{"collection":"Ordo Templi Orientis","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/oto/aba/chap11.htm","path":"oto/aba/chap11.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/oto/aba/chap11.htm","text":"We will here assume that the magician has succeeded in developing his Body of Light until it is able to go anywhere and do anything. There will, however, be a certain limitation to his work, because he has formed his magical body from the fine matter of his own element. Therefore, although he may be able to penetrate the utmost recesses of the heavens, or conduct vigorous combats with the most unpronounceable demons of the pit, it may be impossible for him to do as much as knock a vase from a mantelpiece. His magical body is composed of matter too tenuous to affect directly the gross matter of which illusions such as tables and chairs are made.\nThe one really easy \"physical\" operation which the Body of Light \n can perform is \"Congressus subtilis\". The emanations of the \"Body of Desire\" \n of the material being whom one visits are, if the visit be agreeable, so potent \n that one spontaneously gains substance in the embrace. There are many cases \n on record of Children having been born as the result of such unions. See the \n work of De Sinistrari on Incubi and Succubi for a discussion of analogous phenomena.\nThe Book of the Dead contains many chapters intended to enable the magical entity of a man who is dead, and so deprived (according to the theory of death then current) of the material vehicle for executing his will, to take on the form of certain animals, such as a golden hawk or a crocodile, and in such form to go about the earth \"taking his pleasure among the living.\"\nSee \"The Book of Lies\" Cap. 44, and The Collected Works of Aleister \n Crowley, Vol. III, pp. 209-210, where occur paraphrased translations of certain \n classical Egyptian rituals.\nWe need not, however, consider this question of death. It may often be convenient for the living to go about the world in some such incognito. Now, then, conceive of this magical body as creative force, seeking manifestation; as a God, seeking incarnation.\nThere are two ways by which this aim may be effected. The first method is to build up an appropriate body from its elements. This is, generally speaking, a very hard thing to do, because the physical constitution of any material being with much power is, or at least should be, the outcome of ages of evolution. However, there is a lawful method of producing an homunculus which is taught in a certain secret organization, perhaps known to some of those who may read this, which could very readily be adapted to some such purpose as we are now discussing.\nThe second method sounds very easy and amusing. You take some organism already existing, which happens to be suitable to your purpose. You drive out the magical being which inhabits it, and take possession. To do this by force is neither easy nor justifiable, because the magical being of the other was incarnated in accordance with its Will. And \"... thou hast no right but to do thy will.\" One should hardly strain this sentence to make one's own will include the will to upset somebody else's will!\nYet it might happen that the Will of the other being was to invite \n the Magician to indwell its instrument.\nBut there is no call for all this frightfulness. There is no need to knock the girl down, unless she refuses to do what you want, and she will always comply if you say a few nice things to her.\nEspecially on the subject of the Wand or the Disk.\nThis is the magical aspect of eating animal food, and its justification, \n or rather the reconciliation of the apparent contradiction between the carnivorous \n and humanitarian elements in the nature of \"Homo Sapiens\".\nIt is not necessary to say much more than this concerning transformations. Those to whom the subject naturally appeals will readily understand the importance of what has been said. Those who are otherwise inclined may reflect that a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.","title":"Magick in Theory and Practice - Chapter 11","type":"page"}