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…f that hâte by devising and making a dagger, and then applying the dagger to the heart of one’s enemy. One must give one’s hâte a bodily form of the same order as that which one’s enemy has taken for his mani¬ festation. Your spirit can only corne into contact with his by me^yis of this magical manufacture of phantomsj in the same way, one can only measure one’s mind (a certain part of it) against another man’s by expressing them in some such form as the game of chess. One cannot use chessmen against another man unless he agréé to use them in t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 125
… 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 this question of death. It may often be convenient for the living to go about the worl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 135
…overwhelmed and obsessed by the force which he has let loose; it will then probably manifest itself in its lowest and most objectionable form. The most intense spirituality of purpose is absolutely essential to safety. In évocations the danger is not so great, as the Circle forms a protection j but the circle in such a case must be protected, not only by the names of God and the Invocations used at the same time, but by a long habit of successful defence.s If you are easily disturbed or alarmed, or if you hâve not yet overcome the ten- dency of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 95
…léments \ and no element of it came out of nothing. Newton’s First Law applies to every plane of thought. The theory of évolution is omniform. There is a reason for one’s prédisposition to goût, or the shape of one’s ear, in the past. The symbolism may change ; the facts do not. In one form or another, everything that exists is derived from some previous manifestation. Hâve it, if you will, fhat the memories of other incarnations are dreamsj but dreams are determined by reality just as much as the events of the day. The truth is to be apprehend…
1929 · PDF PAGE 115
…re!) to throw himself to the ground in the presence of the object of his adoration.1 Intermediate between this and the purely artificial form of gestures cornes a class which dépends on acquired habit. Thus it is natural to an European officer to offer his sword in token of surrender. A Tibetan would, however, squat, put out his tongue* and place his hand behind his right ear. Purely artificial gestures comprehend in their class the majority of definitely magick signs, though some of these simulate a natural action — e.g. the sign of the Rendin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 142
…a thmg to a single purpose. Ranishing prevents its use for any other purpose, but it remains inert until consecrated. Purification is performed by water, and banishing by air, whose weapon is the sword. Consécra¬ tion is performed by fire, usually symbolised by the holy oil.1 In most extant magical rituals the two operations are per¬ formed at once; or (at least) the banishing has the more important place, and greater pains seem to be taken with it; but as the student advances to Adeptship the banishing will diminish in importance, for it will …
1929 · PDF PAGE 64
CBAPTER V The Formula of I.A.O. This formula is the principal and most characteristic formula of Osiris, of the Rédemption of Mankind. I is Isis, Nature, ruined by A, Apophis the Destroyer, and restored to life by the Redeemer Osiris.1 The sanie idea is expressed by the Rosicrucian formula of the Trinity: Ex Deo nas ci mur. In Je su morimur. Per Sfiritum Sanctum reviviscimus. This is also identical with the Word Lux L.V.X., which is formed by the arrns of a cross. It is this formula which is implied in those ancient and modem monuments in which…
1929 · PDF PAGE 37
…ons, such as hâve obtained since the Spring of 1904, e.v.) This profoundly mystical conception 1. I présent this theory in a very simple form. I cannot even explain (for instance) that an idea may not refer to Being at ail, but to Going. The Book of the Law demands spécial study and initiated appréhension. 2. More correctly, HERU-RA-HA, to include HOOR-PAAR- KRAAT. 3. The basis of this theology is given in Liber CCXX, AL vel Legis which forins Part IV of this Book 4. Hence I can only outline the matter in a very crude way; it would require a se…
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
…r shall seem to be a miracle.” The Goetia of the Lemegeton of King Solomon. “Wherever sympathetic magic occurs in its pure unadulterated form, it is assumed that in nature one event follows another necessarily and invariably without the intervention of any spiritual or personal agency. Thus its fundamental conception is identical with that of modem science; underlying the whole System is a faith, implicit but real and firm, in the order and uniformity of nature. The magician does not doubt that the same causes will always produce the same effec…
1929 · PDF PAGE 60
CHAPTER IV. The Formula of Alhim, and that of Alim. A LH IM (Elohim) is the exoteric word for Gods.1 It is the masculine plural of a féminine noun, 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 Centra…
1929 · PDF PAGE 85
…ion of the Word AUMGN is ioo, which, as initiâtes of the Sanctuary of the Gnosis of the O.T.O. are taught, expresses the unity under the form of complété mani¬ festation by the symbolism of pure number, being Kether by Aiq Bkr 1 2 ; also Malkuth multiplied by itself ~, and thus estab- lished in the phénoménal universe. But, moreover, this number IOO mysteriously indicates the Magical formula of the Universe as a reverberatory engine for the extension of Nothingness through the device of equilibrated opposites.3 It is moreover the value of the l…
1929 · PDF PAGE 92
…ion was determined by the concourse of circumstances. The reality can hâve no reason for reproducing itself exclusively in that especial form. It can hâve no reason for remembering that so extravagant a ritual happened to be necessary to worship. Therefore, however well a man might remember his incarnation as Julius Caesar, there is no necessity for his representing his power to set ail upon the hazard of a die by imagining the Rubicon. Any spiritual State can be symbolized by an infinité variety of actions in an infinité variety of circum¬ sta…
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
The formula of the Cup is not so well suited for Evocations, and the magical Hierarchy is not involved in the same way; for the Cup being passive rather than active, it is not fitting for the magician to use it in respect of anything but the Highest. In practical working it consequently means little but prayer, and that prayer the “prayer of silence”.1 The formula of the dagger is again unsuitable for either pur- pose, since the nature of the dagger is to criticise, to destroy, to disperse j and ail true magical ceremonies tend to concentration…
1929 · PDF PAGE 88
… at a time when he had not read any of Eliphas Levi’s Works. The motive of this play is a Magical Operation of a very peculiar kincl The formula which Aleister Crowley supposed to be his original idea is mentioned by Levi. We hâve not been able to trace it anywhere else with such exact correspondent in every dtail. 4. Aleister Crowley found a certain quarter of Paris incom- prehensibly familiar and attractive to him. This was not the ordinary phenomenon of the déjà vu, it was chiefly a sense of being at home again. He discovered long after that…
1929 · PDF PAGE 87
…ata — memories of childhood reawaken. Still deeper lies a class of thoughts whose origin puzzles us. Sojne of these apparently belong to former incarnations. By cultivating these departments of one’s mind we can develop them; we become expert ; we form an organized cohérence of these originally disconnected éléments ; the faculty grows with astonishing rapidity, once the knack of the business is mastered. It is much easier (for obvious reasons) to acquire the Magical Memory when one has been sworn for many lives to reincarnate immediately. The …
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
…o générations ago. But even he (profoundly as he studied, and luminously as he expounded, the nature of Magick considered as a universal formula) paid no attention whatever to that question of the Magical Link, though he everywhere implies that it is essential to the Work. He evaded the question by making the petitio principii of assigning to the Astral Light the power of transmitting vibrations of ail kinds. He nowhere enters into detail as to how its effects are produced. He does not inform us as to the qualitative or quantitative laws of thi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 84
The undulatory formula of putréfaction is represented in the Qabalah by the letter N, which refers to Scorpio, whose triune nature combines the Eagle, Snake and Scorpion. These hiero- glyphs themselves indicate the spiritual formulæ of incarnation. He was also anxious to use the letter G, another triune formula expressive of the aspects of the moon, which further déclarés the nature of human existence in the following manner. The moon is in itself a dark orb; but an appearance of light is communicatec! to it by the surij and it is exactly in th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 78
This formula is, however, a little different in symbolism, since it is a Woman whose Cup must be filled. It is rather the sacrifice of the Man, who transfers life to his descendants. For a woman does not carry in herself the principle of new life, except tem- porarily, when it is given her. 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…
1929 · PDF PAGE 94
…me and the Black Forest, matters nothing, either to him or to anybody else. What matters is this: True or false, he has found a symbolic form which has enabled him to govern himself to the best advantage. “Quantum nobis prodest haec fabula Christi!” The ‘falsity’ of Aesop’s bables does not diminish their value to mankind. The above réduction of the Magical Memory to a device for externalizing one’s interior wisdom need not be regarded as sceptical, save only in the last resort. No scientific hypothesis can adduce stronger evidence of its validi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 110
…ing in the “United” States of America, devotees were worked up to such a pitch of excitement that the whole assembly deveioped a furious form of hysteria. The comparatively intelligible Cries of “Glory” and “Hallelujah” no longer expressed the situation. Somebody screamed out “Ta- ra-ra-boom-de-ay! ”, and this was taken up by the whole meeting and yelled continuously, until reaction set in. The affair got into the papers, and some particularly bright disciple of John Stuart Mill, logician and economist, thought that these words, having set one …