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Page 1 of 51954 · PDF PAGE 248
30 Do You Believe in God? Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You are quite right , as usual. True, we have gone over a great deal of the ground in various learned disquisitions on Gods, Angels, Elves, et hoc genus omne. But God with a capital G in the singular is a totally different pair of Bluchers-nicht wahr? Let me go back just for a moment to the meaning of belief. We agreed that the word was senseless except as it implies an opinion , instinct, conviction-what you please!-so fIrmly entrenched in our natures that w…
1954 · PDF PAGE 238
"GOD" AND "SELF" 205 To formulate the idea of 'self' at all, you must posit limitations; anything that is distinguishable is a mere temporary (and arbitrary) selection of the finite from the infinite; whatever you choose to think of, it changes, it grows, it disappears . You have got to train your mind to canter through those leafy avenues of thought upon the good green turf of Indifference; when you can do it without conscious effort, so that up-down, in-out, far-near, black-white (and so on for everything) appears quite automatically, you are…
1954 · PDF PAGE 239
…OUT TEARS But nobody else will have the same set of qualities in his private museum; you have, as everyone has always done, made another God in your own image. Then the Vedantists define God as 'having neither quality nor quantity'; and some Yogis have a practice of setting up images to knock them down at once with "Not that! Not that! " And the Buddhists won't admit any God at all in anything at all like the sense in which you use the word. 3 What's worse, whatever you may mean by 'God' conveys no idea to me: I can only guess by the light of m…
1954 · PDF PAGE 250
DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD? 217 exactly how, or to what end, she did not make clear. An exclamation: "Then there is the Devil!" She went on without a word from me for a long while, tying herself up into fresh knots with every phase . She became irreverent, then downright blasphemous; stopped short and began to laugh at herself. And so forth-but, what struck me as curious and significant, in the main her argument followed quite closely the lines which came naturally to me, at the beginning of this letter! In the end, "curiouser and curiouser," she ar…
1954 · PDF PAGE 7
27 Structure of Mind Based on That of Body 198 28 Need to Define "God" and "Self" 202 29 What Is Certainty? 209 30 Do You Believe in God? 215 31 Religion: Is Thelema a "New Religion"? 218 32 How Can a Yogi Ever Be Worried? 220 33 The Golden Mean 223 34 The Tao (1) 227 35 The Tao (2) 231 36 Quo Stet Olympus: Where the Gods 240 and Angels Live 37 Death-Fear-Magical Memory 242 38 Woman-Her Magical Formula 247 39 Prophecy 255 40 Coincidence 265 41 Are We Reincarnations of the 271 Ancient Egyptians? 42 This "Self" Introversion 274 43 The Holy Guardi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 87
54 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Demiurge, a creative God behind whom is an eternal formless Greatness-anything to confuse the issue! Sometimes the Universe is supported by an elephant; he, in turn, stands on a tortoise ... by that time it is hoped that the enquirer is too tired and muddled to ask what holds up the tortoise. Sometimes, a great Father and Mother crystallize out of some huge cloudy confusion of "Elements" - and so on. But nobody answers the question; at least, none of these God-inventing mules, with their incurably commonplace minds. H. S…
1954 · PDF PAGE 132
…fact behind it. Almost the whole of the Hindu psychology is an example of this kind of journalism. They are not content with the supreme God. The other man wishes to show off by having a supremer God than that, and when a third man comes along and finds them disputing, it is up to him to invent a supremest super-God. It is simply ridiculous to try to add to the definition of Nibbana by this invention of Parinibbana, and only talkers busy themselves with these fantastic speculations. The serious student minds his own business, which is the busin…
1954 · PDF PAGE 240
"GOD" AND "SELF" 207 of Heaven and in the Superior Man. (Not George Nathaniel Curzon, however.) It was in the Blossoms of Springtide, and in the chilling winds that swept over from Siberia, and in the Wild Geese that it bore Southward when their instinct bade them. In short, the catalogue began to look as if it were going to extend indefinitely; and an impatient disciple, pointing to certain traces left by a mule in its recent passage, asked: And is the Tao also in that? The Master nodded, and echoed: Also in that. Then what becomes of this pri…
1954 · PDF PAGE 95
…ry which he has during these incarnations, because he knows he will come through unchanged. Therefore you can have an infinite number of gods, individual and equal though diverse, each one supreme and utterly indestructible. This is also the only explanation of how a "Perfect Being" could create a world in which war, evil, etc., exist. God is only an appearance, because (/ike "good") it cannot affect the substance itself, but only multiply its combinations. This is something the same as mystic monotheism; but the objection to that theory is tha…
1954 · PDF PAGE 178
… the rare beings which the Greeks called Chimaera. So formidable is his appearance that you consider it prudent to assume an appropriate god-form. But who is the appropriate god? You may perhaps consider it best, in view of your complete ignorance as to who he is and where you are, to assume the god-form of Harpocrates, as being good defence in any case; but of course this will not take you very far. If you are sufficiently curious and bold,
1954 · PDF PAGE 235
28 Need to Define "God" and "Self" Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Artless remark! I Oh you! Well, I suppose it's a gift-to stir Hell to its most abysmal horror with one small remark slipped in at the end. Scorpion! "Higher self" - "God within us." Dear Lady, you could never have picked five words from Iroquois, or Banti, or Basuto or the Jargon of Master Francois Villon, or Pictish, which severally and together convey less to my mind. No, no, not Less : I meant More, so much more that it amounts to nothing at all. …
1954 · PDF PAGE 440
68 The God-Letters Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Maybe it was Devanagari that began it! This "sacred" character , used rightly for Sanskrit alone , is supposed (so Allan Bennett told me) to be constructed on-can one call them ideographic?-principles. The upright line is the soft palate ; the horizontal the hard ; and the line between them shows the position of the tongue when one pronounces the letter. He demonstrated this most elegantly for the letter T ( ); but I was never able to follow this up with most of the…
1954 · PDF PAGE 167
…there is the serpent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and brigh t glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, …
1954 · PDF PAGE 548
…0 Energized Enthusiasm, 137 England, General Election, 461 Enochian Tablets, see Elemental Equinox, The, general, why begun, 457 -of the Gods, reporter's story quoted, 315 Erdmann, 181 Ethics of Thelema, 292, 294, 305,317,422 Ethyl Oxide, 365 Euclid,315 Euripides, 123 Evangelical (cults), 76 Everest (mystery), 267 Evolution and Ethics, 73 Exaltation, 19 Excalibur,87 Exempt Adept, see Adept Fabre, 87 Fabre d'Olivet, 408 Fama Fraternitatis, 111 Family system, 344 Farrerre, Claude, 402 Fascism, 441 Fate, 20 Ferranti (stove), 168 Fielding, Henry, 2…
1954 · PDF PAGE 65
…being. He may thus subjugate the whole Universe of which he is conscious to his individual Will. (Illustration: Man has used the idea of God to dictate his personal conduct, to obtain power over his fellows, to excuse his crimes, and for innumerable other purposes, including that of realizing himself as God. He has used the irrational and unreal conceptions of mathematics to help him in the construction of mechanical devices. He has used his moral force to influence the actions even of wild animals. He has employed poetic genius for political p…
1954 · PDF PAGE 417
…Baghdad." "It wants an hour yet of the time," says Death briskly; "and he's galloping hither as fast as he can." At least, don't let the Gods have the laugh on you! Hello! Here's the Book of Lies again! What fun. The Smoking Dog Each act of man is the twist and double of an hare. Love and Death are the greyhounds that course him. God bred the hounds and taketh His pleasure in the sport. This is the Comedy of Pan, that man should think he hunteth, while those hounds hunt him. This is the Tragedy of Man, when facing Love and Death he turns to bay…
1954 · PDF PAGE 396
… in some state or other ; how then are we to regard an Angel, complete with robes, weapons, and other impedimenta? (I have never known a god thus encumbered, when he has been "materialised" at all. Of course, the mere apparition of a God is subject to laws similar to those governing the visions of angels.) For one thing, all the laws that we find in operation on various parts of the "Astral plane" are valid. Two things can occupy the same place at the same time . They are "swift without feet, and flying without wings." They change size, shape, …
1954 · PDF PAGE 86
…ly wrapped up in obscure terms in the hope of concealing from the enquirer the fact that it is not an answer at all, but an evasion, is: God created it. Then, obviously, who created God? Sometimes we have a 2. You must read The Soldier and The Hunchback : ! and? in The Equinox , Vol. I, No. 1.
1954 · PDF PAGE 25
…uoted in one of these letters. It clarifies his point of view with force and simplicity. Love and Death are likened to the two hounds of God that pursue man, who must ultimately turn and use them. "Make love not war" certainly would win his approval. But then he might insist on changing the word "not" and replacing it with "and." The Book of the Law serves as his authority here, governing his every attitude and moral outlook. It gives vast prominence to love-to love under will. But its third and final chapter makes no attempt to soften the hamm…
1954 · PDF PAGE 56
…me of mind. You will soon "feel your feet" and then "get your sea-legs" and then, much sooner than you think "Afloat in the aethyr, 0 my God! my God! ... White swan, bear thou ever me up between thy wings!" 3. Now then to your old Pons Asinorum about the names of the Gods! Stand in the corner for half an hour with your face to the wall! Stay in after school and write Malkah be-Tharshishim ve-ad-Ruachoth be-Schehalim 999 times! My dear, dear, dear sister, a name is a formula of power . How can you talk of "anachronism" when the Being is eternal?…