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Cara Soror, 70 Morality (1) Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. "Tu l'as voulu. Georges Dandin!" I knew from the first that your sly, insidious, poisoned poniard, slipped in between my ribs, would soon or late involve a complete exposition of the whole subject of Morality. Off we go! What really is it? The word comes from Mos, Latin for 'custom', 'manner'. Similarly, ethics: from Greek ethos, 'custom' . "It isn't done" may be modern slang, but it's correct . Interesting to study the usage of moeurs and manieres in French. 'Manner' …
1954 · PDF PAGE 161
Cara Soror, 15 Sex Morality Including Artemis Iota Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Thank you! I am to cover the whole question of sex in a few well-chosen words? Am I to suppose that you want to borrow money? Such fulsome flattery suggests the indirect approach. As a matter of fact, your proposal is not so outrageous as it sounds at first; for as far as the English language goes, there is really hardly anything worth reading. 98.138 percent of it is what Frances Ridley Ravergal used to call "fiddlesticks, blah, boloney, Bull-sh…
1954 · PDF PAGE 514
79 Progress Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. You will certainly have to have an india-rubber medal for persistence ; this is the nth time that you have tried to catch me contradicting myself. Well, so I do, and must, every time I make any statement whatever , as has been shown several times in this chatty little interchange of views. But that is not what you mean. You say-permit me to condense your more than somewhat tautological , pleonastic, prolix , diffuse and incoherent elucubrations!-that the whole idea of the …
1954 · PDF PAGE 174
Cara Soror, 17 Astral Journey- -How to Do It How to Verify Your Experiences Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law_ There is no better way to training the memory than the practice of the Holy Qabalah. The whole mechanism of memory depends on joining up independent data. You must go on adding a little to little, always joining the simple impressions by referring them to others which are more general; and so on until the whole of your universe is arranged like the brain and the nervous system. This system in fact, becomes the Universe. W…
1954 · PDF PAGE 274
QUO STET OLYMPUS 241 because it is useful to rebut the somewhat soapbox type of critic who thinks to rebut the whole thesis "Sunt Daemones" by the snoot-cocking query "quo Stet Olympus. " Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 538
… by what is called the Method of Ladders. All these operations are equally valid and equally invalid, and the result of this is that the whole subject of Yoga leads to constantly increasing confusion. The fineness of the analytical instrument seems to defeat its own purpose and it is perhaps because of that confusion that I have always felt in my deepest consciousness that the method of Magick is on the whole less dangerous than that of Yoga. This is particularly the case when discussing these matters with a Western mind. It is true that our 0 …
1954 · PDF PAGE 53
20 Cara Soror, MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Letter H November 10-11, 1943 11 pm-2 am Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Yours of yestere'en came to gladden me just when the whole evening lay blank before me: the one job such a big job that I simply can't get down to it until I get help: How annoying! Still, yours the gain! l. That verse (AL, I: 44) condenses the whole magical technique . It makes clear-when you have understood it-the secret of success in the Great Work. Of course at first it appears a paradox. You must have an aim, and on…
1954 · PDF PAGE 325
46 Selfishness Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Selfishness? I am glad to find you worrying that bone, for it has plenty of meat on it ; fine juicy meat, none of your Chilled Argentine or Canterbury lamb. It is a pelvis, what's more; for in a way the whole structure of the ethics of Thelema is founded upon it. There is some danger here; for the question is a booby trap for the noble , the generous, the high-minded . 'Selflessness', the great characteristic of the Master of the Temple, the very quintessence of his att…
1954 · PDF PAGE 335
48 Morals of Liber AL Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. No man alive can appreciate better than myself the difficulties connected with The Book of the Law. You ask me, if I have rightly analysed your somewhat complicated series of questions, to advise you as to your attitude towards that Book. To begin: the Author is quite certainly both more than human , and other than human. His main aim seems to me to announce the Magical Formula of the Aeon of Horus, and to lay down the fundamental principles of conduct that are c…
1954 · PDF PAGE 60
1 What Is Magick? Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. What is Magick? Why should anyone study and practice it? Very natural; the obvious preliminary questions of any subject soever. We must certainly get all this crystal clear; fear not that I shall fail to set forth the whole business as concisely as possible yet as fully, as cogently yet as lucidly, as may prove within my power to do. At least I need not waste any time on telling you what Magick is not; or to go into the story of how the word came to be misapplied to …
1954 · PDF PAGE 141
…ody shovel! I shall break off this brief note at this point , so that you may have time to tell me if what I have so far said covers the whole ground of your enquiry. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 130
10 The Scolex School Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You actually want to know how to distinguish gold from copper pyrites- "fool's gold" they called it in '49 California-no! I wasn't there-or "absolute" alcohol and-Liqueur Whisky from "alki" (commercial alcohol-see Jack London's The Princess, a magnificent story-don't miss it!) and Wartime Scotch as sold in most British pubs in 1944, era vulgari. One pretty good plan is to take a masterpiece, pick out a page at random, translate it into French or German or whatever…
1954 · PDF PAGE 367
52 Family: Public Enemy No.1 Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. In your last letter you mention "family pressure." Horrid word, family! Its very etymology accuses it of servility and stagnation. Latin, famulus, 'a servant'; Oscan, Faamat, 'he dwells'. Think what horrid images it evokes from the mind. Not only Victorian; wherever the family has been strong, it has always been an engine of tyranny. Weak members or weak neighbours: it is the mob spirit crushing genius, or overwhelming opposition by brute arithmetic. Of co…
1954 · PDF PAGE 227
Cara Soror, 26 Mental Processes Two Only Are Possible Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. "Occult" science is the most difficult of them all. For one thing, its subject-matter includes the whole of philosophy, from ontology and metaphysics down to natural history. More, the most rarefied and recondite of these has a direct bearing upon the conduct of life in its most material details, and the simplest study of such apparently earthbound matters as botany and mineralogy leads to the most abstruse calculations of the imponderables . …
1954 · PDF PAGE 196
22 How to Learn the Practice of Astrology Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. "Up, Guards, and at 'em!" First, you must know your correspondences by heart backwards and upside down (air connu) . They are practically all in The Book of Thoth; but "if anyone anything lacks," look for it in 777. Then, get a book on Astrology, the older the better. Raphael's Shilling Handbook is probably enough for the present purpose. Get well into your head what the menu says about the natures of the planets, the influence of the aspects,…
1954 · PDF PAGE 307
42 This "Self" Introversion Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. "It is a lie, this folly against self." (AL, II: 22) The English is very un-English, and the context hardly helpful. But the meaning is clear enough ; the idea is to dismiss, curtly and rudely, the entire body of doctrine which insists on altruism as a of spiritual progress. Why do I jump in with this text without warning? Because at the end of my letter on Sammasati the Dweller of the Threshold popped up, and that brings us to the Black Brothers , and the …
1954 · PDF PAGE 319
45 "Unserious" Conduct of a Pupil Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Here pops up Zola again-this time he says J'Accuse! To-day's Hexagram for me is No. X. Li, the Tiger: and the Duke of Chau comments on the last line as follows: "The sixth line, undivided, tells us to look at the whole course that is trodden, and examine the presage which that gives. If it be complete and without failure, there will be great good fortune." O.K.; Let's! I t is now well over a year since you came to me howling like a damned soul in torm…
1954 · PDF PAGE 403
…ssary steps to protect his find. In the course of the formalities he found it necessary to come to London, which he did, and told me the whole story. Unfortunately we end with an anti-climax. The negotiations went wrong; and the property was stolen from under his nose by one of the big alkali firms. However, it was a good mark for Geomancy. I am afraid that all this is a digression. As I indicated above, what you want to know is to be found in the official instruction on the subject in The Equinox . Now far be it from me to cast any doubt on an…
1954 · PDF PAGE 386
56 Marriage-Property-War Politics Cara Soror , Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Directly or indirectly, you have already all you need about marriage in its relation to Magical Training. The Hindu proverb sums it all up: "There are seven kinds of wife-like a mother, a sister, a daughter, a mistress, a friend, an enemy and a slave; of these the only good one is the last." But from your questions I gather that what you want is advice on how to advise, how marriage as an institution is regarded by The Book of the Law. Very good. It …
1954 · PDF PAGE 532
83 Epistola Ultima Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The suggestion in your last letter to me is a very sensible one. I do think that people in general would like to get some idea of my system of training as a whole, in a comprehensive form. In the past there has been far too much of referring them to one quite unprocurable document and then to another which probably has not even been written. No wonder that they go away sorrowful. So I am going to put in as the last of this series of Letters an account, as clear and …