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POWER AND AUTHORITY 377 the fact that despite all appearances one has been watched and guarded from a higher plane. I might say, in fact, that one such experience of the secret guardianship of the Chiefs of the Order is worth a thousand apparently sufficient witnesses to the facts. I would have you lay this closely to your heart , dear Sister, and moreover always to keep in mind what I have written in this letter so that you may be able to recognize when the occasion arises how much better evidence of the power and intelligence of the Order is …
1954 · PDF PAGE 426
MAGICAL POWER 393 your arithmetic!-let me initiate you into one or two other secrets of power! Urn-will I now? Perhaps you're hardly grown up enough. I suspect that your question contemplated not so much Power as powers: things like healing the sick, making oneself invisible, kindling a flame without combustibles, bewitching the neighbours' cows, spoiling your friend's honeymoon, fascinations of all kinds, levitation, lycanthropy, necromancy, all the regular stuff ot the legends and the fables. Most of these matters are discussed in Magick; so …
1954 · PDF PAGE 407
61 Power and Authority Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Thanks very much for your last letter. I expected no less. As soon as anybody gets into a position of authority, even on a very small scale, their troubles begin on a very large one. Imagine, if you can what I have been through in the last quarter of a century or more. My subordinates are always asking me for advancement in the Order ; they think that if they were only members of the 266th degree everything in the garden would be lovely. They think that if they …
1954 · 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 8
…olitics 353 57 Beings I Have Seen with My Physical Eye 356 58 Do Angels Ever Cut Themselves Shaving? 362 59 Geomancy 367 60 Knack 371 61 Power and Authority 374 62 The Elastic Mind 378 63 Fear: A Bad Astral Vision 380 64 Magical Power 391 65 Man 395 66 Vampires 397 67 Faith 403 68 The God-Letters 407 69 Original Sin 415 70 Morality (I) 419 71 Morality (2) 425 72 Education 430 73 "Monsters," Niggers, Jews 442 74 Obstacles on the Path 446 75 The A:. A :. and the Planet 453 76 The Gods:-How and Why They Overlap 464 77 Work Worthwhile: Why? 468 78 …
1954 · PDF PAGE 67
…y man with the Universe in essence; for as soon as man makes himself one with any idea, the means of measurement cease to exist. But his power to utilize that force is limited by his mental power and capacity, and by the circumstances of his human environment. (Illustration: When a man falls in love, the whole world becomes, to him, nothing but love boundless and immanent; but his mystical state is not contagious; his fellow-men are either amused or annoyed. He can only extend to others the effect which his love has had upon himself by means of…
1954 · PDF PAGE 425
…to Vladivostock; but unless there be some special reason, it will save time and waste of energy to make use of a fraction of the machine-power that happens to be moving in that direction . This is particularly true of moral and political reform. Hitler would have got exactly nowhere if he had been content to announce his evangel; he became master of Germany, and, for a time, of nearly all Europe, by playing upon existing instruments of human passion; th.e revenge-lust of Central Europe , the panic of the Blimps and Junkers , the discontent of t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 424
64 Magical Power Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Rightly you remark that most of these letters have dealt with self-development in one form or another; now, what of the causa finalis. the "practical angle" some would call it. What you want now is to learn how to apply the knowledge and power that you have gained to the execution of your True Will, to the accomplishment of the Great Work. Obviously, much must be left to your own common-sense ; the one technical point on which I insist above all others is the Magical …
1954 · PDF PAGE 160
…ouder and more cacophonous, the better! Brief intervals between one din and the next can be filled with appeals, repeated 'till hypnotic power gives them the force of orders, to buy this or that product of the "Business men" who are the real power in the State. Men who betray their country as obvious routine. The history of the past thirty years is eloquent enough, one would think. What these sodden imbeciles never realize is that a living organism must adapt itself intelligently to its environment, or go under at the first serious change of ci…
1954 · PDF PAGE 125
92 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Of what nature is this Power, this Authority, this Understanding, this Wisdom-Will? (I go up from Geburah to Chokmah.) Of the passive side it is comparatively easy to form some idea; for the qualities essential are mainly extensions of those that all of us possess in some degree. And whether Understanding-Wisdom is "right" or "wrong" must be largely a matter of opinion; often Time only can decide such points. But for the active side it is necessary to postulate the existence of a form of Energy at their disposal which is…
1954 · PDF PAGE 65
… 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 purposes.) 15. Every force in the Universe is ca…
1954 · PDF PAGE 147
… Nor can anyone be distinguished from the others. And the Angel sayeth: Behold where thine Angel hath led thee! Thou didst ask for fame, power and pleasure, health and wealth and love, and strength and length of days. Thou didst hold life with eight tentacles, like an octopus. Thou didst seek the four powers and the seven delights and the twelve emancipations, and the two and twenty Privileges, and the nine and forty Manifestations, and lo! thou art become as one of These. Bowed are their backs, whereon resteth the Universe. Veiled are their fa…
1954 · PDF PAGE 408
POWER AND AUTHORITY 375 elected a cobbler, as it could, it would not empower the New Fellow to perform a boiling-point determination, or read a Vernier. In our own case, though Our authority is at least as absolute as that of the Pope and the Church of Rome, it does not confer upon me any power transferable to others by any act of Our will. Our own authority came to Us because it was earned, and when We confer grades upon other people Our gift is entirely nugatory unless the beneficiary has won his spurs. To put it in a slightly different form …
1954 · PDF PAGE 476
…b committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow. It is peculiarly noticeable that when a class is a ruling minority, it acquires a detestation as well as a contempt for the surrounding "mob." In the Northern States of U.S.A., where the whites are overwhelming in number, the 'nigger' can be more or less a "regular fellow"; in the South, where fear is a factor , Lynch Law prevails. (Should it? The reason for 'no' is that it…
1954 · PDF PAGE 139
…expect! Until you have practiced this method, all day and every day, for quite a long while, you cannot tell how amazingly your mnemonic power increases by virtue thereof . But be careful always to range the new ideas as they come along in their right order of importance. It is not unlike the system of keys used in big establishments, such as hotels. First, a set of keys, each of which opens one door, and one door only. Then, a set which opens all the doors on one floor only . And so on, until the one responsible who has one unique key which op…
1954 · PDF PAGE 267
… evidently unknowable, and expressible neither by speech nor by silence. All that we can know about it is that there is inherent in it a power (which however is not itself) by virtue whereof all beings appear in forms congruous with the nature of necessity. The Tao is also "the Way" -in the following sense. Nothing exists except as a relation with other similarly postulated ideas. Nothing can be known in itself, but only as one of the participants in a series of events. Reality is therefore in the motion, not in the things moved. We cannot appr…
1954 · PDF PAGE 75
…"Why should I (who have only just heard of it, at least as a serious subject of study) acquire a knowledge of its principles, and of the powers conferred by its mastery?" Must I bribe you with promises of health, wealth, power over others, knowledge, thaumaturgical skill, success in every worldly ambition-as I could quite honestly do? I hope there is no such need-and yet, shall I confess it? -it was only because all the "good things of life" were suddenly seen of me to be worthless, that I took the first steps towards the attainment of that Wis…
1954 · PDF PAGE 158
…The second of these postulates the third; for one can neither think nor stop thinking with all that row going on. Then again, the Fourth Power of the Sphinx is Silence; on this subject I must refer you to Little Essays Toward Truth (No. 14, p. 75). We are really trying to discuss something totally different; something practical in daily life. Very well, then; you remark that Goetia actually means "howling," that we use officially the Bell, the Tom-Tom, the Incantations, the Mantras, and so on. All quite true, about Magick; but none of it applie…
1954 · PDF PAGE 558
…d by e language, covering: the Qabalah,hi system of reference; the symbols o the three major schools of mag} approach to life and use of power; tion; the Yi King; The Book of thi tance of talismans, lamens and pent: cointidence; etc., etc. Magick Without Tears is the Coming soon from Falcon Pr: compilation of Crowley's m: volume Equinox; The Law the moss definitive comment ing the creative work of th than a personal encyclopedia of mag-_ rience and explained in unguarded to use it asa tool rather than merely a tymology and its philosophy; —whit…
1954 · PDF PAGE 430
…ll you the little I know. Listen to Eliphas Levi! He warns us against a type of person, fearless and cold-blooded, who seems to have the power to cast a sudden chill, merely by entering the room, upon the gayest party ever assembled. Tete-a-tete, they shake one's resolution, kill one's enthusiasm, devitalize one's faith and courage. Yes, we all know such people. Mercury, by the way, is the planet responsible. I have examined a considerable number of nativities, both of murderers and of people murdered; in both cases it was not a "malefic" that …