Flying Roll No.
XIV
Talismans and Flashing Tablets
Yazan:
G. H. Frater Sapere Aude (W.W. Westcott)
A TALISMAN is a magical figure charged
with the force which it is intended to represent. In the construction of a
Talisman, care should be taken to make it, as far as is possible, so to
represent the Universal Forces that it should be in exact harmony with those
you wish to attract, and the more exact the symbolism, the more easy it is
to attract the force other things coinciding, such as consecration at the
right time, etc.
A SYMBOL should also be correct in its
symbolism, but it is not necessarily the same as a Talisman.
A FLASHING TABLET is one made in the
complementary colours. A flashing colour, then, is the complementary colour
which, if joined to the original, enables it to attract, to a certain
extent, the Akashic current from the atmosphere, and to a certain extent
from yourself, thus forming a vortex which can attract its flashing light
from the atmosphere. Therefore, to make anything of this description which
shall be really operative, so does it proportionately tire you.
The complementary
colours are:
|
White |
complementary to Black and Grey |
|
Red |
complementary to Green |
|
Blue |
complementary to Orange |
|
Yellow |
complementary to Violet |
|
Blue Green |
complementary to Red-Orange |
|
Violet |
complementary to Citrine |
|
Olive |
complementary to Violet |
|
Reddish
Orange |
complementary to Green Blue |
|
Deep Amber |
complementary to Indigo |
|
Lemon
Yellow |
complementary to Red Violet |
|
Yellow
Green |
complementary to Crimson |
The other complementaries of other
mixed colours can easily be found from this scale.
Coming now to the nature and method of
formation of the Talisman, the first thing to be remembered is that it is
not always a just and right thing to form a Talisman with the idea of
completely changing the current of another person's Karma. In any case you
could only do this in a certain sense. It will be remembered that the words
of the CHRIST which preceded His cures were "Thy sins be forgiven thee,"
which meant that the Karmic action was exhausted. Only an Adept who is of
the nature of a God can have the power, even if he have the right, to take
upon himself the Karma of another. That is to say, that if you endeavour to
change completely, (I am not now speaking of adapting and making the best of
a person's Karma), the life current, you must be of so great a force that
you can take this Karma from them by right of the Divine Power to which you
have attained in which case you will only do it in so far as it does not
hinder their spiritual development.
If, however, this is attempted on a
lower plane, it will usually be found that what you are endeavouring to
bring about is in direct opposition to the Karma of the person concerned. It
will not work the required effect and will probably bring a current of
exhaustion and trouble on yourself. Without doing much good you will have
attracted his own Karma into your own atmosphere and, in fact, brought it on
yourself.
These remarks only apply to an
attempted radical change in the Karma of another, which is a thing you have
no right to do until you have attained the highest adeptship.
The formation or adaptation of
Talismans in ordinary matters should be employed with great discernment.
What may assist in material things is often a hindrance spiritually, seeing
that for a force to work, it must attract elemental forces of the proper
description, which may thus, to an extent, endanger your spiritual nature.
Also, in making Talismans for a
person, you must endeavour to isolate yourself entirely from him. You must
banish from your mind any feeling of love or hate, irritation, etc., for all
these feelings operate against your power.
It is but rarely that a Talisman for
the love of a person is a right and justifiable thing to construct. Pure
love links us to the nature of the Gods. There is a perfect love between the
Angels and the gods because there is perfect harmony among them, but that is
not the lower and earthly love. Thus a Talisman made for terrestrial love
would be sealed with the impress of your own weakness, and even if
successful, would react on you in other ways. The only way in which real
power can be gained, is by transcending the material plane and trying to
link yourself to your Divine and Higher Soul. That is why trouble is so
great an initiator, because trouble brings you nearer spiritual things when
material things fail.
Therefore, a Talisman as a rule is
better made for one in whom you have no interest. In the work of actual
consecration, it is always a good thing to purify the room and use the
Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram. All these are aids which the Adept, when
sufficiently advanced, will know when to use and when not to do so. It is
better, if possible, to finish a Talisman at one sitting, because it is
begun under certain conditions and it may be difficult to put yourself in
the same frame of mind at another time.
Another point that beginners are apt
to run away with, is that Talismans can be made wholesale. Suppose a dozen
Talismans were made to do good to as many different people, a ray from
yourself must charge each Talisman. You have sent out a sort of spiral from
your aura which goes on to the Talisman and attracts a like force from the
atmosphere that is, if you have learned to excite the like force in
yourself at the moment of consecration. So that, in the case supposed, you
would have a dozen links connecting with you, like so many wires in a
telegraph office, and whenever the force which any of these Talismans was
designed to combat becomes too strong for the force centred therein, there
is an instantaneous communication with you so that the loss of force to
which you would be continually liable might be such as to deplete you of
vitality and cause you to faint.
In cases where Talismans and symbols
have done their work, they should be carefully de-charged, and then
destroyed. If this is not done, and you take a symbol, say of water, still
charged and throw it into the fire to get rid of it, you are inflicting
intense torment on the Elemental you have attracted, and it will react on
you sooner or later. Also, if you throw away a still charged Talisman, thus
desecrating it, it will become the property of other things, which, through
it, will be enabled to get at you. It is for these reasons that the Talisman
should be de-charged with the Pentagram and Hexagram according as it
partakes of the planetary or zodiacal nature and these remarks apply
equally to Flashing Tablets.
If a Talisman is given to a person who
goes away, and does not return it, you can render it inoperative by invoking
it astrally and then de-charging it with great care and force.
A FLASHING TABLET should be carefully
made charged, and consecrated, and then each morning the Adeptus should sit
before it and practise clairvoyance, endeavouring to go through it to the
plane it represents, and then to invoke the power and ask for strength to
accomplish the matter desired, which will be granted if it be a lawful and
laudable operation.
Any Flashing Tablet of two colours
should be as nearly balanced in proportion of the extent of colour as
possible the ground one colour, and the charge another. There is also a
mode in which three colours can be used in a planetary talisman. This is
done by placing the seven colours on the Heptagram, and drawing two lines to
the points exactly opposite, which will thus yield two flashing colours.
This properly drawn, will give the effect of a flashing light playing on the
symbol, partly visible physically and partly clairvoyantly, i.e., if
properly charged. An advanced Adept should be able to charge his Tablet to a
certain extent as he constructs it.
The radical colour of the Planet is
symbolical. But a Talisman for harmony of idea say, could be well
represented by the TIPHARETH of VENUSa beautiful yellow-green, and so on.
The Lion Kerub of VENUS would
represent spiritual fire and thus symbolises the inspiration of the poet
the colour being a soft and beautiful pearl grey, and the charges should be
white. The Watery part of Venus would represent the reflective faculty and
answer to spiritual beauty, colour a bluish-green. The Vault contains a
perfect scale of Talismans of every description of Planet, and shows how a
planetary man will look at everything according to the colour of his aura,
due to the planet under which he is born. The real Adept comes forth from
the sides to the centre. He is no longer under the dominion of the Stars.
Having made a Magical Talisman, you
should use some form of charging and consecrating it, which is suitable to
the operation. There are certain words and Letters which are to be invoked
in the charging of a Tablet, the Letters governing the Sign under which the
operation falls, together with the Planet associated therewith (if a
planetary Talisman). Thus in Elemental operations, you take the Letters of
the appropriate zodiacal triplicity, adding AL thereto, thus forming an
Angelic Name which is the expression of the force. Hebrew Names as a rule,
represent the operation of certain general forces, while the names on the
Enochian or Angelical Tablets represent a species of more particular ideas.
Both classes of Names should be used in these operations.
After preparing the room in the way
laid down for the consecration of lesser magical implements, supposing this
to be an Elemental Talisman, first formulate towards the Four Quarters the
Supreme Ritual of the Pentagram as taught. Then invoke the Divine Names,
turning towards the quarter of the Element.
Let the Adeptus then, being seated or
standing before the Tablet, and looking in the requisite direction of the
force which he wishes to invoke, take several deep inspirations, close the
eyes, and holding the breath, mentally pronounce the letters of the Forces
invoked. Let this be done several times, as if you breathed upon the Tablet
pronouncing them in the vibratory manner. Then, rising, make the sign of the
Rose and Cross over the Tablet, and repeating the requisite formula, first
describe round the Talisman, a circle, with the appropriate magical
implement, and then make the invoking Pentagrams five times over it, as if
the Pentagrams stood upright upon it, repeating the letters of the
Triplicity involved withAL1 added. Then solemnly read any invocation
required, making the proper sigils from the Rose as you pronounce the Names.
The first operation is to initiate a
whorl from yourself. The second, to attract the force in the atmosphere into
the vortex you have formed.
Then read the Elemental Prayer as in
the Rituals, and close with the Signs of the circle and the cross (that is
the Rose-Cross) after performing the necessary Banishing.
Be careful, however, not to banish
over the newly consecrated Talisman, as that would simply de-charge it again
and render it useless. Before Banishing, you should wrap the charged
Talisman in clean white silk or linen.
Notes:
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For Fire put
Shin first, then three Fiery Signs, then AL. So far for elementary
ones. For Planetary ones you may add AL to the Planets letter or to the
Planet and its Houses, the letters of them, and the planet and
triplicity, use the hexagram made six times. For Zodiacal ones add AL to
the letters of the sign and use pentagram five times. When you use the
three letters of three Signs of a triplicity for elemental working you
should put as the initial letter that of the Sign principally invoked as
most useful to you.
January 15, 1893.
Appendix
By G.H. Frater D.D.C.F. (S.M.
Macgregor-Mathers)
The Talismanic
symbols or Telesmatic Emblems as they are sometimes called are formed
from the Geomantic Figures by drawing various lines from point to point of
each.
These characters
are then attributed to their ruling Planets and Ideas. For example, the most
simple forms will be:
Here follows a
complete table of all the Talismanic Figures classed under the Planets and
Signs. The characters of Saturn and Zazel taken from Carcer equals
Capricorn.
The characters of
Saturn and Zazel taken from Tristitia equals Aquarius.
The characters of
Jupiter and Hismael taken from Acquisitio equals Sagittarius.
The characters of
Jupiter and Hismael taken from Laetitia equals Pisces.
The characters of
Mars and Bartzabel taken from Rubeus equals Scorpio.
The characters of
Mars and Bartzabel taken from Puer equal Aries.
The characters of
Sol and Sorath taken from Fortuna Major equals Leo.
The characters of
Sol and Sorath taken from Fortuna Minor equals Leo.
The characters of
Venus and Kedemel taken from Amissio equals Taurus.
The characters of
Venus and Kedemel taken from Puella equals Libra.
The characters of
Mercury and Taphthartharath taken from Albus equals Gemini
The characters of
Mercury and Taphthartharath taken from Conjunctio equals Virgo.
The characters of
Luna and Chasmodai taken from Populus equals Cancer.
The characters of
Luna and Chasmodai taken from Via equals Cancer.
The characters of
Caput Draconis are:
The characters of
Cauda Draconis are:
MODE OF FORMATION OF TALISMANS AND
PANTACLES
The mode of using
these Talismanic Characters drawn from the Talismanic Figures in the
construction of a Talisman or Pantacle, is to take those formed by the
figures under the Planet required, and to place them either at the opposite
ends of a wheel of eight radii as shown, or to place them in the
compartments of a Square. A versicle suitable to the matter is then to be
written within the double line.
