Anthony Testa - The Key of the Abyss.pdf

that I will love all things:
that I will perform all things and endure all things:
that I will continue in the Knowledge and Conversation of My Holy
Guardian Angel.
that I will work without attachment:
that I will work in truth:
that I will rely only upon myself:
that I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God
with my soul.
And if I fail herein, may my pyramid be profaned, and the Eye be
closed upon me!
Crowley informs us that
3. Should one rashly dare the passage, and take the irrevocable Oath
of the Abyss, he might be lost therein through Aeons of incalculable
agony; he might even be thrown back upon Chesed, with the terrible
Karma of failure added to his original imperfection.
4. It is even said that in certain circumstances it is possible to fall
altogether from the Tree of Life and to attain the Towers of the Black
Brothers. But We hold that this is not possible for any adept who has
truly attained his grade, or even for any man who has really sought to
help humanity even for a single second, and that although his
aspiration have been impure through vanity or any similar
imperfections.
5. Let then the Adept who finds the result of these meditations
unsatisfactory refuse the Oath of the Abyss, 132
(my emphasis)
Again we find the insistence that the adept that has attained his grade,
in spite of the dangers cannot fail, at least not utterly. The issue being,
as before, whether or not it is possible to obtain a false initiation.
Recalling that the Exempt Adept has obtained Knowledge and
Conversation with his angel in a previous grade (that is, prior to
Exempt Adept) it must be that the Adept did rightly complete that
grade or else he could not have reached Exempt Adept. The only other
possibility is that the Adept has obtained a series of false initiations,
which is, on its face, unlikely since, as we are told, initiation creates
132 Aleister Crowley, Liber Thisharb
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