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Page 1 of 11930 · PDF PAGE 89
…The Fire that darts and flashes, writhes and creeps Snake-wise in royal robe Wound round that vanished glory of the globe, Unto that sky beyond the starry deeps, Beyond the Toils of Time, — then formulate In thine own mind, luminous, concentrate, The Lion of the Light, a child that stands On the vast shoulders of the Steed of God: Or winged, or shooting flying shafts, or shod With the flame-sandals. Then, lift up thine hands! Centre thee in thine heart one scarlet thought Limpid with brilliance of the Light above! Draw into naught Ail life, dea…
1930 · PDF PAGE 29
…ns to wisdom, déclarés his law (See Liber I, vel Magi) and is a Master of ail Magick in its greatest and highest sense. Ipsissimus. — Is beyond ail this and beyond ail compréhension of those of lower degrees. But of these last three Grades see some further account in The Temple of Solomon the King, Equinox I to X and elsewhere. It should be stated that these Grades are not necessarily attained fully, and in strict consecution, or manifested wholly on ail planes. The subject is very difficulté and entirely beyond the limits of this small treatis…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
…s that its changes are due to the impact of an external force. Newton’s First Law makes this a matter of définition. “What is truth ? ”, beyond this, inquires into the nature of this power. It is inhérent in ail things, since ail possible propositions, or their contra- dictories, can be affirmed as true. Its condition is identity of form (or Structure) of the Monads involved. It requires a quality of mind beyond the <£normal” to appreciate 0°=X, etc., directly, just as H. H. Joachim’s reasoning demands a point-of-view beyond that of the Bushman…
1930 · PDF PAGE 97
…erily, He led me to the Abyss ; He bade me fling away ail that I had and ail that I was; and He forsook me in that Hour. But when I came beyond the Abyss, to be reborn within the womb of BABALON, then came he unto me abiding in my virgin heart, its Lord and Lover! Also He made me a Magus, speaking through His Law, the Word of the new Aeon, the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child. 2 Thus he fulfilled my will to bring full freedom to the race of Men. Yea, he wrought also in me a Work of Wonder beyond this, but in this matter I am sworn to ho…
1930 · PDF PAGE 30
…: He has no will in any direction, and no Consciousness of any kind involving duality, for in Him ail is accomplished; as it is written “beyond the Word and the Fool, yea, beyond the Word and the Fool”. 5. The Grade of Magus is described in Liber I vel Magi, and there are accounts of its character in Liber 418 in the Higher Aethyrs. There is also a full and précisé description of the attainment of this Grade in the Magical Record of the Beast 666. The essential characteristic of the Grade is that its possessor utters a Creative Magical Word, wh…
1930 · PDF PAGE 23
…nd Hathayoga. Equinox IX, p. 17. Liber DCCCXIII. Vel ARARITA. An account of the Hexagram and the method of reducing it to the Unity, and Beyond. Unpublished. Liber DCCCXXXI. Liber IODy formerly called VESTA. An instruction giving three methods of reducing the manifold consciousness to the Unity. Adapted to facilitate the task of the Attainment of Raja-Yoga and of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. Equinox VII, p. 101. Liber DCCCXXXV1L The Law of Liberty. This is a further explanation of the Book of the Law in reference t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 65
…hysicists. The impossibility of defîning it will not deter the intrepid initiate (in view of the fact that the fundamental conception is beyond the normal categories of reason.) — 269 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 68
AD-ON-A-I1 EDE EDU “My Lord! My secret self beyond self, Hadith, Ail Father! Hail, ON, thou Sun, thou Life of Man, thou Fivefold Sword of Flame! Thou Goat exalted upon Earth in Lust, thou Snake ex- tended upon Earth in Life! Spirit most hoiy! Seed most Wise! Inno¬ cent Babe. Inviolate Maid! Begetter of Being! Soûl of ail Soûls! Word of ail Words, Corne forth, most hidden Light!” “Devour thou me!” “Thou dost devour Me!” ANGELOS TON ThEON “Thou Angel of the Gods!” ANLALA “Arise thou in Me, free flowing, Thou who art Naught, who art Naught, and ut…
1930 · PDF PAGE 60
…to penetrate to a sanctuary of discarnate Beings such as are able to instruct and fortify him, also to prove their identity by testimony beyond rebuttal. Ail explana- tions other than these are of value only as extending and equi- Jibrating Knowledge, or possibly as supplying Energy to such Magicians as may hâve found their way to the Sources of Strength. In ail cases, naught is worth an obol save as it serve to help the One Great Work. He who would reach Intelligences of the type under discussion may expect extreme difficulty. The paths are gu…
1930 · PDF PAGE 74
…hat con- cealeth the Lion and the Serpent that His Image may appear adorably upon the Earth for ever. Let then the Adept extend his Will beyond the Circle in this imagined Shape and let it radiate with the Light proper to the Elément invoked, and let each Word issue along the Shaft with passionate impulse, as if its voice gave command thereto that it should thrust itself leapingly fcrward. Let also each Word accumulate authority, so that the Head of the Shaft may plunge twice as far for the Second Word as for the First, and Four Times for 1. Tk…
1930 · PDF PAGE 57
… meaning “thou shalt know LA”; and “he shall discover the Key of it ail”, id est, the Key AL. (c) His power to combine subséquent events beyond the control of the scribe or his associâtes, so that they confirmed statements in the Book. Or, per contra, to predict such events. E.g. The first Scarlet Woman proved unworthy, and suffered the exact penalties predicted. Again, aone cometh after thee; he shall discover the key.” This one was to be the “child” of the scribe, “and that strangely”. Nine months after The Beast 666 had gotten a Magical “chi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…be sure of the existence of AIWAZ as a being independent of body, conscious and individual, with a mind mightier than man’s, and a power beyond man’s set in motion by will. In a word, the Book of the Law proves the prime postulate of Religion. The Magician may therefore be confident that Spiritual Beings exist, and seek the Knowledge and Conversation of His own Holy Guardian Angel with the same ardour as that of Frater Perdurabo when Fie abandoned. ail r love, wealth, rank, famé, to seek Him. Nay, this he must do or condemn himself to be — 262 …
1930 · PDF PAGE 50
…ts, as implied above, will not serve to detect personation by self-suggested phantasms. Unless one’s aura be a welter of muddled symbols beyond récognition, the more auto- hypnotic the vision is, the more smoothly it satisfies the seer’s standards. There is nothing to puzzle him or oppose him; so he spins out his story with careless contempt of criticism. He can always prove himself right; the Qabalah can always be stretched; and Red being so nearly Orange, which is really a shade of Yellow, and Yellow a component of Green which merges into Blu…
1930 · PDF PAGE 96
…posed to be the Voice was only the clamour of his own confusions. The “infinity” nonsense was born of his own inability to think clearly beyond his limits, just as a Bushman, confronted by numbers above five, can only call them “many”. The truth told by the Angel, immensely as it extends the horizon of the Adept, is perfectly definite and précisé. It does not deal in ambiguities and abstractions. It possesses form, and con¬ fesses law, in exactly the same way and degree as any other body of truth. It is to the truth of the material and intellec…
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
…ere scientific instruments of précision, as they are. In the Qabalah, the candidate must discover for himself, and prove to the examiner beyond ail doubt, the properties of a number never previously examined by any student. annihilation of this Ego. One might therefore be an Adeptus Minor or even a Magister Templi, in essence, though refused official récognition by the A A as a Zelator owing to (say) a nervous defect which prevented him from acquiring a Posture which was “steady and easy1” as required by the Task of that grade. — 243
1930 · PDF PAGE 94
… As Zoroaster says: “Extend the void mind of thy soûl to that Intelligible that thou mayst learn the Intelligible, because it subsisteth beyond Mind. Fhou wilt not understand It as when understanding some common thing.” 298 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 56
…overed the “Lest Word” of one of his own Orders; it was 93 also. The Word of His most holy Order proved equally to count up not entirely beyond possibility. This theory is telepathy. One may postulate that the solution of his problem existed in the subconscious minci of the Master Therion or in that of His seer, and that this solution was telepathi- cally impressed upon the consciousness of the Assyrian so forcibly as to impel him to communicate it to the Master Therion’s colîeague on The International. Apart from the general improbability of t…