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SubTzu "It is wise to know the ways of the enemy"
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3. ATTACK BY STRATAGEM
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Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.Li Ch`uan cites the case of Fu Chien, prince of Ch`in, who in 383 A.D. marched with a vast army against the Chin Emperor. When warned not to despise an enemy who could command the services of such men as Hsieh An and Huan Ch`ung, he boastfully replied: "I have the population of eight provinces at my back, infantry and horsemen to the number of one million; why, they could dam up the Yangtsze River itself by merely throwing their whips into the stream. What danger have I to fear?" Nevertheless, his forces were soon after disastrously routed at the Fei River, and he was obliged to beat a hasty retreat.
If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.Chang Yu said: "Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive." He adds: "Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack." It would be hard to find a better epitome of the root-principle of war.
THE KEY OF SOLOMON
BOOK II
edited by S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers
For this edition I have added a considerable number of footnotes, denoted by "-JHP." To avoid confusion I have added "-SLM" in some places to denote Mathers' original footnotes. I have omitted Mathers' drawings from this e-text, since they are available in low-cost edition from Weiser
I have however, supplied some examples from various manuscripts which were not taken from Mathers' edition. -JHP
I have however, supplied some examples from various manuscripts which were not taken from Mathers' edition. -JHP
Contents, Book 2
THE KEY OF SOLOMON THE KING
(CLAVICULA SALOMONIS)
by S. LIDDELL MACGREGOR MATHERS
[1888]
Book I
Plates
Book II
Chapter VII. Of Places Wherein We May Conveniently Execute the Experiments And Operations of the Art
Appendices
Ars Notoria:
THE
NOTORY ART
OF
SOLOMON,
Shewing the
CABALISTICAL KEY
Of : Magical Operations
The liberal Sciences,
Divine Revelation, and
The Art of Memory.
Written originally in Latine, and now
Englished by ROBERT TURNER
Liber Iuratus Honorii
or
The Sworne Booke of Honorius
The Lesser Key of Solomon, Goetia
THE BOOK OF THE GOETIA OF SOLOMON THE KING TRANSLATED INTO THE ENGLISH TONGUE BY A DEAD HAND AND ADORNED WITH DIVERS OTHER MATTERS GERMANE DELIGHTFUL TO THE WISE THE WHOLE EDITED, VERIFIED, INTRODUCED AND COMMENTED BY ALEISTER CROWLEY SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF RELIGIOUS TRUTH BOLESKINE, FOYERS, INVERNESS 1904
The Lesser Key of Solomon, Book 2: Theurgia Goetia - Chaos Matrix
