Aleister Crowley's Illustrated Goetia

119 Pages·1992·7.18 MB·English

by  Aleister Crowley

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\!tABLE OF <!ONTENTS
ChapterOne
The Nature of Evil 9
ChapterTwo
The Initiated Interpretation of Ceremonial Magick 17
ChapterThree
The Dangerof High Magick 23
ChapterFour
First Evocation 29
ChapterFive
History 41
ChapterSix
Minimum Requirements 47
ChapterSeven
The Preliminary Invocation of the Goetia 55
ChapterEight
The Seventy-Two Spirits 71
Chapter Nine
Goetia Evocation and Psychological Types 221
ChapterTen
TRanCing OuT aNd SeXuALEcStaSy
Goetia Evocation and The Orgasm of Death 225
Appendix 229
Q[HAPTER <!&NE
The Nature of Evil
m
he purpose ofthis section is to stimulate, through metaphor
and analogy, an understanding of Goetic operations and
the concept of Evil. Through metaphor, we can only paint
apicture. The shapes and colors can only be realized through med
itation on the metaphors and doing the work itself. There is no sub
stitute for the latter, and, while many have not practiced Goetic
evocation as classically described, they have evoked "unawares,"
over and over again, the same powerful forces and demons which
have both helped and hindered them.
Like many of you I have "made up" my own rituals and have
given my own names to these forces. At times I have given them
proper names such as John, my neighbor, when his T.V. is too
loud. At other times I have called these forces mother, friend, the
system "It" or "me."
Sometimes I have benefited from "calling" these "Names" and
sometimes I have suffered. Yet, neither benefit nor pain has caused
me to reject the "howlings"! and simply seek the comfort of"High
Magick" alone. If I stand for anything, it is the acceptance of
everything, (except, perhaps, for the hypocrisy demonstrated by
many magicians and mystics who seek the light by running away
from darkness).
Goetia is sometimes thought of as a wild card, something that
can get out of control, something which expresses the operator's
1"Goetia means 'howling'; butis thetechnical wordemployed tocover allthe
operations of that Magick which deals with gross, malignant or unenlightened
forces."-AleisterCrowley
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lower desires to control others and improve his own personal life. terrors. Evil is the overwhelming feeling of falling apart. Yet all
And in fact this potential loss of control, this danger, the desire for these images are non-sense. Evil like other ideas exists because we
self improvement and great power is exactly what attracts many as humans exist. Nature knows not Evil, neither Good, nor for that
people to Goetia while horrifying and repelling others. Many label matter Law. These are creations of the human mind, "explana
Goetia as simply evil. tions" which help us quiet the "terrors of the night." The human
Finding evil is aeasyjob. Just look at your friend, wife, husband, mind requires the belief in "its" idea of "order" for the sale pur
mother, father or for that matter the "guy" next door. The practice poses of the human mind. Thus the nature of evil is the human
of Goetia is that other guy, something dark, mysterious and power mind.
ful, something which tells the world that you are interested in Each of us are full of doubts, frustrations, fears and anxieties.
yourself, interested in mastery as well as surrender (see Chapter These demons ofthe soul are the hidden parts of our self. They are
Two in Sex Magick, Tantra and Tarot: The Way Of The Secret the disowned self, much like Goetia is the often disowned part of
Lover, New Falcon Publications, 1996 for an explanation of sur Magick. We normally don't present our dark side to others. Rarely,
render and mastery). will anyone tell you their weak points let alone their deepest con
Those who have disowned themselves and fear themselves often cerns. It is much easier and frequently less painful to find darkness
consider Goetic practices to be evil of the worst kind. Goetia is outside of oneself.
often thought of as an invitation to madness, the releasing of What I present to the world, or for that matter what anyone pre-
devouring and frightful forces. What Goetia is-is the releasing of sents, is at best a well-crafted ideal image, something desired,
yourselffrom your own fears and illusions by direct confrontation. hoped for, something my brain and culture have helped create. OUf
Goetic evocation is an invitation to flirt with the ambiguous rela mask is an illusion, a piece of the truth, a necessary one, but none
tionship of "mind" and "matter." Remember, no one knows the the less only a piece of the truth.
true nature or actions of either and thus all arguments as to the
"reality" of Goetic spirits are speculative and open to revision. CLINICALPSYCHOLOGYANDGOETIAEVOCATION
The question remains: What is evil? Some experts believe it is
Psychology, particularly therapeutic psychology, deals with
the intentional doing of harm without redemption. While this defi
people's fears and doubts. Psychologists label many of these fears
nition might provide these experts with a sense of comfort it pro
as pathology. Psychologists have carefully followed in the foot
vides me with little. Itis too easy toplay with words and ideas. For
steps of the Priest, who in his non-scientific but simple way
example according to this definition, Hitler might not be consid
labelled these things as evil or demonic possession. The average
ered evil since some people believe that without his persecution of
clinicalpsychologist is no more scientific than the priest.
the Jews, Israel would not have been founded in the late forties.
In the depths of the psychotherapeutic cave, the therapist assists
There is always some "good" which our "cause" and "order"
the patient in evoking the rejected and hidden parts of his psyche.
crazed mind can find to rationalize orjustify a horrible or unfortu
The greatest danger for the therapist, and for the patient, is the
nate event.
therapist's counter-transference. When this counter-transference
Evil is an "externalization" and "objectification" of something
remains unconscious or gets "out of control," therapy becomes
fearful, horrifying, or.different. Evil can be a label for something
dangerous and ineffective. The complexes (demons) of both the
as simple as a person or an object that frustrates us. Evil is pain.
therapist and the patient are mixing in an archaic cauldron. All
Evil is the enemy. Evil is the Gods of other men. Evil is the night
sorts of dangers arethought to be lurking. Sex becomes a strong
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possibility; so are violent outbreaks. Remember, these dangers are self. He is neither his ideal nor his darkness. These obvious realiza
thought to be aresult of the therapist's (the operator) losing control tions, however, cannot occur in a cool and objective way; for reso
of the contents of his own unconscious processes, idealized fan lution to occur it often manifests in the heat, and sometimes
tasies, unfulfilled wishes and disowned attributes. Once this hap exhaustion, of intense emotion. Power and force are necessary, and
pens,it is believed that both the therapist and patient are adrift on a whether this manifests in extreme feeling or behavior or simply in
stormy seain a sinking lifeboat. moods and "neurotic" tests matters little. It matters only that they
The horrors and fears of counter-transference are so great that must manifest themselves, and the operator, by the definition of the
many State Laws explicitly prohibit "dual relationships" between situation, must stimulate them and in some way control them. He
therapist and patient.; i.e., the therapist and patient may not be often stimulates them by breaking a taboo either in fact or by
come involved in relationships outside the safety of the therapeutic implication. He often teases and bribes the patient to be "naughty."
model. Dual relationships are thought of as a crossing of role Sometimes the patient is the operator and the therapist is the
boundaries between the therapist and patient. It is believed that receiver. In fact, these roles change, but not in a simple way. The
strict boundaries are necessary between the patient and therapist in therapist sometimes is "blank"-just receiving from the patient. At
order for the patient's cure. This is based on the theory that the other times, the therapist is "active" while the patient receives
patient's disease was caused by the breaking of proper boundaries images and conveys them back to the therapist in disguised forms.
in childhood. What you have just read may sound contradictory: strict bound
The psychotherapeutic situation contains boundaries, strict ones aries, deliberate violations of boundaries, the situation itselfelicit
setdown by law, historical precedent, and theory. ing tests of boundaries, firm boundaries, fluid boundaries. In some
The therapist becomes a mirror for the patient upon which the sense it all sounds quite "crazy:" projection, illusion, reality,
patient's highest aspirations and ideals as well as his disowned boundaries, violations of trust freeing a person from the prison of
"shadowy" qualities can be projected. It is believed by some that his soul. Yet while sounding strange and often unscientific, ifper
the "working through" of both the "dark" and "ideal" illusions are formed properly the desired results can occur. And what again are
fundamental to the patient seeing himself as well as others cor the desired results? One person helping another achieve what he
rectly, instead of the images and distorted fantasies originating and most desperately wants and at the same time most desperately
fixed in childhood. fears: control over his own life, freedom from devastating and
The disappointment the patient feels when his illusions are repetitive illusions, freedom from reliving the past over and over
crushed can be overwhelming. When his illusions of the therapist again in the present. Real therapy teaches the patient how to em
are crushed, his own self-illusions are threatened. The patient is brace the whole of life, rejecting nothing, seeing.thelimitations of
both angry and depressed. If the therapist is a good "operator," he his ideals as well as the utility of his weaknesses. Real therapy
knows how to help the patient "crush" his illusions. He helps the teaches the art of violation, the breaking of taboos, opening the
patient free himselffrom his projections and splits. He knows how gates of both heaven and hell. Real therapy teaches style.
to help the patient realize that the therapist has both "good" and
"bad" qualities and that these diverse qualities can reside in the TABOOS
same person at the same time. The therapist does not have to be
Boundaries can be thought of as taboos. (See Taboo: Sex, Reli
worshipped or rejected. Either/Or is the disease. Once the patient
gion and Magic, New Falcon Publications, 2000.) Taboos are acts,
realizes this, he also "knows" that the same truth applies to him-
places and things which no one, except maybe the priest, can touch
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without punishment. Taboos are "dirty." People who break taboos per se to tell us that we did well. Goetia work is more "scientific"
are thought of as dirty, evil people. Yet, in our society is it not the than other forms of magick in terms of our ability to measure its
"dirty" the dark which attracts attention? The garbage collector is effects and, to some extent, replicate ourresults.
highly paid for removing the leftovers of living. The bank clerk Goetic workings can also be potentiated by the use of hypnosis
who handles hundreds of thousands of "dirty" dollars is paid less and sex. Trance and "exhaustion" resulting from sexual ecstasy are
than the garbage collector. What is the nature of dirt, the common, perfect methods for preparing themind toreceive more meaningful
which at the same time is valued and despised by so many? Money andpowerful information.
can do the bidding of anyone who has it. Money itself is only a In this book on Goetia, we have provided the student with a sim
shared illusion. It has no value except what people give it and it ple to use text on how to begin and become expert at Goetia evo
has no power except by what people do with it. The fluidity, mal cation. We have included images of the Goetia Spirits, not to limit
leability and indifference of money gives it a power unlike almost the student, but to stimulate his or her imagination. We have orga
any other power in the world. Money sets boundaries and destroys nized the text in such a way that the student doesn't have to flip
them. Money itselfdoesn'tcare. And in this sense moneyis similar through dozens of pages tofind what he wants or needs.
to the Goetia demons. They will work for anyone who knows how Equally important, we have provided a technique for the sexual
to use them. This is one of the horrors people attribute to Goetic working of the Goetia Spirits. This is a very powerful and sensual
workings. You "don't have to be respectable" for Goetia to work method. I have no doubt that some readers will be terrified and
for you. Unlike other magical workings there is no implication that horrified at the potential power these techniques will release. We
the operator has to be "good" and "holy" to achieve results. This feel, however, that if you desire to practice magick you should
idea in itselfviolates our model of "right" and "wrong," "just" and practice it to its fullest. Safeguards have been provided, and the
"unjust." In the Goetic world like in the real world the "bad" can real dangers lie more in themind thanin the use of the methods.
and do prosper. Thus our beliefin the moral order of the Universe
appears violated by the simple existence of Spirits who will do the
bidding of anyone.
Goetic evocation is the rejected "less respectable" side of mag
ick. It is the work of the garbage collector. But it is also the most
intimate side of the magick. It teaches the establishment of bound
aries, of testing, of bribing, of lying and deceit. It provides the
operator and the receiver with visions, suggestions and insights. It
actualizes the hidden, the dark, the greedy, the needy, the powerful
andbeautiful.
Goetic evocation can be very disappointing, sometimes even
horrifying, but it can never be boring. Unlike a child who deter
minesthe value of its knowledge by the approval or disapproval of
a "higher authority" we learn the value of our Goetic work by the
success or failure of our own work. Goetic Spirits are not the mas..
ter of the magician but his servant. We do not rely on the "Spirits"
QCHAPTER m:WO
The Initiated Interpretation of
Ceremonial Magick
by Aleister Crowley
:i(
t is loftily amusing to the student of Magicalliterature who
;.lJ
is not quite afool-and rare is such a combination!-.to note
the criticism directed by the Philistine against the citadel of
his science. Truly, since our childhood has ingrained into us not
only literal belief in the Bible, but also substantial belief in Alf
Laylah wa Laylah (A Thousandand OneArabian Nights), and only
adolescence can cure us, we are only too liable, in the rush and
energy of dawning manhood, to overturn roughly and rashly both
these classics, to regard them both on the same level, as interesting
documents from the standpoint of folk-lore and anthropology, and
as nothing more.
Even when we learn that the Bible, by a profound and minute
study of the text, may be forced to yield up Qabalistic arcana of
cosmic scope and importance, we are too often slow to apply a
similar restorative to the companion volume, even if we are the
luck holders of Burton's veritable edition.
To me, then, it remains to raise the AlfLaylah wa Laylah into its
proper place once more.
I am not concerned to deny the objective reality of all"magical"
phenomena; if they are illusions, they are at least as real as many
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unquestioned facts ofdaily life; and, if we follow Herbert Spencer, (4) Taste.
they are at leastevidence of some cause.2 . .. The Sacraments.
Now, this fact is our base. What is the cause of my illusion of (5) Touch.
seeing a spirit in the triangle of~rt? . " As under (1).
Every smatterer, every expert In psychology, WIll answer: That (6) Mind.
cause lies in your brain." The combination of all these and reflection on their
English children (pace the Educ~tion Ac,t) are t~ught that the significance.
Universe lies in infinite Space; HIndu children, In the Akasa,
These unusual impressions (1-5) produce unusual brain-changes;
which is the same thing. .
hence their summary (6) is ofunusual kind. Its projectionbackinto
Those Europeans who go a little deeper learn from Fl~hte, that
the apparently phenomenal world is therefore unusual.
the phenomenal Universe is the creation of the Ego; HIndus, ~r
Herein then consists the reality of the operations and effects of
Europeans studying under H~ndu gu~us" are tol?, that}y,Akasa 1~
ceremonial magic.t and I conceive that the apology is ample, as far
meant the Chitakasa. The Chitakasa IS situated In the Third Eye,
as the "effects" refer only to those phenomena which appear to the
Le., in the brain. By assuming higher dimensions ofspace, we can
magician himself, the appearance of the spirit, his conversation,
assimilate this fact to Realism; but we have no need to take so
possible shocks from imprudence, and so on, even to ecstasy on the
much trouble.
one hand, and death or madness on the other.
This being true for the ordinary Univer~e, that all se,nse-imp,res-
But can any of the effects described in this our book Goetia" be
sions are dependent on changes ~n the brain.'we must m:lud~~ll~:
obtained, and if so, can you give a rational explanation of the cir
sions which are after all sense-impressions as much as realities
cumstances? Say you so?
i~
are, the class of"phenomenadependenton brain-ch,anges,"
I can, and will.
Magical phenomena, howev~r, come,under a ~pecla~,sUb~,class,
The spirits ofthe Goetia are portions ofthe human brain.
since they are willed, and their cause IS,the se~les of real phe Their seals therefore represent (Mr. Spencer's projected cube)
nomenacalled the operations of ceremonial MagIC.
methods of stimulating or regulating those particular spots
These consistof: (through the eye).
(1) Sight. . The names of God are vibrations calculated to establish:
The circle, square, triangle, vessels, lamps robes, Imple-
(a) General control of the brain. (Establishment offunctions rel-
ments, etc.
ative to the subtle world.)
(2) Sound. (b) Control overthe brain in detail. (Rank or type ofthe Spirit.)
The invocations. (c) Control ofone special portion. (Name of the Spirit.)
(3) Smell.
The perfumes aid this through smell. Usually the perfume will
The perfumes.
only tend to control a large area; but there is an attribution ofper-
2This, incidentally, is perhaps the greatest argument we possess, pushed to its
l"xtreme,against theAdvaitist theories. 4 Apart from its value in obtaining one pointedness. On this subjectthe curious
\Thought is a secretion of the brain (Weissmann). Consciousness is afunction mayconsult myn"iD~i:J.
ofthebrain (Huxley). 5Thefull textisavailable fromMagickal Childe Publishing, NY, 1991. [Ed.]