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10/14/1976 - Magick by Kenneth Cavander

INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS KC MAGICK Mayfair Lane Westport Connecticut 06880 Mr Richard H Nolte Institute Current World October Affairs Fifth Avenue New York NY i0017 Dear Mr Nolte Since exertions PARADISE LOST I working completion scripts couple projects which grown years research One these traditional which PARADISE LOST corporates ideas ceremonies rituals discussed these newsletters The story together theme touched fascination exercised magus archetypal figure emerged fifty years character In first quarter century people G I Gurdjieff Rudolph Steiner Madame Blavatsky their spells people Europe In Oscar Ichazo ARICA Castaneda D Juan Reverend Moon others I caNreproduce entire quotes misleading cumbersome explain But course reading background script other I doing I across strange corners world I exploring The author highlight problems writers dealing those claim secret kinds unusual powers The called MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE published twenties Its author Aleister Crowley known eccentric Englishman middle classes father brewer modest fortune became interested occult 1880s while undergraduate Cambridge University Kenneth Cavander Institute Fellow exploring theatrical present mythologies capacities transformation By 1890s Crowley already initiated alter drugs established reputation brilliant dangerous dabbler things occult He wrote published voluminously briefly member esoteric group called The Golden Dawn while W B Yeats member became subject Somerset Maugham novel The Magician By early 1920s moved Sicily established occult commune there After scandal involving bizarre macabre magico sexual practices which earned title wickedest world British press Crowley expelled Sicily Mussolini government after another fifteen years wandering ended hotel Brighton Sussex Crowley career mixture farce horror grotesquerie inspired insights schoolboy extravagances In years there revival interest usually worst reasons remains ironically warni figure would flirt occult There character modeled exclusively Crowley working script impossible ignore because embodies vivid century struggle terms conflict impulses learned label mystical versus materialistic orreason versus Dionysiac pragmatic versus transcendental striving And there It Magick Theorv Practice Crowley spelling distinguish version conjtrers other lesser mortals describes lucidly results experimentsin since overlaps though totally different starting point I thought might interested first acquaintance What experience Crowley obsessed emblematic feelings stirred contact things occult mystical irrational I answer these questions talking About certain passages Magick Even Crowley style important betrays inner conflict which I found Here Crowley invocation spirits Now order invoke being Hermes Trismegistus employ three methods The first vulgar supplication In crude objective theory assumed There named A B proceed petition exactly sense might father pocket money Then describe other methods concluding The magician Behold I yesterday today brother tomorrow The Magician should imagine hearing voice echoing himself This thought should exalt conclusion utter sublime words third Behold He I At moment loses consciousness mortal being mental image which previously This authentic Crowley strange irritating amalgam overbearing inflated style snatches colloquial hmmdrum examples buried somewhere grain common sense For talking about process familiar actor Whether Greek tragedian putting Dionysos Hera Agamemnon Balinese villager assumes persona wicked witch Rangda transfixes fellow villagers spell indeed contemporary performer holds audience spellbound carrying magical formula invocation according Crowley definition And achieve Crowley interesting counterpart theory sense memory follows He became Mater Therion Crowley himself decided teach The Next Step thing which immediately above He might called God Higher Self Adi Buddha other things discovered these contained theory Universe which would ultimately shattered criticism already passed through realm Reason every statement contained Absurdity With understanding rehabilitate Hebrew system invocations The great enemy invoking enthusiastically person exist rebuking Non sense memory Is Crowley being perversely paradoxical speaking experience From little ancient mysteries seems central closely guarded secrets phrase image action something ordinary everyday simple sound connotative meaning these symbols their stical value inthe context ceremony emotional atmosphere created which transformed everyday magical Crowley makes similar point chapter secrecy It found experience confirming statement Zoroaster potent conjurations those ancient perhaps forgotten language those couched corrupt possibly always meaningless jargon The peculiar mental excitement required aroused perception absurdity process persistence Frater Perdurabo another Crowley himself recited From Greenland Icy Mountains obtained result Crowley writing slightly mocking experience which I noticed recurring forms forbidden territory mythic images magical spells dream world unconscious Feeling ridiculous Exorcising laughter W ithdrawing several steps Putting everything level reassuringly normal And other I noticed people becoming comfortable further sense understood exercises ceremonies stories whatever Is uneasiness tribute power these forces admission their power Crowley people divided He seems always rephrase experience terms spectable audience sceptics Here talking voice about talismans To invoke raise yourself godhead process threefold PURIFICATION CONSECRATION INITIATION Therefore everymagical weapon furniture Temple passed through threefold regimen To whole matter phrase every article employed treated candidate initiation attitude magician weapons should God suppliant invokes It should father child tenderness bridegroom bride peculiar feeling which creator every feels masterpiece In sense different theatrical props production teacups Noel Coward comedy traps Agamemnon Oresteia objects reality But Crowley seems trying something thinking about talismans creditingwith power change world depending amount psychic investment Consider following written totally different style first passage I quoted Now there great talismans world which being lying about reprehensibly careless manner Such objects popular adoration ikons idols But actually great magical locked things consequently destroying these sacred symbols overcome magically people adore With widely spread devotedly worshipped talisman money evidently break magical worshipper money taking money destroying value other But money general experience tells there little lying about loose The tongue cheek adopts masks philosophical question change world Does answer programs policies affect people material level change through revaluation shift emphasis attachment worldly goods another The New Yorker couple weeks brought similar point relation Carter campaign The article began comment which reporting campaigns begun concentrate public relations efforts candidates staffs rather candidates themselves their ideas Accordingly New Yorker public relations experts covert existence hiding Not together vision television themselves announce which images propose forward which propose erase True And through manipulation these images decision about govern power country world Not public relations experts politicians working control magical power images incantations party John F Kennedy spells spender spender artists magicians after prize Crowley intuitively understood understood danger letting genie bottle tapping power source That writing control these forces Consciously concern control comes elaborate directions stage directions sometimes ritual objects props ceremony Let first knock asserts connection between magician object which strikes Thus hands means magician wishes impress atmosphere about He wishes formulate sound radiate every direction influence which lives breath sense purpose summon witness The hands symbols executive power represent consciousness exalted music To strike utter creation Will Influence Summon Executive power Fiat These words reveal scientist Crowley He wanted treat material world extens psyche available emotions other people On other undertake seriousness sincerity leaves magician vulnerable kinds unforeseeable results explosions laboratory So unconsciously I believe Crowley resorted humor version Laughter literally medicine Every magician should study Holy Qabalah Once principles Solvitur ambulando which Call ambulance The jokes cringe necessary antidote satanic snakebite Crowley aware psychoanalytic aspect after contemporary Freud One interesting theories certainly point artist concerns magical record Verily better magical ceremony writing accurate record Then another jokes Even eaten alive Malkah Tarshishim Ruachoth Schehalim doesn matter quickly But record transaction otherwise important Nobody cares about Duncan having murder Macbeth But Shakespeares account incident unique treasure mankind There something wrong reasoning instinctive impulse correct For saying record experience creation transf6rmation illumination Of Later passage pungent From point magical progress actually consists deciphering record If auditor investigate business books thought worth while surprised thinks every These newsletters sense record So ploration patient dreams therapy So artist creative process Crowley investigation magick beyond dilettantish vaporings occultists He treaed seriously And treating seriously The psychic world sought mobilize world revolution volatile mysterious methods confronted honestly makes interesting We middle political campaign which disinspired enormous numbers people For first since I D S I heard refusal positive moral choice The image makers symbol weilders found formula spell conjuration transfix immune Nevertheless still magus teach secrets become masters world That I interested writing about person entourage If Crowley ritual which adapted theatre exercise The magical names Gods Egypt images associated should memorised Then paint carefully memory Sit position God invoke Imagine representation God coinciding enveloping This practised until mastery image attained identity God experienced As further means identifying consciousness portion itself which calls God Stand outstretched Breathe deeply through nostrils imagining God desired entering breath Let descend slowly lungs heart solar plexus navel generative organs The moment appears touch quickly advance about inches throw forward hands drawn shoot standing typical position God Horus imagine Name rushing through while breathe through nostrils which retained lungs All force which capable Then withdraw place right forefinger characteristic God Harpocrates If single vibration completely exhausts physcial strength performed above correctly It should cause magician spire violently should weaken difficult remain standing It success though student himself perceived hears God vehemently roared forth ncourse thousand thunders It should appear Great Voice proceeded Universe itself In above practices consciousness anything God should blotted And longer takes normal perception return better Good Sincerely Kenneth Cavander Received New York October