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…our at the prow, and Ra-Hoor abideth at the helm. Hail unto Thee from the Abodes of Evening. 5. And after each of these invocations thou shalt give the sign of silence, and afterward thou shalt perform the adoration that is taught thee by thy Superior. And then do thou compose Thyself to holy méditation. 6. Also it is better if in these adorations thou assume the God-form of Whom thou adorest, as if thou didst unité with Him in the adoration of That which is beyond Him. 7- Thus shalt thou ever be mindful of the Great Work which thou hast undeit…
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…t dog. Feareth not the Unicom the claws and teeth of the Lion ? 3. Thine arm then serveth thee both for a warning and for a record. Thou shalt Write down thy daily progress in these practices, until thou art perfecily vigilant at ail times over the least word that slippeth from thy tongue. Thus bind thyself, and thou shalt be for ever free. IL o. The Morse is Action. Man, rule thine Action. How else shalt thou master the Father, and answer the Fool at the Left Hand Gateway of the Crown ? 1. Here are practices. Each may last for a week, or more.…
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performed this méditation that on a sudden thou shalt hear the drone and booming of a Beetle. 12. Now then shall the Blackness pass, and with rose and gold shalt thou arise in the East, with the cry of an Hawk resounding in thine ear. Shrill shall it be and harsh. 13. At the end shalt thou rise and stand in the mid-heaven, a globe of glory. And therewith shall arise the mighty Sound that holy men hâve likened unto the roaring of a Lion. 14. Then shalt thou withdraw thyself from the Vision, gathering thyself into the divine form of Osiris upon h…
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…e Sacrament of the Graal in the Chapel of Abominations. 12. And behold ! If by stealth thou keep unto thyself onc thought of thine, then shalt thou be cast out into the abyss for ever; and thou shalt be the lonely one, the eater of dung, the afflicted in the Day of Be-With-Us. 13. Yea! verily this is the Truth, this is the Truth, this is the l'ruth. Unto thee shall be granted joy and health and wealth and wisdom when thou art no longer thou. 14. Then shall every gain be a new sacrament, and it shall not défile thee; thou shalt revel with the wa…
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…of our Lady, the Scarlet Woman, Babalon the IVlother of Abomina¬ tions, the Bride of Chaos, that rideth upon our Lord the Beast. 2. Thou shalt drain out thy blood that is thy life into the golden cup of her fornication. 3. Thou shalt mingle thy life with the universal life. Thou shalt keep not back one drop. 4» Then shall thy brain be dumb, and thy heart beat no more, and ail thy life shall go from thee; and thou shalt be cast out upon the midden, and the birds of the air shall feast upon thy flesh, and thy bones shall whiten in the sun. 5. The…
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…disobedient dog. Feareth not the Ox the Goad of the Floughman ? 3. Thine arm then serveth thee both for a warning and for a record. Thou shalt Write down thy claily progress in these practices, until thou art perfectly vigilant at ail times over the least thought that ariseth in thy brain. Thus bind thyself, and thou shalt be for ever free. I. For instance, let A be a man of strong passions, skilled in the Holy Qabalah, a vegetarian, and a keen “reactionary” politician. Let B be a bloodless and ascetic thinker, occupied with business and family…
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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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…the Cross within the Circle ! 1. Three are the Beasts wherewith thou must plough the Field; the Unicom, the Horse, and the Ox. And these shalt thou yoke in a triple yoke that is governed by One Whip. 2. Now these Beasts run wildly upon the earths and are not easily obedient to the Man. 3. Nothing shall be said here of Cerberus, the great Beast of Hell that is every one of these and ail of these, even as Athanasius hath foreshadowed. For this matter 1 is not of Tiphereth without, but Tiphereth within. I. o. The Unicom is speech. Man, rule thy Sp…
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… in the west. 10. Let it sink into blackness, borne in the bark of heaven, upon the back of the holy cow Hathor. And it may be that thou shalt hear the moaning thereof. 11. Let it become blacker than ail blackness. And in this méditation thou shalt be utterly without fear, for that the black¬ ness that will appear unto thee is a thing dreadful beyond ail thy compréhension. And it shall corne to pass that if thou hast well and properly
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…ne whole body is bathed in sweat, or it may 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. Un…
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…e, and answer : Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground, and die, it abideth alone, but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. Yet shalt thou also beware of disputation with the devil and pride in the cleverness of thine answers to him. Therefore, if thou hast not lost the power of silence, let it be hrst and last employed against him. 30. Concerning the Enflaming of the Heart. — Now learn that thy methods are dry, one and ail. Intellectual exercises, moral exercises, they are not Love. Yet as a man, rubbing two dry sticks together for lo…
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…e may send against thee visions worse than madness. Against ail this there is but one remedy, the Discipline of thine Oath. So then thou shalt go through ceremonies meaningless and hideous to thee, and blasphémé shalt thou against thy Deity and curse Him. And this mattereth little, for it is not thou, so be that thou adhéré to the Letter of thine Obligation. For thy Spiritual Sight is closed, and to trust it is to be led into the précipice, and hurled therefrom. 29. Further of this matter. — Now also subtler than ail these — 397 —
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… wind stirs the surface of the sea, that is thou. No fish play in thy depths. 2. Let a Breath rise and ruffle the waters. This also thou shalt feel playing upon thy skin. It will disturb thy méditation twice or thrice, after which thou shouldst hâve conquered this distraction. But unless thou first feel it, that Breath hath not arisen. 3. Next, the night is riven by the lightning flash. This also 362
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…ead 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 shall they gain, and not lose, by thy working. Only in the case of thy wife this is difficult, since she is more to thee than ail others, and in this case thou mayst act with tempérance, lest her personality overcome and destroy that of…
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…f 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 manner. Concen¬ t…
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…ed about in the grip of the storm for an aeon and an aeon and an aeon. But thou givest not thy sap; thou fallest not. 6. Only in the end shalt thou give up thy sap when the great God F.I.A.T. is enthroned on the day of Be-With-Us. 7. For two things are done and a third thing is begun. Isis and Osiris are given over to incest and adultery. Horus leaps up thrice armed from the womb of his mother. Harpocrates his twin is hidden within him. SET is his holy covenant, that he shall display in the great day of M.A.A.T., that is being interpreted the M…
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…Yoni is 011e with the lengthening of the Lingam. Thou art both these; and thy vow is but the rustling of the wind on Mount Meru. 17. How shalt thou adore me who am the Eye and the Tooth, the Goat of the Spirit, the Lord of Création. I am the Eye in the Triangle, the Silver Star that ye adore. 18. I am Baphomet, that is the Eightfold Word that shall be equilibrated with the Three. *9- There is no act or passion that shall not be an hymn in mine honour. 20. Ail holy things and ail symbolic things shall be my sacraments. 21. These animais are sacr…
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…ht-stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt corne a little to lie in my bosom. For one
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…o art thou wholly and no more in part before the symbol of the beloved, though it be but a Pisacha or a Yantra or a Deva. 35. And in ail shalt thou create the Infinité Bliss and the next link of the Infinité Chain. 36. This chain reaches from Eternity to Eternity, ever in triangles — is not my symbol a triangle ? — ever in circles — is not the symbol of the Beloved a circle? Therein is ail progress base illusion, for every circle is alike and every triangle alike! 37. But the progress is progress, and progress is rapture, constant, dazzling, sh…
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…ntures of love, not omitting one 3 and to each do thou conclude : How pale a reflection is this of my love for this Deity! Yet from each shalt thou draw some knowledge of love, some intimacy with love, that shall aid thee to perfect thy love. Thus learn the humility of love from one, its obedience from another, its intensity from a third, its purity from a fourth, its peace from yet a fifth. So then thy love being made perfect, it shall be worthy of that perfect love of His. — 395 ~