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For it is his whole life that the Magus offers to OUR LADY. But here the formula implies much more even than this.
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For a woman does not carry in herself the principle of new life, except temporarily, when it is given her. It is rather the sacrifice of the Man, who transfers life to his descendants.
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This formula is, however, a little different in symbolism, since it is a Woman whose Cup must be filled. You are no longer a noble giver of your all, but a mean huckster. And if by magick power we mean the true power, the assimilation of all force with the Ultimate Light, the true Bridal of the Rosy Cross, then is that blood the offering of Virginity, the sole sacrifice well-pleasing to the Master, the sacrifice whose only reward is the pain of child-bearing unto him.īut “to sell one's soul to the devil”, to renounce no matter what for an equivalent in personal gain, 2) is black magic. It is the original price paid for magick power.
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This Cup is said to be full of the Blood of the Saints that is, every “saint” or magician must give the last drop of his life's blood to that cup. It is the First of the Formulae, in a sense, for it is the formula of Renunciation. The Hieroglyph shewn in the Seventh Key of the Tarot (described in the 12th Aethyr, Liber 418, Equinox I, V) is the Charioteer of OUR LADY BABALON, whose Cup or Graal he hears.