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…understand the Qabalah. The Arabian Niglits, translated by either Sir Richard Burton or John Payne. Valuable as a storehouse of oriental magick-lore. Morte d’Arthur, by Sir Thomas Mallory. Valuable as a store¬ house of occidental magick-lore. The Works of François Rabelais. Invaluable for Wisdom. The Kasidah, by Sir Richard Burton. Valuable as a summary of philosophy. The Song Celestial, by Sir Edwin Arnold. “The Bhagavad- Gita” in verse. The Light of Asia, by Sir Edwin Arnold. An account of the attainment of Gotama Buddha. The Rosicrucians, by…
1930 · PDF PAGE 61
…nment of the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel during the Semester of His performance of the Operation of the Sacred Magick of ABRAMELIN THE MAGE. (Prepared An XVII © in np at the Abbey of Thelema in Cephalædium by the Beast 666 in service to FRATER PROGRA- DIOR.) OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of A.-. A.-. Class D for the Grade of Adeptus Minor. — 265 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 85
…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 encourage him in Magick, to recall that indeed there was One who attained by its use to the Knowledge and Conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel, the which forsook him no more, but made Him a Magus, the Word of the Aeon of Horus ! For know this, that the Name IAF in its most secret and mighty sense declareth the Formula of the Magick of the BEAST whereby he wrought many wonders. And because he doth will that the whole world s…
1930 · PDF PAGE 51
…ve under Will”. And Our Lady Nuit is “divided for love s sake, for the chance of union.” These mirror-mirages are therefore not Works of Magick, according to the Law of Thelema. the true Magick of Horus requires the passionate union of opposites. Now the proof that one is in contact with an independent entity dépends on a sensation which ought to be unmistakeable if one is in good health. One ought not to be liable to mistake one’s own sensible impressions for somebody else’s! It is only Man’s incurable vanity that makes the Astral "Strayed Rev…
1930 · PDF PAGE 22
…ction for attaining Hadit. Equinox VII, p. 83. Liber DCXXXII1. De Thaumaturgie. A statement of certain ethical considérations concerning Magick. Unpublished. Liber DCLXVI. The Beast. An account of the Magical Personality who is the Logos of the présent Aeon. Unpublished. Liber DCCLXXVIL (777). Vel Proiegomena Symbolica Ad Systemam Sceptico-IÆysticœ Vice Explicandce, Fundamentum Hieroglyphicorum Sanctissi- morum Scientiæ Summce. A complété Dictionary of the Correspondences of ail magical éléments, reprinted with extensive additions, making it th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 94
…gel in every point, wherefore also that Name is the formula of the per¬ fection to which the Adept must aspire, and also of the power of Magick by virtue whereof he must work. He then that is as yet ignorant of that Name, let him repeat a Word worthy of this particular Ritual. Such are Abrahadabra, the Word of the Aeon, which signifieth 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 …
1930 · PDF PAGE 3
APPENDIX I. The reader will find excellent classical examples of rituals of Magick in The Equinox, Volume I, in the following places — Number I. — The supplément contains considérations for preparing a ritual of self-initiation. This supplément is also a perfect model of what a magical record should be, in respect of the form. 'Number IL — On pages 244-288 are given several rituals of Initiation. Pages 302-317 give an account of certain astral visions. Pages 326-332 give a formula for Rising on the Planes. Number III. — Pages 151-169 give detai…
1930 · PDF PAGE 11
…I of this book. Liber IV. AB A. A general account in elementary terms of magical and mystical powers. Part. 1. Mysticïsm — published. 2. Magick (Elementary Theory) — published. 3. IVIagick in Practice and Theory (this book). 4. The Law. Not yet completed. Liber VI. Liber O Vel Manus et Sagittæ. Instructions given for elementary study of the Qabalah, Assumption of God forms, Vibration of Divine Names, the Rituals of Pentagram and Hexagram, and their uses in protection and invocation, a method of attaining astral visions so-called, and an instruc…
1930 · PDF PAGE 5
… sublimest poesy. The Yi King. (S.B.E. Sériés, Oxford University Press.) The “Classic of Changes”; gives the initiated Chinese System of Magick. The Tao Teh King. (S. B .E. Sériés.) Gives the initiated Chinese System of Mysticism. Fannhanser, by A. Crowley. An allegorical drama concerning the Progress of the Soûl; the Tannhauser story slightly remodelled. The Upanishads. (S.B.E. Sériés.) The Classical Basis of Vedantism, the best-known form of Hindu Mysticism. The Rhagavad-Gita. A dialogue in which Krishna, the Hindu “Christ”, expounds a System…
1930 · PDF PAGE 8
…or its facts and suggestions about Mysticism. A Strange Story, by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. Valuable for its facts and suggestions about Magick. The Blossom and the Fruit, by Mabel Collins. Valuable for its account of the Path. Petronius Arbiter. Valuable for those who hâve wit to under- stand it. The Golden Ass, by Apuleius. Valuable for those who hâve wit to understand it. Le Comte de Gahalis. Valuable for its hints of those things which it mocks. The Râpe of the Lock, by Alexander Pope. Valuable for its account of elementals. Undine, by de l…
1930 · PDF PAGE 63
…erpent Sun! Thou Saviour, save ! ” IB “Thou Ibis, secret solitary Bird, inviolate Wisdom, whose Word is Truth, creating the World by its Magick!” ThIAF “O Sun IAF! O Lion-Serpent Sun, The Beast that whirlest forth, a thunder- bolt, begetter of Life!” (The conception is of Air, glowing, inhabited by a Solar-Phallic Bird, “the Holy Ghost”, of a Mercurial Nature.) Hear me, and make ail Spirits subject unto Me 5 so that every Spirit of the Firmament and of the Ether: upon the Earth and under the Earth, on dry land and in the waterj of Whirling Air,…
1930 · PDF PAGE 6
…h, with commentary. A good elementary introduction to the subject. Konx om Pax. Four invaluable treatises and a préfacé on Mysticism and Magick. The Pistis Sophia. An admirable introduction to the study of Gnosticism. The Oracles of Zoroaster. An invaluable collection of precepts mystical and magical. The Dream of Scipio, by Cicero. Excellent for its Vision and its Philosophy. The Golden Verses of Pythagoras, by Fabre d’Olivet. An interesting study of the exoteric doctrines of this Master. The Divine Pymander, by Hermes Trismegistus. Invaluable…
1930 · PDF PAGE 4
…very advanced character. VOL. III. No. 1. — This volume contains an immense number of articles of primary importance to every student of magick. The rituals of the Book of Lies and the Goetia are also to be studied. The “preliminary invocation” of the Goetia is in particular recommended for daily use and work. Orfheusy by Aleister Crowley, contains a large number of magical invocations in verse. There are also a good many others in other parts of his poetical Works. The following is a complété curriculum of reading officially approved by the A …
1930 · PDF PAGE 72
… asserts his right to enter into conscious communication with His Angel, on the ground that that Angel has Himself taught him the Secret Magick by which he may make the proper link. “Mosheh” is M H, the formation, in Jechidah, Chiah, Neschamah, Ruach, — the Sephi- roth from Kether to Yesod — since 45 is L 1-9 while Sh, 300, is L 1-24, which superadds to these Nine an extra Fifteen numbers. (See in Liber D 276 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 28
…ce of the formula of the Rosy Cross on entering the College of the Holy Ghost. Adeptus (Major). — Obtains a general mastery of practical Magick, though without compréhension. Adeptus (Exemptus). — Complétés in perfection ail these mat- ters. He then either (a) becomes a Brother of the Left Hand Path or, (b) is stripped of ali his attainments and of him- self as weil, even of his Holy Guardian Angel, and becomes a Babe of the Abyss, who, having transcended the Reason, does nothing but grow in the womb of its mother. It then finds itself a Magist…
1930 · PDF PAGE 86
…vil 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 their Son the Sun who is Ra — Hoor — Khuit. So then let the Adept set his sigil upon ail the words he hath writ in the Book of the Works of his WilL i. There is an alternative spelling TzBA — F where the Root, “an Host,>, has the value of 93. The Practicus should revive this Ritual …
1930 · PDF PAGE 29
Magus. — Attains 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…
1930 · PDF PAGE 45
…s — spécial cases of the general proposition. Notable among these are the “Egyptian” plane, which conforms with the ideas and methods of magick once in vogue in the Nile valley; the “Celtic” plane, close akin to 249
1930 · PDF PAGE 47
… and analyse it by evoking its astral form, thus bringing it into knowledge and under control by applying the keys of the Qabalah and of Magick. (b) . One may proceed by invoking the required idea, and giving body to the same by attracting to it the corresponding éléments in Nature. 17) Every Magician possesses an Astral Universe peculiar to himself, just as no man’s expérience of the world is conterminous with that of another. There will be a general agreement on the main points, of course ; and so the Master Therion is able to describe the pr…
1930 · PDF PAGE 31
… he conflict with the work of the Magus who uttered the Word of the Aeon in which He is living. The Magus is pre-eminently the Master of Magick, that is, his will is entirely free from internai diversion or external opposition; His work is to create a new Universe in accordance with His Will. He is the Master of the Law of Change (Anicca). To attain the Grade of Ipsissimus he must accomplish three tasks, destroying the Three Guardians mentioned in Liber 418, the 3rd Aethyr; Madness, and Falsehood, and Glamour, that is, Duality in Act, Word and …