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Page 1 of 31929 · PDF PAGE 18
… earlier. “Theosophy”, “Spiritua- lism”, “Occultism”, “Mysticism”, ail involved undesirable con¬ notations. I chose therefore the name. “MAGICK” as essentially the most sublime, and actually the most discredited, of ail the available terms. I swore to rehabilitate MAGICK, to identify it with my own career; and to compel mankind to respect, love, and trust that which they scorned, hated and feared. I hâve kept my Word. But the time is now corne for me to carry my banner into the thick of the press of human life. I must make MAGICK the essential …
1929 · PDF PAGE 28
…on hamper humanity. ) I hope that the above principles will ciemonstrate to ALL that their welfare, their very existence, is bound up in MAGICK. I trust that they will understand, not only the reasonableness, 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. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 112
…less’, even in cases of the character here discussed. So long as one’s Will prevails, there is no cause for complaint. “To abandon one’s Magick would shew lack of self-confidence in one’s powers, and doubt as to one’s inmost faith in Self and in Nature.1 Of course one changes one’s methods as expérience indicates; but there is no need to change them on any such ground as the above. “Further, the argument here set forth disposes of the need to explain the modus operandi of Magick. A successful operation does not involve any theory soever, not ev…
1929 · PDF PAGE 153
… enquirer that this book will meet his needs. Does this Sound too simple? Can this obvious common-sense course be really that marvellous Magick that frightens folk so? Yes, even this triviality is one instance of how Magick Works. But the above practical programme may be a fiasco. One might then resort to Magick in the conventional sense of the Word, by constructing and charging a Pantacle appropriate to the object; this Pantacle should then cause a strain in the Astral Light such that the vibrations would compel some alien consciousness to res…
1929 · PDF PAGE 110
meetings 1 are the foulest and most degraded rituals of black magic, the laws of Magick are not thereby suspended. The iaws of Magick are the iaws of Nature. A singular and world-famous exampie of this is of sufficiently recent date to be fresh in the memory of many people now living. At a nigger camp meeting 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…
1929 · PDF PAGE 128
…y for us to consider carefully the problems con- necœd with the bloody sacrifice, for this question is indeed traditionally important in Magick. Nigh ail ancient Magick revolves around this matter. In particular ail the Osirian religions — the rites of the Dying God — refer to this, The slaying of Osiris and Adonis ; the mutilation of Attis; the cuits of Mexico and Peruj the story of Hercules or Melcarth; the legends of Dionysus and of Mithra, are ail connected with this one idea. In the Hebrew religion we find the same thing inculcated. The fi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 31
hâve been hitherto inaccessible to profane research, and available only to that unscientific and empirical MAGICK (of tradition) which I came to destroy in order that I might fulfil. I send this book into the world that every man and woman may take hold of life in the proper manner. It does not matter if one’s présent house of flesh be the hut of a shepherd; by virtue of my MAGICK he shall be such a shepherd as David was. If it be the studio of a sculptor, he shall so chisel from himself the marble that masks his idea that he shall be no less a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 152
…heads; as it involves (i) one plane and one person, (2) one plane and two or more persons, (3) two planes. In class (1) the machinery of Magick — the instrument — already exists. Thus, I may wish to heal my own body, increase my own energy; develop my own mental powers, or inspire my own imagination. Here the Exorcist and the Démon are already connected, consciously or subconsciously, by an excellent System of symbols. The Will is furnished by Nature with an apparatus adequately equipped to convey and execute its orders. It is only necessary to…
1929 · PDF PAGE 57
…re is a certain definite consensus of expérience as to the corrélation of the various beings of the hierarchy with the observed facts of Magick. In the simple matter of astral vision, for example, one striking case may be quoted. Without telling him what it was, the Master Therion once recited as an invocation Sappho’s “Ode to Venus” before a Proba- tioner of the A.-. A.\ who was ignorant of Greek, the language of the Ode. The disciple then went on an “astral journey,” and everything seen by him was without exception harmonious with Venus. This…
1929 · PDF PAGE 102
…ermilion required from Mercury and Sulphur which he has himself sublimated. This pure I. I hâve omitted to say that the whole subject of Magick is an example of Mythopoeia in that particular form called Disease of Lan- miage. Thoth, God of Magick, was merely a man who invented writing, as his monuments déclaré clearly enough. “Gramarye”, Magick, is.only the Greek “Gramma”. So also the old name of a Magical Ritual, “Grimoire”, is merely a Grammar. It appeared marvellous to the vulgar that men should be able to communicate at a distance, and they…
1929 · PDF PAGE 17
… subject in this way. And it has repelled only too many scientific and practicai minds, such as I most designed to influence. But is for MAGICK ALL. I hâve written this book to help the Banker, the Pugilist, the Biologist, the Poet, the Navvy, the Grocer, the Factory Girl, the Mathematician, the Stenographer, the Golfer, the Wife, the Consul — and ail the rest — to fulfil themselves perfectly, each in his or her own proper function. Let me explain in a few words how it came about that I blazoned the word MAGICK upon the Banner that I hâve borne…
1929 · PDF PAGE 96
…ah. (Siphra Tzeniutha I. 2.) One countenance here spoken of is the Macrocosm, the other the Microcosm.2 As said above, the object of any magick ceremony is to unité the Macrocosm and the Microcosm. It is as in optics; the angles of incidence and reflection are equal. You must get your Macrocosm and Microcosm exactly balanced, vertically and horizontally, or the images will not coincide. This equilibrium is affirmed by the magician in arranging the Temple. Nothing must be lop-sided. If you hâve anything in the North, you must put something equal…
1929 · PDF PAGE 77
… 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 magick power. And if by magick power we mean the true power, the assimilation of ail force with the Ultimate Light, the true Bridai of the Rosy Cross, then is that blood the offering of Virginity, the sole sacrifice well-pleasing to the Master, the sacrifice whose only reward is the pain of child-bearing unto him. But “to sell one’s soûl to the devil”, to renounce no matter what for an équivalent in personal g…
1929 · PDF PAGE 114
…es, and tests its devotees to the uttermost, or so rewards them by well-being, pride, and the passionate pleasures of Personal triumph. “Magick takes every thought and act for ifs apparatus; it has the Universe for its Library and its Laboratory; ail Nature is its Subject; and its Game, free from close seasons and protective restrictions, always abounds in infinité variety, being ail that exists.* 1 Prologue.) of being forced to attribute the qualities of human conscious- ness to inanimate things (Poincaré, “La mesure du temps”), and of asserti…
1929 · PDF PAGE 19
… so forth, and constrain them to convey my message to those people. The composition and distribution of this book is thus an act of __ . MAGICK by which I cause Changes to take place in conformity with my Will* 1) IL POSTULATE. ANY required Change may be effected by the application of the proper kind and degree of Force in the proper manner through the proper medium to the proper object. (Illustration: I wish to préparé an ounce of Chloride of Gold. I must take the right kind of acid, nitro-hydrochloric and no other, in sufficient quantity and …
1929 · PDF PAGE 143
…ct of the Magical Link. It might almost be called the Missing Link. It has apparently always been taken for granted; only lay writers on Magick like Dr. J. G. Frazer hâve accorded the subject its full importance. Let us try to make considérations of the nature of Magick in a strictly scientific spirit, as well as, deprived of the guidance of antiquity, wc may. What is a Magical Operation? It may be defined as any event in Nature which is brought to pass by Will. We must not exclude potato-growing or banking from our définition. 1. The Hebrew le…
1929 · PDF PAGE 48
magick so often involves argues a poverty o£ nature, a narrowness, a lack of generosity. Nature is infinitely prodigal — not one in a million seeds ever cornes to fruition. Whoso fails to recognise this, let him invoke Jupiter.1 2 The danger o£ cérémonial magick — the subtlest and deepest danger —is this: that the magician will naturally tend to invoke that partial being which most strongly appeals to him, so that his natural excess in that direction will be still further exaggerated. Let him, before beginning his Work, endeavour to map out his…
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
…n Regimen of the Planets useful in 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 Fat…
1929 · PDF PAGE 26
…, must impose himself upon his génération if he is to enjoy (and even to understand) himself, as theoretically should be the case.) (23) Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one’s conditions. It is the Art of applying that under¬ standing in action. (Illustration: A golf club is intended to move a spécial bail in a spécial way in spécial circumstances. A Niblick should rarely be used on the tee, or a Brassie under the bank of a bunker. But also, the use of any club demands skill and expérience.) (24) Every man has an indefeasible …
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…psychology of aRevival meetings” will be familiar to almost every one, and though such 1. This is said of the partial or lesser Works of Magick. This is an elementary treatise; one cannot discuss higher Works as for example those of “The Hermit of Aesopus Island”. 2. See “The Book of Lies”; there are several chapters on this subject. But Right Exaltation should produce spontaneously the proper mental and physical reactions. As soon as tho development is secured, there will be automatic reflex “justesse”, exactly as in normal aEairs mind and bod…