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…w the Abyss, contains in itself an unmitigated duality or falsehood, and is to that extent qliphotic 3 and dangerous. Even an idea like “truth” is unsafe unless it is realized that ail Truth is in one sense falsehood. For ail Truth is relative ; and if it be supposed absolute, will mislead.4 “The Book of Lies falsely so called” (Liber 333) is worthy of close and careful study in this respect. The reader should also consult Konx Om Pax, “Introduction”, and “Thien Tao” in the same volume. Ail this is to be expressed in the words of the ritual its…
1929 · PDF PAGE 46
…Each surh detailed piece of work may be very valuable, but it does not as a rule throw light on the main principles of the universe. Its truth is the truth of one angle. It might even lead to error, if some inferior person were to generalize from too few facts. Imagine an inhabitant of Mars who wished to philosophise about the earth, and had nothing to go by but the diary of some man at the North Pôle! But the work of every explorer, on whatever branch of the Tree of Life the Caterpillar he is after may happen to be crawling, is immensely helpe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 114
tion of the Soûl to express its Truth, in Ecstasy, through Beauty; and that no Sport rivais its fascinations of danger and delight, so excites, exercises, and tests its devotees to the uttermost, or so rewards them by well-being, pride, and the passionate pleasures of Personal triumph. “Magick takes every thought and act for ifs apparatus; it has the Universe for its Library and its Laboratory; ail Nature is its Subject; and its Game, free from close seasons and protective restrictions, always abounds in infinité variety, being ail that exists.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 94
…xpressed in subjective symbols if necessary. The cori- troversy is ultimately unmeaning. However we interpret the evidence, its relative truth dépends in its internai cohérence. We may therefore say that any magical recollection is genuine if it gives the explanation of our external or internai conditions. Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles. As our record extends into the past, the evidence of its truth is cumulative. Every incarnation that we remembe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 61
… the thunderbolt of Zeus or Indra, the God of Air. Lamed is the Ox-goad, the driving force; and it is also the Balance, representing the truth and love of the Magician. It is the loving care which he bestows upon perfecting his instruments, and the équilibration of that fierce force which initiâtes the ceremony \ Yod is the créative energy — the procreative power ; and yet Yod is the solitude and silence of the hermitage into which the Magician has shut himself. Mem is the letter of Water, and it is the Mem final, whose long fiat lines suggest …
1929 · PDF PAGE 30
…taining to orders of existence which 2. Prof essor Sigmund Freud and his school hâve, in recent years, discovered a part of this body of Truth, which has been taught for many centuries in the Sanctuaries of Initiation. But failure to grasp the fullness of Truth, especially that implied in my Sixth Theorem (above) and its corollaries, has led him and his followers into the error of admitting that the avowedly suicidai “Censor” is the proper arbiter of conduct. Official psycho-analysis is therefore committed to upholding a fraud, although the fou…
1929 · PDF PAGE 74
…s io (Malkuth) but spelt in fui! 20 (Jupiter). This Yod in the Virgin expands to the Babe in the Egg by formulating the Secret Wisdom of Truth of Hermes in the Silence of the Fool. He acquires the Eye-Wand, beholding and acting and being adored. The Inverted Pentagram — Baphomet — the Hermaphrodite fully grown — begets himself on himself as V again. Note that there are now two sexes in one person throughout, so that each individual is self-procreative sexually, whereas Isis knew only one sex, and Osiris thought the two sexes opposed. Also the f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 95
…ill, fhat the memories of other incarnations are dreamsj but dreams are determined by reality just as much as the events of the day. The truth is to be apprehended by the correct translation of the symbolic language. The last section of the Oath of the Master of the Temple is: “I swear to interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soûl.” The Magical Memory is (in the last analysis) one manner, and, as expérience testifies, one of the most important manners, of performing this vow. 59
1929 · PDF PAGE 96
…ou hâve anything in the North, you must put something equal and opposite to it in the South. The importance of this is so great, and the truth of it so obvious, that no one with the most médiocre capacity 1. The full significance of this aphorism is an Arcanum of the grade of Ipsissimus. It may, however, be partially apprehended by study of Liber Aleph, and the Book of the Law and the Commentaries thereon. It explains Existence. 2. This is the case because we happen ourselves to be Microcosms whose Law is “love under will”. But it is aîso Magic…
1929 · PDF PAGE 137
…e even a single spirit within the circle, the effect of the conjuration will be entirely absorbed by it. 2 1. See, however, the Essay on Truth in “Konx oin Pax”. The Circle (in one aspect) asserts Duality, and emphasizes Division. 2. While one remains exposed to the action of ail sorts of forces, they more or less counterbalance each other, so that the general equilib- rium, produced by évolution, is on the whole maintained. But if we suppress ail but one, its action becomes irrésistible. Thus, the pressure of IOI
1929 · PDF PAGE 28
…y existence, is bound up in MAGICK. I trust that they will understand, not only the reasonableness, but the necessity of the fundamental truth which I was the means of giving to mankind: “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” I trust that they will assert themselves as individually absolute, that they will grasp the fact that it is their right to assert themselves, and to accomplish the task for which their nature fits them. Yea, more, that this is their duty, and that not only to themselves but to others, a duty founded upon univer…
1929 · PDF PAGE 65
…nd superior condition is created, a condition only rendered possible by the process of death. The Alchemists themselves taught this same truth. The first matter of the work was base and primitive, though “natural”. After passing through various stages the “black dragon” appeared; but from this arose the pure and perfect gold. Even in the legend of Prometheus we find an identical formula concealed; and a similar remark applies to those of Jésus Christ, and of many other mythical god-men worshipped in different countries.3 A magical ceremony cons…
1929 · PDF PAGE 48
… and Death, alike of individuals and of races, which is characteristic of Nature. He has perhaps a tendency to perceive the ‘first noble truth’ uttered by Buddha, that Everything is sorrow. Nature, it seems, is a tragedy. He has perhaps even experienced the great trance called Sorrow. He should then consider whether there is not some Deity who expresses this Cycle, and yet whose nature is joy. He will find what he requires in Dionysus. There are three main methods of invoking any Deity. The First Method consists of dévotion to that Deity, and, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
…e general method of doing so has been I. Members of the IV° of the O. T. O . are well aware of a Magick Word whose analysis contains ail Truth, human and Divine, a Word indeed potent for any group which dares to use it. 43
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
…as done much evil, it has also been the source of much goodj that if it is the child of error, it has yet been the mother of freedom and truth.” Ibid. XIV
1929 · PDF PAGE 50
…t mistaking the symbolism. In this case, for example, the doctrine of individual immortality has been dragged in, to the destruction, of truth. It is not that utterly worthless part of man, his individual consciousness as John Smith, which défiés death — that consciousness which dies and is reborn in every thought. That which persists (if anything persist) is his real John Smithiness, a quality of which he was probably never conscious in his life. " Even that does not persist unchanged. It is always growing. The Cross is a barren stick, and the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 83
…existence. It soon became obvious to The Master Fherion that AUM was an inadéquate and misleading hieroglyph. It stated only part of the truth, and it implied a fundamental falsehood. He consequently determined to modify the Word in such a manner as to fit it to represent the Arcana unveiled by the Aeon of which He had attained to be the Logos. The essential task was to emphasize the fact that nature is not catastrophic, but proceeds by means of undulations. It might be suggested that Manvantara and Pralaya are in reality com- plementary curves…
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
…e rays which we now use for wireless telegraphy was stérile until reflected through the minds and wills of the people who could take his truth, and transmit it to the world of action bv means of mechanical and économie *» instruments.) (22) Every individual is essentially sufficient to himself. But he is unsatisfactory to himself until he has established himself in his right relation with the Universe. (Illustration: A microscope, however perfect, is useless in the i. It is no objection that the hypocrite is himself part of Nature. He is an “en…
1929 · PDF PAGE 105
…-tom, and even the violin, hâve ail been used, as well as many others, of which the I. A true poet cannot help revealing himself and the truth of things in his art, whether he be aware of what he is writing, or no. I. See “Eleusis”, A. Crowley, Collected Works, Vol. III Epilogue. — 69
1929 · PDF PAGE 157
…into a lake, widening and weakeningj till the disturbance is compensated. Just as a handful of fanatics, insane with one over-emphasised truth, may infect a whole country for a time bv inflaming that thought in their neighbours, so the Magician créâtes a commotion by disturbing the balance of power. He transmits his particular vibration as a radio operator does with his ray 5 rate-relation détermines exclusive sélection. In practice, the Magician must aevoke the spirits of the storm” by identifying himself with the ideasof which atmospheric phe…