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Original key entry by Bill Heidrick, GTG O.T.O.
Extracted from EQ-I-9.AS1 by Fr. NChSh, Uraeus-Hadit Camp O.T.O.
Copyright (c) O.T.O.

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                             ENERGIZED ENTHUSIASM

                              A NOTE ON THEURGY


                                      I

   I A O the supreme One of the Gnostics, the true God, is the Lord of this
work.  Let us therefore invoke Him by that name which the Companions of the
royal Arch blaspheme to aid us in the essay to declare the means which He has
bestowed upon us!

                                      II

   The divine consciousness which is reflected and refracted in the works of
Genius feeds upon a certain secretion, as I believe.  This secretion is
analogous to semen, but not identical with it.  There are but few men and
fewer women, those women being invariably androgyne, who possess it at any
time in any quantity.
   So closely is this secretion connected with the sexual economy that it
appears to me at times as if it might be a by-product of that process which
generates semen.  That some form of this doctrine has been generally accepted
is shown in the prohibitions of all religions.  Sanctity has been assumed to
depend on chastity, and chastity has nearly always been interpreted as
abstinence.  But I doubt whether the relation is so simple as this would
imply; for example, I find in myself that manifestations of mental
creative force always concur with some abnormal condition of the physical
powers of generation.  But it is not the case that long periods of chastity,
on the one hand, or excess of orgies, on the other, are favourable to its
manifestation or even to its formation.
   I know myself, and in me it is extremely strong; its results are
astounding.
   For example, I wrote "Tannhauser," complete from conception to execution,
in sixty-seven consecutive hours.  I was unconscious of the fall of nights and
days, even after stopping; nor was there any reaction of fatigue.  This work
was written when I was twenty-four years old, immediately on the completion of
an orgie which would normally have tired me out.
   Often and often have I noticed that sexual satisfaction so-called has left
me dissatisfied and unfatigued, and let loose the floods of verse which have
disgraced my career.
   Yet, on the contrary, a period of chastity has sometimes fortified me for a
great outburst.  This is far from being invariably the case.  At the
conclusion of the K 2 expedition, after five months of chastity, I did no work
whatever, barring very few odd lyrics, for months afterwards.
   I may mention the year 1911.  At this time I was living, in excellent good
health, with the woman whom I loved.  Her health was, however, variable, and
we were both constantly worried.
   The weather was continuously fine and hot.  For a period of about three
months I hardly missed a morning; always on waking I burst out with a new idea
which had to be written down.
   The total energy of my being was very high.  My weight was 10 stone 8 lb.,
which had been my fighting weight when I was ten years younger.  We walked
some twenty miles daily through hilly forest.
   The actual amount of MSS. written at this time is astounding; their variety
is even more so; of their excellence I will not speak.
   Here is a rough list from memory; it is far from exhaustive:

     (1) Some dozen books of A.'. A.'. instruction, including liber Astarte,
         and the Temple of Solomon the King for "Equinox VII."
     (2) Short Stories: The Woodcutter.
                        His Secret Sin.
     (3) Plays:         His Majesty's Fiddler
                        Elder Eel
                        Adonis    . written straight off, one
                        The Ghouls. after the other
                        Mortadello.
     (4) Poems:         The Sevenfold Sacrament
                        A Birthday.
     (5) Fundamentals of the Greek Qabalah (involving the collection and
         analysis of several thousand words).

   I think this phenomenon is unique in the history of literature.
   I may further refer to my second journey to Algeria, where my sexual life,
though fairly full, had been unsatisfactory.
   On quitting Biskra, I was so full of ideas that I had to get off the train
at El-Kantara, where I wrote "The Scorpion."  Five or six poems were written
on the way to Paris; "The Ordeal of Ida Pendragon" during my twenty-four
hours' stay in Paris, and "Snowstorm" and "The Electric Silence" immediately
on my return to England.
   To sum up, I can always trace a connection between my sexual condition and
the condition of artistic creation, which is so close as to approach identity,
and yet so loose that I cannot predicate a single important proposition.
   It is these considerations which give me pain when I am reproached by the
ignorant with wishing to produce genius mechanically.  I may fail, but my
failure is a thousand times greater than their utmost success.
   I shall therefore base my remarks not so much on the observations which I
have myself made, and the experiments which I have tried, as on the accepted
classical methods of producing that energized enthusiasm which is the lever
that moves God.

                                     III

   The Greeks say that there are three methods of discharging the genial
secretion of which I have spoken.  They thought perhaps that their methods
tended to secrete it, but this I do not believe altogether, or without a
qualm.  For the manifestation of force implies force, and this force must have
come from somewhere.  Easier I find it to say "subconsciousness" and
"secretion" than to postulate an external reservoir, to extend my connotation
of "man" than to invent "God."
   However, parsimony apart, I find it in my experience that it is useless to
flog a tired horse.  There are times when I am absolutely bereft of even one
drop of this elixir.  Nothing will restore it, neither rest in bed, nor
drugs, nor exercise.  On the other hand, sometimes when after a severe spell
of work I have been dropping with physical fatigue, perhaps sprawling on the
floor, too tired to move hand or foot, the occurrence of an idea has restored
me to perfect intensity of energy, and the working out of the idea has
actually got rid of the aforesaid physical fatigue, although it involved a
great additional labour.
   Exactly parallel (nowhere meeting) is the case of mania.  A madman may
struggle against six trained athletes for hours, and show no sign of fatigue.
Then he will suddenly collapse, but at a second's notice from the irritable
idea will resume the struggle as fresh as ever.  Until we discovered
"unconscious muscular action" and its effects, it was rational to suppose such
a man "possessed of a devil"; and the difference between the madman and the
genius is not in the quantity but in the quality of their work.  Genius is
organized, madness chaotic.  Often the organization of genius is on original
lines, and ill-balanced and ignorant medicine-men mistake it for disorder.
Time has shown that Whistler and Gauguin "kept rules" as well as the masters
whom they were supposed to be upsetting.

                                      IV

   The Greeks say that there are three methods of discharging the Lyden Jar of
Genius.  These three methods they assign to three Gods.
   These three Gods are Dionysus, Apollo, Aphrodite.  In English: wine, woman
and song.
   Now it would be a great mistake to imagine that the Greeks were
recommending a visit to a brothel.  As well condemn the High Mass at St.
Peter's on the strength of having witnessed a Protestant revival meeting.
Disorder is always a parody of order, because there is no archetypal disorder
that it might resemble.  Owen Seaman can parody a p