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Number V. — The supplément is the most perfect account of visions extant. They explore the farthest recesses of the magical universe. Number VI. — The Supplément gives seven rituals of the dramatic order, as described in Chapter XIX. Pages 29-32 — A highly important magical ritual for daily use and work. Number VII. — Pages 21-27 — Classical ritual to invoke Mercuryj for daily use and work. Pages 117-157 — Example of a dramatic ritual in modem style. Pages 229-243 — An elaborate magical map of the universe on particular principles. Pages 372-37…
1930 · PDF PAGE 88
… the phantasms are vanished, thou shalt see that Holy and Formless Fire, that Fire which darts and flashes through ail the Depths of the Universe; hear thou the Voice of the P'ire! “A similar Fire flashingly extending through the rushings of Air, or a Fire formless whence cometh the Image of a voice, or even a flashing Light abounding, revolving, whirling forth, crying aloud. Also there is the vision of the fire-flashing Courser of Light, or also a Child, borne aloft on the shoulders of the Celestial Steed, fïery, or clothed with gold, or naked…
1930 · PDF PAGE 32
…that he may formulate Himself as the Finite; the acquisition of the practical secrets alike of initiating and governing His proposed new Universe and the identification of himself with the impersonal idea of Love. Any néophyte of the Order (or, as some say, an y person soever) possesses the right to claim the Grade of Master of the Temple by taking the Oath of the Grade. It is hardly necessary to observe that to do so is the most sublime and awful responsibility which it is possible to assume, and an unworthy person who does so incurs the most …
1930 · PDF PAGE 31
…tly 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 Thought. 6. The Grade of Master of the Temple is described in Liber 418 as above indicated. There are full accounts in …
1930 · PDF PAGE 33
…Himself wholly and truly as He was not previously, he remains in the Abyss, secreting his éléments round his Ego as if isolated from the Universe, and becomes what is called a “Black Brother”. Such a being is gradually disintegrated from lack of nourishment and the slow but certain action of the attraction of the rest of the Universe, despite his now desperate efforts to insulate and protect himself, and to aggrandise himself by predatory practices. He may indeed prosper for a while, but in the end he must perish, especially when with a new Aeo…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
…. Cohérence is the sole quality demanded of us. 6) Magick enables us to receive sensible impressions of worlds other than the “physical” universe (as generally understood by profane science). These worlds hâve their own laws; their inhabitants are often of quasi-human intelligence ; there is a definite set of relations between certain “ideas” of ours, and their expressions, and certain types of phenomena. (Thus, symbols, the Qabalah, etc. enable us to communicate with whom we choose.) 7) “Astral” Beings possess knowledge and power of a differen…
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
…e with that Elément, let the Adept utter the Charge “Hear me, and make”, etc. with strong sense that this unity with that quarter of the Universe confers upon him the fullest freedom and privilège appurtenant thereto. Let the Adept take note of the wording of the Charge. The “Firmament” is the Ruach, the “mental plane” ; it is the realm of Shu, or Zeus, where revolves the Wheel of the Gunas, the Three forms1 of Being. The Aethyr is the I* They correspond to the Sulphur, Mercury, and Sait of Alchemy; to Sattvas, Rajas, and Tamas in the Hindu Sys…
1930 · PDF PAGE 22
numerical value. This is an Encyclopædia of the Holy Qabalah, which is a Map of the Universe, and enables man to attain Perfect Understanding. Equinox VIII, Spécial Supplément. Liber DXXXVI. A complété Treatise on Astrology. This is the only text book on astrology composed on scientific lines by classifying observed facts instead of deducting from a priori théories. Unpublished. Liber DXXXVI. B ATP AXOfcPENOBOOKOEMOM AXIA. An instruction in expansion of the field of the mind. Equinox X, p. 35. Liber DLV. Liber HAD. An instruction for attaining …
1930 · PDF PAGE 17
Liber LXXXIV. Vel Chanokh. A brief abstraction of the Symbolic représentation of the Universe derived by Dr. John Dee through the Scrying of Sir Edward Kelly. Part-published in Equinox VII, p. 229 & VIII, p. 99. Liber XC. Tzaddi vel Hamus Hermeticus. An account of Initiation, and an indication as to those who are suitable for the same. Equinox VI, p. 17. Liber XCV. The Wake-World. A poetical allegory of the relations of the soûl and the Holy Guardian Angel. Konx Om Pax, p. 1. Liber XCVI. Liber Gaias. A Handbook of Geomancy. Equinox II, p. 137. …
1930 · PDF PAGE 67
Section Ff. 1. This is the Lord of the Gods: 2. This is the Lord of the Universe : 3. This is He whom the Winds fear. 4. This is He, Who having made Voice by His commandment is Lord of ail Thingsj King, Ruler and Helper. Hear Me, and make ail Spirits subject unto Me : so that every Spirit of the Fir¬ mament and of the Ether : upon ther.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 G. Spirit. Hear Me :— IEOU “Indwelling Sun of M…
1930 · PDF PAGE 72
…lf accurately to His self-appointed environment. He acclaims His Angel as having laid down the Law of Love as the Magical formula of the Universe, that He may résolve the phénoménal again into its noumenal phase by uniting any two opposites in ecstasic passion. He acclaims His Angel as having appointed that this formula of Love should effect not only the dissolution of the separateness of the Lovers into His own impersonal Godhead, but their co-ordina¬ tion in a “Child” quintessentializea from its parents to constitute a higher order of Being t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 28
…tus Exemptus. See also “Aha!”. His principal business is to tend his “garden” of disciples, and to obtain a perfect understanding of the Universe. He is a Master of Samadhi. 232
1930 · PDF PAGE 80
…ulation 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 necessary as the link between the Adept and his Angel. The Angel is “King”, the One who “can”, the “s…
1930 · PDF PAGE 84
…h is the Sun, and the Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soûl of the Adept. Here is summed the entire process of bringing the conditioned Universe to knowledge of itself through the formula of génération1 ; a soûl implants itself in sense-hoodwinked body and reason-fettered mind, makes them aware of their Inmate, and thus to partake of its own conscious- ness of the Light. “Grâce” has here its proper sense of “Pleasant- I. That is, Yod Hé realizing Themselves, Will and Undcrstanding, m the twias Vau Hé, Mind and Body. 288 —
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…of conscious- ness, and a “Scourge” any form of action. The Charge, as a whole, demands for the Adept the control of every detail of the Universe which His Angel has created as a means of manifesting Himself to Himself. It covers command of the primary projection of the Possible in individuality, in the antithetical artifice which is the device of Mind, and in a balanced triplicity of modes or States of being whose combinations constitute the characteristics of Cosmos. It includes also a standard of structure, a rigidity to make reference possi…
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… failed to do so in 14 years of study. (d) His power to conceive and express in concise terms true solutions of the main problems of the Universe. E.g. The formulae of Nuith and Hadith explain Existence in the terms of MathematicaLLogical Philosophy, so as to satisfy the difficultés of reconciling Dualism, Monism and Nihilism; aM 1. This list by no means exhausts the sériés. In particular, Frater Perdurabo discovered in 1923 that the Hebrew Word for “to will” is also of the value of 93: and its spécial technical meanings throw yet further light…
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…such must perish at the hands of their own error in making their minds, internally defective or externally deflected, the measure of the Universe. — 280 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 47
…uired 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 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 riv…
1930 · PDF PAGE 48
…t red, hath he not broken the Staff of Truth that he leaneth upon? Each and every man therefore that will be a Magician must explore the Universe for himself. This is pre-eminently the case in the matter of the Astral Plane, because the symbols are so sensitive. Nothing is easier than to suggest visions, or to fashion phantasms to suit one’s ideas. It is obviously impossible to commimicaîe with an indépendant intelligence — the one real object of astral research — if one allows one’s imagination to surround one with courtiers of one’s own créat…