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LIBER

VEL

MANVS ET

SAGITT

SVB FIGVRã

A∴A∴

Publication in Class B

Issued by Order :

D.D.S.

7 = 4 Pr½monstrator

O.S.V.

6 = 5 Imperator

N.S.F.

5 = 6 Cancellarius

1 . This book is very easy to misunderstand; readers are asked

to use the most minute critical care in the study of it, even as we

have done in its preparation.

2 . In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of

Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many

other things that may or may not exist.

It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain

things, certain results will follow; students are earnestly warned

against attributing objective reality or philosophical validity to

any of them.

3 . The advantages to be gained from them are chiefly these:

( a ) A widening of the horizon of the mind.

( b ) An improvement of the control of the mind.

4 . The student, if he attain to success in the following

practices, will find himself confronted by things (ideas or beings)

too glorious or too dreadful to be described. It is essential that he

remain the master of all that he beholds, hears or conceives;

otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of

madness.

Before entering upon any of these practices, the student

should be in good health, and have attained a fair mastery of

āsana , prāLāyāma , and dhāranā . 1

5 . There is little danger that any student, however idle or

stupid, will fail to get some result; but there is great danger that he

will be led astray, obsessed and overwhelmed by his results, even

though it be by those which it is necessary that he should attain.

Too often, moreover, he mistaketh the first resting-place for the

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goal, and taketh off his armour as if he were a victor ere the fight

is well begun.

It is desirable that the student should never attach to any

result the importance which it at first seems to possess.

6 . First, then, let us consider the Book 777 and its use; the

preparation of the Place; the use of the Magic Ceremonies; and

finally the methods which follow in Chapter V. ÐViator in Regnis

Arboris,Ñ* and in Chapter VI. ÐSagitta trans Lunam.Ñ

(In another book will it be treated of the Expansion and Con-

traction of Consciousness; progress by slaying the Cakkrms; pro-

gress by slaying the Pairs of Opposites; the methods of Sabhapaty

Swāmi, &c. &c. 2 )

1 . The student must FIRST obtain a thorough knowledge of

Book 777 , especially of columns i., ii., iii., v., vi., vii., ix., xi., xii.,

xiv., xv., xvi., xvii., xviii., xix., xxxiv., xxxv., xxxviii., xxxix., xl.,

xli., xlii., xlv., liv., lv., lix., lx., lxi., lxiii., lxx., lxxv., lxxvii., lxxviii.,

lxxix., lxxx., lxxxi., lxxxiii., xcvii., xcviii., xcix., c., ci., cxvii., cxviii.,

cxxxvii., cxxxviii., cxxxix., clxxv., clxxvi., clxxvii., clxxxii. 3

When these are committed to memory, he will begin to

understand the nature of these correspondences. ( See Illustrations:

ÐThe Temple of Solomon the King,Ñ in Equinox I ( 2 ). Cross-

references are given.)

2 . If we take an example the use of the table will become clear.

Let us suppose that you wish to obtain knowledge of some

obscure science.

In column xlv., line 12 , you will find ÐKnowledge of

Sciences.Ñ

By now looking up line 12 in the other columns, you will find

that the Planet corresponding is Mercury, its number eight, its

* [ Lat . ÐThe traveller in the Kingdoms of the Tree ( scil. of Life).Ñ]

[ Lat. ÐThe arrow beyond the MoonÑ (the reference being to the path of Samekh on

the Kircher Tree).]

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lineal figures the octagon and octagram, the God who rules that

planet Thoth, or in Hebrew symbolism Tetragrammaton Adonai

and Elohim Tzabaoth, its Archangel Raphael, its Choir of Angels

Beni Elohim, its Intelligence Tiriel, its Spirit Taphthartharath, 4 its

colours Orange (for Mercury is the sphere of the Sephira Hod, 8 ),

Yellow, Purple, Grey, and Indigo rayed with Violet; its Magical

Weapon the Wand or Caduceus, its Perfumes Mastic and others,

its sacred plants Vervain and others, its jewel the Opal or Agate,

its sacred animal the Snake, &c. &c.

3 . You would then prepare your Place of Working accord-

ing. In an orange circle you would draw an eight-pointed star of

yellow, at whose points you would place eight lamps. The Sigil

of the Spirit (which is to be found in Cornelius Agrippa 5 and other

books) you would draw in the four colours with such other

devices as your experiences may suggest.

4 . And so on. We cannot here enter at length into all the

necessary preparations; and the student will find them fully set

forth in the proper books, of which the ÐGoetiaÑ is perhaps the

best example.

These rituals need not be slavishly imitated; on the contrary

the student should do nothing the object of which he does not

understand; also, if he have any capacity whatever, he will find

his own crude rituals more effective than the highly polished ones

of other people.

The general purpose of all this preparation is as follows:

5 . Since the student is a man surrounded by material objects,

if it be his wish to master one particular idea, he must make every

material object about him directly suggest that idea. Thus in the

ritual quoted, if his glance fall upon the lights, their number

suggests Mercury; he smells the perfumes, and again Mercury is

brought to his mind. In other words, the whole magical apparatus

and ritual is a complex system of mnemonics.

[The importance of these lies principally in the fact that

particular sets of images that the student may meet in his wanderings

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