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5- By this method it is said that the démons of the Ruach, that is, thoughts and memories, are inhibited, and We deny it not. But if so be that they arise, let him build a wall between himself and them according to the method. 6. Thus having stilled the voices of the Six, may he obtain in sense the subtlety of the Seventh. 7- ATMrN. (We add the following, contributed by a friend at that time without the A.-. A .'. and its dépendent orders. He worked out the method himself, and we think it may prove useful to many. O. M.). i. The beginner must f…
1930 · PDF PAGE 120
… may hold ali to be savourless and full of sorrow. 25. This being so, without réluctance will he swear the Oath of the Abyss. 26. Second Method. — Let the Exempt Adept, fortified by the practice of the first method, enter the preliminary practice of the second method. 27. Second Method. — Preliminary Practices. Let him, seated in his Asana, consider any event, and trace it to its immédiate causes. And let this be doue very fully and minutely. Here, for example, is a body erect and motionless. Let the adept consider the many forces which maintai…
1930 · PDF PAGE 102
…Philosophus, that although his work will be harder his reward will be greater if he choose a Deity most remote from his own nature. This method is harder and higher than that of Liber E. For a simple object as there suggested is of the same nature as the commonest things of life, while even the meanest Deity is beyond uninitiated human understanding. On the same plane, too, Venus is nearer to man than Aphrodite, Aphrodite than Isis, Isis than Babalon, Babalon than Nuit. Let him décidé therefore according to his discrétion on the one hand and hi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 101
…med and trained to ail manner of peaceable going. 36. Concerning minor adjuvant in the ceremonies. — I. Rising on the 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 t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 90
…1 ce of a particular Deity. Fhis matter is of no import, sobeit that thou choose one suited to thine own highest nature. Howsoever, this method is not so suitable for gods austere as Saturn, or intellectual as Thoth. But for such deities as in them- selves partake in anywise of love ît is a perfect mode. 2. Concerning the frime method of this Magick Art : — Let the devotee consider well that although Christ and Osiris be one, yet the former is to be worshipped with Christian, and the latter with Egyptian, rites. And this, although the rites the…
1930 · PDF PAGE 100
… in a 113/ way attain to more than to foreshadow a little part thereof. 34. Concerning Mortifications. — These are not necessary to this method. On the contrary, they may destroy the concentration, as counter-irritants to, and so alleviations of, the suprême mortifi¬ cation which is the Absence of the Deity invoked. Yet as in mortal love arises a distaste for food, or a pleasure in things naturally painful, this perversion should be endured and allowed to take its course. Yet not to the interférence with natural bodily health, whereby the instr…
1930 · PDF PAGE 103
Ànother objection lies in the partiality of this Method. This is equally a defect characteristic of the Grade. 43. Concerning a notable danger of Success. — It may occur that owing to the tremendous power of the Samadhi, overcoming ail other memories as it should and does do, that the mind of the devotee may be obsessed, so that he déclaré his particular Deity to be sole God and Lord. This error has been the foundation of ail dogmatic religions, and so the cause of more misery than ail other errors combined. The Philosophus is peculiarly liable…
1930 · PDF PAGE 124
… no action upon the whole. And this contemplation shall be performed not by simple méditation — how much less then by reason! but by the method which shall hâve been given unto Him in His initiation to the Grade. 17. Following which method, it shall be easy for Him to combine that trinity from its éléments, and further to combine Sat- Chit-Ananda, and Light, Love, Life, three by three into nine that are one, in which méditation success shall be That which was first adumbrated to Him in the grade of Practicus (which reflecteth Mercury into the l…
1930 · PDF PAGE 121
…al law is inertie. And in these méditations let him avoid as if it were the plague any spéculations sentimental or fantastic. 32. Second Method. The Practice Proper. — Having then perfected in his mind these conceptions, let him apply them to his own career, forging the links of memory into the chain of necessity. And let this be his final question: To what purpose am I fitted ? Of what service can my being prove to the Brothers of the A A .'. if I cross the Abyss, and am admitted to the City of the Pyramids ? 33. Now that he may clearly unders…
1930 · PDF PAGE 117
…that Order (the A.*. A.*.) from which you descended, joining Works (Kamma) to the Sacred Reason (the Tao)”. io. The Resuit of the Second Method is to show the Adept to what end his powers are destined. When he has passed the Abyss and becomes Nemo, the return of the current causes him ato appear in the Heaven of Jupiter as a morning star or as an evening star” 1 In other words he should discover what may be the nature of his work. Thus Mohammed was a Brother reflected into Netzach, Buddha a Brother reflected into Hod, or, as some say, Daath. Th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 96
…arately may be broken by a child, while those same cords duly twisted may bind a giant, let the Philosophus learn to entwine these three methods of Magick into a Spell. To this end let him understand that as they are One, because the end is One, so are they One because the method is One, even the method of turning the mind toward the particular Deity by love in every act. And lest thy twine slip, here is a little cord that wrappeth tighdy round and round ail, even the Mantram or Continuous Prayer. 24. Concerning the Aîantram or Continuous Praye…
1930 · PDF PAGE 93
…Jugorum. 15. Further concerning the life of the devotee: — Now, as many are fully occupied with their affairs, let it be known that this method is adaptable to the necessities of ail. And We bear witness that this which followeth is the Crux and Quintessence of the whole Method. First, if he hâve no Image, let him take anything soever, and consecrate it as an Image of his God. Likewise with his robes and instruments, his suffumigations and libations ; for his Robe hath he not a nightdress; for his instrument a walking stick ; for his suf- fumig…
1930 · PDF PAGE 116
…preliminary examination at Cambridge University, and a spécial Grâce of the authorities was required in order to admit him. 7. The first method to be described has been detailed in Bhikkhu Ananda Metteya’s aTraining of the Mind” (Equinox 1,5, pp. 28-59, and especially pp. 48-57). We hâve little to alter or to add. Its most important resuit as regards the Oath of the Abyss, is the freedom from ail desire or clinging to anything which it gives, Its second resuit is to aid the adept in the second method, by supplying him with further data for his …
1930 · PDF PAGE 109
… facilitated by severing the fraenum linguæ, which, if done, shouJd be done by a competent surgeon. We do not advise this or any similar method of cheating difficultés. This is, however, harmless.) In this manner the practice is to be raised from the physical to the spiritual plane, even as the words Ruh, Ruach, Pneuma, Spiritus, Geist, Ghost, and indeed words of almost ail languages, hâve been raised from their physical meaning of wind, breath, or movement, to the spiritual plane. (RV is the old root meaning Yoni and hence Wheel (Fr. roue, Lat…
1930 · PDF PAGE 97
…ften times it is as the torment of hell in which the soûl burns and writhes unceasingly. Yet it ends, and at its end continue openly thy Method. 27. Concerning Dryness. — Another State wherein at times the soûl may fall is this dark night. And this is indeed purifying, in such depths that the soûl cannot fathom it. It is less like pain than like death. But it is the necessary death that cornes before the rising of a body glorified. This State must be endured with fortitude; and no means of alleviating it may be employed. It may be broken up by …
1930 · PDF PAGE 114
…s to the Ajna, “the Ajna is aware”, etc. (5) Pain if very slight may easily be transferred to the Ajna after a little practice. The best method for a beginner is to imagine he has a pain in the body and then imagine that it passes directly into the Ajna. It does not pass through the intervening structures, but goes direct. After continuai practice even severe pain may be transferred to the Ajna. (6) Fix the mind on the base of the spine and then gradually move the thoughts upwards to the Ajna. (In this méditation Ajna is the Holy of Holies, but…
1930 · PDF PAGE 110
… It is referred to the path of Virgo and the letter Yod.) L 1. This is the book of drawing ail to a point. 2. Herein are described three methods whereby the conscious- ness of the Many may be melted to that of the One. II. FIRST METHOD O. Let a magical circle be constructed, and within it an upright Tau drawn upon the ground. Let this Tau be devised into io squares (See Liber CMLXIII., Illustration i.) 1. Let the magician be armed with the Sword of Art.1 2. Let him wear the black robe of a Néophyte. 3. Let a single flame of camphor burn at the …
1930 · PDF PAGE 68
…quinox” is an example of this kind of record by a very advanced student. It is not as simply written as we could wish, but will show the method. 9. The more scientific the record is, the better. Yet the émo¬ tions should be noted, as being some of the conditions. Let then the record be written with sincerity and carej thus with practice it will be found more and more to approximate to thé idéal. - 368 -
1930 · PDF PAGE 104
…g yet a further sacrifice. — Here it is spoken of actual mutilation. Such acts are abominable ; and while thev may bring success in this Method, form an absolute bar to ail further progress. And they are in any case more likely to lead to madness than to Samadhi. He indeed who purposeth them is already mad. 47. Concerning human affection. — During this practice thou shalt in no wise withdraw thyself from human relations, only figuring to thyself that thy father or thy brother or thy wife is as it were an image of thy particular Deity. Thus shal…
1930 · PDF PAGE 123
…steth without Form. 13. And if at this time He be manifested upon earth as a Man, and therefore is this présent writing, let this be His method, that 423