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This article is from the magicK kreEePing oOze FAQ, by tyagi nagasiva tyagI@houseofAos.abyss.coM with numerous contributions by others.

7.2: "What is the Great White Brotherhood?" cont.

4. The Grade of Ipsissimus is not to be described fully; but its
opening is indicated in Liber I vel Magi.
There is also an account in a certain secret document to be published
when propriety permits. Here it is only said this: The Ipsissimus
is wholly free from all limitations soever, existing in the nature
of all things without discriminations of quantity or quality between
them. He has identified Being and not-Being and Becoming, action and
non-action and tendency to action, with all other such triplicities,
not distinguishing between them in respect of any conditions, or between
any one thing and any other thing as to whether it is with or without
conditions.
He is sworn to accept this Grade in the presence of a witness, and
to express its nature in word and deed, but to withdraw Himself at
once within the veils of his natural manifestation as a man, and to
keep silence during his human life as to the fact of his attainment,
even to the other members of the Order.
The Ipsissimus is pre-eminently the Master of all modes of existence;
that is, his being is entirely free from internal or external necessity.
His work is to destroy all tendencies to construct or to cancel such
necessities. He is the Master of the Law of Unsubstantiality (Anatta).
The Ipsissimus has no relation as such with any Being: He has no
will in any direction, and no Consciousness of any kind involving duality,
for in Him all is accomplished; as it is written "beyond the Word and
the Fool, yea, beyond the Word and the Fool".

5. The Grade of Magus is described in Liber I vel Magi, and there
are accounts of its character in Liber 418 in the Higher Aethyrs.
There is also a full and precise description of the attainment of
this Grade in the Magical Record of the Beast 666.
The essential characteristic of the Grade is that its possessor
utters a Creative Magical Word, which transforms the planet on {234}
which he lives by the installation of new officers to preside over
its initiation. This can take place only at an "Equinox of the Gods"
at the end of an "Aeon"; that is, when the secret formula which expresses
the Law of its action becomes outworn and useless to its further development.
(Thus "Suckling" is the formula of an infant: when teeth appear it
marks a new "Aeon", whose "Word" is "Eating").
A Magus can therefore only appear as such to the world at intervals
of some centuries; accounts of historical Magi, and their Words, are
given in Liber Aleph.
This does not mean that only one man can attain this Grade in any
one Aeon, so far as the Order is concerned. A man can make personal
progress equivalent to that of a "Word of an Aeon"; but he will identify
himself with the current word, and exert his will to establish it,
lest he conflict with the work of the Magus who uttered the Word of
the Aeon in which He is living.
The Magus is pre-eminently the Master of Magick, that is, his will
is entirely free from internal diversion or external opposition; His
work is to create a new Universe in accordance with His Will. He is
the Master of the Law of Change (Anicca).
To attain the Grade of Ipsissimus he must accomplish three tasks,
destroying the Three Guardians mentioned in Liber 418, the 3rd Aethyr;
Madness, and Falsehood, and Glamour, that is, Duality in Act, Word
and Though.

6. The Grade of Master of the Temple is described in Liber 418
as above indicated. There are full accounts in the Magical Diaries
of the Beast 666, who was cast forth into the Heaven of Jupiter, and
of Omnia in Uno, Unus in Omnibus, who was cast forth into the sphere
of the Elements.
The essential Attainment is the perfect annihilation of that personality
which limits and oppresses his true self.
The Magister Templi is pre-eminently the Master of Mysticism, that
is, His Understanding is entirely free from internal contradiction
or external obscurity; His word is to comprehend the existing Universe
in accordance with His own Mind. He is the Master of the Law of Sorrow
(Dukkha).
To attain the grade of Magus he must accomplish Three 235} Tasks;
the renunciation of His enjoyment of the Infinite so that he may formulate
Himself as the Finite; the acquisition of the practical secrets alike
of initiating and governing His proposed new Universe and the identification
of himself with the impersonal idea of Love. Any neophyte of the Order
(or, as some say, any person soever) possesses the right to claim the
Grade of Master of the Temple by taking the Oath of the Grade. It
is hardly necessary to observe that to do so is the most sublime and
awful responsibility which it is possible to assume, and an unworthy
person who does so incurs the most terrific penalties by his presumption.

7. "The Order of the R. C." The Grade of the Babe of the Abyss
is not a Grade in the proper sense, being rather a passage between
the two Orders. Its characteristics are wholly negative, as it is
attained by the resolve of the Adeptus Exemptus to surrender all that
he has and is for ever. It is an annihilation of all the bonds that
compose the self or constitute the Cosmos, a resolution of all complexities
into their elements, and these thereby cease to manifest, since things
are only knowable in respect of their relation to, and reaction on,
other things.

 

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