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Page 1 of 41954 · PDF PAGE 147
114 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS lustre, and the stars shall be hidden because thou art passed beyond these things, beyond the need of these things, beyond the desire of these things. What I thought were shapes of rocks, rather felt than seen, now appear to be veiled Masters, sitting absolutely still and silent. 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 e…
1954 · PDF PAGE 103
…e moveth in a straight line, and tumeth not aside therefrom; he is brilliant, but doth not blind with his brightness. LXIII: 2: Do great things while they are yet small, hard things while they are yet easy; for all things, how great or hard soever, have a beginning when they are little and easy. So thus the wise man accomplisheth the greatest tasks without undertaking anything important . LXXVI: 2: So then rigidity and hardness are the stigmata of death; elasticity and adaptability of life. LXXVI: 3: He then who putteth forth strength is not vi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 439
…ass of subconsciously selected and ordered experience. Then what , if you please, did Paul mean when he wrote "Faith is the substance of things hoped-for, the evidence of things unseen." Oh, spot the Lady! Love is the law, love under will. Yours, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 501
…ed a shrewd knowledge of Nature, but finds no rational guide to the conduct of life. He observes many unsatisfactory elements in the way things go, and for his own sake would like to "remould them nearer to the heart's desire," to refurbish the cliche of Fitzgerald about "this sorry scheme of things." He is not in the least interested in the learned exposition of 0 = 2. But he is aware that the A :. A:. professes a sound solution of the problem of conduct and would like to know if its programme can be justified in terms of Common Sense. As luck…
1954 · PDF PAGE 467
…nality or Desire, the Anatomy of thy conscious Self. Furthermore, by this thou mayst understand the Essence of the Relations between all Things, and the Nature of Necessity, and come to the Knowledge of Form. For this Mathematics is as it were the last Veil before the Image of Truth, so that there is no Way better than our Holy Qabalah, which analyseth all Things soever, and reduceth them to pure Number; and thus their Natures being no longer coloured and confused, they may be regulated and formulated in Simplicity by the Operation of Pure Reas…
1954 · PDF PAGE 20
PREFACE XIX card, etc., lost their abstract formality and became living things. I want to quote one paragraph from letter F where this method is described. As I walked about, I made a point of attributing everything I saw to its appropriate idea. I would walk out of the door of my house and reflect that door is Daleth. and house Beth; now the word dob is Hebrew for bear. and has the number 6. which refers to the Sun. Then you come to the fence of your property and that is Cheth-number 8. number of Tarot Trump 7, which is the Chariot; so you beg…
1954 · PDF PAGE 173
…s. No circumstance of life is, or can be irrelevant. "He that is not with me is against me." In all these letters you will find only two things: either I tell you what is bad for you, or what is good for you. But I am not you; I don't know every detail of your life, every trick of your thought. You must do ninety percent of the work for yourself. Whether it is love, or your daily avocation, or diet, or friends, or amusements, or anything else, you must find out what helps you to your True Will and what hinders; cherish the one and eschew the ot…
1954 · PDF PAGE 489
…to-day an obvious peril of the most menacing. In 1904 no ordinary sane person foresaw anything of the sort. But special knowledge alters things, and it is certain that the Masters anticipated , with great exactness of calculation, the way things would go in the political world. Practically all the messages received during the "Cairo Working" (March-April 1904 e.v.) came to me through 1. The OtanceUor of the Exchequer, having fIXed the increase of Income Tax at threepence, proceeded to defraud the Insurance Companies by insuring himself against …
1954 · PDF PAGE 91
58 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS can always be reduced to "One"; and "One" itself is no better , because, among other things, it finds itself forced to deny the very premises on which it was founded . Shall we be any better off if we assume that Ex nihilo nihil fit is a falsehood , that the origin of All Things is Nothing? Let us see! O. Shall we first glance at the mathematical aspect of Nothing? (Including its identical equation in Logic.) This I worked out so long ago as 1902 e.g. in Berashith, which you will find reprinted in The Sword of Song, and …
1954 · PDF PAGE 383
…r 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 , but also the result of Genius absorbed , interpreted , transmuted and applied through the virtue of the Cup to expand , to explain , to bring into conscious existence. And the Fourth is the He final, the Daugh…
1954 · PDF PAGE 333
…e specific gravity and other physical properties of water, and let him perceive ultimately through all this the necessity and concord of things, not concord as the schoolmen of old believed, making all things for man's benefit or convenience, but the essential mechanical concord whose final law is inertia. And in these meditations let him avoid as if it were the plague any speculations sentimental or fantastic . Second Method-The Practice Proper. Having then perfected in his mind these conceptions, let him apply them to his own career, forging …
1954 · PDF PAGE 384
…rowning, Titian, and Mozart in terms of lutchers' meat. We might alter that incorrect truism "money annot buy anything worth having" to "Things worth having annot be estimated in terms of money." You see, no ounting. The operation to save your child's life: do you are if the surgeon wants five pounds or fifty? Of course, you [lay not have the fifty, or be obliged to retrench in other vays to get it; but it makes no odds as to what you feel bout it. What is the value of a University Education? The nswer is that it is a pure gamble. The student m…
1954 · PDF PAGE 267
…Reason," "The Way," "TO ON." None of these convey any true conception of the Tao. The Tao is Reason in this sense, that the substance of things may be in part apprehended as being that necessary relation between the elements of thought which determines the laws of reason. In other words, the only reality is that which compels us to connect the various forms of illusion as we do. It is thus 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 …
1954 · PDF PAGE 73
40 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Bu t this is only part of the story. As things are, we have all adventured into an Universe of immeasurable, of incalculable, possibilities, of situations never contemplated by the trend of Evolution. Man is a marine monster; when he decided that it would be better for him somehow to live on land, he had to grow lungs instead of gills. When we want to travel over soft snow, we have to invent the ski; when we wish to exchange thoughts, we must arrange a conventional code of sounds, of knots in string, of carved or written…
1954 · PDF PAGE 38
…is no good your starting anything of any kind unless you can see clearly into the simplicity of truth. All this humming and hawing about things is moral poison. What is the use of being a woman if you have not got an intuition, an instinct enabling you to distinguish between the genuine and the sham? Your state of mind suggests to me that you must have been, in the past, under the influence of people who were always talking about things, and never doing any real work. They kept on arguing all sorts of obscure philosophical points; that is all v…
1954 · PDF PAGE 136
…nce to our original "addition and subtraction " remark in my letter on Mind. Classification, the first step, proceeds by putting similar things together, and dissimilar things apart. One asset in the Audit of a fact is the amount of knowledge which it covers. (2 + 5)2 = 49; (3 + 4)2 = 49; (6 + 2)2 = 64; (7 + 1)2 = 64; (9 + 4)2 = 169 are isolated facts, no more; worse, the coincidences of 49 and 64 might start the wildest phantasies in your head-"something mysterious about this." But if you write: the sum of the squares of any two numbers is the…
1954 · PDF PAGE 298
…your foes when it comes to a question of proof." Quite right , Sergeant-Major! But it is not only about prophecy, but about all sorts of things, in particular, of course, the identification of angels and similar problems. Well, we have captured quite a few lads of the company 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 452
… but it's correct . Interesting to study the usage of moeurs and manieres in French. 'Manner' from manus-hand : it is 'the way to handle things' . But the theological conception has steered a very wrong course, even for theology; brought in Divine Injunction, and Conscience, and a whole host of bogeys. (Candles in hollow turnips deceive nobody outside a churchyard!) But what you want to know is the difference between (a) common or area morality, (b) Yogin-or "holy man's" morality, and (c) the Magical Morality of the New Aeon of Thelema. I. Area…
1954 · PDF PAGE 264
…y one of a number of people who are interested in my translation of The Tao Teh King. Naturally, I want to publish it; but so many other things come first. So I am sending you the Introduction, in the hope that it will stimulate that interest to the point of getting some other publisher to give it sea-room. I bound myself to devote my life to Magick at Easter, 1898, (era vulgari) and received my first initiation on November 18 of that year. My friend and climbing companion, Oscar Eckenstein, gave me my first instructions in learning the control…
1954 · PDF PAGE 84
…p in their proper connections. Very soon you will have quite a nice little Sepher Sephiroth of your very own. Remember to aim, above all things, at coherence. It is excellent practice, by the way, to do some mental arithmetic on your walks; acquire the habit of adding up any names that you have come across in your morning's reading. Nietzsche has well observed that the best thoughts come by walking; and it has happened to me, more than once or twice, that really important correspondences have come, as by a flashlight, when I was padding the old…