Table of Correspondences
Alternative + English Names | Understanding, The Great Sea |
Astrological Correspondence | The Sphere of Saturn |
Number | 3 |
Elemental Attribution | Root of Water |
Tarot | 3s and Queens |
Intelligence (Sepher Yetzirah) | Sanctifying Intelligence / Sanctified Consciousness |
Name of God | YHVH Elohim |
Egpyptian Pantheon (primary attribution) | Nephthys |
Egptian Pantheon (selection) | Maut, Isis |
Greek Pantheon | Cybele, Demeter, Rhea, Here |
Scandinavian Pantheon | Frigga |
Hindu Pantheon | Bhavani, Shakti, Yoni |
Roman pantheon | Juno, Cybele, Saturn, Hecate |
Daoism | Kwan-se-on, The Yin, Khwan |
Buddhist Object of Meditation | Compassion |
Buddhist 10 Fetters | Ruparaga |
Alchemy | Lead, Antimony |
Chakkra | Visuddhi |
Part of Soul (west) | Intuition |
Part of Soul (Hindu) | Higher Manas |
Part of Soul (Egypt) | Ba or Baie |
Transcendental Morality | Silence |
Magical Attainment (western) | The Vision of Sorrow |
Magical Weapons and Symbols | Cup, Cloak, Yoni, The Outer Robe of Concealment |
Magical Image | Any Female Diety shows some aspect |
Physical Ailment | Dementia, Amnesia |
10 Plagues of Egypt | Darkness |
Heaven of Assiah | Shabbathai (ShBThAY) The Restful |
Heaven of Yetzirah | (As Trinity) Araboth (ORBVTh) The Plains |
Palace in Briah | (as Trinity) |
Archangel | Tzaphqiel (TzPQYAL) The Watchtower of God |
Choras of Angels | Aralim (ARALYM) The Strong Ones / Thrones |
Precious Stones | Star Sapphire, Pearl, Onyx |
Botanical Attributions | Cypress, Lily, Alder Tree, Comfrey herb |
Animals | Woman, Whale |
Vegetable Drug | Belladonna |
Perfume | Myrrh, Civet |
The path of the sword is the Way of Manifestation; it is the path of magick, ritual and religion, which seeks to draw down the power of the divine and to manifest it upon the earth. The ultimate goal of the Way of the Sword is, perhaps, best expressed in the descent of the New Jerusalem at the end of the biblical book of revelations – the perfection of material existence. On the Path of the Sword the aspirant does not seek to escape from the suffering of the world and attain entrance to an immaterial heaven, but rather to create heaven on earth.
All morality and esoteric religion belong to the Way of the Sword, as their aim is to manifest and ideal, or to manifest the characteristics of some God-Form on earth through the obedience and devotion of worshipers. Magick, in this sense, does not describe a specifically supernatural event, but rather the art of ‘causing change to occur in conformity with the Will’; this Will being the higher nature of the operator, and not simply whims and egotistical desires. ‘Pure Will, un-assuaged in the lust for results, is in every way perfect’. The purpose of Magick is the material expression of the higher nature of humanity.
The Way of the Sword is in many ways a masculine path (in reference to the divine masculine present in both men and women), concerning itself largely with works of dominion.
Introduction to Ritual
Introduction to Ritual
- Banishing
- The Kabalistic Cross
- Invocation of the Highest
- statement of intent
- Invocation of specific godform, elemental force, angel, or whatever
- The main working designed to fulfill specific purpose (such as concecration of a talisman
- Statement of end of ritual and release of powers invoked
- Banishing
The Classification of Magick
In order to identify the different categories that magickal practices may fall into we must first answer the broader question|: What is magick? Aleister Crowley defined magick as "the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the will", but as he goes on to say "in common parlance the word magic has been used to mean the kind of science which ordinary people do not understand", meaning, of course, the science of things which ordinary thinking says do not belong to the natural order i.e. the 'supernatural'.
The classic example of the law of resonance, and indeed of sympatheitc magick in general, is the use of the 'voodoo doll' (which in its popular form actually originates from northern european witchcraft and not the african religion of voodoun).
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