From: Tagi@cup.portal.com (Tagi Mordred Nagashiva)
Newsgroups: alt.magick
Subject: The Simon Iff Method (Was Re: Shielding)
Date: Tue,  8 Sep 92 12:28:13 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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9209.08 [The Birthday of my Abyss!]


'Bunny' Averett posted what I think is more along my lines of Wizardry.
Shielding is nice, but when I engage in what I call 'magick', the
following quote comes closer to my style.  It is from the book,
_Moonchild_, by Aleister Crowley, which has much to say about magick,
politics, and 'psychic attacks'.  Somewhat pedantic, but an easy read,
even for us Tantrics.


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"Let me explain!" said Simple Simon.  "If everybody did his Will, there
would be no collision.  Every man and every woman is a star.  It is when
we get off our orbits that the clashes come.  Now if a Thing gets off its
orbit, and comes into my sphere of attraction, I absorb it as quietly as
possible, and the stars sing together again."

"Whew!" said Cyril, and pretended to wipe the sweat from his brow.

"But weren't you in danger from that devilish Thing?" asked Lisa, with
the memory of a great anxiety.  She had trembled like an aspen during the
scene in the garden.

"The rhinoceros," quoted Simon Iff, "finds no place in him into which
to thrust its horn, nor the tiger a place in which to fix its claws, nor
the weapon a place to admit its point.  And for what reason?  Because
there is in him no place of death."

"But you did nothing.  You were just acting like an ordinary man.  But
I think it would have been death for any one but you."

"An ordinary man would not have touched the Thing.  It was on a different
plane, and would no more have interfered with him than sound interferes
with light.  A young magician, one who had opened a gate on to that plane,
but had not yet become master of that plane, might have been overcome.
The Thing might even have dispossessed his ego, and used his body as its
own.  That is the beginner's danger in magick."

"And what is your secret?"

"To have assimilated all things so perfectly that there is no longer any
possibility of struggle.  To have destroyed the idea of duality.  To have
achieved Love and Will so that there is no longer any object to Love, or
any aim for Will.  To have killed desire at the root; to be one with every
thing and with Nothing.

"Look!" he went on, with a change in tone, "why does a man die when he is
struck by lightning?  Because he has a gate open to lightning; he insists
on being an electrical substance by possessing the quality of resistance
to the passage of electric current.  If we could diminish that resistance
to zero, lightning would no longer take notice of him.

"There are two ways of preventing a rise of temperature from the sun's
heat.  One is to oppose a shield of non-conducting and opaque material:
that is Cyril's way, and at the best it is imperfect; some heat always
gets through.  The other is to remove every particle of matter from the
space which you wish to be cold; then there is nothing there to become
hot; and that is the Way of the Tao."

...

"I've tried the Tao," said Cyril, half regretful, "but I can't manage it."

The old man laughed.  "You're like the old man in the storm who realized
that he would be warmer elsewhere.  So he decided to diminish the amount
of himself by removing his clothes, and only found it colder.  It gets
worse and worse till the moment when you vanish utterly and for ever.
But you have only tried half-measures.  Naturally, you have found your
will divided against itself - the will to live against the will to
Nirvana, if I may call it so - and that is not even good magick."

pgs. 68-70; _Moonchild_, Aleister Crowley, Samuel Weiser, 1974 ed.

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I hope that this inspires some discussion about this type of magick,
but will understand if it does not.

Thyagi
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Lots of spells to heal Earth.  Is Moon, or more possibly, Sun wounded also?