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…private instruction. II The essential magical work, apart from any particular operation, is the proper formation of the Magical Being or Body of Light. This process will be discussed at some length in Chapter XVIII. We will here assume that the magician has succeeded in developing his Body of Light until it is able to go anyy/here and do anything. There will, however, be a certain limitation to his work, because he has formed his magical body from the fine matter of his own element. Therefore, although he may be able to penetrate the utmost rec…
1929 · PDF PAGE 10
To watch thy wantonness weeping through The tangled grove, the gnarléd bole Of the living tree that is spirit and soûl And body and brain — corne over the sea, (loPan! IoPan!) Devil or god, to me, to me, My man ! my man ! Corne with trumpets sounding sbrill Over the hill ! Corne with drums low muttering From the spring! Corne with flûte and corne with pipe! Am I not ripe? I, who wait and writhe and wrestle With air that hath no boughs to nestle My body, weary of empty clasp, Strong as a lion and sharp as an asp — Corne, O corne! I am numb With …
1929 · PDF PAGE 126
…And “Thou hast no right but to do thy Will.” One should hardly strain this sentence to make one’s own will include the will to upset somebody else’s will! 1 Moreover, it is extremely difficult thus to expatriate another magical being ; for though, unless it is a complété microcosm like a human being, it cannot be called a star, it is a little bit of a star, and a part of the body of Nuit. But there is no call for ail this frightfulness. There is no need to knock the girl down, unless she refuses to do what you want, and she will always comply i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 64
…ctrine of résurrection as vulgarly understood is false and absurd. It is not even “Scriptural”. St. Paul does not identify the glorified body which rises with the mortal body which dies. On the contrary, he repeatedly insists on the distinction. The same is true of a magical ceremony. The magician who is destroyed by absorption in the Godhead is really destroyed. The I. There is a quite different formula in which I is the Father, O the Mother, A the child — and yet another, in which I. A. O. are ail fathers of different kir.ds balanced by H. H.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 129
…ut it; for our ethics themselves will naturally dépend upon our theory of the universe. If we were quite certain, for example, that everybody went to heaven when he died, there could be no serious objection to murder or suicide, as it is generally conceded—by those who know neither — that earth is not such a pleasant place as heaven. However, there is a mystery concealed in this theory of the bloody sacrifice which is of great importance to the student, and we therefore make no further apology. We should not hâve made even this apology for an a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 125
…on of death. It may often be convenient for the living to go about the world in some such incognito. Now, then, conceive of this magical body as créative force, seeking manifestation; as a God, seeking incarnation. There are two ways by which this aim may be effected. The first method is to build up an appropriate body from its éléments. This is, generally speaking, a very hard thing to do, because the physical constitution of any material being with much power is, or at least should be, the outcome of âges of évolution. However, there is a law…
1929 · PDF PAGE 154
…uneasy, respond- ing no longer to her lover. Unless they diagnose the cause, a quarrel may resuit, and the woman’s bewildered and hungry Body of Light may turn in its distress to that of the Magician who has mastered it. Take a third case of this class 2. I wish to recover my watch, snatched from me in a crowd. Here I hâve no direct means of control over the muscles that could bring back my watch, nor over the mind that moves these muscles. I am not even able to inform that mind of my Will, for I do not know where it is. But I know it to be a m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 138
…ractised sexual abstinence, lest they should be influenced in any way by the spirit of the wife. Even in regard to the excrements of the body they were equally carefulj in trimming the hair and nails, they ceremonially destroyed* 1 the severed portion. They fasted, so that the body itself might destroy anvthing extraneous to the bare necessity of its existence. They purified the mind by spécial prayers and conservations. They avoided the contamination of social intercourse, especially the conjugal kind; and their servi tors were disciples speci…
1929 · PDF PAGE 151
… remember the essence of the operation, which is to will its success with suffi- ciently pure intensity, and to incarnate that will in a body suitable to express it, a body such that its impact on the bodily expression of the idea one wills to change is to cause it to do so. For instance, is it my will to become a famous physician? I banish ail “hostile spirits” such as laziness, alien interests, and conflicting pleasures, from my “circle” the hospital} J. consecrate my “weapons” (my various abilities) to the study of medicine} I invoke the “Go…
1929 · PDF PAGE 143
…it, is every way perfect” (CCXX, I, 44) to banish; and (b) “I am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body.” (CCXX, II, 62) to consecrate. For the Book of the Law contains the Suprême Spells. — 107
1929 · PDF PAGE 24
…successful when he forgets himself, and remembers only “The Cause”. Self-seeking engenders jealousies and schism. When the organs of the body assert their presence otherwise than by silent satisfaction, it is a sign that they are diseased. The single exception is the organ of reproduction. Yet even in this case its self-assertion bears witness to its dissatisfaction with itself, since it cannot fulfil its function until completed by its counterpart in another organisai.) (20) Man can only attract and employ the forces for which he is really fit…
1929 · PDF PAGE 23
…t is applied, whichever of those orders is directly affected. (Illustration: If I strike a man with a dagger, his consciousness, not his body only, is affected by my act; although the dagger, as such, has no direct relation therewith. Similarly, the power of — XXI
1929 · PDF PAGE 26
…nfluence ultimately affects action, though it may not do so at the time. (Illustration: The least gesture causes a change in a man’s own body and in the air around him; it disturbs the balance of the entire Universe, and its effects continue eternally throughout ail space. Every thought, however swiftly suppressed, has its effect on the mind. It stands as one of the causes of every subséquent thought, and tends to influence every subséquent action. A golfer may lose a few yards on his drive, a few more with his second and third, he may lie on t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…ysical reactions. As soon as tho development is secured, there will be automatic reflex “justesse”, exactly as in normal aEairs mind and body respond with free unconscious rightness to the Will. 3. The organic development of Magick in the world due to the créative Will of the Master Therion makes it with every year that passes easier to find scientifically trained co-workers. 73
1929 · PDF PAGE 152
…or more persons, (3) two planes. In class (1) the machinery of Magick — the instrument — already exists. Thus, I may wish to heal my own body, increase my own energy; develop my own mental powers, or inspire my own imagination. Here the Exorcist and the Démon are already connected, consciously or subconsciously, by an excellent System of symbols. The Will is furnished by Nature with an apparatus adequately equipped to convey and execute its orders. It is only necessary to inflame the Will to the proper pitch and to issue its commands; they are …
1929 · PDF PAGE 45
…dge of exoteric science is comically limited by the fact that we hâve no access, except in the most indirect way, to any other celestial body than our own. In the last few years, the semi-educated hâve got an idea that they know a great deal about the universe, and the principal ground for their fine opinion of themselves is usually the téléphoné or the airship. It is pitiful to read the bombastic twaddle about progress, which journalists and others, who wish to prevent men from thinking, put out for consumption. We know infinitesimally little …
1929 · PDF PAGE 153
…uilibrium by bringing the book. Suppose a severer and more serious aim; suppose that I wish to win a woman who dislikes me and loves somebody else. In this case, not only her Will, but her lover’s must be overcome by my own. I hâve no direct control of either. But my Will is in touch with the woman’s by means of our minds; I hâve only to make my mind the master of hers by the existing means of communication; her mind will then présent its recantation to her Will, her Will repeal its decision, and her body submit to mine as the seal of her surre…
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…ceived and germinate in a peculiar thick velvet darkness, crimson, purple, or deep blue, approximating black: as if it were said, In the body of Our Lady of the Stars. See 777 for the correspondences of the various forces of Nature with drugs, perfumes, etc. 2. Such details, however, may safely be left to the good sense of the Student. Expérience here as elsewhere is the best teacher. In the Sacrifice during Invocation, however, it may be said without fear of contradiction that the death of the victim should coincide with the suprême invocation…
1929 · PDF PAGE 91
…that things like bankruptcy, wedlock, and the gallows made no particular différence. They were only accidents such as might happen to anybody; they had no real bearing on the point at issue. One consequently remembers having one’s ears cropped as a lucky escape, while the casual jest of a drunken skeinsmate in an all-night café stings one with the shame of the parvenu to whom a poli te stranger has unsuspectingly mentioned “Mine Uncle”. The testimony of intuitions is, however, strictly subjective, and shrieks for collateral security. It would b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 155
…e must be initiated in a Truth which transcends the apparent facts. He must be aware that ail Nature isa continuum, so that his mind and body are consubstantial with the storm, are equally expressions of One Existence, ail alike of the self-same order of artifices whereby the Absolute appréciâtes itslf. He must also hâve assimilated the fact that Quantity is just as much a form as Qualityj that as ail things are modes of One Substance, so their measures are modes of their relation. Not only are gold and lead mere letters, meaningless in themsel…