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…rlier, had a name whose value was 418. The scribe had calculated 418 as the clusion of an article callecl “The Revival of Magick” by the Master Therion. The last sentence reads: “Herein is Wisdom; let him that hath understanding count the number of the Beast; for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred and three score and six. TO ME! A 0HPION, the Great Wild Beast, has the value, according to the Greek System, of 666. It is, of course, the title of the Master Therion. The Master H herion was, about this time, in communication w…
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…h it, lest 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,…
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career on earth is his kingdom, that even the Master Therion is no more than a fellow man in another valley, and that he must explore and exploit his own inheritance with his own eyes and hands. The Magician must not accept the Master Therion’s account of the Astral Plane, His Qabalistic discoveries, His instructions in Magick. They may be correct in the main for most men; yet they cannot be wholly true for any save Him, even as no two artists can make identical pictures of the same subject. More, even in fundamentals, though these things be Tr…
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…tia so-called, with a complété explanation of the barbarous names of évocation used therein, and the secret rubric of the ritual, by the Master Therion. This is the most potent invocation extant, and was used by the Master Himself in his attainment. See p. 265 of this book. Liber CD. Liber TAU Vel Kabbalæ Trium Literarum sub figura CD. A graphie interprétation of the Tarot on the plane of initiation. Equinox VII, p. 75. Liber CCCCXII. A Vel Armorum. An instruction for the préparation of the Elemental Instru¬ ments. Equinox IV, p. 15. Liber CCCC…
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…Law, which is the foundation of the whole work. Text in Equinox x, p. 9. Short commentary in Equinox VII, p. 378. Full commentary by the Master Therion through whom it was given to the world, will be published shortly. Liber CCXVI. The Yi King. A new translation, with a commentary by the Master Therion. Unpublished. Liber CCXXXI. Liber Arcanorum twv ATU toü TAHUTI quas vidit ASAR in AMENNTI sub figura CCXXXI. Liber Carcerorum tov QLIPHOTH cum suis Geniis. Adduntur Sigilla et Nomina Eorum. Sun four times daily, to méditation, and of 223 —
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… particular plane, not the intellectual. Equinox VI, p. 23. Liber CLVII. The Tao T eh King. A new translation, with a commentary, by the Master Therion. Unpublished. Liber CLXV. A Master of the Temple, being an account of the attainment of Frater Unus In Omnibus. The record of a man who actually attained by the System taught by the A . *. A . *. Part-published in Equinox III. I., p. 127. Liber CLXXV. A star te vel Liber Berylli. An instruction in attainment by the method of dévotion, or Bhakta-Yogi. Equinox VII, p. 37. Liber CLXXXV. Liber Colle…
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…périence 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 principal properties of these “planes”, and their laws, just as he might Write a geography 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 impo…
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it is ever possible to manifest in any way whatever upon this plane. Or so it is said by the Masters of the Temple. Equinox VII, p. 5. Liber IL The Message of the Master Therion. Explains the Essence of the new law in a very simple manner. Equinox XI (Vol. III, No. 1), p. 39. Liber III. Liber Jugorum An instruction for the control of speech, action and thought. Equinox IV, p. 9 & Appendix VI 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 T…
1930 · PDF PAGE 55
…conceal a cohérent System of numbers and letters in the text of a rapidly-written document, containing ridelles and ciphers opening to a Master-Key unknown to the scribe, yet linked with his own System ; this Key and its subordi - nates being moreover a comment on the text. as the communication from Amalantrah. The letter ends as fallows: “Please inform your readers that I, Samuel bar Aiwaz bie Yackou de Sherabad, hâve counted the number of the Beast, and it is the number of a man. î 1 1 i n /p 1 r • , , , , N O I R Th (Read from nght to left) …
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…Philosophus. — Is expected to complété his moral training. He is tested in Dévotion to the Order. Dominus Liminis. — Is expected to show mastery of Pratyahara and Dharana. Adeptus (without). — Is expected to perform the Great Work and to attain the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. Adeptus (within). — Is admitted to the practice 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). — Comp…
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…ually, wreathing His Wîll in clinging beauty, imperishably green. The Tiger, the symbol of the brutal passions of man, gambols about its master’s heelsj and He bestrides the Ass of Priapus; he makes his sexual force carry him whither He wills to go. Let the Magician therefore adventure himself upon the Astral Plane with the declared design 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 …
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…ence during his human life as to the fact of his attainment, even to the other members of the Order. The Ipsissimus is pre-eminently the Master of ail modes of existence ; that is, his being is entirely free from internai or external necessity. His work is to destroy ail tendencies to construct or to cancel such necessities. He is the Master of the Law of Unsubstan- tiality (Anatta). The Ipsissimus has no relation as such with any Being : He has no will in any direction, and no Consciousness of any kind involving duality, for in Him ail is acco…
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…and 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 XI (vol. iii…
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…eyond 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 this hypothesis, it is strange that if “Amalantrah” were really the subconscious mind of the seer, he should hâve given a wrong orthography…
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…ublished. It is the active form of Liber CCCLXI. Liber XXL The Classic of Purity, by Ko Hsuen. A new translation from the Chinese by the Master Therion. Unpublished. Liber XXV. The Ritual of the Star Ruby. An improved form of the lesser ritual of the Pentagram, Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies, pp. 34 & 35. Also Appendix VI of this book. Liber XXVII. Liber T rigrammaton> being a book of Trigrams of the Muta¬ tions of the T ao with the Y in and the Yang. An account of the cosmic process: corresponding to the stanzas of Dzyan in another System. …
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… CXI (Aleph). The B00k of Wisdom or Folly. An extended and elaborate commentary on the Book of the Law, in the form of a letter from the Master Therion to his magical son. Contains some of the deepest secrets of initiation, with a clear solution of many cosmic and ethical problems. Unpublished. Liber CL. De Lege Libellum. 221
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…ry by Frater O. M. The Goetia. The most intelligible of the mediaeval rituals of Evocation. Contains also the favorite Invocation of the Master Therion. The Shiva Sanhita. A famous Hindu treatise on certain physical practices. The Hathayoga Pradipika. Similar to The Shiva Sanhita. Erdmann’s “History of Philosophy”. A compendious account of philosophy from the earliest times. Most valuable as a general éducation of the mind. — 209 —
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…le of Solomon the Kingy and is the Diary of a Magus. This book contains a detailed account of ail the experiencees passed through by the Master Therion in his attainment of this grade of Initiation, the highest possible to any manifested Man. Unpublished. Liber LXXVIIL A complété treatise on the Tarot giving the correct designs of the cards with their attributions and symbolic meanings on ail the planes. Part-published in Equinox VII, p. 143. Liber LXXXI. The Butterfly Net. An account of a magical operation, particularly concerning the planet L…
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…ts 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 as bearing on the Gnostic Philosophy. The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians, reprint of Franz Hartmann. An invaluable compendium. Scrutinium Chymicum, by Michael Maier. One of the best treatises on alchemy. Science and the Infinité, by Sidney Klein. One of the best essays written in recent years. Two Essays on the Worship of Priapus, by Richard P…
1930 · PDF PAGE 82
…ol, 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 persuasion. But it may oc…