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30:2 This reference, taken in connection with the matters proposed to be treated in the
seventh book, points conclusively to the intention of including the government of Evil
Spirits in the scheme of the Arbatel.
31:1 It should be observed that the mystical achievements are barely mentioned, and that
their attainment is imparted by a spirit possessing the office, which is conclusive, as I
need not point out, respecting the use of the term. The author of the Arbatel, however,
considers it good enough Mysticism, as does Eliphas Lévi, to cause oneself "to be
worshipped as a god," in virtue of the sigil of Och.
31:2 When his highest authorities disagree, the occult student is liable to get at the truth,
and will find occasionally that it is not at either end, nor yet in the middle. It is edifying
to compare p. 32 this express statement of a ruling ceremonial process with another, not
less express, which we owe to the reconstruction of all the processes and the reputed
recoverer of the true practice of Magic. "Furthermore, certain physical organisations are
better adapted than others for the revelations of the occult world; there are sensitive and
sympathetic natures, with whom intuition in the astral light is, so to speak, inborn; certain
afflictions and certain complaints can modify the nervous system, and, independently of
the concurrence of the will, may convert it into a divinatory apparatus of less or more
perfection; but these phenomena are exceptional, and generally magical power should,
and can be acquired by perseverance and labour."--"Doctrine and Ritual of Transcendent
Magic," by Éliphas Lévi, English translation by A. E. Waite, p. 196. In this case the
genius of enlightened differentiation rests entirely upon the later adept, As a matter of
fact, occult writers have always recognised that there is the Natural Magician and the
Magician according to Art. Vel sanctum invenit, vel sanctum facit--it has been said of
Magic, and so also magical knowledge means magical power; where it does not find it, it
brings it. I speak, of course, ex hypothesi. But such knowledge is not of Rituals or
Grimoires, of Arbatel or another, nor is the word Magic, nor is the process practical in
respect of an external procedure. That which is termed. Occultism is the art of desecrating
the inmost Sanctuary.
32:1 See Part ii. c. 6.
32:2 It should be understood that the characters of the so-called Olympic Spirits are, so to
speak, their official seals and are mot to be confused with the images attributed to the
planets, These were of various kinds in correspondence with the variety of influences and
were worn as talismans or charms.
34:1 This is merely a typical form subject to variations according to the spirit who is
evoked.
§ 2. Theosophia Pneumatica
In the year 1686, the Arbatel was translated into German, and in the same year--possibly
in the same volume-appeared, also in German, a work entitled The Little Keys of Solomon
or Theosophia Pneumatica. 1 There are no examples of these editions in the British