LIBER HHH sub figura CCCXLI continet capitula tria: MMM, AAA et SSS

				I.

			       MMM.


'I remember a certain holy day in the dusk of the Year, in the dusk of the
 Equinox of Osiris, when first I beheld thee visibly; when first the dreadful 
 issue was fought out; when the Ibis-headed One charmed away the strife. I
 remember thy first kiss, even as a maiden should. Nor in the dark byways was 
 there another: thy kisses abide'

				- Liber Lapidis Lazuli VII.15.16

0. Be seated in thy Asana, wearing the robe of a Neophyte, the hood drawn.

1. It is night, heavy and hot, there are no stars. Not one breath of wind stirs
   the surface of the sea, that is thou. No fish play in the depths.

2. Let a Breath rise and ruffle the waters. This also thou shalt fell playing 
   upon thy skin. It will distract thy meditation twice or thrice, after which
   thou shouldst have conquered this distraction. But unless thou first feel
   it, that Breath has not arisen.

3. Next, the night is riven by the lightning flash. This also shalt thou feel
   in thy body, which shall shiver and leap with the shock, and that also 
   must both be suffered and overcome.

4. After the lightning flash, resteth in the zenith a minute point of light.
   And that light shalt radiate a right cone shall be established upon the sea,
   and it is day.
      With this, thy body shall be rigid, automatically, and this shalt thou
   let endure, withdrawing thyself in thine heart in the form of an upright
   Egg of Blackness(1), and therein shalt thou abide for a space.

5. When all this is perfectly and easily performed, let the aspirant 
   figure to himself a struggle with the whole force of the Universe. In this, 
   he is only saved by his minuteness, But in the end, he is overcome by Death
   who covers him with a black cross.
      Let his body fall supine with arms outstretched.

6. So lying, let him aspire fervently unto the Holy Guardian Angel.

7. Now let him resume his former posture.
      Two and twenty times shall he figure to himself that he is bitten by a
   serpent, feeling in his body the poison thereof and let each bite be healed
   by an eagle or a hawk, spreading its wings above his head and dropping 
   thereupon a healing dew. But let the last bite be so terrible a pang at
   the nape of the neck that he seemeth to die, and let the healing dew be of
   such virtue that he leapeth to his feet.

8. Let there be now placed within his egg a red cross, then a green cross, 
   then a golden cross, then a silver cross; or those things which there 
   shadow forth. Herein is silence; for he that hath rightly performed the
   meditation will understand the inner meaning hereof, and it shall serve
   as a test of himself and his fellows.

9. Let him now remain in the Pyramid or Cone of Light, as an Egg, but no more
   of Blackness.

10. Then let his body be in the position of the Hanged Man, and let him 
    aspire with all his force unto the Holy Guardian Angel.

11. The grace having been granted unto him, let him partake mystically of thre
    Eucharist of the Five Elements and let him proclaim Light in Extension;
    yea, let him proclaim Light in Extension.

(1) The Egg of Blackness or Akasha Tatva ( Element of the Void ) used to form 
    the basis of a meditation practise in the Golden Dawn. It is the Egg of 
    Spirit which surrounds the image of the contemplative.




				II.

			       AAA


'These loosen the swathings of the corpse; these unbind the feet of Osiris, so
 that the flaming God(2) may rage through the firmament with his fantastic 
 spear.'

				-Liber Lapidis Lazuli VII.III

0. Be seated in thine Asan, or recumbent in Shavasana, or in the position of
   the dying Buddha.

1. Think of thy death; imagine the various diseases that may attack thee, or
   accidents overtake thee. Picture the process of death, apllying always to
   thyself.

	( A useful preliminary practise is to read text-books of Pathology, 
    	  and to visit museums and dissecting-rooms. )

2. Continue this practise until death is complete; follow the corpse through 
   the stages of embalming, wrapping and burial.

3. Now imagine a divine breath entering thy nostrils.

4. Next, imagine a divine light entering the eyes.

5. Now, imagine the divine voice awakening the ears.

6. Now, imagine the divine kiss imprinted on the lips.

7. Next, imagine the divine energy informing the nerves and muscles of the 
   body, and concentrate on the phenomenon which will already have been
   observed in 3, the restoring of the circulation.

8. Last, imagine the return of the reproductive power, and employ this to
   the impregnation of the Egg of Light in which man is bathed.

9. Now represent to thyself that this Egg is the Disk of the Sun, setting in
   the West.

10. Let it sink into Blackness, borne in the bark of heaven, upon the back of
    the holy cow Hathor. And it may be that thou shalt hear the moaning 
    thereof.

11. Let it become blacker that all blackness. And in this meditation thou shalt
    be utterly without fear, for that the blackness that will appear unto thee 
    is a thing dreadful beyond all thy comprehension.

    And it shall come to pass that if thou hast well and properly performed
    this meditation that on a sudden thou shalt hear the drone and booming
    of a Beetle.

12. Now then shall the Blackness pass, and with rose and gold shalt thou 
    arise in the East, with the cry of a Hawk resounding in thine ear. Shrill
    shall it be and harsh.

13. At the end shalt thou rise and stand in the mid-heaven, a globe of glory.
    And therewith shall arise the mighty Sound that holy men have likened
    unto the roaring of a Lion.

14. Then shalt thou withdraw thyself from the Vision, gathering thyself into
    the divine form of Osiris upon his throne.

15. Then shalt thou repeat audibly the cry of triumph of the god re-arisen,
    as it shall have been given unto thee by thy Superior.

16. And this being accomplished, thou mayest enter again into the Vision,
    that thereby shall be perfected in Thee.

17. After this shalt thou return into the Body, and give thanks unto the
    Most High God IAIDA(3), yea unto the Most High God IAIDA.

18. Mark well that this operation should be performed if it be possible in a
    place set apart and consecrated to the Works of the Magick of Light. Also 
    that the Temple should be ceremonially open as thou hast knowledge and
    skill to perform, and that at the end thereof the closing should be most 
    carefully accomplished. But in the preliminary practise it is enough to
    cleanse thyself by ablution, by robing, and by the rituals of the 
    Pentagram and Hexagram.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

0-2 should be practised at first, until some realization is obtained; and the
practise should always be followed by a divine invocation of Apollo or of
Isis or fo Jupiter or of Serapis.

Next, after a swift summary of 0-2, practise 3-7.

This being mastered, add 8.

Then add 9-13.

Then being prepared and fortified, well fitted for the work, perform the whole
meditation at one time. And let this be continued until perfect success be 
attained therein. For this is a mighty meditation and holy, having power even
upon Death, yea, having power even upon Death.

( Note by Fra. O.M.(4). At any time during this meditation the concentration
  may bring about Samadhi. This is to be feared and shunned, more than any
  other breaking of control, for that it is the most tremendous of the forces
  which threaten to obsess. There is also some danger of acute melancholia 
  at point 1.)

(2) Horus
(3) An Enochian name for God. It appears in the Angelic Call or Keys of John
    Dee.
(4) Ou Mh or Crowley.


				III.

				SSS


'Thou art a beautiful thing, whiter than any woman in the column of this 
 vibration.
 
'I shoot up vertically like an arrow, and become that Above.

'But it is death, and the flame of my pyre.

'Ascend in the flame of my pyre, O my soul!

'Thy God is like the cold emptiness of the utmost heaven, into which thou
 radiatest thy little light.

'When Thou shalt know me, O empty God, my flame shall utterly expire in thy 
 great N.O.X.'

				- Liber Lapidis Lazuli. I.36-40

0. Be seated in thine Asana, preferably the Thunderbolt. It is essential the
   spine be vertical.

1. In this practise the cavity of the brain is the Yoni; the spinal cord
   is the Lingam.

2. Concentrate thy thought of adoration on the brain.

3. Now begin to awaken the spine in this manner, Concentrate thy thought of
   thyself in the base of the spine, and move it gradually up a little at a
   time. 

   By this means, thou wilt become coscious of the spine, feeling each 
   vertebra as a separate entity. This must be acheived most fully and 
   perfectly before the further practise is begun.

4. Next, adore the brain as before, but figure, to thyself its content as 
   infinite. Deem it to be the womb of Isis, or the body of Nuit.

5. Next, identify thyself with the base of the spine as before, but figure
   to thyself its energy as infinite. Deem it to be the phallus of Osiris or
   the being of Hadit.

6. These two concentrations 4 and 5 may be pushed to the point of Samadhi. Yet
    lose not control of the will; let not Samadhi be thy master herein.

7. Now then, being conscious both of the brain and the spine, and unconscious
   of all else, do thou imagine the hunger of the one for the emptiness of the
   brain, the ache of the spine, even as the emptiness of space and the 
   aimlessness of matter.

8. Let this agony grow until it be insupportable, resisting by will every 
   temptation. Not until thine whole body is bathed in sweat, or it may be in
   sweat of blood, and until a cry of intolerable anguish is forced from thy
   closed lips, shalt thou proceed.

9. Now let a current of light, deep azure flecked with scarlet, pass up and
   down the spine, striking as it were upon thyself that art coiled at the 
   base of the spine.

   Let this be exceedingly slow and subtle; and though it be accompanied 
   with pleasure, resisit; and though it be accompanied with pain, resist.

10. This shalt continue until thou art exhausted, never relaxing the control.
    Until thou canst perform this one section 9 during a whole hour, proceed
    not. And withdraw from the meditation by an act of will, passing into a 
    gentle Pranayama without Kumbhakham, and meditating on Harpocrates, the
    silent and virginal God.

11. Then, at last, being well-fitted in body and mind, fixed in peace, beneath
    a favourable heaven of starts, at night, in calm and warm weather,
    mayst thou quicken then movement of the light until it be taken up by
    the brain and the spine, independently of thy will.

12. If in this hour thou shouldst die, is it not written, 'Blessed are the
    dead that die in the Lord'? Yea, Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord!
