Book 4 Part II

190 Pages·2004·0.6 MB·English

BY:FRATER:PERDURABO
AND:SOROR:VIRAKAM::
PART II
First published London: Wieland & co., 1913
Corrected edition included in Magick:
Book 4 Parts I-IV, York Beach,
Maine: Samuel Weiser,
1994
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BOOK 4
(Liber ABA)

by
FRATER PERDURABO
(Aleister Crowley)
and
SOROR VIRAKAM
(Mary d(cid:146)Este Sturges)
PART II: MAGICK (THEORY)

Celepha(cid:239)s Press
Ulthar - Sarkomand - Inquanok (cid:150) Leeds
2004
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CONTENTS
PRELIMINARY REMARKS . . . . . . 3
I. THE TEMPLE . . . . . . . . . 7
II. THE CIRCLE . . . . . . . . . 11
III. THE ALTAR . . . . . . . . . 19
IV. THE SCOURGE, THE DAGGER, AND THE CHAIN . 25
V. THE HOLY OIL . . . . . . . . 31
VI. THE WAND . . . . . . . . . 37
VII. THE CUP . . . . . . . . . 63
AN INTERLUDE . . . . . . . . 79
VIII. THE SWORD . . . . . . . . . 93
IX. THE PANTACLE . . . . . . . . 115
X. THE LAMP . . . . . . . . . 131
XI. THE CROWN . . . . . . . . . 137
XII. THE ROBE . . . . . . . . . 143
XIII. THE BOOK . . . . . . . . . 147
XIV. THE BELL . . . . . . . . . 153
XV. THE LAMEN . . . . . . . . . 157
XVI. THE MAGICK FIRE, WITH CONSIDERATIONS OF
THE THURIBLE, THE CHARCOAL, AND THE
INCENSE . . . . . . . . . 163
GLOSSARY . . . . . . . . . 173
NOTICE . . . . . . . . . . 181
PART II
MAGICK (THEORY)
THE MAGICIAN,
IN HIS ROBE AND CROWN, ARMED WITH WAND, CUP, SWORD,
PANTACLE, BELL, BOOK AND HOLY OIL.
CEREMONIAL MAGICK,1

THE TRAINING FOR MEDITATION
PRELIMINARY REMARKS
HITHERTO we have spoken only of the mystic path; and we
have kept particularly to the practical exoteric side of it. Such
difficulties as we have mentioned have been purely natural obstacles.
For example, the great question of the surrender of the self, which
bulks so largely in most mystical treatises, has not been referred to at
all. We have said only what a man must do; we have not considered at
all what that doing may involve. The rebellion of the will agains the
terrible discipline of meditation has not been discussed; one may now
devote a few words to it.
There is no limit to what theologians call (cid:147)wickedness.(cid:148) Only by
experience can the student discover the ingenuity of the mind in trying
to escape from control. He is perfectly safe so long as he
sticks to meditation, doing no more and no less than that

1 The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish
the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.
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which we have prescribed; but the mind will probably
not let him remain in that simplicity. This fact is the root of
all the legends about the (cid:147)Saint(cid:148) being tempted by the (cid:147)Devil.(cid:148) Con-
sider the parable of Christ in the Wilderness, where he is tempted to
use his magical power, to do anything but the thing that should be
done. These attacks on the will are as bad as the thoughts which
intrude upon Dharana. It would almost seem as if one could not suc-
cessfully practice meditation until the will had become so strong that
no force in the Universe could either bend or break it. Before con-
centrating the lower principles, the mind, one must con-
centrate the higher principle, the Will. Failure to understand
this has destroyed the value of all attempts to teach (cid:147)Yoga,(cid:148) Menti-
culture,(cid:148) (cid:147)New Thought,(cid:148) and the like.
There are methods of training the will, by which it is easy to check
one(cid:146)s progress.
Every one knows the force of habit. Every one knows that if you
keep on acting in a particular way, that action becomes easier, and at
last absolutely natural.
All religions have devised practices for this purope. If you keep on
praying with your lips long enough, you will one day find yourself pray-
ing in your heart.
The whole question has been threshed out and organized