Javid Denkins's Profile

Every Change has its own conditions.

(Illustrations:

"Every man and every woman is a star."

A man whose conscious will is at odds with his True Will is wasting his strength. 
He cannot hope to influence his environment efficiently.

The first principle of success in evolution is that the individual
should be true to his own nature, and at the same time adapt himself to his environment.

Nature is a continuous phenomenon

Illustration:

11. Science

We do not know what consciousness is, or how it is connected with muscular
action

our methods depend on calculations involving mathematical
ideas which have no correspondence in the Universe as we know it.

Man is ignorant of the nature of his own being and powers. 

A similar order may be assumed to extend throughout nature.

He may thus subjugate the whole Universe of which he is conscious
to his individual Will.

the power of my
thought may so work on the mind of another person as to produce far-
reaching physical changes in him, or in others through him.

He may attract to himself any force of the Universe by making
himself a fit receptacle for it, establishing a connection with it,
and arranging conditions so that its nature compels it to flow toward
him.

A popular leader is most successful when he forgets
himself, and remembers only "The Cause."  Self-seeking engenders
jealousies and schism. 

When a man falls in love, the whole world becomes,
to him, nothing but love boundless and immanent;

He can only extend to others the effect which his love has had upon himself
by means of his mental and physical qualities.

Hertz's discovery of the rays which we now use for wireless telegraphy was sterile
until reflected through the minds and wills of the people who could take his truth,
and transmit it to the world of action by means of mechanical and economic instruments.

A poet, however sublime, must impose himself upon
his generation if he is to enjoy (and even to understand) himself, as
theoretically should be the case.

23. Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. 
It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.

25. E

(Illustration:

if he is in
his proper path, it is the fault of others if they interfere with
him.

for each star

that is what
I have to say when serious analysis is on the agenda.

this is one of these cases—
we are likely to encounter many such in the course of our researches—in
which we understand, quite well enough for all practical purposes, what we mean,
but which elude us more and more successfully the more accurately we struggle to
define their import.

the general
method of Qabalistic research and construction

I am making a point of this, because the working out of this motto
should give you a very clear idea of the sort of way in which Qabalah should
be used.  I think it is rather useful to remember what the essence of the
Qabalah is in principle

avoid taking the correspondences
given in the books of reference without thinking out why they are so given

Never let your
mind wander from the fact that your Qabalah is not my Qabalah; a good
many of the things which I have noted may be useful to you, but you must
construct your own system so that it is a living weapon in your hand.

The Ruach contains both the moral and intellectual worlds, which is
really all that we mean by the conscious mind; perhaps it even includes
certain portions of the subconscious.

Neophyte to that of Zelator

is to obtain admission to, and control
of, the astral plane.

a progress of Osiris through Amennti on
the Tree of Life

Eight limbs of Yoga

Numbers are the network of
the structure of the Universe, and their relations the form of expression of our Understanding
of it.

the Pentagram Ritual

the numerical value of the letters of the Greek
alphabet

there is meaning much
deeper than the contrast between the Will with a capital W, and desire, want, or velleity

One is most rigidly bound by the causal chain that
has dragged one to where one is; but it is one's own self that has forged the links.

Hence, even to be aware that there is a result in
prospect must militate against that serenity of spirit which is the essence of self-confidence.
As you will know, all our automatic physiological functions are deranged if one is aware of
  This then, is the difficulty, to enjoy consciously while not disturbing the process
involved.

"Remember all ye that existence
is pure joy; ..."

Yours, luckily,
is the former trouble

Dharana

supersensible (what a word! Meaning?)

do you mean "not
in normal circumstances to be apprehended by the senses?"  I suppose so.

Every name is a number: and "Every number is infinite; there is no difference."
(AL I, 4). 

the Qabalah is so handy and congenial

he Egyptian
Theogony is the noblest, the most truly magical,

Taphthartharath

The Qabalah, properly understood, properly treated,
is so universal that one can vamp up a ritual to suit almost "any name and form." 
But in such a case one may expect to have to reinforce it by a certain amount of historical,
literary, or philosophic study—and research.

Don't get surfeited
with knowledge, above all things; it is so very fascinating, so dreadfully easy; and the danger of
becoming a pedant—"Deuce take all your pedants! say I."

Magick pp. 378-9.

An ounce of your practice is worth a ton of my teaching.  GET THAT. 

I am sure that Solomon was too good a poet, and too experienced a Guru, to tail off with the
anticlimax "wise."

Minerval. 

The Book of Thoth 

Skeat's Etymological
Dictionary.

, 1996

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