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Page 1 of 81954 · PDF PAGE 383
350 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Money being the fourth great power, "what are the other three?" Come, come, you can surely do that in your head. Four's Tetragrammaton, isn't it? Very well, then! The First Great Power is Yod, the Father , Fire, the Wand, the Flame of Creative Genius. The Second is He, the Mother , Water, the Cup, the Sea to which all things tend ; it is the gift of pleasing, of absorbing , of drawing all things to oneself. The Third is Vau, the Son, the Sword , the moving, penetrating element , double in nature. For it is intellect , b…
1954 · PDF PAGE 151
118 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS thyself; stand, play the man, for behold! there shall be revealed unto thee the Great Terror, the thing of awe that hath no name. (Ibid., 3rd Aethyr) And now She cometh forth again, riding upon a dolphin. Now again I see those wandering souls, that have sought restricted love, and have not understood that the "word of sin is restriction. " It is very curious; they seem to be looking for one another, or for something, all the time, constantly hurrying about. But they knock up against one another and yet will not see one …
1954 · PDF PAGE 40
…uld not meet anyone unless it were necessary for you to work in co-operation with them. I am afraid you have still got the idea that the Great Work is a tea-party. Contact with other students only means that you criticize their hats, and then their morals; and I am not going to encourage this. Your work is not anybody else's; and undirected chatter is the worst poisonous element in human society. When you talk of the "actual record" of the "Being called Jesus Christ," I don't know what you mean. I am not aware of the existence of any such recor…
1954 · PDF PAGE 530
…rnal universe appears to me perfectly adequate. Still there is no extra charge for thinking on those lines if you so wish. I have paid a great deal of attention in the course of my life to the method of exalting the human consciousness in this way; and it is really quite legitimate to identify my teaching with that of the Yogis. I must however point out that in the course of my instruction I have given continual warnings as to the dangers of this line of research. For one thing there is no means of checking your results in the ordinary scientif…
1954 · PDF PAGE 81
…might have said this, only his banker advised him to cash in on God. The simplest form of this expression is 0=2, elsewhere expounded at great length. This 2 might itself be expressed in an indefinitely great number of ways. Every prime number, including some not in the series of "natural numbers," is an individual. The other numbers with perhaps a few exceptions (e.g. 418) are composed of their primes. Each of these ideas may be explained, investigated, understood, by means very various. Firstly, the Hebrew, Greek and Arabic numbers are also l…
1954 · PDF PAGE 486
…t again there is that Magical Memory of yours when you came down from that Hermitage in the little wood overhanging the nullah below the Great Peak "somewhere in Asia" and sat in some sort of Consistory in the valley where the great Lamaserai-or whatever it was-towers over the track. (I quote some of your phrases from memory.) Which is it? 453
1954 · PDF PAGE 103
…ers. He moveth in a straight line, and tumeth not aside therefrom; he is brilliant, but doth not blind with his brightness. LXIII: 2: Do great things while they are yet small, hard things while they are yet easy; for all things, how great or hard soever, have a beginning when they are little and easy. So thus the wise man accomplisheth the greatest tasks without undertaking anything important . LXXVI: 2: So then rigidity and hardness are the stigmata of death; elasticity and adaptability of life. LXXVI: 3: He then who putteth forth strength is …
1954 · PDF PAGE 255
… your career through the incarnations; at that moment there might well be a vacancy somewhere exactly where it will do most good to your Great Work. When you press on one spot, you make a corresponding bulge in another, as we often see a beautiful Lady, unhappy about her waist-line, adopt drastic measures, and transform herself into the semblance of a Pouter Puffin! In theory, I am particularly pleased about this Method, because it goes for everybody, requires no knowledge, no technical training, "no nuffin." All the same, it won't do for me, e…
1954 · PDF PAGE 283
…d my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one. There is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. He shall fall down into the pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of Reason. (26-27) Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear in thine heart? Where I am these are not.
1954 · PDF PAGE 412
…not merely to avoid interference or annoyance, but to teach the mind to think down to the roots of the local customs. You learn also the great lesson of Thelema, that nothing is right or wrong in itself; as we say "Circumstances alter cases." One trains oneself to adapt one's life to the impinging facts: to "cut one's coat according to one's cloth." It leads one to the understanding of that great Principle of Compromise which has kept England's head above water through the tempests of a chiliad. Remember that the slightest sign of inelasticity …
1954 · PDF PAGE 177
…ote myself against me. Man is so infinitely small, In all these stars, determinate . Maker and master of them all. Man is so infinitel y great. The human apparatus is the best instrument of which we are, at present , aware in our normal consciousness; but when you come to experience the Conversation of the higher intelligences, you will understand how imperfect are your faculties. It is true that you can project these intelligences as parts of yourself , or you can suppose that certain human vehicles may be temporally employed by them for vario…
1954 · PDF PAGE 167
… dogma. (Verse 54 is a hint to seek the secret.) In Greek letters TO MH adds to 418; it is identical with Abrahadabra, the cipher of the Great Work. Meditation should lead the student to considerations even deeper and more fruitful. Invoke me under my stars! Love is the law, love under will. Nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. There is the dove, and 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 la…
1954 · PDF PAGE 162
…rful weapon in the armoury of the Magician; and precisely because there is no moral guide, it is indescribably dangerous. I have given a great many hints, especially in Magick. and The Book of Thoth-some of the cards are almost blatantly revealing; so I have been rapped rather severely over the knuckles for giving children matches for playthings. My excuse has been that they have already got the matches, that my explanations have been directed to add conscious precautions to the existing automatic safeguards. The above remarks refer mainly to t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 549
520 Golden Dawn, Order of The, (G :. D:.), 380, 427, 453 Golden Hawk, 191 Good and Evil, 54 Gordian Knot, 203 Grant, Gregor, 357 Great Work, 1,2,5,7,21,129, 133, 136, 140, 143, 221, 222, 225, 287, 297, 311, 318, 334, 336, 351, 376, 391, 394, 429, 440, 444, 471,483,492,503 Great Work "a tea party", 7 Greene, Grahame, 294 Guernica, 305 Gunas,12 Guru, 22, 287, 393 Hadit, 247, 249, 297 Haeckel, Ernst, 55, 199 Hammurabi, 53 Hanuman, 24, 466 Hardy, Thomas, 451 Harpocrates, 145, 153 Haseltine, Philip, 156 Hatha Yoga, 187,310 Hathor, 281 Hawk, Golden, …
1954 · PDF PAGE 15
…EFACE viewpoint, the hand of the master himself will be recognized. Finally, I doubt whether he would have been willing to quote at such great length from the writing of any other author for these letters. Many short quotations from several writers are certainly to be found in this volume, but not one of such great length. In a word, Crowley is quoting from himself. One of Crowley's personal prejudices is highlighted in a curious way in one of these letters. It relates to color. In a quotation from "The Three Schools of Magick" he refers to the…
1954 · PDF PAGE 518
PROGRESS 485 great harm will result, as the weak and vicious will weed themselves out. The pure gold will repay us ten thousandfold. You ask examples? With us, the Elizabethan and the Victorian periods stand out. What is most wanted is opportunity and reward. Under Victoria there was some-taste the late Samuel Smiles Esquire, D.D. (wasn't he?)-but not enough, and Industrialism, the mother and nurse of Socialism, was destroying the soul of the people. In my not very maternal remarks on Mother-love, was included the substance of the one wise sayi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 166
… "always" admits of no exception; "unto Me" may be paraphrased as the "fulfilment of one possibility necessary to the achievement of the Great Work." Every act is a sacrament, but this pre-eminently so. The text continues with a plain threat: "if the ritual be not ever unto Me, then expect the direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit." To profane this sacrament of sacraments is the most fatal of errors and offences; for it is high treason to the Great Work itself. The next verse repeats: "If the ritual be not ever unto me"; and it is emphasized and f…
1954 · PDF PAGE 414
…e, looking for tigers, and trusting to my sense of direction to take me back to camp. All my mountain climbing was guideless, and a very great deal of it solitary. Well, this is not an example for you to copy, is it? But it gives an idea of the principle "Take the bull by the horns." A practice easier to imitate was this following. In most great cities, always in Eastern cities, are black slums. Here one may find blind alleys, dark doorways open to unlighted houses. One may explore such places, looking for adventure-and it was rather a point of…
1954 · PDF PAGE 44
… a few months from now. Incidentally , I personally get nothing out of it; secretarial work costs money these days. But there is another great advantage; it keeps both of us up to the mark. Also, in such letters a great deal of odds and ends of knowledge tum up automatically; valuable stuff, but hard to fit into an ordinary book. You suggest that fortnightly is frequent enough; yes, but one doesn't want to lose the thread, once one starts. Possibly ten days might be best. But please understand that this suggestion arose solely from your own sta…
1954 · PDF PAGE 218
…nothing here. Yes, indeed, nothing was ever more sternly forbidden than prattle on subjects like this! Look! It goes right on: "There is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. He shall fall down into the pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of Reason." (v 27) The pit is of course the Abyss: see The Vision and the Voice, 10th Aethyr. A very sticky-or rather, unstuck! finish; so 'ware Hawk! To business! Fascination. No! Invisibility, is obviously penny. plain S.A. This is notabl…