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[91] Codd, Ibid, p.353 (from The Mahatma Letters, Ibid, p.266).
[92] Codd, Ibid, p.173.
[93] Codd, Ibid, p.6.
[94] Codd, Ibid, p.5 & p.448.
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[105] We will return to this subject in greater detail within the volumes of The Magister. Also refer to my own account of the working in Katz, M. After the Angel. Forge Press: Keswick, 2011.
[106] MacGregor-Mathers, S.L. The Book of the Sacred Magic of AbraMelin the Mage. Thorsons: Wellingborough, 1977, also Dover Press: New York, 1975 which is a reproduction of the original 1900 version by John M. Watkins of London. A new edition translated from the German rather than the French version is Dehn, G. & Guth, S. (translators). The Book of Abramelin. Ibis Press: Lake Worth, 2006.
[107] Crowley, A. Magick Without Tears. Falcon Press: Las Vegas, 1989, p.276, or p.465, where the angel is referred to as a ‘private God’.
[108] William Bloom also wrote a pseudonymous fiction, QHE! The Taming Power. Mayflower: St. Albans, 1974, which happens to also feature a character based in Glastonbury called Willie. The book is written under the name W∴W∴ and involves a messianic mission, a threatened nuclear holocaust, an Amazonian Russian lady submarine commander, and a tea party in Glastonbury, amongst other novelties.
[109] See, for example, Vayne, J. ‘Thou, Who Art I, Beyond All I Am” in Chaos International, 25, pp.5-10, where the HGA is compared to the Ori of Macumba and similar Western African systems, and a ritual is described involving chanting, DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine) and ketamine. Another attempt at discussing the HGA is given by Mantovani, M. ‘Holy Guardian Angel for Fun and Prophet’ in Morgan, M. (editor). Thelemic Magick II. Golden Dawn Publications: Oxford, 1996, pp.74-91.
[110] Crowley, A. Magick in Theory and Practice, Chapter I, ‘The Principles of Ritual’, p.151.
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Ibid. Appendix III, ‘On the Astral Plane’, p.344.
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[113] See ‘Emergent property’, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergent_behavior [last accessed 26 November 2012].
[114] http://www.philhine.org.uk/writings/ess_egregore.html [last accessed 26 November 2012].
[115] For another consideration of the Abyss, see Rowe, B. (1951-2002), ‘The Illusion of the Abyss’, 1997, at http://hermetic.com/browe-archive/abyss2.htm [last accessed 26 November 2012].
[116]
A witch once told me that she had “been to the bottom of the Abyss, and there were trees there.”
[117] A magicia
n once told a workshop I was attending that he had taken the ‘Oath of the Abyss’ and all it had done was “helped me give up smoking.”
[118] See Rowe, B. (1951-2002), ‘The Illusion of the Abyss’, 1997, at http://hermetic.com/norton/abyss2.htm para. 12 [last accessed 26th January 2016]
[119] From self-published album, used with permission.
[120] Burton, R.E. Self-Remembering. Red Wheel/Weiser: York Beach, 1995, p.16.
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[124] See Circle of Iron (also known as The Silent Flute) with David Carradine, directed by Richard Moore, 1978. The ‘Book of All Knowledge’ is recapitulated in The Fool on the Inner Deck.
[125] Katz, M. & Goodwin, T. Tarot Flip. Forge Press: Keswick, 2010, p.46.
[126] See also the painting by Aleister Crowley, ‘Four Red Monks Carrying a Black Goat across the Snow to Nowhere’, which was also used as the cover of Symonds, J. The Magic of Aleister Crowley. Frederick Muller Ltd: London, 1958. This oil painting by Crowley is taken by Churton, T. Aleister Crowley: The Biography. Watkins: London, 2011, pp.301-302, as a commentary on the “theosophist inspired fantasy” of the search for Shambhala, at that time being undertaken by Nicholas Roerich on behalf of the OGPU, the forerunner of the KGB. Here in the Tarot of Everlasting Day it indicates the futility of the search, yet also its necessity.
[127] Place, R. The Tarot: History, Symbolism and Divination. Tarcher/Penguin: New York, 2005, p.133.
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[131] Crowley, A. Magick, p.256.
[132] Crowley, A. Magick, pp.109-110.
[133] The former can be accessed online at:
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[135] Waite, A.E. Lamps of Western Mysticism. Rudolph Steiner Publications: New York, 1973, p.290.
[136] The Vision of Zosimos of Panopolis at:
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[137] Besant, W. & Rice, J. The Monks of Thelema. Chatto & Windus: London, 1910, p.15. This lesser known book by the brother-in-law of Annie Besant, a well-regarded theosophist, is a novel of a magical fraternity espousing the law of Thelema, totally separate to Crowley’s formulation of the same, and deriving from the same source, i.e. Rabelais, F. Gargantua & Pantagruel. Penguin Books: Harmondsworth, 1978, originally published in 1532-1534. In the opening chapter of Besant & Rice, a ritual initiation is described wherein the two new candidates are given magical names by the existing members.
[138] Crowley, A. Magick. Guild Publishing: Bungay, 1989, p.70.
[139] See for example, Mollick, A. Living with Magick in a Mundane World. n.p., 2006, no page numbers, section on ‘Choosing Your Magickal Motto’ where Mollick describes his first motto as ‘Artos’ from the Celtic for Arthur.
[140] Ashcroft-Nowicki, D. The Ritual Magic Workbook. Aquarian Press: Wellingborough, 1986, p.92.
[141] For a deeper appreciation of the import of greetings, see Crowley, A. Magick Without Tears. Falcon Press: Phoenix, 1982, pp.149-151, particularly ‘Carthage should be destroyed’.
[142] Young, L.B. The Unfinished Universe. Simon & Schuster: New York, 1986. On the level of the psyche, one might also consider the stages described by Kegan, R. The Evolving Self: Problem and Process in Human Development. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 1982, which takes Piaget’s work further into five stages: impulsive, imperial, interpersonal, institutional, and inter-individual. These map across to the initiatory structure at the level of the personality development, all of which run in parallel – we initiate ourselves in all worlds at the same time: we age physically, we develop psychologically, we explore the world as linear time and space allows, and we initiate our own awareness to go beyond these realms.
[143] In the case of Aleister Crowley we have most of his magical mottos throughout his ascent of the grade system. These will be explored in the relevant volume of the MAGISTER dealing with Thelema.
[144]
Burton, R.E. Self-Remembering. Weiser/Red Wheel: York Beach, 1995, p.1.
[145] Dick, P.K. Valis. Gollancz: London, 1981, p.136.
[146] Kim Huggens has provided a unique series on Liber Resh in the PORTAL magazine of Magicka School at www.magickaschool.com.
[147]
A comprehensive overview of the myth and magic of the Moon in all her aspects is given by Brueton, D. Many Moons. Prentice Hall Press: New York, 1991.
[148] Regardie, I. The Middle Pillar. Llewellyn: St. Paul, 1998, pp.69-83.
[149] Regardie, I. The Middle Pillar. Llewellyn: St. Paul, 1998. The Art of True Healing. Helios: Toddington, 1974. For more advanced techniques such as the Bornless Ritual and Opening by the Watchtower, see Regardie, I. Ceremonial Magic. Aquarian Press: Wellingborough, 1980.
[150] Eaton, E. The Hours of Isis. The Baskerville Press: London, 1928, p.18.
[151] Luke 24:29: “Stay with us, because it is towards evening.”
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You may also wish to refer to Duquette, L.M. Ask Baba Lon: Answers to Questions of Life and Magick. New Falcon Publications: Las Vegas, 2011.
