FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION
Search the corpus.
Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.
35 matching pages
Page 1 of 21929 · PDF PAGE 48
…that Deity, and, being mainly mystical in character, need not be dealt with in this place, especially as a perfect instruction exists in Liber 175 (See Âppendix). The Second Method is the straightforward cérémonial invocation. It is the method which was usually employed in the Middle Ages. Its advantage is its directness, its disadvantage its 1. There are much deeper considérations in which it appears that “Everything that is, is right”. They are set forth elsewhere; we can only summarise them here by saying that the survîval of the frttest is …
1929 · PDF PAGE 98
…in one sense falsehood. For ail Truth is relative ; and if it be supposed absolute, will mislead.4 “The Book of Lies falsely so called” (Liber 333) is worthy of close and careful study in this respect. The reader should also consult Konx Om Pax, “Introduction”, and “Thien Tao” in the same volume. Ail this is to be expressed in the words of the ritual itself, and symbolised in every act performed. II It is said in the ancient books of Magick that everything used by the Magician must be “virgin”. That is: it must never hâve been used by any other…
1929 · PDF PAGE 52
…and so on, until, with the “Spirit”, we hâve the completion and perfection of that force. I. Beware, O brother, lest thou bend the knee! Liber CCXX teaches the proper attitude. See also Liber CCCLXX. Infra, furthermore, there is spécial instruction : Chapter XV and elsewhere. 16
1929 · PDF PAGE 47
…his failure. To take another example, the ascetic Üfe which dévotion to 1. See the “Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage”; and Liber 418, 8th Aethyr, Liber Samekh; see Appendix 3. 2. The différence between these operations is more of theoreticaî than of practical importance.
1929 · PDF PAGE 103
…magician; and we shall only 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?
1929 · PDF PAGE 80
…de increases as it were by a geometrical progression with an enormously high factor, which itself progresses. 2 1. The Holy 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 i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 78
…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 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 ultim…
1929 · PDF PAGE 67
…that it is a proper hieroglyph of the Ritual of Self-Initiation in this Aeon of Horus. For the correspondence in the following note, see Liber 777. The principal points are these: — 3i
1929 · PDF PAGE 51
…d which throughout History has been echoed by one religion to another, the infinité swelling paean I.A.O. ! 2 1. See “The Book of Lies”, Liber 333, for several sermons to this effect. The whole theory of Death must be sought in Liber CXI Aleph. 2. This name. I. A. O. is qabalistically identical with that of The Beast and with His number 666, so that he who invokes the former invokes also the îatter. Also with AIWAZ and the Number 93. See Chapter V. 15
1929 · PDF PAGE 66
…ties of Religious Expérience”, has well classified religion as the <£once~born” and the “twice-born”; but the religion now proclaimed in Liber Legis harmonizes these by transcending them. There is no attempt to get rid of death by denying it, as among the once-born; nor to accept death as the gâte of a new life, as among the twice-born. With the A.*. A.*, life and death are equally incidents in a career, very much like day and night in the history of a planet. But, to pursue the simile, we regard this planet from afar. A Brother of A.*. A.*, lo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 86
…e river of the soûl; whence and in what order thou hast corne.” One cannot do one’s True Will intelligently unless one knows what it is. Liber Thisarb, Equinox I, VII, gives instructions for determining this by calculating the résultant of the forces which hâve made one what one is. But this practice is confined to one’s présent incarnation. If one were to wake up in a boat on a strange river, it would be rash to conclude that the direction of the one reach visible was that of the whole stream. It would help very much if one remembered the bear…
1929 · PDF PAGE 104
…in but few, and those of inferioi quality. It will be noticed that in every case the conjurations are very sonorous, I.. See appendix 4, Liber Samekh; this is an édition of this Invoca¬ tion, with an elaborate Rubric, translation, scholia, and instruction. 68 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 17
…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 scientific and p…
1929 · PDF PAGE 96
…. The full significance of this aphorism 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
1929 · PDF PAGE 77
…f certain other 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 pa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 64
… opposites which form the field for the operation of A. But this is a higher matter unsuited for this eîementary handbook. See, however, Liber Samekh, Point II, Section J. 28
1929 · PDF PAGE 37
… 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 anticipâtes the recent discoveries of Frege, Cantor, Poincaré, Russell, Whitehead, Einstein and others. I
1929 · PDF PAGE 65
… natural mystic process. We find it the 1. It is, for ail that, His instrument, acquired by Him as an astrono- mer buys a telescope. See Liber Aleph, for a full explanation of the objects attained by the stratagem of incarnation; also Part IV of this Book 4. 2. If not, one is not working properly. 3. See J. G. Frazer, “The Golden Bough:” J. M. Robertson “Pagan Christs;” A. Crowley “Jésus,” etc., etc. 29 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…is model, so that a perfectly clear and 1. Considérations which might lead to a contrary conclusion are un- suited to this treatise. See Liber LXXXI. 2. Later, these remarks are amplified, and to some extent modified.
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
…n Alchemical work. Ararita is a formula of the macrocosm potent in certain very lofty Operations of the Magick of the Inmost Light. (See Liber 813.) The formula of Thelema may be summarized thus: Q “Babalon and The Beast conjoined” — £ unto Nuith (CCXX, 1, 51) — A The Work accomplished in Justice — y) the Holy Graal — p. The Water therein — a The Babe in the Egg (Harpocrates on the Lotus.) That of Agape is as follows: Dionysus (Capital A) — The Virgin Earth y — The Babe in the Egg (small a — the image of the Father) — The Massacre of the Innoce…