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44 simply stripping himself of energy, causing him to waste his time over trifles. There is no power which cannot be pressed into the ser- vice of the Magical Will: it is only the temptation to value that power for itself which offends. One does not say: "Cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?" unless repeated prunings have convinced the gardener that the growth must always be a rank one. " If thine hand offend thee, cut it off! " is the scream of a weakling. If one killed a dog the first time it misbehaved itself, not many would pass the st…
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cian is blasted by the Thunderbolt, and poisoned by the Serpent, at the same time the organs whose union is the supreme sacrament are left in him. At the coming of Adonai the individual is destroyed in both senses. He is shattered into a thousand pieces, yet at the same time united with the simple.' Of this it is also spoken by St. Paul in his Epistle to the Church in Thessalonica: "For the Lord shall descend from Heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God ; and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we …
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…ty Passion played with all his toys and broke them, good little Patience put them carefully aside. Bunyan forgets to mention that by the time Passion had broken all his toys, he had outgrown them. Karma does not act in this tit-for-tat way. An eye for an eye is a sort of savage justice, and the idea of justice in our human sense is quite foreign to the constitution of the Universe. Karma is the Law of Cause and Effect. There is no propor- tion in its operations. Once an accident occurs it is impossible to say what may happen ; and the Universe …
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…uinox, No. I to the current number. 2. 777. lOS. 3. K(jn.\ Om Tax. 10s. 4. Collected Works of A. Crowley; Tannhauser, The Sword of Song. Time, Eleusis. 3 vols, ^£"2 2s. 5. Raja \'oga, by Swami Vivekananda. ^s. Gd. 6. The Shiva Sanhita, or the Hathayoga Pradipika. s^- 7. 'i'hc Tao Teh A'ing and the writings of Awang Tze: S.B.IC. xxxix, xl. 155. iSi
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126 inclines to suppose, that this action involves one in the doom of being killed by a louse a hundred thousand times. This ledger of Karma is kept separate from the petty cash account; and in respect of bulk this petty cash account is very much bigger than the ledger. If we eat too much salmon we get indigestion and perhaps nightmare. It is silly to suppose that a time will come when a salmon will eat us, and find us disagree. On the other hand we are always being terribly punished for actions that are not faults at all. Even our virtues rous…
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… it were, awakened in order to be destroyed, so that the will of the Magician is in a sense trying to do two opposite things at the same time. Consciousness itself is only destroyed by Samadhi. One can now see the logical process which begins in refusing to think of a foot, and ends by destroying the sense of individuality. Of the methods of destroying various deep-rooted ideas there are many. The best is perhaps the method of equilibrium. Get the mind into the habit of calling up the opposite to every thought that may arise. In conversation al…
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87 spinal column, or, if you prefer it, Time, chosen as one of the conditions of normal consciousness. The mouse is the Ego ; " Mus,'' a mouse, being only Sum, " I am," spelt Qabalistically backwards. This Ego or Prana or Kundalini force being driven up the spine, the clock strikes one, that is, the duality of consciousness is abolished. And the force again subsides to its original level. " Hickory, dickory, dock!" is perhaps merely the mantra which was used by the Adept who constructed this rime, thereby hoping to fix it in the minds of men, s…
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56 there at the time when he would normally do the forbidden thing, to warn him against its repetition. There will thus be a clear connection in his mind of cause and effect, until he will be just as careful in avoiding this particular act which he has consciously determined, as in those other things which in childhood he has been trained to avoid. Just as the eyelid unconsciously closes when the eye is threatened,^ so must he build up in consciousness this power of inhibition until it sinks below consciousness, adding to his store of automatic…
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… refuse them. He wants an independent and self-reliant body of students to follow out their own methods of research. If he can save them time and trouble by giving a few useful "tips," his work will have been done to his own satisfaction. Those who have wished men to believe in them \vere absurd. A per- suasive tongue or pen, or an efficient sword, with rack and stake, pro- duced this "belief," which is contrary to, and destructive of, all real religious experience. The whole life of Frater Perdurabo is now devoted to seeing that you obtain thi…
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…ar, its single notes tinkle fainter and fainter into silence. At the sound of this Bell the Universe ceases for an indivisible moment of time, and attends to the Will of the Magician. Let him not interrupt the sound of this Bell. Let this be that which is written. Liber VII, v, 31 : "There is a solemnity of the silence. There is no more voice at all." As the Magical Book was the record of the past, so is the Magick Bell the prophecy of the future. The manifested shall repeat itself again and again, always a clear thin note, always a sim- plicit…
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…et rid of the mud; but there are many impurities which defy everything but distillation and even some which must be fractionated unto 70 times 7. There is, however, a universal solvent and harmonizer, a certain dew which is so pure that a single drop ot it cast into the water of the Cup will for the time being bring all to perfection. This dew is called Love. Even as in the case of human love, the whole Universe appears perfect to the man who is under its control, so is it, and much more, with the Divine Love of which it is now spoken. For huma…
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… on his school knowledge is in danger of becoming a college professor. So the Guru of the water-walking Hindu only meant that it was now time to be dissatisfied with what he had done — and to employ his powers to some better end. And, incidentally, since the divine Will is one, it will be found that
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…e circle and the cross, though some will prefer to replace the cross by a point, or by a Tau, or by a triangle. The Vesica Piscis is sometimes used instead of the circle, or the circle may be glyphed as a serpent. Time and space and the idea of causality are sometimes represented; so also are the three stages in the history of philosophy, in which the three objects of study were successively Nature, God, and Man. The duality of consciousness is also sometimes represented; and the Tree of Life itself may be figured therein, or the categories. An…
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…ed a file. Since, then, we may want anything^ let us see to it that our will is strong enough to obtain anything we want without loss of time. It is therefore necessary to develop the will to its high- est point, even though the last task but one is the total sur- render of this will. Partial surrender of an imperfect will is of no account in Magick. The will being a lever, a fulcrum is necessary; this fulcrum is the main aspiration of the student to attain. All wills which are not de- pendent upon this principal will are so many leakages ; the…
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… that Catholics are better eating than Presbyterians. Yet these points and their kind are the only ones which have any importance at the time when the events occur. Nero did not consider what unborn posterity might think of him; it is difficult to credit cannibals with the calculation that the recital of their exploits will induce pious old ladies to replenish their larder. Very few people have ever se€?i a bull-fight. One set of people goes for excitement, another set for the perverse excitement which real or simulated horror affords. Very few…
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…will aid the vigilance of the sleepy Chela, and, while tempering the Wind to that shorn lamb, will carefully harden him, and at the same time gladden his ears with holy discourse. But if such a person is in- accessible, let him choose any one with whom he has constant inter- course, explain the circumstances, and ask him to act. The person should if possible be trustworthy; and let the Chela remember that if he should be ordered to jump over a cliff it is very much better to do it than to give up the practice. And it is of the very greatest imp…
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…Universe; and to meet him in battle, so that nothing is left either of him or of yourself, you must be exactly equal to him. At the same time let the Magician never forget that every brick must tend to the summit of the pyramid — the sides must be perfectly smooth; there must be no false summits, even in the lowest layers. This is the practical and active form of that obligation of a Master of the Temple in which it is said: " I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul." In Liber CLXXV many practical devices f…
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… circle together make one form of the Rosy Cross, the uniting of subject and object which is the Great Work, and which is symbolized sometimes as this cross and circle, sometimes as the Lingam-Yoni, sometimes as the Ankh or Crux Ansata, sometimes by the Spire and Nave of a church or temple, and sometimes as a marriage feast, mystic marriage, spiritual marriage, "chymical nuptials," and in a hundred other ways. Whatever the form chosen, it is the symbol of the Great Work. This place of his working therefore declares the nature and object of the …
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…ama. By this exercise some thoughts are barred, and those which do come into the mind come more slowly than before, so that the mind has time to perceive their falsity and to destroy them. On the blade of the Magick Sword is etched the name AGLA, a Notariqon formed from the initials of the sentence Ateh Gibor Leolahm Adonai, " To Thee be the Power unto the Ages, O my Lord." And the acid which eats into the steel should be oil of vitriol. Vitriol is a Notariqon of " Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Oc- cultum Lapidem." That is to sa…