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…is own inability to think clearly beyond his limits, just as a Bushman, confronted by numbers above five, can only call them “many”. The truth told by the Angel, immensely as it extends the horizon of the Adept, is perfectly definite and précisé. It does not deal in ambiguities and abstractions. It possesses form, and con¬ fesses law, in exactly the same way and degree as any other body of truth. It is to the truth of the material and intellectual spheres of man very much what the Mathematics of Philosophy with its “infinité sériés” and “Cantor…
1930 · PDF PAGE 62
…darkness and the Light. 5. Thou art ASAR UN-NEFER (aMyself made Perfect”) : Whom no man hath seen at any time. 6. Thou art IA-BESZ (“the Truth in Matter”). 7. Thou art IA-APOPHRASZ (athe Truth in Motion”). 8. Thou hast distinguished between the Just and the Unjust. 9. Thou didst make the Female and the Male. 10. Thou didst produce the Seeds and the Fruit. 11. Thou didst form Men to love one another, and to hâte one another. Section Aa. 1. I am ANKH - F - N - KHONSU thy Prophet, unto Whom Thou didst commit Thy Mysteries, the Ceremonies of KHEM. …
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
… 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 ail names are human symbols of things. Now Truth is the power to arouse a certain reaction (“assent”) in a man, under certain conditions; (“greenness”, weight, ail other qualities, are also powers). It exists in the object, whether latent or manifest; so experiencing both does and does not alter the facts. This is Solipsism, because we can only be …
1930 · PDF PAGE 48
…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 every man ther…
1930 · PDF PAGE 95
transcendent Truth of the Beloved to the heart that holds him. The firm répétition of one of these Words ought to enable the Adept to maintain the State of Union for several minutes, even at first. In any case he must rekindle his ardour, esteeming his success rather as an encouragement to more ardent aspiration than as a triumph. He should increase his efforts. Let him beware of the “lust of resuit”, of expecting too much, of losing courage if his first success is followed by a sériés of failures. For success makes success seem so incredible t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 25
…Thon hast nor wit nor will to fight — How hope in heart, or worth in work ? No star in siglit ! Thy G ods proved puppets of the priest. “Truth ? All’s relation !” science sighed. In bondaae with thy brother beast, Love tortured thee, as Love’s hope died And Love’s faith rotted. Life no least Dim star descried. Thy cringing carrion cowered and crawled To find itself a chance-cast clod Whose Pain was purposeless; appalled That aimless accident thus trod Its agony, that void skies sprawled On the vain sod ! Ail soûls eternally exist, Each individu…
1930 · PDF PAGE 42
… consider ail beings as parts of ourselves, but it is more convenant to regard them as independent. Maximum Conv emence is our canon of “Truth”. 1 We may thus refer 1 The passages referred to are as follows : , ^ef axiomes géométriques ne sont donc ni des jugements synthétiques a priori ni des faits expérimentaux. Ce sont des conventions... Dès lors, que doit-on penser de cette question : La géométrie Euclidienne est-elle vraie ? Elle n a aucun sens. Autant demander si le système métrique est vrai et les anciennes mesures fausses; si les coordo…
1930 · PDF PAGE 26
…he Earth, an organised body of men and women distinguished among their fellows by the qualities here enumerated. They exist in their own Truth, which is both universal and unique. i. The Name of The Order and those of its three divisions are not disclosed to the profane. Certain swindlers hâve recently stolen the initiais A A.-, in order to profit by its réputation. 230 -
1930 · PDF PAGE 65
…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!” I. “Mass”, in the sense of the word which is used by physicists. The impossibility of defîning it will not deter the intrepid initiate (in view of the fact that the fundamental conception is beyond the normal categories of reason.) — 269 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 63
…ling Force of Breath! Thou Lion-Serpent 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 a…
1930 · PDF PAGE 70
…es of that Angel. Each phrase must be realized with full concentration of force, so as to make Samadhi as perfectly as possible upon the truth proclaimed. Line i He identifies his Angel with the Ain Soph, and the Kether thereof; one formulation of Hadit in the boundless Body of Nuith. Lines 2, 3, 4 He asserts that His Angel has created (for the purpose of self-realisation through projection in conditioned Form) three pairs of opposites: (a) The Fixed and the Volatile; (b) The Unmani- fested and the Manifest; and (c) the IJnmoved and the Moved. …
1930 · PDF PAGE 84
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 7
…e Great Masters in every time and country. He should make a critical examination of themj not so much with the idea of discovering where truth lies, for he cannot do this except by virtue of his own spiritual expérience, but rather to discover the essential harmony in those varied Works. He should be on his guard against partisanship with a favourite author. He should familiarize himself thoroughly with the method of mental equilibrium, endeavouring to contradict any statement soever, although it may be apparently axiomatic. The general object …
1930 · PDF PAGE 79
…tion. 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
1930 · PDF PAGE 77
…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 possible to Exis¬ tence, whether it be a “spell” (idea) or a “scourge” (act) of “God”, that is, of himself. The Adept must accept every “spirit”, every “spell”, every “scourge”, as part of his environment, and make them ail “subject to” himself ; that is, consider them as contributory causes of himself. They…
1930 · PDF PAGE 83
…and that his Knowledge and Conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel destroys ail doubts and delusions, confers ail blessings, teaches ail truth, and containa ail delights. But it is important that the Adept should not rest in mere inexpressible realization of his rapture, but rouse himself to make the relation submit to analysis, to render it in rational terms, and thereby enlighten his mind and heart in a sense as superior to fanatical enthusiasm as Beethoven’s music is to West African war-drums. Section Gg. The adept should hâve realised that …
1930 · PDF PAGE 82
…articular “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 subjective; they …
1930 · PDF PAGE 69
… ” 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 ever flameth! 7. I am He, the Begetter and Manifester unto the Light! 8. I am He, The Grâce of the Worlds! 9. “The Heart Girt with a Serpent” is my name! Section H The 64Charge to the Spirit”. Corne thou forth, and fo…
1930 · PDF PAGE 40
…ne the evidence at their disposai. This paper has been written not only with the object of attracting individual seekers into the way of Truth, but of affirming the propriety of the methods of the A.'. A.*, as the basis for the next great step in the advance of human knowledge. Love is the Law, love under will. O. M. 7 = 4D A.\À.\ Praemonstrator of the Order of the R... C.... Given from the Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum, Cefalù, Sicily, in the Seventeenth Year of the Aeon of Horus, the Sun being in 23° np and the Moon in I4°)f . 244 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 45
… symbols is not pertinent to the discussion. The ideas of X4 and \/— 1 hâve proved useful to the progress of mathematical advance toward Truth 5 it is no odds whether a Fourth Dimension “exists”, or whether \/— 1 ha s “meaning” in the sense that \L\ has, the number of umts in the side of a square of 4 units. The Astral Plane — real or imaginary — is a danger to any- body who takes it without the grain of sait contained in the Wisdom of the above point of view; who violâtes its laws, either wilfully, carelessly, ignorantly, or by presuming that …