Applied Magic.pdf

APPLIED MAGIC

DION FORTUNE

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Thorsons

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Hammersmith, London W6 8JB

This edition first published by The Aquarian Press 1987

Published by Thorsons 1995

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A catalogue record for this book is

available from the British Library

ISBN 0 85030 665 5

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Contents

PART ONE: APPLIED MAGIC

1. The Occult Way

2. Some Practical Applications of Occultism

3. The Group Mind

4. The Psychology of Ritual

5. The Circuit of Force

6. The Three Kinds of Reality

7. Non-humans

8. Black Magic

9. A Magical Body

10 The Occult Field Today

11 Esoteric Glossary

1. The Occult Way

The Mystic Way that leads to Divine Union is so well known that it

is often forgotten that there is another Path, seemingly totally different

in route that leads in the end to the same goal. We are so accustomed

to hear the renunciation of the world and the abnegation of the self set

up as the only true Path of the sould which seeks the Highest, that we

hardly dare whisper that there may be another Path—the Path of the

mastery of manifested existence and the apotheosis of the self.

There are two ways in which God can be worshipped; we can worship

Him in unmanifested Essence, or we can worship Him in His manifested

form. Both ways are legitimate, provided that in worshipping the

manifested form we do not forget the Essence, and in worshipping the

Essence we do not confuse it with the manifested form, for these things

are the sin of idolatry, which consists in a wrongly-placed emphasis.

The mystic seeks to worship God in essence But the essence or root

of God, being unmanifest, eludes human consciousness. The mystic,

then, in order to conceive the object of his worship, has to transcend

normal human consciousness. It is not possible to know the inmost

nature of a state of existence unless we can enter into it and share, in

some measure at least, its experience The Mystic, then, has for his task

the freeing of his consciousness from its habitual bondage to form. It

is to this end that the ascetic discipline is directed, killing out the lower

in order that the higher may be set free to unite with God and thereby

know Him. The Way of the Mystic is a way of renunciation till he breaks

all the limitations of his lower nature and enters into his freedom; nothing

then remains that can withhold him from God, and his soul flies upwards

to enter the Light and return not again.

But the other Path is not a way of Renunciation, but a Way of Fulfilment;

it is not a breaking away from the path of human destiny, but a

concentration and sublimation of that destiny. Each soul which takes

that Path lives through its own experience every phase and aspect of

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