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- THE MASTER THERION
-
- Liber B
- vel Magi
- Sub Figurâ I
-
- 00. One is the Magus: twain His forces: four His weapons. These are
- the Seven Spirits of Unrighteousness; seven vultures of evil. Thus is
- the art and craft of the Magus but glamour. How shall He destroy
- Himself?
-
- 0. Yet the Magus hath power upon the Mother both directly and
- through Love. And the Magus is Love, and bindeth together That and
- This in His Conjuration.
-
- 1. In the beginning doth the Magus speak Truth, and send forth
- Illusion and Falsehood to enslave the soul. Yet therein is the Mystery
- of Redemption.
-
- 2. By His Wisdom made He the Worlds; the Word that is God is none
- other than He.
-
- 3. How then shall He end His speech with Silence? For He is Speech.
-
- 4. He is the First and the Last. How shall He cease to number
- Himself?
-
- 5. By a Magus is this writing made known through the mind of a
- Magister. The one uttereth clearly, and the other understandeth; yet
- the Word is falsehood, and the Understanding darkness. And this saying
- is Of All Truth.
-
- 6. Nevertheless it is written; for there be times of darkness, and
- this as a lamp therein.
-
- 7. With the Wand createth He.
-
- 8. With the Cup preserveth He.
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- 9. With the Dagger destroyeth He.
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- 10. With the Coin redeemeth He.
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- 11. His weapons fulfil the wheel; and on What Axle that turneth is
- not known unto Him.
-
- 12. From all these actions must He cease before the curse of His
- Grade is uplifted from Him. Before He attain to That which existeth
- without Form.
-
- 13. And if at this time He be manifested upon earth as a Man, and
- therefore is this present writing, let this be His method, that the
- curse of His grade, and the burden of His attainment, be uplifted from
- Him.
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- 14. Let Him beware of abstinence from action. For the curse of His
- grade is that He must speak Truth, that the Falsehood thereof may
- enslave the souls of men. Let Him then utter that without Fear, that
- the Law may be fulfilled. And according to His Original Nature will
- that law be shapen, so that one may declare gentleness and quietness,
- being an Hindu; and another fierceness and servility, being a Jew; and
- yet another ardour and manliness, being an Arab. Yet this matter
- toucheth the mystery of Incarnation, and is not here to be declared.
-
- 15. Now the grade of a Magister teacheth the Mystery of Sorrow, and
- the grade of a Magus the Mystery of Change, and the grade of
- Ipsissimus the Mystery of Selflessness, which is called also the
- Mystery of Pan.
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- 16. Let the Magus then contemplate each in turn, raising it to the
- ultimate power of Infinity. Wherein Sorrow is Joy, and Change is
- Stability, and Selflessness is Self. For the interplay of the parts
- hath no action upon the whole. And this contemplation shall be
- performed not by simple meditation--how much less then by reason? but
- by the method which shall have been given unto Him in His initiation
- to the Grade.
-
- 17. Following which method, it shall be easy for Him to combine that
- trinity from its elements, and further to combine Sat-Chit-Ananda, and
- Light, Love, Life, three by three into nine that are one, in which
- meditation success shall be That which was first adumbrated to Him in
- the grade of Practicus (which reflecteth Mercury into the lowest
- world) in Liber XXVII, ``Here is Nothing under its three Forms.''
-
- 18. And this is the Opening of the Grade of Ipsissimus, and by the
- Buddhists it is called the trance Nerodha-Samapatti.
-
- 19. And woe, woe, woe, yea woe, and again woe, woe, woe unto seven
- times be His that preacheth not His law to men!
-
- 20. And woe also be unto Him that refuseth the curse of the grade of
- a Magus, and the burden of the Attainment thereof.
-
- 21. And in the word CHAOS let the Book be sealed; yea, let the Book
- be sealed.