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in Equinox I, Nos. II and III. It is the formula of the Néophyte Ceremony of G.D. It should be employed in the consécration of the actual weapons usecl by the magician, and may also be used as the first formula of initiation. In the book called Z 21 (Equinox I, III) are given full details of this formula, which cannot be too carefully studied and practised. It is unfortunately, the most complex of ail of them. But this is the fault of the first matter of the work, which is so muddled that many operations are required to unify it. i. Those secti…
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…e 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 I, VI, the I2th and 2nd Aethyrs in Liber 418 in Equinox I, V, and the Symbolism of the V° and VI° in O.T.O.) Of the préservation of this blood which Our Lady offers to the Ancient one, Chaos 1 the All-Father, to revive him, and of how his divine Essence fills the Daughter (the soûl of Man) and places her upon the Throne of the Mother, fulfilling the Economy of the Universe, and thus ultimately rewardin…
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… flock, I am gold, I am god, Flesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod. With hoofs of Steel I race on the rocks Througli solstice stubborn to equinox. And I rave; and I râpe and I rip and I rend Everlasting, world without end, Mannikin, maiden, mænad, man, In the might of Pan. lo Pan ! Io Pan Pan ! Pan ! Io Pan ! IX
1929 · PDF PAGE 103
…waste space if we deal in detail with the préparation of each instrument. There is a definite instruction in Liber A vel Armorum, in the Equinox, Volume I, Number IV, as to the Lamp and the Four Elemental Weapons. — 6?
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… T-totaller found that he had strayed into a Temple of the Démon Rum! It is therefore impossible to neglect the theory of the Circle. 1. Equinox I, II, pp. 244-260. 2. Equinox I, VII, pp. 93 sqq. 3. The practical necessities of the work are likely to require certain movements. One should either exclude this symbolism altogether, or else think out everything beforehand, and make it significant. Do not let some actions be symbolic and others haphazard. — 8l —
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…t is indubitable. * 1 He has found iambic tetrameters enriched with many rimec both internai and external very useful. “The Wizard Way” (Equinox 1,1) gives a good idea of the sort of thing. So does the Evocation of Bartzabel in Equinox I, IX. There are many extant invocations throughout his works, in many kinds of métré, of many kinds of being, and for many kinds of purposes. (See Appendix). Other methods of incantation are on record as efficacious. For instance Frater I. A., when a child, was told that he could invoke the devil by repeating th…
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…method of logical con¬ tradiction which ends in reason transcending itself. The reader should consult “The Soldier and the Hunchback” in Equinox I, I, and “Konx Om PaxT Unity transcends consctoiisness. It is above ail division. The Father of thought — the Word —* is called Chaos — the dyad. The number Three, the Mother, is called Babalon. In connection with this the reader should study “The Temple of Solomon the King” in Equinox I, V, and Liber 418. This first triad is essentially unity, in a manner transcending reason. The compréhension of thi…
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…“I hâve noticed that the effect of a Magical Work has followed 1. See, for an account of properly-conducted congregational cérémo¬ nial, Equinox I, IX. “Energized Enthusiasm”, and Equinox III. I. Liber XV. Ecclesiae Gnosticae Catholicae Canon Missae. The “Revival meetings” here in question were deliberate exploitations of religious hysteria. 2. In a later entry we read that the diarist has found a similar train of argument in “Space, Time, and Gravitation ’, page 51* He was much encouraged by the confirmation of his thesis in so independent a S…
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basis of many important initiations, notably the Third degree in Masonry, and the 5®—6° ceremony of the G.D. described in Equinox I, III. A cérémonial self-initiation may be constructed with advantage 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…
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…y magick signs, though some of these simulate a natural action — e.g. the sign of the Rending of the Veil. But the sign of Auramoth (see Equinox I, II, Illustration “The Signs of the Grades”) merely imitâtes a hieroglyph which has only a remote connection with any fact in nature. Ail signs must of course be studied with infinité patience, and practised until the connection 1. The Magician must eschew prostration, or even the “bending of the knee in supplication”, as infamous and ignominious, an abdication of his sovereignty. 79 —
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…uptions of Greek and Egyptian names. For example, we find “Osorronnophris” for “Asor Un-Nefer”.1 The conjurations given by Dr. Dee (vide Equinox I, VIII) are an a language called Angelic, or Enochian. Its source has hnherto baffled research, but it is a language and not a jargon, for it possesses a structure of its own, and there are traces or grammar and syntax. However this may be, it works. Even the beginner finds that “things happen” when he uses it: and this is an advantage or disadvantage ! —shared by no other type of language. The rest n…
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…ther Words. Also : The Magicai. Memory. The Hieroglyph shewn in the Seventh Key of the Tarot (des- cribed in the I2th Aethyr, Liber 418, Equinox I, V) is the Charioteer of Our Lady Babalon, whose Cup or Graal he bears. Now this is an important formula. It is the First of the Formulæ, in a sense, for it is the formula of Renunciation. 1 2 It is also the Last ! This Cup is said to be full of the Blood of the Saints ; that is, every “sainC’ or magician must give the last drop of his life’s blood to tliat cup. It is the original price paid for magi…
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…oun, but its nature is principally féminine.2 It is a perfect hieroglyph of the number 5. This should be studied in “A Note on Genesis” (Equinox LU). The Eléments are ail represented, as in Tetragrammaton, but there is no development from one into the others. They are, as it were, thrown together — untamed, only sympathising by virtue of their wild and stormy but elastically resistless energy. The Central letter is Hé — the letter of breath — and represents Spirit. The first letter Àleph is the natural letter of Air, and the Final Mem is the na…
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… inert and impotent with balanced motion in a given direction. Numerous examples of this formula are given 1. See the Néophyte Ceremony, Equinox I, II. 2. Fear is the source of ail false perception. Even Freud had a glimpse of this fact. 39
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…ssification of the Universe, that there is nothing which is not comprehended therein. The Article on the Qabalah in Vol. I, No. V of the Equinox is the best which has been written on the subject. It should be deeply studied, in connection with the Qabalistic Diagrams in Nos. II and III: “The Temple of Solomon the King”. Such is a crude and elementary sketch of this System. The formula of Tetragrammaton is the most important for the practical magician. Here Yod = 2, Hé = 3, Vau = 4 to 9, Hé final =10. The Number Two represents Yod, the Divine or…
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…to the Master Therion. Most bells jar and repel. 2. It represents the descent of a certain Influnce. See the Evocation of Taphtatharath, Equinox I, III. The attributions are given in 777. This Word expresses the current Kether - Beth - Binah - Cheth - Geburch - Mem - Hod - Shin - Malkuth, the descent from 1 to 10 via the Pillar of Severity. 3. This réluctance is Freudian, due to the power of these words to awaken the suppressed subconscious libido. — 70 —
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…summarise them here by saying that the survîval of the frttest is their upshot. 2. The ideaî method of doing this is given in Liber 913 (Equinox VII). See also Liber CXI Aleph. 12
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advance to any of them. But an example of such an operation may be studied in Equinox I, VII, “The Temple of Solomon the King”, where an invocation of Horus on this formula is given in full. Note the réverbération of the ideas one against another. The formula of Horus has not yet been so fully worked out in details as to justify a treatise upon its exoteric theory and practice; but one may say that it is, to the formula of Osiris, what the turbine is to the reciprocating engine. III There are many other sacred words which enshrine formulæ of gr…
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…ven an outline of the real theory of the Universe. This theory may indeed be studied iii the article already referred to in No. V of the Equinox, and, môre deeply, in the Book of the Law and the Commentaries thereon: but the true understanding dépends entirely upon the work of the Magician himself. Without magical expérience it will be meaningless. In this there is nothing peculiar. It is so with ail scientific knowledge. A blind man might cram up astronomy for the purpose of passing examinations, but his knowledge would be I. By “God” I here m…
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…ly Qabalah (see Liber D in Eqiiinox I, VIII, Supplément, and Liber 777) affords the means of analysis and application required. See also Equinox I, V, “The Temple of Solomon The King”. 2. A suggestion has recently been made that the Hierarchy of the Grades should be “destroyed, and replaced by”—a ring System of 13 grades ail equal. There is, of course, one sense in which every grade is a Th in g-in-Itself. But the Hierarchy is only a convenient method 44