LIBER OS ABYSMI
1. This book is the Gate of the Secret of the Universe.
2. Let the Exempt Adept procure The Prolegomena of
Kant, and study it, paying special attention to the
Antinomies.
3. Also Hume's doctrine of Causality in his Enquiry.
4. Also Herbert Spencer's discussion of the three
theories of the Universe in his First Principles, Part 1.
5. Also Huxley's essays on Hume and Berkley.
6. Also Crowley's Essays: Berashith, Time, The Soldier
and the Hunchback, et cetera.
7. Also the Logik of Hegel.
8. Also the Questions of King Melinda and Buddhist
Suttas which bear on Metaphysic.
9. Let him also be accomplished in Logic. (Formal
Logic, Keynes.) Further let him study any classical works
to which his attention may be sufficiently directed in the
course of his reading.
10. Now let him consider special problems, such as the
Origin of the World, the Origin of Evil, Infinity, the
Absolute, the Ego and the non-Ego, Freewill and Destiny,
and such others as may attract him.
11. Let him subtly and exactly demonstrate the fallacies
of every known solution, and let him seek a true solution
by his right Ingenium.
12. In all this let him be guided only by clear reason,
and let him forcibly suppress all other qualities such as
Intuition, Aspiration, Emotion, and the like.
13. During these practices all forms of Magick Art and
Meditation are forbidden to him. It is forbidden to him
to seek any refuge from his intellect.
14. Let then his reason hurl itself again and again
against the blank wall of mystery which will confront him.
15. Thus also following is it said, and we deny it not.
At last automatically his reason will take up the
practice, sua^ sponte, and he shall have no rest therefrom.
16. Then will all phenomena which present themselves
to him appear meaningless and disconnected, and his own
Ego will break up into a series of impressions having no
relation one with the other, or with any other thing.
17. Let this state then become so acute that it is in
truth Insanity, and let this continue until exhaustion.
18. According to a certain deeper tendency of the
individual will be the duration of this state.
19. It may end in real insanity, which concludes the
activities of the Adept during his present life, or by his
rebirth into his own body and mind with the simplicity
of a little child.
20. And then shall he find all his faculties unimpaired,
yet cleansed in a manner ineffable.
21. And he shall recall the simplicity of the Task of the
Adeptus Minor, and apply himself thereto with fresh
energy in a more direct manner.
22. And in his great weakness it may be that for
awhile the new Will and Aspiration are not puissant, yet
being undisturbed by those dead weeds of doubt and
reason which he hath uprooted, they grow imperceptibly
and easily like a flower.
23. And with the reappearance of the Holy Guardian
Angel he may be granted the highest attainments, and be
truly fitted for the full experience of the destruction of the
Universe. And by the Universe We mean not that petty
Universe which the mind of man can conceive, but that
which is revealed to his soul in the Samadhi of Atma-
darshana.
24. Thence may he enter into a real communion with
those that are beyond, and he shall be competent to
receive communication and instruction from Ourselves
directly.
25. Thus shall We prepare him for the Confrontation
of Choronzon and the Ordeal of the Abyss, when we have
received him into the City of the Pyramids.
26. So, being of Us, let the Master of the Temple
accomplish that Work which is appointed.
(In Liber CDXVIII is an adequate account of this
Ordeal and Reception. See also Liber CLVI for the
preparation.)
27. Also concerning the Reward thereof, of his entering
into the Palace of the King's Daughter, and of the Master
of the Temple. Hath he not attained to Understanding?
Yea, verily, hath he not attained to Understanding?
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