Book 4 Part II Magick.pdf

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CHAPTER VI
THE WAND
HE Magical Will is in its essence twofold, for it presupposes a
beginning and an end; to will to be a thing is to admit that 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 is Black Magick—yet this surrender is so simple an act
that to our complex minds it is the most difficult of all acts; and hence
training is necessary. Further, the Self surrendered must not be less
than the All-Self; one must not come before the altar of the Most
High with an impure or an imperfect offering. As it is written in
Liber LXV, “To await Thee is the end, not the beginning.”
This training may lead through all sorts of complications, varying
according to the nature of the student, and hence it may be necessary
for him at any moment to will all sorts of things which to others might
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