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148 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS represents a very favourable case. You are only too likely, and that not only at the beginning, to meet all sorts of difficulties and dangers. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally , 666
…ncompatible with our Foreign Policy ; and Munich is Nine Months to a day after my Gesture . This then I consider a completely documented case of Prophecy . And I shall be a completely documented case of Brain-Fag unless I shut up NOW. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally , 666
…ur nouns most assuredly look as if there were; but I don't feel at all sure what the Greek (or Hebrew, or Arabic) words would be; in any case, I have not yet made any attempt in this direction. To the straightforward promise, then! Certainly no word more reassuring could be given. But avoid anxiety, of course; remember "without lust of result," and AL, III: 16: "Deem not too eagerly to catch the promises." Now, full speed ahead! Like most promises of this type, it is, one must suppose, conditional. Such a power is clearly of the Siddhi; and my …
…retation of this book. 2. It may be that later on you will want a copy of Eight Lectures on Yoga so I am putting a copy aside for you in case you should want it. 3. With regard to the O.T.O., I believe I can find you a typescript of all the official documents. If so, I will let you have them to read, and you can make up your mind as to whether you wish to affiliate to the Third Degree of the Order. I should consequently, in the case of your deciding to affiliate, go with you through the script of the Rituals and explain the meaning of the whole…
… write: But why? Why all this elaborate symbolism? Why not say straight out what you mean? Surely the subject is difficult enough in any case- must you put on a mask to make it clear? I know you well enough by now to be sure that you will not fob me off with any Holy-Willie nonsense about the Ineffable, about human language being inadequate to reveal such Mysteries, about the necessity of constructing a new language to explain a new system of thought; of course I know that this had to be done in the case of chemistry, of higher mathematics, ind…
…to the subject : in practice, the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew Alphabet will serve for this preliminary study, especially as in that case, we have already the attributions. I will begin by classing them. Gutturals: 1. G Luna. 2. Ch Cancer, house of Luna; Jupiter here exalted . 3. K Jupiter. 4. Q Pisces, house of Jupiter. Atu XVII "The Moon." You will note that either Jupiter or Luna occurs in every case; in two, doubly. Guttur, moreover, is the Latin word for 'throat'. Both planets emphasize the soft open expansive aspects of Nature; they b…
…l proceedings wherein the most sober, responsible, worthy and well-respected citizens , including the advocates and judges, investigated case after case with the utmost minuteness, with the most distinguished surgeons and anatomists to swear to the clinical details . Endless is the list of well-attested cases of bodies dug up after months of burial which have been found not merely flourishing with all the lines of life, but gorged with fresh blood. I cannot help feeling that all the superior-person explanations-which explain nothing-about colle…
…ture. One may note that there was no similarity in the names of the exchanges, or in the numbers . It is the most grotesquely impossible case of "wrong number" that ever came my way. Now for one or two oddities. Recently, needing to relax, I borrowed three "thrillers" from different sources. In every case, the plot turned on two men being so alike that no one could tell them apart. (Rupert of Hentzau , John Chilcote, M.P.,Melander's Millions.) I travelled from Louisville to Detroit by a railroad whose nickname was the "Big Four," my object bein…
…us to detect some of these suprasensibles by indirect methods, and even to use their peculiar qualities in the service of man, as in the case of the rays of Hertz and Roentgen. As Tyndall said, man might at any moment learn to perceive and utilize vibrations of all conceivable and inconceivable kinds. The question of Magick is a question of discovering and employing hitherto unknown forces in nature. We know that exist, and we cannot doubt the possibility of mental or physical instruments capable of bringing us in relation with them.) 13. Every…
…or wit nor work avail if it be absent. Yet one may maintain that it is always there, since "Every man and every woman is a star." In any case only technique responds to study and exercise; it has been written that it "demands as much study as theology, and as much practice as billiards." All one can do is (a) to unleash, (b) to direct, the latent genius. In countries hostile to civilization (horribilesque ultimosque Brittanos) and their colonies, past and present, the technique is almost non-existent; individuals who possess it in any degree of…
…one is aware of them. This then, is the difficulty, to enjoy consciously while not disturbing the process involved. The obvious physical case is the sexual act: perhaps its chief importance is just that it is a type of this exceptional spiritual-mental condition. I hope, however, that you will remember what I have said on the subject in paragraphs 15-17 of my Third Lecture on "Yoga for Yellowbellies" (pp. 71-72); there is a way of obtaining ecstasy from the most insignificant physiological function. Observe that in transferring the whole consci…
…esign. As well attribute the Riemann-Christoffel Tensor to the "happy thought" of some post -prandial rna them a tician. Here is another case. Now then this two-in-One letter <. 0, is the third Key to this Law; and on the discovery of that fact, after years of constant seeking, what sudden splendours of Truth, sacred as secret, blazed in he midnight of my mind! Observe now; "this circle squared in its failure is a key also.' Now I knew that in the value of the letters of ALHIM, 'the Gods', the Jews had concealed a not quite correct value of n, …
FEAR 389 in the least." Though, even in that case it is magically true, or should be. As in the case of the young lady who got carried on to Crewe. The unplanned adventure may have proved much more amusing.) How am I to tell whether you were seeing correctly? Suppose your chosen hexagram had been VI Sung "Contention" or XXIX I "Nourishing"? Where would be the 'vision'? You are to set out to explore a country unknown to you: How can I be sure that you have actually been there? How can you be sure yourself? You can't. You have got to display the …
…introduce a teacher, why not go to the Fountain-head and press towards the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel? In any case your Indian teacher will ultimately direct you to seek guidance from that source, so it seems to me that you have gone to a great deal of extra trouble and incurred a great deal of unnecessary danger by not leaving yourself in the first place in the hands of the Holy Guardian Angel. In any case there are the two methods which stand as alternatives . I do not know of any third one which can be of any use w…
…e copper feels about it; indeed, he doesn't believe that the copper knows about it at all. Yes, yes, of course; I know that's an extreme case. I only bring it in to show what could be done as a last resort, if pushed to the wall. Fortunately, we are not so ill situated . You will, I dare say, without my prompting, think of the surgeon and the schoolmaster; but I can go one better. We have in recent history a case almost precisely parallel. How did I begin this letter? By defining the task of the Author: to announce the Magical Formula of the Ae…
…r so less than he might expect normally, so he turned down the offer. Not a trace of sentiment of any kind! Now let us consider an "A.B. case." John Jeremiah Jenkins sees a short cut to his performance of the Great Work. To seize this opportunity, he must give up a steady job with good prospects and as near safety as is possible in the nature of things, for a slim chance of a career in the most insecure of all the professions. He can do it; that is at the mercy of his Will; but he risks something very close to the utter wreck and ruin of his fu…
…me kind of awakening of some faculty of the magical self, though that seems to me the simplest and most probable explanation; but in any case there is no doubt about the nature of the experience, and there can be no difficulty about the recognition of it when it occurs. It reminds me of the story of the Psychologist who wanted to judge the difference in temperament between an Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman, in judging the amount of Whisky in a bottle in the next room. They had to go in, report, and come back, and tell him what they thou…
…he constitution of Man, and there is my Essay No. I, in Little Essays Toward Truth; you had better get these well fixed in your mind, in case some of what now follows should prove obscure. lean 't be bothered to define all the technical terms all over again. Do I believe in it? Yes. Why? 1. Because I remember a dozen or so of my previous lives on earth . (See Magick, Chapter VI.) 2. Because no other theory satisfies my feeling for justesse, for equilibrium, for Newton's Third Law of Motion . 3. Because every religion asserts, or at least implie…
… sane and just. As I promised I am writing this letter to cover a few practical points which we had not time to discuss and which in any case I think it better to arrange by correspondence . I. It is of the first importance that you should understand my personal position. It is not actually wrong to regard me as a teacher, but it is certainly liable to mislead; fellow-student , or, if you like, fellow-sufferer, seems a more appropriate definition. The climax of my life was what is known as the Cairo Working, described in the minutest detail in …
… flat contradiction to the Teaching of The Book of the Law. For The word of Sin is Restriction , and meanness is plainly a most flagrant case of Restriction. Also, there is nearly always an element of Fear in meanness; at least, I would like to bet that 95 percent of mean people originally became so because they foresaw a friendless and penniless old age. And fear is particularly forbidden in the Book: III: 16: "fear not to undergo the curses." Waxing in wrath , III: 17 goes on: "Fear 345