The Temple of Solomon the King
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING A A Publication in Class B Issued by Order : D.D.S. 7° = 4° Præmonstrator O.S.V. 6° = 5° Imperator N.S.F. 5° = 6° Cancellarius Book II, continued THE SORCERER BEFORE we can discuss the Operation of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin, commenced by P. in the autumn of 1899, it is first necessary that we should briefly explain the meaning and value of Ceremonial Magic; and secondly, by somewhat retracing our footsteps, disclose to the reader the various methods and workings P. had undertaken before he set out to accomplish this supreme one. For over a year now he had been living perdu in the heart of London, strenuously applying himself to the various branches of secret knowledge that his initiations in the Order of the Golden Dawn had dis- closed to him. Up to the present we have only dealt with these initiations, and his methods of Travelling in the Spirit Vision, and Rising on the Planes; but there still remain to be shown the Ceremonial methods he adopted; however, before we enter upon these, we must return to our first point, namely—the mean- ing and value of Ceremonial Magic. Ceremonial Magic, as a means to attainment, has in common with all other methods, Western or Eastern, one supreme object in view—identification with the Godhead; and it matters not if the Aspirant be Theist or Atheist, Pantheist or Auto-theist, Christian or Jew, or whether he name the goal of his at- tainment God, Zeus, Christ, Matter, Nature, Spirit, Heaven, Reason, Nirvana, Asgard, No-Thing or No- God, so long as he has a goal in view, and a goal he is striving to attain.
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