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Cara Soror , 6 The Three Schools of Magick (1) Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Here is the ftrst section of M. Gerard Aumont's promised essay;! it was originally called The Three Schools of Magick. (Don't be cross, please, because it is not in the form of a personal letter!) There is to-day much misunderstanding of the meaning of the term 'Magick'. Many attempts have been made to deftne it, but perhaps the best for our present purpose of historical-ideological exposition will be this-Magick is the Science of the Incommensurable…
1954 · PDF PAGE 6
Contents Foreward IX Preface XI Introduction I What Is Magick 27 2 The Necessity of Magick for All 39 3 Hieroglyphics: Life and Language 44 Necessarily Symbolic 4 The Qabalah: The Best Training for Memory 48 5 The Universe: The 0=2 Equation 52 6 The Three Schools of Magick (I) 64 7 The Three Schools of Magick (2) 72 8 The Three Schools of Magick (3) 83 9 The Secret Chiefs 91 10 The Scolex School 97 II Woolly Pomposities of the Pious "Teacher" 101 12 The Left-hand Path-The "Black Brothers" 109 13 The System of the O.T.O. 122 14 Noise 125 IS Sex …
1954 · PDF PAGE 531
498 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS way of Magick, and the internal way of Yoga: there you have your alternatives, and there they cease. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 60
1 What Is Magick? Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. What is Magick? Why should anyone study and practice it? Very natural; the obvious preliminary questions of any subject soever. We must certainly get all this crystal clear; fear not that I shall fail to set forth the whole business as concisely as possible yet as fully, as cogently yet as lucidly, as may prove within my power to do. At least I need not waste any time on telling you what Magick is not; or to go into the story of how the word came to be misapplied to …
1954 · PDF PAGE 191
158 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS You must lay most closely to your heart the theory of the Magical Link (see Magick, pp. 107-122) and see well to it that it rings true; for without this your talisman is worse than useless. It is dangerous; for all that Energy is bound to expend itself somehow; it will make its own links with anything handy that takes its fancy; and you can get into any sort of the most serious kind of trouble. There is a great deal of useful stuff in Magick, pp. 92-100, and pp. 179-189. I could go on all night doing nothing but indicat…
1954 · PDF PAGE 532
…ne helping the other until the final method of progress partakes equally of both elements. For convenience I shall call the first method Magick, and the second method Yoga. The opposition between these is very plain for the direction of Magick is wholly outward, that of Yoga wholly inward. I will deal first then with Magick. How do I define this word? Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in 499
1954 · PDF PAGE 98
THREE SCHOOLS OF MAGICK (I) 65 Nature, or to escape them by appeal to a postulated power which is assumed to have laid them down. The religious man is, as such, incapable of understanding what the laws of Nature really are. (They are generalizations from the order of observed fact.) The History of Magick has never been seriously attempted. For one reason, only initiates pledged to secrecy know much about it; for another, every historian has been talking about some more or less conventional idea of Magick, not of the thing itself. But Magick has…
1954 · PDF PAGE 72
2 The Necessity of Magick for All Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Right glad am I to hear that you have been so thoroughly satisfied with my explanation of what Magick is, and on what its theories rest. It is good, too, hearing how much you were interested in the glimpse that you have had of some of its work in the world; more, that you grasped the fact that this apparently recondite and irrelevant information has an immediate bearing on your personal life of to-day. Still, I was not surprised that you should add: "…
1954 · PDF PAGE 539
506 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS and more towards the side of Magick. I do not know why this should have been, but that it is so I have no doubt whatever. I see quite clearly now that Yoga from its very first beginnings is liable to lead the mind away into a condition of muddle, and though for each such state Yoga itself provides the necessary cure, may not one ask oneself it it is really wise to begin one's work with axioms and postulates which are inherently dangerous. The whole controversy might be expressed as a differential equation. Their curves …
1954 · PDF PAGE 71
38 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS But there is a restricted and conventional sense in which the word may be used without straying too far from the above philosophical position . One might say: "Magick is the study and use of those forms of energy which are (a) subtler than the ordinary physical-mechanical types, (b) accessible only to those who are (in one sense or another) 'Initiates'." I fear that this may sound rather obscurum per obscurius; but this is one of those cases-we are likely to encounter many such in the course of our researches-in which we…
1954 · PDF PAGE 51
18 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS you had any experience of travelling in the astral? If not , do you think that you can begin by yourself on the lines laid down in Liber 0, sections 5 and 6? (See Magick, pp. 387-9.) If not you had better let me take you through the first gates. The question of noise instantly arises; I think we should have to do it not earlier than nine o'clock at night, and I don't know whether you can manage this. Cara Soror, Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666 Letter G September 4, 1943 Do what thou wilt shall be the w…
1954 · PDF PAGE 162
…e 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 the technique of the business; an…
1954 · PDF PAGE 525
492 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS The best explanation of how to set about the task is given in Liber Thisharb. Some of this sounds rather advanced and technical; but it ought to give you the general idea. You should begin with your parents and the family traditions; the circumstances of your birth and education; your social position; your financial situation; your physique, health, illnesses; your vita sexualis; your hobbies and amusements; what you are good at, what not; how you came to be interested in the Great Work; what (if you have been on false …
1954 · PDF PAGE 441
408 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS "Bogey" comes from this, though!); think of the dam of a stream, and of a young thing, and damn. Think of all the different kinds of box and cock and rock. (G.K. Chesterton must have made tens of thousands of pounds out of it!) Think of "let," meaning both to prevent and to allow. Think of "check" to a chess-player, a banker, a draper , a waitress, a fox-hunter, and a Slovak! The importance of all this : I'm sure I've told you how Thoth, God of all Magick, the Wisdom and the Word, is usually shown with style and papyrus…
1954 · PDF PAGE 347
…discovered that not only was the book an exceptionally recondite treatise on obscure technical points, but was not even an exposition of Magick at all! "Magick without Tears," indeed! This was my crazed humility; I honestly thought that everyone knew all about Magick, and how it was done, and 1. The Master (or Intelligence) who directed the writing of this Book; see Letter. 3J4
1954 · PDF PAGE 105
Cara Soror, 7 The Three Schools of Magick (2) Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Hoping that you are now recovered from the devastating revelations in the matter of the Yellow School, I must ask you to brace yourself for disclosures even more formidable about the Black. Do not confuse with the Black Lodge, or the Black Brothers. The terminology is unfortunate, but it wasn't I that did it. Now then, to work! The Black School of Magick, which must by no means be confused with the School of Black Magick or Sorcery, which latter is a …
1954 · PDF PAGE 527
494 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS by the exaltation (? = intoxication? Yes, of a sublime sort) of the consciousness to identify oneself with those 'celestial' Beings. In Yoga, various practices prevent the body and its functions from interrupting the mental process. Then, one inhibits that process itself; the stilling of "thoughts" allows one to become aware of mental functions beyond the intellectual; these functions have their own peculiar properties and powers. Each sheath, as one goes deeper, is discarded as 'unreal'; finally one apprehends that Not…
1954 · PDF PAGE 385
352 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Lack of money is another matter altogether. Isn't it about time you sent me a cheque? Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally , 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 505
472 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Grammar, and a Dictionary . Follow the Axioms, the Postulates, the Theorems ; finally, the Experiments. And that is what all these letters are about. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 181
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