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LIBER
QaPRhc
VIÆ MEMORIÆ
SVB FIGVRÂ
CMXIII
U
A∴A∴
Publication in Class B
Imprimatur:
N. Fra. A∴ A∴
000 . May be.
[ 00 . It has not been possible to construct this book on a basis
of pure Scepticism. This matters less, as the practice leads to
Scepticism, and it may be through it.]
0 . This book is not intended to lead to the supreme
attainment. On the contrary, its results define the separate being
of the Exempt Adept from the rest of the Universe, and discover
his relation to that Universe. 1
1 . It is of such importance to the Exempt Adept that We cannot
overrate it. Let him in no wise adventure the plunge into the Abyss
until he have accomplished this to his most perfectest satisfaction. 2
2 . For in the Abyss no effort is anywise possible. The Abyss
is passed by virtue of the mass of the Adept and his Karma. Two
forces impel him: ( 1 ) the attraction of Binah, ( 2 ) the impulse of his
Karma; and the ease and even the safety of his passage depend on
the strength and direction of the latter. 3
3 . Should one rashly dare the passage, and take the irre-
vocable Oath of the Abyss, he might be lost therein through Æons
of incalculable agony; he might even be thrown back upon Chesed,
with the terrible Karma of failure added to his original imperfection.
1 This book tells how to enquire “Who am I?” “What is my relation with nature?” [Note
added in MTP publication of Liber 913 .]
2 One must destroy one’s false notions about who and what one is before one can find
the truth of the matter. One must therefore understand those false notions before giving
them up. Unless this is done perfectly, one will get the True mixed up with the remains
of the False. [Note added in MTP publication of Liber 913 .]
3 One’s life has hitherto been guided by those false notions. Therefore on giving them
up, one has no standard of control of thought or action; and, until the truth is born, one
can move only by virtue of one’s momentum. It is jumping off. [Note added in MTP
publication of Liber 913 .]
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4 . It is even said that in certain circumstances it is possible to
fall altogether from the Tree of Life, and to attain the Towers of
the Black Brothers. But We hold that this is not possible for any
adept who has truly attained his grade, or even for any man who
has really sought to help humanity even for a single second, 1 and
that although his aspiration have been impure through vanity or
any similar imperfection.
5 . Let the Adept who finds the result of these meditations
unsatisfactory refuse the Oath of the Abyss, and live so that his
Karma gains strength and direction suitable to the task at some
future period. 2
6 . Memory is essential to the individual consciousness;
otherwise the mind were but a blank sheet on which shadows are
cast. But we see that not only does the mind retain impressions,
but that it is so constituted that its tendency is to retain some more
excellently than others. Thus the great classical scholar, Sir
Richard Jebb, was unable to learn even the schoolboy mathe-
matics required for the preliminary examination at Cambridge
University, and a special act of the authorities was required in
order to admit him.
7 . The first method to be described has been detailed
in Bhikku Ananda Metteya's “Training of the Mind” (E QUINOX , I.
5 , pp. 28-59 , and especially pp. 48-56 ). We have little to alter or to
add. Its most important result, as regards the Oath of the Abyss, is
the freedom from all desire or clinging to everything which it
gives. Its second result is to aid the adept in the second method,
by supplying him with further data for his investigation. 3
1 Those in posession of Liber 185 will note that in every grade but one the aspirant is
pledged to serve his inferiors in the Order. [The Adeptus Minor is not so pledged; the
Probationer has no inferiors in the Order. — T.S.]
2 Make the Adeptus Exemptus perfect as such before proceeding. [Note added in MTP
publication of Liber 913 .]
3 The Magical Memory ( i.e. , of former incarnations) frees one from desire by shewing
how futile and sorrow-breeding all earthly and even sub-magical attainment proves.
[Note added in MTP publication of Liber 913 .]
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8 . The stimulation of memory useful in both practices is also
achieved by simple meditation (“Liber E”), in a certain stage of
which old memories arise unbidden. The adept may then practice
this, stopping at that stage, and encouraging instead of suppressing
the flashes of memory.
9 . Zoroaster has said, “Explore the River of the Soul, whence
or in what order you have come; so that although you have
become a servant to the body, you may again rise to that Order
(the A∴A∴) from which you descended, joining Works
(Kamma) to Sacred Reason (the Tao)” 1
10 . The Result of the Second Method is to show the Adept to
what end his powers are destined. When he has passed the Abyss
and become N EMO , the return of the current causes him “to appear
in the Heaven of Jupiter as a morning star or as an evening star.” 2 3
In other words, he should discover what may be the nature of his
work. Thus Mohammed was a Brother reflected in Netzach,
Buddha a Brother reflected into Hod, or, as some say, Daath. The
present manifestation of Frater P. to the outer is in Tiphareth, to
the inner in the path of Leo.
11 . First Method. Let the Exempt Adept first train himself to
think backwards by external means, as set forth here following.
( a ) Let him learn to write backwards, with either hand.
( b ) Let him learn to walk backwards.
( c ) Let him constantly watch, if convenient, cinemato-
graph films, and listen to phonograph records, reversed,
and let him so accustom himself to these that they
appear natural, and appreciable as a whole.
( d ) Let him practice speaking backwards; thus, for “I am
He” let him say, “Eh ma I.”
1 [ Chaldæan Oracles , fragment 172 in Westcott and Cory editions; Westcott’s
translation with glosses by Crowley. — T.S.]
2 The formula of the Great Work “Solve et Coagula,” may be thus interpreted. Solve,
the dissolution of the Self in the Infinite; Coagula, the presentation of the Infinite in a
concrete form to the outer. Both are necessary to the Task of a Master of the Temple.
3 [Liber 418 , 14 th Æthyr, slightly paraphrased.]

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