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A Book of Magicks
The Principles of Cloud-Busting
I Seriously Devoted Myself to the Search for
Some Different & New Principle.
Hermetica (The Second, but First)
Hermetica (The First, but Second)
Condensed Chaos (An Introduction)
The Light of Bright Reason Daysends from on
High.
The Book of Constant the Shoemaker’s Son
The present volume owes its existence to an instant rapport, though nearly untranslatable. That unforgettable day in the study, and later in the garden, a look at a handwritten manuscript. So wonderful to discuss some of the most difficult passages with a friend. Occasionally glosses are offered beyond the text and explain more fully what is in the mind. In certain orientations I do not exist, only to be noticed as a shadow; all pretensions to knowledge of the possibility of visibility. Borders and no borders stand in relation; the find for the diver. Matter mastered and formed; enabled to life in the spirit, the many tongues of language. Surrendered, to the stammering of nature under the initial grasp, before the yield to cosmic risk.
after Martin Buber
Dedicated with poignant memory of what might have been, apart from its flamboyancy, a sincere and simple guide to an intricate and otherwise obscure art. Credit must also be given to higher & divine Genius gifted with greater facility of pen, and possessed of a more profound knowledge of the subject and its concomitants, thus providing a better formulation of Magick.
The writer will be first to acclaim the traditional science of the secrets of the nature transmitted universe which comprises the heart, soul, and intelligence of humanity. The creative imagination developed through reflection the Logos in the mundane sphere of a celestial idea. The Opener of metaphysical essence, exaltation of consciousness, exerts a subtle fascination on the mind. Thus, this language is that of incantations, keys of sound, number, and figure which open the doors between the mortal and the immortal. Such poetry to conjure with belongs to another world, another aeon, and exists in the dream. Sweet fruit swiftly yielded to hand of pluck, the wings then grow stronger, the flight itself longer; wisdom constantly burning. Become that light by which may blossom the golden-green asphodel, and continue into the translucent curls of will with greater and greater responsibility; transform and transmute the base.
after Israel Regardie
The Principles of Cloud-Busting
One would prefer not to hasten at a furious speed in a straight line toward a determined goal.
Only, with quantities and energies, philosophy ,with psychic qualities; and ‘there’ was no bridge between the quanti- and quali-tative.
This claim makes imperative a detailed presentation of structure in all its ramifications.
It became increasingly clear that this smile served as a protection; and that this smile must have a definite meaning does not seem plausible.
The function of emotion, long before the discovery of the cosmic energy, the goal of liberation, a tangible content by “airing” in the open fresh air.
Work, and works, easily and efficiently, while the newcomers faint dead away.
Peculiarities, rather than signs; of an entirely fluid meaning, an origin, a simple construction with regard—partly antagonistic—pressed in a specific attitude or way of being.
Exchanges of all kinds, and all functions which depend on the presence or absence of interaction and potential; the performing of the most natural embrace—inner and outer.
after Wilhelm Reich
I Seriously Devoted Myself to the Search for Some Different & New Principle.
Betaking myself to this quest, a remedy from the state of great peril, an improvement and purification of the understanding which brings it into the right path, I speak in the manner of multitudes. These modes of perception guide, and, by increased knowledge of nature, can easily avoid what’s useless. Error is not the dreaming of the waking. Whence fixed and eternal things, though they themselves are particular, will nevertheless, owing to their presence and power everywhere, be universals or genera of definitions of particular mutable things, and as the proximate causes of all things. Wherefore the mind-body endeavors to conceive such a state of perfection, except that the rays coming from a single point are not collected accurately at another single point for those who are generally in reality, simultaneous. I adduce to illustrate, to wit, these matters being thus, the difficulty completely solved. I affirm the necessary existence of intellectual love in detailed geometrical fashion; virtue of substance and essence through some movement of the spirits.
after Benedict De Spinoza
Hermetica (The Second, but First)
A double history, a blank page in both ethos and ethnos—
the intellectual spiritualization of initiation. The psychopomp of humanity operationalizes
the philosophy within the technical matrix. Correspondence between the worlds
confirms the cosmological scheme. The assertion of the will on the universe towards gnosis.
As such, essence certainly understood is the pot formed upon the wheel.
Another blank page performs the rite in the customary manner. Writing
systems are versions of each other, a transformation of the self
drinking deeply from the sources to create synthesis of fire and light.
after Stephen Edred Flowers, Ph. D.
Hermetica (The First, but Second)
These things might be grouped together under the vague but convenient term occult arts and sciences. Specimens of such writings have come down, syncretic in the choice of a single name. Think out and go not astray, but be saved by the divine within. Numerous manuscripts, many corrected by a different hand, in which are the most marvelous sayings. Orpheus received the same truth from the same source. Let this suffice as a beginning of knowledge of the nature of all things. For the good is utterly alien to heavens and humanity. And necessity and providence and nature are instruments by means of which the Cosmos is governor, and by means of which matter is set in order. Be thankful by coming to know such greatness.
after Hermes Trismegistus
In turning to analysis, it is impossible to begin a philosophical work with a clear statement because philosophy has its being essentially in the element of that universality which encloses the particular. The ceaseless activity of inherent nature makes at the same time moments of an organic unity, and the equal necessity of all moments constitutes alone and thereby the life of the whole. For the real subject matter is not exhausted but in the working-out; philosophy to become actual knowing. Formerly a heaven adorned with a vast wealth of thought and imagery, now dwelt in the world’s presence. To show the time process, the force of mind is only as great and multiple as its expressive substance, the pure I as such. Every rare and exotic absolute Idea, naked possibility in a single assertion of transfigured essence, the Subject reflected into self-movement. Refutation is reformative as tautology is spiritual substance identical to the determination of simplicity as being. Experience is consciousness in its self, self object of essence, and dialectical as regards truth in matters of historical fact. But this eventuality has nothing to do with content; nothing, qua subject, passes away in the predicate, and preserved the freedom imposed upon thought. The inner world, or supersensible beyond, comes into being out of the world of mediated appearance. By a true knowing, for only in the unity of apperception lies this pure immediacy, I am directly conscious, I intuit and nothing more. But once more, understanding fails to do justice to infinity, virtue conquered by the ‘way of the world’ and of necessity again dissembled. Extension constitutes the existence of intensity, something independent of every content—active love. The “beautiful soul” which realizes the form of the spirit’s act is merely a moment of the whole.
after Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Condensed Chaos (An Introduction)
Avoid dogmatism, ask awkward questions, and challenge ways of habitual experience.
The deeper one goes into the image of fractal logic, the more there is to see;
everything self-similar and connected. Adoption of belief makes it viable; Theory-in-Use.
Sources of power in the Achievable Reality, pushed back boundaries and self restriction.
Prepare a framework of organized coherence; there is always more to do in the sorcerer’s toybox.
Information may be sought via the operation of controlled feedback to alter the perception
of immediate reality. This Pathworking could take the form of taking a break, or
reorganizing activity in the Deep Mind as a whole, through the written word.
after Phil Hine
The Light of Bright Reason Daysends from on High.
By a commodious vicus of recirculation back to crest of heraldry. What then agentlike brought about, O Sustainer. Enjoyable of our mounding’s mass, this is the triplewon hat, grand and magnetic. The silence speaks the scene. Fake! How charmingly exquisite! And so. And all. Comsy see! I am doing it, spinning castle and earthenhouse; lace at night, at another time. The instance of watch warriors pleaded nature in all innocency. The house is fallen. The scene refreshed. Both and bottlebreaker; yes and no error. The velocipede that could tell; a look, so rosetop seed makes the often expressed wish. Bring to light and note; slink hook away. The keykeeper of the keys of the doors of the dreamadoory in the house of the household. Nobody will know or heed ghouls to nail. With such for a leary on acquired unification, pass on to diversity the instinct and when; back to the spirit.
after James Joyce
The Book of Constant the Shoemaker’s Son
Behind all is Occult Philosophy, source of the intellectual key of obscurities; Poesy to the music of the Lyre of Orpheus.
Adept Love the Word Incarnate; new hieroglyphs speak evoking thought of all possible conceptions.
Universal omnipresent antiquity glances the spiral page on the mantle of a troubled wilderness after the storm.
Take pause; here be monsters eating Almond Blossoms, a clutch of bones in the left—lamp and dagger.
The necessity of revealing; unblind and reform by Will and by Work, the infinite Hands reach.
Make a common idea of matter enjoys matter and this in/complete in/consistent instrument.
I, the eternal wanderer among the stars, a comet of all Nature trace a fractal light preserved in the impress of every logos.
after Eliphas Levi
We speak still of ‘sunrise’ and ‘sunset’. Vacant metaphors, eroded figures of speech, inhabit vocabulary and grammar, old ghosts in the attic. That which the poem is at liberty to explore and enact; to the end of illicit verbiage. In this imaginary community of counter-republic, the order of comment allowed is explicative and historically contextual. Interpretation is understanding in action, the immediacy of translation, simultaneously analytical and critical. The executant invests being in the process, answerable to the origin precisely because putting to eminent risk the stature, the fortunes of the work. Such regrouping and innovation is, par excellance, function and justification of structure (itself, interpretation) and composition (itself, criticism). The fantasy sketched is only that co-habitation of the living arts in the sense used by those who first describe rigorously the previously unknown or mistaken work. Semantic codes, of which language is at the foremost of the innocence of relations between word and world. There is in reach an infinity of willed and dreamt supposition (an act of will is a dream in daylight). One cannot, save metaphorically, ask in words of that which may lie before words. One can say any truth, any falsehood. In beginning there is the sentence, then the history of meaning. The underlying ‘logic’ is a Logos derivative and construct, too easily trusted. One cannot touch on the experiencing of art in personal and communal life without touching, simultaneously, on issues of the most compelling and perplexing orders. One can conceive of serious art persuading imaginings towards questions made inescapable by certain moments. Every day of liberation from inhumanity and servitude carries the name of hope (there is no word less deconstructible). Be patient, there is no waiting.
after George Steiner
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