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COPYRIGHT © 1989 Ordo Temple Orientis All rights reserved. No part of this book, in part or in whole, may be reproduced, transmitted or utilized, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher, except for brief quotations in critical articles, books and reviews. International Standard Book Number: D-941404-17-X Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 82-083310 First Edition, 1973 Second Printing, 1973 …
1954 · PDF PAGE 347
…charwoman and the chimney-sweeper could understand it easily. She pulled me up at the first hint of obscurity. This went well enough for Part I: Yoga. (And, indeed, that part did sell rather well.) But when I had finished Part II, I 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 Intel…
1954 · PDF PAGE 104
…OF MAGICK (1) 71 LXXVI: 4: Thus the hard and rigid have the inferior place, the soft and elastic the superior. Enough, I think, for this part of the essay. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
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…137 Bodhisattva,. 220 Body of Light, 286, 494 Bog, 205,407 Boleskine, 168, 321 Book of the Dead, 19 Book 4, details on, 314, 325 Book 4, part I, 56, 149,503 -part 11,155,167,169 -part III, see "Magick" -of Thoth, 25, 52,204,227, 229,306,412,493
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196 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS imply a quantitative assertion, as when one says sixpence is part of a pound, or a factor indispensable, as when one says "A wheel is part of a motor-car," or ... The fact is that very few of us know what words mean; fewer still take the trouble to enquire. We calmly, we carelessly assume that our minds are identical with that of the writer, at least on that point; and then we wonder that there should be misunderstandings! The fact is (again!) that usually we don't really want to know; it is so very much easier to drift…
1954 · PDF PAGE 348
…nsciousness of his infamy gnawing his liver? I know this sounds mad; but it's true. Well, then, I set myself to repair the omission with Part III; this should be a really complete treatise on the Art and Science of Magick, and it should be worked out from the beginning, a logical sequence like Euclid. Hence Axiom, Postulate and Theorems. I supposed even then that I could cover the field with another volume comparable in size with the former two. I did indeed "finish" this, even announced publication; it was just going to Press when War (also an…
1954 · PDF PAGE 200
…erything balanced and tidy. If you propose to erect a regular Temple, the most precise instructions in every detail are given in Book 4, Part II. (But I haven't so much as seen a copy for years!) There is a good deal scattered about in Part III (Magick, which you have) especially about the four elemental weapons. But if circumstances deny you for the moment the means of carrying out this Edification as the Ideal would have it, you can certainly do your best to create a fairly satisfactory-above all, workable-substitute. I was often reduced to s…
1954 · PDF PAGE 465
… his Fellows; and that is not Liberty whose Exercise bringeth him to Bondage. Thou mayst therefore assume that it is always an essential Part of the Will of any Child to grow to Manhood or to Womanhood in Health, and his Guardians may therefore prevent him from ignorantly acting in Opposition thereunto, Care being always taken to remove the Cause of the Error, namely, Ignorance, as aforesaid. Thou mayst also assume that it is Part of the Child's Will to train every Function of the Mind; and the Guardians may therefore combat the Inertia which h…
1954 · PDF PAGE 293
…pylus-see Homer and Samuel Butler II, but called later by the Romans Cephaloedium, and now Cefalu . There did I toil to expand my little Part III of Book 4 to the portentous volume now more generally known as Magick in Theory and Practice. After numerous misadventures, it was published in 1928. I 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 t…
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254 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS this sort; it is one part of Sulphuric in I don't remember how many million parts of water that is enough to tum blue litmus red; and even with our own gross apparatus we can arrange for a ten-thousandth part of a grain to send a scale down with a bang. Think of a roulette ball hovering on the edge at the end of a long spin! Think of Buridan's ass! Love is the law. love under will. Yours fraternally, 666 P.S. One ought, perhaps, to give an outline of how these facts work out in the social system of Thelema. It may be us…
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…ll be to you as 718." (AL, III: 19) (The Stele is that whose discovery culminated in the writing of The Book of the Law.) Here the first part is still quite unintelligible to me; 1 have tried analysis of the original phrase in "Scripture," and nearly everything else: entirely in vain. One can see dimly how people, recognizing that Stele as the Talisman responsible for reducing half the cities of Europe to rubble, might very well make reference to those original prophecies. But , at the best, that's nothing to cable to Otaheite about! Now the se…
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…ble to your childish nature , your obvious and most simple way is to approach your guardian and ask him to enlighten you . It is clearly part of his function as guardian to do his best to help you. Very good, that is the first method, and a close parallel with what we understand by the word Magick. We are bothered by some difficulty about one of the elements-say Fire-it is therefore natural to evoke a Salamander to instruct you on the difficult point. But you must remember that your Holy Guardian Angel is not only far more fully instructed than…
1954 · PDF PAGE 228
…tainty as to what the author means, or thinks he means, or is trying to persuade one that he means. Try something simple: "The soul is a part of God." Now then, when he writes "soul" does he mean Atma, or Buddhi, or the Higher Manas, or Purusha, or Yechidah, or Neschamah, or Nephesch, or Nous, or Psyche, or Phren, or Ba, or Khu, or Ka, or Animus or Anima, or Seele, or what? But even this very plain word "part." Does he mean to
1954 · PDF PAGE 433
…ntimately connected with the victim. On this you work magically so as to absorb its virtue. It is best if it was as recently as possible part of his living tissue; for instance, a nail-paring, a hair plucked from his head. Something still alive or nearly so, and still part of the complex of energies that he included in his conception of his body. Best of all are fluids and secretions, notably blood and one
1954 · PDF PAGE 536
EPISTO LA ULTIMA 503 II The second part of this letter, which appears to be expanding into a sort of essay, will be devoted to Yoga. You will have noticed that the grade of Mas-ter of the Temple is itself intimately associated with Yoga. It is when one reaches this plane that the apparently contradictory forms of the Great Work, Magick and Yoga, begin to converge, though even earlier in the course of the work it must have been noticed that achievements in Yoga have been of great assistance to magical operations , and that many of the mental sta…
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…AGICK 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, tha…
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FAMILY 337 It is an essential part of the Rosicrucian system that the Adept should "wear the costume of the country in which he is travelling." I take this in the widest sense. By that word "country" I understand this planet and this social status "to which it has pleased God to call me." The Brethren of the Rose and Cross deprecated monastic life or hermit life: perhaps they thought such expedients cowardly, or at least as a confession of weakness. I agree. One ought to be able to live the normal life of a member of one's class, to all externa…
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…o influence me, and I clung-oh triple fool!-to my sentimental obligations towards Laylah. We finally decided to do what he asked, though part of my objection was founded on his refusal to give us absolutely definite instructions. However, we crossed the Passes in a sleigh to Chiavenna, whence we took the train to Milan. In this city we had a final conversation with Ab-ul-Diz. I had exhausted his patience, as he mine, and he told us that he would not visit us any more. He gave us his final instructions. We were to go to Rome, though he refused t…
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HOW TO RECOGNIZE MASTERS 321 1 It was part of my plan for The Equinox to prepare a final edition of the work of Dr. Dee and Sir Edward Kelly. I had a good many of the data and promised myself to complete them by studying the manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford-which , incidentally, I did in the autumn; but it struck me that it would be useful to get my large paintings of the four Elemental Watch Towers which I had made in Mexico. I thought these were probably in Boleskine. I decided to go up there for a fortnight or so. Incidentally, …
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212 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS This being so, a truth which is "of all Truth" should mean any proposition which forms an essential part of this Khu-this 'Magical Identity' of a man. Now how curious it must appear at the first glance to note that the truths of this order should prove to be what we call Axioms-or even Platitudes . "The more certain I am of anything, the more certain it is that I am only asserting a limitation of my own mind." Very good, but what am I to do about it? Some at least of such certainties must surely be "of aU Truth." The te…