Techniques of High Magic: A Manual of Self-Initiation

«When, however, the present-day occultist talks about magic he means something similar to, but by no means identical with, what an anthropologist is referring to when he writes of 'the magic of primitive peoples'.» — los autores separan su uso del término del que le da la antropología: parecido, dicen, pero no idéntico

«For the purposes of this book, then, the word magic is primarily used in the same sense that it is defined by the overwhelming majority of contemporary magical practitioners 'the art and science of using little known natural forces in order to achieve changes in consciousness and the physical environment'.» — la definición primaria que adoptan, y de la que declaran la procedencia: es la que dan, según ellos, la abrumadora mayoría de los practicantes contemporáneos

«We also use the word magic in a secondary sense as meaning the entire body of doctrines and techniques concerning the conjuration, nature and power of angels, spirits, demons and other non-human entities; the manufacture and consecration of wands, swords, and other instruments used by magicians in the performance of their art; ritual divination by such methods as geomancy; the manufacture and consecration of talismans; and the exploration of universes other than that with which we are familiar.» — el segundo sentido, más ancho, con el que enumeran de una vez el contenido del manual

«There are many schools of magic in existence today, but many of them ultimately derive from the same source (1) and almost all of them share the same four fundamental theoretical assumptions:» — la premisa de unidad con que arrancan: muchas escuelas, dicen, pero derivadas de una misma fuente y con cuatro supuestos comunes

«1. That the universe of the physical scientist is only a part, and by no means the most important part, of total reality.» — el primer axioma, tal como lo enuncian

«2. That human will-power is a real force, capable of being trained and concentrated, and that the disciplined will is capable of changing its environment and producing supernormal effects.» — el segundo axioma: la voluntad como fuerza entrenable

«3. That this will-power must be directed by the imagination. 4. That the universe is not a mixture of chance factors» — el tercer axioma, que enuncian en una línea, y el arranque del cuarto

«4. That the universe is not a mixture of chance factors and influences but an ordered system of correspondences, and that the understanding of the pattern of correspondences enables the occultist to use them for his own purposes, good or ill.» — el cuarto axioma, el de las correspondencias, con el uso que le atribuyen: para bien o para mal, sin distinguir

«The first of these basic axioms, that which affirms the physical world to be only one component part of total reality, must not be understood as a denial of the existence of matter.» — la acotación que ponen al primer axioma en la misma página en que lo enuncian

«The last-mentioned term is an unfortunate one, for it often leads those unfamiliar with occult terminology to conceive of the planes as being one above the other, rather like geological strata.» — la objeción que ponen al propio vocabulario que usan: hablar de planos induce a imaginarlos superpuestos

«The magician does not look upon them in this way; instead he regards them as interpenetrating and coexisting with one another - the so-called 'astral plane', for example, having the same spatial co-ordinates as the physical plane but, nevertheless remaining quite separate from it and obeying its own natural laws.» — la corrección que proponen: planos interpenetrantes y coextensos, no apilados

«In other words, 'the planes are discreet and not continuous'.» — la fórmula que citan para cerrarlo, entrecomillada por ellos mismos y sin dar autor

«The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was the most important single source of the modern magical tradition.» — la fuente única que declaran para la tradición mágica moderna, en la nota al pie que abre el libro

«For details of this Order see Dr Israel Regardie's Golden Dawn. (4 vols) Aries Press, 1937-1940, reprinted (2 vols) Llewellyn Publications, USA, 1969; Francis King, Ritual Magie in England. Neville Spearman, London, 1970; Francis King, Astral Projection, Magic and Alchemy. Neville Spearman, London, 1972; and R. G. Torrens, The Secret Rituals of the Golden Dawn. Aquarian, UK, 1972.» — la bibliografía que dan de esa Orden en la misma nota, dos de cuyos títulos son del propio Francis King

«Just how many of these other worlds and planes are supposed to exist depends upon which particular mode of classification the magician chooses to use.» — el número de mundos queda para ellos abierto: depende del sistema de clasificación que el mago elija

«Today most of them prefer the fourfold classification of the Golden Dawn version of the Hebrew Qabalah and therefore refer to:» — el que declaran mayoritario hoy: el cuádruple de la Golden Dawn sobre la cábala hebrea

«1. Atziluth, the Divine World Archetypal existence. 2. Brian, The Creative World, sphere of Archangels and other types of spiritual entity. 3. Yetzirah, the Astral World, lying immediately 'above' the plane of dense physical matter. 4. Assiah, the Material World, the plane of ordinary physical existence.» — los cuatro mundos tal como los imprime el escaneo, con *Brian* por Briah — la grafía es la de la capa de texto y así queda

«For the purposes of practical magic the Astral World (Yetzirah), is of greatest importance, for by the manipulation of its basic material, called by many occultists the Astral Light and bearing some resemblance to the orgone energy of Wilhelm Reich, occultists believe that they are enabled to exert control over dense matter and to» — por qué el mundo astral es el que importa a la práctica, con la comparación que introducen: la Luz Astral se parece, dicen, a la energía orgónica de Wilhelm Reich

«The magicians' belief in more than one plane of being implies the existence of more than one type of 'body' operating on those planes. Once again the vehicle of physical existence is thought of as being comparatively unimportant; it is what are usually referred to as 'the subtle bodies' that are of greatest interest to the practitioners of magic and, once more, their supposed number depends upon the preferred system of classification.» — de los planos derivan los cuerpos: tantos como el sistema de clasificación que se prefiera

«Thus those magicians who use the Golden Dawn's Qabalistic system habitually talk about 'the etheric body', thought of as almost physical in nature, a quasi-magnetic network of lines of force laying down the pattern to be followed by the physical body; of 'the astral body', which it is believed can be dissociated from the physical body and used by the magician to journey through the astral world; of 'the mental body'; of 'the spiritual body'; and of the Yechidah, or Divine Spark, the highest aspect of consciousness, the fraction of Godhead which is held to be the central core of each human personality.» — la serie de cuerpos sutiles que atribuyen a quien usa el sistema cabalístico de la Golden Dawn, del etérico a la Yechidah

«For practical purposes it is, of course, the astral body in which the magician is most interested; he learns to project (dissociate) it, to transfer his consciousness to it, to use it for astral travel, and even to use it to communicate with astral entities. As readers of this book will discover for themselves, there is nothing either impossible or even particularly difficult in these curious procedures.» — la promesa operativa del manual: proyectar el cuerpo astral no es, según ellos, ni imposible ni particularmente difícil

«Whether or not the astral plane and the astral body enjoy any objective existence there is no doubt that the performance of certain traditional psycho-spiritual exercises produces a state of consciousness in which - at the very least - one appears to have transferred one's consciousness to a non-physical vehicle, one seems to enter a new universe with laws of its own, and one undergoes an intensely lucid 'dream' while still retaining one's freedom of action and normal powers of reasoning.» — la abstención con que sostienen esa promesa: dejan en suspenso la existencia objetiva del plano astral y afirman solo el estado de consciencia que los ejercicios producen

«The second basic magical axiom, that which affirms the human will to be a force as real and effective as electricity or oil is well summarized in the following quotations:» — cómo presentan las dos citas con que documentan el axioma de la voluntad

«... in the Adept death can only supervene when the Higher will consenteth thereto, and herein is implied the whole Mystery of the Elixir of Life.» — la segunda cita, que adjudican a un documento de instrucción de la Golden Dawn escrito por Mathers

«The second of these quotations is from one of the instructional documents of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and was originally written by S.L. MacGregor Mathers. The first preceded one of Poe's most effective short stories and was attributed to Joseph Glanvill, the 17th century Platonist, demonologist and theologian. We have been unable, however, to trace it in any of Glanvill's published writings and we suspect that Poe invented it.» — la adjudicación que hacen de las dos citas, y la duda que dejan por escrito sobre la primera: no han podido rastrearla en Glanvill y sospechan que la inventó Poe

«In any case it splendidly sums up the magical doctrine of will-power.» — y por qué la conservan pese a la duda

«For the magician it is imagination that directs the willpower, and fantasy that channels it into the flow of particular energy-path desired.» — la relación que fijan entre imaginación y voluntad: la primera dirige a la segunda

«This belief was admirably expressed by a certain Dr Berridge - Prater Resurgam of the Golden Dawn in a document entitled 'Flying Roll No. V:» — de quién toman la formulación: el Dr Berridge, Frater Resurgam de la Golden Dawn — el escaneo imprime *Prater*

«'To practise magic both the Imagination and the Will must be called into action, they are co-equal in the work. Nay, more, the Imagination must precede the Will in order to produce the greatest possible effect. The Will unaided can send forth a current, and that current cannot be wholly inoperative; yet its effect is vague and indefinite, because the Will unaided sends forth nothing but the current of force.» — la primera parte de esa formulación: imaginación y voluntad son coiguales y la imaginación debe preceder

«'The Imagination unaided can create an image and this image must have an existence of varying duration; yet it can do nothing of importance unless vitalized and directed by the Will.» — la segunda parte: la imagen sola dura, pero no obra

«'When however, the two are conjoined - when the Imagination creates an image - and the Will directs and uses that image, marvellous magical effects may be obtained.'» — el cierre de la formulación de Berridge que citan

«The doctrine of correspondences is perhaps the most difficult of the magical axioms to fully understand. It ultimately derives from the Neo-Platonic conception of each man or woman as a microcosm (a 'little universe') that is to say as a reflection of the macrocosm - the cosmos as a whole.» — de dónde derivan la doctrina de correspondencias: de la concepción neoplatónica del hombre como microcosmos

«Since magicians believe that the soul is the universe in miniature they also believe that it is possible to link any factor in the individual psycho-spiritual make-up with the corresponding factor in the universe at large. In other words, to call down a natural force to strengthen that same force in the individual soul; technically this process is called invocation.» — cómo definen la invocación a partir de esa doctrina: enlazar un factor del alma con su correspondiente en el universo

«Today the system used by most Western occultists is based on a 32-fold classification (4) and printed tables of the major correspondences are available, notably in Aleister Crowley's Liber 777 and Dr Israel Regardie's Golden Dawn.» — las dos tablas de correspondencias que declaran disponibles: el Liber 777 de Crowley y el Golden Dawn de Regardie

«The advanced magician, however, uses such tables only as a basis for his own mental activity; he transforms a portion of his mind into an invisible card-index and sorts every fact known to him onto one or other of the thirty-two available 'cards', each of which correlates with a natural force.» — el límite que ponen al uso de esas tablas: son base para la actividad mental propia, no un índice que se consulta

«Thus the colour orange, the numeral eight, fish, snakes, white wine, the planet Mercury, books, science, wisdom, knavery, and many other things are all held to relate in one way or another to the natural force which the ancient Greeks personified as Hermes and the ancient Egyptians as Thoth, Lord of magic, writing and wisdom.» — el ejemplo con que ilustran una columna entera de correspondencias, la de Hermes-Thoth

«Using this technique the magician who desires access to some rare book, or knowledge of some arcane science, endeavours to reinforce the 'Hermes factor' in the universe in relation to his specific objective.» — el uso práctico que hacen de esa columna

«Having focused the 'Hermes factor' he allows it to dissipate its energy through the channel he has created, and in doing so it sets in motion the causes which result in the book falling into the hands of the magician.» — el mecanismo que le atribuyen: la energía se disipa por el canal creado y pone en marcha las causas del resultado

«Most magicians believe as firmly in the existence of matter as any Marxist, but they regard it as only» — cómo formulan esa acotación: el mago, dicen, cree en la materia tanto como un marxista

«the 'densest' of a number of different types of existence, usually referred to as 'worlds' or 'planes'.» — y qué lugar le dan entonces: la más densa de varias existencias, a las que llaman mundos o planos

«Techniques Of High Magic By Francis King and Stephen Skinner A Manual Of Self-Initiation» — la portada del escaneo, única del volumen: título, los dos autores y el subtítulo, sin pie editorial ni fecha

«Book Cover (Front) (Back) Scan / Edit Notes Dedication Acknowledgments Quote 1 - The Meaning of Magic 2 - First Steps in Magic 3 - Divination as Magic 4 - Making your Geomantic Instruments 5 - Geomantic Divination 6 - Tattwa Vision 7 - Making and Consecrating your Elemental Weapons 8 - How to Make Talismans for Yourself 9 - The I Ching 10 - Astral Projection in Theory and Practice 11 - The Magic of the Tarot Cards 12 - Self Initiation 13 - Invocation of the Gods 14 - Evocation of Spirits Ritual Appendices • 1 Pentagram Rituals • 2 Hexagram Rituals • 3 Middle Pillar Exercise • 4 Ritual of the Rose Cross Bibliography Index (Removed)» — el sumario del escaneo, que enumera los catorce capítulos, los cuatro apéndices rituales y la bibliografía, y declara suprimido el índice

«Due to the large amount of pictures contained within this book I will only be compiling a HTML and PDF version.» — la razón que da el escaneador, firmado *-Salmun*, para no haber hecho versión de texto plano

«Versions available and duly posted: Format: v1.5 (HTML) Format: v1.5 (PDF - no security) Genera: Wiccan / High Magick Extra's: Pictures Included (for all versions) Copyright: 1976 First Scanned: 2002 Posted to: alt.binaries.e-book» — los datos de distribución que declara el mismo escaneador: dos formatos v1.5, el género que él le adjudica, el año de copyright que consigna, la fecha del escaneo y el grupo donde lo posteó

«Structure: (Folder and Sub Folders) Main Folder - HTML Files | |- {Nav} - Navigation Files | |- {Pic} - Graphic files -Salmun» — la estructura de carpetas del escaneo y la firma con que se cierran sus notas

«We would like to thank Margaret Bain, Adelle Corrin and Beverley Lawton for their aid in preparing the manuscript, and Helene Hodge for proof-reading.» — los agradecimientos de los autores, que nombran a las cuatro personas que ayudaron con el manuscrito y la corrección

«(Edit Note: it should read YHWH in English since no 'V' originally exists -Salmun)» — la intervención del escaneador dentro del cuerpo del libro: firmada *-Salmun*, enmienda la transliteración del nombre divino que los autores mandan inscribir en la varita. Es su única intervención fuera de las *Scan / Edit Notes* del principio