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…ey wanted more advanced knowledge they could perfectly well get it by using in the proper 1An impudent mushroom swindle, calling itself “Order of Hidden Masters”, has recently appeared—and disappeared. manner the knowledge which they already possessed. In other words, they must utilize their magical powers to make contact with the Secret Chiefs of the Order. (This, incidentally, is a quite normal and traditional mode of procedure.) Shortly afterwards, Mathers, who had manoeuvred himself into the practical Headship of the Order, announced that h…
1944 · PDF PAGE 16
…the claim for the promulgators of the cipher manuscript, that they were guardians of a tradition of Truth. 3. The Tarot and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. One must now digress into the history of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the society reconstituted by Dr. Westcott and his colleagues, in order to show further evidence as to the authenticity of the claim of the promulgators of the cipher manuscript. Among these papers, besides the attribution of the Tarot, were certain skeleton rituals, which purported to contain the secrets o…
1944 · PDF PAGE 39
The Trumps are numbered in Roman figures in order to avoid confusion with the Ara‐ bic numbers of the Sephiroth. It has puzzled the traditional writers on the Tarot that these numbers should run from 0 to XXI. They seem to have thought that it would be proper to as‐ sume that 0 was the Fool, because he was a cipher, a good‐for‐nothing. They made this as‐ sumption simply because they did not 1Some paragraphs of this section repeat, in slightly different phrases, statements already made in earlier pages. This is intended. know the secret doctrine…
1944 · PDF PAGE 202
An idea of a totally different Order is necessary to carry on the series. Note also the refold‐ ing4n‐upon‐itself suggested by the “Magic Number” of Four 1+2 + 3+4 which is Ten. i;:. Four is the number of the Curse of Limitation, of Restriction. It is the blind and barren Cross of equal arms, Tetragrammaton in his fatal aspect of finality, as the Qabalists knew him before the dis‐ covery of the Revolving Formula whereby the Daughter, seated upon the Throne of the Mother, “awakens the Eld of the All‐Father”. For the meanings of Via and Populus, …
1944 · PDF PAGE 21
…cond kind of Nothing which they called “Ain Soph”—”Without Limit”. (This idea seems not unlike that of Space.) They then decided that in order to interpret this mere absence of any means of definition, it was neces‐ sary to postulate the Ain Soph Aur—”Limitless Light”. By this they seem to have meant very much what the late Victorian men of science meant, or thought that they meant, by the Lumi‐ niferous Ether. (The Space‐Time Continuum?) All this is evidently without form and void; these are abstract conditions, not positive ideas. The next st…
1944 · PDF PAGE 87
…an a little mad; and the lion also is aflame with lust. This signi‐ fies that the type of energy described is of the primitive, creative order; it is completely inde‐ pendent of the criticism of reason. This card portrays the will of the Aeon. In the background are the bloodless images of the saints, on whom this image travels, for their whole life has been absorbed into the Holy’ Grail. “Now ye shall know that the chosen priest & apostle of infinite space is the prince‐ priest the Beast; and in his woman called the Scarlet Woman all power is g…
1944 · PDF PAGE 5
… upon this Wheel, revolving it in thy mind! Be this thy task, to see how each card springs necessarily from each other card, even in due order from The Fool unto The Ten of Coins. Then, when thou know’st the Wheel of Destiny complete, may’st thou perceive THAT Will which moved it first. [There is no first or last.] And lo! thou art past through the Abyss. The Book of Lies KEΦ.OH.
1944 · PDF PAGE 215
…. There is an intense lurking passion to create, but its children are monsters. This may mean the supreme tran‐ scendence of the natural order. Secrecy is here, and Perversion. The symbol represents the great Sword of the Magician, point uppermost; it cuts the junction of two short curved swords. The impact has destroyed the rose. In the background, storm broods under implacable night.
1944 · PDF PAGE 55
… Water, the doctrine that the origin of everything was Air. Yet if this were so, it would upset the whole Tarot as we know it, since the order of origin makes Fire the first father. It is Air as Zero that reconciles the antinomy. Dianus and Diana, it is true, were symbols of the air, and the Sanskrit Vedas say that the storm gods were the original gods. Yet, if the storm gods really presided over the formation of the Universe as we know it, they were certainly storms of fire; to this astronomers agree. But this theory certainly implies an ident…
1944 · PDF PAGE 49
…ophant—that is, one who manifests the mystery—to “diminish the message to the dog”. This he must do by exhibiting a symbol of the second order, a symbol suited to the intelligence of the second order of Initiates. This symbol, instead of be‐ ing universal, and thus beyond ordinary expression, must be further adapted to the intellec‐ tual capacity of the particular set of people whom it is the business of the hierophant to initi‐ ate. Such truth accordingly appears to the vulgar as fable, parable, legend, even creed. In the case of this comprehe…
1944 · PDF PAGE 13
… Initiated Tradition of the Tarot; I. Eliphaz Levi and the Tarot; 2. The Tarot in the Cipher Manuscripts; 3. The Tarot and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; 4. The Nature of the Evidence; Summary of the Questions Hitherto Discussed. II. The Tarot and the Holy Qabalah; The Naples Arrangement; The Tarot and the Formula of Tetragrammaton; The Tarot and the Elements; The Twentytwo Keys, Atu, or Trumps of the Tarot. III. The Tarot and the Universe; Theories of the Ancients; The Tree of Life; The Naples Arrangement; The Tarot and the Tree of …
1944 · PDF PAGE 189
…l manifested active Power. The original Will of the Two has been transmitted through the Three, and is now built up into a solid system:—Order, Law, Government. It is also referred to Venus in Aries, which indicates that one cannot establish one’s work without tact and gentle‐ ness. The wands are headed by the Ram, sacred to Chesed, the Father‐god Amoun‐Ra, as also to Aries; but at the other end of the wands are the Doves of Venus. In the symbol, the ends of the wands touch a circle, showing the completion and limita‐ tion of the original work.…
1944 · PDF PAGE 10
…gick in Theory and Practice (Book 4, Part III) 1929 e.v. He published a full account of the Tarot, according to the MSS. of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in The Equinox, Vol.1, Nos. 7 and 8 (1912 e.v.). 1To trace his progress in the Order will assist the reader to follow his work. He attained the grade of Adeptus Minor 5°=6° (Fra: R.R. et A.C.) in January, 1900 e.v. That of Adeptus Major 6°=5°, taking the motto “OL SONUF VAORESAJI”, in April, 1904 e.v. That of Adeptus Exemptus 7°=4°, taking the motto OY MH, in 1909 e.v. (Fra: A A) Tha…
1944 · PDF PAGE 186
…rather than its later form. For destruction may be regarded as the first step in the creative process. The virgin ovum must be broken in order to fertilize it. Fear and repulsion are therefore the primary reaction to the assault. Then, with understand‐ ing of the complete plan, willing surrender rejoices to co‐operate. Six flames issue from the centre. This indicates the influence of the Sun, who is exalted in Ar‐ ies. This is the creative Will. Mars in Aries is the attribution of the Geomantic Figure Puer. p
1944 · PDF PAGE 9
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE On 18th November, 1898 e.v., Aleister Crowley was initiated into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; he took the motto “Perdurabo”—”I shall endure to the end”1 In February of the year following, he attained the grade of Practicus, and was accord‐ ingly entrusted with the secret attributions of the Tarot, especially those of the Atu. (See pp. 5‐ 10). He worked daily on these MSS., for the most part under the personal instruction of G.H. Frater 7°=4°, D.D.C.F. (S. Liddell Matters) and V.H. Fratres 5°=6° Iehi Aour (Allan Be…
1944 · PDF PAGE 211
…t card directly to be apprehended by the normal consciousness of Mankind. The errors of such cards as the 7 and 10 of Cups are yet of an Order altogether higher than the apparently much milder 4 of Swords. The study of the subtle and gradual deg‐ radation of the planes is excessively difficult. In nature, the obvious symbol of Air is the Wind “which bloweth whithersoever it listeth”. It lacks the concentrated Will of Fire to unite with Water: it has no corresponding pas‐ sion for its Twin Element, Earth. There is indeed, a notable passivity in …
1944 · PDF PAGE 230
…ign in which he is reborn. The disks are very large and solid; the suggestion of the card is that of a fortress. This represents Law and Order, maintained by constant authority and vigilance. The disks themselves are square; revolution is very opposite to the card; and they contain the signs of the Four Elements. For all that, they revolve; defence is valid only when violently active. So far as it appears stationary, it is the “dead centre” of the engineer; and Capricornus is the point at which the Sun “turns again Northward”. The back‐ ground …
1944 · PDF PAGE 42
Therefore, in order to use the properties of this card, one way is to get into communication with the Intelligence concerned, and to induce him to execute his function. There are thus seventy‐two “Angels” set over the thirty‐six small cards; these are derived from the “Great Name of God” of seventy‐two letters, called Shemhamphorasch. THE SHEMHAMPHORASCH AND THE TAROT This word means the Divided Name. The “Name” is Tetragrammaton: I.H.V.H., com‐ monly called Jehovah. He is the Supreme Lord of the Four Elements which compose funda‐ mentally the …
1944 · PDF PAGE 260
…e mind to accept it as the basis of all thinking on the subject of The Tarot, exactly as the letters of the alphabet and their arbitrary order is accepted as the basis of all our thinking in respect of words and their pronunciation. Until this first task has been mastered, the details of the Tarot may prove a source of continual annoyance; every symbol of the book must be so familiar as to have sunk completely into the unconscious strata of thought. Intellectual knowl‐ edge must be so wrought into the substance of the mind that it becomes insti…
1944 · PDF PAGE 62
…ism of the Camel is explained later.) The card refers to the Moon. The Moon (being the general feminine symbol, the symbol of the second order corresponding to the Sun as the Yoni does to the Lingam) is universal, and goes from the highest to the lowest. It is a symbol which will recur frequently in these hiero‐ glyphs. But in the earlier Trumps the concern is with Nature above the Abyss; the High Priest‐ ess is the first card which connects the Supernal Triad with the Hexad; and her path, as shown in the diagram, makes a direct connection betw…