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Page 1 of 61954 · PDF PAGE 63
… husband when she would really be happy in an attic with a lover, while another may fool herself into a romantic elopement when her only true pleasures are those of presiding at fashionable functions. Again, a boy's instinct may tell him to go to sea, while his parents insist on his becoming a doctor. In such a case, he will be both unsuccessful and unhappy in medicine.) 8. A man whose conscious will is at odds with his True Will is wasting his strength. He cannot hope to influence his environment efficiently. (Illustration: When Civil War rage…
1954 · PDF PAGE 480
…" Well, if you put it like that, I can only say that I feel at the same time more guilty and entirely innocent! For, while the charge is true, the defence is not to be shaken. The worst of all teachers are the Boloney Magnates, of whom I have already given some account. But the next worst are just exactly those who try to create an atmosphere of romance, and succeed only in a crude theatricalism. So, avoiding the swirling turmoil of Scylla, I have broken the ship on the barren rock Charybdis. Now let me hearten you, brave sister! All the old ta…
1954 · PDF PAGE 474
…ool I was to expect that. "All they can digest," said he, "is a mess of stewed cliches with Bird's custard Powder." Damn everything-it's true, it's true. So do you at least get together the stones that you need to build your Basilica! Entrepreneur Correspondent and Co-respondent. (They don't know the difference) Subcutaneous Olordei\. (Although they have them!) Gleet J Histology ("Something to do with history")
1954 · PDF PAGE 261
…these come to pass with simplicity." (The Tao Teh King, VII: 2) The ideal analogy seems to be that of a planet in its orbit. It has its "true motion"; it meets the minimum of friction from circumambient space. When it suffers the attraction of another body, it sways slightly to make the proper adjustment without effort or argument; it can, consequently, continue indefinitely in its orbit. This is roughly the plan of the Taoist in his attitude to life. Having ascertained the Path which satisfies the equations of his Nature (as we say, "found his…
1954 · PDF PAGE 267
…THOUT TEARS realized that the task approximated to impossibility. His very simplest ideas, the primitive elements of his thought, had no true correspondences in any European terminology . The very ftrst word "Tao" presented a completely insoluble problem. It had been translated "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 reaso…
1954 · PDF PAGE 163
130 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS That's just the trouble; for it is the first of the masks upon the face of the True Will; and that mask is the Poker-Face! As all true Art is spontaneous, is genius, is utterly beyond all conscious knowledge or control, so also is sex. Indeed, one might class it as deeper still than Art; for Art does at least endeavour to find an intelligible means of expression. That is much nearer to sanity than the blind lust of the sex-impulse. The maddest genius does look from Chokmah not only to Binah, but to the fruit of that uni…
1954 · PDF PAGE 248
30 Do You Believe in God? Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You are quite right , as usual. True, we have gone over a great deal of the ground in various learned disquisitions on Gods, Angels, Elves, et hoc genus omne. But God with a capital G in the singular is a totally different pair of Bluchers-nicht wahr? Let me go back just for a moment to the meaning of belief. We agreed that the word was senseless except as it implies an opinion , instinct, conviction-what you please!-so fIrmly entrenched in our natures that w…
1954 · PDF PAGE 155
…" are very fully set forth in One Star in Sight; and I should indeed be stupid and presumptuous to try to do better than that. But it is true that with regard to the O.T.O. there is no similar manual of instruction . In the Manifesto, and other Official Pronunciamenti, there are, it is true, what ought to be adequate data; but I quite understand that they are not as ordered and classified as one would wish; there is certainly room for a simple elementary account of the origins of the Order, of its principles, of its methods, of its design, of t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 448
…hat is 'guilt'? A.S. gyit , trespass; in our own Thelemic language, "deviation from (especially in the matter of excess, trespasser) the True Will." Please take notice that most of the words which denote misconduct imply wandering, either from the home or from the path: error, debauch, wrong (=twisted), wry, evil (excessive) detraguer, go astray, and several others. So I too leap into the breach with Curtius, and point out that "Language itself asserts the doctrine of the True Will." But what says The Book of the Law? It is at pains to define S…
1954 · PDF PAGE 465
… this Digression from the plain Path of my Word concerning Children; but it was most needful that thou shouldst understand the Limits of true Liberty. For that is not the Will of any Man which ultimateth in his own Ruin and that of all his Fellows; and that is not Liberty whose Exercise bringeth him to Bondage. Thou mayst therefore assume that it is always an essential Part of the Will of any Child to grow to Manhood or to Womanhood in Health, and his Guardians may therefore prevent him from ignorantly acting in Opposition thereunto, Care being…
1954 · PDF PAGE 468
…Collateral Offshoots , though such were in themselves better and wiser. Yea, 0 my son, in these Writings thou mayst study to come to the true Comprehension of thine own Nature, and that of the whole Universe, in the dimension of Time, even as the Mathematic declareth it in that of Space: that is, of Extension. Moreover, by this Study shall the Child comprehend the Foundation of Manners: the which, as sayeth one of the Sons of Wisdom, maketh Man. Sequitur (3) Scientifica Since Time and Space are the conditions of Mind, these two Studies are fund…
1954 · PDF PAGE 243
…stated, the quiddity of our query with his accustomed lucidity. He discerns three degrees of Truth; and he distinguishes accordingly: 1. True 2. Certain without error 3. Of all truth. Clear enough, the difference between 1 and 2: ask me the time, I say half-past two; and that's true enough. But the Astronomer Royal is by no manner of means satisfied with any approximation of that kind. He wants it accurate. He must know the longitude to the second; he must have decided what method of measuring time is to be used; he 1. It seems natural to me-ap…
1954 · PDF PAGE 437
404 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS any statement as true without criticism, examination, verification, or any other method of test. Faith of this sort is evidently the main symptom of the moron, the half-wit, the village idiot . It is this kind of faith upon the possession and exercise of which religious persons always insist as the first condition of salvation. Here is my own lamentable foresight on the subject! The Convert (A Hundred Years Hence) There met one eveJn a sylvan glade A horrible Man and a beautiful maid. "Where are you going so meek and ho…
1954 · PDF PAGE 287
…although dissimilar, honour. And what, you ask, has the man got to say about all this? Nothing simpler; all women are subordinate to his True Will. Only the Osiris-Class, provided he can find one of them, are of more than transient use to him; and even in this case, he must be careful to avoid being ensnared. But the really important issue is the recognition of each type of True Will in woman.
1954 · PDF PAGE 466
… be one greater than thou. De Voluntate Juvenis Cognoscenda It is important that thou shouldst understand as early as may be what is the true Will of the Child in the Matter of his Career. Be thou well aware of all Ideals and Daydreams; for the Child is himself, and not thy Toy. Recall the comic Tragedy of Napoleon and the King of Rome; build not an House for a wild Goat, nor plant a Forest for the Domain of a Shark. But be thou vigilant for every Sign, conscious or unconscious , of the Will of the Child, giving him then all Opportunity to purs…
1954 · PDF PAGE 495
…ntures ," which (obviously) are perfect. Arrange them, change them, choose your own pattern ; no trouble , no pain: all one's dream come true! But hardly biological. You may argue that convicts are examples of living individuals whose safety, shelter , nourishment and the rest are organized with the utmost care; but accidents will happen in the best-regulated "brown stone jugs." The one ideally automatic case is the foetus. You will agree that here is lack of initiative; in fact, its "True Will" is to escape, albeit into a harsh and hostile uni…
1954 · PDF PAGE 144
THE LEFT -HAND PATH 111 everything, and what is Knowledge but the very soul of Illusion? Refusing thus the true nourishment of all his faculties, they lose their structural unity, and must be fortified by continuous doses of dope in anguished self-preservation. Thus all its chemical equations become endothermic. To describe the alternative attitude should clarify, by dint of contrast; at least the contemplation should be a pleasant change. Every accretion must modify me. I want it to do so. I want to assimilate it absolutely. I want to make it …
1954 · PDF PAGE 69
…ions but on considerations of essential importance . Such a banker will prove 6. Men of "criminal nature" are simply at issue with their true Wills. The murderer has the Will-to-Iive; and his will to murder is a false will at variance with his true Will, since he risks death at the hands of Society by obeying his criminal impulse.
1954 · PDF PAGE 173
…ther 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 other. I want to insist most earnestly that concentration is not, as we nearly all of us think, a matter of getting things right in the practices; you must make every breath you draw subservient to the True Will, to fertilize the soil for the practices. When you sit down in your Asana to quiet your mind, it is much easier for you if your whole life has…
1954 · PDF PAGE 272
…t been lost, and to fill me with enthusiastic confidence that the present publication will abundantly contribute to the fulfilment of my True Will for which I came to earth. Let us wring from labour and sorrow the utmost of which humanity is capable. Fulfil my Will to open the portals of spiritual attainment to my fellowmen, to bring them to the enjoyment of that realization of Truth , beneath all veils of temporal falsehood, which has enlightened mine eyes and filled my mouth with song. So there you are. Love is the law, love under will. Yours…