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126 The Law is for All the Mind be attached constantly to the Body, Death hath not Power to decompose it wholly, but a decaying Shell of the Dead Man, his Mind holding together for a little his Body of Light, haunteth the Earth, seeking (in its Error, that feareth Change) a new Tabernacle in some other Body. These Shells are broken away utterly from the Star that did enlighten them, and they are Vampires, obsessing them that adventure themselves into the Astral World without Magical Protection, or invoke them, as do the Spiritists. For by Death…
1996 · PDF PAGE 118
Chapter II A Verses 28-32 119 The Qabalists represent the mind as a complex of six elements, whereas the Will is single, the direct expression as “The Word” of the Self. The mind must inform the Understanding, which then presents a simple idea to the Will. This issues its orders accord ingly for unquestioning execution. If the Will should appeal to the mind, it must confuse itself with incomplete and uncoordinated ideas. The clamour of these cries crowns Anarchy, and action becomes impossible. 31. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness. Com…
1996 · PDF PAGE 39
…voting the most laudable energies to destroying yourself. Remember that every word and deed is a witness to thought, that therefore your mind must be perfectly organized, its sole duty to interpret circumstances in terms of the Will so that speech and action may be rightly directed to express the Will appropriately to the occasion. Remember that every word and deed which is not a definite expression of your Will counts against it, indifference worse than hostility. Your enemy is at least inter ested in you: you may make him your friend as you …
1996 · PDF PAGE 81
82 The Law is for All thought flashed into my mind that after all the bag was in one sense a part of myself. The two ideas came together with a snap, and I understood the machinery of a man’s delusion that he is a teapot. These two examples may give some idea to the reader of the light which mystical attainment throws upon the details of the working of the human mind. Further developments of this vision emphasized the iden tity between the Universe and the mind. The search for simi les deepened. I had a curious impression that the thing I was…
1996 · PDF PAGE 69
…ther of sense, emotion, or rational judgment, to obscure the Sun of his Soul. In the first place, mutual magnetism, despite the masks of mind, should be unmistakable. Unless it exists, a puissant purity of passion, there is no Magical basis for the Sacrament. Yet, such magnetism is only the first condition. Where two people become intimate, each crisis of satisfaction between the terminals leaves them in a prox imity which demands mutual observation; and the intense clarity of the mind which results from the discharge of the electric force mak…
1996 · PDF PAGE 186
Chapter III A Verses 61 — 67 187 Such Life and Mind may therefore be utterly different to any thing we know of; the “girders” of their souls in other spheres may be other than ours. The above argument is a case of a “girder”; we are bound mentally by our race-experience of the environment in which our own lives flourish. A pioneer choosing a camp must look for wood, water, perhaps shelter, perhaps game. In another planet he might not need any of these. The “girders” which determine the “form” of our souls are therefore limitations to our thoug…
1996 · PDF PAGE 85
…g as a man can get rid of his surplus Energy in enjoyment, he finds life easy, and submits. Deprive him of Pleasure, of Ecstasy, and his mind begins to worry about the way in which he is exploited and oppressed. Very soon he begins furtively to throw bombs; and, gathering strength, to send his tyrants to the gallows. 64. I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. 65. To me! To me! 66. The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.
1996 · PDF PAGE 174
… sack, stoning, nose-slitting, beltbuckling, cart’s tail dragging, whipping, pillory posting, walling-up, divorce court, eunuch, harem, mind-crippling, house-imprisoning, menial-work wearying, creed-stultifying, social-ostracism marooning, Divine wrath-scaring, and even the device of creating and encouraging prostitution to keep one class of women in the abyss under the heel of the police, and the other on its brink, at the mercy of the husband’s boot at the first sign of insubordination or even of failure to please. Man’s torture-chamber ha…
1996 · PDF PAGE 117
118 The Law is for All casual, our minds would still insist that casuality itself was the effect of some cause. Our daily experience hammers home this conviction; and a man’s mental excellence seems to be measurable almost entirely in terms of the strength and depth of his apprecia tion thereof as the soul of the structure of the Universe. It is the spine of Science which has vertebrated human Knowledge above the slimy mollusc whose principle was Faith. We must not suppose for an instant that The Book of the Law is opposed to reason. On the co…
1996 · PDF PAGE 116
…her; and each one of us possesses millions of years of experience, the very quintessence of it, stored automatically in our subconscious minds. The Intellectuals are worse than the bourgeoisie themselves; a la lanterned Give us Men! We are so caked with dirt that the germs of disease cannot reach us. If we decide to wash, we must do it well; or we may have awakened some sleeping dogs, and set them on defenseless areas. Initiation stirs up the mud. It creates unstable equilibrium. It exposes our elements to unfamiliar conditions. The France of L…
1996 · PDF PAGE 67
68 The Law is for All hate, of debauch, of sickness, nearly always bear witness in body and mind to the abuse of the talisman. Not only the sins of the father but those of the mother, yes, more, those of their social surroundings, are visited on the children to the third and fourth generation. Nay, more, the mischief can never be mended. A man can destroy in a minute his kingdom, inherited from unnumbered dynasties of biological prudence. It will also be admitted, without reference to Magick, that the abuse of the talisman leads to moral, menta…
1996 · PDF PAGE 80
Chapter I * Verse 59 81 truths; to the acquisition of the power to think in a manner totally foreign to the normal mind, the rare possession of the greatest thinkers of the world. A further development of the vision brought the con sciousness that the structure of the universe was highly orga nized, that certain stars were of greater magnitude and brilliancy than the rest. I began to seek similes to help me to explain myself. Several such attempts are mentioned later in this note. Here again are certain analogies with some of the properties o…
1996 · PDF PAGE 302
…ure 46 subconscious 66,119 to change 74 to create 60,68,179 to die 147 to “go” 155 to live 132,133,137,147 to love 70,75 transcendent of mind 118 true 31.40,41,54,56.64.67.68,71, 95.96.101,110,132,148,150,163 of the body 143,146 two as the number of 138 unconscious 60 womb 29 women 84.85.128,172-178.179-181 and childbearing 71 and children 147 doctrine of “having no soul” 27 economic independence of 43 freedom of 174-177 oppression of, by men 42,53,172- 178,180-181 political power of 128 souls of 172.180 wonder, vision of 79 work, value of 162 …
1996 · PDF PAGE 12
…ho wrote it down. There is a Being called Aiwaz, an intelligence discarnate, who wrote this Book of the Law, using my ears and hand. His mind is certainly superior to my own in knowledge and in power, for He has dominated me and taught me ever since.1 1 [Crowley, Commentary to AL 111:19, p. 161 below.] 2 [Quotations from Liber Legis are cited by chapter and verse in the margins throughout this edition, except when occurring in that section of the Commentary where the verse quoted is the subject.] But the writer from this dictation was not, at t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 171
…ards till their livers putrefy. The nature of woman has been corrupted, her hope of a soul thwarted, her proper pleasure balked, and her mind poisoned, to titillate the jaded palates of senile bankers and ambassadors. Why do men insist on “innocence” in women? 1. To flatter their vanity. 2. To give themselves the best chance of (a) escaping vene real disease, (b) propagating their noble selves. 3. To maintain power over their slaves by their possession of Knowledge. 4. To keep them docile as long as possible by drawing out the debauching of th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 165
…of the Khabs run through To stir me or still me! Aum! let it fill me! Commentary: Stanza 3 suggests the Rosicrucian Benediction: May thy Mind be open unto the Higher! May thy Heart be the Centre of Light! May thy Body be the Temple of the Rosy Cross!1 1 [These are the words of Reception in the Adeptus Minor 5°=6° ritual of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. See Israel Regardie, The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic (Phoenix: Falcon, 1984), vol. 7, p. 52. This passage is omitted in Crowley’s account of this ritual in The Equinox 1(3) (191…
1996 · PDF PAGE 185
… where than in man; only a blind megalomaniac or a Christian divine could suppose our infinitesimal mote of a planet the sole habitat of Mind, especially as our minds are, at best, totally incompetent to comprehend Nature. It is also unlikely that our Earth’s physical conditions of temperature, atmosphere, density and so on, which some still regard as essential to Life, are found frequently; we are only one of nine planets ourselves, and it is absurd to deny that life exists on the others, or in the Sun himself, just because the conditions of o…
1996 · PDF PAGE 54
Chapter 1 * Verse 51 55 were only agreed to let sleeping dogs lie, and mind one’s own business. In real life, we have seen in our own times Oscar Wilde, Sir Charles Dilke, Parnell, Canon Aitken and countless others, many of them engaged in first-rate work for the world, all wasted, because the mob must make believe to be “moral.” This phrase abolishes the Eleventh Commandment, Not to be Found Out, by authorizing Incest, Adultery, and Paederasty, which everyone now practices with humiliating precautions, which perpetuate the schoolboy’s enjoymen…
1996 · PDF PAGE 120
…te variety of structures which the jaw cannot imagine. The metric system is not the neces sary mode of measurement. It is the mark of a mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth. Our two eyes see an object in two aspects, and present to our consciousness a third which agrees with neither, is indeed, strictly speaking, not sensible to sight, but to touch! Our senses declare some things at rest and others in motion; our rea son corrects the error, firstly by denying that anything can…
1996 · PDF PAGE 160
… always asserted. There is a Being called Aiwaz, an intelligence discarnate, who wrote this Book of the Law, using my ears and hand. His mind is certainly superior to my own in knowledge and in power, for He has dominated me and taught me ever since. But that apart, the proof of any discarnate intelligence, even of the lowest order, has never before been established. And lack of that proof is the flaw in all the religions of the past; man could not be certain of the existence of “God,” because though he knew many powers independent of muscle, h…