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with peculiar symbols, hieroglyphic animals, or such figures as that of the Hermetic Arcanum , and pictures
like the Goldseekers and the Massacre of the Innocents of Basil Valentine. There is a unique quality about
the alchemical Plane which renders its images immediately recognizable.
There are also planes corresponding to various religions past and present, all of which have their peculiar unity.
It is of the utmost importance to the Clairvoyant or traveler in the fine body to be able to find his way to
any desired plane, and operate therein as its ruler.
The Neophyte of A. . A. . is examined most strictly in this practice before he is passed to the degree of
Zelator.
In Rising on the Planes one must usually pass clear through the Astral to the Spiritual. Some will be unable
to do this. The fine body which is good enough to subsist on lower planes, a shadow among shadows, will
fail to penetrate the higher strata. It requires a great development of this body, and an intense infusion of the
highest spiritual constituents of man, before he can pierce the veils. The constant practice of Magick is the best
preparation possible. Even though the human consciousness fail to reach the goal, the consciousness of the fine
body itself may do so, wherefore whoso travels in that body on a subsequent occasion may be found worthy;
and its success will react favourably on the human consciousness, and increase its likelihood of success in its
next magical operation.
Similarly, the powers gained in this way will strengthen the magician in his mediation-practices. His Will
becomes better able to assist the concentration, to destroy the mental images which disturb it, and to reject
the lesser rewards of that practice which tempt, and too often stop the progress of, the mystic.
Although it is said that the spiritual lies beyond the astral , this is theoretical;
The Hon. Bertrand Russell s Principia Mathematica may be said to lie beyond Colenso s School Arithmetic ;
but one can take the former book from one s shelves as every one should and read it without first going all
through the latter again.
the advanced Magician will not find it to be so in practice. He will be able by suitable invocation to travel
directly to any place desired. In Liber 418 an example of perfection is given. The Adept who explored these
Aethyrs did not have to pass through and beyond the Universe, the whole of which yet lies within even the
inmost (30th) Aethyr. He was able to summon the Aethyrs he wanted, and His chief difficulty was that
sometimes He was at first unable to pierce their veils. In fact, as the Book shows, it was only by virtue of
successive and most exalted initiations undergone in the Aethyrs themselves that He was able to penetrate
beyond the 15th. The Guardians of such fortresses know how to guard.
The MASTER THERION has published the most important practical magical secrets in the plainest language.
No one, by virtue of being clever or learned, has understood one word; and those unworthy who have
profaned the sacrament have but eaten and drunken damnation to themselves.
One may bring down stolen fire in a hollow tube from Heaven, as The MASTER THERION indeed has
done in a way that no other adept dared to do before him. But the thief, the Titan, must foreknow and consent
to his doom to be chained upon a lonely rock, the vulture devouring his liver, for a season, until Hercules, the
strong man armed by virtue of that very fire, shall come and release him.
The TEITAN
GR:Tau-Epsilon-Iota-Tau-Alpha-Nu = 300+5+10+300+1+50 = 666.
whose number is the number of a man, six hundred and three score and six unsubdued, consoled by Asia
and Panthea, must send forth constant showers of blessing not only upon Man whose incarnation he is, but
upon the tyrant and the persecutor. His infinite pain must thrill his heart with joy, since every pang is but the
echo of some new flame that leaps upon the earth lit by his crime.
For the Gods are the enemies of Man; it is Nature that Man must overcome ere he enter into his kingdom.
All elements must at one time have been separate, that would be the case with great heat. Now when
atoms get to the sun, when we get to the sun, we get that immense, extreme heat, and all the elements are
themselves again. Imagine that each atom of each element possesses the memory of all his adventures in
combination. By the way, that atom (fortified with that memory) would not be the same atom; yet it is,
because it has gained nothing from anywhere except this memory. Therefore, by the lapse of time, and by
virtue of memory, a thing could become something more than itself; and thus a real development is possible.
One can then see a reason for any element deciding to go through this series of incarnations; because so, and
only so, can he go; and he suffers the lapse of memory which he has during these incarnations, because he
knows he will come through unchanged.
Therefore you can have an infinite number of gods, individual and equal though diverse, each one supreme
and utterly indestructible. This is also the only explanation of how a being could create a war {WEH NOTE:
SIC, probably should be world } in which war, evil, etc. exist. Evil is only an appearance, because, (like
good ) it cannot affect the substance itself, but only multiply its combinations. This is something the same as
mystic monotheism, but the objection to that theory is that God has to create things which are all parts of
himself, so that their interplay is false. If we presuppose many elements, their interplay is natural. It is no
objection to this theory to ask who made the elements, the elements are at least there, and God, when you
look for him, is not there. Theism is obscurum per obscurius. A male star is built up from the centre
outwards; a female from the circumference inwards. This is what is meant when we say that woman has no
soul. It explains fully the difference between the sexes.>> The true God is man. In man are all things hidden.
Of these the Gods, Nature, Time, all the powers of the universe are rebellious slaves. It is these that men must
fight and conquer in the power and in the name of the Beast that hath availed them, the Titan, the Magus, the
Man whose number is six hundred and three score and six.
III
The practice of Rising on the Planes is of such importance that special attention must be paid to it. It is part of
the essential technique of Magick. Instruction in this practice has been given with such conciseness in Liber
O, that one cannot do better than quote verbatim (the previous experiment referred to in the first sentence
is the ordinary astral journey.):
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