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…ere- fore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; 1 or* in the language of Mysticism, Union with God. 2 Ail other magical Rituals are particular cases of this general principle, and the only excuse for doing them is that it sometimes occurs that one particular portion of the microcosm is so weak that its imperfection of impurity would vitiate the Macrocosm of which it is the image, Eidolon, or Reflexion. For example, God is above sex; and therefore neither man nor woman as such can be said fully to understand, much less to represent, God. It…
1929 · PDF PAGE 128
…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 first ethical lesson in the Bible is that the only sacrifice pleas…
1929 · PDF PAGE 24
…er he unguardedly utters a chosen word. He may serve the same purpose by resolving that every incident of his life shall remind him of a particular thing, making every impression the starting point of a connected sériés of thoughts ending in that thing. He might also devote his whole energies to some one particular object, by resolving to do nothing at variance therewith, and to make every act turn to the advantage of that object.) (18) He may attract to himself any force of the Uni verse by making himself a fit réceptacle for it, establishing …
1929 · PDF PAGE 93
… Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of wine. Try as you will, you can find no reason for your idiosyncrasy. Suppose, then, that when you explore some previous incarnation, you remember that you died by a poison administered in a wine of that character, your aversion is explained by the proverb, aA burnt. child dreads the fire.” It may be objected that in such a case your libido has created a phantasm of itself in the manner which…
1929 · PDF PAGE 80
given, and the magician must himself work out his own formula for particular cases. 1 IV. It should also be remarked that every grade bas its peculiar magical formula. Thus, the formula of Abrahadabra concerns us, as men, principally because each of us represents the pentagram or microcosm ; and our équilibration must therefore be with the hexa- gram or macrocosm. In other words, 50 = 6° is the formula of the Solar operation $ but then 6°=5° is the formula of the Martial operation, and this reversai of the figures implies a very different Work.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 157
… bv inflaming that thought in their neighbours, so the Magician créâtes a commotion by disturbing the balance of power. He transmits his particular vibration as a radio operator does with his ray 5 rate-relation détermines exclusive sélection. In practice, the Magician must aevoke the spirits of the storm” by identifying himself with the ideasof which atmospheric phenom- ena are the expressions as his humanity is of him; this achieved, he must impose his Will upon them by virtue of the superiority of his intelligence and the intégration of his …
1929 · PDF PAGE 141
…ch object should hâve been separately consecrated beforehand. The ritual here in question should summarize the situation, and devote the particular arrange¬ ment to its purpose by invoking the appropriate forces. Let it be well remembered that each object is bound by the Oaths of its original consé¬ cration as such. Thus, if a Pantacle has been made sacred to Venus, it cannot be used in an operation of Mars; the Energy of the Exorcist would be taken up in overcoming the opposition of the “Karma” or inertia therein inhérent. 105
1929 · PDF PAGE 95
…ation of the symbolic language. The last section of the Oath of the Master of the Temple is: “I swear to interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soûl.” The Magical Memory is (in the last analysis) one manner, and, as expérience testifies, one of the most important manners, of performing this vow. 59
1929 · PDF PAGE 124
… They are only communicated by the Master Therion to chosen pupils in private instruction. II The essential magical work, apart from any particular operation, is the proper formation of the Magical Being or Body of Light. This process will be discussed at some length in Chapter XVIII. We will here assume that the magician has succeeded in developing his Body of Light until it is able to go anyy/here and do anything. There will, however, be a certain limitation to his work, because he has formed his magical body from the fine matter of his own e…
1929 · PDF PAGE 96
CHAPTER VIII Of Equilibrium, and of the General and Particular Method of Préparation of the Furniture of the Temple and of the Instruments of Art. I “Before there was equilibrium, countenance beheld not count¬ enance.” 1 So sayeth the holiest of the Books of the ancient Qabalah. (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 mu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 37
…nifest. One conjunction of these infinités is called RA-HOOR-KHUIT, 2 3 a Unity which includes and heads ail tliings. 3 (There is also a particular Nature of Him, in certain conditions, 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…
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…verse is capable of being transformed into any other kind of force by using suitable means. There is thus an inexhaustible suppiy of any particular kind of force that we may need. (Illustration: Heat may be transformed into light and power by using it to drive dynamos. The vibrations of the air may be used to kill men by so ordering them in speech as to inflame war-like passions. The hallucinations connected with the mysterious energies of sex resuit in the perpétuation of the species.) (16) The application of any given force affects ail the or…
1929 · PDF PAGE 48
… should hâve been done in a preliminary fashion during the préparation of the weapons and furniture of the Temple. To consider in a more particular mammer this question of the Nature of Ritual, we may suppose that he finds himself lacking in that perception of the value of Life and Death, alike of individuals and of races, which is characteristic of Nature. He has perhaps a tendency to perceive the ‘first noble truth’ uttered by Buddha, that Everything is sorrow. Nature, it seems, is a tragedy. He has perhaps even experienced the great trance c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…gger will therefore appear principally in the banishings, preliminary to the ceremony proper. The formula of the pantacle is again of no particular use; for the pantacle is inert. In fine, the formula of the wand is the only one with which we need more particularly concern ourselves.2 Now in order to invoke any being, it is said by Hermes Tris- megistus that the magi employ three methods. The first, for the vulgar, is that of supplication. In this the crude objective theory is assumed as true. There is a god named A, whom you, B, proceed to pét…
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
…is, what the turbine is to the reciprocating engine. III There are many other sacred words which enshrine formulæ of great efficacity in particular operations. For example, V.I.T.R.I.O.L gives a certain 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 Graa…
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him. To neglect these rules, to break these laws in the smallest particular is to incur failure, and may even expose the unskilfu! practitioner himself to the utmost péril. If he daims a sovereignty over nature, it is a constitutional sovereignty rigorously limited in its scope and exercised in exact conformity with ancient usage. Thus the analogy between the magical and the scientific conceptions of the worid is close. In both of them the succession of events is perfectly regular and certain, being determined by immutable laws, the operation o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 89
…mired Levi for many years, and even begun to suspect the identity, had not troubled (although an extravagant buyer of books) to get this particular work. He found, to his astonishment, tha^t almost everything that he had himself intended to say was there written. The resuit of this was that he abandoned writing his original work, and instead translated the masterpiece in question. 8. The style of the two men is strikingly similar in numerous subtle and deep-seated ways. The general point of view is almost identical. The quality of the irony is …
1929 · PDF PAGE 116
…st methods of arousing the macrocosmic force in the Circle. It should never be omitted unless there be some spécial reason against it. A particular tread seems appropriate to it. This tread should be light and stealthy, almost furtive, and yet very purposeful. It is the pace of the tiger who stalks the deer. The number of circumambulations should of course correspond to the nature of the ceremony. Another important movement is the spiral, of which there are two principal forms, one inward, one outward. They can be performed in either direction …
1929 · PDF PAGE 50
…. Frazer’s “Golden Bough 2. See “The Book of Lies,” Liber 333, for se vend sermons to this effect. Caps. A, Af H, LE, II, IH, KA, KH, in particular. The réin¬ carnation of the Khu or magical Self is another matter entirely, too abstruse to discuss in this elementary manual. 14
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
…le of the unintelligent, since even its i. See “The Soldier and the HunchbackT Equinox I, i. The apparatus of human reason is simply one particular System of coordinating impressions; its structure is determined by the course of the évolution of the species. It is no more absolute than the évolution of the species. It is no more absolute than the mechanism of our muscles is a complété type wherewith ali other Systems of transmitting Force must conform. - 6 -