Book 4 Part II Magick.pdf
Book 4 Part II Magick.pdf Book 4 Part II Magick.pdf
100 up of these coherent images, has tried to replace them by ideals which are only saved from destruction, at the very moment of their birth, by their vagueness. The Will of the King was at least ascertainable at any moment; nobody has yet devised a means for ascertaining the will of the people. All conscious willed action is impeded; the march of events is now nothing but inertia. Let the Magician consider these matters before he takes the Sword in his hand. Let him understand that the Ruach, this loose combination of 6 Sephiroth, only bound together by their attachment to the human will in Tiphereth, must be rent asunder. The mind must be broken up into a form of insanity before it can be transcended. David said: “I hate thoughts.” The Hindu says: “The which can be thought is not true.” Paul said: “The carnal mind is emnity against God.” Any every one who meditates, even for an hour, will soon discover how this gusty aimless wind makes his flame flicker. “The wind bloweth where it listeth.” The normal man is less than a straw. 1 1 But as it is said, Similia similibus curantur, we find this Ruach also the symbol of the Spirit. RVCh ALHIM, the Spirit of God, is 300, the number of the holy letter Shin. As this is the breath, which by its nature is double, the two edges of the
101 The connection between Breath and Mind has been supposed by some to exist merely in etymology. But the connection is a truer one. 1 In any case there is undoubtedly a connection between the respiratory and mental functions. The Student will find this out by practising Pranayama. By this exercise some thoughts are barred, and those which do come into the mind come more slowly than before, so that the mind has time to perceive their falsity and so to destroy them. On the blade of the Magick Sword is etched the name AGLA, a Notariqon formed from the initials of the sentence Ateh Gibor Leolahm Adonai, “To Thee be the Power unto the Ages, O my Lord.” And the acid which eats into the steel should be oil of vitriol. Vitriol is a Notariqon of “Visita Interia Terræ Rectificando Invenies Oc- cultum Lapidem.” That is to say: By investigating everything and Sword, the letter H symbolises breath, and H is the letter of Aries—the House of Mars, of the Sword: and H is also the letter of the mother; this is the link between the Sword and the Cup. 1 It is undoubted that Ruach means primarily “that which moves or revolves,” “a going,” “a wheel,” “the wind,” and that its secondary meaning was mind because of the observed instability of mind, and its tendency to a circular motion. “Spiritus” only came to mean Spirit in the modern technical sense owing to the efforts of the theologians. We have an example of the proper use of the word in the term: Spirt of Wine—the airy portion of wine. But the word “inspire” was perhaps derived from observing the derangement of the breathing of persons in divine ecstasy.
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up of these coherent images, has tried to replace them by ideals which<br />
are only saved from destruction, at the very moment of their birth, by<br />
their vagueness.<br />
The Will of the King was at least ascertainable at any moment;<br />
nobody has yet devised a means for ascertaining the will of the people.<br />
All conscious willed action is impeded; the march of events is now<br />
nothing but inertia.<br />
Let the Magician consider these matters before he takes the Sword<br />
in his hand. Let him understand that the Ruach, this loose combination<br />
of 6 Sephiroth, only bound together by their attachment to the<br />
human will in Tiphereth, must be rent asunder.<br />
The mind must be broken up into a form of insanity<br />
before it can be transcended.<br />
David said: “I hate thoughts.”<br />
The Hindu says: “The which can be thought is not true.”<br />
Paul said: “The carnal mind is emnity against God.”<br />
Any every one who meditates, even for an hour, will soon discover<br />
how this gusty aimless wind makes his flame flicker. “The wind<br />
bloweth where it listeth.” The normal man is less than a straw. 1<br />
1 But as it is said, Similia similibus curantur, we find this Ruach also the symbol<br />
of the Spirit. RVCh ALHIM, the Spirit of God, is 300, the number of the holy letter<br />
Shin. As this is the breath, which by its nature is double, the two edges of the
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