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…ever uttered, despite its apparent licence, is seen on analysis to be indeed “the whole of the Law”, the sole and sufficient warrant for human action, the self-evident Code of Righteousness, the identification of Fate with Freewill, and the end of the Civil War in Man’s nature by appointing the Canon of Truth, the conformity of things with themselves, to détermine his every act. “Do what thou wilt” is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its levelj man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds wit…
1930 · PDF PAGE 41
…intelligences with insensible bodies. Indeed we know of other orders of mind (flies, etc., possibly vegetables) thinking by means of non-human brain-structures. But the fundamental problem of Religion is this: Is there any praeter-human Intelligence, of the same order as our own, 1. On considération these notes hâve been left as they were originally written. In An XVII, Sol in Virgo, Soror Rhodon, a probatîoner of A .*. A at that time in enjoyment of the privilège of sojourning in a certain secret Abbey of Thelema, asked Him to add to this book…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
…“physical” universe (as generally understood by profane science). These worlds hâve their own laws; their inhabitants are often of quasi-human intelligence ; there is a definite set of relations between certain “ideas” of ours, and their expressions, and certain types of phenomena. (Thus, symbols, the Qabalah, etc. enable us to communicate with whom we choose.) 7) “Astral” Beings possess knowledge and power of a different kind from our own; their “universe” is presumably of a different kind from ours, in some respects. (Our idea “bone” is not t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 59
torn asunder by the Maenads of his insensate impulses ; he hath no safety save he himself be Bacchus! Bacchus, divine and human! Bacchus, begotten on Semelé of Zeus, the adulterous Lord of 1 hunder ravishing, brutally, his virginal victim ! Bacchus, babe hidden from hâte in the most holy of holies, the secret of thy sire, in the Channel of the Star-Spate, Whereof one Serpent is thy Soûl! Bacchus, twy-formed, man-woman, Bacchus, whose inno¬ cence tames the Figer, while yet thy horns drip blood upon thy mouth, and sharpen the merriment of wine to…
1930 · PDF PAGE 92
…not receive the illumination as to the nature of life which the doctrine of évolution should shed, if one is passionately persuaded that humanity is essentially not animal, or convinced that causality is répugnant to reason. The Adept must be ready for the utter destruction of his point of view on any subject, and even that of his innate conception of the forms and laws of thought. 1 Thus he may find that his Angel consider his “business” or his “love” to be absurd trifles; also that human ideas of “time” are invalid, and human “laws” of logic …
1930 · PDF PAGE 53
must convey a Iruth not known to any human mind, past or présent. Yet this Truth must be vérifiable. There îs but one document in the world which présents evidence that fui]y satisfies these conditions. This is LIBER AL vel LEGIS the Book of the Law of this New Aeon of Horus, the Crowned and Conquering Child, the Aeon whose Logos is The Beast 666, whose name in the Outer Order was Frater Perdurabo. The nature of the proof of the separate existence of praeter- human Intelligence, independent of bodily form, is extremely complicated. Its main div…
1930 · PDF PAGE 20
…commended even to beginners as highly suggestive. Published. Liber CCCXXXV. Adonis. An account in poetic language of the struggle of the human and divine éléments in the consciousness of man, giving their harmony following on the victory of the latter. Equinox VII, p. 117. Liber CCCLXI. Liber H.H.H. — 224 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 80
… such impetus that the attraction of alien. orbs is no longer sufficient to swerve it. The “Hear me” clause is now uttered by the normal human consciousness, withdrawn to the physical bodyj the Adept must deliberately abandon his attainment, because it is not yet his whole being which burns up before the Beloved. The Adept, though withdrawn, shall hâve maintained the Extension of his Symbol. He now repeat the signs as before, save that he makes the Passive Invoking Pentagram of Spirit. He con- 284
1930 · PDF PAGE 40
… the way of Truth, but of affirming the propriety of the methods of the A.'. A.*, as the basis for the next great step in the advance of human knowledge. Love is the Law, love under will. O. M. 7 = 4D A.\À.\ Praemonstrator of the Order of the R... C.... Given from the Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum, Cefalù, Sicily, in the Seventeenth Year of the Aeon of Horus, the Sun being in 23° np and the Moon in I4°)f . 244 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 46
…ne, where the Great Work is often presented under the form of symbolically constructed landscapes occupied by quasi-heraldic animais and human types hieroglyphically distinguished, who carry on the mysterious operations of the Hermetic Art. There are also “planes” of Parable, of Fable, and of Folk-lore; in short, every country, creed, and literature has given its character- istic mode of présentation to some “plane” or other. But there are “planes” proper to every clairvoyant who explores the Astral Light without préjudice; in such case, things…
1930 · PDF PAGE 95
…the next few occasions; indeed, until familiarity has accustomed one to the idea that one’s lover has never supposed one to be more than human. Confidence returns gradually. Inarticulate ecstasy is replaced by a more sober enjoy- ment of the éléments of the fascination. Just so one’s first dazzled delight in a new landscape turns, as one continues to gaze, to the appréciation of exquisite details of the view. At first they were blurred by the blinding rush of general beauty ; they emerge one by one as the shock subsides, and passionate rapture …
1930 · PDF PAGE 30
…in word and deed, but to withdraw Himself at once within the veils of his natural manifestation as a man, and to keep silence during his human life as to the fact of his attainment, even to the other members of the Order. The Ipsissimus is pre-eminently the Master of ail modes of existence ; that is, his being is entirely free from internai or external necessity. His work is to destroy ail tendencies to construct or to cancel such necessities. He is the Master of the Law of Unsubstan- tiality (Anatta). The Ipsissimus has no relation as such wit…
1930 · PDF PAGE 50
… Magician, invoking Sol, were persuaded by a plausible spirit of Saturn that he was the Solar Intelligence required, and bade him eschew human love if he would attain to the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel; and suppose that his will, and that AngePs nature, were such that the Crux of their Formula was Lyrical Exaltation! Apart from the regular tests —- made at the time — of the integrity of any spirit, the Magician must make a careful record of every vision, omitting no detail ; he must then make sure that it tallies in ev…
1930 · PDF PAGE 44
…be considered as possessed of an “Astral shape”, sensible to our subtle perceptions. This “astral shape” is to its material basis as our human character is to our physical appearance. We may imagine this astral shape: e.g. we may “see” a jar of opium as a soft seductive woman with a cruel smile, just as we see in the face of a cunning and dishonest man the features of some animal, such as a fox. 1. See Poincaré’s essay on the Nature of Space, as an idea invented by ourselves to measure the resuit of, and explain, our muscular movements. 248 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 52
…rrespondences between Invocation and Apparition \ We must exclude coincidence 1 2, telepathy3, and subconscious knowledge. 4 Our praeter-human Intelligence 1. The Master Therion’s regular test is to Write the name of a Force on a card, and conceal it; invoke that Force secretly, send His pupil on the Astral Plane, and make him attribute his vision to some Force. The pupil then looks at the card; the Force he has named is that written upon it. 2. The most famous novel of Fielding is called uIom Jones”. It happened that Frater Perdurabo was stayi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…ach him to Know that agony, to Dare that destiny, to Will that catastrophe, 1. “Their Will” — not, of course, their wishes as individual human beings, but their will as ofhcers of the New Aeon. 2. It is not considered “essential to right conduct” to be an active propagandist of the Law, and so on; it may, or may not, be the True Will of any particular person to do so. But since the fundamental purpose of the Order is to further the Attainment of humanity, membership implies, by définition, the Will to help mankind by the means best adapted ther…
1930 · PDF PAGE 38
…ever he may call his inmost need of Truth, of our Order of A.-. A.*. It is designed principally to awake interest in the possibilités of human progress, and to proclaim the principles of the A A The outline given of the several successive steps is exact; the two crises — the Angel and the Abyss — are necessary features in every career. The other tasks are not always accomplished in the order given here; one man, for example, may acquire many of the qualités peculiar to the Adeptus Major, and yet lack some of those proper to the Practicus. 1 But…