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Page 1 of 51954 · PDF PAGE 100
THREE SCHOOLS OF MAGICK (I) 67 decorous of the Biblical legends which refer to Noah. It simply captures for its own purposes the convenience of Scripture. Here follows the excerpt from the Vision: And a voice cries: Cursed be he that shall uncover the nakedness of the Most High, for he is drunken upon the wine that is the blood of the adepts. And BABALON hath lulled him to sleep upon her breast, and she hath fled away, and left him naked, and she hath called her children together saying: Come up with me, and let us make a mock of the nakedness …
1954 · PDF PAGE 6
…hics: Life and Language 44 Necessarily Symbolic 4 The Qabalah: The Best Training for Memory 48 5 The Universe: The 0=2 Equation 52 6 The Three Schools of Magick (I) 64 7 The Three Schools of Magick (2) 72 8 The Three Schools of Magick (3) 83 9 The Secret Chiefs 91 10 The Scolex School 97 II Woolly Pomposities of the Pious "Teacher" 101 12 The Left-hand Path-The "Black Brothers" 109 13 The System of the O.T.O. 122 14 Noise 125 IS Sex Morality: Including Artemis Iota 128 16 On Concentration 138 17 Astral Journey-How to Do It: 141 How to Verify Yo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 98
THREE SCHOOLS OF MAGICK (I) 65 Nature, or to escape them by appeal to a postulated power which is assumed to have laid them down. The religious man is, as such, incapable of understanding what the laws of Nature really are. (They are generalizations from the order of observed fact.) The History of Magick has never been seriously attempted. For one reason, only initiates pledged to secrecy know much about it; for another, every historian has been talking about some more or less conventional idea of Magick, not of the thing itself. But Magick has…
1954 · PDF PAGE 174
…otice is an amber-coloured dress in Swan and Edgar's; amber also is the colour of Cancer in the King's Scale. Now then you have a set of three impressions which is joined together by the fact that they all belong to the Cancer class; experience will soon teach that you can remember all three very much more clearly and accurately than you could anyone of the three singly. You have not increased the burden on your memory , but diminished it. 141
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 366
…me sort of thing keeps on happening, and when, furthermore, I find myself able to predict, as experience has taught me to do in the last three years, that they will happen, and even how the pieces will fit into the puzzle, I am justified in assuming a causal connection.
1954 · PDF PAGE 198
…haracteristics, pendulous lips, receding chins, bulbous noses, narrow foreheads, stuck-out ears, pimples, squints, warts, shape of face (three main types; thin, jutting, for cardinal signs; square, steadfast for kerubic; weak, nondescript, for the rest); then the stature , whether lithe, well-knit, sturdy, muscular, fat or what not; in short every bodily feature in turn; make up your mind what sign was rising at birth, and stick to it! Again, you can practice this in cafes, when you visit civilized countries, and it is often possible to scrape …
1954 · PDF PAGE 273
…of Gods, angels, demons and the rest, as shown by their peculiar faculties , stamps them all instantly as Beings pertaining to more than three dimensions! Just as no number of lines is enough to produce the smallest plane, as a cube is capable of containing an infinite number of squares, so, far from there being no room for heaven, there is absolutely nothing but room! Yet of course the nature of that space is forever incomprehensible, nay inconceivable, by any being of a lower dimension . Only when we have succeeded in uniting our Conscious (t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 97
Cara Soror , 6 The Three Schools of Magick (1) Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Here is the ftrst section of M. Gerard Aumont's promised essay;! it was originally called The Three Schools of Magick. (Don't be cross, please, because it is not in the form of a personal letter!) There is to-day much misunderstanding of the meaning of the term 'Magick'. Many attempts have been made to deftne it, but perhaps the best for our present purpose of historical-ideological exposition will be this-Magick is the Science of the Incommensurable…
1954 · PDF PAGE 513
…s. Summary: a pleasant time was had by all. Note for political economists: the woman took 10,000 francs (at about 125 to the £; she took three weeks in hospital and three weeks' holiday between the shows. She was, or had been, the mistress of a Minister with 'Peuple' ideas, though he was an aristocrat of very old vintage; and he helped her to have her daughters brought up in one of the most exclusive convents in France.
1954 · PDF PAGE 469
…Mathematics is the Art of manipulating the Ruach, and of raising it to Neschamah; and Science is co-terminous with Magick. These are the three branches of study which I regard as fundamental. No others are in the same class. For instance, Geography is almost meaningless until one makes it real by dint of honest travel, which does not mean either "commuting" or "luxury cruises," still less "globe-trotting." Law is a specialized study, with a view to a career; History is too unsystematic and uncertain to be of much use as mental training; Art is …
1954 · PDF PAGE 502
WORK 469 address a group of just such people-and they gave me three-quarters of an hour's notice . It was really more like ten minutes, as the rest of the time was bespoke by letter-writing and posting which could in no wise be postponed . So I had to devise an adequate gambit, one which ruthlessly excluded any touch of subtlety, or any assumption of previous knowledge of the subject on the part of the audience. It came off. For the first time in history, the laymen elicited intelligent and relevant questions. There were only three half-wits in…
1954 · PDF PAGE 222
… meals, and I thought I ought to look into his room to see if all was weI/. I must explain that I have known only two European women and three European men who could sit in the attitude called Padmasana, which is that usually seen in seated images of the Buddha. Of these men, Allan was one. He could knot his legs so well that, putting his hands on the ground, he could swing his body to and fro in the air between them. When I looked into his room I found him not seated on his meditation mat, which was in the centre of the room at the end farthes…
1954 · PDF PAGE 521
… have to get lost? Even suicide is not a "dead bird." I knew a creature once - careless observers often mistook him for a man- who tried three times, pistol, rope and poison. Something always went wrong. (Like the Babbacombe murderer, who went to the scaffold three times, and lived to a green old age!) Finally he did poison himself , by accident, when he had no intention whatever of doing anything of the sort. Where's that Book of Lies? Ah, here we are. "It is chance, and chance only, that rules the Universe; therefore , and therefore only, lif…
1954 · PDF PAGE 334
…e reason for every incident in his past, and found a purpose for every item of his present equipment,2 he cannot truly answer even those Three Questions that were first put to him, even the Three Questions of the Ritual of the Pyramid; he is not ready to swear the oath of the Abyss. But being thus enlightened, let him swear the Oath of the Abyss; yea, let him swear the Oath of the Abyss.3 2. A brother known to me was repeatedly baffled in this meditation. But one day being thrown with his horse over a sheer cliff of forty feet, and escaping wit…
1954 · PDF PAGE 180
…isible by the Saturnian 3, and the result is 93; in other words, he has been precisely right. On the plane of Saturn one may multiply by three and therefore he has given you the correct word "Thelema" in a form unfamiliar to you . You may now consider yourself satisfied of his good faith , and may proceed to inspect him more closely. The stars above his head suggest the influence of Binah, whose number also is three , while the most striking thing about him is the core of his being: the letter Yod. (One does not count the termination A H: being…
1954 · PDF PAGE 390
… Tail of an healthy scepticism gleamed pale at the age of I 0, when I asked my form master how it was that Christ managed to be dead for three days and three nights between Friday night and Sunday morning. He said that he did not know, and (to a further question) that no one had ever explained it. This merely filled me with ambition to be the great exegetist who had explained it. I never thought of doubting the story. Well, all this time, and then through puberty, despite my romantic bent, my absorption in the gramarye of Sir Walter Scott, my i…
1954 · PDF PAGE 353
…The importance is that they actually determine one's line of conduct in critical situations. It seemed therefore a good idea to give you three examples from The Spirit of Solitude: and here they are! The first extract refers to the "miraculous" discovery of the MS of Liber AL some years after I had deliberately "lost" it. The second, to the finding of a villa suited to the Work. The third to my rescue from a state of despair. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666 320
1954 · PDF PAGE 558
…gick Without Tears is no le: ickal instruction, annotated 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…
1954 · PDF PAGE 520
80 Life A Gamble Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. In one or two-no, I think more like three or four-letters of yours to hand in the last couple of months , you have put forward various excuses for slackness, the necessities of your economic situation . You say you 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 …