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Line 2. Lines 3. Lme 4. Line 5. Lme 6. Line 7. Lme 8. “Truth” is the necessary relation of any two things; therefore, although it implies duality, it enables us to conceive of two things as being one thing such that it demands to be defined by com- plementals. Thus, an hyperbola is a simple idea, but its construction exacts two curves. The Angel, as the adept knows him, is a being Tiphereth, which obscures Kether. The Adept is not officially aware of the higher Sephiroth. He cannot perceive, like the Xpsissimus, that ail things soever are equal…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
…se” is presumably of a different kind from ours, in some respects. (Our idea “bone” is not the same as a dog’s; a short-sighted man sees things differently to one of normal vision.) It is more convenient to assume the objective existence of an “Angel” who gives us new knowledge than to allégé that our invocation has awakened a supernormal power in ourselves. Such incidents as “Calderazzo” 1 and “Jacob” 2 make this more cogent. rebuttal. But most of these subtleties miss the point. Truth must be defined. It is a name, being a noun (nomen); and a…
1930 · PDF PAGE 77
…smos. It includes also a standard of structure, a rigidity to make reference possible. Upon these foundations of condition which are not things in themselves, but the canon to which things conform, is builded the Temple of Being, whose materials are themselves perfectly mysterious, inscrutable as the Soûl, and like the Soûl imagining themselves by symbols which we may feel, perceive, and adapt to our use without ever knowing the whole Truth about them. The Adept sums up ail these items by claiming authority over every form of expression possibl…
1930 · PDF PAGE 76
…henomena which inform those perceived projections, and détermine their particular char- acter. “Dry land” is the place of dead “material things”, dry (i.e. unknowable) because unable to act on our minds. “Water” is the vehicle whereby we feel such things; “air” their menstruum wherein these feelings are mentally apprehended. It is called “whirling” because of the instability of thought, and the fatuity of reason, on which we are yet dépendent for what we call “life”, “Rush- ing Fire” is the world in which wandering thought burns up to swift-dar…
1930 · PDF PAGE 32
…pose the self or constitute the Cosmos, a résolution of ail complexities into their éléments, and these thereby cease to manifest, since things are only knowable in respect of their relation to, and reaction on, other things. 8. The Grade of 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 …
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
antinomies in ail spheresj and the Original Perfection with the Manifest Imperfection of Things. Again “Do what thou wilt”, the most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent licence, is seen on analysis to be indeed “the whole of the Law”, the sole and sufficient warrant for 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. “…
1930 · PDF PAGE 26
…heme. One star can summon tliem to wake To self ; star-sonîs serene that gleàm On lifefs calm lake. That shall end never that began. Ail things endure hecause they are. Do what thon wilt, for every man And every woman is a star. Pan is not dead; he liveth, Pan ! Break down the bar ! To man I corne, the number of A man my number, Lion of Light; I am The Beast whose Law is Love. Love under will, bis royal right — Behold within, and not above, One star in sight ! ONE STAR IN SIGHT. A glimpse of the structure and System of the Great White Brotherho…
1930 · PDF PAGE 8
… 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 la Motte Fouqué. Valuable as an account of elementals. Black Magie, by Marjorie Bowen. An intensely interesting story of sorcery. La Peau de Chagrin, by Honoré de Balzac. A magnificent magical allegory. Number Nineteen, by Edgar Jepson. An excellent taie of modem magic. Dracula, by Bram Stoker.…
1930 · PDF PAGE 80
…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 necessary as the link between the Adept and his Angel. The Angel is “King”, the One who “can”, the “source of author- ity and the fount of honour”; also the King (or King’s Son) who delivers the Enchanted Princess, and makes her his Queen. He is “Ruler”, the “unconscious Will”; to be thwarted no more by the ignorant and capricious false will of the cons¬ cious man. And He is “Helper”, th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
…wo Per¬ sonal appeals to the Angel, as if to claim privilège to partake of this Eucharist which createth, sus- taineth and redeemeth ail things. He now asserts that he is himself the “Angel” or messenger of his Angel 5 that is, that he is a mind and body whose office is to receive and transmit the Word of his Angel. He hails his Angel not only as “un-nefer” the Perfection of “Asar” himself as a man, but as Ptah-Apophrasz- Ra, the identity (Hadit) wrapped in the Dragon (Nuith) and thereby manifested as a Sun (Ra- Hoor-Khuit). The “Egg” (or Heart…
1930 · PDF PAGE 69
…riveth from the word ‘helan’, to hele or conceal, in the tongue of the Anglo-Saxons. That is, it is the concealed place, which since ail things are in thine own self, is the unconscious. Liber CXI (Aleph) cap A ç 3. But compare the use of the saine word in section C. 4. See explanation in Point II. — 2 73 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 88
…or, 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 sign Of Truth, but desecrate the Light Divine, Seducing from the sacred mysteries. But, after ail these Folk of Fear are driven Before the avenging levin That rives the opening skies, Behold that Formless and that Holy Flame — 292 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 46
…some “plane” or other. But there are “planes” proper to every clairvoyant who explores the Astral Light without préjudice; in such case, things assume the form of his own mind, and his perception will be clear in proportion to his personal purity. On the higher planes, the diversity of form, due to grossness, tends to disappear. Thus, the Astral Vision of “Isis” is utterly unlike that of “Kali”. The one is of Motherhood and Wisdom, ineffably candid, clear, and loving; the other of Murder and madness, blood-intoxicated, lust-befogged, and cruel.…
1930 · PDF PAGE 30
… 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 quality between them. He has identified Being and not-Being and Becoming, action and non-action and tendency to action, with ail other such triplicities, not distinguishing between them in respect of any conditions, or between any one thing and any other thing as to whether it is with or without conditions. He is sworn to accept this Grade in the presence of a witn…
1930 · PDF PAGE 44
…anything is in itself. Ail we need is to know how to cast a bell that will please our ears, or how to evoke a “spirit” that will tell us things that are hidden from our intellectual faculties. 12) (a) Every object soever may be considered as possessed of an “Astral shape”, sensible to our subtle perceptions. This “astral shape” is to its material basis as our human character is to our physical appearance. We may imagine this astral shape: e.g. we may “see” a jar of opium as a soft seductive woman with a cruel smile, just as we see in the face o…
1930 · PDF PAGE 96
It is wise to keep silence about those things “unlawful to utter” which one may hâve heard “in the seventh heaven”. This may not apply to the sixth. The Adept must keep himself in hand, however tempted to make a new heaven and a new earth in the next few davs by trumpeting his triumphs. He must give time a chance to redress his balance, sore shaken by the impact of the Infinité. As he becomes adjusted to intercourse with his Angel, he will find his passionate ecstasy develop a quality of peace and intelligi- bility which adds power, while it in…
1930 · PDF PAGE 48
… 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 Truth for ail Mankind, as we carelessly say, any one particular Magician may be the one man for whom they are false. May not the flag that seems red to ten thousand seem green to some one other? Then, every man and every woman being a Star, that which is green to him is verily green 3 if he consent to the crowd and call it red, hath he not broken the Staff of Truth that he leaneth upon? Each and ever…