The Magical Will is in its essence twofold, for it presupposes a beginning and an end; want to be a thing is to admit that you are not the thing you want to be.
Dai, therefore, want anything but the paramount thing is to divert - even if most of it - any will other than to surrender to the Beloved is Black Magick - yet this surrender is an act so simple that our complicated minds is the most difficult actions, and therefore training is needed. But the One who surrenders shall not be less than the whole of Being, we must not appear before the Altar of the Most High with an offering imperfect or impure. As it is written in Liber LXV, "Wait Thee is the end, not the principle. "
This training can lead to all sorts of complications, varying according to the nature of the student, and then maybe you need at any time want a variety of things that other people might seem unrelated to the target. Likewise it is not obvious a priori reason why a billiard player needs a file.
Since, therefore, we may come to need anything, take care that our will is strong enough to get what we need without wasting time. It is therefore necessary to develop the will to the utmost, even if the final task is to complete delivery of this Will. Partial delivery of an imperfect will is useless in magic.
Will being a lever, a fulcrum is necessary, this fulcrum is the main aspiration of the student to achieve. All Wills Will not derive from this are the main gaps in our boat, loose tiles in our shop, dripping on our walls, they are as fat in the athlete.
Dai, therefore, want anything but the paramount thing is to divert - even if most of it - any will other than to surrender to the Beloved is Black Magick - yet this surrender is an act so simple that our complicated minds is the most difficult actions, and therefore training is needed. But the One who surrenders shall not be less than the whole of Being, we must not appear before the Altar of the Most High with an offering imperfect or impure. As it is written in Liber LXV, "Wait Thee is the end, not the principle. "
This training can lead to all sorts of complications, varying according to the nature of the student, and then maybe you need at any time want a variety of things that other people might seem unrelated to the target. Likewise it is not obvious a priori reason why a billiard player needs a file.
Since, therefore, we may come to need anything, take care that our will is strong enough to get what we need without wasting time. It is therefore necessary to develop the will to the utmost, even if the final task is to complete delivery of this Will. Partial delivery of an imperfect will is useless in magic.
Will being a lever, a fulcrum is necessary, this fulcrum is the main aspiration of the student to achieve. All Wills Will not derive from this are the main gaps in our boat, loose tiles in our shop, dripping on our walls, they are as fat in the athlete.
Most people in this world are ataxic; they can not coordinate their mental muscles to make a move with purpose. They do not really have a Will, only a group of whims and desires, many of which contradict each other. The victim wobbles from one to another (and not least because the movements are swaying sometimes be very violent), and end of life the movements cancel out. Nothing has been executed; except the one thing that the victim is not conscious: the destruction of his own character, confirmation of indecision. Such a person is torn apart, limb from limb by Choronzon.
How then will be trained as the Will? All of these musings, quirks, these desires, these inclinations, tendencies, appetites must be seen, examined, judged according to the standard of whether they help or hinder the main purpose, and treated accordingly. Vigilance and courage are obviously required. I was about to add self-renunciation in deference to conventional language, but how can I would call it self-renunciation that is only waives those things that hinder and harm be? It's not suicide to kill the germs of malaria in our blood.
Now, there are enormous difficulties to be mastered in the training of the mind. Perhaps the biggest is the lack of memory, which is probably the worst form of what the Buddhists call ignorance. Special practices for training the memory may be useful as a preliminary for persons whose memory is naturally poor. In any case, the Magical prescribed for Probationers by A. '. A. '. is useful and necessary.
How then will be trained as the Will? All of these musings, quirks, these desires, these inclinations, tendencies, appetites must be seen, examined, judged according to the standard of whether they help or hinder the main purpose, and treated accordingly. Vigilance and courage are obviously required. I was about to add self-renunciation in deference to conventional language, but how can I would call it self-renunciation that is only waives those things that hinder and harm be? It's not suicide to kill the germs of malaria in our blood.
Now, there are enormous difficulties to be mastered in the training of the mind. Perhaps the biggest is the lack of memory, which is probably the worst form of what the Buddhists call ignorance. Special practices for training the memory may be useful as a preliminary for persons whose memory is naturally poor. In any case, the Magical prescribed for Probationers by A. '. A. '. is useful and necessary.
Above all, the practices of Liber III must be performed repeatedly as these practices develop not only surveillance but also inhibitors such centers in the brain that are, according to some psychologists, the main spring of the mechanism by which civilized man rose above the wild.
Until now we speak, so to speak, on the negative. Aaron's rod became a serpent and swallowed the serpents of the other magicians, it is necessary to become now, again, on a stick.
This is the Magical Will stick in his hand by which the Great Work is performed, in which the daughter is not only placed on the throne of the Mother, but assumed the Most High. The Magic Wand is thus the principal weapon of the Magus, and the name of that oath is the Magic Wand.
The intention is twofold, is in Chokmah, which is the Logos, the word, give some have said that the word is will. Thoth, the Lord of Magic is also the lord of language, the messenger takes the Caduceus.
The word should express the will, hence the name Mystic Probationer is the expression of his highest Will.
There are, of course, few Probationers who understand enough to be able to express this desire for themselves, so the end of his Probation most choose a new name.
It should, therefore, for the student to express their will taking Magical Oaths. Since such an oath is irreversible and must be weighted, and it is better not to make any permanent oath, because with increased understanding may come a sense of incompatibility with the oath under the highest.
This almost always happens, and it must be remembered that since the entire essence of the will is that it is unique, with only one point, a dilemma of this kind is the worst in which the magician may encounter.
Another important consideration to make on this issue Votes Magic is preserved them in their own perspective. They must be made with a clearly defined purpose, and they should never exceed the limits of the purpose for which they were formulated. It is a virtue for diabetics refrain from eating sugar, but only with reference to his personal condition. It is not a virtue of universal importance. Elias said on certain occasions, "it's good that I get angry, "but such occasions are rare.
Moreover, food is a poison to another. An oath of poverty could be very useful for a man who was unable to use their wealth wisely for the sole purpose proposed, for another man would only deprive itself of energy, causing him to lose his time with trivialities.
There is no power that can not be returned to service the Magical Will: it is only the temptation to value that power in itself that offends. We do not say, "knock down the tree, because it let her occupy the ground? " unless repeated prunings convinced the gardener that grows ever provide.
"If thy hand offend thee, cut it off" is the scream of a weakling. If we kill a puppy right the first time he misbehaves, was barely three months old.
The best vote, and that a more universal application, is the vow of Holy Obedience, because not only leads to perfect freedom, but it is a workout for that supply which is the final task.
He has this great value, which never rusts. If the top with which to take the vow knows what he does, he will quickly perceive that things are really nasty to his disciple, and familiar with them.
Disobedience to the top is a struggle between these two wills in the bottom. Intention expressed in his vote, which is linked to its willingness to ease higher (due to the fact that he took the vow to develop this desire higher), will struggle with the temporary, which is based on considerations only temporary. The instructor should then seek to gently and firmly encourage the student, little by little, until obedience to follow the command without reference to what the command can be as Loyola wrote: "perinde ac cadaver. "
Nobody understood better than Loyola Magical Will, in his system the subject was forgotten. The will of the General was instantly echoed by every member of the Order, for this reason the Society of Jesus has become the most formidable religious organization in the world.
That's Old Man of the Mountain was perhaps the second in efficiency.
The defect in Loyola system is that the General was not God, and that due to various other considerations he was not necessarily even the best member of the Order. To become a General of the Order he would have wanted to become General of the Order, and because of this he could not be anything else.
To return to the issue of developing the Will. And always something to uproot the weeds, but we must cultivate the flower.
Having crushed all volitions in ourselves, and if necessary in others, we found the opposite to our real Will, that Will grow naturally with greater freedom. But it is only necessary to purify the temple and consecrated it; invocations must be made. It is necessary to constantly make things positive in nature, not just things of a negative nature to say that Will. Renunciation and sacrifice are necessary, but not comparatively easy. There are a hundred ways to fail, and only one hit. Avoid eating beef is easy, eat nothing but pork is very difficult.
Levi recommends that on occasions the Magical Will it be interrupted, on the principle that we can always work better after a "complete change". Levi is doubtless right; but it must be understood as saying that because of "hardness of men's hearts. " The turbine is more efficient than a combustion engine, and this only serves Levi advice to the novice. Finally, the Magical Will so identifies itself with the whole being of man she becomes unconscious and is a force as constant as gravity. We may even surprise us with our own acts, and having to weigh and analyze to determine the reasons that link together with the circumstances that caused them. But it is understood that when the Will actually did well at Target, the man has as much chance of making a mistake as to leave floating on air.
It may be questioned whether a conflict exists between this development and the concept of the Will of Ethics. The answer is yes.
In the Grand Grimoire we are told, "Buy an egg without haggling, and achievement, and the next step in the way of achieving this is that pearl of great price which, when a man finds her, he immediately sells everything he has and buys that pearl.
With many to tradition and habit - of which the concept of ethics is merely the social expression - are the hardest things to leave, and is a useful practice to break any habit just to get rid of this kind of slavery. Hence, we have practice to interrupt sleep, to put our bodies in unnatural positions and tense, difficult to perform breathing exercises - all these acts, apart from any that may have special merit in itself for a particular purpose, are the chief merit of which the man power to carry them out regardless of what conditions may exist. Having conquered the internal resistance, we can conquer external resistance more easily. In a steamer the machine must first conquer his own inertia before it can attack the resistance of water.
When the will therefore no longer be intermittent, it becomes necessary to consider its scope. The gravitation gives an accelerated thirty-two feet per second on this planet, much less on the moon. And a Will, no matter how unique and how constant it is, may yet be no particular value, because the circumstances that preclude may be too strong, or because for some reason she is unable to contact them. It's no good asking for the moon If we do, we must consider by what means that Will may be done efficiently. While a man can have a tremendous will in any direction, that Will is not necessarily always enough to assist him in another direction and may even be stupid. There's the "story" of the man who has practiced for forty years as crossing the river Ganges on foot, on the water, and having finally achieved his aim, was censured by his Holy Guru, who said: "You are a great fool. All his neighbors across the Ganges daily for two cents. "
This happens to most, perhaps all of us in our careers. We take infinite pains to learn something to achieve something, and being successful does not seem worth even the words of the original desire.
But this view is erroneous. The discipline required to learn Latin will help us when we want to do something quite different.
At school we were punished by our teachers, when we left school, if not learned to punish ourselves, we have not learned anything. In fact, the only danger is that we value the achievement in itself. The boy who is proud of his school knowledge is in danger of taking a university professor.
Therefore, the Guru s man walking bout the waters of the Ganges just wanted to say that it was now time for him dissatisfied with what they get - and use his powers to some better aim ...
It incidentally, since the Divine is One, will be found that there is no capacity that is not necessarily subservient to the destiny of man who owns it. We may be unable to predict when a thread of a particular color will be woven into the carpet of Destiny. It is only when the carpet is over, and contemplate from a distance, the position of that particular thread appears to us as necessary. Hence, we are tempted to mention that old problem of fate and free will. But though every man is "determined"so that every action is just a passive result of the sum total of the forces that have acted on it from eternity, so that his Will is only the echo of the Universal Will, anyway that consciousness of "free will" is valuable; ese he really understands it as the partial and individual expression of that internal motion in a Universe whose sum is balance, the more he will feel that harmony, that totality. And though the happiness which he experiences may be criticized as only a dish of a balance on the other side of which is an equal weight of misery, there are those who say that poverty is simply the feeling of separation from the universe, and that consequently everything can be canceled between feelings minors, leaving only that infinite joy that is a stage of infinite consciousness of ALL.
Such speculations are somewhat beyond the limits of these treaties. Not particularly important to realize that the elephant and the flea can not be different than they are, but we realize that one is bigger than the other. This fact is of practical importance. We know that people can be trained to do things they could not do without training - and anybody who says here that we can not train a person unless that person's fate is being trained, is not very practical. He also is the fate of coach training. There is a fallacy in the argument of the philosopher deterministic, similar to the fallacy that is the root of all "systems "for playing roulette. The odds are exactly three to one against the red appears twice in a row, but when the red appears first, as conditions change. All possessions, the material and the spiritual are dust.
Love, suffering and compassion are three sisters, seem free of this curse, it seems only because of its relationship with the dissatisfied.
The beauty is so unattainable that it escapes altogether, and the true artist, like the true mystic, can not rest ever. To him the Magician is just a servant. The Wand of the artist is of infinite length, is the Creator Mahalingam.
The difficulty of such a man is naturally that his wand being very thin in proportion to its length, it tends to Bambi. Very few artists are conscious of their true purpose, and in many cases we see that infinite yearning supported by a constitution so weak that nothing is accomplished. The Magician must build all he has into his pyramid, and if that pyramid should touch the stars, how wide should be the basis. There is no knowledge or power that is useless to the Magician. We would say almost Nothing in the entire universe that he can dispense. Uttermost Your enemy is the Great Magician, the Magician who created the whole illusion of the universe, and to meet him in combat, so that nothing remains of it or not you, you must be exactly equal to his.
At the same time, the magician must never forget that every brick must tend toward the pinnacle of the pyramid - the sides of it must be per-fectly smooth, there should be no false pinnacle, even at lower levels.
This is an active and practical requirement that a Master of the Temple in which it is said: "I interpret all phenomena as a bargain between God and my soul. " In Liber CLXXV many practical tips to achieve this unique concentration are given, although the subject of that book is the devotion of a particular Deity, its instructions can be easily generalized to the development of any Will.
This will then be the active form of understanding. The Master of the Temple is asked, seeing a snail, "What is the purpose of this message from the Unseen? How to interpret this Word of God Almighty? "The Magus thinks: " I will use this snail? "And he must persist in this course. While many useless thing as far as he can see, you are sent, one day he will find that one thing he needs, while your Understanding appreciate the fact that none of these things were useless. So, with these preliminary practices of resignation will be clearly understood that they were only temporary utility. They only had value as training. The adept will laugh at its absurdities of beginner, the disproportions will have been harmonized, and the structure of his soul will be understood as perfectly organic, with nothing out of place. It will be seen as positive Tau with its ten complete squares within the triangle of the negatives, and this figure will become one as soon as the balance of the pairs of opposites he reaches the identity of opposites.
In all this will be perceived that the most powerful weapon in the hands of the student is the Vow of Holy Obedience and many have wished they had the opportunity to place themselves under the direction of a Holy Guru. Let them take heart - for any being capable of giving orders is an efficient Guru for the purposes of this vote, as long as not too friendly and lazy. The only reason to choose a Guru who has reached himself, the achievement is that he will assist the monitoring of sleepy Chela, and, while tempering the blows against the most sensitive points of this, it strengthens and robust, while it cheers ears with holy discourse. But if such a person is inaccessible, he chooses any person with whom he maintains frequent relations, and ask him to act.
The person chosen should, if possible, be reliable, and Chela remember that whatever is commanded to jump a cliff, it's much better to abandon the practice jump.
And it is of utmost importance not to limit the vote in any way. You should buy the egg without haggling.
In a certain society, the members were bound by oath to do certain things, and they are simultaneously assured that "there was nothing in the oath contrary to their civil obligations, moral or religious." So when any one wanted to break the Vow, he had no difficulty in finding a good reason. The vote has lost all strength. When the Buddha sat under the tree Boh blessed, he swore that none of the 10,000 inhabitants of the worlds could make it would rise until they have reached the achievement, so that even when Mara, the Grand Devil, with his three daughters, Tantalizing the Gras-appears, he remained quiet.
But for beginners, it is useless to take a vote so formidable, he has not got the strength which can defy Mara. He assesses their strength, and take a vote that is within the limits of this, but only within limits. Milo began loading in the back, a newborn calf, and while every day the calf grew and became a bull, the strength of Milo also grew, and was enough to carry the bull back. Again, Liber III is an admirable method for the beginner and will be better, even if he has great confidence in his strength, he takes the vote for very short periods, starting with an hour and increasing daily thirty minutes, until the day be completed by the practice. Then let him rest awhile, and then try to practice for two days, and so on until it becomes perfect.
He would also begin duty with the practices easier. But the thing that he vows to avoid should be something that he normally would with any frequency, because otherwise the effort that the memory is required to maintain vigilance to be very large, and the practice would become difficult.
Thus there is a clear connection in his mind between cause and effect, until he has so carefully to avoid that particular act that he consciously decided to avoid, as those other things in childhood that he was trained to avoid. Each must decide for yourself whether this is a wise course to follow. But it certainly seems easier to discard the first things that we can more easily dismiss.
Most people will work with the emotions and thoughts that excite you.
But it is both possible and necessary not only to suppress your emotions, but to make them faithful servants. Thus, the emotion of anger is occasionally useful against that portion of the brain which control relaxation addictive.
If there is an emotion that is never useful, is the pride and for this reason, it is fully linked to the ego. THERE IS NO USE FOR PRIDE.
The destruction of perceptions that the grosser or the more useful it seems much easier, because the mind, not being moved, is free to remember the control.
It is easy to absorb as much in a book that did not notice the most beautiful scenery. But if we are stung by a wasp the book is immediately forgotten.
Trends are, however, much more difficult to combat the three lowest Skandhas together - for the simple reason that they are, mostly, below the conscious, and must, so to speak, be aroused in order to be destroyed , so that the will of the Magician is in some sense, trying to do two opposite things at once.
The same consciousness is only destroyed by Samadhi. Now we can understand the logical process that begins by refusing to think about a foot, and destroys the sense of individuality.
There are many methods for destroying deeply-held beliefs.
The best is, perhaps, the equilibrium method. Place your mind in the habit of evoking the opposite of every thought that may arise. In conversation always disagree. Examine and understand the arguments of another man, but no matter how much you approve the trial of his arguments, find answer.
Let this be done dispassionately, the more you are convinced that a certain point of view is right, the more you should be determined by finding evidence that this view is erroneous If you have done this carefully and thoroughly, these points of view no longer disturb you, you can then assert your own point of view with the calm of a Master, which is more convincing than the enthusiasm of an apprentice.
You will no longer be interested in controversies; politics, ethics, religion will seem to him like so many toys, and his Magical Will will be free of such inhibitions. In Burma there is only one animal that kills people ever, Russell's viper, because, as they say over there, "or to kill you, or it kills you", is a question of who sees the other first.
But any idea that is not the Idea must be treated this way. When you have killed the snake, you can use his skin, but while she is alive and free, you are in danger.
And unfortunately the idea of ego, which is the real snake, can project themselves into a multitude of forms, each dressed in the most beautiful costumes. Thus it is said that the devil can disguise himself into an angel of light. When we are weighed down by a vote Magic, this is terribly appropriate. No human being understands or can understand the temptations of the saints.
A normal person who had ideas like the ones obsessed St. Patrick and St. Anthony should be in a madhouse
The more you squeeze the snake (who was previously sleeping in the sun, and almost harmless in appearance), the more she squirms and struggles, and it is important that you remember that you must handle it with more force the more she fights Or it will escape and bite you.
Likewise, if you tell a child not to do a certain thing, no matter what, she will immediately want to do that, although the idea could never failed to place itself in the same way saint. We have all these latent tendencies in us, we remain unaware of most of them our entire lives - unless they are awakened by our Magick. They are ambush. And each and every one must be awakened, and all and each of which must be destroyed. Every person who signs the Oath of a Probationer is stirring a hornet's nest.
A man has only to assert his conscious aspiration, and the enemy jumps on it. It seems likely that very little anyone can go through that terrible year of Probation - and yet, the aspirant is not required to do anything difficult, it seems almost as if he were not obliged to do anything - and yet, the experience teaches us that the effect is like pulling the man of your favorite chair and throw it down the middle of a storm in the Atlantic. The truth is, perhaps, that same simplicity makes the task difficult.
The Probationer must cling to your breathing - affirm it again and again into despair.
He almost lost sight of, perhaps, it became meaningless to him, he repeats it mechanically as he is thrown from wave to wave.
But if he can persist in its aspiration? He will go through the year.
And once he has crossed, things will take back your own looks, he sees that mere illusion were the things that seemed so real, and it will have been fortified against new trials. But it is unfortunate in the extreme so that it can not persist. It is useless for him to say: "I do not like the Atlantic, I'll go back to my favorite chair. "
Why only one step along the way and can no longer go back. As the poet Browning in his poem "The Young Rolando came to the Dark Tower":
Well see. As soon as I put in the plan
I gave the track my first step,
When we turn our eyes over the shoulder
The road that followed have not seen:
Around me the horizon, nothing
Otherwise wilderness, the road ahead. This is universally true, the statement that the Probationer can resign when the path is in fact just want to those who took the oath lightly.
A real Magical Oath can not be broken, you think you can, but can not.
This is the advantage of a real Magical Oath.
No matter how many detours you do, you reach the end the same way, and getting all you did was trying to break their oath to engage in more dire straits.
Can not be too clearly understood that such is the nature of things depend on the will of any person, no matter how powerful or exalted, nor may the force d'They, the strength of His Great Oaths, avail against the weakest Oath the most trivial of beginners. Attempting to interfere with the Magical Will of another person would be evil if not absurd.
We can try to build a Will where none before existed but a chaos of whims, but once the organization has been processed, is sacred. As Blake, "ALL THAT IS HOLY LIVES", hence the creation of life is the most sacred of tasks. There's too important to the designer what he creates, there is space in the universe for both the spider and the fly.
It's rubbish heap of Choronzon that we select the material of a god.
This is the ultimate analysis of the Mystery of Redemption, and is possibly the real reason for the existence (if existence can be called) of form, or if you prefer, the Ego. It is astonishing that this typical cry - "I am myself" - and the cry of what, above all, "is not"me.
It was that Master whose Will was so powerful that its lightest expression the deaf hear, the lame walked, lepers healed and the dead were raised, was that Master and no other in that supreme moment of his agony could cry, "Not my will, but yours be done ".
Until now we speak, so to speak, on the negative. Aaron's rod became a serpent and swallowed the serpents of the other magicians, it is necessary to become now, again, on a stick.
This is the Magical Will stick in his hand by which the Great Work is performed, in which the daughter is not only placed on the throne of the Mother, but assumed the Most High. The Magic Wand is thus the principal weapon of the Magus, and the name of that oath is the Magic Wand.
The intention is twofold, is in Chokmah, which is the Logos, the word, give some have said that the word is will. Thoth, the Lord of Magic is also the lord of language, the messenger takes the Caduceus.
The word should express the will, hence the name Mystic Probationer is the expression of his highest Will.
There are, of course, few Probationers who understand enough to be able to express this desire for themselves, so the end of his Probation most choose a new name.
It should, therefore, for the student to express their will taking Magical Oaths. Since such an oath is irreversible and must be weighted, and it is better not to make any permanent oath, because with increased understanding may come a sense of incompatibility with the oath under the highest.
This almost always happens, and it must be remembered that since the entire essence of the will is that it is unique, with only one point, a dilemma of this kind is the worst in which the magician may encounter.
Another important consideration to make on this issue Votes Magic is preserved them in their own perspective. They must be made with a clearly defined purpose, and they should never exceed the limits of the purpose for which they were formulated. It is a virtue for diabetics refrain from eating sugar, but only with reference to his personal condition. It is not a virtue of universal importance. Elias said on certain occasions, "it's good that I get angry, "but such occasions are rare.
Moreover, food is a poison to another. An oath of poverty could be very useful for a man who was unable to use their wealth wisely for the sole purpose proposed, for another man would only deprive itself of energy, causing him to lose his time with trivialities.
There is no power that can not be returned to service the Magical Will: it is only the temptation to value that power in itself that offends. We do not say, "knock down the tree, because it let her occupy the ground? " unless repeated prunings convinced the gardener that grows ever provide.
"If thy hand offend thee, cut it off" is the scream of a weakling. If we kill a puppy right the first time he misbehaves, was barely three months old.
The best vote, and that a more universal application, is the vow of Holy Obedience, because not only leads to perfect freedom, but it is a workout for that supply which is the final task.
He has this great value, which never rusts. If the top with which to take the vow knows what he does, he will quickly perceive that things are really nasty to his disciple, and familiar with them.
Disobedience to the top is a struggle between these two wills in the bottom. Intention expressed in his vote, which is linked to its willingness to ease higher (due to the fact that he took the vow to develop this desire higher), will struggle with the temporary, which is based on considerations only temporary. The instructor should then seek to gently and firmly encourage the student, little by little, until obedience to follow the command without reference to what the command can be as Loyola wrote: "perinde ac cadaver. "
Nobody understood better than Loyola Magical Will, in his system the subject was forgotten. The will of the General was instantly echoed by every member of the Order, for this reason the Society of Jesus has become the most formidable religious organization in the world.
That's Old Man of the Mountain was perhaps the second in efficiency.
The defect in Loyola system is that the General was not God, and that due to various other considerations he was not necessarily even the best member of the Order. To become a General of the Order he would have wanted to become General of the Order, and because of this he could not be anything else.
To return to the issue of developing the Will. And always something to uproot the weeds, but we must cultivate the flower.
Having crushed all volitions in ourselves, and if necessary in others, we found the opposite to our real Will, that Will grow naturally with greater freedom. But it is only necessary to purify the temple and consecrated it; invocations must be made. It is necessary to constantly make things positive in nature, not just things of a negative nature to say that Will. Renunciation and sacrifice are necessary, but not comparatively easy. There are a hundred ways to fail, and only one hit. Avoid eating beef is easy, eat nothing but pork is very difficult.
Levi recommends that on occasions the Magical Will it be interrupted, on the principle that we can always work better after a "complete change". Levi is doubtless right; but it must be understood as saying that because of "hardness of men's hearts. " The turbine is more efficient than a combustion engine, and this only serves Levi advice to the novice. Finally, the Magical Will so identifies itself with the whole being of man she becomes unconscious and is a force as constant as gravity. We may even surprise us with our own acts, and having to weigh and analyze to determine the reasons that link together with the circumstances that caused them. But it is understood that when the Will actually did well at Target, the man has as much chance of making a mistake as to leave floating on air.
It may be questioned whether a conflict exists between this development and the concept of the Will of Ethics. The answer is yes.
In the Grand Grimoire we are told, "Buy an egg without haggling, and achievement, and the next step in the way of achieving this is that pearl of great price which, when a man finds her, he immediately sells everything he has and buys that pearl.
With many to tradition and habit - of which the concept of ethics is merely the social expression - are the hardest things to leave, and is a useful practice to break any habit just to get rid of this kind of slavery. Hence, we have practice to interrupt sleep, to put our bodies in unnatural positions and tense, difficult to perform breathing exercises - all these acts, apart from any that may have special merit in itself for a particular purpose, are the chief merit of which the man power to carry them out regardless of what conditions may exist. Having conquered the internal resistance, we can conquer external resistance more easily. In a steamer the machine must first conquer his own inertia before it can attack the resistance of water.
When the will therefore no longer be intermittent, it becomes necessary to consider its scope. The gravitation gives an accelerated thirty-two feet per second on this planet, much less on the moon. And a Will, no matter how unique and how constant it is, may yet be no particular value, because the circumstances that preclude may be too strong, or because for some reason she is unable to contact them. It's no good asking for the moon If we do, we must consider by what means that Will may be done efficiently. While a man can have a tremendous will in any direction, that Will is not necessarily always enough to assist him in another direction and may even be stupid. There's the "story" of the man who has practiced for forty years as crossing the river Ganges on foot, on the water, and having finally achieved his aim, was censured by his Holy Guru, who said: "You are a great fool. All his neighbors across the Ganges daily for two cents. "
This happens to most, perhaps all of us in our careers. We take infinite pains to learn something to achieve something, and being successful does not seem worth even the words of the original desire.
But this view is erroneous. The discipline required to learn Latin will help us when we want to do something quite different.
At school we were punished by our teachers, when we left school, if not learned to punish ourselves, we have not learned anything. In fact, the only danger is that we value the achievement in itself. The boy who is proud of his school knowledge is in danger of taking a university professor.
Therefore, the Guru s man walking bout the waters of the Ganges just wanted to say that it was now time for him dissatisfied with what they get - and use his powers to some better aim ...
It incidentally, since the Divine is One, will be found that there is no capacity that is not necessarily subservient to the destiny of man who owns it. We may be unable to predict when a thread of a particular color will be woven into the carpet of Destiny. It is only when the carpet is over, and contemplate from a distance, the position of that particular thread appears to us as necessary. Hence, we are tempted to mention that old problem of fate and free will. But though every man is "determined"so that every action is just a passive result of the sum total of the forces that have acted on it from eternity, so that his Will is only the echo of the Universal Will, anyway that consciousness of "free will" is valuable; ese he really understands it as the partial and individual expression of that internal motion in a Universe whose sum is balance, the more he will feel that harmony, that totality. And though the happiness which he experiences may be criticized as only a dish of a balance on the other side of which is an equal weight of misery, there are those who say that poverty is simply the feeling of separation from the universe, and that consequently everything can be canceled between feelings minors, leaving only that infinite joy that is a stage of infinite consciousness of ALL.
Such speculations are somewhat beyond the limits of these treaties. Not particularly important to realize that the elephant and the flea can not be different than they are, but we realize that one is bigger than the other. This fact is of practical importance. We know that people can be trained to do things they could not do without training - and anybody who says here that we can not train a person unless that person's fate is being trained, is not very practical. He also is the fate of coach training. There is a fallacy in the argument of the philosopher deterministic, similar to the fallacy that is the root of all "systems "for playing roulette. The odds are exactly three to one against the red appears twice in a row, but when the red appears first, as conditions change. All possessions, the material and the spiritual are dust.
Love, suffering and compassion are three sisters, seem free of this curse, it seems only because of its relationship with the dissatisfied.
The beauty is so unattainable that it escapes altogether, and the true artist, like the true mystic, can not rest ever. To him the Magician is just a servant. The Wand of the artist is of infinite length, is the Creator Mahalingam.
The difficulty of such a man is naturally that his wand being very thin in proportion to its length, it tends to Bambi. Very few artists are conscious of their true purpose, and in many cases we see that infinite yearning supported by a constitution so weak that nothing is accomplished. The Magician must build all he has into his pyramid, and if that pyramid should touch the stars, how wide should be the basis. There is no knowledge or power that is useless to the Magician. We would say almost Nothing in the entire universe that he can dispense. Uttermost Your enemy is the Great Magician, the Magician who created the whole illusion of the universe, and to meet him in combat, so that nothing remains of it or not you, you must be exactly equal to his.
At the same time, the magician must never forget that every brick must tend toward the pinnacle of the pyramid - the sides of it must be per-fectly smooth, there should be no false pinnacle, even at lower levels.
This is an active and practical requirement that a Master of the Temple in which it is said: "I interpret all phenomena as a bargain between God and my soul. " In Liber CLXXV many practical tips to achieve this unique concentration are given, although the subject of that book is the devotion of a particular Deity, its instructions can be easily generalized to the development of any Will.
This will then be the active form of understanding. The Master of the Temple is asked, seeing a snail, "What is the purpose of this message from the Unseen? How to interpret this Word of God Almighty? "The Magus thinks: " I will use this snail? "And he must persist in this course. While many useless thing as far as he can see, you are sent, one day he will find that one thing he needs, while your Understanding appreciate the fact that none of these things were useless. So, with these preliminary practices of resignation will be clearly understood that they were only temporary utility. They only had value as training. The adept will laugh at its absurdities of beginner, the disproportions will have been harmonized, and the structure of his soul will be understood as perfectly organic, with nothing out of place. It will be seen as positive Tau with its ten complete squares within the triangle of the negatives, and this figure will become one as soon as the balance of the pairs of opposites he reaches the identity of opposites.
In all this will be perceived that the most powerful weapon in the hands of the student is the Vow of Holy Obedience and many have wished they had the opportunity to place themselves under the direction of a Holy Guru. Let them take heart - for any being capable of giving orders is an efficient Guru for the purposes of this vote, as long as not too friendly and lazy. The only reason to choose a Guru who has reached himself, the achievement is that he will assist the monitoring of sleepy Chela, and, while tempering the blows against the most sensitive points of this, it strengthens and robust, while it cheers ears with holy discourse. But if such a person is inaccessible, he chooses any person with whom he maintains frequent relations, and ask him to act.
The person chosen should, if possible, be reliable, and Chela remember that whatever is commanded to jump a cliff, it's much better to abandon the practice jump.
And it is of utmost importance not to limit the vote in any way. You should buy the egg without haggling.
In a certain society, the members were bound by oath to do certain things, and they are simultaneously assured that "there was nothing in the oath contrary to their civil obligations, moral or religious." So when any one wanted to break the Vow, he had no difficulty in finding a good reason. The vote has lost all strength. When the Buddha sat under the tree Boh blessed, he swore that none of the 10,000 inhabitants of the worlds could make it would rise until they have reached the achievement, so that even when Mara, the Grand Devil, with his three daughters, Tantalizing the Gras-appears, he remained quiet.
But for beginners, it is useless to take a vote so formidable, he has not got the strength which can defy Mara. He assesses their strength, and take a vote that is within the limits of this, but only within limits. Milo began loading in the back, a newborn calf, and while every day the calf grew and became a bull, the strength of Milo also grew, and was enough to carry the bull back. Again, Liber III is an admirable method for the beginner and will be better, even if he has great confidence in his strength, he takes the vote for very short periods, starting with an hour and increasing daily thirty minutes, until the day be completed by the practice. Then let him rest awhile, and then try to practice for two days, and so on until it becomes perfect.
He would also begin duty with the practices easier. But the thing that he vows to avoid should be something that he normally would with any frequency, because otherwise the effort that the memory is required to maintain vigilance to be very large, and the practice would become difficult.
Thus there is a clear connection in his mind between cause and effect, until he has so carefully to avoid that particular act that he consciously decided to avoid, as those other things in childhood that he was trained to avoid. Each must decide for yourself whether this is a wise course to follow. But it certainly seems easier to discard the first things that we can more easily dismiss.
Most people will work with the emotions and thoughts that excite you.
But it is both possible and necessary not only to suppress your emotions, but to make them faithful servants. Thus, the emotion of anger is occasionally useful against that portion of the brain which control relaxation addictive.
If there is an emotion that is never useful, is the pride and for this reason, it is fully linked to the ego. THERE IS NO USE FOR PRIDE.
The destruction of perceptions that the grosser or the more useful it seems much easier, because the mind, not being moved, is free to remember the control.
It is easy to absorb as much in a book that did not notice the most beautiful scenery. But if we are stung by a wasp the book is immediately forgotten.
Trends are, however, much more difficult to combat the three lowest Skandhas together - for the simple reason that they are, mostly, below the conscious, and must, so to speak, be aroused in order to be destroyed , so that the will of the Magician is in some sense, trying to do two opposite things at once.
The same consciousness is only destroyed by Samadhi. Now we can understand the logical process that begins by refusing to think about a foot, and destroys the sense of individuality.
There are many methods for destroying deeply-held beliefs.
The best is, perhaps, the equilibrium method. Place your mind in the habit of evoking the opposite of every thought that may arise. In conversation always disagree. Examine and understand the arguments of another man, but no matter how much you approve the trial of his arguments, find answer.
Let this be done dispassionately, the more you are convinced that a certain point of view is right, the more you should be determined by finding evidence that this view is erroneous If you have done this carefully and thoroughly, these points of view no longer disturb you, you can then assert your own point of view with the calm of a Master, which is more convincing than the enthusiasm of an apprentice.
You will no longer be interested in controversies; politics, ethics, religion will seem to him like so many toys, and his Magical Will will be free of such inhibitions. In Burma there is only one animal that kills people ever, Russell's viper, because, as they say over there, "or to kill you, or it kills you", is a question of who sees the other first.
But any idea that is not the Idea must be treated this way. When you have killed the snake, you can use his skin, but while she is alive and free, you are in danger.
And unfortunately the idea of ego, which is the real snake, can project themselves into a multitude of forms, each dressed in the most beautiful costumes. Thus it is said that the devil can disguise himself into an angel of light. When we are weighed down by a vote Magic, this is terribly appropriate. No human being understands or can understand the temptations of the saints.
A normal person who had ideas like the ones obsessed St. Patrick and St. Anthony should be in a madhouse
The more you squeeze the snake (who was previously sleeping in the sun, and almost harmless in appearance), the more she squirms and struggles, and it is important that you remember that you must handle it with more force the more she fights Or it will escape and bite you.
Likewise, if you tell a child not to do a certain thing, no matter what, she will immediately want to do that, although the idea could never failed to place itself in the same way saint. We have all these latent tendencies in us, we remain unaware of most of them our entire lives - unless they are awakened by our Magick. They are ambush. And each and every one must be awakened, and all and each of which must be destroyed. Every person who signs the Oath of a Probationer is stirring a hornet's nest.
A man has only to assert his conscious aspiration, and the enemy jumps on it. It seems likely that very little anyone can go through that terrible year of Probation - and yet, the aspirant is not required to do anything difficult, it seems almost as if he were not obliged to do anything - and yet, the experience teaches us that the effect is like pulling the man of your favorite chair and throw it down the middle of a storm in the Atlantic. The truth is, perhaps, that same simplicity makes the task difficult.
The Probationer must cling to your breathing - affirm it again and again into despair.
He almost lost sight of, perhaps, it became meaningless to him, he repeats it mechanically as he is thrown from wave to wave.
But if he can persist in its aspiration? He will go through the year.
And once he has crossed, things will take back your own looks, he sees that mere illusion were the things that seemed so real, and it will have been fortified against new trials. But it is unfortunate in the extreme so that it can not persist. It is useless for him to say: "I do not like the Atlantic, I'll go back to my favorite chair. "
Why only one step along the way and can no longer go back. As the poet Browning in his poem "The Young Rolando came to the Dark Tower":
Well see. As soon as I put in the plan
I gave the track my first step,
When we turn our eyes over the shoulder
The road that followed have not seen:
Around me the horizon, nothing
Otherwise wilderness, the road ahead. This is universally true, the statement that the Probationer can resign when the path is in fact just want to those who took the oath lightly.
A real Magical Oath can not be broken, you think you can, but can not.
This is the advantage of a real Magical Oath.
No matter how many detours you do, you reach the end the same way, and getting all you did was trying to break their oath to engage in more dire straits.
Can not be too clearly understood that such is the nature of things depend on the will of any person, no matter how powerful or exalted, nor may the force d'They, the strength of His Great Oaths, avail against the weakest Oath the most trivial of beginners. Attempting to interfere with the Magical Will of another person would be evil if not absurd.
We can try to build a Will where none before existed but a chaos of whims, but once the organization has been processed, is sacred. As Blake, "ALL THAT IS HOLY LIVES", hence the creation of life is the most sacred of tasks. There's too important to the designer what he creates, there is space in the universe for both the spider and the fly.
It's rubbish heap of Choronzon that we select the material of a god.
This is the ultimate analysis of the Mystery of Redemption, and is possibly the real reason for the existence (if existence can be called) of form, or if you prefer, the Ego. It is astonishing that this typical cry - "I am myself" - and the cry of what, above all, "is not"me.
It was that Master whose Will was so powerful that its lightest expression the deaf hear, the lame walked, lepers healed and the dead were raised, was that Master and no other in that supreme moment of his agony could cry, "Not my will, but yours be done ".
