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 This electronic edition prepared and issued by Celepha(cid:239)s Press, somewhere beyond the Tanarian Hills, and manifested in the waking world in Leeds, Yorkshire, England June 2004. (c) Ordo Templi Orientis JAF Box 7666 New York NY 10116 U.S.A. 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 Issued by order of the GREAT WHITE BROTHERHOOD known as the A.•.A.•. Witness our Seal, N.•.• Praemonstrator-General. V 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. 3 4 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