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Page 1 of 61954 · PDF PAGE 86
…o good for this purpose; that word implies "order," which in the present stage of our argument, is a mere assumption. D. We also tend to think of the Universe as containing things of which we are not aware; but this is altogether unjustifiable, although it is difficult to think at all without making some such assumption. For instance, one may come upon a new branch of knowledge-say, histology or Hammurabi or the language of the Iroquois or the poems of the Hermaphrodite of Panormita. It seems to be they are all ready waiting for us; we simply c…
1954 · PDF PAGE 441
408 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS "Bogey" comes from this, though!); think of the dam of a stream, and of a young thing, and damn. Think of all the different kinds of box and cock and rock. (G.K. Chesterton must have made tens of thousands of pounds out of it!) Think of "let," meaning both to prevent and to allow. Think of "check" to a chess-player, a banker, a draper , a waitress, a fox-hunter, and a Slovak! The importance of all this : I'm sure I've told you how Thoth, God of all Magick, the Wisdom and the Word, is usually shown with style and papyrus…
1954 · PDF PAGE 104
THREE SCHOOLS 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
1954 · PDF PAGE 160
…all subjected by law to the bleatings, bellowings, be1chings of the boring balderdash of the B.B.C.-issies? So nobody must be allowed to think at aU. Down with the public schools! Children must be drilled mentally by quarter-educated herdsmen, whose wages would stop at the first sign of disagreement with the bosses. For the rest, deafen the whole world with senseless clamour. Mechanize everything! Give nobody a chance to think. Standardize "amusement. " The louder and more cacophonous, the better! Brief intervals between one din and the next ca…
1954 · PDF PAGE 134
11 Woolly Pomposities of the Pious "Teacher" Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I do not think that it was any new kind of electricity. I think it was the passage itself that has given me neuralgia. It disgusts me beyond words. To put the matter in a nutshell, tersely, concisely, succinctly, the world is being corrupted by all this- Asthmatic Thinking Torpid Thinking Nauseous Thinking Bovine T. Uncertain T. Old-maidish T. Chaw bacon T. Venomous T. Purgative T. Diffuse T. Whelp T. Querulous T. Excretory T. Yahoo T. Rat-…
1954 · PDF PAGE 495
…h and hostile universe, fraught with unknown and incalculable dangers. As the Ritual says: "Prepare to enter the Immeasurable Region!" I think your decision should depend on how far caries has travelled on its road of destruction. I do not think that the Masters need be unanimous. A practical plan might be for them to concentrate on one particular group , or one part of the world , and to keep this in as good shape as possible until the time has come for Nature to grow a new set. They will be grown on a new Formula, to meet the new needs , just…
1954 · PDF PAGE 275
… very naturally, for details of the promise of Nuit (AL, I: 58) "certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death." In the first place, I think that it means what it says. There may be, probably is, some Qabalistic inner meaning: Those four nouns most assuredly look as if there were; but I don't feel at all sure what the Greek (or Hebrew, or Arabic) words would be; in any case, I have not yet made any attempt in this direction. To the straightforward promise, then! Certainly no word more reassuring could be given. But avoid anxiety, of course; r…
1954 · PDF PAGE 405
…til that moment escaped you. I ought incidentally to mention that this sudden illumination-that is not quite the right word but I cannot think of a better one-is quite different to the sudden confidence which takes hold of one in the Yoga practices. The more I think of it the more I feel that the question of sensitiveness is of the greatest importance. In Yoga practices one does not, at least as far as my experience goes, come against the delicacy that one does in all magical and astral practices. The reason for that is, I think, quite obvious.…
1954 · PDF PAGE 34
…nd just. As I promised I am writing this letter to cover a few practical points which we had not time to discuss and which in any case I think it better to arrange by correspondence . I. It is of the first importance that you should understand my personal position. It is not actually wrong to regard me as a teacher, but it is certainly liable to mislead; fellow-student , or, if you like, fellow-sufferer, seems a more appropriate definition. The climax of my life was what is known as the Cairo Working, described in the minutest detail in The Equ…
1954 · PDF PAGE 182
…the Law. From time to time I have exhorted you with mine accustomed matchless eloquence never to neglect the prescribed Greetings; but I think it just as well to collect the various considerations connected with their use-and in "Greetings" I include "saying Will" before set meals, the four daily adorations of the Sun (Liber CC vel Resh) and the salutation of Our Lady the Moon. I propose to deal with the general object of the combined rituals, not with the special virtues of each separately. The practice of Liber III vel Jugorum 1 is the comple…
1954 · PDF PAGE 217
…Old-World Courtly Manners; actually rubbish, for you might very well be fascinating without knowing how you worked the trick. In fact, I think that is the case ninety-nine times in a hundred. Besides, I read your letter carelessly; I overlooked the phrase in which you mention that you use the word as Levi did; i.e., to cover all those types of "miracle" which depend on distracting the attention of, or otherwise composing, the miraclee-I invent a rather useful word, yes? So let us see what sort of miracles those are. To start with, I doubt if we…
1954 · PDF PAGE 440
…he letter T ( ); but I was never able to follow this up with most of the other fifty-five (isn't it?) letters . However, it did start me thinking (why?) about the possibility of a direct relation between the sound of a letter and its meaning in some primitive manner of speech. So I used to alarm my fellow-citizens , usually passengers on a liner, by spending most of my time repeating some unhappy letter over and over, while I looked into my mind to see if the sound suggested any particular idea. (It was rather fun, you know ; but it was most ce…
1954 · PDF PAGE 407
…t 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 only possessed the secrets of the 148th degree they would be able to perform all those miracles which at present escape them. These poor fish! They do not understand tl:1e difference between Power and Authority . They do not understand that there are two kinds of degrees, altogether differ…
1954 · PDF PAGE 256
33 The Golden Mean Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You would think that one who like myself has the Sun, the Lord of His Horoscope, in Libra, with Venus who rules that sign in close conjunction with him, with Saturn trine, Uranus sex tile , Mars square and Luna Quincunx to him, would wear the Golden Mean as a breastplate, flaunt it on my banneret, quarter it on my escutcheon, and grave it on the two-edged blade of my thrice trusty falchion! Just so, objects that instinct itself! "Had you been born a few hours earlie…
1954 · PDF PAGE 435
402 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS fairly plain hints so I can say in all simplicity, "Go thou and do likewise!" I think myoId friend Claude Farrere had more than an inkling of these matters; the idea of using young cellular tissue to fortify the old is plainly stated in La maison des hommes vivants; but as to the method of transmission his water was drawn from Wells (H.G.). After that-you will agree that I have written enough. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 412
…accepted accordingly . The inelastic mind, on the other hand, is tied by training to a rigid sequence, so that it never gets a chance to think for itself. To develop a mind properly it needs (I) "Lehrjahre" (a first-class public school and university education, or the equivalent) when it learns all sides of a question, and is left free to judge for itself and (2) "Wanderjahre," when it sees the world for itself, not by any pre-arranged course (Cooks', Lunns', University Extension, Baedeker) but built up on the results of the Lehrjahre, foot or …
1954 · PDF PAGE 287
… 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 useful to classify women in three groups, (I exclude the fourth, which anatomically woman, does not function in that capacity: the "spinster") c…
1954 · PDF PAGE 51
18 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS you had any experience of travelling in the astral? If not , do you think that you can begin by yourself on the lines laid down in Liber 0, sections 5 and 6? (See Magick, pp. 387-9.) If not you had better let me take you through the first gates. The question of noise instantly arises; I think we should have to do it not earlier than nine o'clock at night, and I don't know whether you can manage this. Cara Soror, Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666 Letter G September 4, 1943 Do what thou wilt shall be the w…
1954 · PDF PAGE 285
…ed at things from outside; they were always at one end or the other. This is because one haphazard collection of Point-Events chooses to think of itself as a Male; another, as a Female. It is totally absurd to think of Winnie as a woman, and Martin as a man. The quintessence of each is identical: "Every man and every woman is a star." It is only a superficial accident that has made one set determine to function in one particular incarnation as the one or the other. I say function; for there is no difference in the Quintessence. Yet, since it is…
1954 · PDF PAGE 206
…ts most ably the case: as in the West, does James Thomson (B. V.) in "The City of Dreadful Night"; we come to wish for-or, more truly to think that we wish for "blest Nirvana's sinless, stainless Peace" (or some such twaddle-thank God I can't recall Arnold's mawkish and unmanly phrase!) and B.V.'s "Dateless oblivion and divine repose." I insist on the "think that you wish," because, if the real You did really wish the real That, you could never have come to exist at all! ("But I don't exist."-"I know-let's get on!") Note, please, how sophistica…