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Page 1 of 61954 · PDF PAGE 529
…re natural to evoke a Salamander to instruct you on the difficult point. But you must remember that your Holy Guardian Angel is not only far more fully instructed than yourself on every point that you can conceive, but you may go so far as to say that it is definitely his work, or part of his work; remembering always that he inhabits a sphere or plane which is entirely different from anything of which you are normally aware. To attain to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel is consequently without doubt by far the simplest …
1954 · PDF PAGE 512
…ust off the Place des Tertres, overlooking the city. A large and lovely studio, panelled in oak. Strange: it was completely bare, and so far as one could see, it had no door. The skylights, mindful, were carefully screened with broidered stuff. A gallery, some ten feet from the floor, ran round one corner. Here was a buffet, loaded with priceless wines and liquors of all sorts-except the "soft"-and excellent variety of all cold "snack" refreshments. One gained it by a staircase from the lower floor. By the buffet , the old butler: oh, for a pai…
1954 · PDF PAGE 485
… Venus of Milo. The maximum success possible in such an operation would be to become a "Black-Brother"; but what happens in practice, so far as my own experience goes, is complete dispersion of the mental faculties amounting to suicide; I could quote no less than four cases in which actual physical self-murder was the direct result.
1954 · PDF PAGE 76
…k, and pulling your iron, and socketing your mashie and not being up with your putt-that's 6, and you are not allowed to pick up. It's a far cry to the Nineteenth, and the sky threatens storm before the imminent night. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 141
…t call a spade a bloody shovel! I shall break off this brief note at this point , so that you may have time to tell me if what I have so far said covers the whole ground of your enquiry. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 443
…o go so miraculously well!) All is not lost-not even honour! Suppose you reflect that (after all) Hebrew is a late language , invented ; far, far removed from the primitive grunts and groans (with their corresponding motions) that we set out to study. Let us take the high hand , and say that the Guttural Correspondence doesn't rime with anything , that it is just an amazing piece of sheer luck. With all due caution, therefore, let us attack our puzzle from the other end ; let us see what astral experiment tells us about the philology of it!
1954 · PDF PAGE 506
…al system is quite unable to grasp the situation with any accuracy , and the whole man is temporarily engulphed in what is naturally not far from a condition of insanity. In-shall I say "Anglo-Saxondom," or "Teutonic breeds," or "bourgeoisie ," so as to include some of the French whom when they are good are very good indeed , but when they are bad, they are horrid? - the presiding God/Gods of this Trinity is/are: l. Sex, 2. Religion, 3. "Drugs" ; and the greatest of these is Sex, actually the main root of which the other two are tough and twist…
1954 · PDF PAGE 113
…ia may skin me close, And Lais load me with disease. Poor pleasures, bitter bargains, these? I shall despise Diogenes. Follow your fancy far enough! At last you surely come to God. There is thus in this School no attempt to deny that Nature is, as Zoroaster said, "a fatal and evil force"; but Nature i:::, so to speak, "the First Matter of the Work," which is to be transmuted into gold. The joy is a function of our own part in this alchemy. For this reason we find the boldest and most skilful adepts deliberately seeking out the most repugnant el…
1954 · PDF PAGE 176
…lt know all bitterness, thy teeth fixed in the Sodom-Apple. Thus hast thou been lured along that Path, whose terror else had driven thee far away. o thou that stridest upon the middle of the Path, no phantoms mock thee. For the stride's sake thou stridest. Thus art thou lured along that Path, whose fascination else had driven thee far away. o thou that drawest toward the End of The Path, effort is no more. Faster and faster dost thou fall; thy weariness is changed into Ineffable Rest . For there is no Thou upon that Path: thou hast become The W…
1954 · PDF PAGE 321
… fall from your eyes, and your deep need tears down the tawdry counterfeits which hide the shrine where Isis stands unveiled-but ah! too far. You must advance. To advance-that means Work. Patient, exhausting, thankless, often bewildering Work. Dear sister, if you would but Work! Work blindly, foolishly, misguidedly, it doesn't matter in the end: Work in itself has absolute virtue. But for you, having got so far in this incarnation, there must be a revolution. You must no longer hesitate, no longer plan; you must leap into the dark, and leap at …
1954 · PDF PAGE 17
…ement and for the perversion of Mme. Blavatsky's original teachings. Crowley has slung the not very salubrious term "nigger" around with far too much carelessness. In one place he has used this word where Krishnamurti is concerned-which is a nasty piece of Anglo-Saxon assumption of superiority-and for the black people in this country. His racist prejudices are far too evident to leave one comfortable. Following the speech quoted from The Equinox, Vol. I, No. 10, there is an account of the legal proceedings in Chingleput, India, where J. Narayan…
1954 · PDF PAGE 178
…ge of Bach. To play this is the principal weapon of your ceremony. In the course of your operation, you assume your astral body and rise far above the terrestrial atmosphere, while the music continues softly in the background. You open your eyes, and find that it is night . Dark clouds are on the horizon; but in the zenith is a crown of constellations. This light helps you, especially as your eyes become accustomed to the gloom, to take in your surroundings. It is a bleak and barren landscape. Terrific mountains rim the world . In the midst loo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 22
…ormation and an encyclopedia of occult learning not to be found elsewhere. Though the title of the book may be amusing, the contents are far from being so. Crowley's reputation as a writer and teacher of the greatest magnitude must be enhanced by these letters, which are thus strongly recommended to all who seek the Light. There are some magnificent flashes of profundity in this book as when Crowley examines the necessity of keeping a diary, a personal record of all practices undertaken. A great deal of what we know about him is due to the fact…
1954 · PDF PAGE 194
…GY 161 nobody could possibly read them all thoroughly, and he would be a great fool to try. But he may do little harm by going into them far enough to observe that hardly any half-dozen are agreed even on the foundations of their system, hardly any two upon the meaning of any given aspect, dignity, or position; there is not always agreement even upon what questions pertain to which houses. There are a few completely quack systems, such as those which mix up the science with Toshosophical hypotheses; naturally you discard these. But even of gene…
1954 · PDF PAGE 392
… smoke were rising from the triangle, leaving the rest of the room practically clear. Finally, at the climax of the ritual-we had got as far as the "stronger and more potent conjuration"-we both saw, vaguely enough, but yet beyond doubt, parts of a quite definite figure. In particular, there was a helmet suggesting Athene (or, horror! Brittania!), part of a tunic or chlamys, and very solid footgear. (I thought of "the well-greaved Greeks.") Now this was very far from satisfactory; it corresponded in no wise with the appearance of Buer which
1954 · PDF PAGE 393
360 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS the Goetia had led us to expect. Worse, this was as far as it wen t; no doubt, seeing it at all had disturbed our concentration. (This is where training in Yoga would have helped our Magick.) From that point it was all a wash-out. We could not get back the enthusiasm necessary to persist. We called it a day, did the banishings, closed the temple, and went to bed with our tails between our legs. (And yet, from a saner point of view, the Operation had been a shining success. "Miraculous" things began to happen; in one way…
1954 · PDF PAGE 31
… only in this fascinating book of letters, and in the book about the Tarot, but in his earlier book Magick in Theory and Practice. It is far from easy for the ordinary individual, bound by the ordinary codes of social behavior and the conventional frames of reference, to have the foggiest idea of what moves or motivates an initiate whose illumination has imposed an entirely new point of view on the world and life in general. The whole of letter 79 on "Progress" should be read in this connection. It is also interesting to compare some of the wei…
1954 · PDF PAGE 179
…me in useful. You run through in your mind the seven sacred planets . The very first of them seems quite consonant with what you have so far seen. Everything suits Saturn well enough. To be on the safe side, you go through the others; but this is a very obvious case-Saturn is the only planet that agrees with everything. The only other possibility will be the Moon; but there is no trace noticeable of any of her more amiable characteristics. You will therefore make up your mind that it is a Saturn ian god-form that you need. Fortunate indeed for …
1954 · PDF PAGE 297
…ten in 1922 was published 1929. The Third Publication nine months before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war, which is breaking up the Far East. The Fourth Publication 6:22 a.m., December 22, 1938, e. v. This series of actions complies perfectly with the condition of Prophecy . Nine months elapsed , and I was able to overprint , also to reprint, enlarged to four pages my remaining prospectuses in red ink. As follows : nine months before the Betrayal , which stripped Britain of the last rags of hQnour, prestige and security, and will break up …
1954 · PDF PAGE 157
…der of the Extreme Left in the Council-Chamber of the City of the Pyramids, so that if I acquiesce at all in the system of the O.T.O. so far as the "secret of secrets" of the IXo is concerned, it is really on a point of personal honour. My pledge given to the late Frater Superior and O.H.O., Dr. Theodor Reuss. For all that, in this particular instance it is beyond question a point of common prudence , both because the abuse of the Secret is, at least on the surface, so easy and so tempting, and because, if it became a matter of general knowledg…