The Tree of Life : A Study in Magic - Global Grey
The Tree of Life : A Study in Magic - Global Grey
The Tree of Life : A Study in Magic - Global Grey
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CONTENTS<br />
Is there a connection between <strong>Magic</strong> and Spiritualism ? A great<br />
gulf between them. <strong>The</strong> Will is the guide <strong>of</strong> the <strong>The</strong>urgist.<br />
Medium is a negative <strong>in</strong>strument. <strong>Magic</strong>al theories concern<strong>in</strong>g<br />
death. What happens when body dies. Qliphotic obsession.<br />
Astral shells are the spiritualistic "spirits." Why mediums resort<br />
to fraud. <strong>The</strong>ir physical phenomena. How a s<strong>in</strong>cere medium may<br />
utilize the magical technique. What is Black <strong>Magic</strong>. Operations<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>visibility and transformation. Evocation <strong>of</strong> tattvic forces.<br />
Necromancy and vanity. Further <strong>in</strong>struction on Astral technique.<br />
How to employ Pentagram and Rose-cross symbols. Angelic<br />
guardians <strong>of</strong> the Pylons. Ref<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g the Body <strong>of</strong> Light. Harpocrates<br />
formula. Porphyry on Ris<strong>in</strong>g on the Planes. <strong>The</strong> Eucharist. <strong>The</strong><br />
Road to A<strong>in</strong> Soph.<br />
Intention to make this outl<strong>in</strong>e <strong>of</strong> <strong>Magic</strong> clear. An exception to<br />
be made. A secret method <strong>of</strong> work<strong>in</strong>g. <strong>The</strong> Mass <strong>of</strong> the Holy<br />
Ghost. Tetragrammaton and alchemical symbolism. It is the<br />
qu<strong>in</strong>tessence <strong>of</strong> all techniques <strong>of</strong> <strong>Magic</strong>. <strong>The</strong> Elixir <strong>of</strong> <strong>Life</strong> and<br />
talismanic consecration. How to employ this Mass together with<br />
Ceremonial.<br />
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN . . . . . . . . 256<br />
An enquiry <strong>in</strong>to Ritual. <strong>The</strong> various aspects <strong>of</strong> ceremonial<br />
<strong>in</strong>vocation. Its eight dist<strong>in</strong>ct phases. Several examples <strong>of</strong> each<br />
type <strong>of</strong> <strong>in</strong>vocation from Egyptian, Qabalistic, Rosicrucian, Gnostic,<br />
Greek, Enochian, and poetic sources.<br />
TAHUTI-THE PATRON<br />
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS<br />
. . . .<br />
PAGE<br />
OF MAGIC . Frontispiecs<br />
PAGE<br />
THE TREE OF LIFE . . . . . . . 54<br />
HATHOR . . . . . . . . . . fac<strong>in</strong>g 96<br />
. . . . . . . . .<br />
A MAGICAL CIRCLE I13<br />
FOUR TATTVA SYMBOLS . . .<br />
. . . . . . . .<br />
fac<strong>in</strong>g 128<br />
THE PENTAGRAM SIGIL 168<br />
Ho~us . . . . . . 1 8 4<br />
CIRCLE AND TRIANGLE . . . 213<br />
THE HEXAGRAM OF SOLOMON . . faciug 216<br />
HARPOCRATES ON THE LOTUS . . . . . . . .<br />
244
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