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…ssess a vehicle wherein he may communicate with mankind. The quality and position of this star, and its functions, are determined by the nature of the incarnations transcended by him. 4. The Grade of Ipsissimus is not to be described îully; but its opening is indicated in Liber I vel MagL There is also an account in a certain secret document to be published when propriety permits. Here it is only said this : The Ipsissimus is wholly free from ail limitations soever, existing in the nature of ail things without discriminations of quantity or qua…
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the correct order of events, as they are arranged in Nature ; and in no case is it safe for a man to neglect to master any single detail, however dreary and distasteful it may seem. It often does so, indeedj that only insists on the necessity of dealing with it. The dislike and contempt for it bear witness to a weakness and incom- pleteness in the nature which disowns it ; that particular gap in one’s defences may admit the enemy at the very turning-point of some battle. Worse, one were shamed for ever if one?s inferior should happen to ask for…
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…mory 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 itself in one way or another. This involves the perfection of that part, its freedom from préjudice and the limita¬ tions of rationality so-called. For instance: one…
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… 4. Section G. surface of the dew, where his Soûl hides trembling. He takes them to be the first formulation in his consciousness of the nature of His Holy Guardian Angel. The “Gods” include ail the conscious éléments of his nature. The “Universe” includes ail possible phenomena of which he can be aware. The “Winds” are his thoughts, which hâve prevented him from attaining to his Angel. His Angel has made “Voice”, the magical weapon which produces “Words”, and these words hâve been the wisdom by which He hath created ail things. The “Voice” is …
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…us, patient, and sympathetic. 16) There are two opposite methods of exploring the Astral Plane. (a) . One may take some actual object in Nature, 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 contermin…
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…or human action, the self-evident Code of Righteousness, the identification of Fate with Freewill, and the end of the Civil War in Man’s nature by appointing the Canon of Truth, the conformity of things with themselves, to détermine his every act. “Do what thou wilt” is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its levelj man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself. (e) His power to interpret the Spirit of the New Aeon, the relapse into ruthless savagery of the most civilised races, at a…
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…impressions on our senses. And our wit and power to make a bell “to order” imply a sériés of corres- pondences between various orders of nature precisely analogous to Magick, when we obtain a Vision of Beauty by the use of certain colours, forms, sounds, etc.) n) “Astral” Beings may thus be defined in the same way as “material objects”; they are the Unknown Causes of various observed effects. They may be of any order of existence. We give a physical form and name to a bell but not to its tone, though in each case we know nothing but our own imp…
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…nimal instinct ; they will tear Pentheus, the merely human king who présumés to repress them, into mere shreds of flesh; his own mother, Nature, the first to claw at his windpipe! None but Bacchus, the Holy Guardian Angel, hath grâce to be God to this riot of maniacs; he alone can transform the disorderly rabble into a pageant of harmonious movements, tune their hyaena howls to the symphony of a paean, and their reasonless rage to self-controlled rapture. It is this Angel whose nature is doubly double, that He may partake of every sacrament. He…
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…s 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 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 …
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…ulsion, with no possibility of reinstatement on any terms soever. But ail members must of necessity work in accordance with the facts of Nature, just as an architect must allow for the Law of Gravitation, or a sailor reckon with currents. So must ail Members of the A.:. A.:, work by the Magical Formula of the Aeon. They must accept the Book of the Law as the Word and the Letter of Truth, and the sole Rule of Life.9 They must acknow- ledge the Authority of the Beast 666 and of the Scarlet Woman as 1. This book is published in the Equinox Vol. II…
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…Holy Guardian Angel. Konx Om Pax, p. 1. Liber XCVI. Liber Gaias. A Handbook of Geomancy. Equinox II, p. 137. Liber CVL A Treatise on the Nature of Deathy and the proper attitude to be taken towards it. Published in “The International”, New York, 1917. Liber 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. Unpublishe…
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…e Fathers, male-female, desire Thee! ” (The conception is of Earth, glowing, inhabited by a Solar-Phallic Hippopotamus * 1 of a Venereal nature.) Hear IVfe. and make ail Spints subject unto ]Me: so that every Spirit of the Firmament, and of the Ether: upon The Earth and under the Earth: on dry land and in the Water: of Whirling Air, and 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) throug…
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…- alted, Most High!” The Bornless One. (Vide supra). (The conception is of Fire, glowing, inhabited by a Solar-Phallic Lion of a Uranian nature.) Hear Me, and make ail Spirits subject unto Me: so that every Spirit of the Firmament and of the Ether: upon the Earth and under the Earth: on dry Land and in the Water: of Whirling Air, and of rushing Fire, and every Spell and Scourge of God may be obedient unto Me. SOTOU MUDORIO PhALARThAO OOO AEPE Section D. Water. Hear Me : — RU-ABRA-IAF 1 “Thou the Wheel, thou the Womb, that containeth the Father …
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… Mighty and Bornless One! (Vide Supra) (The conception is of Water, glowing, inhabited by a Solar-Phallic Dragon-Serpent, of a Neptunian nature.) Hear Me: and make ail Spirits subject unto Me: so that every Spirit of the Firmament and of the Ether: upon the Earth and under the Earth: on dry Land and in the Water: of Whirling Air, and of rushing Fire: and every Spell and Scourge of God may be obedient unto Me. Section E. Earth. I invoke Thee: — MA BARRAIO IOEL KOThA “O Mother ! O Truth ! ” “Thou Mass!”1 “Hail, Thou that art!” “Thou hollow one!” …
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…hunder- 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, and of rushing Fire, and every Spell and Scourge of God may be obedient unto Me. I. Il he letter F is used to represent the Hebrew Vau and the Greek Digamma; its Sound lies between those of the English long o and long…
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APPENDÏX III Notes on the nature of the “Astral Plane” \ i) What are “Astral” and “Spiritual” Beings? Man is one: it is a case of any consciousness assuming a sensible form. Microcosms and elementals. Maybe an elemental (e.g. a dog) has a cosmic conception in which he is a microcosm and man incomplète. No means of deciding same, as in case of kinds of space. 1 2 Similarly, our gross matter may appear unreal to Beings clad in fine matter. Thus, science thinks vulgar perceptions “error”. We cannot perceive at ail except within our gamut; as, conc…
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… 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 occur, especially after repeated success, that the Adept is not flung back into his mortality by the explosion of the Star-spate, but identified with one particular “Lion-Serpent”, continuing conscious thereof until it finds its proper place in Sp…
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The Hierophant to friends, Nine b y nature, Naught by attainment, Five by fonction. In speech swift, subtle and secret j in thought créative, unbiassed, unboundedj in act gentle, patient and persistent. Hermes to hear, Dionysus to touch, Pan to behold. A Virgin, a Babe, and a Beast! A Liar, an Idiot, and a Master of Men! A kiss, a guffaw, and a bellow; he that hath ears to hear, let him hear! Take ten that be one, and one that is one in three, to conceal them in six! Thy wand to al] Cups, and thy Disk to ail Swords, but betray not thine Egg! Mo…
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…al character differentiates them from physical laws in the narrower sense; or who abdicates his autonomy, on the ground that the subtler nature of astral phenomena guarantees their autho- rity and integrity. 14) The variety of the general character of the “planes” of being is indefinitely large. But there are several main types of symbolism corresponding to the forms of plastic présentation established by the minds of Mankind. Each such “plane” has its spécial appearances, inhabitants, and laws — spécial cases of the general proposition. Notabl…
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… The World is done: When in the darkness Chaos rolls again In the excited brain: Then, O then call not to thy view that visible Image of Nature; fatal is her name! It fitteth not thy Body to behold That living light of Hell, The unluminous, dead flame, Until that body from the crucible Hath passed, pure gold! For, from the confines of material space, The twilight-moving place, The gates of matter, and the dark threshold, Before the faces of the Things that dwell In the Abodes of Night, Spring into sight Démons, dog-faced, that show no mortal si…