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498 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS way of Magick, and the internal way of Yoga: there you have your alternatives, and there they cease. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
496 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS How then are we to explore, and finally to interpret this intelligence? It seems to me that there are two ways and only two. Imagine for a moment that you are an orphan in the charge of a guardian, inconceivably learned from your point of view. Suppose therefore that you are puzzled by some problem suitable to your childish nature , your obvious and most simple way is to approach your guardian and ask him to enlighten you . It is clearly part of his function as guardian to do his best to help you. Very good, that is the…
… 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 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 expressi…
… work. That, and his use of the Ophidian Vibrations: I don't know which of us is better at it, but I am sure that he must be a very long way ahead of me if he is one of Them. You have already in these pages and elsewhere in my writings examples numerous and varied of the way in which They work. The list is far from complete. The matters of Ab-ul-Diz and of Amalantrah show one method of communication; then there is the way of direct "inspiration," as in the case of "Hermes Eimi" in New Orleans.! Again, They may send an ordinary living man, wheth…
EPISTOLA PENULTIMA 497 postulation of another being is not necessary. There is no way of refuting the solipsism if you feel like that. Personally I cannot accede to its axiom. The evidence for an external universe appears to me perfectly adequate. Still there is no extra charge for thinking on those lines if you so wish. I have paid a great deal of attention in the course of my life to the method of exalting the human consciousness in this way; and it is really quite legitimate to identify my teaching with that of the Yogis. I must however poin…
…e Abyss; and there is no Path. That means that one must jump . You must get rid of "all that you have, and all that you are"-that is one way to put it. The Vision and the Voice, Aethyrs 16-end, gives an immense amount of detail ; it must be studied intensely, with diligence, with Will, and with imagination. Not only the attainment of the grade, but the events which go with, or come after, it; all these are described as actual Experience. Even so, it is all extraordinarily difficult until you have been through it yourself. But that part which an…
…ts money to produce; and who will produce anything which can only appeal to the very few-to none at all, soon, if these swine have their way. So, if it is new, is original, is worth one's while, it must be ignored . Besides, being new and incomprehensible to the great Us, it may be dangerous, and must be suppressed. In all literature I know no pages so terrifying as those in Louis Marlow's Mr. Amberthwaite, which describe his dream. I wish I could quote it, with Sinai as the orchestra; never mind, read it again. And we are on the way-far on the…
…e, they shake one's resolution, kill one's enthusiasm, devitalize one's faith and courage. Yes, we all know such people. Mercury, by the way, is the planet responsible. I have examined a considerable number of nativities, both of murderers and of people murdered; in both cases it was not a "malefic" that did the dirty work, but poor tiny innocent silvery-shining Mercury! You, however, are thinking more of the vampire of romance. Bram Stoker's Dracula and its kindred. That is a splendidly well-documented book, by the way; he got his 397
…he eyes averted, when one sees a person dressed in a religious (Christian) uniform: all these come under "Don't stroke the cat the wrong way!" or, in the modem pseudo-scientific journalese jargon "streamlining life." What you really need is the official Instruction in The Equinox, and the very fullest and deepest understanding of Eight Lectures on Yoga; but these lectures are so infernally interesting that when I look into the book for something to quote, it carries me away with it. I can't put it down, I forget all about this letter. Rather a …
… the whole of the Law. Yes, indeed! As you surmise, the injunction to "buy the egg of a perfectly black hen without haggling" is another way of putting the Parable of the Pearl of Great Price; a much better way. For the Pearl-buyer did think of equating the values, which is precisely what one must not do. That Egg is incommensurable with money. (Further, the saying teaches one to insist on perfection; the hen must not have one tinge of aught but black in any feather.) To begin, Economy does not mean thrift or cheeseparing. It means: the law of …
PREFACE XXXI letters, paving the way for the remaining ones. I have written the Preface to highlight some of the more outstanding contents of the book which ought not to be missed. Did any book ever have so many messengers as this one? I hope they will not be confusing to the reader, but that all of them will somehow conduce to his further and deeper understanding. Israel Regardie June 6,1970 Studio City, California
…effort . Of course, if the worry is enough to interfere with that Work, I must detail a corporal's fIle to abate the nuisance. The other way may be called the Taoist aspect. First, however, let me explain the point of view of the Master of the Temple, as it is so similar. You should remember from your reading what happens in this Grade. The new Master is "cast out" into the sphere appropriate to the nature of his own particular Great Work. And it is proper for him to act in true accordance with the nature of the man as he was when he passed thr…
THE A:. A:. 463 shadows. They accordingly attack even the most innocuous windmills in suicidal charges. So, whichever way you vote, you are asking for trouble; or would do, if the vote had any meaning. The result of any election, or for the matter of that any revolution, is an almost wholly insignificant component of those stupendous and inscrutable Magical Forces which determine the destinies of the planet . Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
58 Do Angels Ever Cut Themselves Shaving? Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. A very witty way to put it! "Do angels ever cut themselves shaving?" Rem au tetigisti, again. (English: you big tease?) What sort of existence, what type or degree of reality, do we attribute to them? (By angel, of course, you mean any celestial-or infernal-being such as are listed in the Hierarchy, from Metatron and Ratziel to Lilith and Nahema.) We read of them, for the most part, as if they were persons-although of another order of being; a…
THE GODS 467 How restore faith in the Gods? There is only one way; we must get to know them personally. And that , of course, is one of the principal tasks of the Magician. One further remark. I have suggested that all these "identical" gods are in reality distinct persons , but belonging to the same families. Can we follow up this line of thought? Yes: but I will defer it to a subsequent letter. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
…ough they make use of the formulae of nature which have brought them to their present situation , are attempts to proceed further on the way of the True Will. It is particularly important to understand this at the present time when the Aeon of Horus is just getting under way. For the Aeon of Isis, that of the Mother, appears to have regarded the whole of Nature as a spontaneous growth of universal scope. In the aeon of Osiris, the restriction of Family appears for the first time. The world of sentient beings is separated into clusters, each fam…
…y, the whole explanation; but I see well enough that it won't do for you. You are not yet old or wise enough to understand that the only way to clear muddy water is to leave it alone. Still, you doubtless expect me to tell you just how that comes to pass; I will not disappoint you. First of all, what is the Tao? No proposed equivalent in any other language comes within a billion light-years of giving even an approximation. For one thing, it is itself a paradox; for another, it has several meanings which are apparently quite distinct. For instan…
…ow all bitterness, thy teeth fixed in the Sodom-Apple. Thus hast thou been lured along that Path, whose terror else had driven thee far away. o thou that stridest upon the middle of the Path, no phantoms mock thee. For the stride's sake thou stridest. Thus art thou lured along that Path, whose fascination else had driven thee far away. o thou that drawest toward the End of The Path, effort is no more. Faster and faster dost thou fall; thy weariness is changed into Ineffable Rest . For there is no Thou upon that Path: thou hast become The Way. A…
… is obviously a pure question of Will. You will find as you go on that obstacles of varying degrees of difficulty confront you ; and the way in which you deal with them is most carefully watched. The best advice that I can give is to remember that there is little need of the Bull-at-a-Gate method , though that must always be ready in reserve; no, the best analogy is rapier-play. Elastic strength . Warfare shows us. That seems to cover your question more or less; but don't forget that it depends on yourself how much of the dramatic quality colou…
…invention of Mme. Blava tsky, and has no authority in the Buddhist canon. The Buddha is referred to, again and again, as having "passed away by that kind of passing away which leaves nothing whatever behind. " The account of his doing this is given in the Mahaparinibbana Sutta; and it was the contention of the Theosophists that this "great, sublime Nibbana story" was something peculiar to Gautama Buddha. They began to talk about Parinibbana, super-Nibbana, as if there were some way of subtracting one from one which would leave a higher, superio…