Book 4 Part II Magick.pdf

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CHAPTER VIII
THE SWORD
“ HE word of the Lord is quick and powerful, and sharper than a
two-edged sword.”
As the Wand is Chokmah, the Will, “the Father,” and the Cup the
Understanding, “the Mother,” Binah; so the Magick Sword is the
Reason, “the Son,” the six Sephiroth of the Ruach, and we shall see
that the Pantacle corresponds to Malkuth, “the Daughter.”
The Magick Sword is the analytical faculty; directed against
any demon it attacks his complexity.
Only the simple can withstand the sword. As we are below
the Abyss, this weapon is then entirely destructive: it divides Satan
against Satan. It is only in the lower forms of Magick, the purely
human forms, that the Sword has become so important a weapon. A
dagger should be sufficient.
But the mind of man is normally so important to him that the sword
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