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in the book it is defined, and accept Their Will1 as concentrating the Will of our Whole Order. They must accept the Crowned and Conquering Child as the Lord of the Aeon, and exert them- selves to establish His reign upon Earth. They must acknowledge that “The Word of the Law is 0EAHMA and that “Love is the Law, love under Will.” Each member must make it his main work to discover for himself his own true will, and to do it, and do nothing else. 2 He must accept those orders in the Book of the Law that apply to himself as being necessarily in ac…
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Section F. Section Ff. his will with majestic and irrésistible motion, mindful of its impulse gravitation, yet with a suave and tranquil appearance of weakness. Again, he may apply the formula of water to its peculiar pur- pose as it surges back into his sphere, using it with conscious skill for the cleansing and calming of the réceptive and emotional éléments in his character, and for the solution or sweeping away of those tangled weeds of préjudice which hamper him from freedom to act as he will. Similar applica¬ tions of the remaining invoca…
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…ng lime being fooled and flattered by the As Irais thaï lie has himself modified or manufacturée!. Their natural subservienee to himself will please him, poor ape! They wiîi prétend to show him marvellous my s Sériés, pageants of heauty and wonder unspeakably splendid; he will incline to accept them as true, for the very reason that they are images of himself idealized by imagination. But his real progress will stop dead. Tliese phantasms will prevent him from coming into contact with indepen- dent intelligences, from whom alone he can learn an…
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…te, the natural Osiris, to identity with himself. But in the new Aeon the Hierophant is Horus (Liber CCXX, I 49) therefore the Candidate will be Horus too. What then is the formula of the initiation of Horus ? It will no longer be that of the Man, through Death. It will be the natural growth of the Child. His expériences will no more be regarded as catastrophic. Their hieroglyph is the Pool: the innocent and impotent Harpocrates Babe becomes the Horus Adult by obtaining the Wand. “Der reine Thor” seizes the Sacred Lance. Bacchus becomes Pan. Th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 90
…sing the full import of this controlled rapture, ought not to allow his mind to loosen its grip on the astral imagery of the Star-spate, Will-Symbol, or Soul-symbol, or even to forget its duty to the body and the sensible surroundings. Nor should he omit to keep his Body of Light in close touch with the phenonema of its own plane, so that its privy consciousness may fulfil its proper functions of protecting his scattered ideas from obsession. But he should hâve acquired, by previous practice, the faculty of. detaching these éléments of his cons…
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…f 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 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 o…
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… operation be performed properly, his Angel shall hâve accepted the offering of Dew, and seized with fervour upon the extended symbol of Will towards Himself. This then shall He shake vehementlv with vibrations of love reverberating with the Words of the Section. Even in the physical ears of the adept there shall resound an écho thereof, yet he shall not be able to describe it. It shall seem both louder than thunder, and softer than the whisper of the night-wind. It shall at once be inarticulate, and mean more than he hath ever heard. Now let h…
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…de in any one Aeon, so far as the Order is concerned. A man can make Personal progress équivalent to that of a “Word of an Aeon”; but he will identify himself with the current word, and exert his will to establish 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 Cha…
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…l 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 as extending and equi- Jibrating Knowledge, or possibly as supplying Energy to such Magicians as may…
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…n 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 rivers; he could not prétend to put forth the whole knowledge that any one peasant possesses in respect of his distric…
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…ime 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 informs and fortifies his mental and moral qualifies instead of obscuring and upsetting them. He will by now hâve become able to converse with his Angel, impossible as it once seemedj for he now knows that the storm of Sound which he supposed to be the Voice was only the clamour of his own confusions. T…
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… fulfilment of every action by its complément, so that whatever he does leaves him without temptation to wander from the way of his True Will. Secondly, he must keep silence, while he nails his body to the tree of his Creative will, in the shape of that Will, leaving his head and arms to form the Symbol of Light, as if to make oath that his every thought, Word and deed should express the Light derived from the God with which he has identified his life, his love and his liberty — symbolised by his heart, his phallus, and his legs. It 238 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 80
… 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”, the author of the infallible impulse that sends the Soûl sweeping along the skies on its proper path with such impetus that the attraction of alien. orbs is no longer sufficient to swerve it. The “Hear me” clause is now uttered by the normal human consciousness, withdrawn to the physical bodyj th…
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…Names” of the Ri tuai. Now let him not only fill his whole being to the uttermost with the force of the Names; but let him formulate his Will, understood thoroughly as the dynamic aspect of his Creative Self, in an appearance symbolically apt, I say not in the form of a Ray of Light, of a Fiery Sword, or of aught save that bodily Vehicle of the Holy Ghost which is sacred to BAPHOMET, by its virtue that con- cealeth the Lion and the Serpent that His Image may appear adorably upon the Earth for ever. Let then the Adept extend his Will beyond the …
1930 · PDF PAGE 86
…on the Sun who is Ra — Hoor — Khuit. So then let the Adept set his sigil upon ail the words he hath writ in the Book of the Works of his WilL i. There is an alternative spelling TzBA — F where the Root, “an Host,>, has the value of 93. The Practicus should revive this Ritual throughout in the Light of his personal researches in the Qabalah, and thus make it his own peculiar property. The spelling here suggested implies that he who utters the Word affirms his allegiance to the symbols 93 and 6; that he is a warrior in the army of Will and of the…
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…n its most secret and mighty sense declareth the Formula of the Magick of the BEAST whereby he wrought many wonders. And because he doth will that the whole world shall attain to this Art, He now hideth it herein so that the worthy may win to Elis Wisdom. Let I and F face ail j 2 yet ward their A from attack. The Hermit to himself, the Fool to foes, 1. But see also the general solution of the Riddle of Existence in the Book of the Law and its Comment — Part IV of Book 4. 2. If we adopt the new orthography VIAOV (Book 4 Part III Chap. V.) we mus…
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…h the various parts of his mind. 1 None therefore save He hath the knowledge requisite for calculating the combinations of conduct which will organise and equilibrate the forces of the Adept, against the moment when it becomes necessary to confront the Abyss. The Adept must control a compact and cohérent mass if he is to make sure of hurling it from him with a clean-cut gesture. I, The Beast 666, lift up my voice and swear that I myself hâve been brought hither by mine Angel. After that I had attained unto the Knowledge and Conversation of Him …
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…n which we are yet dépendent for what we call “life”, “Rush- ing Fire” is the world in which wandering thought burns up to swift-darting Will. These four stages explain how the non-Ego is transmuted intc the instrument of knowledge, independent of the personality of its possessor. One must treat it exactly as one treats one’s electroscope or one’s eyes; one influence of one’s wishes. A physician calls in a colleague to attend to his own family, knowing that personal anxiety may dérangé his judgment. A microscopist who trusts his eyes when his p…
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…ven, to assist that analysis of one’s nature which the Probationer of A.-. A.*, is sworn to accomplish. But "Love is the Law, love under Will”. And Our Lady Nuit is “divided for love s sake, for the chance of union.” These mirror-mirages are therefore not Works of Magick, according to the Law of Thelema. the true Magick of Horus requires the passionate union of opposites. Now the proof that one is in contact with an independent entity dépends on a sensation which ought to be unmistakeable if one is in good health. One ought not to be liable to …
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…ed, and bade him eschew human love if he would attain to the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel; and suppose that his will, and that AngePs nature, were such that the Crux of their Formula was Lyrical Exaltation! Apart from the regular tests —- made at the time — of the integrity of any spirit, the Magician must make a careful record of every vision, omitting no detail ; he must then make sure that it tallies in every point with the correspondences in Book 777 and in Liber D. Should he find (for instance) that, having invoked…