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Book 4 Part II Magick.pdf

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CEREMONIAL MAGICK, 1<br />

THE TRAINING FOR MEDITATION<br />

PRELIMINARY REMARKS<br />

ITHERTO we have spoken only of the mystic path; and we<br />

have kept particularly to the practical exoteric side of it. Such<br />

difficulties as we have mentioned have been purely natural obstacles.<br />

For example, the great question of the surrender of the self, which<br />

bulks so largely in most mystical treatises, has not been referred to at<br />

all. We have said only what a man must do; we have not considered at<br />

all what that doing may involve. The rebellion of the will agains the<br />

terrible discipline of meditation has not been discussed; one may now<br />

devote a few words to it.<br />

There is no limit to what theologians call “wickedness.” Only by<br />

experience can the student discover the ingenuity of the mind in trying<br />

to escape from control. He is perfectly safe so long as he<br />

sticks to meditation, doing no more and no less than that<br />

1 The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish<br />

the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.<br />

3

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