacred halls themselves the roofs rang loud with the scornful laughter of the high pnests as each new postulant approached with his unorthodox offeiing. 174 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 34
…imself that a voice issues bidding him stay and be content, let him struggle on, ever on. “6. At last there must corne a moment when his whole being is swallowed up in fatigue, overwhelmed by its own inertia. Let him sink (when no longer can he strive, though his tongue be bitten through with the effort and the blood gush from his nostrils) into the blackness of unconsciousness ; and then on coming to himself, let him Write down soberly and accurately a record of ail that hath occurred : yea, a record of ail that hath occurred.” Of course, the …
1930 · PDF PAGE 49
… He shouid deal with them constantly, avoiding whimsical or capricious changes. He shouid choose them so that their capacities cover the whole ground of his workj but he shouid not multiply them unneccessarily, for he makes himself responsible for each one that he employs. Such spirits snould be ceremonially evoked to visible or semi-visible appear- ance. A strict arrangement shouid be made and sworn. This must be kept punctiliously by the Magician, and its infringement by the spirit severely punished. Relations with these spirits shouid be con…
1930 · PDF PAGE 28
… them try to do a half-hour5s honest work of any kind. In projecting the Astral, it is a valtiable additional safe- gnard to perform the whole operation m a properïy con- secrated circle. Proceed with great caution, then, but proceed. In time your Body of Light will be as strong against the spirits as your other body against the winds of Heaven. Ail dépends upon the develop¬ ment of that Body of Light. It must be furnished with an organism as ramified and balanced as its shadowy brother, the material body. To recapitulate once more, then, the f…
1930 · PDF PAGE 31
…er 418 an example of perfection is given. The Adept who explored these Aethyrs did not hâve to pass through and beyond the Universe, the whole of which yet lies within even the inmost (30th) Aethyr. He was able to summon the Aethyrs he wanted, and His chief difficulty was that sometimes I. The Hon. Bertrand Russell’s Princifia Mathemcitica may be said to “lie beyond” Colenso’s School Arithmetic; but one can take the former book from one’s shelves — as every one should — and read it without first going ail through the latter again.
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…so. But a System of symbols suitable for divination must be a complété représentation of the Universe, so that each is absolute, and the whole insusceptible of increase or diminution. It is (in fact) tech- nically a pantacle in the fullest sense of the word. Let us consider some prominent examples of such System. We may observe that a common mode of divination is to inquire of books by placing the thumb at random within the leaves. The Books of the Sybil, the Works of Vergil, and the Bible hâve been used ’very frequently for this purpose. For t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 46
…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 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 b…
1930 · PDF PAGE 44
…e to reconcile these two apparently opposing faculties. Indeed, there is no surer sign of all-round success than this ability to put the whole of one’s powers at the service of any type of task. With regard to the mind, again, it would seem that concentra¬ tion on the question makes more difficult the necessary detachment from it. Once again, the diviner stands in need of a considérable degree of attainment in the practices of méditation. He must hâve succeeded in destroying the tendency of the ego to interfère with the ohject of thought. He mu…
1930 · PDF PAGE 81
…bias their judg¬ ment. Magical pupils should be trained on similar lines. They should be made to work alone from the first, to cover the whole ground impartially, to devise their own experiments and draw their own conclusions. 201