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1930 · PDF PAGE 63

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

… A-ThELE-BER-SET A BELAThA ‘ ABEU EBEU Phl-ThETA-SOE aO breathing, flowing Sun!” “O Sun IAF! O Lion-Serpent Sun, The Beast that whirlest forth, a thunder- bolt, begetter of Life!” aThou that flowest! Thou that goest!” aThou Satan-Sun Hadith that goest without Will!” “Thou Air ! Breath ! Spirit ! Thou without bound or bond ! ” “Thou Essence, Air Swift-streaming, Elasticity! ” aThou Wanderer, Father of Ail!” “Thou Wanderer, Spirit of Ail!” “Thou Shilling Force of Breath! Thou Lion-Serpent Sun! Thou Saviour, save ! ” IB “Thou Ibis, secret solitary…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 69

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…. the spiri¬ tual “semen?, the Adept’s secret ideas, drawn irresistibly from their “Heli” 2 by the love of his Angel) leaps up; it leaps forth!3 DIATHARNA “Lo! the out-splashing of the seeds of THORON. Immortaiity! ” Section Gg. The Attainment. 1. I am He! the Bornless Spirit! having sight in the feet: Strong, and the Immortal Fire! 2. I am He! the Truth! 3. I am He! Who hâte that evil should be wrought in the World! 4. I am He, that lighteneth and thundereth! 5. I am He, from whom is the Shower of the Life of Earth! 6. I am He, whose mouth eve…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 31

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…f the Temple is described in Liber 418 as above indicated. There are full accounts in the Magical Diaries of the Beast 666, who was cast forth into the Heaven of Jupiter, and of Omnia in Uno, Unus in Omnibus, who was cast forth into the sphere of the Eléments. The essential Attainment is the perfect annihilation of that personality which limits and oppresses his true self. The Magister Templi is pre-eminently the Master of Mysticism, that is, His Understanding is entirely free from internai contradic¬ tion or external obscurity; His word is to …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 12

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…ughly understand his own limitations. Equinox 1, p. 25 & Appendix VI of this Book. Liber X. Liber Porta Lucis. An account of the sending forth of the Master Therion by the A.*. A.*, and an explanation of His mission. Equinox VI, p. 3. Liber XI. Liber NV. An Instruction for attaining Nuit. Equinox VII, p. 11. Liber XIII. Graduum Montis Abiegni. An account of the task of the Aspirant from Probationer to Adept. Equinox III, p. 3. Liber XV. Ecclesiæ Gnosticœ Catholicœ Canon Missœ. Represents the original and true pre-Christian Christianity. Equinox…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 67

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

… “Lust of my Soûl, lust of mine Angel!” (Vide Supra). “Ho for the Sangraal! Ho for the Cup of Babalon! Ho for mine Angel pouring Himself forth within my Soûl!” “The Eye! Satan, my Lord! The Lust of the Goat! ” “Mine Angel! Mine initiator! Thou one with me — the Sixfold Star! ” — 271 — IOU PUR IAFTh IAEO IOOU ABRASAX SABRIAM OO FF

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1930 · PDF PAGE 66

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…d of rushing Fire: and every Spell and Scourge of God may be Spirit. aMale-Female Spints!” aMale-Female Sires!” aYe that are Gods, going forth, uttering AUMGN. (The Word that goeth from (A) Free Breath. (U) through Willed Breath. (M) and Stopped Breath. (GN) to Continuous Breath, thus symbolizing the whole course of spiritual life. A is the formless Hero; U is the six-fold solar sound of physi- cal life, the triangle of Soûl being entwined with that of Body; M is the silence of “death”; GN is the nasal sound of génération & knowledge. “Identica…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 78

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…ept 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 is attained he may go deeper into the formula by amplifying its correspondences. Thus, he may invoke water in the manner of water, extendi…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 68

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

… 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 utter thy Word! ” EAI “I also am Naught! I Will Thee! I behold Thee! My nothingness!” GAIA “Leap up, thou Earth!” (This is also an agonising appeal to the Earth, the Mother; for at this point of the ceremony the Adept sh…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 79

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…he cranial sutures) and exudes a drop of clear crystalline dew, and that this pearl is his Soûl, a virgin offering to his Angel, pressed forth from his being by the intensity of his Aspiration. With these words the Adept does not withdraw his will within him as in the previous Sections. He thinks of them as a reflection of Truth on the 283

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1930 · PDF PAGE 83

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…nts preserve its memory when they absorb it, and (2) the death of his unconscious elementa themselves. But their death is rather a going forth to renew their life through love. He then, by conscious compréhension of them separatefy and together, becomes the “Angel” of his Angel, as Hermes is the Word of Zeus, whose own voice is Thunder. Thus in this section the adept utters articulately so far as words may, what his Angel is to Himself. He says this, with his Scin-Laeca wholly withdrawn into his physical body, con- straining His Angel to indwel…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 82

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

… with one particular “Lion-Serpent”, continuing conscious thereof until it finds its proper place in Space, when its secret self flowers forth as a truth, which the Adept may then take back to earth with him. This is but a side issue. The main purpose of the Ritual is to establish the relation of the sub- conscious self with the Angel in such a way that the Adept is aware that his Angel is the Unity which expresses the sum of the Eléments of that Self, that his normal consciousness contains alien enemies I. These phenomena are not wholly subjec…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 40

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

In invocation the divine force must be made as manifest and unmistakeable as the efifects of chloroform; in évocation, the spirit called forth must be at least as visible and tangible as the heaviest vapoursj in divination, the answer must be as précisé as a scientific thesis, and as accurate as an audit ; in méditation, the results must read like a spécialistes report of a classical case. By such methods, the A .'. A intends to make occult science as systematic and scientific as chemistry; to rescue it from the ill repute which, thanks both to…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 85

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…tion. 1 Line 9. This line 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…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 29

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…eem fitting. Every active Member of the Order has destroyed ail that He is and ail that He has on Crossing the Abyss; but a star is cast forth in 233

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1930 · PDF PAGE 88

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…ough the rushings of Air, or a Fire formless whence cometh the Image of a voice, or even a flashing Light abounding, revolving, whirling forth, crying aloud. Also there is the vision of the fire-flashing Courser of Light, or also a Child, borne aloft on the shoulders of the Celestial Steed, fïery, or clothed with gold, or naked, or shooting with the bow shafts or light, and standing on the shoulders of the horse, then if thy méditation prolongeth ’tself, thou shalt unité ail these symbols into the Form of a Lion.” This passage — combined with s…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 32

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…Adeptus Exemptus confers authority to govern the two lower Orders of R. C. and G. D. The Adept must préparé and publish a thesis setting forth His knowledge of the Universe, and his proposais for its welfare and progress. He wil.1 thus be known as the leader of a school of thought. (Eliphas Levi’s Clef des Grands Mystères, the Works of Swedenborg, von Eckartshausen, Robert Fludd, Paracelsus, Newton, Bolyai, Hinton, Berkeley, Loyola, etc., etc., are examples of such essays. ) He will hâve attained ail but the suprême summits of médita¬ tion, and…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 47

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

…graphy giving an account of the Five Continents, the Océans and Seas, the most notable mountains and rivers; he could not prétend to put forth the whole knowledge that any one peasant possesses in respect of his district. But, to the peasant, these petty details are precisely the most important items in his daily life. Likewise, the Magician will be grateful to the Master Therion for the Compass that guides him at night, the Map that extends his compréhension of his country, and shows him how best he may travel afield, the advice as to Sandals …

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1930 · PDF PAGE 33

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

… 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 remains in the Abyss, secreting his éléments round his Ego as if isolated from the Universe, and becomes what is called a “Black Brother”. Such a being is gradually disintegrated from l…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 75

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

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…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 94

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 3)

… aThe Great Work accom- plished”; and Aumgn interpreted in Part III of Book 4 1-y and the name of THE BEAST, for that His number showeth forth this Union with the Angel, and His Work is no other than to make ail men partakers of this Mystery of the Mysteries of Magick. So then saying this Word or that, let the Adept wrestle with his Angel and withstand Him, that he may constrain Him to consent to continue in communion until the consciousness becomes capable of clear compréhension, and of accurate transmission2 of the 1. The essence of this matt…

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