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…demands to be defined by com- plementals. Thus, an hyperbola is a simple idea, but its construction exacts two curves. The Angel, as the adept knows him, is a being Tiphereth, which obscures Kether. The Adept is not officially aware of the higher Sephiroth. He cannot perceive, like the Xpsissimus, that ail things soever are equally illusion and equally Absolute. He is in Tiphereth, whose office is Rédemption, and he déplorés the events which hâve caused the apparent Sorrow from which he has just escaped. He is also aware, even in the height of …
1930 · PDF PAGE 82
…the head of the Will-Symbol, and is scattered over the sky in glit- tering galaxies. This dispersion destroys the con¬ centration of the adept, whose mind cannot master such multiplicity of majesty; as a rule, he simply sinks stunned into normality, to recall nothing of his expérience but a vague though vivid impression of complété release and ineffable rapture. Répéti¬ tion fortifies him to réalisé the nature of his attain* ment 5 and his Angel, the link once made, frequents him, and trains him subtly to be sensitive to his Holy presence, and …
1930 · PDF PAGE 92
But the results of the Ritual are too various to permit of rigid description. One may say that, presuming the union to be perfect, the Adept need not retain any memory soever of what has occurred. He may be merely aware of a gap in his conscious life, and judge of its contents by observing that his nature has been subtly trans- figured. Such an expérience might indeed be the proof of perfection. If the Adept is to be any wise conscious of his Angel it must be that some part of his mind is prepared to réalisé the rapture, and to express it to it…
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
the Third as the Second, and thus to the end. Moreover, let the Adept fling forth his whole consciousness thither. Then at the final Word, let him bring rushing back his Will within himself, steadily streaming, and let him offer himself to its point, as Artémis to PAN, that this perfectly pure concentration of the Elément purge him tho- roughly, and possess him with its passion. In this Sacrament being wholly at one with that Elément, let the Adept utter the Charge “Hear me, and make”, etc. with strong sense that this unity with that quarter of…
1930 · PDF PAGE 80
…uces “Words”, and these words hâve been the wisdom by which He hath created ail things. The “Voice” is necessary as the link between the Adept and his Angel. The Angel is “King”, the One who “can”, the “source of author- ity and the fount of honour”; also the King (or King’s Son) who delivers the Enchanted Princess, and makes her his Queen. He is “Ruler”, the “unconscious Will”; to be thwarted no more by the ignorant and capricious false will of the cons¬ cious man. And He is “Helper”, the author of the infallible impulse that sends the Soûl sw…
1930 · PDF PAGE 96
…ep silence about those things “unlawful to utter” which one may hâve heard “in the seventh heaven”. This may not apply to the sixth. The Adept must keep himself in hand, however tempted to make a new heaven and a new earth in the next few davs by trumpeting his triumphs. He must give time a chance to redress his balance, sore shaken by the impact of the Infinité. As he becomes adjusted to intercourse with his Angel, he will find his passionate ecstasy develop a quality of peace and intelligi- bility which adds power, while it informs and fortif…
1930 · PDF PAGE 90
POINT III SCHOLION ON SECTIONS G & Gg. The Adept who has mastered this Ritual, successfully realising the full import of this controlled rapture, ought not to allow his mind to loosen its grip on the astral imagery of the Star-spate, Will-Symbol, or Soul-symbol, or even to forget its duty to the body and the sensible surroundings. Nor should he omit to keep his Body of Light in close touch with the phenonema of its own plane, so that its privy consciousness may fulfil its proper functions of protecting his scattered ideas from obsession. But he…
1930 · PDF PAGE 79
…eeds of préjudice which hamper him from freedom to act as he will. Similar applica¬ tions of the remaining invocations will occur to the Adept who is ready to use them. The Adept now returns to the Tiphereth square of his Tau, and invokes Spirit, facing toward Boleskine, by the active Pentagrams, the sigil called the Mark of the Beast, and the Signs of L.V.X. (See plate as before). He then vibrâtes the Names extending his will in the same way as before, but vertically upward. At the same time he expands the Source of that Will — the secret symb…
1930 · PDF PAGE 77
Ego. A <:Spell” of God is any form of conscious- ness, and a “Scourge” any form of action. The Charge, as a whole, demands for the Adept the control of every detail of the Universe which His Angel has created as a means of manifesting Himself to Himself. It covers command of the primary projection of the Possible in individuality, in the antithetical artifice which is the device of Mind, and in a balanced triplicity of modes or States of being whose combinations constitute the characteristics of Cosmos. It includes also a standard of structure,…
1930 · PDF PAGE 83
…gel destroys ail doubts and delusions, confers ail blessings, teaches ail truth, and containa ail delights. But it is important that the Adept should not rest in mere inexpressible realization of his rapture, but rouse himself to make the relation submit to analysis, to render it in rational terms, and thereby enlighten his mind and heart in a sense as superior to fanatical enthusiasm as Beethoven’s music is to West African war-drums. Section Gg. The adept should hâve realised that his Act of Union with the angel implies (i) the death of his ol…
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
…, 15, 24, 45, 300, 345-) 45 is moreover A D M, man. “Mosheh” is thus the name cf man as a God-concealing Form. But in the Ritual let the Adept replace this “Mosheh” by his own motto as Adeptus Minor. For “Ish- rael” let him prefer his own Magical Race, according to the obligations of his Oaths to Our Holy Order! (The Beast 666 Himself used “Ankh-f-n-khonsu” and aKhem” in this section.) The Adept reminds his Angel that He has created That One Substance of which Hermes hath written in the Table of Emerald, whose virtue is to unité in itself ail o…
1930 · PDF PAGE 81
…his then shall He shake vehementlv with vibrations of love reverberating with the Words of the Section. Even in the physical ears of the adept there shall resound an écho thereof, yet he shall not be able to describe it. It shall seem both louder than thunder, and softer than the whisper of the night-wind. It shall at once be inarticulate, and mean more than he hath ever heard. Now let him strive with ail the strength of his Soûl to withstand the Will of his Angel, con- cealing himself in the closest cell of the citadel of consciousness. Let hi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 97
His name, he approaches the solution of the ultimate problem, Who he himself truly is. Unto this final statement the Adept may trust his Angel to lead him; for the Tiphereth-consciousness alone is connected by paths with the various parts of his mind. 1 None therefore save He hath the knowledge requisite for calculating the combinations of conduct which will organise and equilibrate the forces of the Adept, against the moment when it becomes necessary to confront the Abyss. The Adept must control a compact and cohérent mass if he is to make sur…
1930 · PDF PAGE 33
…the critical adventure of our Order ; the absolute abandonment of himself and his attainments. He can- not remain indefinitely an Exempt Adept; he is pushed onward by the irrésistible momentum that he has generated. Should he fail, by will or weakness, to make his self-annihilation absolute, he is none the less thrust forth into the Abyss; but instead of being received and reconstructed in the Third Order, as a Babe in the womb of our Lady Babalon, under the Night of Pan, to grow up to be Himself wholly and truly as He was not previously, he re…
1930 · PDF PAGE 94
…mind by muttering forcibly and audibly. But lest such muttering tend to disturb communion with the Angel, speak only His Name. Until the Adept hâve heard that Name, therefore, he may not abide in the perfect possession of his Beloved. His most important task is thus to open his ears to the voice of his Angel, that he may know him, how he is called. For hearken! this Name, understood rightly and fully, declareth the nature of the Angel in every point, wherefore also that Name is the formula of the per¬ fection to which the Adept must aspire, and…
1930 · PDF PAGE 78
…sion starves the particular faculty which stood in need of it. This Section B invokes Air in the East, with a shaft of golden glory. The adept now invokes Fire in the South; flamc red are the rays that burst from his Verendum. He invokes Water in the West, his Wand billowing forth blue radiance. He goes to the North to invoke Earth; flowers of green flame flash from his weapon. As practice makes the Adept perfect in this Work, it becomes automatic to attach ail these complicated ideas and intentions to their correlated words and acts. When this…
1930 · PDF PAGE 86
…but betray not thine Egg! Moreover also is IAF verily 666 by virtue of Number; and this is a Mystery of Mysteries; Who knoweth it, he is adept of adepts, and Mighty among Magicians! Now this word SAB AF, being by number Three score and Ten,1 is a name of Ayin, the Eye, and the Devil our Lord, and the Goat of Mendes. He is the Lord of the Sabbath of the Adepts, and is Satan, therefore also the Sun, whose number of Magick is 666, the seal of His servant the BEAST. But again SA is 61, AIN, the Naught of Nuith; BA means go, for HADIT ; and F is the…
1930 · PDF PAGE 85
…ine must be studied in the light of Liber LXV (Equinox XL p. 65). Section H, This récapitulation demands the going forth together of the Adept and his Angel ato do their pleasure on the Earth among the living.” Section J. The Beast 666 having devised the présent method of using this Ritual, having proved it by his own practice to be of infallible puissance when properly performed, and now having written it down for the World, it shall be an ornament for the Adept who adopts it to cry Hail to His name at the end of his work. This shall moreover …
1930 · PDF PAGE 93
…re of animal sympathy with the spiritual spasm. This is to be criticised as incomplète self- control. Silence is nobler. In any case the Adept must be in communion with his Angel, so that his Soûl is suffused with sublimity, whether intelligible or not in ternis of intellect. It is évident that the stress of such spiritual possession must tend to overwhelm the soûl, especially at first. It actually suffers from the excess of its ecstasy, just as extreme love produces vertigo. The soûl sinks and swoons. Such weakness is fatal alike to its enjoym…
1930 · PDF PAGE 95
transcendent Truth of the Beloved to the heart that holds him. The firm répétition of one of these Words ought to enable the Adept to maintain the State of Union for several minutes, even at first. In any case he must rekindle his ardour, esteeming his success rather as an encouragement to more ardent aspiration than as a triumph. He should increase his efforts. Let him beware of the “lust of resuit”, of expecting too much, of losing courage if his first success is followed by a sériés of failures. For success makes success seem so incredible t…