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shalt thou feel in thy body, which shall shiver and leap with the shock, and that also must both be suffered and overcome. 4. After the lightning flash, resteth in the zénith a minute point of light. And that light shall radiate until a right cône be established upon the sea, and it is day. With this thy body shall be rigid, automatically ; and this shalt thou let endure, withdrawing thyself into thine heart in the form of an upright Egg of blacknessj and therein shalt thou abide for a space. 5. When ail this is perfectly and easily performed a…
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…ASS OF THE PHOENIX The Magician, his breast bare, stands before an altar on which are his Burin, Bell, Thurible, and two of the Cakes of Light. In the Sign of the Enterer he reaches West across the Altar, and cries: Hail Ra, that goest in thy bark Into the caverns of the Dark! He gives the sign of Silence, and takes the Bell, and F ire, in this hands. East of the Altar see me stand With light and musick in my hand! He strikes Eleven times upon the Bell 333 - 55555 - 333 an^ places the Fire in the Thurible. I strike the Bell: I light the Flamej …
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… DEACON. Lord visible and sensible of whom this earth is but a frozen spark turning about thee with annual and diurnal motion, source of light, source of life, let thy perpétuai radiance hearten us to continuai labour and enjoyment; so that as we are constant partakers of thy bounty we may in our particular orbit give out light and life, sustenance and joy to them that revolve about us without diminution of substance or effulgence for ever. The PEOPLE. So mote it be. (THE LORD) The DEACON. Lord secret and most holy, source of light, source of l…
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A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! {The PRIEST mounts the third step.) The PRIEST: Thou that art One, our Lord in the Universe, the Sun, our Lord in ourselves whose name is Mystery of Mystery, uttermost being whose radiance, enlightening the worlds, is also the breath that maketh every God even and Death to tremble before thee — by the Sign of Light appear thou glorious upcn the throne of the Sun. Make open the path of création and of intelligence between us and our minds. Enlighten our understanding. Encourage …
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… of the Great Order. She is clothed in white, blue and gold. She bears the sword from a red girdle, and the Paten and Hosts, or Cakes of Light. Ihe DEACON. He is clothed in white and yellow. He bears the Book of the Law. Two Children. They are clothed in white and black. One bears a pitcher of water and a cellar of sait, the other a censer of lire and a casket of perfume. IIP Of the ceremony of the Introit. The DEACON, opening the door of the Temple, admïts the con¬ grégation and takes his stand between the small altar atid the font. (There sho…
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…se through the stages of embalming, wrapping and burial. 3. Now imagine a divine breath entering thy nostrils. 4. Next, imagine a divine light eniightening the eyes. 5. Next, imagine the divine voice awakening the ears. 6. Next, imagine a divine kiss imprinted on the lips. 7. Next, imagine the divine energy informing the nerves and muscles of the body, and concentrate on the phenomenon which will already hâve been observed in 3, the restoring of the circulation. 8. Last, imagine the return of the reproductive power, and employ this to the impré…
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…be in sweat of blood, and until a cry of intolérable anguish is forced from thy closed lips, shalt thou proceed. 9. Now let a current of light, deep azuré flecked with scarlet, pass up and down the spine, striking as it were upon thyself that art coiled at the base as a serpent. Let this be exceeding slow and subtle; and though it be accom- panied with pleasure, resist; and though it be accompanied with pain, resist. 10. This shalt thou continue until thou art exhausted, never relaxing the control. Until thou canst perforai this one section 9 d…
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…lly, let him, advancing to the square of Kether, banish that also by what means he may. At the end whereof let him set his foot upon the light, extinguishing it1 ; and, as he falleth, let him falJ within the circle. SECOND METHOD 1. Let the Hermit be seated in his Asana, robed, and let him meditate in turn upon every several part of his body until that part is so unreal to him that he no longer includes it in his compréhension of himself. For example if it be his right foot, let him touch that foot, and be alarmed, thinking, “A foot!... foot! W…
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…o thus polarized. Sh is Heaven and Earth, T Male and Female j ShT is Spirit and Matter- one is the Word of Liberty and Love flashing its Light to restore Life to Earth j the other is the act by which Life daims that Love is Light and Liberty. And these are Two-in-One, the divine letter of Silence-in-Speech whose Symbol is the Sun in the arms of the Moon. But Sh and T are alike formulae of force in action as opposed to entities; they are not States of existence, but modes of motion. They are verbs, not nouns. Sh is the Holy Spirit as a “tongue o…
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…very circle is alike and every triangle alike! 37. But the progress is progress, and progress is rapture, constant, dazzling, showers of light, waves of dew, fiâmes of the haïr of the Great Goddess, flowers of the roses that are about her neck, Amen ! 38. Therefore lift up thyself as I am lifted up. Hold thyself in as I am master to accomplish. At the end, be the end far distant as the stars that lie in the navel of Nuit, do thou slay thyself as I at the end am slain, in the death that is life, in the peace that is mother of war, in the darknes…
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(VII). Extend the arms again as in (III) and cross them again as in (vi), saying : “L.V.X., Lux, the Light of the Cross”. (VIII). With the magical weapon trace the Hexagram of Fire in the East, saying, “ARARITA” (KJïniOtf). This word consists of the initiais of a sen¬ tence which means “One is His beginning : One is His Individuality : His Permutation is One.” Phis hexagram consists of two équilatéral triangles, both apices pointing upwards. Begin at the top of the upper triangle and trace it in a dextro-rotary direction. The top of the lower t…
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…wn And unknown, Thou aloof, alone, Thou, the true fire within the reed Brooding and breeding, source and seed Of life, love, liberty and light, Thou beyond speech and beyond sight, Thee I invoke, my faint fresh fire Kindling as mine intents aspire. Thee I invoke, abiding one, Thee, centre and secret of the Sun, And that most holy mystery Of which the vehicle am I. Appear, most awful and most mild, As it is lawful, in thy child! The CHORUS: For of the Father and the Son The Holy Spirit is the norm; Male-female, quintessential, one, Man-being vei…
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…nal. 17 The Children of the Voice : the Oracle of the Mighty Gods. 18 The Child of the Powers of the Waters : the Lord of the Triumph of Light. 19 The Daughter of the Flaming Sword, 20 The Prophet of the Eternal, the Magus of the Voice of Power. 21 The Lord of the Forces of Life. 22 The Daughter of the Lords of Truth; The Ruler of the Balance. 23 The Spirit of the Mighty Waters. 24 The Child of the Great Transformers. The Lord of the Gâte of Death. 25 The Daughter of the Reconcilers, the Bringer-forth of Life. 26 The Lord of the Gates of Matter…
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…t.1 2. Let him wear the black robe of a Néophyte. 3. Let a single flame of camphor burn at the top of the Tau, and let there be no other light or ornament. 1 4- Let him “open” the Temple as in DCLXXI or in any other convenient manner. 5. Standing at the appropriate quarters, at the edge of the circle, let him banish the 5 éléments by the appropriate rituals. 6. Standing at the edge of the circle, let him banish the 7 planets by the appropriate rituals. Let him face the actual position of each planet in the heavens at the time of his working. 7.…
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…end in the flame of the pyre, O my Soûl ! “Thy God is like the cold emptiness of the utmost heaven, into which thou radiatest thy little light. “When Thou shalt know me, O empty God, my flame shall utterly expire in thy great N.O.X.” Liber Lapidis Lazuli. i. 36- 40. o. Be seated in thine Asana, preferably the Thunderbolt. It is essential that the spine be vertical. 1. In this practice the cavity of the brain is the Yonij the spinal cord is the Lingam. 2. Concentrate thy thought of adoration in the brain. 3. Now begin to awaken the spine in this…
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…And I believe in the Serpent and the Lion, Mystery of Mystery, in his name BAPHOMET. And I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is 0EAHMA. And I believe in the communion of Saints. And, forasmuch as méat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, I believe in the Miracle of the Mass. And I confess one Baptism of Wisdom whereby we accomplish the Miracle of Incarnation. And I confess my life one, individual, and eternal that was, and is, and is to corne. AÏMLN, ATMTN, AÏM…
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…n holy bard; Apollonius TyanaeuSy Simon Magus, Mânes, Pythagorasy Basilides, Valentinus, Bardesanes and Hippolytusy that transmitted the light of the Gnosis to us their succès sors and their heirs; with Merlin, Arthur, Kamuret, Parzival, and many another, prophet, priest and king, that bore the Lance and Cup, the Sword and Disk, against the Heathen, and these alsoy Carolus Magnus and his paladins, with William of Schyren, Frederick of Hohenstaufen, Roger Bacon, Jacobus Burgundus Molensis the Martyr, Christian Rosen- creutZy Ulrich von Hutten, P…
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…. Mark well that this operation should be performed if it be possible in a place set apart and consecrated to the Works of the Magick of Light. Also that the Temple should be ceremonially open as thou hast knowledge and skill to perform, and that at the end thereof the closing should be most carefully accomplished. But in the preliminary practice it is enough to cleanse thyself by ablution, by robing, and by the rituals of the Pentagram and Hexagrarm 0-2 should be practised at first, until some réalisation is obtained; and the practice should a…
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…wer and fruit we do invoke Thee. Then the priest answered and said unto the Queen of Space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat; O Nuit, con- tinuous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus, that men speak not of Thee as One but as None; and let them speak not of thee at ail, since thou art continuous. Euring this speech the PRIESTESS must hâve divesied her self completely of her robey See CCXX.1.61. The PRIESTESS. But to love me is better than ail things: if under the night-…
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…planes. — B y this method mayst thou assist the imagination at the time of concluding thine Invocation. Act as taught in Liber Q, by the light of Liber 777. 37. Concerning minor methods adjuvant in the ceremonies. — IL Talismanic Magic. — Having made by thine Ingenium a talisman or pantacle to represent the particular Deity, and conse- crated it with infinité love and care, do thou burn it ceremonially before the shrine, as if thereby giving up the shadow for the substance. But it is useless to do this unless thou do really in thine heart value…