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f "making life conform to will. it is the right, or even the obligation if you will, of the occultist to maintain the balance of the universe. with this you may see a deeper concept on the difference between performing a ritual and a spell. rituals allow energies to manifest with the flow of the universe. spells, although they too may be powerful, most of the time aren't in conjunction with one's true will. with this balance obtained through ritual comes the true secret meaning of "going with the flow. sound familiar? it should. now comes the catch to all of this. in ritual, the energies invoked or banished are just as real as anything else in assiah, or the material world. in order for the occultist to be in control of such energies, he requires persistence, dedication, and in many cases

it will also tell you the probable outcome if you do perform the ritual. this is very important later, 110 when you progress into more active magical workings, understanding whether your magic will even be effective, or at least whether it will be karmically correct to perform this magic. we never want to venture into the area of black magic. black magic is essentially magic that is against your true will or against your holy guardian angel, the bornless part of you. most instances of harming other people could probably, generally speaking, be considered black magic. i will not get into the debate at this time about black magic versus white magic. suffice it to say that any magic that hurts you or another human being is not magic that you want to participate in. the circle spread divinati

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

ips from your wound symbolically mix with the blood that has been previously shed by the adepti that have gone before you. may it also be the reminder that you must never shed the blood of any of your brethren of the r.r et a.c. either by word, action or by the sword. finally, let the blood that pours forth from the wound be a reminder that should you ever turn against what you know to be is your true will, the brethren of the r.r. et a.c, the chiefs of the second order and the guardians both angelic and physical that guard the order, may all of your magical powers cease and may your blood be shed. do you understand, and do you agree to this most solemn pledge (chief places the cut upon the aspirant. chief "i now greet you with the grip of this grade (does this. 35 the fingers of the right

ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

very conscious and unconscious happening. this is that which is written in 'the book of the law- love is the law, love under will- for love is the instinct to unite, and the act of uniting. but this cannot be done indiscriminately, it must be done 'under will' that is, in accordance with the nature of the particular units concerned. hydrogen has no love for hydrogen; it is not the nature, or the 'true will' of hydrogen to seek to unite with a molecule of its own kind. add hydrogen to hydrogen: nothing happens to its quality: it is only its quantity that changes. it rather seeks to enlarge its experience of its possibilities by union with atoms of opposite character, such as oxygen; with this it combines (with an explosion of light, heat, and sound) to form water. the result is entirely dif

. add hydrogen to hydrogen: nothing happens to its quality: it is only its quantity that changes. it rather seeks to enlarge its experience of its possibilities by union with atoms of opposite character, such as oxygen; with this it combines (with an explosion of light, heat, and sound) to form water. the result is entirely different from either of the component elements, and has another kind of 'true will' such as to unite (with similar disengagement of light and heat) with potassium, while the resulting 'caustic potash' has in its turn a totally new series of qualities, with still another 'true will' of its own; that is, to unite explosively with acids. and so on (11) it may seem to some of you that these explanations have rather knocked the bottom out of yoga; that i have reduced it to

its own function, which it must naturally consider as the be-all and end-all of its existence. for instance, if you take a glass tube open at both ends and put it over a bee on the windowpane it will continue beating against the window to the point of exhaustion and death, instead of escaping through the tube. we must not confuse the necessary automatic functioning of any of our elements with the true will which is the proper orbit of any star. a human being only acts as a unit at all because of countless generations of training. evolutionary processes have set up a higher order of yogic action by which we have managed to subordinate what we consider particular interests to what we consider the general welfare. we are communities; and our well-being depends upon the wisdom of our councils

onduct, because it is perfectly rigid and perfectly elastic 'do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law' so: it is not the least use to come and pester me about it. perfect mastery of the violin in six easy lessons by correspondence! should i have the heart to deny you? but yama is different. do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law *that* is yama. your object is to perform yoga. your true will is to attain the consummation of marriage with the universe, and your ethical code must constantly be adapted precisely to the conditions of your experiment. even when you have discovered what your code is, you will have to modify it as you progress 'remould it nearer to the heart's desire- omar khayyam. just so, in a himalayan expedition your rule of daily life in the valleys of sikkim

atever may have been the knowledge of the ancients, it is at least certain that they left gaps in their system which were exactly filled by these two planets, and the newly discovered pluto. they fill these gaps just as the newly discovered chemical elements discovered in the last fifty years fill the gaps in mendelejeff's table of the periodic law. 17. herschel represents the highest form of the true will, and it seems natural and right that this should not rank with the seven sacred planets, because the true will is the sphere which transcends them 'every man and every woman is a star' herschel defines the orbit of the star, your star. but herschel is dynamic; herschel is explosive; herschel, astrologically speaking, does not move in an orbit; he has his own path. so the niyama which cor

nk with the seven sacred planets, because the true will is the sphere which transcends them 'every man and every woman is a star' herschel defines the orbit of the star, your star. but herschel is dynamic; herschel is explosive; herschel, astrologically speaking, does not move in an orbit; he has his own path. so the niyama which corresponds to this planet is, first and last, the discovery of the true will. this knowledge is secret and most sacred; each of you must incorporate for yourself the incidence and quality of herschel. it is the most important of the tasks of the yogi, because, until he has achieved it, he can have no idea who he is or where he is going. 18. still more remote and tenuous is the influence of neptune. here we have a niyama of infinite delicacy, a spiritual intuition

ntry where the technique of yoga is for all practical purposes impossible. incidentally, one's real country- that is, the conditions- in which one happens to be born is the only one in which yama and niyama can be practised. you cannot dodge your karma. you have got to earn the right to devote yourself to yoga proper by arranging for that devotion to be a necessary stage in the fulfilment of your true will. in hindustan one is now allowed to become 'sanyasi- a recluse- until one has fulfilled one's duty to one's own environment- rendered to caesar the things which are caesar's before rendering to god the things which are god's. woe to that seven months' abortion who thinks to take advantage of the accidents of birth, and, mocking the call of duty, sneaks off to stare at a blank wall in chi

ALEISTER CROWLEY DUTY

ut exceed! exceed "be strong, o man, lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any god shall deny thee for this" 4. contemplate your own nature. consider every element thereof both separately and in duty get any book for free on: www.abika.com 3 relation to all the rest as to judge accurately the true purpose of the totality of your being. 5. find the formula of this purpose, or "true will, in an expression as simple as possible. leave to understand clearly how best to manipulate the energies which you control to obtain the results most favourable to it from its relations with the part of the universe which you do not yet control. 6. extend the dominion of your consciousness, and its control of all forces alien to it, to the utmost. do this by the ever stronger and more sk

nquishable ardour and vehemence of passion unquenchable, every attempt of any other being to influence you otherwise than by contributing new facts to your experience of the universe, or by assisting you to reach a higher synthesis of truth by the mode of passionate fusion. 8. do not repress or restrict any true instinct of your nature; but devote all in perfection to the sole service of your one true will "be goodly therefore "the word of sin is restriction. o man! refuse not thy wife if she will. o lover, if thou wilt, depart. there is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. accursed! accursed! be it to the aeons. hell. so with thy all: thou hast no right but to do thy will. do that and no other shall say nay. for pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from

g necessary in many respects to your own, that well-being, like your own, principally a function of the intellegent and wise observance of the law of thelema, it is of the very first importance to you that every individual should accept frankly that law, and strictly govern himself in full accordance therewith. you may regard the establishment of the law of thelema as an essential element of your true will, since, whatever the ultimate nature of that will, the evident condition of putting it into execution is freedom from external interference. governments often exhibit the most deplorable stupidity, however enlightened may be the men who compose and constitute them, or the people whose destinies they direct. it is therefore incumbent on every man and woman to take the proper steps to caus

of the individual outraged (thus, murder restricts his right to live; robbery, his right to enjoy the fruits of his labour; coining, his right to the guarantee of the state that he shall barter in security; etc) it is then the common duty to prevent crime by segregating the criminal, and by the threat of reprisals; also, to teach the criminal that his acts, being analyzed, are contrary to his own true will (this may often be accomplished by taking from him the right which he has denied to others; as by outlawing the thief, so that he feels constant anxiety for the safety of his own possessions, removed from the ward of the state) the rule is quite simple. he who violated any right declares magically that it does not exist; therefore it no longer does so, for him. crime being a direct spiri

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

ilure to employ the correct medium, as when leonardo da vinci found his masterpiece fade away. the force may be applied to an unsuitable object, as when one tries to crack a stone, thinking it a nut (4) the first requisite for causing any change is through qualitative 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 will. 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 have a pe

really be happy in an attic with a lover, while another may fool herself into a romantic 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 insists on his becoming a doctor. in such a case, he will be both unsuccessful and unhappy in medicine (8) a man whose conscious will is at odds with his true will is wasting his strength. he cannot hope to influence his environment efficiently (illustration: when civil war rages in a nation, it is in no condition to undertake the invasion of other countries. a man with cancer employs his nourishment alike to his own use and to that of the enemy which is part of himself. he soon fails to resist the pressure of his environment. in practical life, a

ages in a nation, it is in no condition to undertake the invasion of other countries. a man with cancer employs his nourishment alike to his own use and to that of the enemy which is part of himself. he soon fails to resist the pressure of his environment. in practical life, a man who is doing what his conscience tells him to be wrong will do it very clumsily. at first (9) a man who is doing this true will has the inertia of the universe to assist him (illustration: the first principle of success in evolution is that the individual should be true to his own nature, and at the same time adapt himself to his environment (10) nature is a continuous phenomenon, though we do not know in all cases how things are connected (illustration: human consciousness depends on the properties of protoplasm

the hole; but the net result of these trifling mishaps is the difference of a whole stroke, and so probably between halving and losing the hole (26) every man has a right, the right of self-preservation, to fulfil himself to the utmost<nature" are simply at issue with their true wills. the murderer has the will-to-live; and his will to murder is a false will at variance with his true will, since he risks death at the hands of society by obeying his criminal impulse (illustration: a function imperfectly preformed injures, not xx only itself, but everything associated with it. if the heart is afraid to beat for fear of disturbing the liver, the liver is starved for blood, and avenges itself on the heart by upsetting digestion, which disorders respiration, on which cardiac w

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 this true will. thus the last stage of his initiation is expressed in our formula as the final: digamma- the series of transformations has not affected his identity; but it has explained him to himself. similarly, copper is still copper after cu+o= cuo:+h so =cus o(h o:+k s=cus(k so: 2 4 4 2 2 2 4+ blowpipe and reducing agent= cu(s. it is the same copper, but we have learnt some of its properties. we o

n religion, but seek instinctively a refuge from the horror of contemplating nature, which they do not comprehend, in soothing-syrup affirmations such as those of christian science, spiritualism, and all the sham 'occult' creeds, as well as the emasculated forms of so-called christianity. as zoroaster says "explore the river of the soul; whence and in what order thou has come" one cannot do one's true will intelligently unless one knows what it is. liber thisarb, equinox i, vii, give instructions for determining this by calculating the resultant of the forces which have made one what one is. but this practice is confined to one's present incarnation. if one were to wake up in a boat on a strange river, it would be rash to conclude that the direction of the one reach visible was that of the

has the universe for its library and its laboratory; all nature is its subject; and its game, free from close seasons and protective restrictions, always abounds in infinite variety, being all that exists<magick makes it equal to all possible kinds of environment, and therefore biologically perfect "do what thou wilt" implies selfadjustment, 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 equation a+b+c=0 must be equal and opposite to the sum of all 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. all error is no more than an illusion proper to him to dis

to dissipate the mirage, and it is a general law that the method of accomplishing this operation is to realize, and to acquiesce in, the order of the universe, and to refrain from attempting the impossible task of overcoming the inertia of the forces which oppose, and therefore are identical with, one's self. error in thought is therefore failure to understand, and in action to perform, one's own true will> 78 chapter x of the gestures this chapter may be divided into the following parts: 1. attitudes. 2. circumambulations (and similar movements. 3. changes of position (this depends upon the theory of the construction of the circle. 4. the knocks or knells. i attitudes are of two kinds: natural and artificial. of the first kind, prostration is the obvious example. it comes natural to man (

ed to visible appearance. the secret sanctuaries of the soul are cleansed "do what thou wilt" purges his every part. he has become one, one only. his will is consequently released from 125 the interference of internal opposition, and he is a master of magick. but for that very reason he is now utterly impotent to achieve anything that is not in absolute accordance with his original oath, with his true will, by virtue whereof he incarnated as a man. with bill sykes love and murder are not mutually exclusive, as they are with king arthur. the higher the type of man, the more sensitive he becomes; so that the noblest love divines intuitively when a careless word or gesture may wound, and, vigilant, shuns them as being of the family of murder. in magick, likewise, the adept who is sworn to att

s mouth bitted; as soon as he took serious oaths and was admitted to the order which we name not, those oaths prevented him using his powers as playthings. trifling operations, such as he once could do with a turn of the wrist, became impossible to the most persistent endeavour. it was many years before he understood the cause of this. but little by little he became so absorbed in the work of his true will that it no longer occurred to him to indulge in capricious amusements. yet even at this hour, though he be verily a magus of a. a, though his word be the word of the aeon, though he be the beast 666, the lord of the scarlet woman "in whom is all power 126 given, there are still certain orgia beyond him to perform, because to do so would be to affirm what he hath denied in those oaths by

s friend, that bore the bag, stole that which was put therein, and betrayed his master as thoroughly as he was able. at the first distant rumour that the pharisees were out, his disciples "all forsook him and fled. his mother nailed him with her own hands to the cross, and reviled him as nine years he hung thereupon. now, having endured to the end, being master of magick, he is mighty to work his true will; which will is, to establish on earth his word, the law of thelema. he hath none other will than this; so all that he doth is unto this end. all his orgia bear fruit; what was the work of a month when he was a full major adept is to day wrought in a few minutes by the words of will, uttered with the right vibrations into the prepared ear. 127 but neither by the natural use of his abiliti

etals must be the quintessence of some substance that serves to determine the structure (or rate of vibration) whose manifestation is in characteristic metallic qualities. this need not be a chemical substance at all in the ordinary sense of the word. the elixir of life will similarly consist of a living organism capable of growth, at the expense of its environment; and of such a nature that its "true will" is to cause that environment to serve it as its means of expression in the physical world of human life. the universal medicine will be a menstruum of such subtlety as to be able to penetrate all matter and transmute it in the sense of its own tendency, while of such impartial purity as to accept perfectly the impression of the will of the alchemist. this substance, properly prepared, a

al spirit of the girl- she was not human, the sheath of a star, but an advanced planetary daemon, whose rash ambition had captured a body beyond its capacity to conduct- in his own magical vehicle. he thereby pledged himself to subordinate all the sudden accession of qualities- passionate, capricious, impulsive, irrational, selfish, short-sightedness, sensual, fickle, crazy, and desperate, to his true will; to discipline, co-ordinate and employ them in the great work, under the penalty of being torn asunder by the wild horses which he had bound fast to his own body by the act of "destroying" their independent consciousness and control of their chosen vehicle. see his magical record an xx, sun in libra and onward> 7. works of creation and dissolution, and the higher invocations. there are a

n the way that his superiors enjoin, and his genius dictates. to attain the grade adeptus major, he must accomplish two tasks; the equilibration of himself, especially as to his passions, so that he has no preference for any one course of conduct over another, and the fulfilment of every action by its complement, so that whatever he does leaves him without temptation to wander from the way of his true will. secondly, he must keep silence, while he nails his body to the tree of his creative will, in the shape of that will, leaving his head and arms to form the symbol of light, as if to make oath that his every thought, word and deed should express the light derived from the god with which he has identified his life, his love and his liberty- symbolised by his heart, his phallus, and his leg

ity work in accordance with the facts of nature, just as an architect must allow of the law of gravitation, or a sailor reckon with currents. so must all members of the a. a. work by the magical formula of the aeon. they must accept the book of the law as the word and the letter of truth, and the sole rule of life<existence; and to refuse to accept the book of the law is to create a conflict within nature, as if a physicist insisted on using an incorrect formula of mechanics as the basis of an experiment> they must acknowledge the authority of the beast 666 and of the scarlet woman as 240 in the book it is defined, and accept their wi

of the new aeon> as concentrating the will of our whole order. they must accept the crowned and conquering child as the lord of the aeon, and exert themselves to establish his reign upon earth. they must acknowledge that "the word of the law is gr:theta-epsilon-lambda-eta-mu- alpha" and that "love is the law, love under will" each member must make it his main work to discover for himself his own true will, and to do it, and do nothing else<active propagandist of the law, and so on; it may, or may not, be the true will of any particular person to do so. but since the fundamental purpose of the order is to further the attainment of humanity, membership implies, by definition, the will to help mankind by the means best adapted there

of the law, and so on; it may, or may not, be the true will of any particular person to do so. but since the fundamental purpose of the order is to further the attainment of humanity, membership implies, by definition, the will to help mankind by the means best adapted thereto> he must accept those orders in the book of the law that apply to himself as being necessarily in accordance with his own true will, and execute the same to the letter with all the energy, courage, and ability that he can command. this applies especially to the work of extending the law in the world, wherein his proof is his own success, the witness of his life to the law that hath given him light in his ways, and liberty to pursue them. thus doing, he payeth his debt to the law that hath freed him by working its wil

and red being so nearly orange, which is really a shade of yellow, and yellow a component of green which merges into blue, what harm if a fiend in vermilion appears instead of an angel in azure? the true, the final test, of the truth of one's visions is their value. the most glorious experience on the astral plane, let it dazzle and thrill as it may, is not necessarily in accordance with 254 the true will of the seer; if not, though it be never so true objectively, it is not true for him, because not useful for him (said we not a while ago that truth was no more than the most convenient manner of statement) it may intoxicate and exalt the seer, it may inspire and fortify him in every way, it may throw light upon most holy mysteries, yet withal be no more than an interpretation of the indi

ution of the orders of the day. the adept should therefore be able to rely on these individual minds of his to control their own conditions without interference from himself for the time required, and to recall them in due course, receiving an accurate report of their adventures. this being so, the adept will be free to concentrate his deepest self, that part of him which unconsciously orders his true will, upon the realization of his holy guardian angel. the absence of his bodily, mental and astral consciousness is indeed cardinal to success, for it is their usurpation of his attention which has made him deaf to his soul, and his preoccupation with their affairs that has prevented him from perceiving that soul. 294 the effect of the ritual has been (a) to keep them so busy with their own

ilosophy with its "infinite series" and "cantorian continuity" is to schoolboy arithmetic. each implies the other, though by that one may explore the essential nature of existence, and by this a pawnbroker's profits. this then is the true aim of the adept in this whole operation, to assimilate himself to his angel by continual conscious communion. for his angel is an intelligible image of his own true will, to do which is the whole of the law of his being. also the angel appeareth in tiphereth, which is the heart of the ruach, and thus the centre of gravity of the mind. it is also directly inspired from kether, the ultimate self, through the path of the high priestess, or initiated intuition. hence the angel is in truth the logos or articulate expression of the whole being of the adept, so

use of his powers; he must make every act not only accord with his will, but with the proprieties of his position at the time. it might be my will to reach 341 the foot of a cliff; but the easiest way- also the speediest, most direct, least obstructed, the way of minimum effort- would be simply to jump. i should have destroyed my will in the act of fulfilling it, or what i mistook for it; for the true will has no goal; its nature being to go. similarly a parabola is bound by one law which fixes its relations with two straight lines at every point; yet it has no end short of infinity, and it continually changes its direction. the initiate who is aware who he is can always check his conduct by reference to the determinants of his curve, and calculate his past, his future, his bearings and hi

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

hat the method in every case is love, by which is meant the uniting of opposites as above stated, such as hydrogen and chlorine, sodium and oxygen, and so on. any reaction whatever, any phenomenon, is a phenomenon of "love, as you will understand when i come to explain to you the meaning of the word "point-event. but love has to be "under will" if it is to be properly directed. you must find your true will, and make all your actions subservient to the one great purpose. rahoor is the sun god; tahuti is the egyptian mercury; kephra is the sun at midnight. about your problems; what i have to do is to try to teach you to think clearly. you will be immensely stimulated by having all the useless trimmings stripped from your thinking apparatus. for instance, i don't think you know the first prin

you must have an aim, and one aim only: yet on no account must you want to achieve it! those chapters of the book of lies quoted in my last letter6 do throw some light onto this abyss of self-contradiction; and there is meaning much deeper than the contrast between the will with a capital w, and desire, want, or velleity. the main point seems to be that in aspiring to power one is limited by the true will. if you use force, violating your own nature either from lack of understanding or from petulant whim, one is merely wasting energy; things go back to normal as soon as the stress is removed. this is one small case of the big equation "free will= necessity (fate, destiny, or karma: it's all much the same idea. one is most rigidly bound by the causal chain that has dragged one to where one

ilure to employ the correct medium, as when leonardo da vinci found his masterpiece fade away. the force may be applied to an unsuitable object, as when one tries to crack a stone, thinking it a nut) 4. the first requisite for causing any change is thorough qualitative and quantitative understanding of the condition (illustration: the most common cause of failure in life is ignorance of one's own true will, or of the means by which to fulfill that will. 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 have a p

really be happy in an attic with a lover, while another may fool herself into a romantic 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. a man whose conscious will is at odds with his true will is wasting his strength. he cannot hope to influence his environment efficiently (illustration: when civil war rages in a nation, it is in no condition to undertake the invasion of other countries. a man with cancer employs his nourishment alike to his own use and to that of the enemy which is part of himself. he soon fails to resist the pressure of his environment. in practical life, a

es in a nation, it is in no condition to undertake the invasion of other countries. a man with cancer employs his nourishment alike to his own use and to that of the enemy which is part of himself. he soon fails to resist the pressure of his environment. in practical life, a man who is doing what his conscience tells him to be wrong will do it very clumsily. at first) 24 9. a man who is doing his true will has the inertia of the universe to assist him (illustration: the first principle of success in evolution is that the individual should be true to his own nature, and at the same time adapt himself to his environment) 10. nature is a continuous phenomenon, thought we do not know in all cases how things are connected. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 41 (illustra

cover the real meaning of his existence, the real motive which led him to choose that profession. he should understand banking as a necessary factor in the economic existence of mankind, instead of as merely a business whose objects 13* 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 will at variance with his true will, since he risks death at the hands of society by obeying his criminal impulse. 28 are independent of the general welfare. he should learn to distinguish false values from real, and to act not on accidental fluctuations but on considerations of essential importance. such a banker will prove himself superior to others; because he will not be an individual limited by transitory things, but

fe, as music, gardening, or collection jade might be. no, every act of your life is a magical act; whenever from ignorance, carelessness, clumsiness or what not, you come short of perfect artistic success, you inevitably register failure, discomfort, frustration. luckily for all of us, most of the acts essential to continued life are involuntary; the "unconscious" has become so used to doing its "true will" that there is no need of interference; when such need arises, we call it disease, and seek to restore the machine to free spontaneous fulfillment of its function. but this is only part of the story. as things are, we have all adventured into an universe of immeasurable, of incalculable, possibilities, of situations never contemplated by the trend of evolution. man is a marine monster; w

me" in all these letters you will find only two things: either i tell you what is bad for you, or what is good for you. but i am not you; i don't know every detail of your life, every trick of your thought. you must do ninety percent of the work for yourself. whether it is love, or your daily avocation, or diet, or friends, or amusement, or anything else, you must find out what helps you to your true will and what hinders; cherish the one and eschew the other. i want to insist most earnestly that concentration is not, as we nearly magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 122 all of us think, a matter of getting things right in the practices; you must make every breath you draw subservient to the true will, to fertilize the soil for the practices. when you sit down in yo

ns, like instinctively rising when a lady enters the room, or, at the other end, in moments of immediate peril, or of sudden apprehension, or when in one's meditation, one approaches the deepest strata. 1* see magick in theory and practice, pp. 427- 429. 2* book 4, part i. 8 one need not be dogmatic about the use of these special words. one might choose a formula to represent one's own particular true will. it is a little like cato (or scipio, was it) who concluded every speech, whether about the regulations of the roman bath or the proposal to reclaim a marsh of the maremma, with the words "and moreover, in my opinion, carthage ought to be destroyed" got it? you teach the mind to push your thought automatically to the very thing from which it was trying to wander "yes, i get you stephen

nother, i have rather exceeded my ration. there is nothing i can do about it, materially. the sensible course of action is to draw in my horns, live on the minimun, necessary to life, which involves cutting the day's work down to almost noting, and hope for the best, expecting the worst. but there is a magical mode of procedure. you say to yourself: i am here to do this work in accordance with my true will. the gods have got to see to it that i'm not baulked by any blinking messenger (but take care they don't overhear you; they might mistake it for hybris, or presumption. do it all in the sign of silence, under the aegis of harpocrates, the "lord of defence and protection; be careful to assume his god-form, as standing on two crocodiles. then you increase your consumption, and at the same

y worse. e.g: suppose you are counting on a new dress to make a hit at a reception, and doubt whether it is so much better than your present best, or whether it will be finished in time. then, wear that present best to-night (wet, of course, knowing you are sure to soil it. 3. obviously, all the usual conditions of a magical operation apply in this as in all cases; your aim must conform with your true will, and all that; but there is one curious point about an magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 138 act of truth: this, that one should resort to it only when there is no other method possible. in the explorer's case, above, it won't do if he has any means of hurrying up the messenger. it seems to me that the above brief sketch should suffice an intelligent and imagina

irtuous or what not, is at the best a waste of energy. but there are no artificial barriers on any type of act in general. the standard of conduct has one single touchstone. there may be- there will be- every kind of difficulty in determining whether, by this standard, any given act is "right" or "wrong: but there should be no confusion. no act is righteous in itself, but only in reference to the true will of the person who proposes to perform it. this is the doctrine of relativity applied to the moral sphere. i think that, if you have understood this, the whole theory is now within your grasp; hold it fast, and lay about you! of course, there must be certain courses of action which, generally speaking, will be right for pretty well everybody. some, per contra, will be generally barred, as

h without the square of ascertained and undisputed fact. remember also, even when thou art most sure, that so were they sure who gave instruction to the young copernicus. pay reverence also to the unknown unto whom thou presumest to impart thy knowledge; for he may be one greater than thou. de volutate jvenis cognoscenda it is important that thou shouldst understand as early as may be what is the true will of the child in the matter of his career. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 252 be thou well aware of all ideals and daydreams; for the child is himself, and not thy toy. recall the comic tragedy of napoleon and the king of rome; build not an house for a wild goat, nor plant a forest for the domain of a shark. but be thou vigilant for every sign, conscious or un

seem to me the only conceivable way of reconciling this and similar passages with "every man and every woman is a star" to assert the sovereignty of the individual, and to deny the rightto- exist to "class-consciousness "crowd-psychology" and so to mobrule and lynch-law, but also the only practicable plan whereby we may each one of us settle down peaceably to mind his own business, to pursue his true will, and to accomplish the great work. so never lose sight for a moment of the maxim so often repeated in one context or another in these letters: that fear is at the root of every possibility of trouble, and that "fear is failure, and the forerunner of failure. be thou therefore without fear; for in the heart of the coward virtue abideth not" good-night; and don't look under the bed! love i

e official mind will most certainly rate him. then why do not the masters oppose all forms of organization tooth-and-nail? it depends, surely, on the stage which a society has reached on its fall to the servile state. civilization of course, implies organization up to a certain point. the freedom of any function is built upon system; and so long as law and order make it easier for a man to do his true will, they are admirable. it is when system is adored for its own sake, or as a means of endowing mediocrities with power as such, that the "critical temperature" is attained. it so happens that i write this on the eve of a general election in england; and it seems to me that whichever wins, england loses: magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 284 the socialists openly p

ttern; no trouble, no pain: all one's dream come true! but hardly biological. you may argue that convicts are examples of living individuals whose safety, shelter, nourishment and the rest are organized with the utmost care; but accidents will happen in the best-regulated "brown stone jugs" the one ideally automatic case is the foetus. you will agree that here is lack of initiative; in fact, its "true will" is to escape, albeit into a harsh and hostile universe, fraught with unknown and incalculable dangers. as the ritual says "prepare to enter the immeasurable region" i think your decision should depend on how far caries has travelled on its road of destruction. i do not think that the masters need be unanimous. a practical plan might be for them to concentrate on one particular magic wit

to stop where they do. for us, sex is the first unconscious manifestation of chiah, the creative magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 297 energy; and although (like everything else) it is shown both on the spiritual and the physical planes, its most important forthshowing is on the "magical" plane, because it actually produces phenomena which partake of all these. it is the true will on the creative plane "by wisdom formed he the worlds" so soon as its thaumaturgy is accomplished, it is, through binah, understood as the logos. thus in sex we find every one of the primary correspondences of chokmah. being thus ineffable and sacrosanct, it is (plainly enough) peculiarly liable to profanation. being profaned, it is naturally more unspeakably nasty than any other of the

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k, and aspirants who have appreciated its adequacy to present the spirit of the master's teaching. those who had been disappointed with legge's version were enthusiastic about mine. this circumstance is in itself sufficient to assure me that love's labour has not been lost, and to fill me with enthusiastic confidence that the present publication will abundantly contribute to the fulfillment of my true will for which i came to earth, and wring labour and sorrow to the utmost of which humanity is capable, the will to open the portals of spiritual attainment to my fellow men, and bring them to the enjoyment of that realisation of truth, beneath all veils of temporal falsehood, which has enlightened mine eyes and filled my mouth with song. the tao teh king((weh note: pagination re-starts from

e we shun it. the wise man hath it not. knowing it to be bound up with sorrow, he putteth it away from him. 77 chapter lxxii concerning love of self. 1. when men fear not that which is to be feared, that which they fear cometh upon them((they should fear restriction of their true wills; if not, they become slaves) 2. let them not live, without thought, the superficial life((they must discover the true will, and do it. see the book of wisdom or folly) let them not weary of the spring of life((the true, subconscious will) 3. by avoiding the superficial life((rational, instead of subconscious reaction to environment, this weariness cometh not upon them((one must make a habit of doing one's true will; at first it is irksome, because of conflict with the accidents of life) 4. these things the w

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s are lawful to innocence. pure folly is the key to initiation. silence breaks into rapture. be neither man nor woman, but both in one. be silent, babe in the egg of blue, that thou mayest grow to the heart of the master get any book for free on: www.abika.com 11 bear the lance and graal! wander alone, and sing! in the king's palace his daughter awaits thee. i. the true self is the meaning of the true will: know thyself through thy way! calculate well the formula of thy way! create freely; absorb joyously; divide intently; consolidate completely. work thou, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, in and for eternity. ii. purity is to live only to the highest; and the highest is all: be thou as artemis to pan! read thou in the "book of the law, and break through the veil of the virgin! iii. th

ch lay upon the hexagonal table beneath the extended forefinger of mine instructor. and because he saw that their sense was partly hidden from me, he called to my memory two other writings from a compilation of certain jews of old "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of god; and this "the thought of foolishness is sin" now did i understand that all men live in sin, being baulked of their true will, that is, of the free function of their essential nature. this restriction cometh much from their ignorance of what their true will is, and much from external hindrance, but most of all from the interference of illcontrolled parts of their own instruments, the body and mind. for freedom is not found in looseness and lack of governance, but in the right ruling of each individual of the co

nd. for freedom is not found in looseness and lack of governance, but in the right ruling of each individual of the common weal so as to assure his own well-being no less than that of the whole. and this effect is to be won by perfect organization under the eye of an intelligence adequate to comprehend the general and the particular need together. the way of perfection is thus twofold: first, the true will must be consciously grasped by the mind, and this work is akin to that called the attainment of the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel. second, as it is written "thou hast no right but to do thy will" each particle of energy which the instrument is able to develop must be directed to the doing of that will, and this is one fierce lion the heart of the master get any bo

d against himself: that is, he is insane, and the upshot shall be the ruin of the unity of his godhead. yet hearken again; the opposition of two movements is not always evidence of conflict or error. for two opposite points upon the rim of a wheel move one north, the other south; yet are they harmonious parts of the same system. and the rowlock which resisteth the oar hindereth not but aideth the true will of that oar. so then self-control is nowise the enemy of freedom, but the heart of the master get any book for free on: www.abika.com 21 that which maketh it possible. and he who would deliver a muscle from its bondage to its bone by severing it rendereth that muscle impotent. moreover hear this word: as a muscle is vain, except it be rightly ordered, so also is thy work to be made easy

freedom, but the heart of the master get any book for free on: www.abika.com 21 that which maketh it possible. and he who would deliver a muscle from its bondage to its bone by severing it rendereth that muscle impotent. moreover hear this word: as a muscle is vain, except it be rightly ordered, so also is thy work to be made easy by uniting thyself to the work of the master, even therion, whose true will it is to bring each man's work to its perfection. to this end hath he proclaimed his law; so also to that end, which is also thine, do thou add thy little strength to his great might. as it is written: and blessing and worship to the prophet of the lovely star! thou, therefore- go on, go on in my strength, saith the lord of the aeon, and ye shall turn not back for any. while he thus spok

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t carelessly, or punctuated it incorrectly? or is there a qabalistic puzzle or a mystic submeaning concealed? the subject changes instantly, as it seems. i prefer to suggest that these "fools" are "silent selves, impotent babes unborn; then verse 12 continues "come forth, that is, bring your holy guardian angel from the womb of your subconsciousness. then "take your fill of love; that is, do your true will, whose mode of fulfilment is love, as explained later in this chapter. al i,12 "come forth, o children, under the stars& take your fill of love" the old comment 12. the key of the worship of nu. the uniting of consciousness with infinite space by the exercise of love, pastoral or pagan love. but vide infra. the new comment the whole doctrine of 'love' is discussed in the book "aleph (wis

our most strenuous operations "take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves" your daily drippings fill a bigger bucket than your geysers of magical effort. the "ninety and nine that safely lay in the shelter of the fold" have no organized will at all; and their character, built of their words and deeds, is only a garbage-heap. remember, also, that, unless you know what your true will is, you may be devoting the most laudable energies to destroying yourself. remember that every word and deed is a witness to thought, that therefore your mind must be perfectly organized, its sole duty to interpret circumstances in terms of the will so that speech and action may be rightly directed to express the will appropriately to the occasion. remember that every word and deed which

ct is waste, and breeds conflict within you, so that "the kingdom of god which is within you" is torn by civil war. to the beginner i would offer this programme. 1. furnish your mind as completely as possible with the knowledge of how to inspect and to control it. 2. train your body to obey your mind, and not to distract its attention. 3. control your mind to devote itself wholly to discover your true will. 4. explore the course of that will till you reach its source, your silent self. 5. unite the conscious will with the true will, and the conscious ego with the silent self. you must be utterly ruthless in discarding any atom of consciousness which is hostile or neutral. 6. let this work freely from within, but heed not your environment, lest you make difference between one thing and anot

his word- will. the first obvious meaning of this law is confirmed by antithesis "the word of sin is restriction" again. thou hast no right but to do thy will. do that, and no other shall say nay. for pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect" take this carefully; it seems to imply a theory that if every man and every woman did his and her will- the true will- there would be no clashing "every man and every woman is a star, and each star moves in an appointed path without interference. there is plenty of room for all; it is only disorder that creates confusion. from these considerations it should be clear that "do what thou wilt" does not mean "do what you like" it is the apotheosis of freedom; but it is also the strictest possible bond. do w

refuses therefore to assent to any argument as to the propriety of any fashion of formulating the soul in symbols of sex. a canon is no less deadly in love than in art or literature; its acceptance stifles style, and its enforcement extinguishes sincerity. it is better for a person of heterosexual nature to suffer every possible calamity as the indirect environment-evoked result of his doing his true will in that respect than to enjoy health, wealth and happiness by means either of suppressing sex altogether, of debauching it to the service of sodom or gommorrah. equally it is better for the androgyne, the urning, or their feminine counterparts to endure blackmailers private and public, the terrors of police persecution, the disgust, contempt and loathing of the vulgar, and the self-tortu

blood of her faithful! the ignorance or carelessness of a raw youth will no longer hound him to hell. a blighted career or a ruined constitution will no more be the penalty of a moment's exuberance. above all, the world will begin to appreciate the true nature of the sexual process, its physical insignificance as one among many parts of the body, its transcendent importance as the vehicle of the true will and the first of the sheaths of the self. hitherto our sexual tabus have kept far ahead of gilbert and sullivan. we have made love the lackey to property, as who should pay his rent by sneezing. we have swaddled it in politeness, as who should warn god off the grass. we have muddled it up with morality, as who should frown at the himalayas on the one hand, and, on the other, regulate his

cause it redeems even physical grossness to partake with spiritual saintship, the intention of this book of the law is perfectly simple. whatever your sexual predelictions may be, you are free, by the law of thelema, to the the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing. it is not indicated here in this text, thought it is elsewhere implied, that only one symptom warns that you have mistaken your true will, and this, if you should imagine that in pursuing your way you interfere with that of another star. it may, therefore, be considered improper, as a general rule, for your sexual gratification to destroy, deform, or displease any other star. mutual consent to the act is the condition thereof. it must, of course, be understood that such consent is not always explicit. there are cases when

that deed. one must choose the environment appropriate to the particular child which one wills to create. one must make sure that the conscious will is written, on the pure waters of a mind unstirred, in letters of fire, by the sun of the soul. one must not create confusion in the talisman, which belongs to the silent self, by letting the speaking self deny the purpose which produced it. if one's true will, the reason of one's incarnation, be to bring peace on earth, one must not perform an act of love with motives of jealousy or emulation. one must fortify one's body to the utmost, and protect it from every disaster, so that the substance of the talisman may be as perfect as possible. one must calm the mind, increasing its knowledge, organizing its powers, resolving its tangles, so that i

physical appearance and habits are of far less importance, especially in a society which has accepted the law of thelema. tolerance itself produces suavity, and suavity soon relieves the strain on tolerance. in any case, most people, especially women, adapt themselves adroitly enough to their environment. i say "especially women, for women are nearly always conscious of an important part of their true will; the bearing of children. to them nothing else is serious in comparison, and they dismiss questions which do not bear on this as trifles, adopting the habits required of them in the interest of the domestic harmony which they recognize as a condition favourable to reproduction. i have outlined ideal conditions. rarely indeed can we realize even a third of our possibilities. our magical e

he tribal medicine-man, none the less expressed truly his own wish to abdicate responsibility. in the light of this book, we know that the centre is everywhere, the circumference nowhere; that "every man and every woman is a star" a "khabs" the name of the house of hadit; that "the word of sin is restriction" to us, then "evil" is a relative term; it is "that which hinders one from fulfilling his true will (e.g, rain is "good" or "bad" for the farmer according to the requirements of his crops. the osirian rituals inculcating self-sacrifice to an abstract ideal, mutilation to appease an "ex cathedra" morality, fidelity to a priori formulae, etc. teach false and futile methods of acquiring false knowledge; they must be 'cast away' or 'purged. the schools of initiation must be reformed. al ii

erfectly, and be utterly indifferent to its pressure. these are the virtues which constitute a master of the temple. yet each man must act what he will; for he is energized by his own nature. so long as he works "without lust of result" and does his duty for its own sake, he will know that "the sorrows are but shadows" and he himself is "that which remains" for he can no more be destroyed, or his true will be thwarted, than matter diminish or energy disappear. he is a necessary unit of the universe, equal and opposite to the sum total of all the others; and his will is similarly the final factor which completes the equilibrium of the dynamical equation. he cannot fail if he would; thus, his sorrows are but shadows- he could not see them if he kept his gaze fixed on his goal, the sun. al ii

people at all, not'stars- for the time being. the fact of their being 'poor and sad' proves them to be 'shadows' who 'pass and are done' the 'lords of the earth' are those who are doing their will. it does not necessarily mean people with coronets and automobiles; there are plenty of such people who are the most sorrowful slaves in the world. the sole test of one's lordship is to know what one's true will is, and to do it. al ii,19 "is a god to live in a dog? no! but the highest are of us. they shall rejoice, our chosen: who sorroweth is not of us" the new comment a god living in a dog would be one who was prevented from fulfilling his function properly. the highest are those who have mastered and transcended accidental environment. they rejoice, because they do their will; and if any man

ave not harmed those who have used them in this law) follows a curse against the cringing altruism of christianity the yielding of the self to external impressions, the smothering of the babe of bliss beneath the flabby old nurse convention. the new comment drunkeness is a curse and a hindrance only to slaves. shelley's couriers were 'drunk on the wind of their own speed' any one who is doing his true will is drunk with the delight of life. wine and strange drugs do not harm people who are doing their will; they only poison people who are cancerous with original sin. in latin countries where sin is not taken seriously, and sex-expression is simple, wholesome, and free, drunkenness is a rare accident. it is only in puritan countries, where self-analysis, under the whip of a coarse bully lik

therefore a standard of satisfaction, though it must vary in detail with race, climate, and other such conditions. and this standard shall be based upon a large interpretation of facts biological, physiological, and the like "de fundamentis civitatis "say not, o my son, that in this argument i have set limits to individual freedom. for each man in this state which i purpose is fulfilling his own true will by his eager acquiescence in the order necessary to the welfare of all, and therefore of himself also. but see thou well to it that thou set high the standard of satisfaction, and that to every one be a surplus of leisure and of energy, so that, his will of self-preservation-being fulfilled by the performance of his function in the state, he may devote the remainder of his powers to the

ut the treasure-house of the assimilated wisdom of the ages, and the knowledge of the true way. thus are we just and wise to discover this secret in ourselves, and to conform the conscious mind therewith. for that mind is compact solely (until it be illuminated) of impressions and judgments, so that its will is but directed by the sum of the shallow reactions of a most limited experience. but thy true will is the wisdom of the ages of thy generations, the expression of that which hath fitted thee exactly to thine environment. thus thy conscious mind is oftentimes foolish, as when thou admirest an ideal, and wouldst attain it, but thy true will letteth thee, so that there is conflict, and the humiliation of that mind. here will i call to witness the common event of "good resolutions" that d

ideal, and wouldst attain it, but thy true will letteth thee, so that there is conflict, and the humiliation of that mind. here will i call to witness the common event of "good resolutions" that defy the lightning of destiny, being puffed up by the wind of an indigestible ideal putrefying within thee thence cometh colic, and presently the poison is expelled, or else thou diest. but resolutions of true will are mighty against circumstance "de vitiis voluntatis secretae "learn moreover concerning this hell, or hidden wisdom, that is within thee, that it is modified, little by little, in respect of its khu, through the experience of the conscious mind, which feedeth it. for that wisdom is the expression, or rather symbol and hieroglyph, of the true adjustment of thy being to its environment

t is not absolute, but standeth in relation to the universe. so then a part thereof may become useless, and atrophy, as (i will instance) man's wit of smell; and the bodily organ corresponding degenerateth therewith. but this is an effect of much time, so that in thy hell thou art like to find elements vain, or foolish, or contrary to thy present weal. yet, o my son, this hidden wisdom is not thy true will, but only the levers (i may say so) thereof. notwithstanding, there lieth therein a faculty of balance, whereby it is able to judge whether any element in itself is presently useful and benign, or idle and malignant. here then is a root of conflict between the conscious and the unconscious, and a debate concerning the right order of conduct, how the will may be accomplished. al ii,61 "th

f teacher growls tirelessly "putt for the back of the hole! never up, never in" the application is universal. far from me be it to deny that excess is too often disastrous. the athlete who dies in his early prime is the skeleton at every boat supper. but in such cases the excess is almost always due to the desire to excel other men, instead of referring the matter to the only competent judge, the true will of the body. i myself used to "go all out" on mountains; i hold more world's records of various kinds than i can reckon- for pace, skill, daring, and endurance. but i never worried about whether other people could beat me. for this reason my excesses, instead of causing damage to health and danger to life, turned me from a delicate boy, too frail for football, doomed by my doctors to die

r even modified. to long for death is to aspire to the complete fulfilment of all one's potentialities. and it would evidently be an error to insist upon passing on to one's next life while there were hawsers unhitched from this one. the mere inexplicability of the various jerks would make for bewilderment, irritation, and clumsiness. for this reason, alone, it is all-important to ascertain one's true will, and to work out every detail of the work of doing it, as early in life as one can. one is apt (at the best) to define one's will dogmatically, and to devote one's life almost puritanically to the task, sternly suppressing all side-issues, and calling this course concentration. this is error, and perilous. for one cannot be sure that a faculty which seems (on the surface) useless, even h

see, above these ice-glazed pinnacles storm-swept, through gashes torn from whirling wreaths of arrowy sleet, the cloud-surpassing summit, not far, not very far. i regret nothing, be sure! i may be even in error to argue that an evident distortion of nature, and its issue in disaster, are proof of imprudence. perhaps the other road would not have taken me to cairo, to the climax of my life, to my true will fulfilled in aiwaz and made word in this book. perhaps it is lingering "lust of result" that whispers hideous lies to daunt me, that urges these plausible arguments to accuse me. it may be that my present extremity is the very condition required for the fulfilment of my work. who shall say what is power, what impotence? who shall be bold to measure the morrow, or declare what causes conj

cal doctrine so plainly, as also for their development of the connexion of the will of this 'child' with the true or unconscious will, and so for clarifying our doctrine of the 'silent self' or 'holy guardian angel. they are of course totally ignorant of magical phenomena, and could hardly explain even such terms as "augoeides; and they are seriously to blame for not stating more openly that this true will is not to be daunted or suppressed; but within their limits they have done excellent work. al iii,23 "for perfume mix meal& honey& thick leavings of red wine: then oil of abramelin and olive oil, and afterward soften& smooth down with rich fresh blood" the new comment meal: ordinary wheaten flour. leavings: the "beewing" of port should be good. oil of abramelin: take eight parts of oil o

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listices. libertas evangelii, the "liberty of the gospel" is the free will that only the adept can process. in addition, the sacrifice of the cross is a doorway to freedom without the restriction of the law. the man and the dagger explain the final result. w is b, the tarot card being the hierophant. the dagger is the tool through which the adept/hierophant must cut through the restriction of the true will. 8 dei inacta gloria, the "unsullied glory of god" is the end of all things. the bull and chains are life, work, labor, burial, and earth. legis jugum, the "yoke of the law" is the balance between destiny and free will "it is appointed once for a man to be born and once for a man to die" c and incense are in the middle of the altar. this is the glory of arik anpin. the altar is a symbol

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ence of our selves, our secret essence or holy guardian angel/evil genius of being. the black flame[6] itself is the concept of the gift of seth, of lucifer. the black flame is the awakened consciousness or psyche of the individual, whom has torn down the right hand path concept of trust and dissolution in a tyrant father who demands faith. the black flame is the immortal essence of the self, the true will as which emerged from the fountains of the wells of darkness. the black flame is the light which brings the watchers close to us, that we may drink of their cups of ecstasies, the skulls and the secrets they contain therein. the black flame itself is illuminated through the work of the left hand path, through the development of ones own self-divinity, through our famulus and servitors, t

adows, i embrace the darkness within and beyond! from nox umbra by michael ford the essence of perpetual revolution, or rebellion from the natural order, is the very concept of the opposer. to oppose one must seek to free the self from the limits set within society s context and rules. this is not an advocating of crime, but rather to work within still societies rules, mastering it all along. the true will is the essence of the adversary, which seeks to break free from the accepted order, an often unfertile result of the dayside world of the humanistic fellowship, which in time, leads to a stasis of being. it is in the solitude of the shadow can then the essence be revealed, to present the endless possibility of becoming. the adversary is called and known by many names and titles. among th

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this word.will. the first obvious meaning of this law is confirmed by antithesis .the word of sin is restriction. again. thou hast no right but to do thy will. do that, and no other shall say nay. for pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. take this carefully; it seems to imply a theory that if every man and every woman did his and her will.the true will. there would be no clashing .every man and every woman is a star, and each star moves in an appointed path without interference. there is plenty of room for all; it is only disorder that creates confusion. from these considerations it should be clear that .do what thou wilt. does not mean .do what you like. it is the apotheosis of freedom; but it is also the strictest possible bond. do w

ct should in itself be so complete and perfect that it is a mirror of the perfection of every plane, and thereby becometh partaker of the pure light of the highest. also, since all acts are to be acts of will in freedom on every plane, all planes are in reality but one: and thus the lowest expression of any function of that will is to be at the same time an expression of the highest will, or only true will, which is that already implied in the acceptance of the law. be it also well understood that it is not necessary or right to shut off natural activity of any kind, as certain false folk, eunuchs of the spirit, most foully teach, to the destruction of many. for in every thing soever inhereth its own perfection proper to it, and to neglect the full operation and function of any one part br

nature of choronzon is dispersion and incoherence. then in the way of love evil appears as .all that which tends to prevent the union of any two things. thus the book of the law sayeth, under the figure of the voice of nuit .take your fill and will of love as ye will, when, where, and with whom ye will! but always unto me. for every act of love must be .under will. that is, in accordance with the true will, which is not to rest content with things partial and transitory, but to proceed firmly to the end. so also, in the book of the thirty thyrs, the black brothers are those who shut themselves up, unwilling to destroy themselves by love. thirdly, in the way of life evil appears under a subtler form as .all that which is not impersonal and universal. here the book of the law, by the voice o

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existences proceeding from my single essence, i understand them in all their relations. i perceive that their beginning, middle, and end is in truth myself. thus do i see that all things, whatsoever their appearance, because they spring from mine own nature are grounded in goodness. 7 my superior nature is reflected also in the mind of man, created in mine image. know me thus as the source of all true will. know me also as the power to perceive objects as having the appearance of standing outside and apart from him who regardeth them. that in thee which so perceiveth objects, which giveth the power to distinguish between them, which revealeth them unto thee in their relations to each other and to thyself, and enableth thee to search out the laws of their reciprocal action, know this to be

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lesh could be awakened towards their own desire. the concepts of kia and neither-neither could now be explored and absorbed. for spare aleister crowley s dogma of thelema (which through further study and practice proves there is very little dogma in thelema) was too limiting for his own needs. independent and proud, austin was not willing to accept aleister s concepts in whole. the inner drive or true will insisted different. aos would not ignore this call and sought the means of enfleshing his ideas. austin osman spare was in complete understanding of the focus of mind and how all magickal acts stem from the brain primarily. the secret ascent towards godhood (lucifer) is based within the concept of will, desire and belief. self truth results from the unification of will, desire and belief

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on of the universal subconscious. the khabs is in the khu, not the khu in the khabs, means that the dynamic consiousness is within the universal subconscious but the universal subconscious is not within the dynamic consciousness. just as a river flows into the ocean, the dynamic consciousness penetrates the universal subconscious. the word of the aeon of horus was thelema. this word refers to the true will of the magician, the will of his higher magical self or his holy guardian angel. it is usually true that those people who don t get what they want really don t realize what it is they actually want. every person is being guided by the dictates of his higher self. those who ignore this magical will, struggle daily against their inner nature in an attempt to be something they are not or to

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rote the book of the law, which he claimed was revealed to him by the spirit aiwass and was a true revelation from the egyptian deities nuit, hadit, and ra hoor khut. in the book of the law we read dowhat thou will shall be the whole of the law and love is the law, love under will. the word of the aeon of horus was thelema, the greek word for will. the will in this context was a magical will, the true will of the magician s higher self or his holy guardian angel. crowley s magick, as embraced by the order of oriental templars (oto) and order of the silver star (aa) combined eastern mysticism and yoga with the western ceremonial magic of the golden dawn. in practice, however, crowley s magick largely involved sex and drug use. it was the sexual aspects of tantric yoga crowley adopted togeth

aw "do what thou will" as "do what you want" fail to understand that it is the magical will crowley is referring to. what the sorcerer desires (or thinks that he desires) may not be the thing which his "higher self" has truly willed to occur. expanding upon the law of thelema, michael aquino conceptualized and proclaimed the word xeper, by which the sorcerer may "become" and ultimately attain his true will and the realization of his "higher self. without thelema, xeper could never have been, for it is by thelema that xeper is possible. xeper is the egyptian word which means "to become. in this context, it means the achievement of one's higher self (what in abramelin magic is called the "knowledge and conversation of your holy guardian angel) many "aeon strengthening" words were also spoken

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evil intellect, renders mankind miserable and makes them suffer in pain in both the worlds. denkard here we see that the left hand path or that of akoman the evil mind represents a path of power from which the self is beholden of. that the religion of sorcery is indeed painful, it is by this strife and stimulation within the self that makes us strong and able to work our will, to discover our own true will (the akoman or holy guardian angel) and to manifest our desires. it is difficult and often troublesome, however the beauty and strength which arises in the mind and flesh is reward within itself. please observe the original strife of ahriman or satan he suffered and fell into the darkness, by this pain he transformed and made the world around him bend to his will. rather than the religio

ls, iblis tests just as he was tested. 21 black is from the root fhm meaning hidden or secret, but also wisdom. the word abufihamat, or head/father of wisdom is the foundation of baphomet. 22 representing fire and continual motion, change and sexual vigor. 23 white is symbolic of the astral plane or luciferian/celestial sabbat, wherein the spirit is elevated with his or her holy guardian angel or true will. 24 green or emerald, representing the jewel from the crown of lucifer. some sabbat rites include green candles which represent the fire of azazel, the light from his crown. 21 satanic or luciferian magick is a dual or opposing system of self-realization. the first area is that of inverse magical practice, working with repulsive and shunned imagery which takes the initiate into their own

in my hand and under my control. the treasures and hoards buried in the heart of the earth are known to me, and i cause one after another to inherit them. i make manifest my signs and wonders to such as will receive them and seek them from me in their due season. kitab el-jelwa here one may consider the point of guiding without scripture, that shaitan as the imagination and holy guardian angel or true will, brings knowledge without words but rather what aleister crowley called energized enthusiasm. the beasts of the field and the fish of the sea are all manifestations and connected with shaitan. this is the inner relation to shaitan as the black man of the sabbat, the very ritual of magick fire which either as the light of the luciferian conclave or holy rites of noon28 to announce self di

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cred or profane, with or without appropriate symbols, charged or consecrated toward a specific end. usually, in the form of an amulet (q.v) or a talisman (q.v. chela: the eastern term for a student of spiritual and occult matters who learns mainly by imitating the guru, or teacher. chesed: in hebrew "mercy. pronounced "heh-sehd. the fourth (4th) sephirah (q.v) on the tree of life (q.v. chiah: our true will, in hebrew. corresponds to the second sephirah on the tree of life (q.v. chiron: the newest planet of the terran solar system to be discovered (1977 c.e, lying between the orbits of saturn (q.v) and uranus (q.v. in astrology (q.v, the planet named after the most noble of the centaurs who served as a philosopher, healer, and astrologer to the greek gods. attributed as being the second in

otus: in the astral star, the primary weapon of an adept. this tool is used to represent "elemental spirit" for the membership. it is almost identical to the lotus wand used by the g.d. the lotus wand is of a planetary nature, and is the rainbow wand (q.v) of the lord/lady of the portal (of adepts) with the addition of the symbolism of the lotus flower. this powerful weapon is used to signify the true will of the magician in magickal operations. wand, rainbow: the modified "lotus wand" of the g.d. by donald michael kraig. the "shaft" of a lotus wand (q.v. the central tool for use by a magician, used to represent no single element, but is of a planetary nature; and the magician's higher and true will. in the astral star, the primary elemental weapon of one who is a lord/lady of the portal (

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eachings of crowley that are available in his many writings. crowley claimed that in 1904 he received, through a process similar to what is now called channeling, the book of the law, from a praeternatural intelligence named aiwass. the book announced a new era for humankind, the aeon of horus, the crowned and conquering child (of isis and osiris. the revelation called upon people to follow their true will (thelema, and to allow their passions to be conformed to their will. magic is the instrument for finding one s true will and the magical life; living in conformation to that true will (destiny) follows. the temple and college may be contacted at p.o. box 415, oroville, ca 95965. in 1998 there were seven centers in the united states and one in vancouver, british columbia. in 1997, a perio

tem of magic. the keynote of the new system would be thelema or will, and its basic admonition, do what thou will shall be the whole of the law. this ambiguous phrase was often misunderstood by other magicians and by critics alike as promoting an amoral libertinism, but that was not crowley s teaching or meaning. rather, he taught that it was the magician s duty to discover his or her destiny (or true will, and, having discovered it, he or she had no choice but to align actions with the accomplishment of that true will. having left the golden dawn, in 1907 crowley founded the argentum astrum (aa; silver star. on its behalf he began issuing a periodical, the equinox, a semiannual journal in which he began to publish the teachings of the aa. the journal attracted attention, however, because

initially presented in the book of the law, the brief volume channeled by crowley in 1904. though only founded in 1991, h.o.o.r. had been conceived as early as 1978. the order is headed by ray eales (b. 1958, who took the lead in its establishment. according to thelema (derived from the greek word for will, each individual is a separate and unique person (a star) whose task is to discover his/her true will (or destiny. once having discovered their true course in life, individuals can do no other than follow it. magic is the great tool for initially discovering and then realizing one s true will. the order teaches a form of theurgy (magic) that it believes to be particularly effective in discovering one s true will. thelema is antiauthoritarian. it places particular emphasis upon the indivi

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emple and order of the golden dawn, it was founded in los angeles in 1990 by david cherubim who now serves as its frater superior chief. it exists to assist people in their initiation as thelemic magicians and to spread the law of thelema worldwide. thelema (from the greek word for will) is an approach to magic which attempts to assist the magician in the location of his/her particular destiny or true will. the thelemic magician, having discovered his/her true will is bound to identify with and follow it. members enter the order as a neophyte. work is then pursued in seven successive grades beginning with zelator. these grades or levels closely resemble the grades of the ordo templi orientis, the order that crowley headed during his lifetime. the seven grades are seen as corresponding to t

thelema (will) in the world. new members had to have been practicing magic for at least nine months prior to being accepted in the order and had to agree to disseminate liber lxxvii, the brief statement of thelemic principles written by crowley. grant also dropped the masonic initiatory degree system found in most magical groups, including the american oto. members are expected to seek their own true will (destiny) by their magical work. under grant, the oto dominated the british ritual magic scene into the 1970s. over the last two decades a number of other thelemic magical groups have arisen in great britain and grant s oto has come to the united states, though it has remained small. ordo templi orientis (oto) a ritual magic organization founded in germany around 1904. the order found it

ople into a sleep-like state in which they lose awareness of their vast potential. he believes that religion and politics are vast systems that operate to put people to sleep. temple members are those who have begun to awaken to their potential and are attempting to explore it even as they become more aware. a first step is coming to grips with one s mortality. members also seek to discover their true will (a basic concept of thelemic magic) and generally accept the basic thelemic notion, do what thou will shall be the whole of the law. topy has generally prescribed an intuitive approach to life rather than the following of rules, laws, and regulations. integral to living intuitively is sexual expression, which should follow one s wants and desires rather than social mores, according to to

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t may switch off the censor completely and thereby provide direct contact between these areas of the psyche. 98/ practical sigil magic sherwin fs model a= ego, will, belief b= awareness, perception consciousness: individuality, awakeness hga= the holy guardian angel= censorship mechanism reactive mechanisms c= altered consciousness, gliminal state of consciousness h d= sub/unconsciousness, sleep, true will e= macrocosm, chaos k= kia, soul, individuality without ego but how does it work/ 99 to begin with, this model suffers, like most modls do, from being overly one-sided. it pretends that the barrier of the cens gsemi-permeable h membrane or filter which its movement in one direction only (from d to a/ ocking everything in the opposite directions this is certainly an exaggeration because w

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

gy page 214 the central premises of the book of the law (liber al vel legis) can be culled from three specific verses. do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. al 1:40 love is the law, love under will. al 1:57 every man and every woman is a star. al 1:3. every man and every women has the potential to be awakened, this awakening can only occur through transfiguration and the forging of the true will or self. every will is unique and has its own path (or orbit, the path is the law for that star. true love can only be experienced between stars (those who have awakened their true self, it is the cohesion between stars that binds the universe together. there is much else of value in the book of the law but it must be understood in the context of the continuum of the gnosis, to see it as

GOETIA LUCIFERIAN

ht hand path practitioner may agree. the paths become clearly defined when the rhp seeks to reach spiritual perfection, then letting the consciousness be joined in union with the divine light, or the hebrew ain soph, which is limitless light. the lhp practitioner views consciousness and being as beautiful, sacred and worth developing and strengthening. the consciousness from the unveiling of ones true will or daemon/angel would seek to further become like lucifer and be independent, isolate and separate from the ain soph, or limitless light. one should remember, it is the limitless light from which azazel lucifer sought to be independent from. the goetia is indeed a tough, powerful and to some a dreadful real grimoire. those who have hissed and vibrated the sacred names and candle lit summ

who allows the magician to bask in the light of self and view ones own reflection in the emerald crown, the very lucifer-stone which fell to earth and remains hidden within the earth, and partially in the heart of man. this rite is designed to provide a short yet inspired working of invoking the holy guardian angel, from which one shall seek the communion of their higher spirit, genii, daemon and true will. as one comes into contact with the angel-daemon, an illuminated sense of self comes forth; a new type of being may begin to develop. the oath of the magician of the luciferian path is that of illumination and the great work of becoming. in the workings of goetic sorcery, no matter if the invocations/evocations are done in the aims of low sorcery or high sorcery, one should already have

. demand fairly it conduct the purpose of its summoning. the essence of sorcery is the focused view of self-enchantment. self-enchantment is the process of remanifesting inspiration aspects of obsessional perception, the instinctual guide which leads one to automatic (in reference to automatic drawing, the subconscious unveiled) communication with the serpent-angel, azal ucel (holy guardian angel/true will) or initiatic guide. self-enchantment is also the directional point which is the obsessional direction of ones sorcerous path. the path of sorcery is the direct road built from self-enchantment and the union with the isolate core essence of being (hga. sorcery is the rejuvenating obsession of encircling belief into flesh. this may be understood by austin osman spare s conceptual theory o

invoked or evoked. it is suggest that the sorcerer shape shifts in meditation and dream with amon, become this shadow form and think deeply about the attributes of such a spirit. in the black mirror amon is darkness incarnate, vomiting flames. in the shape of a human the head is a raven with a wolf s teeth. amon is also a divinatory spirit whom aligns the conscious mind with the subconscious i.e. true will. 40 legions of spirits can be summoned and used to defend and encircle the magician. h barbatos barbatos is a spirit which reveals astral grimoires that is methods of initiation which may be found by inspiration via the astral plane. this spirit, who rules 30 legions is an angelick ruler of the witchcraft by nature one comes into being by the communication with animals (body language, po

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the great work "then also this shalt thou know, that the nephesch of man shall become as the genius of the evil persona, so that the evil persona itself shall be as the power of the divine in the qlippoth" here, we clearly see the hierarchy within man now working in perfect integration and harmony. thus, the nephesch takes on the appearance in the qlippoth as the divine ruler or genius. thus, the true will, the divine will, now emanates from the divine through the higher genius, the lower will, and the nephesch, in all aspects. even the qlippoth serve unto the great work "thought" is a mighty force when projected with all the strength of the lower will under the guidance of the reasoning faculty and illuminated by the higher will. this clearly indicates to us the need for invoking the divi

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the sigils in the air as they are vibrated) say "supernal splendor which dwellest in the light to which no human can approach, wherein is mystery and depth unthinkable and awful silence, i beseech thee who art shekinah and aima elohim. look down upon me in this ceremony which i perform not in my honor, but in thy honor, for your kind and generous assistance in aiding me in my understanding of my true will, in the great work of my own soul, and the unified soul of the rosea rubea et aurea crucis, so that i may quench those who thirst for truth, with the blood of my self sacrifice. grant thine aid unto the highest aspiration of my soul in the name of the lord of the universe and in the divine name of \yhla hwhy by which thou dost reveal thyself as the perfection of creation and the light of

gel layqpx. oh layqpx, i invoke thee now in the name of \yhla hwhy. thou who art prince of spiritual initiation through suffering and of strife against evil. aid me, i beseech thee, to transcend the evil and obstacles of the qlippoth. for the contending forces of laymwat would have me divided within myself and against my brothers of the red rose and the cross of gold \aygwu would steal me from my true will and prevent me from attaining perfect wisdom. layrts would shroud me in confusion from my true will and my higher development. then i would be not only divided and confused, i would be shattered in fragments and unable to bestow neither to those who thirst, nor to my soul that hungers for the brilliance of supernal splendor. hlkcug would break me in pieces. my anger and despair would cau

en i would be not only divided and confused, i would be shattered in fragments and unable to bestow neither to those who thirst, nor to my soul that hungers for the brilliance of supernal splendor. hlkcug would break me in pieces. my anger and despair would cause me to rage like a fire storm burning away all the hope that i have. bwlwg would consume me. wryrgt would have me in dispute with my own true will and the azoth of myself in christ osiris. 3 then i would lay upon the desert of despair as qrz bru, the ravens of death, would pluck at my spiritual eyes, leaving me blinded by my lusts and desires. my very thoughts would be confused and filled with aweful venom, and my thoughts would direct me not to return praise and joy to the lord of the universe, but rather to the stench and fowlnes

e altar in the west facing east and look at yourself. 4 invocation of hru "i invoke thee by the divine name of iao, thou great angel hru, who art set over the operations of secret wisdom as the sphinx is set over the land of egypt. strengthen and establish very honored frater/soror_ in his search for divine light. build and strengthen his will and neschamah to aid him in the accomplishment of his true will and the great work. touch him/her now with thy angelic hands so that he may be enabled to rise beyond that lower selfhood which generates into nothingness, unto that higher selfhood which is the radiating clear light of the spirit" visualize the angel hru touching your nephesch. step 6 look at your spiritual body and say "i call upon the divine white brilliance to descend upon very honor

he higher, be thy heart a center of the light, be thy body a temple of the holy spirit! oh lord of the universe, thou who art all merciful, in the name of \yhla hwhy and in the name of layqpx, thy great archangel, i now call upon the \ylara to enforce the shroud between my spiritual self standing before thee in the east, the forces of the qlippoth, and the force that would rape my aspirations and true will" step 16 perform the qabalistic cross. 7 "unto thee sole wise, sole eternal and sole merciful one be the praise and glory forever, who hath permitted very honored frater/soror_ who now standeth humbly before thee to enter thus far into the santuary of the mysteries. not unto myself but unto thy name be the glory. let the influence of thy divine ones descend upon his/her head, and teach h

s spirit and the sphere of very honored frater/soror, and keep far from him all evil and the unbalanced that they be not allowed to penetrate to his spiritual realm. inspire and sanctify him so that he may be a light into the body and the lantern of illumination guiding into the completion of the great work" step 18 move to the east. reunite with yourself, meditate on your spiritual self and your true will. step 19 move back to the west behind the altar, and close by the watchtower and final releae magical eucharist r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 (note: this should be preferably performed between four to five adepts. otherwise it may be performed entirely by one adept) opening by watchtower (after the watchtower, the four elements are brought to the center altar (o

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pursue his/her ideal, let him/her be blessed with a more divine rest and an utter cessation from strife" step 7 trace l hexagram with the sigil in center. step 8 "term of all that liveth, whose name is death and inscrutable, be thou favorable unto us in thine hour. and unto him/her, from whose mortal eyes the veil of physical life hath fallen, grant that there may be the accomplishment of his/her true will. should_(his/her name_ will to absorb into the infinite, or to be united with his/her chosen and preferred, or to be in contemplation, or to be at peace, or to achieve the labor and heroism of incarnation on this planet or another, or in any star, or aught else, unto_(his/her name_ may there be granted the accomplishment of his/her true will" step 9 go to the altar, and visualize the dec

ed the accomplishment of his/her true will" step 9 go to the altar, and visualize the deceased at the east facing west. step 10 "i invoke thee by the divine name iao, thou great angel hru, who art set over the operations of this secret wisdom. strengthen and establish_(his/her name_ in his/her search for the divine light. increase his/her spiritual perception so that he/she may accomplish his/her true will, and that thus he/she may be enabled to rise beyond that lower self-hood which became as nothing unto that highest self-hood which is the clear light of the spirit" step 11 go to the east of the altar. make the rose cross over the elements while vibrating the enochian spirit invocation. perform the qabalistic cross. step 12 "for osiris onnophris who is found perfect before the gods hath

ye angels of the watchtowers of the universe, and charge ye by the divine names hwchy, hcwhy to guard this sphere of_(his/her name. keep far from him/her all evil and the unbalanced that they penetrate not into his/her spiritual abode. inspire and sanctify him/her so that he/she may enter into the center of his/her being and there receive the vision of the clear light, and thus accomplish his/her true will" 7 step 29 pause for a while for meditation, then close by the usual formuisthe magical sword r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 preface to the magical sword by g. h. frater p.c.a. originally in the r.r. et a.c, the magical sword was made by the zelator adeptus minor. it was at the z.a.m. level of adeptus minor that the four elemental tools, the lotus wand, and the m

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nded the veil into the land of the dead and away from the land of the living" step 7 s.i.r.h. of l. trace l hexagram with sigil in the center. step 8 "term of all that liveth, whose name is death and inscrutable, be thou favorable unto us in thine hour. and unto (state earthly name, from whose mortal eyes the veil of physical life hath fallen, grant that there may be the accomplishment of his/her true will" purify and consecrate the shells with n and o. step 9 walk the shell to the east so that it is facing west. leave it there and return to behind the altar faced east "i invoke thee by the divine name iao, thou great angel hru, who art set over the operations of this secret wisdom. strengthen and establish (state earthly name) in his/her search for the divine light. increase his/her spiri

o. step 9 walk the shell to the east so that it is facing west. leave it there and return to behind the altar faced east "i invoke thee by the divine name iao, thou great angel hru, who art set over the operations of this secret wisdom. strengthen and establish (state earthly name) in his/her search for the divine light. increase his/her spiritual perception so that he/she may accomplish his/her true will, and that thus, he/she may be enabled to rise beyond that lower self-hood which became as nothing unto that highest self-hood which is the clear light of the spirit" step 10 go to the east of the altar. make the rose cross over the elements while vibrating the enochian spirit invocation. make qabalistic cross "for osiris onnophris who is found perfect before the gods hath said 'these are

htowers of the universe, and charge ye by the divine names hwchy, hcwhy to guard this sphere of (state your earthly name/ osiris. keep far from him/her all evil and the unbalanced, that they penetrate not into his/her spiritual abode. inspire and sanctify him/her so that he/she may enter into the center of his/her being and there receive the vision of the clear light, and thus, accomplish his/her true will. step 24 pause for some while for meditation, then close by usual formue the confession of the rosicrucian fraternity r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 here, gentle reader, you shall find incorporated in our confession thirty-seven reasons of our purpose and intention, the which according to thy pleasure thou mayest seek out and compare together, considering within

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the forces and powers invoked here this day, and by the power of the blood of the rose, as it is desired, so shall it be (all move back to original positions) chief adept "fraters and sorors, let us first seek always in all things true wisdom, the summun bonum, the stone of the philosophers. our order is dedicated to healing, not to hurting, to helping, not to hindering, to the higher genius the true will and the great work. but let us remember the blood of the martyrs, and let us always commit to defending this temple, this order and all those who in innocence seek the true and celestial light with whatever force necessary. let us kneel "oh lord of the universe, the vast and mighty one, into thy hands do we place our hopes and our trust, for without you, our lord, we are hopeless and def

e, the vast and mighty one, into thy hands do we place our hopes and our trust, for without you, our lord, we are hopeless and defenseless. unto thee sole wise, sole merciful one, be thou praised and glorified for ever and ever. thou alone art lord, thou alone art holy, thou alone art king of all that is seen and unseen. enflame us with strength and persistence to do thy will, for thy will is our true will. teach us to reflect your light in thy honor and glory. protect and preserve this sacred brotherhood of the rose and cross, through thy mercy oh lord. amen (all rise) chief adept "let us now adore the lord of the universe. holy art thou" chief adept "let us now close the vortex" chief adept "magus of water, will you now perform the l.b.r.p (done) chief adept "magus of fire, will you now

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hat shineth in the darkness yet the darkness comprehendeth it not. the averse pentagram is an evil symbol of the world of matter and of shells ruling over the spirit; the filling of one's sphere of sensation with the darkness of the evil averse pentagram. many individuals and groups would argue that the averse pentagram is not an evil symbol, but remember, that any action against one's divine and true will is an evil action, therefore, disproving the argument that the inverted pentagram in one's sphere of sensation is acceptable. the bornless middle pillar exercise should be performed by the adept as an important prerequisite to the bornless ritual. it may also be used as a method to spiritually focus on the higher genius. the use of this ritual on a daily basis will develop the mind and t

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he role of acting oho, taking the title caliph. his first public act was the publication, in 1970, of the thoth tarot cards. iii e.n= 1970 e.v (e.n. or era novis or new aeon; e.v. or era vulgaris, or common era. iii (considered as letters) in classical cipher mode= 69= caliph, the word for the keeper of the prophet s flame; in this case aleister crowley, the prophet of the new aeon of thelema, or true will. we also see the same magical new aeon mythos unfolded in the west virginia case. indrid cold= 112= word of the law and also words and signs as well as the aforementioned we are one. connected to the mark of mark iii (112) we get ra hoor. cold s wife, kimi= night, another name for nuit. both are from lanulus= hadit. they are accompanied by set( carl ardo) as the snake. they sometime trav

by insipid trivial ufo cult channelings- the kind of stuff that was old hat to hardened ufologists by the late 1950s. compare phil dick s musings in the last testament with, for example, the mark probert or dick miller or gloria lee bird materials of ufo contactee lore. the magick of the black lodge can be defined and thus identified in only one way and by one set standard: the subversion of the true will. this is the essence of black magick, and is its only true definition. aleister crowley explained it this way: the magical will is in its essence twofold, for it presupposes a beginning and an end, to will to be a thing is to admit you are not that thing. hence to will anything but the supreme thing is to wander still further from it any will but that to give up the self to the beloved i

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

ey toward the essential nature of all things.it is a climb from earth through water, air, and fire finto indescribable spiritual realms and beyond. along the way you, the magician, will learn to see through illusion and deception.the innerbeing of your self and of 12 others will slowly unveil before you. as you approach the uitimate ritual, you will discover your true purpose in life (called your true will) arad can then set about to express it in your daily life. those who seek personal gain, psychic powers, or mastery over others, are advised to search elsewhere. the theoretical principies of enochian magick are too rooted in the laws of reincarnation and karma for any but the honest seeker who loves his fellowman to safely practice. the practice of enochian magick will allow you to cons

h the khu, constituted the spiritual body of man similar in dehnition to the atinan of vedanta. the egyptian word khabs also translates as star. as stars travel through the sky in their own orbits, so every man and woman have their own path to tread. everyone has an inherent right to tread his own path without interference from another. as a practitioner of enochian magick you must determine your true will, decide upon your course of action, and carry it through without fear. you also must respect the inherent right of every other person to do the lame. another way of stating this theorem is that every man and every woman is an inherent ly complete and sel f -sufficient individuality. the essence of man is monadic. your great work is largely the process of realizing the truth of this theor

piritual nature in your daily life "do what thou wilt" is another way of saying'"do outwardly in your life what is already inherently in the core of your being" it means first know thyself, and then, and only then, be thyself. enochian magick teaches that when you, the magician, vise into the 8th aethyr, zid, you will confront your holy guardian angel conversation with this angel will reveal your true will. after obtaining this knowledge, you can set about to tread your true magical path. your motion through life will then be like a star following its orbit through space. 29 another magical theorem let there be no difference made among you between any one thing and any other thing for thereby there cometh hurt. aleister crowley, book of the law another major theorem of enochian magick is t

vel in your body of light to the aethyrs of zim and loe. confront babalon in the form of a beautiful woman standing before you. hold out your cup to her and say, lahalasa-iao (lah-hah-lah-sah-ee-ah-oh) i present to you my cup, the holy graal, filled with the blood of the saints, that is my life. i have kept not back one drop. lahalasa-iao (lah-hah-lah-sah-ee-ah oh) see your purpose for life (your true will) in the form of your cup being received by babalon and resolve to dedicate your life to helping others in her name. step 4. return to your physical body. conduct the appropriate banishing rituals. an advanced vrelp meditation. step 1. meditate on the meaning and correspondences of the magick square of vrelp. consider its similarities with the magick squares of arsoe and laha. step 2. med

GRIFFIN DAVID MAGICAL EVOCATION OF THE AVERSE FORCES

es. the dark forces are brought into correct relationship with divine guidance, and divinity comes to dispose over its dark, chthonic, instinctual power. the magician thereby grows in awareness, learning to recognize the operation of these forces in day-to-day life and to liberate him or herself from their blind force. at length, the magician learns to act in coordination with divine guidance and true will, consciously directing and administrating the dark forces like the conductor of a symphony. thus the major adept becomes the conductor of an orchestra of forces that once conducted him (or her, unseen and unobserved, from the darkness. thus we may understand what an r. r. et a. c. paper published by israel regardie means when it says "hear thou, then, a mystery of the knowledge of evil

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s one cause of a lot of much weakness in society, it also has problems theoretically. the polarities of any single being can only be recognized fully in conjunction to their opposite. the simplest example perhaps being that of light and darkness. just as the normal path of being fails, in the magickal viewpoint, so it s opposite succeeds. by uniting all opposites, the true essence of self, or the true will is discovered and the best possible place for the individual is found and developed. in the end, separation by virtue of a person having had become a complete being, dissolution is not a threat to a continued existence. something more lasting has been found worthy of the process of crystallization. on the luciferian path we work with darkness instead of banishing it from our consciousnes

k dinoih (michael w. ford, 2002) is the actual solitary rite used in the toph to magickally join the opposite sexual polarities within the self. i performed this rite on dec.31, 2003. sometime before the ritual itself, i did a tarot reading relating to my ongoing communion with my hga. the results pointed very specifically to this ritual which i was about to perform ,as my next step in finding my true will. i had painted the sigil of infernal union to my satisfaction and placed this over my usual pantacle on my altar. i created a simple sigil for lilith and set up my circle with red and black candles for the infernal aspects of these powers. in the north, i set up my painting of babalon on the seven-headed beast with related sigils. i showered and put on nefilim-zoon. shut off at 11:15, ba

went to bed though i didn t dream anything meaningful related to the ritual that i could remember upon awakening. the next night finished reading the compleat vampyre. several things became apparent to me, one of which was the type of vampire i found most meaningful to me, its nature deeply related to other things in my own nature. as was mentioned before, samael is the deep desire related to our true will. i suddenly realized my deep sexual desire and how the incubus relates to this. also in relation to accepted cultural norms of sexuality and the incubus in relation to the law. i suddenly realized there is far more to my life. i realized the obvious connection to lilith with whom i still hold a deep attraction in every way. with this new knowledge i perceived life from a different viewpo

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gils and images; tattvic symbols; numerology x. conjuration or summoning; banishing or exorcism y. commemoration or linking z. past life regression or recall aa. pathworking on the tree of life bb. ceremonial magic viii. timing a. the lunar cycle b. the wheel of the year c. astrological conjunctions d. planetary hours and days e. individual biorhythms ix. creating your own reality, following your true will prepared by: amber k our lady of the woods the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 4 used by permission* magick 1- why magick* the ability to think seems to set us apart from other creatures. and although we are concerned with living in the physical world, we are mental beings. the fact is we are thinking all the time. we plan, we brood, we get depressed or elated- a

usion, however from our viewpoint through perception (subject) it is. thus we are all conditioned by experience. except that our perceptions, hence our experiences, are first conditioned and limited by the model. our perceptions and experiences tend to conform to what we expect. we tend to misinterpret or ignore things which do not match our preconcieved notions about them. this is automatic. the true will the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 8 the forgoing demonstrates how it is that there are so many different versions of 'truth. one's particular view is almost arbitrary. although numerous religions, philosophies, and occult systems abound, they do not contradict one and other as much as it might appear. rather, they describe the same (universal) reality taken fro

r as much as it might appear. rather, they describe the same (universal) reality taken from different perspectives. for there can be no ultimate truth in the physical world. we can only base our actions upon assumptions and agreements. all experience is subjective. yet, there is a separate reality within each of us which is often ignored unless we seek it. this inner self is in magick called the 'true will. the true will is the center of consciousness and identity. it is the 'real you. everything else is an interface or link to it from the outer (illusory) world. since that interface is based upon our model, it is conditoned and may sometimes produce false information 'do what thou wilt (crowley) is an axiom of magick; for the true will expresses our exact desires. and what we truly want('

verything else is an interface or link to it from the outer (illusory) world. since that interface is based upon our model, it is conditoned and may sometimes produce false information 'do what thou wilt (crowley) is an axiom of magick; for the true will expresses our exact desires. and what we truly want('down deep) we tend to automatically get. this isn't always in our best interests, since the true will can be conditioned (tricked) by the illusion; and then we might desire and obtain that which is not ultimately good for us (karma strikes again) the task of the magician therefor is to awaken his awareneess of the true will, to be free of conditioning, and thereby to transcend maya('my will unconditioned is magical- spare. happiness is being happy there is no great secret to changing beh

agick' is actually a continuous process. since your subconscious never rests, your environment is continually being shifted into line with your model. this is true whether you study magick or not. for most people, these effects are usually very subtle, and they are probably not aware of them. however, as you work with the occult, the flow of psychic energy and your awareness of it increases. your true will is more likely to be strongly expressed. your luck may be affected (either in a positive or a negative way. remember, our lives tend to follow what we want down deep. that is why a positive outlook is so very beneficial to us. the magical diary sometimes it is helpful to keep a diary of your magical experiments and research. such a diary should include the basics of magick get any book f

ion to healing in the presence of the person, there is 'absent healing' in which the healing the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 28 occurs at a distance. note that there are some who maintain that influence on another person without his specific knowledge and permission (yes, even in healing and helping) is black magick (after all, everybody is living according to his own true will, so that healing or helping someone without permission is affecting his will. this means it is important to tell the person what you are planning to do and to ask his permission. the theory of psychic healing is that sickness is characterized (although not necessarily caused) by a deficiency and imbalance of vital energy. psychic healing transfers energy from the healer to the sick to re

cause sickness, accidents, bad dreams, emotional upset, or to force you to do the basics of magick get any book for free on: www.abika.com 30 something against your will. fortunately this doesn't happen very often. the world of the magician is fairly safe for the pure of heart. psychic attack usually depends upon vulnerabilities. if you are not vulnerable you are safe. thus unificaition with the true will is the greatest protection possible. and the use of the banishing ritual is never hurtful. you can even use it to hold off negative aspects of yourself. other forms of protection sometimes helpful (depending upon one's egregore/model) are recitation of the 'lord's prayer, the 23rd, and 91st psalms. review questions 1) what is a pentagram? 2) what is psychic healing? list the basic method

and ghosts exist in the astral world. the magician should feel comfortable there. tibetan belief is that through proficiency in oobe, you no longer need reincarnate after death. the astral world is extremely changeable and subject to your thoughts. your will can control your movements in the astral world, and if you seem to be going somewhere non-volitionally('astral current) it is probably your true will causing it anyway. you might also experience heightened magical ability while in the astral realm [this is a popular subject, and there may be other files online about it. check the paranet file area for files such as- oobe.thr. mias.doc. monroe.doc] review questions 1) what is the relationship between astral projection and dreams. 2) what is mental projection? 3) list the nine basic met

KETAB E SIYAH

im and the shades of those that came before these things are done most easily and test not the profundity of fealty. more than their weak religion does adonai yahweh require of his servant. indeed some much greater thing is the due of a king so great as is the king of heaven. no less than this does your faith require; that you sacrifice as a burnt offering your one beloved son, isaac. this is the true will of god. take your son hence to moriah and there, upon the hills, build an altar of stones and of wood a pyre. there strike down your son and burn him that the smoke might rise to heaven. for as adonai yahweh reaches out his hand to strike down his rebel son 296 so shall the father's arm be stretched out to destroy his son. it is most just in this way. deny not adonai yahweh that which it

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this word--will. the first obvious meaning of this law is confirmed by antithesis``the word of sin is restriction' again``thou hast no right but to do thy will. do that and no other shall say nay. for pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect' take this carefully; it seems to imply a theory that if every man and every woman did his and her will--the true will--there would be no clashing``every man and every woman is a star' and each star moves in an appointed path without interference. there is plenty of room for all; it is only disorder that creates confusion. from these considerations it should be clear that``do what thou wilt' does not mean``do what you like' it is the apotheosis of freedom; but it is also the strictest possible bond. do w

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and because of his infinite knowledge, he understood that we were incapable of such blind faith. satan and lilith had no need for jealousy, for they do not possess the inferiority complex of false gods. all that was, is and will be is only because of the procreation of him and his female parallel. furthermore, satan did not demand for his creation to act against its own will, for every creature s true will is from satan. it would be foolish for him to punish something he made for being how he intended it to be! he did not create any life for the purpose to harm it, for he and nature are a kind master. a creature that fully obeys his true will and regards the consequences to its action is equal to satan himself for satan did not form the cosmos as something to worship and adore him, but for

earth was evil, along with natural human thoughts and desires. the false gods convinced man to hate all the things that made him happy on earth and feel guilty for his pleasures. the final blow was the doctrine of a better paradise after death: if one could deny one s natural inclinations and all the pleasures of living here and now. by following their lies we began to separate ourselves from the true will, and after death no part of us would live on. satan s heart is true, and in the end he will weigh the hearts of the unjust against the just. he is entirely compassionate and will not let those who torture themselves live, for he hates to see his people in pain and suffering. for some to die is true mercy, for they never truly lived at all. the false gods used mankind by coursing them int

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gods themselves do homage; for it is the way of utmost purity. d the book of wisdom or folly 3 g de vita corrigenda (of correcting life) now, son, that the true principle of self-control is liberty. for we are born into a world which is in bondage to ideals; to them we are perforce fitted, even as the enemies to the bed of procrustes. each of us, as he grows, learns repression of himself and his true will .it is a lie, this folly against self: these words are written in the book of the law. so therefore these passions in ourselves which we understand to be hindrances are not part of our true will, but diseased appetites, manifest in us through false early training. thus the tabus of savage tribes in such matter as love constrain that true love which is born in us; and by this constraint c

cts, for they are under the dominion of thy will, and moved in accord with the operation of thy reason; this indeed is a necessary work, enabling to comprehend in what manner thou mayst adjust thyself to thine environment. yet is this adaptation but defence for the most part, or at the best subterfuge and stratagem in the tactics of thy life, with but an accidental and subordinate relation to thy true will, whereof by consciousness and by reason thou mayst be ignorant, unless by fortune great and rare thou be already harmonized in thyself, the outer with the inner, which grace is not common among men, and is the reward of previous attainment. neglect not simple introspections, therefore; but give yet greater heed unto those dreams and phantasies, those gestures and manners unconscious, and

explanation is that in such a case the will is in danger, having been attacked and wounded or corrupted by the violence of some repression. thus the consciousness of the will is directed to the sore spot, as in pain, and seeketh comfort in an externalisation, or shew, of that antagonism. and because the will is sacred, such dreams excite an ecstacy or phrenzy of horror, fear or disgust. thus the true will of oedipus was toward the bed of jocasta, but the tabu, strong both by inheritance and by environment, was so attached to that will that his dream concerning his destiny was a dream of fear and of abhorrence, his fulfilment thereof (even in ignorance) a spell to stir up all the subconscious forces of all the people about him, and his realization of the act a madness potent to drive him t

s destiny was a dream of fear and of abhorrence, his fulfilment thereof (even in ignorance) a spell to stir up all the subconscious forces of all the people about him, and his realization of the act a madness potent to drive him to selfinflicted blindness and fury-haunted exile. n the book of wisdom or folly 13 m de somniis. d: sequentia (of dreams. iv: contination) now firmly, o my son, that the true will cannot err; for this is thine appointed course in heaven, in whose order is perfection. a dream of horror is therefore the most serious of all warnings; for it signifieth that thy will, which is thy self in respect of its motion, is in affliction and danger. thus thou must instantly seek out the cause of that subconscious conflict, and destroy thine enemy utterly by bringing thy consciou

is is thine appointed course in heaven, in whose order is perfection. a dream of horror is therefore the most serious of all warnings; for it signifieth that thy will, which is thy self in respect of its motion, is in affliction and danger. thus thou must instantly seek out the cause of that subconscious conflict, and destroy thine enemy utterly by bringing thy conscious vigour as an ally to that true will. if then there be a traitor in the consciousness, how much the more is it necessary for thee to arise and extirpate him before he wholly infect thee with the divided purpose which is the first breach in that fortress of the soul whose fall should bring it to the shapeless ruin whose name is choronzon! k liber aleph vel cxi 14 n de somniis. e: clavicula (of dreams. v: the key) he dream de

usness, how much the more is it necessary for thee to arise and extirpate him before he wholly infect thee with the divided purpose which is the first breach in that fortress of the soul whose fall should bring it to the shapeless ruin whose name is choronzon! k liber aleph vel cxi 14 n de somniis. e: clavicula (of dreams. v: the key) he dream delightful is then a pageant of the fulfilment of the true will, and the nightmare a symbolic battle between it and its assailants in thyself. but there can be only one true will, even as there can be only one proper motion in any body, no matter of how many forces that motion be the resultant. seek therefore this will, and conjoin with it thy conscious self; for this is that which is written .thou hast no right but to do thy will. do that, and no ot

o also the gross physical will is the creator of the dreams of common men, and as in meditation thou doest destroy every thought by mating it with its opposite, so must thou cleanse thyself by a full and perfect satisfaction of that bodily will in the way of chastity and holiness which has been revealed unto thee in thy initiation. this inner silence of the body being attained, it may be that the true will may speak in true dreams; for it is written that he giveth unto his beloved in sleep. prepare thyself therefore in this way, as a good knight should do. a liber aleph vel cxi 18% de somno lucido (of the sleep of light) ow know this also that at the end of that secret way lieth a garden wherein is a rest house prepared for thee. for to him whose physical needs of whatever kind are not tru

w know this also that at the end of that secret way lieth a garden wherein is a rest house prepared for thee. for to him whose physical needs of whatever kind are not truly satisfied cometh a lunar or physical sleep appointed to refresh and recreate by cleansing and repose; but on him that is bodily pure the lord bestoweth a solar or lucid sleep, wherein move images of pure light fashioned by the true will. and this is called by the qabalists the sleep of shiloam, and of this doeth also porphyry make mention mention, and cicero, with many other wise men of old time. compare, o my son, with this doctrine that which was taught thee in the sanctuary of the gnosis concerning the death of the righteous; and learn moreover that these are but particular cases of an universal formula. n the book o

vel cxi 30 ad de via libertatis (of the way of liberty) o not think then that by non-action thou doest follow the way of the tao, for thy nature is action, and by hindering the discharge of thy potential thou doest perpetuate and aggravate the stress. if thou ease not nature, she will being thee to dis-ease. free thereof every function of thy body and of every other part of thee according to its true will. this also is most necessary, that thou discover that true will in every case, for thou art born into dis-ease; where are many false and perverted wills, monstrous growths, parasites, vermin are they, adherent to thee by vice of heredity, or of environment or of evil training. and of all these things the subtlest and most terrible, enemies without pity, destructive to thy will, and a men

cessary and holy, not envious of another.s. for so only mayst thou build up a free state, whose directing will shall be singly directed to the welfare of all. i the book of wisdom or folly 39 am de fundamentis civitatis (of the foundations of the state) ay not, o my son, that in this argument i have set limits to individual freedom. for each man in this state which i purpose is fulfilling his own true will by his eager acquiescence in the order necessary to the welfare of all, and therefore of himself also. but see thou well to it that thou set high the standard of satisfaction, and that to everyone there be a surplus of leisure and of energy, so that, his will of self-preservation being fulfilled by the performance of his function in the state, he may devote the remainder of his powers to

er also, even when thou art most sure, that so were they sure who gave instruction to the young copernicus. pay reverence also to the unknown unto whom thou presumeth to impart the knowledge; for he may be one greater than thou. n liber aleph vel cxi 42 ao de voluntate iuvenis cognoscenda (of knowing the will of children) t is important that thou shouldst understand as early as may be what is the true will of the child in the matter of his career. be thou well ware of all ideals and day-dreams; for the child is himself, and not thy toy. recall the comic tragedy of napoleon and the king of rome; build not an house for a wild goat, nor plant a forest for the domain of a shark. but be thou vigilant for every sign, conscious or unconscious of the will of the child, giving him then all opportun

s, they are the rules of thy game which thou dost play. for in thy trances though thou becomest that which is not subject to those laws, they are still final in respect of these things which thou hast set them to govern. nay, o my son, i like not this word, govern, for a law is but a statement of the nature of the thing to which it applieth. nor nothing is compelled save only by nature of its own true will. so therefore human law is a statement of the will and of the nature of man, or else it is a falsity contrary thereunto, and becometh null and of no effect. s the book of wisdom or folly 65 bm de corde candido (of a pure heart) hink also, o my son, of this image, that if two states be at peace, a man goeth between them without let; but if there be war, all gateways are forthwith closed

hine own particular will. for first of all thou art necessarily moved toward the one end from thine own station, but secondly thou art moved toward the end proper to thine own race, and caste, and family, as by virtue of thy birth. and these are, i may say it, conditions or limits, of thine own individual will. thou dost laugh? err not, my son! the magus, even as the poet is the expression of the true will of his fellows, and his success is his proof, as it is written in the book of the law. for his work is to free men from the fetters of a false or a superannuated will, revealing unto them, in measure attuned to their needs, their true natures. s the book of wisdom or folly 67 bx de poetis (of poets) or this reason is the poet called an incarnation of the zeitgeist, that is, of the spirit

aver, how to discover his true nature, earnestly and with ardour, even as i have striven to each thee. yea, and more also! h the book of wisdom or folly 77 by quare filium creavit: ut fiat libertas (why he created his son: that there might be liberty) o what thou wilt! be this our slogan of battle in every act; for every act is conflict. there victory leapeth shining before us; for who may thwart true will, which is the order of nature herself. thou hast no right but to do thy will. do that, and no other shall say nay. for if that will be true, its fulfilment is of a surety as daylight following sunrise. it is as certain as the operation of any other law of nature; it is destiny. then, if that will be obscured, if thou turn from it to wills diseased or perverse, how canst thou hope? fool!

us mayst thou work with any spirit soever; yet this shall serve thee most in common life. also the qualities are well defined in the cards of the tarot, so that thou hast a clear-cut means of developing thy powers according to the needs of the time. but learn also this, to work constantly under the guidance of thine holy guardian angel, so that thy workings be alway in harmony and accord with thy true will. h liber aleph vel cxi 84 g# de clave kabbalistica huius artis (of the qabalistic key of this art) ow then to thee who art long since master of high magick, it will be easy to shew how the mass of the holy ghost, sung even in ignorance, may work many a wonder by virtue of the force generated being compelled to manifest on other than its own plane. here then is a theory of the mystery of

by seven years of apprenticeship in his school did i discover his most excellent way of magick. be thou diligent, o my son, for in this wondrous art is no more toil, sorrow, and disappointment, as it was in the dead aeon of the slain gods. n liber aleph vel cxi 86 gh de formula tota (of the complete formula) ere then is the schedule for all the operations of magick. first, thou shalt discover thy true will, as i have already taught thee, and that bud thereof which is the purpose of this operation. next, formulate this bud-will as a person, seeking or constructing it, and naming it according to thine holy qabalah, and its infallible rule of truth. third, purify and consecrate this person, concentrating upon him and against all else. this preparation shall continue in all thy daily life. mar

very notable danger of error. yet must they train themselves constantly in these modes, for experience itself shall teach them how their bias toward their desires reacteth in the end against themselves, and hindereth them in he execution of their wills. nevertheless, as thou well knowest, the best mode is the creation of an intelligible image by virtue of the mass of the holy ghost, declaring the true will unto thee in terms of thy qabalah! m liber aleph vel cxi 104 gw de fratribus nigris filiis iniquitatis (of the black brothers, sons of iniquity) f the black brothers, o my son, will i write these things following. i have told thee already concerning change, how it is the law, because every change is an act of love under will. so then he that is adept exempt, whether in our holy order or

. r the book of wisdom or folly 123 dr de periculo iocorum amoris (of the peril of the sports of love) et be thou heedful, o my son, for this art is set upon a razor.s edge. in our blood is this great pox of sin, whose word is restriction, as inheritance of our sires that served he slave-gods. thou must be free in the law of thelema, perfectly one with thy true self, singly and wholly bound in hy true will, before thou durst (in prudence) invoke the name of choronzon, even for thy good sport and phantasy. it is but to pretend, thou sayst; and that is sooth; yet thou must make pretence so well as to deceive thyself, albeit for a moment; else were thy sport savourless. then, and thou have one point of weakness in thee, that thought of thine may incarnate, and destroy thee. verily, the wise e

e, but the treasure house of the assimilated wisdom of the ages, and the knowledge of the true way. thus are we just and wise to discover this secret in ourselves, to conform the conscious mind therewith. for that mind is compact solely (until it be illuminated) of impressions and judgments, so that its will is but directed by the sum of the shallow reactions of a most limited experience. but thy true will is the wisdom of the ages of thy generations, the expression of that which hath fitted thee exactly to thine environment. thus thy conscious mind is oftentimes foolish, as when thou admirest an ideal, and wouldst attain it, but thy true will letteth thee, so that there is conflict, and the humiliation of that mind. here will i call to witness the common event of .good resolutions. that d

deal, and wouldst attain it, but thy true will letteth thee, so that there is conflict, and the humiliation of that mind. here will i call to witness the common event of .good resolutions. that defy the lightning of destiny, being puffed up by the mind of an indigestible ideal putrefying within thee. thence cometh colic, and presently the poison is expelled, or else thou diest. but resolutions of true will are mighty against circumstance. n the book of wisdom or folly 129 dy de vitiis voluntatis secret (of defects of the hidden will) earn moreover concerning this hell, or hidden wisdom, that is within thee, that it is modified, little by little, through the experience of the conscious mind, which feedeth it. for that wisdom is the expression, or rather symbol and hieroglyph, of the true ad

bsolute, but standeth in relation to the universe. so then a part thereof may become useless, and atrophy as (i will instance this case) man.s wit of smell; and the bodily organ corresponding degeneratheth therewith. but this is an effect of much time, so that in thy hell thou art like to find elements vain, or foolish, or contrary to thy present weal. yet, o my son, this hidden wisdom is not thy true will, but only the levers (i may say so) thereof. notwithstanding, here lieth therein a faculty of balance, whereby it is able to judge whether any element in itself is presently useful and benign, or idle and malignant. here then is a root of conflict between the conscious and the unconscious, and a debate concerning the right order of conduct, how the will may be accomplished. l liber aleph

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consciousness, as they demand such inhuman concentration, but the rewards are great. in the magical diary, record each day s formal work and whatever extra opportunities have been utilized. no page should be left blank. metamorphosis the transmutation of the mind to magical consciousness has often been called the great work. it has a far-reaching purpose leading eventually to the discovery of the true will. even a slight ability to change oneself is more valuable than any power over the external universe. metamorphosis is an exercise in willed restructuring of the mind. all attempts to reorganize the mind involve a duality between conditions as they are and the preferred condition. thus it is impossible to cultivate any virtue like spontaneity, joy, pious 16 pride, grace or omnipotence wit

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these are the meditations necessary to beaccomplished. 1. the discovery of hadit in the aspirant, and identification with him. 2. the continuous one. 3. the value of the equation n(.n. 4. cremnophobia. 31. summary continued. preliminaries. these are the ethical practices to be accomplished. 1. assertion of kether-point-of-view. 2. reverence to the order. 3. abolition of human will. 4. exercise of true will. 5. devotion to nuit through a beautified life. 32. summary continued. the actual rite. 1. retire to desert with crown and other insignia and implements. 2. burn perfume. 3. chant incantation. 4. drink unto nuit of the elixir. 5. lying supine, with eyes fixed on the stars, practice the sensation of falling into nothingness. 6. being actually within the bosom of nuit, let hadit surrender

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ution of the orders of the day. the adept should therefore be able to rely on these individual minds of his to control their own conditions without interference from himself for the time required, and to recall them in due course, receiving an accurate report of their adventures. this being so, the adept will be free to concentrate his deepest self, that part of him which unconsciously orders his true will, upon the realization of his holy guardian angel. the absence of his bodily, mental and astral consciousness is indeed cardinal to success, for it is their usurpation of his attention which has made him deaf to his soul, and his preoccupation with their affairs that has prevented him from perceiving that soul. liber samekh svb figvra dccc 30 the effect of the ritual has been (a) to keep

y with its ginfintite series h and gcantorian continuity h is to schoolboy arithmetic. each implies the other, though by that one may may explore the essential nature of existence and by this a pawnbroker fs profits. this then is the true aim of the adept in this whole operation, to assimilate himself to his angel by continual conscious communion. for his angel is an intelligible image of his own true will, to do which is the whole of the law of his being. also the angel appeareth in tiphareth, which is the heart of the ruach, and thus the centre of gravity of the mind. it is also directly inspired from kether, the ultimate self, through the path of gthe high priestess, h or initiated intuition. hence the angel is in truth the logos or articulate expression of the whole being of the adept

LIBER V VEL REGULI

y in his use of his powers; he must may every act not only accord with his will, but with the properties of his position at the time. it might be my will to reach the foot of a cliff; but the easiest way.also the speediest, most direct least obstructed, the way of minimum effort.would be simply to jump. i should have destroyed my will in the act of fulfilling it, or what i mistook for it; for the true will has no goal; its nature being to go. similarly, a parabola is bound by one law which fixes its relations with two straight lines at every point; yet it has no end short of infinity, and it continually changes its direction. the initiate who is aware who he is can always check is conduct by reference to the determinants of his curve, and calculate his past, his future, his bearings, and h

ound by 18 liber v vel reguli some mysterious power. yet breadth is equally a nothing in the presence of the cone. his first conception must evidently be a frantic spasm, formless, insane, not to be classed as an articulate thought. yet, if he develops the faculties of his mind, the more he knows of it the more he sees that its nature is identical with his own whenever comparison is possible. the true will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully. his sense of being under bondage comes from his inability to read it; his sense that evil exists to thwart him arises when he begins to learn to read, reads wrong, and is obstinate that his error is an improvement. we know one thing only. absolute existence, absolute motion

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ciferian magick, which is the modeling of 15 spirit by that of the opposer, the bringer of light. the witches sabbat mysteries as they are essential separated into two specific areas of workings. the right side of the path is the magickal path that is the holy aspects of ones personal development. he/she will seek to expand consciousness and gain the attainment of his/her holy guardian angel, the true will or direction of life in which you shall journey. this is also the path of healing, of perfecting the self in any way you can and to begin a strong foundation in luciferian magick (astral projection and development of the psyche. the right hand path seeks to align the individual with the flowing stream of nature, to align the self with the avenue of god or the creative force itself. this

or air lower west triangle green for water upper east triangle yellow for earth lower east triangle red for fire the circle surrounding the hexagram within the circle is significant in the words of power used. ahkh-ka-djed which is derived from charles pace. ahkh/akhu is ba and ka in union and the symbol of immortality, or life. ka is the holy guardian angel or higher familiar, the solar force or true will that guides our movement and direction towards our infinite possibility. djed is the holy union with the dead, the spine or backbone, the supporting base. these words in union represent the great work and 19 infinite possibility of the magickian. the individual is no longer bound by the dogmatic definitions of the forefathers, black or white magick, black brothers; all of this in itself

owards our infinite possibility. djed is the holy union with the dead, the spine or backbone, the supporting base. these words in union represent the great work and 19 infinite possibility of the magickian. the individual is no longer bound by the dogmatic definitions of the forefathers, black or white magick, black brothers; all of this in itself means nothing. either you are on the path of your true will or developing it, or you are not. the concepts of good and evil are only relative within the self and the psychological make up of the individual. seek to master, control and move on. you may use this circle for any rituals you wish, such as ceremonial or solitary workings. rituals of chaos and summoning may be done within this circle, and the grand witches sabbat circle may be used as t

rit, while i shall cultivate the light of dawn from which wisdom springs. the green of the earth is fed from the blood of wolves and the living, from which great secrets find their way to my ears. so it shall be! shaitan i am, shadow and light. let the voices fill with my joyous awakening! so it is done. the headless one ritual is the ritual used to contact and invoke ones holy guardian angel, or true will. this ritual is known to be very dangerous and produce phenomena or hauntings in some places where it is performed. the bornless one (or headless one) is a ritual of great potency used as a preliminary rite before many rituals, as it causes an intense concentration of force. the original ritual was written in greek, and in the text the title akephelos which means headless is found. the r

the eight rayed black sun my essence unto seth! azal ucel! i invoke the bornless baphometic spirit of fire! commentary to invocation of the holy guardian angel, azal'ucel with regard to an invocation to the holy guardian angel, the spirit of the adversary who resides in darkness and light, azal ucel, the system employed is one of 31 summoning up the angelic and daemonic spirit within the self the true will by means of a mask of luciferian witchcraft. the very methods themselves are contained in the calling of the four directions each a component of higher illumination of self; which is combined with the bestial/demonic with the angelic. this is the center of balance which was often deemed necessary in the workings of abramelin magick; which issues control over daemonic forces within and be

psyche. familiar- the servitor or animal spirit which is associated with the sorcerer. the familiar may be evoked and bound, or may be created by the individual to assist in the workings of sorcery. called also the famulus (latin) fetish an object from which the focus of a spirit or coven item is charged. this is the home of the famulus and is an extension of the sorcerer. holy guardian angel the true will, the divine aspect of the self as the psyche, the immortal aspect of the mind which separates us from pure instinctual beings. iblis- the fallen angel known as the devil. the attribution of iblis is that of the imagination, thus lucifer is our imagination. while not widely accepted in the west, william blake was one of the few to and attributes satan to the mind. iblis is derived from th

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sed on luciferian magick, which is the modeling of spirit by that of the opposer, the bringer of light. the sabbatic mysteries as they are essential separated into two specific areas of workings. the right side of the path is the magickal path that is the holy aspects of ones personal development. he/she will seek to expand consciousness and gain the attainment of his/her holy guardian angel, the true will or direction of life in which you shall journey. this is also the path of healing, of perfecting the self in any way you can and to begin a strong foundation in luciferian magick (astral projection and development of the psyche. the right hand path seeks to align the individual with the flowing stream of nature, to align the self with the avenue of god or the creative force itself. this

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ing is that evil is only a closed term defining already pre-dogma- ridden thought patterns, a system within itself. one must go beyond the gates of choronzon into da ath in order to begin to understand first, the self and secondly, the exterior universe. once one has crossed the abyss it is then possible to begin to control and shape his or her own individual destiny based on the discovery of the true will or holy guardian angel. choronzon is also a vampire spirit. it can not be evoked or invoked in its entirety. the reason is that choronzon is all that can invoke madness or destruction, creation only being possible through summoning, facing, passing through da ath and banishing. this is the mastering of choronzon, thus, in essence the end result of controlling a part of this energy. vampi

rroundings according to the desire held. without the will magick is not and holds no power. focus and belief issue forth an independent view and strength which none can touch. the astral sabbat for instance is unobtainable for those without the desire to journey to it, to become with the spirits of the dead. the will is the direction and internal focus which guides him/her through their life. the true will or knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel implies knowing the essence of thyself and the direction it should lead one in life. to dare to dare is to test the methods of sorcery, to push the self to the limits both mentally and physically. this is the essence of knowledge and the building of individual strength. to pursue that which could invoke a hidden mechanism within th

nd return to dust, the great womb is a spawning ground of genetic isolation and personality. time is not our own yet it is within our control. knowing this, you are truly free to do what you will and live your life according to your inner desire, independent of external manipulation. the purpose of initiation is to set you upon the path so that the self may be revealed. the holy guardian angel or true will shall manifest in time and with practice. while you a wait that moment however, push forward and be one with the path! the circle should be cast outdoors if possible with a circle of flour, observe the four watchtowers and focus upon all elements flowing fire, water, air and earth. the angelick spirits of the aethyr which guard the foundations of human development shall observe with your

nity is represented by the two breasts and the androgen arms of this sphinx of the occult sciences" the mentioning of the flame between the horns as symbolizing the magic light of universal balance, is rather significant with the mentioning of the soul being elevated above matter (lucifer) and the flame being tied to matter shines above it (satan. the manifestation of the holy guardian angel (the true will, the hidden genius and the spirit of light) is also the result of invocation and desire made flesh. the two human aspects of the witches sabbat goat (baphomet) are represented in the female (the moon- witchcraft and sorcery: strength in mind, the dream state, desire initializing belief which manifests towards strength and ultimately attainment) and male (sun, magick: manifestation, stren

the witch cult. the witches sabbat goat or baphomet is known as the god of witches, being the sigil of desire+ will= manifestation. the night side holds all great mysteries of the self. the result of exploration of the self in all forms will allow one to discover and come to terms with all aspects of the individual, both positive and negative. the goal being ultimately to discover and pursue ones true will. the true will manifests in the day side (5) through magick. the strength needed to push forward and let nothing stand in your way is realized through experience and the will for a good fight. baphomet holds higher initiation within luciferian magick, from which shall not be revealed here. baphomet may also be considered the god of knowledge, bringing the balance between the aspects of s

such which may occur are between the astrals participating. a basis of desire and manifestation will occur in these dreams. the sabbat luciferian- the luciferian sabbat; the union of the spirit with the seraphic angels and watchers. by holy meditation on the brilliance of the illuminated self will the black flame or essence of self be discovered. this is the ritual of the holy guardian angel the true will/true self. symbolized by the luciferian ascent of the isolated or sethian (setian) sense of being is self-deification possible within a positive aspect. the angelic famulus (latin for familiar also the hga) is the expression and essence of the true self is a magickally developed form. this is the divine initiator, the inspiration or muse of the self. the angelic familiar is the result of

le or chaos sphere, the aim is primarily the same- to explore and make use of the mind. to control the universe relevant to his or her manufactured reality. i have found that varied techniques, employed by various minds, embody a single key and have but one significance. through them it is possible for the inspired individual to manipulate and control the way he or she desires. the essence of the true will or holy guardian angel is the freedom, desire and strength to explore their entire universe of being, from the sun filled peaks of ancient towers to the catacombs of ghastly atavisms. all is possible to a mind of awakened light! 93 93 the teachings of old are of interest to the student and the adept for the method of inspiration. the various methods which can be developed from the old ge

sister/brotherhood. initiation "hecate, mother of nocturnal mysteries, i seek now to become invigorated with the witch blood which flows from your cup of ecstasy. mother of shadows and sorcery, i seek to attend thy great feast of all desires. we, children of the oak king, shall gather under the shadows of pan embraced in great copulations. i dedicate myself to the path of the wise, upon which my true will shall manifest within me. my power lies in your mysteries and within the very essence of my character and being. invocation o great asmodeus, thou art of chaos and form: i come to thee of willful mind, to taste the honey of night. samael, the dewy groves breathe and whisper of the sight of thee. my shadow rises and takes flight upon your ecstasy, towards the sabbat dance. a devils step w

as his true hidden genius was his art, that many keys of magickal study can be obtained through meditating upon them. the drawing presents several faces, some animal, some human and others a combination of both. the many keys which exist in the art and writings of aos are paramount. those who sip from the cup of hecate shall taste the essence of their own personal holy 104 104 guardian angel, the true will discovered. this provides the essential clarity and stability, the strength of conviction, direction and will required to flourish in the pursuit of magick and sorcery. to control and materialize your will upon earth one must first master all within the night side, that of dreaming. all will then manifest in due course. the lunar aspect of the formula is essential, as the birth force. th

ial is wide open, therein the sorcerer is able to adapt forms in accord with will. the tunnel wherein the beast is awakened is the same as that wherein the angel sings, the union is ineffable in its dual aspect of control and panic. pan lurks in every line of the song, in the elysian fields where the breath of our spirit moves the grass. possibility is the exact purpose of life and discovery, the true will speaks fluently in whispered, echoed tones to those who listen. in performing the rites of choronzon, the individual will face a plethora of night ghasts, ghouls and negative spirits, to which will must speak if it is to carry thee through. there is a language peculiar to such demons, which the aspiring mind and will must understand. every voice has a hidden, reversed aspect which define

s the receptor for this current of energy. the rite involves an advanced form of assuming the vampire elemental, since the spirit is an un-created spirit, with no bonds to earth based forces. it will be to your benefit in developing your own workable system of sorcery, for there is much to be gained in actual experience in the workings of evocations and vampire spirits. the holy guardian angel or true will should already be within understanding, acting as a banishing force if such energies become too powerful for the wizard to contain. if the sorcerers are unable to contain such an evoked demonic mass of energy, then each of their lives can become filled with turmoil and the area of working itself may become haunted. sickness, weakness and even death can occur. such elementals would be fre

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have. spirits share many of our emotions, but so do many animals of the material plane. although their emotions are often similar to people, the intellect of a spirits is, on the average, beneath a human s. some spirits have intellect that is above and beyond the mind of man, but most are as intelligent as the higher orders of the animal kingdom. other spirits may not be sentient, and may have no true will of their own, but may be simply collections (concentrations) of spiritual energy. there are physical effects that can be associated with the presence of a spirit. the individual may feel a tingling at the back of their neck, their fingertips, and toes. it may also include the sensation of spider-webs being laid across the skin, or cold breezes gracing the flesh. those in the presence of

MIDNIGHTS CIRCLE A COMMENTARY OF AZOTHOZ

ress, by will they create the first born of witchblood= cain. this is mirrored by the initiate who is able by the solitary act to bring in union both the masculine (lucifer/samael) and the daemonic feminine (lilith) to spawn cain (the united self, the adversary in flesh, baphomet. in the circle of midnight does the self invoke the shadow of the adversary; it is the union of the daemonic spirit or true will with the sorcerer. in this process, the passing and invocation of power brings the initiate in the passing of witchblood. azothoz is the word which brings the self to the fall and then to discover in the darkness the black flame within, the very gift of iblis[3. it is the idea of this word, spoken in silence by the sorcerer or witch, to encircle the self in the holy fire of samael and li

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

ck brother" would undertake. now, although both cases result in enslavement, there is a difference in motivation and in effect. the magus must speak, though he like it not; the 'black brother' ought to shut up (in order to become a magister templi, but he will not. the magus fulfils the law; the 'black brother' rebels against it. the enslavement produced by the magus is in harmony with the racial true will; it is the kind of 'bondage that leads to freedom (see liber aleph, chapters 36-39. the enslavement produced by the 'black brother' invariably leads to stagnation and death. if a 'black brother' should ever become sufficiently powerful to 'supersede' the magus of the aeon in which he lives (which fortunately is absurd, although they are always trying, mankind might very well go the way o

our most strenuous operations "take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves" your daily drippings fill a bigger bucket than your geysers of magical effort. the "ninety and nine that safely lay in the shelter of the fold" have no organized will at all; and their character, built of their words and deeds, is only a garbage-heap. remember, also, that, unless you know what your true will is, you may be devoting the most laudable energies to destroying yourself. remember that every word and deed is a witness to thought, that therefore your mind must be perfectly organized, its sole duty to interpret circumstances in terms of the will so that speech and action may be rightly directed to express the will appropriately to the occasion. remember that every word and deed which

ct is waste, and breeds conflict within you, so that "the kingdom of god which is within you" is torn by civil war. to the beginner i would offer this programme: 1. furnish your mind as completely as possible with the knowledge of how to inspect and to control it. 2. train your body to obey your mind, and not to distract its attention. 3. control your mind to devote itself wholly to discover your true will. 4. explore the course of that will till you reach its source, your silent self. 5. unite the conscious will with the true will, and the conscious ego with the silent self. you must be utterly ruthless in discarding any atom of consciousness which is hostile or neutral. 6. let this work freely from within, but heed not your environment, lest you make difference between one thing and anot

ndard of living has improved, but it is debatable whether it would not have improved faster, with less sacrifice, through social evolution rather than revolution, the way it happened in america and britain. we thelemites are neither revolutionaries nor proselytisers. we do not aim to change the world, we aim to change ourselves. that is how we leaven our environment. it is by learning to know our true will, and doing it, that we bring fresh fire into the world. no man can do his fellows greater benefit than to offer them an example of personal freedom. 43. do that, and no other shall say nay. the general meaning of this verse is that so great is the power of asserting one's right that it will not long be disputed. for by doing so one appeals to the law. in practice, it is found that people

refuses therefore to assent to any argument as to the propriety of any fashion of formulating the soul in symbols of sex. a canon is no less deadly in love than in art or literature; its acceptance stifles style, and its enforcement extinguishes sincerity. it is better for a person of heterosexual nature to suffer every possible calamity as the indirect environment-evoked result of his doing his true will in that respect than to enjoy health, wealth and happiness by means either of suppressing sex altogether, or debauching it to the service of sodom or gomorrah. equally it is better for the androgyne, the urning, or their feminine counterparts to endure blackmailers private and public, the terrors of police persecution, the disgust, contempt and loathing of the vulgar, and the self-tortur

blood of her faithful! the ignorance or carelessness of a raw youth will no longer hound him to hell. a blighted career or a ruined constitution will no more be the penalty of a moment's exuberance. above all, the world will begin to appreciate the true nature of the sexual process, its physical insignificance as one among many parts of the body, its transcendent importance as the vehicle of the true will and the first of the sheaths of the self. hitherto our sexual tabus have kept far ahead of gilbert and sullivan. we have made love the lackey to property, as who should pay his rent by sneezing. we have swaddled it in politeness, as who should warn god off the grass. we have muddled it up with morality, as who should frown at the himalayas on the one hand, and, on the other, regulate his

ecause it redeems even physical grossness to partake with spiritual saintship, the intention of the book of the law is perfectly simple. whatever your sexual predilections maybe, you are free, by the law of thelema, to be the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing. it is not indicated here in the text, though it is elsewhere implied, that only one symptom warns you that you have mistaken your true will, and that is, if you should imagine that in pursuing your way you interfere with that of another star. it may, therefore, be considered improper, as a general rule, for your sexual gratification to destroy, deform, or displease any other star (by 'displease another star' is not meant to offend the prejudices of its personality! he or she who is doing his or her true will knows when he or

not meant to offend the prejudices of its personality! he or she who is doing his or her true will knows when he or she really displeases another. as to destroy or deform: the influence of the 'black brothers' is towards this, they being insane, and their egos hostile to other beings. you must learn to detect it. also, you must not mistake the destruction of a person who is interfering with your true will- such as a 'black brother--with the attempt to destroy--it can never be more than an attempt--or deform that person's starry nature. see liber nv, verses 9-11. the key is that the influence of the 'black brothers' is turned against any personality that is expressing, or trying to express, its starry nature. their diseased egos feel this, rightly, as an attack on their integrity. they fea

that deed. one must choose the environment appropriate to the particular child which one wills to create. one must make sure that the conscious will is written, on the pure waters of a mind unstirred, in letters of fire, by the sun of the soul. one must not create confusion in the talisman, which belongs to the silent self, by letting the speaking self deny the purpose which produced it. if one's true will, the reason of one's incarnation, be to bring peace on earth, one must not perform an act of love with motives of jealousy or emulation. one must fortify one's body to the utmost, and protect it from every disaster, so that the substance of the talisman may be as perfect as possible. one must calm the mind, increasing its knowledge, organizing its powers, resolving its tangles, so that i

physical appearance and habits are of far less importance, specially in a society which has accepted the law of thelema. tolerance itself produces suavity, and suavity soon relieves the strain on tolerance. in any case, most people, especially women, adapt themselves adroitly enough to their environment. i say "especially women" for women are nearly always conscious of an important part of their true will; the bearing of children. to them nothing else is serious in comparison, and they dismiss questions which do not bear on this as trifles, adopting the habits required of them in the interest of the domestic harmony which they recognize as a condition favourable to reproduction. i have outlined ideal conditions. rarely indeed can we realize even a third of our possibilities. our magical e

ibal medicine- man, none the less expressed truly his own wish to abdicate responsibility. in the light of this book, we now know that the centre is everywhere, the circumference nowhere; that "every man and every woman is a star, a 'khabs' the name of the house of hadit; that "the word of sin is restriction. to us, then 'evil' is a relative term; it is 'that which hinders one from fulfilling his true will (e.g, rain is 'good' or 'bad' for the farmer according to the requirements of his crops) the osirian rituals inculcating self-sacrifice to an abstract idea, mutilation to appease an ex cathedra morality, fidelity to a priori formulae, etc, teach false and futile methods of acquiring false knowledge; they must be 'cast away' or 'purged. the schools of initiation must be reformed. this is

dently "a foolish word" for hadit to say "come unto me, as did nuit naturally enough, meaning "fulfil thy possibilities; for who can 'come unto' motion itself, who draw near unto that which is in very truth his innermost identity? some technical aspects of this verse had better be pointed out "i am the magician and the exorcist: in any 'war, he is both sides. whichever wins, if the victor wins by true will (we except here such 'wars' as are caused by two people interfering with each other, both ignorant of their true will) wins by universal necessity. hadit, therefore, does not 'know 'the fallen' hadit knows only 'success; meaning: the acting out of the true law of one's being. in order for had it to manifest himself in the 'knower; that is, in the ruach, it is necessary that the ruach be

erfectly, and be utterly indifferent to its pressure. these are the virtues which constitute a master of the temple. yet each man must act what he will; for he is energized by his own nature. so long as he works "without lust of result" and does his duty for its own sake, he will know that "the sorrows are but shadows. and he himself is "that which remains; for he can no more be destroyed, or his true will be thwarted, than matter diminish or energy disappear. he is a necessary unit of the universe, equal and opposite to the sum total of all the others; and his will is similarly the final factor which completes the equilibrium of the dynamical equation. he cannot fail if he would; thus, his sorrows are but shadows he could not see them if he kept his gaze fixed on his goal, the sun. the ab

exemptus; aiwaz thus subtly reminds me that i was pledged to deny the assertions of my intellectual and moral consciousness (this last simply proves that the "rape" by aiwass of the mind of aleister crowley was the result of the formulated aspiration of this mind to be raped. otherwise, aiwass would not have done it. it can never be stated too clearly that true initiates never interfere with the true will of the least and weakest [senseless expression from above the abyss, but. human being) he combines in these few words (a) a correct psychological explanation of the situation (he does (b) a correct magical explanation of that explanation (ibidem (c) a personal rebuke (not so a reminder. he interprets it as rebuke because the ego is still resentful) to which i had no possible reply, invol

people at all, not 'stars' for the time being. the fact of their being "poor and sad" proves them to be 'shadows, who 'pass and are done. the "lords of the earth" are those who are doing their will. it does not necessarily mean people with coronets and automobiles; there are plenty of such people who are the most sorrowful slaves in the world. the sole test of one's lordship is to know what one's true will is, and to do it. it is rather difficult for the profane to understand that our material conditions are the direct consequence of our psychological structure, but such is in fact the case. it is useless to try to change the surroundings of the poor; unless they are "kings in disguise" see verse 58 they will immediately start modifying their improved surroundings to fit their inner state

it to recognize the glory of it. there is also, of course, a technical meaning. beauty is tiphereth, strength is jesod, leaping laughter is hod, delicious languor is netzach, force is xi, fire is xvl the "highest" must have conquered the lower triad, and be well (if you will pardon the pun) on their way to conquer geburah and gedulah. this organization is necessary before you can know and do your true will with even some degree of efficiency. for although gimel brings you the influence of kether, the disorder of the mind and the grossness of the emotions hinder your attempts to interpret and reflect it. that is why most of your fellowmen are little better than wild animals are domestic animals dogs. 21. we have nothing with the outcast and the unfit: let them die in their misery. for they

i will tell my prophet& be drunk thereof! they shall not harm ye at all. it is a lie, this folly against self. the exposure of innocence is a lie. be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any god shall deny thee for this. drunkenness is a curse and a hindrance only to slaves. shelley's couriers were 'drunk on the wind of their own speed. anyone who is doing his true will is drunk with the delight of life. wine and strange drugs do not harm people who are doing their will; they only poison people who are cancerous with original sin. truth is so terrible to these detestable mockeries of humanity that the thought of self is a realization of hell. therefore they fly to drink and drugs as to an anaesthetic in the surgical operation of introspection. the cravi

of the main symptoms of infection by a diseased magical current is confusion in the vehicles. sentimentality is thought tinged by emotion, and in such cases the thought is biased and the emotion misleading. people speak a lot about the innocence of children. children are not innocent. they are merely ignorant. ignorance is not innocence. innocence consists in being true to oneself, in doing one's true will. the ignorant cannot do this. purity consists in keeping everything in its place, and you cannot do this if you don't know things and if you don't know their places. the place of a rigid penis is inside a lubricating vulva, and this, also, is purity. lam speaking, of course, as a heterosexual. if you prefer back sides, i will not deny you for it provided you don't try to force your atten

ities. hermits go solitary; monks hunt in packs "beasts of women: this curious expression must not be interpreted as derogatory to womanhood. every woman is a star "beasts of women" does not mean "bestial women" see verse 70. there is a technical meaning, and it must be left to the "right ingenium" of the advanced philosophus "beware lest any force another" beware of interfering with each other's true will "the day of your wrath: see liber vii, vii, vv. 29-39. 25. ye are against the people, 0 my chosen! by "the people" is meant that canting, whining, servile breed of whipped dogs which refuses to admit its deity. the mob is always afraid for its bread and butter when its tyrants let it have any butter- and now and then the bread has 60% substitutes of cattle- fodder. so, being afraid, it d

omentum be firmly established in the life of an aspirant, his mind will continuously tend to fall back into "the pit called because" he must live as if "might be" were "is; and persist in this apparently absurd course of conduct until the external world adapts itself to his will. see lxv, chapter five, verses 52-56. the adaptation of the external world to the will is inevitable if the will be the true will, because you are a star in the body of nuit. infinite space is a function of you. you are hadit, and nuit is your complement. see al ii, verse 1. this is why "success is thy proof (of course, the reverse idea is also true you are a function of infinite space see al i, verse 1. but this merely means that the third kind of magickal link see book four, part iii is always present, and a form

n to rust out (one of the great tragedies of modern life is the idea of "retirement. people stop working precisely at the age when they have gathered enough experience to work efficiently. the idea that work is an obligation and an effort is possible only in a slave society, where men and women work not at what they like, but at what they may. a person who is doing work harmonious with his or her true will wants to work until he or she dies because to work is fun. hard fun, maybe but great fun. an occasional rest is of course necessary; but if your work is congenial, you will soon find yourself missing it and back to it you should go, whether you are twenty or eighty, whether to compose a symphony or wield a spade. it does not matter if you do it slower your experience will make each move

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partners than with correspondence. third, it gives me connections around the world, which can help with my long-term goal of traveling. fourth, it shows me the operant side of crowley's teachings. i feel that first and third reason will directly aid my xeper, the second is good fun- and the fourth might be useful in helping critique the methods of the temple. 2. thelema is based on finding one's "true will" the metaphor given is inherently natural. one becomes a star with a fixed orbit. whereas this may be a leap for most of humanity, i see xeper as totally replacing this concept. the setian does not to seek to find an orbit to fit. he would rather be a self-willed star "i think i'll go cruising over to another galaxy" he or she accepts that failure is possible, and that striving in any di

erse"*i am within: the seed-form of this process as interpreted at any level of human conscious evolution and within any individual human psyche. i think the "i" in this statement refers to the "self ahead of the self- the potential of xeper in any direction or within any part of the psyche. again this is a multi-dimensional process not unlike conscious juggling. it is our interpretation of this "true will" which gives us potential clues to a greater ability to create reality- the application of human intelligence as a result of the gift of set. a further mystery being that we seem to have the ability to actually create our own true will- a decision to classify an experience/cognition within such a relationship- a very unique human self-referral process "i am within *and beyond you" this p

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of this spirit to her, as is explained in our exposition of the liturgy of the shema recited before going to sleep, whose purpose is to kill off destructive forces. the flow of divine consciousness from the super-rational will (arich anpin) into the intellect (abba and ima, enables them to couple and produce emotions (z feir anpin. in common experience, this means that when a person experiences a true will to do or understand or acquire something, this will produces ideas in his mind about how to do, understand, or acquire this thing. the will drives his mind to gain new insight (by motivating the person to exhibit the selflessness that predicates new insight, as we have explained previously) and capture that insight in his conscious mind, reconstructing his worldview in its wake and there

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and on whatever plane he may now pursue his ideal, let him be blessed with a diviner rest and an utter cessation from strife. trace saturn hexagram with sigil in centre. term of all that liveth, whose name is death and inscrutable, be thou favourable unto us in thine hour. and unto him, from whose mortal eyes the veil of physical life hath fallen, grant that there may be the accomplishment of his true will. should he will absorption in the infinite, or to be united with his chosen and preferred, or to be in contemplation, or to be at peace, or to 447 448 the golden dawn: volume i11 book six achieve the labour and heroism of incarnation on this planet or another, or in any star, or aught else, unto him may there be granted the accomplishment of his true will. go to altar, visualise deceased

y star, or aught else, unto him may there be granted the accomplishment of his true will. go to altar, visualise deceased at the east facing west, and invoke: i invoke thee by the divine name iao, thou great angel hru, who art set over the operations of this secret wisdom. strengthen and establish. in his search for the divine light. increase his spiritual perception so that he may accomplish his true will, and that thus he may be enabled to rise beyond that lower self-hood which became as nothing unto that highest self-hood which is the clear light of the spirit. go to east of altar. make rose cross over the elements vibrating the enochian spirit invokation. make qabalistic cross. for osiris omophris who is found perfect before the gods hath said: these are the elements of my body perfect

e divine spirit, i invoke ye, ye angels of the watchtowers of the universe, and charge ye by the divine names yeheshuah yehovashah to guard this sphere of. keep far from him all evil and the unbalanced that they penetrate not into his spiritual abode. inspire and sanchfy him so that he may enter in to the centre of his being and there receive the vision of the clear light, and thus accomplish his true will. pause for some while for meditation. then close by usual formulae <27i> practical z. preparation for divination by g. h. frater sub spe the preparation for divination- opening ceremony of= the temple is the aura or sphere of sensation. the hierophant is the diviner, the positive active will which manipulates and controls all the other bodily functions, and all the forces operating in th

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t in many independent ways. polarity: partly because of the interdependence question raised above, we choose to withhold a decision concerning the polarity of these opposites. thelema is the active pursuit of one's true and free will. sloth is acceptance of predestination through inaction. hierarchy: thelema requires consciousness. while sloth does not, choosing to be slothful, to not pursue your true will, does require consciousness of some degree (dr. aquino suggests that an alternate opposite of thelema would not be sloth or laziness, but rather "it would be trying to make a silk purse from a sow's ear, ie: frustrating yourself by trying to do or be things which you have no aptitude for, knowledge about, or physical capability for" this alternative definitely needs to be examined for po

atest of these worn about your neck. footnotes 1. the magicians of the golden dawn, howe, e. 2. the degrees of initiation, m. aquino vi the ruby tablet of set 3. the magicians of the golden dawn, howe, e. 4. the eye in the triangle, regardie, i. 5. magick in theory and practice, crowley, a (9=[2] 6. letter to m. aquino vi from bill heidrick of the california o.t.o, march 8, 1981 ce. aeonic topics true will working this ritual was designed to provide initiates with a tool with which to seek greater clarity on and understanding of their inner destinies as individual black magicians. the self-unifying purpose at the core of each aspirant's being gives meaning and direction to the individual's classification: v2- a15.2- 1 author: john j. felczak iii date: september 28, xxvi html revision: oct

each of us as individuals. on the left hand path it is the individual magician's own radical self-will that is the final authority and source of values. to the "not my will but thine be done" of the magus of the old aeon, the black magician replies "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law, and his or her own will be done above all! the magus of the word thelema said that the nature of the true will is to go. that is, the magical will is not exhausted by a single finite aim. rather it is a conscious volitional process that continually posits new goals for itself. at the same time, nevertheless, will is experienced and manifested in that which it wills, in goals. when goals are diffuse and multitudinous and bear no relationship to one another, the will is fragmented and dispersed. th

m. rather it is a conscious volitional process that continually posits new goals for itself. at the same time, nevertheless, will is experienced and manifested in that which it wills, in goals. when goals are diffuse and multitudinous and bear no relationship to one another, the will is fragmented and dispersed. there is no concentration of power. to be consciously aware of and attuned with one's true will means that all one's goals arrange themselves into a logical hierarchy, supporting one another in service of one overriding purpose. this is the force of destiny, of self-made destiny, against which nothing can stand. just as siegfried reforged the mighty sword needful from its shattered fragments, so too the magician who discovers and manifests his or her true will forges the ultimate m

the great work, the creation of the philosopher's stone and, in the symbolism of the old aeon, as the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel. this "angel" is no angel of god in any theistic sense. rather it is the crystallization of the magician's own ultimate selfhood. in the language of the book of opening the way, it is the neter xem whose name is unknown. to seek to know one's true will requires time, effort, and much reflection and inner searching. fortunately, there is no shortage of tools and techniques to help us in the process. divination and the interpretation of our dreams provide a gateway for our inner selfhood to express itself in the language of symbols, awakening the intelligence of the heart. on a more intellectual level there are numerous well-known method

guidelines set down by abramelin, aleister crowley used as his specific invocation ritual an adapted form of a hellenistic graeco-egyptian rite of exorcism. this beautiful but exceedingly complex ritual is preserved for us in the body of crowley's work as "liber samekh: theurgia goetia summa (congressus cum daemone) sub figura dccc" for today's working i have adapted a much simpler rite, a wiccan true will ritual originally published by selena fox in the circle network news several years ago. i have revised it into an overall setian framework and incorporated elements drawn from ancient chinese sorcery as well as the typhonian tradition in thelemic magic. the signs or gestures in the summoning of the elements are adapted from the golden dawn rubrics, and may be found in 9k, pp. 412- 413. r

all that is required is an altar or chamber with the standard implements and a single black candle for each participant. small black votive candles in votive glass cups are ideal for this. each participant will individually consecrate their candle at the altar at the appointed time. the candles can then be taken home and used in private meditative and introspective work- where the quest for one's true will really begins in earnest. true will working [the bell is rung 9 times] the litany of the nine angles celebrant: gwe honor the bond upon the world of horrors unto the beginning and ending of dimensions. h ghonor to azathoth, without whose laughter this world should not be. h ghonor to yog-sothoth, without whose sign we ourselves should not be. h ghonor to nyarlathotep, prince of the abyss

are spirit. we are all that is. ours is the unseen force that enters and departs throughout the farthest reaches of the universe. we are balance and self-unity. we are that from which our true wills spring! h the consecration of the lights each participant now brings his or her candle to the altar and consecrates it according to his or her ingenium, dedicating it to aid them in discovering their true will. the celebrant does this last of all, then faces the altar in the sign of apophis and typhon, proclaiming: gcandle light, candle glow, inner sight, will to know. thus shall these lamps of knowledge light our way on the quest for truth. may we always be aware of the flame of will that burns within us, and may we always act according to our true wills, born of spirit. h the 18th part of th

al values of these three cards and obtained 31("al+"la, whence came the secret name of the book of the law. the famous final sentence of this passage, originating [like "thelema] in dr. francois rabelais' novel gargantua, had also been used by sir francis dashwood who inscribed fay ce que voudras over the main entrance to medmenham abbey. crowley, in adopting it, applied it specifically to "one's true will. which, according to the word of the aon of horus, meant the uniting of the individual will with that of the objective universe (nuit. 41. the word of sin is restriction. o man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! o lover, if thou wilt, depart! there is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. accursed! accursed! be it to the aeons. hell. compare the magical formul

, in the day of your wrath. strengthening of self-awareness is not to be achieved through isolation and meditation, as in the hindu and buddhist systems, but through exposure and expression of the self. those with the most highly-developed sense of self-awareness are also those who are seen to attain success in their endeavors; it is a sign that they have correctly identified and actualized their true will. such a person will continue to achieve success, unless he should clash with another whose true will is equally well-developed. or more so. 25. ye are against the people, o my chosen! a reaffirmation of #ii-18/19. 26. i am the secret serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. if i lift up my head, i and my nuit are one. if i droop down my head, and shoot forth venom, the

-travel. yet such "passing free" seems to involve mental perception of the past and present only, not the future. this has interesting implications for those who believe in "predestination (a fixed course of future events. the contrasting school is that of free will, which cannot exist unless the future is undetermined. the problem, as crowley and gurdjieff demonstrated, is one of identifying the true will and freeing it from mechanical conditioning, either conscious or subconscious.51 time-travel. or, more precisely, the control of time. is a skill which is essential to a magician. isaac newton believed in the idea of a universal "absolute time" or "linear duration, saying that time is a thing in itself, not a relation between events. leibnitz argued to the contrary, foreshadowing einstei

r star course" in my opinion, priest mcatee defined this concept so well in his article an anubian initiatory diagram that i will quote it: the thelemic current is what the initiate centers his work around and balances the universe in reference to. while our path of initiation may dart back and forth over the thelemic current a number of times, it does tend to move in the general direction of our true will and most significantly and less, until perhaps we become one with it, i.e: the red magus, and existence becomes synonymous with the will. 2. this second line graphs a gradually more harmonizing relation between the subjective and objective universe, knowledge and essence, theory and practice. remanifestations delving all the deeper within the self lead- via the conscious connecting, chan

) an ever clearer path in one's quest for the inner temple. this is the road of maat. as maat's name refers primarily to "that which is straight" and as it was probably the name which was given to an instrument by which the work of handicraftsman of every kind was kept straight, so we can with the help of maat have an ever better balance and straight line with respect to our thelemic current, our true will. the goddess, neter maat, is the personification of physical and moral law, and of order and truth. truth is that which as the seekers of the grail we must live in maat, to behold her black mirror and live consistently, so that we would really xeper and endure the initiatory crises which we sometimes face. priest mcatee spoke in his an anubian initiatory diagram of initiatory crises occu

that the method in every case is love, by which is meant the uniting of opposites as above stated, such as hydrogen and chlorine, sodium and oxygen, and so on. any reaction whatever, any phenomenon, is a phenomenon of "love" as you will understand when i come to explain to you the meaning of the word "point-event" but love has to be "under will" if it's to be properly directed. you must find your true will, and make all your actions subservient to the one great purpose. our "tools" in our quest for the grail are g.b.m. and l.b.m, by the first of which the magical link is formed, the growing presence and understanding of the nonnatural self. 3. this third line describes the same thing, though from a different angle. the idea is that in initiation we are in principle exercising the same thin

urpose. our "tools" in our quest for the grail are g.b.m. and l.b.m, by the first of which the magical link is formed, the growing presence and understanding of the nonnatural self. 3. this third line describes the same thing, though from a different angle. the idea is that in initiation we are in principle exercising the same thing, yet we become better at it (i.e: in understanding our own self, true will, black magic; xeper) section 2 described the "within" aspect of runa, while this section 3 describes the "without" as initiation goes on "concentration" to the essence becomes greater and deeper, and at the same time one understands wider and more complex patterns in external life. 4. this edge of the diagram represents the ever-widening sphere of runa. it extends to the past, present an

n them. they are the savage and vicious. beware, and take care! for this past year (xxviii) has taught me masses of truths of human nature. i my self have become far more than what is considered to be a human being. when i was you, i couldn't accurately imagine this state of being i'm now dwelling in. i had some glimpses of it, which i followed ardently. watch and follow those exaltations of your true will! for freedom is something that cannot be taken away from you. you are the ultimate god of your own universe. wield your understanding, and cause changes in it. protect your self and those you love and that which is important to you. don't let beauty of life be discarded or mocked, for there is more in it than the profane can ever hope to see. i was, i am, and i shall always be. the past

e is rendered possible. this independence of will is perturbing to the cosmic inertia, but quite pleasurable to the elect. i also read into this the meaning that we should consider our work as something pleasurable, something to be indulged in. this constitutes the emotional use of the intellect, a characteristic of satan or set/harwer fused. the reasons for our actions should be regulated by our true will (greek thelema. this implies, of course, profound self knowledge. you must know what your true will is, before freedom of choice, and indulgence, are realized as possibilities. it stands to reason that one who has attained to such an exalted state of self awareness would choose to indulge in the high and the lofty, rather than in the base and the degenerate. xeper, the conscious, willful

ment. may i be given my own mouth. may i speak with it in the presence of the mighty god who is the lord of the tuat and not be rebuffed. may i become as the star daimons who dwell in darkness. i am the remanifest daimon of incindiarism in the subplane of dispersion, a setian adept, truth-speaking, among those who partake of the pure essence of black magic. i have come forth in accordance with my true will and my heart (ab) is in the region of the city of two fires. may i be unaffected by fire. may my mouth be opened. it is said that the god ptah can provide for us; that he can provide us with the guardians of a person's mouth. it is said that the god of a person's city will come to him then, and that the god thoth will furnish a person with magical spells and that he will send us to the g

hat the magician may use to reveal an individual's particular rat-maze- in much the same way that psychologists use ink-blot tests. it is the magician's goal to (a) recognize the maze(s) he is in and (b) get out of it/them and make completely unprogrammed decisions about his brain, body, life, etc. by doing this, of course, the magician also discovers what good old a.c. called one's true self and true will. the tarot can be used as a tool to find your own rat-mazes. you, the setian magician, are then charged with breaking out of these ruts, of changing your psychological behaviors to truly reflect your true will. 55you my need to present a distasteful analysis to the querant later, depending on the analysis of later sections. but at least at this point you can skip anything which is unplea

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: ramana maharshi and the path of self knowledge, london, 1954 (12) see shri haranath: his play and precepts, bombay, 1954 (13) i.e. 1913 (14) the 5 =6 ritual was published in volume i, no.3. in 1910 (15) see chapter i (16) by qabalah, hand=yod=10; eye=ayin=70. the total, 80=pe (mouth, the goddess, uterus, or utterer of the word (17) crowley's definition of magick. see magick, p.131 (18) i.e. the true will (19) crowley defined the great work in terms of the 'next step, implying thahte t great work is not a remote and mysterious thing, unattainable by humans, but the realization of the 'here and now, and attention to immediate reality. both spare and crowley castigated the prevaricators who, scared of the idea of work, look to the 'fuutre life' and the unattainable, instead of seizing reali

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gical approach towards the transformation of consciousness. we augment consciousness through acquiring knowledge, we distill the contents of knowledge through experience. through the vehicle of consciousness itself we can enhance this process by becoming aware of personal affinity or magnetism towards certain types of cognitive platforms which are the gates towards the discovery of the individual true will. distillation and augmentation are the specific principle forms of the generalized concept of expansion and retraction. in the quest for evolutionary consciousness distillation is the functional process that leads inwards or retracts a consciousness of the inner reality within the individual. the process of augmentation, or expansion is the aspect of consciousness that leads out from one

to manufacture synthetically constructed perspectives of choice (will. these outlooks of both the subjective (internal processes of consciousness) and the objective (external result of consciousness) are the inherent rules of a form that will shape this initiated vision. the ability to see what others do not within the same environment is your key to power. to "do (to accomplish the individual's true will) results from being able to see. it is only through sight that you see what needs to be done, and it is through the will that the choices to do are made. there must exist a motivation to provoke the desire for constructing this new matrix of ideas. dissatisfaction with the current state of spiritual being and life s affairs is a primary catalyst for desiring change. if one does not have

efining how good- in the sense of personal transformation through the right hand path of god and the universal nature of man- is a principle of spirtiual transformation through various paths of least resistance. further, i have hypothesized that this principle is inherent within the very fabric of both biologic mechanisms and non-biological components of the natural environment- it is inscripted. true will and individuality is a rather rare commodity, and becoming even more rare in the post-modern age of group-think where the i of the self has been replaced with us, we, our and them. it is only through individual becoming attained through spiritual anarchy to existing ideas not your own that independence is truly obtained. it is this playing field that the prince of darkness inscribes true

of potential boundaries within the very implementation of ritual itself is a key component in the creation of harmonic proportion in ritual. chapter 7. practical magical theory the well known magus, author, mountain climber, drug addict and poet aleister crowley defined magic as creating change in accordance with one s will. the codicil to this statement is that change be made in accord with the true will of the initiate. the implication of this being that if one discovers what their true will is, then the manifestation of that will into meaningful and useful creations is greatly enhanced. now, this didn t keep crowley from using magical formula in attempts to obtain money and items somewhat distanced from his true will (that of establishing the aeon of horus and his word- thelema. crowle

this chapter at least twice, and then everytime you actually exercise your will through magical ritual, or lesser black magical means, come back to this chapter. when your magic fails, read this section again for all the clues to success are touched upon very broadly here. this chapter, in many ways, is the schematic for this technicians guide of the left hand before discussing the concept of the true will it is important for us to define what is meant by the term will in general. this issue has been the property of many philosophers who have tried to extract the particulars, but i am going to avoid (to the extent possible) from entering that circular debate. rather, the idea of the will is going to be examined through observation, and logical reckoning, in other words i will generalize, a

cts, the magical self another set of actions and so on. the point is that the will is a tool of creation, it creates according to the parameters of cpeg in most, and in a very few others- very few i must stress- they will have dissented from these influences, and impulses, creating something much closer to their true and essential nature. so, how does the individual determine their own individual true will? dissent from cpeg, and observation of ones self is paramount. understanding ones own affinities, talents, likes/dislikes in all manner of things- literary, sexual, food, fun, hobbies, inner thoughts, personality, relations to others all tell a tale of attraction and negation that ultimately reveals the manifest aspects of the true will. there is no formulaic convention to understand thi

n to understand this within ones self. it has to be realized in relationship to the individuals life, in and of itself. it can be discerned only through a polaric methodology of negation/affirmation and seeing what is left.here is another way to consider this, if one dissented from social/religious/cultural programming what one would have left are very clear clues and paths towards the individual true will. so called natural talents in art, music, literature are some of the aspects that would be left as a result of this dissent. it is revealed then that the antinomian path of spiritual dissent is, in part, a methodology to unveil the adept s true will. let me encapsulate this concept a bit. an original energetic activity- if it is extended outward from its source- will result in a number o

of activity (and also forms a geometric patterning. the magical theory i am presenting here states that it is these diffuse harmonic relationships (zig-zagging line of activity) that make things happen out there. each harmonic (or point in the zig-zag) is a separate, yet inexorably linked event to that initial outburst. the closer that the intention of this original outpouring of energy is to the true will of the individual, the closer these ponts will be to the source. as such, they are more observable, more cohesive to the initial purpose, and more likely to ensure a successful outcome as regards the purpose, intent and function of the magical working. in atkinson s book the will: its nature, power and development there are a number of useful discussions regarding the will (many of them

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cially stimulate or fight in us, for this depends on the plane where we try to consider their influence. let us merely assert tht they act as demons when they interfere with our initiatic progress, and act as servants of the logos when they cooperate with us in our spiritual evolution. please note that since those entities do exist as parts of ourselves, if we do not subordinate them in us to our true will they will hinder our initiatic process. if we "destroy" their manifestation within us, we will not be "purifying, but mutilating and deforming ourselves (please note that it is perfectly possible to destroy these "demons, thus hindering your progress as indicated) these entities represent hatred, that is, separateness of existence in ourselves. thus in the act of casting the demons away

iac forces, whose work in initiation corresponds to the work of the necrophagi (vultures, buzzards, hyenas, jackals, worms, etc) in nature. true candidates should always keep in mind these two apparently opposite fact: first, that they are under the attack of demoniac forces since the first moment they aspire to initiation; second, that those forces must be conquered and put to the service of the true will. if aspirants let themselves be dominated, instead of dominating, in a certain sense they are eaten and digested by the demons, and become mere instruments of the demoniac worlds on the earth. should the aspirants, out of fear or repulsion, avoid all contact with the demoniac forces, they will be unable to develop control of certain planes of consciousness, and therefore will never becom

ce, the disciples take for "manifestations of the will of their higher nature" certain branchings-out of the will of their lower nature that were previously dormant, but which are activated by the new energy initiation imparts. suddenly they doubt the competence, or even the sanity of their guru or hierarchic superior; they develop an intense conviction that they are better qualified to judge the true will, both theirs and the order s, than the guru or hierarchic superior; and so on and so forth. truly, it is not only perfectly possible that the disciple is better qualified to judge his or her own true will than the master, but also necessary. the sign that we are not dealing with legitimate spiritual intuition, but with a rebellion of the inferior nature, consists in the simple fact that

f the inferior nature, consists in the simple fact that the disciple is completely free to leave the master (or the order, in case he or she feels that he or she has gained full self control (that is to say mastership; but instead of doing so, the disciple starts dictating conditions to the master, or trying to rule the order. he/she tries to teach the master how the master can achieve his or her true will- and it is no use if the master should remind him or her that the master has (so to speak) been in possession of his or her diploma for some time! in the case of an order of the type of h.o.o.r, the disciple tries to "take over" and assume the highest authority, or tries to deviate the work of the order in the direction of his or her prejudices and desires, or both things at once. if you

e his immortal soul (as can be seen the christists took full advantage of the chance to enslave with these remarks. their transcendental meaning is lost and the whip and chain of the slave are shown to the poor dupe. remember that the words of the magi are at the same moment true and false cf onion peelings in liber cccxxxiii for a humorous- sad look at this fact) naturally, it all depends on the true will of the aspirant. if what you want is to conquer the world, well and good. but if you want to conquer yourself- then you must perceive the symptoms, and control them at every step. do not deceive yourselves: the ordeal of self-discipline does not become easier as you progress, it becomes harder. at each stage of initiation, the energy imparted to the vehicles becomes greater in intensity

only relative, they are necessarily false or illusory when compared with some other plane of perception. this, of course, is in relation to ourselves, in relation to our own point of view: the confusion does not come from conflict between us and some other star, which would be a much more comfortable explanation to our egos; it is the result of an inner conflict, through which we misinterpret our true will. any conflict with other stars, by the way, is only possible while we undergo this inner conflict. conflict with other stars is impossible when we are doing our true will- cf al 1 44-45, that are the 4 eyes (eye, ayin in hebrew, the letter o, has the value of 70 in the qabala; hence 70 x 4) of the double-headed one (the two headed giant which represents the qlipoth, or false reflection

y is not a sign of love (another delusion instilled by the black lodge. jealousy is an emotional compound of equal parts of fear, egotism and envy. it is one of the lowest emotions of which a human being is capable, and should be kept under stern control by all true lovers. the sole limitation to love is that it must be under will. this means that sexual attraction ought to be subordinated to the true will of each of us. but only a human being who knows his or her true will knows when to repress the emotion, and when not to. love one another. and this includes the physical aspect of love. when each human being has expanded his or her feelings in all directions, false passions and false desires can be perceived; it becomes easy to identify natural appetite, and relate it to the true will. t

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL

his reliance upon narcotics. his philosophy of life was summed up in an analysis by journalist tom driberg in the days when crowley was beginning to be called the wickedest man in the world: ghis basic commandment was edo what thou wilt. f since his training in serious, formal magick (as he spelt it) was rigorous, he did not mean by this efollow each casual impulse. f he meant ediscover your own true will and do it. f in other words, eknow yourself and be yourself. f h before his death crowley was rumored to have started a group on the american west coast that included the study and practice of alchemy. the deaths of several persons as the results of mysterious explosions were connected with this practice; but if a crowley cult ever existed, it had all but vanished within a few years afte

THE LUCIFERIAN PATH THE WITCHES SABBAT MICHAEL W FORD

are the initiate to begin the path of summoning the goetic daemons. given also are complete descriptions of the tools of ceremonial art and why such instruments are used and what they represent to the luciferian. the goetic circle is also presented anew as well, uniting the sorcerer with the spirit, thus a gateway to godhood and the initiatic familiar known also as the holy guardian angel and the true will. much of the reworking of the goetia were inspired by michael s practice and development of the systems of aleister crowley and especially austin osman spare. no longer does the sorcerer stand in a circle and fear what he has called, but rather confronts and commands those forces connected to his 11 or her own being. it is a system of strength and will by the very foundation up no longer

THE WITCH CULT OF ZOS VEL THANATOS

lesh could be awakened towards their own desire. the concepts of kia and neither-neither could now be explored and absorbed. for spare aleister crowley s dogma of thelema (which through further study and practice proves there is very little dogma in thelema) was too limiting for his own needs. independent and proud, austin was not willing to accept aleister s concepts in whole. the inner drive or true will insisted different. aos would not ignore this call and sought the means of enfleshing his ideas. austin osman spare was in complete understanding of the focus of mind and how all magickal acts stem from the brain primarily. the secret ascent towards godhood (lucifer) is based within the concept of will, desire and belief. self truth results from the unification of will, desire and belief

rowth and discovery, as well as compassion towards others and utter hunger and destruction for those who have wronged you. evil genius herein the fetish of the sorcery, the holy guardian angel/evil genius or luciferian angel within the black tradition. when the initiate has uplifted his own being by the rite of the adversary and the ritual of the holy guardian angel, azal ucel, the essence of the true will may then be understood. incident at the witches sabbath when the circle is cast and the shadow is uplifted, the cunning shall gather as one. here is the great orgy of the horned one, when the luciferic angel and the daemon or akoman is joined, the black adepts astral body is unleashed within the aethyr to formulate their will, to expand their consciousness and then take the sacrament of

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

synonymous with the polynesian term mana. occult virtue is the magical potential within an object, person, animal, plant, place, symbol, word, thought, action, or any other manifest thing. wig true: a term popularized by aleister crowley to indicate the impulse that drives human beings to seek to realize their personal destiny, and thereby achieve a harmony between the lower self and higher self. true will has supreme power because it acts in concert with cosmic law. it should be distin- guished from mere willfulness, which is the determination to do a thing that is not a part of personal destiny. willfulness is weak because it acts in conflict with cosmic law. willful persons constantly run into obstacles, but those who exercise their true will find the way opening effortlessly before the

VOX SABBATUM

in the rite, you may complete the widdershins dance around the circle and then the couple may focus on sexual congress. with every movement, both will focus on the goal of the rite be it casting a spell or invoking a daemon into the minds of the practitioners. in the luciferian sabbat, the couple may use autoerotic techniques to invoke the azal ucel angel, their guide of the path (higher self or true will) or a mutual focus of sexual congress to summon forth the initiatic guide. as with the left hand path the witch or warlock will focus on self-directed energies stimulated by the activity, thus the imagination brought to a high level on concentration. sabbat lycanthropy is also useful in sexual magick. the practitioners will mentally and visually shape shift during their circle dance, fro

all gods speak through our flesh, the perfected angel-demon called lucifer is strength, will and isolate consciousness that stands alone. as you meditate and participate by dream or flesh remember the will that invokes change in a positive sense. you are the djinn of fire who begets both light and darkness, you are the serpent and the lion, the wolf and the goat. with the angelic higher self (the true will) you will join the bestial self (the daemon or shadow) as one. the luciferian sabbat may be conducted in the following manner. let the chamber (unless the rite is intended to be held outdoors) be decorated in more ambivalent forms of lucifer, such as illustrations of the fallen angel by gustave dore, fidus or franz von stuck. you will use the algol sigil above a mirror; your altar may ha

WESTERN MANDALAS OF TRANSFORMATION SR AL

up endeavor; a system based on universal principles that are global in their impact. and practical. the works in this series are practical in their applications and requirements for application. you need neither to travel to the mountain top nor obtain any tool other than your own consciousness. you need no garment other than your own imagination. you need no authority other than that of your own true will. set forth, then, into the new dawn.a new start on the greatest adventure there is: to become one with the divine genius. this book is dedicated to all my students, and especially to my lodge sisters in hermetica west, who have been a great source of light and joy in my life: sarial, la, tzadkiel, aimbe, morning star, starel, and matarah, and to claire, wherever you are. special thanks t

WORKBOOK FOR GRADE 0 VOID AND THE ABYSS

s and the ghost roads- open the gates unto me! guardian of flaming sword and corpse-king of the scepter- open forth the anubian way to me! i behold the center of the eight- rayed black sun- my essence unto seth! azal'ucel! i invoke the bornless baphometic spirit of fire *what is the holy guardian angel- sabbatic familiar- angelic familiar -this is the higher self, what aleister crowley called the true will. the goal of the magician is to create what are twin vessels or pots which contain a solar and lunar essence. the lunar is created first, the contents are based on the sorcerers choice, but generally involve blood, grave soil, semen or sexual fluids (menstrual blood if female, sigils which are created based on a demonic aspect, ect. it is buried and focused upon for half a month. the the

s buried on the fullmoon night. it will then take form in the waning moon. the green or solar vase will be buried on the new moon/dark moon and then both will be exhumed on the fullmoon. the shadow vase will be buried for one month. the solar vase for half a month. the goal is to visualize, along with the invocation of the holy guardian angel, azal'ucel, to create and materialize in your life you true will and show the benefits of this. this represents your desired direction of life, magicial ability and growth, ect. the true will is not a mere mystic truth, but a reality of the luciferian will. the ritual of the invocation of the holy guardian angel should be performed with ecstasy and excitement, as crowley wrote "enflame thyself in invocation. allow the sight of this exteriorized shadow

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