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125 Karma does not work in this way at all. In any case moral fables have to be very carefully constructed, or they may prove dangerous to those who use them. You will remember Bunyan's Passion and Patience: naughty Passion played with all his toys and broke them, good little Patience put them carefully aside. Bunyan forgets to mention that by the time Passion had broken all his toys, he had outgrown them. Karma does not act in this tit-for-tat way. An eye for an eye is a sort of savage justice, and the idea of justice in our human sense is qui…
1913 · PDF PAGE 121
…is of his own emotions; for until these are overcome he will be incapable of judging others. This analysis may be carried out in various ways; one is the material- istic way. For example, if oppressed by nightmare, let him explain: " This nightmare is a cerebral congestion." The strict way of doing this by meditation is Mahasatipatthana,^ but ' See Crowley, "Collected Works," vol. ii, pp. 252-254.
1913 · PDF PAGE 160
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1913 · PDF PAGE 31
… rigidity of law; others would make it of Acacia, for Acacia is the symbol of resurrection. The Altar is a double cube, which is a rough way of symbolizing the Great Work; for the doubling of the cube, Hke the squaring of the circle, was one of the great problems of antiquity. The surface of this Altar is composed of ten squares. The top is Kether, and the ' It represents the extension of Will. Will is the Dyad (see section on the Wand) ; 2x2 = 4. So the altar is foursquare, and also its ten squares show 4. 10 = i + 2 + 3 + 4- 21
1913 · PDF PAGE 145
…ight illumines the whole Temple, yet upon it are cast no shadows, no reflections. It cannot be touched, it cannot be extinguished, in no way can it change; for it is utterly apart from all those things which
1913 · PDF PAGE 124
I 12 Buddhist, Nibbana, was in any way different from their own goal, Heaven, in spite of the perfect plainness of the language in such dialogues as those between the Arahat Nagasena and King Melinda ; and their attempts to square the text with their preconceptions will always stand as one of the great foUies of the wise. Again, it is almost impossible for the well-mannered Christian to reaHze that Jesus Christ ate with his fingers. The temperance advocate makes believe that the wine at the marriage feast of Cana was non-alcoholic. It is a sort…
1913 · PDF PAGE 44
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1913 · PDF PAGE 14
…which it is easy to check one's progress. Every one knows the force of habit. Every one knows that if you keep on acting in a particular way, that action becomes easier, and at last absolutely natural. All religions have devised practices for this purpose. If you keep on praying with your lips long enough, you will one day find yourself pray- ing in your heart. The whole question has been threshed out and organized
1913 · PDF PAGE 85
…uch that wherever men had built a great city. He had placed a river to assist them in conveying merchandise. But the truth is that in no way can we imagine the Universe as devised. If horses were made for men to ride, were not men made for worms to eat?
1913 · PDF PAGE 140
…omes to make the Pantacle! Everyone has the material, one man 's pretty well as good as his brothers; but for that Pantacle to be in any way fashioned to a willed end, or even to an intelligible end, or even to a known end: "Hoc opus, Hie labor est." It is indeed the toil of ascending from Avernus, and escaping to the upper air. In order to do it, it is most necessary to understand our tendencies, and to will the development of one, the destruction of another. And though all elements in the Pantacle must ultimately be destroyed, yet some will h…
1913 · PDF PAGE 119
…the other cold. Even in instruments themselves, their physical qualities, such as ex- pansion and contraction (which may be called, in a way, the roots of pleasure and pain), cause error. Make a thermometer, and the glass is so excited by the necessary fusion that year by year, for thirty years afterwards or more, the height of the mercury will continue to alter; how much more then with so plastic a matter as the mind: There is no emotion which does
1913 · PDF PAGE 134
…of the Chief of the A.-. A.'., "the Light of the World Him- self.'' - It does not occur to a newly-hatched chicken to behave in the same way as a new-born child.
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47 of great price, which when a man hath found he straightway selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that pearl. With many people custom and habit —of which ethics is but the social expression —are the things most difificult to give up: and it is a useful practice to break any habit just to get into the way of being free from that form of slavery. Hence we have prac- tices for breaking up sleep, for putting our bodies into strained and un- natural positions, for doing difficult exercises of breathing — all these, apart from any special merit they…
1913 · PDF PAGE 66
…liff it is very much better to do it than to give up the practice. And it is of the very greatest importance not to limit the vow in any way. You must buy the egg without haggling. In a certain Society the members were bound to do certain things, being assured that there was "nothing in the vow contrary to their civil, moral, or religious obligations." So when any one wanted to break his vow he had no difficulty in discovering a very good reason for it. The vow lost all its force. When Buddha took his seat under the blessed Bo-Tree, he took an …
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…ise break in. The names of God form a further protection. The Magician may consider what names he will use; but each name should in some way symbolise this Work in its method and accomplishment. It is impos- sible here to enter into this subject fully; the discovery or construction of suitable names might occupy the most learned Qabalist for many years. These nine lamps were originally candles made of human fat, the fat of enemies^ slain by the Magician; they thus served as warnings to any hostile force of what might be expected if it caused tr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 136
…n, he had maliciously deprived a woman of her sight. This is only a fairy tale, a bogey to frighten the children, and probably the worst way of influencing the young yet devised by human stupidity. ^ To surrender all, one must give up not only the bad but the good ; not only weak- ness but strength. How can the mystic surrender all, while he clings to his virtues?
1913 · PDF PAGE 139
…leph, the microcosm of all-wandering air, the fool of the Taro, the aimlessness and fatality of things! It is very difficult then in any way io fashion this heavy Pantacle. We can engrave characters upon it with the dagger, but they will scarcely come to more than did the statue of Ozymandias, King of Kings, in the midst of the unending desert. We cut a figure on the ice ; it is effaced in a morning by the tracks of other skaters; nor did that figure do more than scratch the surface of
1913 · PDF PAGE 114
…he blade of the Serpent, the blade of the Phallus." But this Sword is not for the ordinary Magician. For this is the Sword flaming every way that keeps Eden, and in this Sword the Wand and the Cup are concealed — so that although the being of the Magi-
1913 · PDF PAGE 172
… prefigured. In the system of Abramelin the Lamen is a plate of silver upon which the Holy Guardian Angel writes in dew. This is another way of expressing the same thing, for it is He who confers the secrets of that power which should be herein expressed. St. Paul expresses the same thing when he says that the breastplate is faith, and can withstand the fiery darts of the wicked. This " faith " is not blind self-confidence ^ Some writers have actually confused the Lamen with the Pantacle, usually through a misunderstanding of the nature of the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 162
…s followed by a full stop. This full stop may never be written anywhere else; for the wTiting of the Book goes on eternally; there is no way of closing the record until the goal of all has been attained. Let every page of this Book be filled with song—for it is a Book of incantation !