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…s difficulty lends most powerful aid to the Magician. It is unwise for him to attempt it until he has received regular initiation in the true 2 Order of the Rosy Cross, 1. Note : This paragraph was written in the summer of 1911 e.v., just three years before its fulfilment. 2. It is here désirable to warn the render against the numerous false orders which hâve impudently assumed the name of Rosicrucian. The Masonic Societas Rosicruciana is honest and harmless; and makes no false pretences; if its members happen as a rule to be pompous busy-bodie…
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
…c nusband when she would really be happy in an attic with a lover, while another may fool herself into a romande elopement when her only true pleasures are those of presiding at fashionable functions. Again, a boy’s instinct may tell him to go to sea, while his parents insist on his becoming a doctor. In such a case, he will be both unsuccessful and unhappy in medicine.) (8) À Mail v'Iiose conscious will is at odds with îiis True Will is wasting his strengtli. He cannot hope to influence his environment efficiently. (Illustration: When Civil Wa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 77
… 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 gain % is hlack magic. You are no longer a noble g…
1929 · PDF PAGE 64
…y the glorified body which rises with the mortal body which dies. On the contrary, he repeatedly insists on the distinction. The same is true of a magical ceremony. The magician who is destroyed by absorption in the Godhead is really destroyed. The I. There is a quite different formula in which I is the Father, O the Mother, A the child — and yet another, in which I. A. O. are ail fathers of different kir.ds balanced by H. H. H., 3 Mothers, to complété the Universe. In a third, the true formula of the Beast 666, I and O are îhe opposites which …
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…f 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. The dagger 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…
1929 · PDF PAGE 26
…to the utmost. 1 (Illustration: A function imperfectly performed injures, not I. Men of “criminal nature” are simply at issue with their true Wills. The murderer has the Will-to-Live; and his will to murder is a false wilî at variance with his true Will, since he risks death at the hands of Society by obeying his criminal impulse. — XXIV
1929 · PDF PAGE 83
…s not actually occur in nature except as the withdrawal of phenomena into the absolute; which process, even when so understood, is not a true destruction, but, on the contrary, the émancipation of anything from the modifications which it had mistaken for itself. It occurred to him that the true nature of Silence was to permit the uninterrupted vibration of the undulatory energy, free from the false conceptions attached to it by the Ahamkara or Ego-making faculty, whose assumption that conscious individuality constitutes existence led it to cons…
1929 · PDF PAGE 73
… has corne consciously to his full stature, and so is ready to set out on his journey to redeem the world. But he may not appear in this true form; the Vision of Pan would drive men mad with fear. He must conceal Himself in his original guise. He therefore becomes apparently the man that he was at the beginning; he lives the life of a man; indeed, he is wholly man. But his initiation has made him master of the Event by giving him the understanding that whatever happens to him is the execution of his true will. Thus the last stage of his initiat…
1929 · PDF PAGE 99
…armony of the Universe”, so often used so stupidly and superficially by the ordinary apologist for Nature, and he will also perceive the true operation of the law of Karma. 2 Another notable injunction of the ancient Magick was that whatever appertained to the Work should be single. The Wand was to be eut with a single stroke of the knife. There must be no 1. It is, and the fact is still more important, utterly fatal and demora- lizing to acquire the habit of reliance on others. The Magician must know every detail of his work, and be able and w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 63
must not rely upon the false analogy of the Xylenes to rebut this argument. It is quite true that geometrical isomers act in différent manners towards the substances to which they are brought into relation. And it is of course necessary sometimes to rearrange the éléments of a molécule before that molécule can form either the masculine or the féminine element in a true Magical combination with some other molécule. It is therefore occasionally inévitable for a Magician to re- organize the structure of certain éléments before proceeding to his op…
1929 · PDF PAGE 114
…nds of environment, and therefore biologically perfect. “Do what thou wilt” implies self-adjustment, so that failure cannot occur. One’s true Will is necessarily fitted to the whole Universe with the utmost exactitude, because each term in the équation a + b+c=0 must be equal and opposite to the sum of ail the other terms. No individual can ever be aught than himself, or do aught else than his Will, which is his necessary relation with his environment, dynamically considered. Ail error is no more than an illusion proper to him to dissipate the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 37
…art 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 15
…l Philosophy, advanced in its Works and wonderful operations by a right understanding of the inward and occult virtue of things; so that true Agents being applied to proper Patients, strange and admirable effects will thereby be produced. Whence magicians are profound and diligent searchers into Nature j they, because of their skill, know how to anticipate an effect, the which to the vulgar 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 t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 71
…ference to anthropology. But this is not their condemnation, but their justification; for the customs and legends of mankind reflect the true nature of the species. 2. For these spellings see 777.
1929 · PDF PAGE 118
…ich is magical consciousness — with which she suits the action to the melody.8 T There is no more potent means than Art of calling forth true Gods to visible appearance. 1. Tiphareth is hardly “dominated” even by Kether. It is the son rather than the servant. 2. But not “in supplication”. 3. This passage was written in 1911 e. v. “Wake Duncan with thy Knocking? I would thou couldst!” 82 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 20
…tive and quantitative understanding of the conditions. (Illustration: The most common cause of failure in life is ignorance of one’s own True Will, or of the means by which to fulfil that ill. A man may fancy himself a painter, and waste his life trying to become one; or he may be really a painter, and yet fail to understand and to measure the difficulties peculiar to that career.) (5) The second requisite of causing any change is the practical ability to set in right motion the necessary forces. (Illustration: A banker may hâve a perfect grasp…
1929 · PDF PAGE 62
… the term in which she appears, not as the féminine corré¬ lative of the sun, but as the burnt-out, dead, airless satellite of earth. No true Magical operation can be performed by the formula of ALIM. Ail the works of witchcraft are illusory; and their apparent effects dépend on the idea that it is possible to aiter things by the mere rearrangement of them. One 1. AMA is 42, the number of sterility; AIMA, 52, that of fertility, of BN, the SON. 2. See A. Crowley “Orpheus" for an Invocation of this Goddess. 26
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
…ns of the Soûl of Nature. There is moreover ABRAXAS; there is XNOUBIS; there is MEITHRAS; and indeed it may briefly be stated that every true name of God gives the formula of the invocation of that God.1 It would therefore be impossible, even were it désirable, to analyse ail such names. The general method of doing so has been I. Members of the IV° of the O. T. O . are well aware of a Magick Word whose analysis contains ail Truth, human and Divine, a Word indeed potent for any group which dares to use it. 43
1929 · PDF PAGE 41
… 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 nature. “Something ourseîves (I erase Arnold's …
1929 · PDF PAGE 101
…paration 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