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Page 1 of 41954 · PDF PAGE 552
… Neschamah, 176, 195, 206 , 207, 213, 229, 251, 275, 297, 309,310,436 Neschamic , 112,213 Nettles (boyhood experience), 356 Neuberg, 321 New Aeon, 260 Newman , Cardinal, 447 New Orleans, 15,94 Newton's Third Law of Motion, 296 New York Times , 399 New York World, 260 Nibbana, 41, 73, 98, 99 Nietzsche, Friedrich , 78,419 -Prophet of Thelema, 303 Nihilist, 54 Nineveh, Burden of, 256 Nirmanakaya , 98 Nirvana, 73, 98, 173
1954 · PDF PAGE 77
…llie nonsense about the Ineffable, about human language being inadequate to reveal such Mysteries, about the necessity of constructing a new language to explain a new system of thought; of course I know that this had to be done in the case of chemistry, of higher mathematics, indeed of almost all technical subjects; but I feel that you have some other, deeper explanation in reserve. After all, most of what I am seeking to learn from you has been familiar to many of the great minds of humanity for many centuries. Indeed, the Qabalah is a special…
1954 · PDF PAGE 537
…ence between Yoga and Magick? Magick is extraversion, the discovery of and subsequently the classification of and finally the control of new worlds on new planes. So far as it concerns the development of the mind its object and method are perfectly simple. What is wanted is exaltation. The aim is to identify oneself with the highest essence of whatever world is under consideration. With Yoga you might easily slip into saying that it was identical, with the exception that the new worlds are from the start recognised as already existing within th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 495
…particular group , or one part of the world , and to keep this in as good shape as possible until the time has come for Nature to grow a new set. They will be grown on a new Formula, to meet the new needs , just as when our "permanent" (Alas, not much!) set replace our milk-teeth. You ask me if I think this change can be made without bloodshed. No. The obscure autocrats of Diplomacy and Big Business are infinitely stupid and short-sighted; they cannot see an inch beyond their too often stigmatically shapen probosces , except where the profit of…
1954 · PDF PAGE 301
…g K.P. (King's Parade to you , madam!) on my way back to the station with half an hour or so to kill, I thought I would pop in to Lunn's new shop there , and pass the time of day. He might have something to take my fancy. So I did. Needless to say, I didn't know the shopman from Adam, as he did not offer me a view of his identification mark. I asked after old friends ; we gossiped of old times and new; presently he observed, putting a hand under the counter: "I think this is yours sir." "How do you know who I am? I've never seen you before." "O…
1954 · PDF PAGE 490
…ly and stupidly "the gods," or some equally unhelpful term. But she was always absolutely clear and precise as to the instructions . The New Aeon was to supersede the old; my special job was to preserve the Sacred Tradition, so that a new Renaissance might in due season rekindle the hidden Light, I was accordingly to make a Quintessence of the Ancient Wisdom, and publish it in as permanent a form as possible. This I did in The Equinox . I should perhaps have been strictly classical, and admitted only the "Publication in Class A," "A-B," "8" and…
1954 · PDF PAGE 516
…me for eating; and when it's done, I need the absolute relaxation of leisured luxury. Then what of the Work itself? If the Idea be truly new and important, God help it! The whole class of men affected jump on it with one accord, if haply they may crush it in the germ. Read a little of the History of Medicine! Any man who shows a sign of independent thought is watched. is thwarted. He persists and is threatened and bullied. He persists; every engine of oppression is set in motion against him. Then, something snaps; either they succeed in killing…
1954 · PDF PAGE 251
31 Religion Is Thelema a "New Religion"? Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. "Would you describe your system as a new religion?" A pertinent question, you doubtless suppose; whether it may happen to mean anything is-is-is-well, is what we must try to make clear. True, it's a slogan of A:. A:.: "The method of science-the aim of religion." Here the word 'aim' and the context help the definition; it must mean the attainment of Knowledge and Power in spiritual matters-or words to that effect: as soon as one selects a phrase…
1954 · PDF PAGE 293
… refer you to that book, page 96. One last word on this subject. There is a Magical Operation of maximum importance: the Initiation of a New Aeon. When it becomes necessary to utter a Word, the whole Planet must be bathed in blood. Before man is ready to accept the Law of Thelema, the Great War must be fought . This Bloody Sacrifice is the critical paint of the World-Ceremony of the Proclamation of Horus, the Crowned and Conquering Child, as Lord of the Aeon. 2 The whole matter is prophesied in The Book of the Law itself; let the student take n…
1954 · PDF PAGE 277
…to his next suitably chosen vehicle. The tendency of the Ruach is of course to disintegrate more or less rapidly under the impact of its new experiences of after-death conditions. It is therefore of the very first importance to train the mind in every possible way, and to bind it to the Higher Principles by steady, by constant, by flaming Aspiration, fortified by the sternest discipline, and by continuously reformulated Oaths. Such a man will be fully occupied after his death with the unremitting search for his new instrument; he will brush asi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 491
…prefer to reincarnate in the regular way, only taking care to waste no time in Amennti, but to get back to the Old Bench and pick up the New Tools with the minimum of delay. By having attained the Freedom of "Elysian, windless, fortunate abodes Beyond Heaven's constellated wilderness" "we are blessed; and bless" by refusing to linger therein, but shouldering once more "Atlantean the load of the too vast orb of" the Karma of Mankind. This hypothesis does at least make intelligible Their action in riding for a fall instead of preventing it. It ma…
1954 · PDF PAGE 278
…mportant than all the rest put together, from the point of view of the A :. A: .. You swear to refuse all the "rewards," to acquire your new vehicle without a moment's delay, so that you may carry on your work of helping Mankind with the minimum of interruption. Like all true Magical Oaths, it is certain of success. So then we have a man not only very well prepared to reincarnate at once-this means about six months after his death, for his vehicle will be a foetus about three months old, but to extirpate more deliberately all impressions that m…
1954 · PDF PAGE 379
…been worrying him to settle . He wasn't nasty about it; he really needed the money for his farmer, a worthy man who wanted to build some new outhouses, and the builder couldn't give any credit because he was being pressed by the man who supplied his materials, a man in great trouble on account of his wife's long illness, and the necessity of an immediate and very expensive operation. So the doctor went round, very lordly, to the local estate agent, and made the first payment on the new house he had wanted for so long. "Hullo! HuBo!" laughed the…
1954 · PDF PAGE 205
172 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS approach to Sanctuaries which of necessity are closely guarded, but merely to the recognition of a new-comer to that part of the world in general. Of course all these miracles are very naughty of you; they mean that your magical power has sprung a few small leaks; at least, the water is oozing between some planks not sealed as Hermetically as they should be. But oh-and this is naughtier still-it is a blessed, blessed comfort that they happen, that chance, coincidence, and all the rest will simply not explain it all away…
1954 · PDF PAGE 134
11 Woolly Pomposities of the Pious "Teacher" Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I do not think that it was any new kind of electricity. I think it was the passage itself that has given me neuralgia. It disgusts me beyond words. To put the matter in a nutshell, tersely, concisely, succinctly, the world is being corrupted by all this- Asthmatic Thinking Torpid Thinking Nauseous Thinking Bovine T. Uncertain T. Old-maidish T. Chaw bacon T. Venomous T. Purgative T. Diffuse T. Whelp T. Querulous T. Excretory T. Yahoo T. Rat-…
1954 · PDF PAGE 7
…at 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 Guardian Angel: 279 An Objective Indiv…
1954 · PDF PAGE 511
…colours; and if he wants a glass of beer, he hates the stuff, but "doctor's orders , my boy , doctor's orders ." There is really nothing new to be said about hypocrisy ; it has been analysed, exposed, lashed by every great Artist; quite without effect. It gets worse as the socialistic idea thrives, as the individual leans ever harder on the moral support of the herd. 2 P.P.S. Here is a very different set of reactions . I do not quite know why I am putting it in; is it some sub-conscious attraction of my own? Anyhow, here it is; call it: La Poul…
1954 · PDF PAGE 52
… quite well. But nobody can "take you through" the Grades of A:. A : . . The Grades confirm your attainments as you make them; then, the new tasks appear. See One Star in Sight . Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 452
Cara Soror, 70 Morality (1) Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. "Tu l'as voulu. Georges Dandin!" I knew from the first that your sly, insidious, poisoned poniard, slipped in between my ribs, would soon or late involve a complete exposition of the whole subject of Morality. Off we go! What really is it? The word comes from Mos, Latin for 'custom', 'manner'. Similarly, ethics: from Greek ethos, 'custom' . "It isn't done" may be modern slang, but it's correct . Interesting to study the usage of moeurs and manieres in French. 'Manner' …
1954 · PDF PAGE 436
…expected. I wrote you a long while ago about doubt, and now I suppose the seed fell in fertile ground! My chaste remarks have prompted a new question "arising out of the previous answer, Sir." You point out quite correctly that the doubt of which I wrote in passages of such burning eloquence is after all what used to be called "philosophic" doubt; and by "philosophic" people apparently meant something rather Ii ke "Pickwickians. " Not the genuine McCoy, determining action, but-well, rather like scoring points in an intellectual game. Now then (…