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Page 1 of 61954 · PDF PAGE 280
… Man born of woman is most full of trouble; God, a gorged fool that belches him, a bubble! But of all plagues wherewith a man is cursed, Take my word for it, woman is the worst! (The World's Tragedy) Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The eternal antagonism between the sexes is mere illusion. As well suppose the male the enemy of the female screw. Understand the spiritual reality of each, grasp their magical formulae; the sublime necessity of the apparent opposition will be apparent. The ultimate of Woman is Nuit; that…
1954 · PDF PAGE 52
… Holy Guardian Angel." You ought to demonstrate your performance of the Pentagram Ritual to me; you are probably making any number of mistakes. I will, of course, take you carefully through the O.T.O. rituals to 111° as soon as you are fairly familiar with them. The plan of the grades is this: 0° Attraction to the Solar System 1° Birth W Life IIIo Death IVo "Exaltation" P.1. "Annihilation" yo -IXo Progressive comment on 11° with very special reference to the central secret of practical Magick. There is thus no connection with the A :. A:. syste…
1954 · PDF PAGE 451
418 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS contempt the theory of "original sin" in the sense which you probably meant me to take: the defect deliberately implanted in man by "Old Nobodaddy" with no better object than to prepare the grotesquely tragic farce of the "Atonement." I will merely remark that no idea at once so base and so contemptible, so bestial and so idiotic, can challenge its ignoble absurdity. Rotten with sex-perversion, it is a noisome blend of sadism and masochism based on the most abject form of fear. The only argument for it is that it ever d…
1954 · PDF PAGE 61
…nstrain them to convey my message to those people. The composition and distribution is thus an act of-MAGICK-by which I cause Changes to take place in conformity with my Will.l) II. POSTULATE. ANY required Change may be effected by application of the proper kind and degree of Force in the proper manner through the proper medium to the proper object. (Illustration: I wish to prepare an ounce of Chloride of Gold. I must take the right kind of acid , nitro-hydrochloric and no other, in sufficient quantity and of adequate strength, and place it, in…
1954 · PDF PAGE 487
…t of my colleagues. To begin, then! Achtung! I am going to be hard-boiled; my first act is to enlist the Devil himself in our ranks, and take the Materialistic Interpretation of History from Karl Marx, and accept economic laws as the manifest levers which determine the fortune of one part of the earth or another. I shall take exception only by showing that these principles are secondary: oil in Texas, nitrates on the Pacific slope of the Andes, sulphur in Louisiana (which put Etna's nose out of joint by making it cheaper for the burghers of Mes…
1954 · PDF PAGE 293
…, 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 note, and enter the ranks of the Host of the Sun. (It is a pity that I cannot prove my footnote, but this Chapter XII was part of the original MS, advertised as to be published in 1912. You may take my word for it, for once. And in any case we have the prophecy of Bartzabel, the Spirit of Mars, in the early summer of 1910 that wars involving the disaster of (a) Turkey and (b) Germany would be fought withi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 178
…orizon; but in the zenith is a crown of constellations. This light helps you, especially as your eyes become accustomed to the gloom, to take in your surroundings. It is a bleak and barren landscape. Terrific mountains rim the world . In the midst looms a cluster of blue-black crags. Now there appears from their recesses a gigantic being. His strength, especially in his hands and in his loins, is terrifying. He suggests a combination of lion, mountain goat and serpent; and you instantly jump to the idea that this is one of the rare beings which…
1954 · PDF PAGE 491
…fall instead of preventing it. It may also be that They feel that human progress has reached its asymptote so far as the old Formula can take it. In fact, unless we take some such view, there does not seem to be much point in taking an action so fundamentally revolutionary (on the surface) as the proclamation of a New Word. But then (you will object, if an objection it be) people like Lenin, Hitler, Mussolini, the Mikado, et hoc genus omne, are loyal emissaries of the Masters, or the gods! Well, why not? An analogy, once more. In the Christian …
1954 · PDF PAGE 414
…t worked. No half measures, either! I used to wander into the jungle alone, looking for tigers, and trusting to my sense of direction to take me back to camp. All my mountain climbing was guideless, and a very great deal of it solitary. Well, this is not an example for you to copy, is it? But it gives an idea of the principle "Take the bull by the horns." A practice easier to imitate was this following. In most great cities, always in Eastern cities, are black slums. Here one may find blind alleys, dark doorways open to unlighted houses. One ma…
1954 · PDF PAGE 380
…e still; and we saw that they were disputing about the coins that we had handed over. Finally, about 20 miles from Madrid, they wouldn't take our money at all! Instead, they pointed out that we were English gentlemen, and they would be eternally honoured and grateful if we would send the money from Madrid! On arrival at that city, we noticed long queues of people besieging the Banks; I put my finger to my nose, and said Aha! But, sitting down at a cafe, oh no! not at all! Pesos were passing without question. Well, well! So I got into conversati…
1954 · PDF PAGE 57
…t surfeited with knowledge, above all things; it is so very fascinating , so dreadfully easy; and the danger of becoming a pedant-"Deuce take all your pedants! say I." Don't "dry-rot at ease 'till the Judgment Day." No, I will NOT recommend a book. It should not hurt you too much to browse on condensed hay (or thistles) such as articles in Encyclopedias . Take Roget's Thesaurus or Smith's Smaller Classical Dictionary (and the like) to read yourself to sleep on. But don 't stultify yourself by taking up such study too seriously. You only make yo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 229
…dispensable, 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 down the river of discourse, "lazily, lazily, drowsily, drowsily, in the noonday sun." Why is this so satisfactory? …
1954 · PDF PAGE 14
…r with the general nature of the material presented. Do remember that there is a table of contents and an index. Later, the reader could take one letter at a time, dealing with a certain topic, study it, and meditate on whatever sections of that letter seem to warrant it. In this way, I believe, he will obtain a great deal more from this very profound book than if he tried to read it straight through as though it were a novel, or an otherwise conventional textbook. Letters (divided here into chapters) 6, 7 and 8 are entitled "The Three Schools …
1954 · PDF PAGE 520
…must have "regular work," and a "steady income ," and all that sort of thing. My innocent child, that species of Magick is quite simple. Take the horns of a hare ... That's enough for the present: I'll tell you what to do with them when you've got them. In Macbeth we read- ... Security Is mortals' chiefest enemy. but this is another kind of security ; it is the Hybris which "tempts Providence," the insolence of thinking that nothing can go wrong. Anyhow, there's no such thing as safety . Life is a gamble. From the moment of incarnation a millio…
1954 · PDF PAGE 298
…mpany of Captain Coincidence; let us have them up for examination and learn what we can about their weapons and other warlike matters! I take our first prisoner from Magick. The most famous novel of Fielding is called Tom Jones. It happened that FRATER PERDURABO was staying 265
1954 · PDF PAGE 60
…e to occur in conformity with Will. (Illustration: It is my Will to inform the World of certain facts within my knowledge. I therefore · take "magical weapons," pen, ink, and paper; I write "incantations" -these sentences-in the "magical langUage" i.e., that which is understood by people I 27
1954 · PDF PAGE 81
… Memory Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Now you must learn Qabalah. Learn this Alphabet of Magick. You must take it on trust, as a child does his own alphabet. No one has ever found out why the order of the letters is what it is. Probably there isn't any answer. But our Magical Alphabet is primarily not letters, but figures, not sounds but mathematical ideas. Sir Humphrey Davy, coming out of his famous illumination (with some help from Nitrous Oxide he got in) exclaimed : The Universe is composed solely of ideas. We…
1954 · PDF PAGE 130
…ss, a magnificent story-don't miss it!) and Wartime Scotch as sold in most British pubs in 1944, era vulgari. One pretty good plan is to take a masterpiece, pick out a page at random, translate it into French or German or whatever language you like best, walk around your chair three times (so as to forget the English) and then translate it back again. You will gather a useful impression of the value of the masterpiece by noticing the kind of difficulty that arises in the work of translation; more, by observing the effect produced on you by read…
1954 · PDF PAGE 196
…lities, the powers and the exploits , of the several deities concerned. Next, learn how to set up a figure of the heavens. This need not take an average intelligent person more than an hour at the most. You can learn it from a book . Lastly, get Bailey's 1001 Notable Nativities and More Nativities . Also any other collections available. Practice setting up the horoscopes. Use the Chaldean square system; it shows at the first glance what is happening in the angular houses, which are the keys of the whole figure. Compare and contrast what you kno…
1954 · PDF PAGE 312
… They are almost entirely composed of the planet (or whatever it is) to which they are attributed. The other components of their being I take to be almost accidental. For example, the Archangel Ratziel is lord of a company of angels called Auphanim; and one must not imagine that all these angels are identical with one another, or there would not seem to be much sense in it. They have some sort of composition, some sort of individuality; and the character and appearance of the Angel can be determined by its name. 279