61 Beta mu DE CORDE CANDIDO. Think also, o my Son, of this Image, that if two States be at

61 {Beta }{mu } DE CORDE CANDIDO.

Think also, o my Son, of this Image, that if two States be
at Peace, a Man goeth between them without Let; but if there
be War, all Gateways are forthwith closed, save only for a
few, and these are watched and guarded, so that the Obstacles
are many.  This then is the Case of Magick; for if thou have
brought to Harmony all Principles within thee, thou mayst work
easily to transmute a Force into its semblable upon another
Plane, which is the essential Miracle of our Art; but if thou
be at War within thyself, how canst thou work?  For our Master
Hermes Tresmegistus hat written at the Head of His Tablet of
Emerald this Word: That which is above is like that which is
below, and that which is below is like that which is above,
for the Performance of the Miracle of the One Substance.  How
then, if these be not alike?  If the Substance of Thee be Two,
and not One?  And herein is the Need of the Confession of a
pure Heart, as is written in the Book of the Dead.


62 {Beta }{nu } DE CONFORMITATE MAGI.

See to it therefore, o my Son, that thou in thy Working
dost no Violence to the whole Will of the All, or to the Will
common to all those Beings (or By-comings) that are of one
general Nature with thee, or to thine own particular Will.
For first of all thou art necessarily moved toward the One End
from thine own Station, but secondly thou art moved toward the
End proper to thine own Race, and Caste, and Family, as by
Virtue of thy Birth.  And these are, I may say it, Conditions
or limits, of thine own individual Will.  Thou dost laugh?
Err not, my Son!  The Magus, even as the Poet is the
Expression of the true Will of his Fellows, and his Success is
his Proof, as it is written in "The Book of the Law".  For his
Work is to free Men from the Fetters of a false or a
superannuated Will, revealing unto them, in Measure attuned to
their Needs, their true Natures.


63 {Beta }{xi } DE POETIS.

For this Reason is the Poet called an Incarnation of the
Zeitgeist, that is, of the Spirit or Will of his Period.  So
every Poet is also a Prophet, because when that which he
sayeth is recognized as the Expression of their own Thought by
Men, they translate this into Act, so that, in the Parlance of
the Folk vulgar and ignorant, "that which he foretold is come
to pass".  Now then the Poet is Interpreter of the Hieroglyphs
of the Hidden Will of Man in many a matter, some light, some
deep, as it may be given unto him to do.  Moreover, it is not
altogether in the Word of any Poem, but in the quintessential
Flavour of the Poet, that thou mayst seek this Prophecy.  And
this is an Art most necessary toe every Statesman.  Who but
Shelley foretold the Fall of Christianity, and the
Organisation of Labour, and the Freedom of Woman; who by
Nietzsche declared the Principle at the Root of the World-War?
See thou clearly then that in these Men were the Keys of the
Dark Gates of the Future; Should not the Kings and their
Ministers have taken heed thereto, fulfilling their Word
without Conflict.


64 {Beta }{omicron } DE MAGIS ORDINIS A{.'.} A{.'.}

Quibus caro fit verbum.

Now, o my Son, the Incarnation of a Poet is particular and
not Universal; he sayeth indeed true Things but not the Things
of All-Truth.  And that these may be said it is necessary that
One take human Flesh, and become a Magus in our Holy Order.
He then is called the Logos, or Logos Aiones, that is to say,
the Word of the Aeon or Age, because he is verily that Word.
And thus may be be known, because He hath it given unto Him to
prepare the Quintessence of the Will of God, that is, of Man,
in its Fullness and Wholeness, comprehending all Planes, so
that his Law is simple, and radical, penetrating all Space
from its single Light.  For though His Words be many, yet is
His Word One, One and Alone; and by this Word he createth Man
anew, in an essential Form of Life, so that he is changed in
his inmost Knowledge of himself.  And this Change worketh
outwards, little by little, unto its visible Effect.


65 {Beta }{pi } DE MAGIS TEMPORI ANTIQUI:

IMPRIMIS, DE LAO-TZE.

It may be unto thy Profit, o my Son, if I relate unto thee
the secret History of those who have gone before me in this
Grade of Magus, so far as their Memory hath remained among
Mankind.  For what would it avail thee should I recount the
deeds of those whom I indeed may know, but thou not?  Thou
knowest well how I keep me from all Taint of Fable, or any
Word unproven and undemonstrable.  First then I speak of Lao-
Tze, whose word was the Tao.  Hereof have I already written
much unto thee, because His Doctrine has been lost or
misinterpreted, and it is most needful to restore it.  For
this Tao is the true Nature of Things, being itself a Way or
Going, that is, a kinetic and not a static Conception.  Also
He taught this Way of Harmony in Will, which I myself have
thought to show thee in this little book.  So then this Tao is
Truth, and the Way of Truth, and therefore was He Logos of His
Aeon, and His true Name or Word was Tao.


66 {Beta }{koppa } DE GAUTAMA.

Whom Men call Gotama, or Siddartha, or the Budha, was a
Magus of our Holy Order.  And His Word was Anatta; for the
Root of His whole Doctrine was that there is no Atman, or
Soul, as Men ill translate it, meaning a Substance incapable
of Change.  Thus, He, like Lao-Tze, based all upon a Movement,
instead of a fixed Point.  And His Way of Truth was Analysis,
made possible by great Intention of the Mind toward itself,
and that well fortified by certain tempered Rigour of Life.
And He most thoroughly explored and Mapped out the Fastnesses
of the Mind, and gave the Keys of its Fortresses into the Hand
of Man.  But of all this the Quintessence is in this one Word
Anatta, because this is not only the foundation and the Result
of his whole Doctrine, but the Way of its Work.


67 {Beta }{rho }  DE SRI KRISHNA ET DE DIONYSO.

Krishna has Names and Forms innumerable, and I know not His
true Human Birth, for His Formula is of the Major Antiquity.
But His Word hath spread into many Lands, and we know it to-
day as INRI with the secret IAO concealed therein.  And the
Meaning of this Word is the Working of Nature in Her Changes;
that is, it is the Formula of Magick whereby all Things
reproduce and recreate themselves.  Yet this Extension and
Specialisation was rather the Word of Dionysus; for the true
Word of Krishna was AUM, importing rather a Statement of the
Truth of Nature than a practical Instruction in detailed
Operations of Magick.  But Dionysus, by the Word INRI, laid
the Foundation of all Science, as We say Science to-day in a
particular Sense, that is, of causing external Nature to
change in Harmony with our Wills.


68 {Beta }{sigma } DE TAHUTI.

Tahuti, or Thoth, confirmed the Word of Dionysus by
continuing it; for he showed how by the Mind it was possible
to direct the Operations of the Will.  By Criticism and by
recorded Memory Man avoideth Error.  But the true Word of
Tahuti was A M O U N, whereby He made Men to understand their
secret Nature, that is, their Unity with their true Selves,
or, as they then phrased it, with God.  And He discovered unto
them the Way of this Attainment, and its Relation with the
Formula of INRI.  Also by His Mystery of Number He made plain
the Path for His Successor to declare the Nature of the whole
Universe in its Form and in its Structure, as it were an
Analysis thereof, doing for Matter what the Buddha was decreed
to do for Mind.


69 {Beta }{tau } DE QUODAMM MAGO AEGYPTIORUM.

QUEM APPELUNT JUDAEI MOSHEH.

The Follower of Tahuti was an Egyptian whose Name is lost;
but the Jews called Him Mosheh, or Moses, and their Fabulists
made Him the Leader of their Legendary Exodus.  Yet they
preserved His Word, and it is IHVH, which thou must understand
also as that Secret Word which thou hast seen and heard in
Thunders and Lightnings in thine Initiation to the Degree thou
wottest of.  But this Word is itself a Plan of the Fabrick of
the Universe, and upon it hath been elaborated the Holy
Qabalah, whereby we have Knowledge of the Nature of all Things
soever upon every Plane of By-coming, and of their Forces and
Tendencies and Operations, with the Keys to their Portals.
Nor did He leave any Part of His Work unfinished, unless it be
that accomplished three hundred Years ago by Sir Edward Kelly,
of whom I also come, as thou knowest.


70 {Beta }{upsilon } DE MAGO ARABICO MOHAMMED.

Behold!  In these Chapters have I, thy Father, restricted
myself, not speaking of any immediate Echo of a Word in the
World, because, there Men being long since withdrawn into
their Silence, it is their One Word, and that Alone, that
resoundeth undiminished through Time.  How Mohammed, who
followeth, is darkened and confused by His Nearness to our own
Time, so that I say not save with Diffidence that His Word
ALLH may mean this or that.  But I am bold concerning His
Doctrine of the Unity of God, for God is Man, and he said
therefore: Man is One.  And His Will was to unite all Men in
One reasonable Faith: to make possible international Co-
operation in Science.  Yet, because He arose in the Time of
the greatest possible Corruption and Darkness, when every
Civilisation and Every Religion had fallen into Ruin, by the
malice of the great Sorcerer of Nazareth, as some say, He is
still hidden in the Dust of the Simoom, and we may not
perceive Him in His true Self of Glory.
      
Nevertheless, behold, o My Son, this Mystery.  His true
Word was La ALLH, that is to say: (there is) No God, and LA AL
is that Mystery of Mysteries which thine own Eye pierced in
thine Initiation.  And of that Truth have the Illusion and
Falsehood enslaved the Souls of Men, as is written in the Book
of the Magus.


71 {Beta }{phi } DE SE IPSO {Tau }{Omega }{Iota }
{Mu }{Epsilon }{Gamma }{Alpha }{Lambda }{Omega }{Iota }
{Theta }{Eta }{Rho }{Iota }{Omega }{Iota }, {Tau }{Omega }{Iota }
{Lambda }{Omicron }{Gamma }{Omega }{Iota }
{Alpha }{Iota }{Omega }{Nu }{Omicron }{Sigma } CUJUS VERBUM EST
{Theta }{Epsilon }{Lambda }{Eta }{Mu }{Alpha }.

O my son!  me seemeth in certain Hours that I am myself
fallen on a Time even more fearful and fatal than did
Mahommed, peace be upon Him!  But I read clearly the Word of
the Aeon, that is A B R A H A D A B R A, wherein is the whole
Mystery of the great Work, as thou knowest.  And I have "The
Book of the Law", that was given unto me by Him thou wottest
of; and it is the Interpretation of the Secret Will of Man on
every Plane of his By-coming; and the Word of the Law is T H E
L E M A.  "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."
   
Now because "Love is the law, love under will." do I write
this Epistle for thee, that thou mayst fulfil this inmost Will
of Mankind, making them capable of Light, Life, Love and
Liberty by the Acceptance of this Law.  And the Hindrance
thereunto is but as the Shell of its Egg to an Eaglet, ad
Thing foreign to itself, a Protection till the Hour strike,
and then --- no more!


72 {Beta }{chi } MANDATUM AD FILIUM SUUM.

Here I reach forth mine Hands against thee in the Sign of
the Enterer, o son of my Bowels, for with all my Magical Might
I will that thou fight manfully and labour with Diligence
(with Sword and Trowel; say I) in this Work.  For this is the
first and last of all, that thou bid every Man do What he
will, in accord with his own true Nature.  Therefore also
blast thou that Lie that Man is of a fallen and evil Nature.
For the Word of Sin is Restriction, the Doubt of his own
Godhead, the Suppression of, which is the Blasphemy against,
his own Holy Spirit.  Saith not "The Book of the Law" that
"...It is a lie, this folly against self. ..."?  Therefore to
every Man, in every Circumstance, say thou: Do what thou wilt;
and teach him, if he yet waver, how to discover his true
Nature, earnestly and with Ardour, even as I have striven to
teach thee --- yea, and more also!


73 {Beta }{psi } QUARE FILIUM CREAVIT: UT FIAT LIBERTAS.

Do what thou wilt!  be this our Slogan of Battle in every
Act; for every Act is Conflict.  There Victory leapeth shining
before us; for who may thwart true Will, which is the Order of
Nature Herself?  "...thou hast no right but to do thy will.
Do that, and no other shall say nay."  For if that Will be
true, its Fulfilment is of a Surety as Daylight following
Sunrise.  It is as certain as the Operation of any other Law
of Nature; it is Destiny.  Then, if that Will be obscured, if
thou turn from it to Wills diseased or perverse, how canst
thou hope?  Fool!  Even thy Turns and Twists are in the Path
to thine appointed End.  But thou art not sprung of a Slave's
Loins; thou standest firm and straight; thou dost thy Will;
and thou are Chosen, nay, for this Work wast thou begotten in
a Magick Bed, that thou shouldst make Man free.


74 {Beta }{omega } DE SUA DEBILITATE.

Listen attentively, my Son, while I with heavy Heart make
Confession to thee of mine own Frailty.  Thou knowest that I
made Renunciation of my Wage, taking this Body immediately
after my Death, the Death of Eliphas Levi Zahed, as Men say,
that I might attain to this great Work.  It is now twenty
Years, as Men count years, that I came to my first
Understanding of my true Nature, and aspired to that Work.
Now then at first I made no Error.  I abandoned my chosen
Career; I poured out my whole Fortune without one Thought; I
gave my Life utterly to the Work, without keeping back the
least imaginable Thing.  So then I made swift Strides along
the Path.  But in the Dhyanas that were granted unto me in
Kandy, in the Island of Lanka, I used up my whole Charge of
Magical Energy; and for two Years I fell away from the Work.


75 {Gamma }{alpha } DE MANU QUAE MAGUM SUSTINET.

Now it may be well that such Periods of Recuperation are
necessary to such souls as mine; and so no Ill.  But I fell
from my Will, and sought other Ends in Life; and so the Hand
came upon me, and tore away that which I desired, as thou
knowest; also it is written in the Temple of Solomon the King.
   
Yet consider also these two Years as a necessary Preparation
for that greatest of all Events which befell me in El-Kahira,
in the Land of Khem, the Choice of me as the Word of the Aeon.
Now then for a while I worked with my Will, though not wholly;
and again the Hand reached forth and smote me.  This, albeit
my Slackness was but as a Boy playing Truant, not a revolt
against my Self.  Wherefore, despite all, I made much Progress
in short Time.


76 {Gamma }{beta } DE SUO PECCATO.

Now then, well schooled, I strove no more against my
Nature, and worked with all my Will.  Thou knowest well how
greatly I was rewarded.  Yet in this last Initiation to the
Grade of Magus, wherein three-and-seventy Days, as Men count
Days, is but One Day, the Ordeal grew so fierce and
intolerable that I gave back a Step.  I did not utterly
renounce the Work, but I swore not to continue unless mine
Agony were abated.  But after fifteen Days, I came to myself
in a certain Ordeal, wherein I knew myself finally, that I
could do no other than take up that fearful Burden that had
broken my Spirit.  And for these fifteen Days have I not
suffered infinite Things?  Was not the Tree of my Work frozen,
one Branch withered, and one blasted?  Look no more, o my son,
upon thy Father's Shame!


77 {Gamma }{gamma } DE SUA VICTORIA PER NOMEN B A B A L O N.

And after?  This Dawn (for I have toiled through the Night
in my great Love and Care of thee) how is it with me?  it is
well.  For I have found myself; I have found my Will; the
Obstacles that daunted me are seen to be by the Shadows of
Shadows.  Grace be unto Lady B A B A L O N.
      
Thus it is written in "The Book of the Law":  "Remember all
ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as
shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which
remains."
      
Learn then that it is in the contemplation of Division that
Sorrow is, for Division is the Formula of Choronzon.  It is
therefore discreet for thee to unite each element of Sorrow
with its Opposite; in whose Triumph of Hymen is Ekstacy, until
by Apprehension of the new great Opposite the Idea is again
seen as Sorrow.  This then is the Issue from Sorrow; and thou
mayst understand that I now also am confident in the Necessity
of this my Fall to prepare the formula of my Exaltation.
Therefore, my Son, thus Hail Me: Blessing and worship to the
Beast, the Prophet of the Lovely Star.


78 {Gamma }{delta } DE ARCANO NEFANDO.

O my Son, learn this concerning Magick, that the Yang
moveth, and thus giveth itself up Eternally; but the Yin
moveth not, seeking ever to enclose or restrict, reproducing
in its own likeness what Impressions soever it  made thereon,
yet without Surrender.  Now the Tao absorbeth all without
Reproduction; so then let the Yang turn thereto, and not unto
the Yin.  And that thou mayst understand this, I say: It is a
Mystery of O.T.O.  For the Sun ariseth not and entereth to
strike upon the High Altar of the Minster by the Great Western
Gates, but by the Rose Oriel doth he make Way and Progress in
His Pageant.  O my Son, the Doors of Silver are wide open, and
they tempt thee with their Beauty: but by the narrow Portal of
Pure Gold shalt thou come nobly to thy Sanctuary.  Behold!
Thou knowest not how perfect is this Magick; it is the
dearest-bought and holiest of our Arcana.  What then is like
unto my Love toward Thee, that bestoweth upon thee this
Treasure of my Wisdom?  My Son, neglect it not; for it is the
Exorcism of Exorcisms, and the Enchantment of Enchantments.


79 {Gamma }{epsilon } DE ARCANO, PER QUOD SPIRITUS
QUIDAM IN CORPORE RECIPIATUR.

Here now is another Formula of Power, good to invoke any
Being to manifest in thyself.  First, invoke him by the Power
of all thy Spells and conjurations, with Mind concentrated and
Will vehement, toward him, as I have written in many Books.
But because thou are NEMO, thou mayst safely invoke him, no
matter of what Nature, within thy Circle.  Now then do thou
confer on him as a Guerdon of his Obedience the Dignity of a
Soul seeking Incarnation, and so precede to consecrate thine
Act by performing the Mass of the Holy Ghost.  Then shall that
Spirit make himself Body from those Elements, and thou
partaking thereof makest thine own Body his Machinery of
Manifestation, and thus mayst thou work with any Spirit
soever; yet this shall serve thee most in common Life.  Also
the Qualities are well defined in the Cards of the Tarot, so
that thou hast a clear-cut Means of developing thy Powers
according to the Needs of the Time.  But learn also this, to
work constantly under the Guidance of thine Holy Guardian
Angel, so that thy Workings be alway in Harmony and Accord
with thy true Will.

DE CLAVE KABBALISTICA HUJUS ARTIS.

Now then to thee who art long since Master of High Magick,
it will be easy to shew how the Mass of the Holy Ghost, sung
even in Ignorance, may work many a Wonder by Virtue of the
Force generated being compelled to manifest on other than its
own Plane.  Here then is a Theory of the Mystery of the Aeon,
that I, being the Logos appointed thereunto, did create an
Image of my little Universe in the Mind of the Woman of
Scarlet; that is, I manifested my whole Magical Self in her
Mind.  Thus then in Her, as in a Mirror, have I been able to
interpret myself to myself.  Thou also in thine own Way hast
the Power to create such an Image; but be thou sure and alert,
testing constantly the Persons in that Image by the Holy
Qabalah and by the true Signs of Brotherhood.  For each Person
therein shall be a Part of thyself, made individual and
perfect, able to instruct thee in thy Path.  Yet often there
shall be others, that are to aid thee in thy Working, or to
oppose it.  And in this Matter thou shalt read especially the
Record of thy Father His Workings with Soror Ahita (blessed be
Her Name unto the Ages) and certain others to Boot.


80 {Gamma }{zeta } DE MISSA SPIRITUS SANCTI.

Now at last, o my son, may I being thee to understand the
Truth of this Formula that is hidden in the Mass of the Holy
Ghost.  For Horus that is Lord of the Aeon is the Child
crowned and conquering.  The formula of Osiris was, as thou
knowest, a Word of Death, that is, the Force lay long in
Darkness, and by Putrifaction came to Resurrection.  But we
take living Things, and pour in Life and Nature of our own
Will, so that instantly and without Corruption the Child (as
it were the Word of that Will) is generated; and again
immediately taketh up his Habitation among us to manifest in
Force and Fire.  This Mass of the Holy Ghost is then the true
Formula of the Magick of the Aeon of Horus, blessed by He in
His Name Ra-Hoor-Khuit!  And thou shalt bless also the Name of
our Father Merlin, Frater Superior of the O.T.O., for that by
seven Years of Apprenticeship in His School did I discover
this most excellent Way of Magick.  Be thou diligent, o my
son, for in this wondrous Art is no more Toil, Sorrow, and