Magick: Liber AbaThis profusely illustrated new edition brings together the complete texts of all four parts of Liber ABA (Book 4) in one volume under the overall title 'magick' This edition incorporates Crowley's own additions, corrections and annotations, and restores dozen of passages omitted from the first editions.'Magick' is the fundamental textbool of modern magick in the New Eon. Ita also has invalualble teachings for studentes of Yoga and meditation.Crowley mastered the practices of Yoga during his studies in the East and writes about them lucidly, without recourse to the imprecise language of mysticism. Beginning with a discussion of the universal origin of world religions in mysticalrevelation, 'Magick' then explores the theory and practice of mysticism and magick in the light of modern scientific thought. |
Contents
Table of Figures | xv |
Abbreviations and Editorial Conventions | xxi |
Figure A The Tree of Life showing Crowleys | xxx |
Figure B Rose Edith Crowley | xxxvii |
Figure E Leila Waddell | xlvii |
Figure F Mary Desti and her son Preston Sturges circa 1905 1 | lxiii |
BOOK FOUR | 1 |
Preliminary Remarks | 7 |
XIII | 211 |
Part 1 Of the Oath | 226 |
Part 2 Of the Charge to the Spirit with Some Account of | 234 |
Of Clairvoyance and of the Body of Light its Powers and | 241 |
Of Dramatic Rituals | 265 |
Of Black Magic | 275 |
The Summons | 291 |
Liber AL vel Legis sub figura CCXX | 303 |
Asana | 15 |
A Good Position for Meditation | 17 |
Yama and Niyama | 22 |
Control of the Mind and the Power | 25 |
Dhyāna | 30 |
Samādhi | 37 |
MAGICK ELEMENTARY THEORY | 45 |
The Circle | 50 |
The Circle | 51 |
Design Suitable for Top of Altar | 57 |
The Scourge the Dagger and the Chain | 58 |
The Cup | 73 |
The Cakras | 76 |
An Interlude | 80 |
The Sword | 86 |
The Pantacle | 95 |
The Sigillum Dei Æmeth | 97 |
The Lamp | 102 |
The Bell | 109 |
MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE | 119 |
The Magical Theory of the Universe | 137 |
The Principles of Ritual | 144 |
The Formula of Tetragrammaton | 153 |
The Formula of the Neophyte | 166 |
Of Equilibrium | 181 |
IX | 187 |
XI | 201 |
AL Liber Legis The Book of the Law sub figura XXXI | 319 |
The Comment | 386 |
APPENDICES | 447 |
VII | 461 |
One Star in Sight | 486 |
Notes for an Astral Atlas | 499 |
Liber Samekh | 513 |
A Few of the Principal Correspondences of the Qabalah | 543 |
A Few Principal Rituals | 566 |
Liber E vel Exercitiorum sub figura IX | 604 |
Liber O vel Manus et Sagittæ sub figura VI | 613 |
Liber Astarté vel Berylli sub figura CLXXV | 627 |
Liber RV vel Spiritus sub figura CCVI | 638 |
Liber Thisharb vel Viæ Memoriæ sub figura CMXIII | 647 |
Liber B vel Magi sub figura I | 653 |
Liber Cheth vel Vallum Abiegni sub figura CLVI | 661 |
Liber Libræ sub figura XXX | 668 |
Liber Israfel sub figura LXIV | 675 |
Ritual 2To Have Any Knowledge | 684 |
Notes on the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram | 690 |
IV | 700 |
Glossary | 709 |
Indices | 718 |
791 | 750 |
813 | 759 |
Common terms and phrases
ABRAHADABRA Abyss Adept Æon Æthyr Aiwass Aiwaz Aleister Crowley Ankh-af-na-khonsu Appendix VII Astral attain BABALON Baphomet Beast body CCXX ceremony Chapter commentary consciousness Crowley's death dhyāna divine Earth edition elements Equinox Equinox I(10 FIGURE force formula Gods Goetia Grade Hadit hath Hebrew Hexagram Holy Guardian Angel Horus idea infra initiation instruction intelligence invocation invoke J. F. C. Fuller Kether letter Lévi Liber Legis Liber Samekh Light Lord magical Magician Magus Malkuth Mary Desti Master Therion meditation method mind mystical nature Nuit one's Order Osiris Pantacle Pentagram Plane practice published Qabalah Qabalistic Ra-Hoor-Khuit reference ritual samādhi Samekh secret Sephiroth shalt Solomon the King soul Spirit Star Stèle Stèle of Revealing student sub figura Sword symbols Tarot Temple Thee Thelema theory thine things thou thought tion Tiphareth true Truth typescript Universe unto verse Wand whole word writing Yoga