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such law does apply. So it is for everything. You cannot produce a thunderstorm unless tlie materials exist in the air at the time, and a Magician who could make rain in Cumberland might fail lament- ably in the Sahara. One might make a talisman to win the love of a shop-girl and find it work, yet be baffled in the case of a countess; or vice versa. One might impose one’s Will on a farm, and be crushed by that of a city; or vice versa. The Master Therion himself, with ail his successes in every kind of Magick, sometimes appears utterly impotent…
1929 · PDF PAGE 3
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
1929 · PDF PAGE 149
…nance in Frater Perdurabo^ mind, and they hampered His work. He was half-hearted. Yet, even so, then intrinsic power of the truth of the Law and the impact of the publication were sufficient to shake the world so that a critical war broke out, and the minds of men were moved in a mysterious manner. The second blow was struck by the re-publication of the Book in September 1913, and this time the might of this Magick burst out and caused a catastrophe to civilization. At this hour, the Master Therion is concealed, collecting his forces for a fina…
1929 · PDF PAGE 17
…he wand and the work of the sword: these he shall learn and teach. “He must teach ; but he may make severe the ordeals. “The word of the Law is 0EAHMA.” LIBER AL vel xxxi: The Book of the Law. This book is for ALL: for every man, woman, and child. My former work has been misunderstood, and its scope limited, by my use of technical terms. It has attracted only too many dilettanti and eccentrics, weaklings seeking in “Magic” an escape from reality. I myself was first consciously drawn to the subject in this way. And it has repelled only too many …
1929 · PDF PAGE 147
…ating them to obtain an approximation to his idea. Such are a few of the principal characteristics of the Astral Light. Its quantitative laws are much less dissimilar from those of material physics. Magicians hâve too often been foolish enough to suppose that ail classes of Magical Operations were equally easy. They seem to hâve assumed that the “almighty power of God” was an infinité quantity in presence of which ail finites were equally insignifiant. “One day is with the Lord as a thousand years” is their first law of Motion. “Faith can move …
1929 · PDF PAGE 96
…phorism is an Arcanum of the grade of Ipsissimus. It may, however, be partially apprehended by study of Liber Aleph, and the Book of the Law and the Commentaries thereon. It explains Existence. 2. This is the case because we happen ourselves to be Microcosms whose Law is “love under will”. But it is aîso Magick for an unit which has attained Perfection (in absolute nothingness,0°), to become “divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union”. 6o
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…ry 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 separate treatise to discuss even the true meaning of the terms employed, and to show how The Book of the Law anticipât…
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…enteenth year of the Aeon, has reconstructed the Word I A O to satisfy the new conditions of Magick imposed by progress. The Word of the Law being Thelema, whose number is 93, this number should be the canon of a corresponding Mass. Accordingly, he Has expanded I A O by treating the O as an Ayin, and then adding Vau as prefix and affix. The full Word is then wn whose number is 93. We may analyse this new Word in detail and demonstrate that it is a proper hieroglyph of the Ritual of Self-Initiation in this Aeon of Horus. For the correspondence i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 139
…rking, the same considérations apply. We first remove from that place ail objects; and we then put into it those objects, and only those Law.” “What is thy Will? ” “It is my will to eat and drink ” “To what end?” “That my body may be fortified thereby.” “To what end?” “That I may accomplish the Great Work.” “Love is the law, love under will.” “Fall to!” This may be adapted as a monologue. One may also add the inquiry “What is the Great Work?” and answer appropriately, when it seems useful to specify the nature of the Operation in progress at th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 122
…uitable to ail types of operation. Secondly, it is the sacred number par excellence of the new Aeon. As it is written in the Book of the Law: “Eleven, as ail their numbers who are of us.” Thirdly, it is the number of the letters of the Word ABRAHADABRA, which is the Word of the Aeon. The structure of this Word is such that it expresses the Great Work, in every one of its aspects. Lastly> it is possible thereby to express ail possible spheres of operation, whatever their nature. This is effected by making an équation between the number of the Se…
1929 · PDF PAGE 133
…f the Proclamation of Horus, the Crowned and Conquering Child, as Lord of the Aeon. 1 This whole matter is prophesied in the Book of the Law itself ; let the student take note, and enter the ranks of the Host of the Sun. II There is another sacrifice with regard to which the Adepts hâve always maintained the most profound secrecy. It is the suprême mystery of practical Magick. Its name is the Formula of the Rosy Cross. In this case the victim is always — in a certain sense — the Magician himself, and the sacrifice must coïncide with the utteran…
1929 · PDF PAGE 95
… The complicated situation in which we find ourselves is composed of éléments \ 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 reali…
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…ess, but the necessity of the fundamental truth which I was the means of giving to mankind: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” I trust that they will assert themselves as individually absolute, that they will grasp the fact that it is their right to assert themselves, and to accomplish the task for which their nature fits them. Yea, more, that this is their duty, and that not only to themselves but to others, a duty founded upon universal necessity, and not to be shirked on account of any casual circumstances of the moment which…
1929 · PDF PAGE 71
…orld of pure reality. Spelling the Name in full, FF -f- IFD -f- ALP -f- OIN -f- FI -j~ 309 = Sh T = XX -f- XI = 31 the secret Key of the Law. F is the manifested Star. I is the secret Life. Serpent — Light . Lamp — Love . Wand — Liberty . Wings — Silence . Cloak These symbols are ail shewn in the Atu “The Hermit”. They are the powers of the Yod, whose extension is the Vau. Yod is the Hand wherewith man does his Will. It is also the Virgin ; his essence is inviolate. A is the Babe “who has formulated his Father, and made fertile his Mother” — Ha…
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…) “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
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…rse. 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 mean the Idéal Identity of a man’s inmost natur…
1929 · PDF PAGE 101
… in similar terms. The details of the préparation of each weapon should be thought out carefully by the magician. 1. See The Book of the Law and the Commentaries thereon for the true définition of this virtue. 2. This refers to the “formula of the Néophyte”. There are alter¬ natives. 65
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…rue, and find himself magically pledged to a gang of rascals, so much the worse for him! 1. This results from the full acceptance of the Law of THELEMA, persistently put into practice. 2. P. S. With the happiest results. P. 3. Yet one might devise methods of execution appropriate to the Weapons : Stabbing or clubbing for the Lance or Wand, Drowning or poîsoning for the Cup, Beheading for the Sword, Crushing for the Disk, Burning for the Lamp, and so forth. 4. The Serpent is not realîy killed; it is seethed in an appropriate 98
1929 · PDF PAGE 45
…lah, which corresponds to mathematics and geometry. The method of operation in Magick is based on this, in very much the same way as the laws of mechanics are based on mathematics. So far, therefore as we can be be said to possess a magical theory of the universe, it must be a matter solely of fundamental law, with a J* Knowledge is, moreover, an impossible conception. Ali propositions corne ultimately back to “A is A”. 9 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 98
…Edom. 4. See Poincaré for the mathematical proof of this thesis. But Spiritual Expérience goes yet deeper, and destroys the Canon of the Law of Contradiction. There is an immense amount of work by the Master Therion on this subject; it pertains especially to His grade of 90 = 2°. Such profundities are unsuited to the Student, and may unsettle him seriously. It will be best for him to consider (provisionally) Truth in the sense in which it is taken by Physical Sicence. 62