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Page 1 of 51954 · PDF PAGE 460
MORALITY (2) 427 Soap! Yes, indeed. I work on gold, and gold must be cleansed with acid. I really cannot understand how you can be so inaccurate, with the very text before your eyes! You write- "you write that in Jan. 1899 etc." But I don't. Captain J.F.C. Fuller wrote it. A small point; but you must learn to be careful about every tiniest detail. Then you go on about "not only invisible chiefs l of the A:. A: .... but also the Chiefs of the Golden Dawn .. . " The Golden Dawn is merely the name for the Outer Order: see Magick pp. 230-231. You h…
1954 · PDF PAGE 348
…nawing 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 announced five years before b…
1954 · PDF PAGE 216
…ters, and from the medium herself. Altogether, a most poisonous performance. And what do they get out of it? Even when the "Spirits" are really spirits, they only stuff the party up with a lot of trashy lies. To this summary the Laws of Probability insist that there shall be occasional exceptions. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 523
490 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS particularly serious or as serious as anything can be. But what I have said above amounts really to a regular Rule of Life. Need I add that the prime and essential requisite in all this Work is that you so devote yourself to, and identify yourself with, the Gods, that there is never any doubt in your mind as to what They intend you to do? Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 46
…the Law. Let me begin by referring to my letter about the motto and make clear to you the working of this letter. In this motto you have really got several ideas combined, and yet they are really, of course, one idea. Fiat, being 811, is identical with lAO, and therefore FIAT YOD might be read not only as "let there be" (or "Let me become"), the secret source of all creative energy, but as "the secret source of the energy of Jehovah." The two words together, having the value of 831, contain the secret meanings Pyramis and Phallos, which is the …
1954 · PDF PAGE 376
… reaction, and then I leap headlong through the hoop of my own construction and want you to defy nature, to attack her, to overcome her. Really, dear Master, it is too bad of you! I know it sounds bad but there is not really the opposition that on the surface there seems to be. Perhaps it is that we are talking about two kinds of Nature. In one sense it might be asserted that the final formula of Nature is Inertia; in other words, that the dyad of manifested existence is an arbitrary and artificial development of the Zero to which everything mu…
1954 · PDF PAGE 214
…on but would suffer no harm; later, he would be wounded fighting a foreign enemy, but would recover and live long. The Bolshevik did not really believe what he had seen, although he was certain that he had seen it, I mean that he explained it by hypnotism or auto-suggestion or something of the kind; but it was true, he said, that he passed unscathed through the Revolution and the Civil War and was wounded in the Polish War when the Red Army recovered Kiev. So also we are most fortunate in possessing the account almost beyond Heart's desire of S…
1954 · PDF PAGE 42
…T.O. remind me of some women's ideas of shopping. You want to maul about the stock and then walk out with a proud glad smile: NO. Do you really think that I should muster all the most distinguished people alive for your inspection and approval? The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded , and then examined by savage Inquisitors, and then-probably-thrown out on to the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that ; bu…
1954 · PDF PAGE 208
IMPROVISING A TEMPLE 175 Wha t is really more significant is the hidden, the unexpressed, soul of the Book; the way in which it leaps into wild spate of rhapsody on any excuse or no excuse. This is surely more convincing than some dreary thesis, plodding along doggedly with the "proof" (!) that "God is good," every sentence creaking with your chalk-stones and squeaking with the twinges of your toe! Yet just because I proclaim a doctrine of joy in the language of joy, people - dull camels-say I am not "serious." Yet I have found pleasure in harn…
1954 · PDF PAGE 122
…unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfil them, and rejoice therein. This process is what is really meant by initiation; that is to say, the going into oneself, and making one's peace, so to speak, with all the forces that one finds there. It is forbidden here to discuss the nature of The Book of the Law, the Sacred Scripture of Thelema. Even after forty years of close expert examination, it remains to a great extent mysterious; but the little we know of it is enough to show that it is a sublime synth…
1954 · PDF PAGE 530
… 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 scientific sense. It is always perfectly easy to find a subjective explanation of any phenomenon; and when one considers that the …
1954 · PDF PAGE 327
… self-sacrifice," but you are almost bound to interfere with his True Will. "Charity" always means that the lofty soul who bestows it is really, deep down, trying to enslave the recipient of his beastly bounty! In practice, I begin afresh, it is almost entirely a matter of the point of view. "That poor chap looks as if a square meal wouldn't hurt him"; and you chuck him a half-crown. You offend his pride, you pauperize him, you make a perfect cad of yourself, and you go off with a glow of having done your good deed for the day. It's all wrong. …
1954 · PDF PAGE 246
…s little better than an evasion, that it automatically pushes the Gamut question outside the Charmed of-alI-Truth Circle. No, it doesn't really; for if you were able to put up a Projection of those two minds, there would be, firstly, some sort of compensation elsewhere than in the musical section; and secondly, some Truth of a yet higher order which is common to both. Not una ware am I that these conceptions are at first exceedingly difficult to formulate clearly. I wouldn't go so far as to say that one would have to be a Master of the Temple t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 202
…eometrical function of yourself. Consider it all as a projection of yourself in terms of these conventional formulae. (A convention does really mean "that which is convenient ." How abject, then, to obey a self-styled convention which is actually as inconvenient as possible!) Next, the Lamp. This may be of silver, or silver-gilt, (to represent the Path of Gimel) and is to be hung from the ceiling exactly above the centre of the altar. There are plenty of old church lamps which serve very well. The light is to be from a wick in a floating cork i…
1954 · PDF PAGE 498
… our Gods!) 777 itself, to say nothing of The Golden Bough and the Good Lord knows how many other similar monuments of lexicography (for really they are little more) , is our text-book . We are bound to · note at once that the Gods sympathise , run into one another , coalesce much more closely than any other of the Orders of Being. There is not really much in common between a jackal and a beetle , or between a wolf and an owl, although they are grouped under Pisces or Aries respectively. But Adonis, Attis , Osiris, Melcarth, Mithras, Marsyas-a …
1954 · PDF PAGE 158
…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 applies to Yoga, for even with the Mantra the practice is to go faster and more quietly as one proceeds, until it becomes "Me…
1954 · PDF PAGE 157
…the Pyramids, so that if I acquiesce at all in the system of the O.T.O. so far as the "secret of secrets" of the IXo is concerned, it is really on a point of personal honour. My pledge given to the late Frater Superior and O.H.O., Dr. Theodor Reuss. For all that, in this particular instance it is beyond question a point of common prudence , both because the abuse of the Secret is, at least on the surface, so easy and so tempting, and because, if it became a matter of general knowledge the Order itself might be in danger of calumny and pe:-secut…
1954 · PDF PAGE 211
24 Necromancy and Spiritism Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Really, you make me ashamed of you! To write to ignorant me to wise you up about necromancy, when you have at your elbow the one supreme classic-Levi's Chapter XIII in the Dogme et Rituel! 1 What sublimity of approach! What ingenuity of "considerations"! With what fatally sure steps marches his preparation! With what superb technique does he carry out his energized enthusiasm! And, finally, with what exact judicial righteousness does he sum the results of h…
1954 · PDF PAGE 406
KNACK 373 the master, and the reason for that is really rather beyond my analysis so far as that has gone at present. I do not know whether it is some kind of awakening of some faculty of the magical self, though that seems to me the simplest and most probable explanation; but in any case there is no doubt about the nature of the experience, and there can be no difficulty about the recognition of it when it occurs. It reminds me of the story of the Psychologist who wanted to judge the difference in temperament between an Englishman, a Scotsman …
1954 · PDF PAGE 430
… of your enquiries? Is this information essential to your Accomplishment of the Great Work? As the Government might say "Is your journey really necessary?" So musing, I rang you up for details. Vampires, you say, might be a temptation to yourself, or they might sap your energy. Very good. I will tell 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…