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…t which was obscure to me was cleared up in some new discourse (the discourses have consequently been re-arranged). Before printing, the whole work was read by several persons of rather less that average intelligence, and any point not quite clear even to them has been elucidated. May the whole Path now be plain to all ! Frater Perdurabo is the most honest of all the great religious teachers. Others have said : "Believe me!" He says: "Z>^;z'/ believe me!" He does not ask for followers; would despise and refuse them. He wants an independent and …
1913 · PDF PAGE 46
…Malkuth, the First and the Last, the One and the Many, since in this Oil they are One. These oils taken together represent therefore the whole Tree of Life. The ten Sephiroth are blended into the perfect gold. This Oil cannot be prepared from crude myrrh, cinnamon, and galangal. The attempt to do so only gives a brown mud with which the oil will not mix. These substances must be themselves refined into pure oils before the final combination. This perfect Oil is most penetrating and subtle. Gradually it will spread itself, a glistening film, ove…
1913 · PDF PAGE 64
…he base ! There is no knowledge and no power which is useless to the Magician. One might almost say there is no scrap of material in the whole Universe with which he can dispense. His ultimate enemy is the great Magician, the Magician who created the whole illusion of the 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 …
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…f the Yoni. The significance of this is too complex for our simple treatise; it may be studied in Crowley's "Berashith." The size of the whole figure is determined by the size of one square of the Tau. And the size of this square is that of the base of the Altar, which is placed upon Malkuth. It will follow then that, in spite of the apparent freedom of the Magician to do anything he likes, he is really determined absolutely; for as the Altar must have a base proportionate to its height, and as that height must be con- venient for the Magician,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 141
129 Now though this Pantacle is composed only of shams, some shams somehow seem to be more false than others. The whole Universe is an illusion, but it is an illusion difficult to get rid of. It is true compared with most things. But ninety-nine out of every hundred impressions are false even in relation to the things on their own plane. Such distinctions must be graven deeply upon the surface of the Pantacle by the Holy Dagger. There is only one other of the elemental Instruments to be considered, namely the Lamp.
1913 · PDF PAGE 145
…le that Moses saw, the image of the Most High. This Lamp hangeth above the Altar, it hath no support from below; its light illumines the whole Temple, yet upon it are cast no shadows, no reflections. It cannot be touched, it cannot be extinguished, in no way can it change; for it is utterly apart from all those things which
1913 · PDF PAGE 130
…ast to West. What is the height of this Temple? From the Abyss to the Abyss. There is, therefore, nothing movable or immovable under the whole firmament of heaven which is not included in this pantacle, though it be but " eight inches in diameter, and in thickness half an inch." Fire is not matter at all; water is a combination of elements; air almost entirely a mixture of elements; earth contains all both in admixture and in combination. So must it be with this Pantacle, the symbol of earth. And as this Pantacle is made of pure wax, do not for…
1913 · PDF PAGE 111
…f the Magus is to destroy his partial thought by uniting it with the Universal Thought, not to make a further breach and division in the Whole. ^ The Brahmin caste is not so strict as that of the "heaven-born" (Indian Civil Service).
1913 · PDF PAGE 116
…ccurately pictured in the Tarot Trump called " The Angel," which corresponds to the letter Shin, the letter of Spirit and of Breath. The whole mind of man is rent by the advent of Adonai, and is at once caught up into union with Him. " In the air," the Ruach. Note that etymologically the word crvy, "together with," is the San- skrit Sam; and the Hebrew ADNI is the Sanskrit ADHI. The phrase "together with the Lord," is then literally identical with the word Samadhi, which is the Sanskrit name of the phenomenon de- scribed by Saint Paul, this uni…
1913 · PDF PAGE 14
…actices for this purpose. If you keep on praying with your lips long enough, you will one day find yourself pray- ing in your heart. The whole question has been threshed out and organized
1913 · PDF PAGE 58
… a reciprocating engine ; and his counsel is only good for the beginner. Ultimately the Magical Will so identifies itself with the man's whole being that it becomes unconscious, and is as constant a force as gravitation. One may even be surprised at one's own acts, and have to reason out their connection. But let it be understood that when the Will has thus really raised itself to the height of Destiny, the man is no more hkely to do wrong than he is to float off into the air. One may be asked whether there is not a conflict between this develo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 88
…to 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 human love is an excitement, and not a stilling, of the mind; and as it is bound to the individual, only leads to greater trouble in the end. This Divine Love, on the contrary, is attached to no symbol. It abhors Hmitation, either in its intensity or its scope. And th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 147
…ou are are veils before that Light. Yet in so great a matter all advice is vain. There is no master so great that he can see clearly the whole character of any pupil. What helped him in the past may hinder another in the future. Yet since the Master is pledged to serve, he may take up that service on these simple lines. Since all thoughts are veils of this Light, he may advise the destruction of all thoughts, and to that end teach those practices which are clearly conducive to such destruction. These practices have now fortunately been set down…
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…f the incompatibility of the lesser oath with the greater. This is indeed almost certain to occur, and it must be remembered that as the whole essence of the will is its one-pointedness,^ a dilemma of this sort is the worst in which the Magus can find himself. Another great point in this consideration of Magick Vows is to keep them in their proper place. They must be taken for a clearly defined purpose, a clearly understood purpose, and they must never be allowed to go beyond it. It is a virtue in a diabetic not to eat sugar, but only in refere…
1913 · PDF PAGE 78
…e truth, and only one. All other thoughts are false. And as he advances in the knowledge of his mind he will come to understand that its whole structure is so faulty that it is quite incapable, even in its most exalted moods, of truth. He will recognize that any thought merely establishes a relation be- tween the Ego and the non-Ego. Kant has shown that even the laws of nature are but the conditions of thought. And as the current of thought is the blood of the mind, it is said that the Magick Cup is filled with the blood of the Saints. All thou…
1913 · PDF PAGE 15
…y been little used.^ Again, the confusion of thought caused by the ignorance of the people who did not understand it has discredited the whole subject. It is now our task to re-establish this science in its perfection. To do this we must criticize the Authorities; some of them have made it too complex, others have completely failed in such simple matters as coherence. Many of the writers are empirics, still more mere scribes, while by far the largest class of all is composed of stupid charlatans. We shall consider a simple form of magick, harmo…
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…uth to Yesod. Sixty is Samekh, the path leading leading from Yesod to Tiphereth ; and 3 is Gimel, the path leading thence to Kether. The whole rod therefore gives the paths from the Kingdom to the Crown. ^ In one, the best, system of Magick, the Absolute is called the Crown, God is called the Father, the Pure Soul is called the Mother, the Holy Guardian Angel is called the Son, and the Natural Soul is called the Daughter. The Son purifies the Daughter by wedding her; she thus becomes the Mother, the uniting of whom with the Father absorbs all i…
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…alysis the spiritual part of Malkuth must be separated from it by the philosophical stone, and then Christus, the Anointed One, makes it whole once more. ''Solve et coagula!" It is noticeable that this takes place at the arrest of Christ, who is the son, the Ruach, immediately before his crucifixion. The Calvary Cross should be of six squares, an unfolded cube, which cube is this same philosophical stone. Meditation will reveal many mysteries which are concealed in this symbol. The Sword or Dagger is attributed to air, all-wandering, all-pene- …
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i6o which we wish to evoke is nothing partial, but whole, we shall have but a single symbol to combine the two. The Great Work will then form the subject of the design.^ In this Lamen the Magician must place the secret keys of his power. The Pentacle is merely the material to be worked upon, gathered to- gether and harmonized but not yet in operation, the parts of the engine arranged for use, or even put together, but not yet set in motion. In the Lamen these forces are already at work; even accomplishment is prefigured. In the system of Abrame…