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Page 1 of 51954 · PDF PAGE 197
…er similar horoscopes; e.g. a dozen which have Sagittarius rising, another lot with Jupiter in the mid-heaven, and so on; see if you can find a similarity in their lives with what the books will have led you to expect . Don't be afraid to criticise; on the contrary, do some research work on your own, and find cases which seem to contradict tradition . Instance: Saturn in the M.C. is said to cause a spectacular rise in a man's career, ending in an equally notable crash. Examples : Napoleon I and III, Oscar Wilde, Woodrow Wilson, Lord Northcliffe…
1954 · PDF PAGE 228
…ading as sense in the cloak of verbiage and verbosity. Analysis, and Synthesis; or, Subtraction, and Addition. 1. You can examine A, and find that it is composed of B and C. A = B + C. 2. You can find out what happens to B when you add C to it. B + C = A. As you notice, the two are identical, after all; but the process is different. Example: Raise Copper Oxide to a very high temperature; you obtain metallic copper and oxygen gas. Heat copper in a stream of oxygen; you obtain copper oxide. You can complicate such experiments indefinitely, as whe…
1954 · PDF PAGE 366
HOW TO RECOGNIZE MASTERS 333 when, year after year, the same sort of thing keeps on happening, and when, furthermore, I find myself able to predict, as experience has taught me to do in the last three years, that they will happen, and even how the pieces will fit into the puzzle, I am justified in assuming a causal connection.
1954 · PDF PAGE 400
…ncy. At first sight it looks as if all I could do was to refer you to the official text book of that sublime and difficult art. You will find it in The Equinox, Vol. I, No.2. The first thing to remember about Geomancy is that although the various intelligences are attributed to the twelve signs of the Zodiac they all appertain to the element of earth. Anyone therefore who has got in his nativity an earthy sign rising, or the sun in an earthy sign, or a good proportion of planets in an earthy sign, is much more likely to find Geomancy attractive…
1954 · PDF PAGE 47
14 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS correspondences given in the books of reference without thinking out why they are so given. Thus, you find a camel in the number which refers to the Moon, but the Tarot card "the Moon" refers not to the letter Gimel which means camel, but to the letter Qoph , and the sign Pisces which means fish, while the letter itself refers to the back of the head; and you also find fish has the meaning of the letter Nun. You must not go on from this. and say that the back of your head is like a camel-the connection between them is si…
1954 · PDF PAGE 253
…a, a Bodhisattva of the best; yea, further, we have a Master of the Temple-and is not his Motto Vi Veri Vniversum Vivus Vici? and yet we find him fussing like an old hen over the most trivial of troubles ; we find him wrapped in the lacustrine vapours of Avernus, fretting himself into a fever about imaginary misfortunes at which no normal person would do more than cast a contemptuous glance, and get on with the job. Yes, although you can scarcely evade indictment for unnecessarily employing the language of hyperbole , I see what you mean. Yet t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 316
…" (a very wicked place) there was a promenade, with bars complete (drinking bars, my dear child, I blush to say) where one might hope to find "strength and beauty met together, Kindle their image like a star in a sea of glassy weather." There one might always find London's "soiled doves" (as they revoltingly called them in the papers) of every type: Theodora (celebrated "Christian" Empress) and Phryne, Messalina and Thais, Baudelaire's swarthy mistress, Nana, Moll Flanders and Fanny Hill. But the enemies of life were on guard. They saw people n…
1954 · PDF PAGE 457
424 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS very different points of view; wrought subtly and accurately into final shape, you should find no further difficulty in understanding fully at least the theoretical and abstract aspects of the business. But as to your own wit of judgment as to the general rules of your own private Code of Morals, what is 'right' and what is 'wrong' for you, that will emerge only from long self-analysis such as is the chief work of the Sword in the process of your Initiation. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 167
…at any God shall deny thee for this. Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain, but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes. and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall ye find them. But ye, 0 my people. rise up and awake! Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy and beauty! There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times.
1954 · PDF PAGE 507
… Wisdom formed He the worlds." So soon as its thaumaturgy is accomplished, it is, through Binah, understood as the Logos. Thus in Sex we find everyone of the primary Correspondences of Chokmah. Being thus ineffable and sacrosanct , it is (plainly enough) peculiarly liable to profanation. Being profaned, it is naturally more unspeakably nasty than any other of the "Mysteries." You will find a good deal on this subject implied in Artemis Iota, attached to another of my letters to you. Before tackling "Sore Spots" seriously, there is after all, on…
1954 · PDF PAGE 429
…in these studies which is not to be by-passed or dodged in any way whatever. But, after all, it is the same difficulty which every child finds when he begins any study of any kind. In Latin, for instance, he is told that mensa means a table, that it belongs to the first declension and is feminine. There is no why about any of this; no explanation is possible; the child has to pick up the elements of the language one by one, taking what he is taught on trust. And it is only after accumulating a vast collection of unintelligible details that the …
1954 · PDF PAGE 173
…ur observations. No circumstance of life is, or can be irrelevant. "He that is not with me is against me." In all these letters you will find only two things: either I tell you what is bad for you, or what is good for you. But I am not you; I don't know every detail of your life, every trick of your thought. You must do ninety percent of the work for yourself. Whether it is love, or your daily avocation, or diet, or friends, or amusements, or anything else, you must find out what helps you to your True Will and what hinders; cherish the one and…
1954 · PDF PAGE 534
…e first step is the separation of (what we call, for convenience) the astral body from the physical body. As our experiments proceed, we find that our astral body itself can be divided into grosser and subtler components. In this way we become aware of the existence of what we call, for convenience, the Holy Guardian Angel, and the more we realise the implications of the theory of the existence of such a being, the clearer it becomes that our supreme task is to put ourselves into intimate communication with him. For one thing, we shaH find that…
1954 · PDF PAGE 305
…nt, I was sleeping in what might have been euphemistically called a houseboat. It was liable to leak; and on such occasions as I woke to find water trickling down my nose, I found that the dream from which I had wakened was an adventure of some sort in connection with water. (It is quite notorious, I believe, that many asthmatic subjects are pestered by dreams of having been guillotined in a previous incarnation. Alan Bennett, I may mention, was one such.) As the practice proceeds, you should find not only that your dreams increase in number pe…
1954 · PDF PAGE 43
…GICK WITHOUT TEARS Letter D June 8, 1943 Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Thanks for your letter. I couldn't find the O.T.O. typescript-and then it struck me that it would be useful to await your reactions. If I were expecting some presumably important papers by post , I should get anxious after 24 hours delay (at most) and start enquiries. Anyhow, I can't find them for the moment; but Mr. Bryant said he would lend you his Blue Equinox; pages 195-270 give what you require. But the real point of your affiliating is th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 50
…go to make up Man according to the Qabalistic system. I have tried to define these terms as accurately as possible, and I think you will find them, in any case, clearer than those to which you have become accustomed with the Eastern systems. In India, by the way, no attempt is ever made to use these vague terms. They always have a very clear idea of what is meant by words like "Buddhi," "Manas," and the like. Attempts at translation are very unsatisfactory . I find that even with such a simple matter as the "Eight Limbs of Yoga," as you will se…
1954 · PDF PAGE 423
…he most practical plan would be to make a musical conjuration of Sol; use this as your invocation when you go on the Astral Plane; there find a suitable guide to the proper authority-and so on! And that , dear Sister, for to-night will be exactly and precisely that! Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally , 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 259
… bacon. It is the last attack that breaks through the enemy position. Water will never boil, however long you keep it at 99 0 C. You may find that a Pranayama cycle of 10-20-30 brings no result in months; put it up to 10-20-40, and Dhyana comes instantly . When in doubt, push just a little bit harder. You have no means of finding out what are exactly the right conditions for success in any practice; but all practices are alike in one respect; the desired result is in the nature of orgasm. I guess that's about what I think. Love is the law, love…
1954 · PDF PAGE 325
46 Selfishness Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Selfishness? I am glad to find you worrying that bone, for it has plenty of meat on it ; fine juicy meat, none of your Chilled Argentine or Canterbury lamb. It is a pelvis, what's more; for in a way the whole structure of the ethics of Thelema is founded upon it. There is some danger here; for the question is a booby trap for the noble , the generous, the high-minded . 'Selflessness', the great characteristic of the Master of the Temple, the very quintessence of his att…
1954 · PDF PAGE 199
166 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Obviously, when you do go wrong, set up the figure, study it more carefully than ever, and find out what misled you. Remember constantly that the Statistical Method is your one and only safeguard against self-deception . Within the limits of a letter I could hardly hope to go into matters much more fully or deeply than I have done ; but 'pon my soul! I think that what I have said should be enough for an intelligent and assiduous student. Let me insist that all that is worth while comes by experience . Learning one thing…