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…e, or drag the dog from its kennel, to prove the old saying: “Natura abhorret a vacuo.”1 For she is the Image of the Soul of Nature, the Great Mother, the Great Whore. 1 [Lat., “nature abhors a vacuum.”] 2 [Ta Chi was the concubine of Chou Hsin, the last ruler of the Shang Dynasty (c. 1025 B.C.E.). Her sex drive is credited with its downfall.] 3 [Queen Elizabeth the First, 1533-1603.] 4 [The pen-name of of the French author Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin, Baronne Dudevant (1804-1876).] 5 [The pen-name of the English novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1…
1996 · PDF PAGE 59
…ndowed with Magical properties, one must class, primus inter pares, that vehicle of essential humanity which is the first matter of that Great Work wherein our race shares the divine prerogative of creating man in its own image, male and female. It is evidently of minor importance whether the will to create be consciously formulated. Lot in his drunkenness served the turn of his two daughters, no less than Jupiter, who prolonged the night to forty-eight hours in order to give himself time to beget Hercules. Man is in actual possession of this s…
1996 · PDF PAGE 31
…gs, without whose sphere is Light or “God.” Our minds and bodies are veils of the Light within. The uninitiate is a “Dark Star,” and the Great Work for him is to make his veils transparent by “puri fying” them. This “purification” is really “simplification”; it is not that the veil is dirty, but that the complexity of its folds makes it opaque. The Great Work therefore consists principally in the solution of complexes. Everything in itself is perfect, but when things are muddled, they become “evil.” (This will be understood better in the Light…
1996 · PDF PAGE 206
…re shall ye find them. Ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. Beware lest any force another, King against King! Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath. 25. Ye are against the people, O my chosen! 26. I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then…
1996 · PDF PAGE 24
…e planets, revolving about a star of whom they are parts; but I shall not discuss it fully in this place. Man is the Middle Kingdom. The Great Kingdom is Heaven, with each star as an unit; the Little Kingdom is the Molecule, with each Electron as an unit. (The Ratio of these three is regu larly geometrical, each being 1022 times greater in size than its neighbour.) See “The Book of the Great Auk”1 2 for the demonstration that each “star” is the Centre of the Universe to itself, and that a “star,” simple, original, absolute, can add to its omni…
1996 · PDF PAGE 26
…ant when we say that woman has no soul. It explains fully the difference between the sexes.1 1 [Surviving fragment from “The Book of the Great Auk.” See also The Book ofThoth, pp. 15-16, and Part III of Book 4, Parts I-IV, rev. ed., p. 248n.] 2 [The “Star-Sponge” Vision was usually characterized by Crowley as “Nothingness with Twinkles”; see p. 79.] 3 [A lake in Bristol, New Hampshire.] 4 [A lengthy technical commentary to this verse, omitted by Dr. Wilkin son, is given as Appendix B in 777 Revised (1955); see Works Cited.] 4. Every number is …
1996 · PDF PAGE 115
…r, in working on the planes of manifestation, the elements must be consecrated and made “God” by virtue of a definite rite. 27. There is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. He shall fall down into the pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of Reason. Commentary: Humanity errs terribly when it gets “educa tion,” in the sense of ability to read newspapers. Reason is rubbish; race-instinct is the true guide.
1996 · PDF PAGE 47
…whose members, with the rarest exceptions, do not know what it is all about. 1 [See Works Cited under “Liber 150.”] 2 [A phrase from the Great Obligation of the A.•.A/, (the Oath of the Abyss); see “John St. John,” The Equinox 1(1) (1909), p. 11, or The Equinox 111(10) (1986), p. 18.] The question then arises as to whether the initiate is able to stand firmly in this Place of Exaltation. It seems to me as if this refers to the ascetic life, commonly considered as an essential con dition of participation in these mysteries. The answer is that “…
1996 · PDF PAGE 29
…s kingdom in the partition with Hades, who took Fire, and Poseidon, who took Water. Shu is the Egyptian God of the Firmament. There is a great difficulty here, etymologically. Zeus is connected with iao, Abrasax, and the Dental Sibilant Gods of the Greater Mysteries, with the South and Hadit, Adad, Set, Saturn, Adonai, Attis, Adonis; he is even the “Jesus,” slain with the Lance, whose blood is collected in a Cup. Yet he is also to be identified with the opposite party of the North and Nuit, with the “John” slain with the Sword, whose flesh is p…
1996 · PDF PAGE 194
…h I had upon earth! Stand not thou up against me a witness! Oppose me not, judge, in my quest! Accuse me not now of unfitness Before the Great God, the dread Lord of the West! For I fastened the one to the other With a spell for their mystical girth, The earth and the wonderful West, When I flourished, o earth, on the breast! The dead man Ankh-f-n-Khonsu Saith with his voice of truth and calm: O thou that hast a single arm! O thou that glitterest in the moon! I weave thee in the spinning charm; I lure thee with the billowy tune. The dead man An…
1996 · PDF PAGE 164
…s: though with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall arise and the double-wanded one assume my throne and place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awake the lust Sc worship of the Snake; another soul of God and beast shall mingle in the globed priest; another sacrifice shall stain the tomb; another king shall reign; and blessing no longer be poured To the Hawk-headed mystica…
1996 · PDF PAGE 286
…tions are Crowley’s, from the A.'. A.-. Curricula. “Amath, an Essay on Truth.” In (14). “Berashith.” As (1) and in (7). “The Book of the Great Auk.” Surviving fragment in (9.v). “Eleusis.” In (7). 285
1996 · PDF PAGE 135
136 The Law is for All 38. Thou hast brought me into great delight. Thou hast given me of Thy flesh to eat and of Thy blood for an offering of intoxication. 39. Thou hast fastened the fangs of Eternity in my soul, and the Poison of the Infinite hath consumed me utterly. 40. I am become like a luscious devil of Italy; a fair strong woman with worn cheeks, eaten out with hunger for kisses. She hath played the harlot in divers palaces; she hath given her body to the beasts. 41. She hath slain her kinsfolk with strong venom of toads; she hath been …
1996 · PDF PAGE 213
…s: though with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall arise and the double-wanded one assume my throne and place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awake the lust & wor ship of the Snake; another soul of God and beast shall min gle in the globed priest; another sacrifice shall stain the tomb; another king shall reign; and blessing no longer be poured To the Hawk-headed myst…
1996 · PDF PAGE 140
…core of our Khabs, our Star, one of the Company of Heaven; but this Khabs needs a Khu or Magical Image, in order to play its part in the Great Drama. This Khu, again, needs the proper costume, a suitable “body of flesh,” and this costume must be worthy of the Play. We therefore employ various magical means to increase the vigour of our bodies and the energy of our minds, to fortify and to sublime them. The result is that we of Thelema are capable of enormously more achievement than others, even in terrestrial matters, from sexual orgia to creat…
1996 · PDF PAGE 45
46 The Law is for All 43. Do that, and no other shall say nay. Commentary: The general meaning of this verse is that so great is the power of asserting one’s right that it will not long be disputed. For by doing so one appeals to the Law. In practice it is found that people who are ready to fight for their rights are respected, and let alone. The slave-spirit invites oppression. 44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. Commentary: This verse is best interpreted by defining “pure will” as…
1996 · PDF PAGE 294
…1,78.97,98,99, 100,121.150.158,159,161,186 Alastor 155 alchemy 60,69,152 alcohol 84,85,109-111 Aldus 162 aleph-null 94,120 Alexander the Great 67 Amalantrah 23 Amennti 126 America 37,43,181 Ananda 53 ancients 85 androgynes 54 ankh 93,171,188 Ankh-af-na-khonsu (Ankhefenkhons i) 28,35,39.165.192.193 Antinoiis 52 Antoinette, Marie 84 Antony, Mark 53,116 Anu 24 ^on of Horus 31,47,89.91,124,128 lord of the 34 magical formula of the 31 word of the 149 yton of Osiris 59,163 as aeon of the dying god 89 Aphrodite 84, 85 Apollo 52,63,84,85 oracle of 92 A…
1996 · PDF PAGE 62
…s of imperfection is perceived as the absolute negative whose appre hension is identical with that duality—is the accomplishment of the Great Work. The anacephalepsis1 of these considerations is this: 1 [Recapitulation.] 1:53
1996 · PDF PAGE 122
…oration of the Universe. The Uni verse is endless rapture, wild and unconfined, a mad passion of speed. Astronomers tell us this of the Great Republic of the Stars; physicists say the same of the Little Republic of Molecules. Shall not the Middle Republic of Men be like unto them? The polite ethicist demurs; his ideal is funereal solemnity. His horizon is
1996 · PDF PAGE 123
…east for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. 41. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! Commentary: The feasts of fire and water indicate rejoicings to be made at the puberty of boys and girls respectively. The feast for life is at a birth; and the feast for death at a death. It is of the utmost importance to make funerals merry, so as to train people to take the proper view of death. The fear of death is one of the great weapons of tyrants, as well as their scourge; and …