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THE FOLLOWING is an attempt to systematise alike the data of mysticism and the
results of comparative religion.
The sceptic will applaud our labours, for that the very catholicity of the symbols
denies them any objective validity, since, in so many contradictions, something must
be false; while the mystic will rejoice equally that the self-same catholicity all-
embracing proves that very validity, since after all something must be true.
Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-
contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of
intellect which is madness in the ordinary man, genius in the Overman who hath
arrived to strike off more fetters from our understanding. The savage who cannot
conceive of the number six, the orthodox mathematician who cannot conceive of the
fourth dimension, the philosopher who cannot conceive of the Absolute—all these are
one; all must be impregnated with the Divine Essence of the Phallic Yod of
Macroprosopus, and give birth to their idea. True (we may agree with Balzac), the
Absolute recedes; we never grasp it; but in the travelling there is joy. Am I no better
than a staphylococcus because my ideas still crowd in chains?
But we digress.
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Magick: Book 4
CONTENTS
PRELIMINARY REMARKS . . . . . . 3
I. THE TEMPLE . . . . . . . . . 7
II. THE CIRCLE . . . . . . . . . 11
III. THE ALTAR . . . . . . . . . 19
IV. THE SCOURGE, THE DAGGER, AND THE CHAIN . 25
V. THE HOLY OIL . . . . . . . . 31
VI. THE WAND . . . . . . . . . 37
VII. THE CUP . . . . . . . . . 63
AN INTERLUDE . . . . . . . . 79
VIII. THE SWORD . . . . . . . . . 93
IX. THE PANTACLE . . . . . . . . 115
X. THE LAMP . . . . . . . . . 131
XI. THE CROWN . . . . . . . . . 137
XII. THE ROBE . . . . . . . . . 143
XIII. THE BOOK . . . . . . . . . 147
XIV. THE BELL . . . . . . . . . 153
XV. THE LAMEN . . . . . . . . . 157
XVI. THE MAGICK FIRE, WITH CONSIDERATIONS OF
THE THURIBLE, THE CHARCOAL, AND THE
INCENSE . . . . . . . . . 163
GLOSSARY . . . . . . . . . 173
NOTICE . . . . . . . . . . 181
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the goetia
PREFATORY NOTE
A.G.R.C. A.R.G.C
THIS translation of the First Book of the “Lemegeton” (now for the
first time made accessible to English adepts and students of the
Mysteries) was done, after careful collation and edition, from numer-
ous MSS. in Hebrew, Latin, French and English, by G. H. Fra. D.D.C.F.,
by the order of the Secret Chief of the Rosicrucian Order.1 The G. H.
Fra., having succumbed unhappily to the assaults of the Four Great
Princes (acting notably under Martial influences), it seemed expedient
that the work should be brought to its conclusion by another hand. The
investigations of a competent Skryer into the house of our unhappy Fra.,
confirmed this divination; neither our Fra. nor his Hermetic Mul. were
there seen; but only the terrible shapes of the evil Adepts S.V.A.2 and
H., whose original bodies having been sequestered by Justice, were no
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