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…it is painful. “The Psychopathology of Everyday Life” analyses and illustrâtes this phenomenon in detail. Now, the King of Terrors being Death, it is hard indeed to look it in the face. Mankind has created a host of phantastic masks; people talk of “going to heaven”, “passing over”, and so on; banners flaunted from paste- board towers of baseless théories. One instinctively flinches from remembering one’s last, as one does from imagining one’s next, death. 1 The point of view of the initiate helps one immensely. As soon as one has passed this P…
1929 · PDF PAGE 66
…tage on this formula. The essence of it consists in robing yourself as a king, then stripping and slaying vourself, and rising from that death to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel \ There is an etymological identitv between Tetragrammaton and I A 09 but the m agi cal formulæ are entirely different, as the descriptions here given hâve schewn. Professor William James, in his “Varieties of Religious Expérience”, has well classified religion as the <£once~born” and the “twice-born”; but the religion now proclaimed in Liber L…
1929 · PDF PAGE 130
…rved contempt the pseudo-scientific experiments of American charlatans who daim to hâve established that weight is lost at the moment of death, and the unsupported statements of alleged clairvoyants that they hâve seen the soûl issuing like a vapour from the mouth of persons in articulo mortis; but his expériences as an explorer hâve convinced the Master Therion that méat loses a notable portion of its nutritive value within a very few minutes after the death of the animal, and that this loss proceeds with ever-diminishing rapidity as time goes…
1929 · PDF PAGE 50
…of Nature, its madness, its prodigality, its intoxication, its joy, and above ali its sublime persistence through the cycles of Life and Death. The pagan reader must labour to understand this in Pater’s “Greek Studies”, and the Christian reader will recognise it, incident for incident, in the story of Christ. This legend is but the dramatization of Spring. The magician who wishes to invoke Bacchus by this method must therefore arrange a ceremony in which he takes the part of Bacchus, undergoes ail His trials, and emerges triumphant from beyond …
1929 · PDF PAGE 125
… the Dead contains many chapters intended to enable the magical entity of a man who is dead, and so deprived (according to the theory of death then current) of the material vehicle for executing his will, to take on the form of certain animais, such as a golden hawk or a crocodile, and in such form to go about the earth “taking his pleasure among the living.” * 1 As a general rule, material was supplied out of which he could construct the party of the second part aforesaid, hereinafter referred to as the hawk. We need not, however, consider thi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 84
…on proposed to replace the M of AUM by a compound letter MGN, symbolizing thereby jthe subtle transformation of the apparent silence and death which terminâtes the manifested life of Vau by a continuous vibration of an impersonal energy of the nature of génération and knowledge, the Virgin Moon and the Serpent furthermore operating to include in the idea a commémoration of the legend so grossly deformed in the Hebrew legend of the Garden of Eden, and its even more malignantly debased falsification in that bitterly sectarian broadside, the Apoca…
1929 · PDF PAGE 51
succession of new lives. 1 Without this union, and without this death of the individual, the cycle would be broken. A chapter will be consecrated to removing the practical diffi- culties of this method of Invocation. It will doubtless hâve been noted by the acumen of the reader that in the great essentials these three methods are one. In each case the magician identifies himself with the Deity invoked. To invoke is to call in, just as to evoke ïs to call forth. This is the essential différence between the two branches of Magick. In invocation, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 73
…he Aeon of Osiris it was indeed' realised that Man must die in order to live. But now in the Aeon of Horus we know that every event is a death; subject and object slay each other in “love under will”; each such death is itself life, the means by which one réalisés oneself in a sériés of épisodes. The second main point is the completion of the A babe Bacchus by the O Pan (Parzival wins the Lance, etc.). 37
1929 · PDF PAGE 131
…y varying in quantity according to the size and health of the animal, and in quality according to its mental and moral character. At the death of the animal this energy is liberated suddenly. The animal should therefore be killed 1 within the Circle, or the Triangle, as the case may be. so that its energy cannot escape. An animal should be selected whose nature accords with that of the ceremony — thus, by sacrificing a female lamb one would not obtain any appreciate quantity of the fierce energy useful to a Magician who was invoking Mars. In su…
1929 · PDF PAGE 10
…m awake In the grip of the snake. The eagle slashes with beak and claw; The gods withdraw: The great beasts corne, Io Pan! I am borne To death on the horn Of the Unicom. I am Pan ! Io Pan ! Io Pan Pan ! Pan ! VIII —
1929 · PDF PAGE 158
…must neglect no means to our end, neither despising our common sense, nor doubting our secret wisdom. When Frater I. A. was in danger of death in 1899 e.v. Frater V. N. and Frater Perdurabo did indeed invoke the spirit Buer to visible manifestation that he might heal their brother; but also one of them furnished the money to send him to a climate less cruel than England’s. He is alive to day1 } who cares whether spirits or shekels wrought that which these Magicians willed ? Let the Magical Link be made strong! It is “love under will”; it affirm…
1929 · PDF PAGE 65
…The ancient condition is not restored, but a new and superior condition is created, a condition only rendered possible by the process of death. The Alchemists themselves taught this same truth. The first matter of the work was base and primitive, though “natural”. After passing through various stages the “black dragon” appeared; but from this arose the pure and perfect gold. Even in the legend of Prometheus we find an identical formula concealed; and a similar remark applies to those of Jésus Christ, and of many other mythical god-men worshippe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 48
…r mammer this question of the Nature of Ritual, we may suppose that he finds himself lacking in that perception of the value of Life and Death, alike of individuals and of races, which is characteristic of Nature. He has perhaps a tendency to perceive the ‘first noble truth’ uttered by Buddha, that Everything is sorrow. Nature, it seems, is a tragedy. He has perhaps even experienced the great trance called Sorrow. He should then consider whether there is not some Deity who expresses this Cycle, and yet whose nature is joy. He will find what he …
1929 · PDF PAGE 26
…eir true Wills. The murderer has the Will-to-Live; and his will to murder is a false wilî at variance with his true Will, since he risks death at the hands of Society by obeying his criminal impulse. — XXIV
1929 · PDF PAGE 134
…, or its throat severed, in either case by the knife. Ail other methods of killing are less efficacious; even in the case of Crucifixion death is given by stabbing.8 One may remark that warm-blooded animais only are used as victims: with two principal exceptions. The first is the serpent, which is only used in a very spécial Ritual ; 4 the second the magical beetles of Liber Legis. (See Part IV.) has taken irrevocable Oaths and been received formally, that he discovers what Fraternity he has joined. If he hâve taken false symbols for true, and …
1929 · PDF PAGE 98
The Cross is both the death of the “Saviour” 1 and the Phallic symbol of Résurrection. Will itself must be ready to culminate in the surrender of that Will: 2 the aspirations arrow that is shot against the Holy Dove must transmute itself into the wondering Virgin that receives in her womb the quickening of that same Spirit of God. Any idea that is thus in itself positive and négative, active and passive, male and female, is fit to exist above the Abyss; any idea not so equilibrated is below the Abyss, contains in itself an unmitigated duality o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…ere 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. 96
1929 · PDF PAGE 78
…er. But here the formula implies much more even than this. For it is his whole life that the Magus offers to Our Lady. The Cross is both Death and Génération, and it is on the Cross that the Rose blooms. The full significance of these symbols is so lofty that it is hardly fitted for an elementary treatise of this type. One must be an Exempt Adept, and hâve become ready to pass on, before one can see the symbols even from the lower plane. Only a Master of the Temple can fully understand them. (However, the reader may study Liber CLVI in Equinox …
1929 · PDF PAGE 70
…ls hâve no hint of it. This lie is the essence of the Great Sorcery. Osirian religion is a Freudian phantasy fashioned of man’s dread of death and ignorance of nature. The partheno- 1. Her sole speech in the last Act is “Dienen: Dienen ”. 2. Note that alî these three remain for a time as neuters among women, prevenled from living the male life.
1929 · PDF PAGE 82
… the termination of this process. It is the Hanged Man of the Tarot ; the formation of the individual from the absolute is closed by his death. We see accordingly how AUM is, on either System, the expres¬ sion of a dogma which implies catastrophe in nature. It is cognate with the formula of the Slain God. The “résurrection” and “ascension” are not implied in it. They are later inventions without basis in necessity; they may be described indeed as Freudian phantasms conjured up by the fear of facing reality. To I. The Sun being 6, a square 6X6 c…