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Page 11 of 1071909 · PDF PAGE 59
…ntrating solely on the Revision and copying of the Ritual. Therefore I now live just as I always live in order to get a definite piece of work done: concentrating as it were 017 the Work. As Levi also adjures us by the Holy Names. Coming back from lunch (a dozen Marennes Vertes and an Andouillette aux Pommes) I met Zelina Visconti, more lovely-ugly than ever in her wild way. She says that she is favourably disposed towards me, on the recommendation of her concierge ! l! " The tongue of good report hath already been heard in his favourl Advance, …
1954 · PDF PAGE 255
…career through the incarnations; at that moment there might well be a vacancy somewhere exactly where it will do most good to your Great Work. When you press on one spot, you make a corresponding bulge in another, as we often see a beautiful Lady, unhappy about her waist-line, adopt drastic measures, and transform herself into the semblance of a Pouter Puffin! In theory, I am particularly pleased about this Method, because it goes for everybody, requires no knowledge, no technical training, "no nuffin." All the same, it won't do for me, except …
1912 · PDF PAGE 26
THE EQUINOX We must record our thanks to the noble generosity of many of our readers, which has enabled us to carry on the work of making known this clear description of The Path, given to us by the A A ,.?.־which has so helped us all to enter and pursue that Path. At Christmas we shall move to new premises. Notice will be sent by post to subscribers in due course. xxvi
1912 · PDF PAGE 26
THE EQUINOX We must record our thanks to the noble generosity of many of our readers, which has enabled us to carry on the work of making known this clear description of The Path, given to us by the A A ,.?.־which has so helped us all to enter and pursue that Path. At Christmas we shall move to new premises. Notice will be sent by post to subscribers in due course. xxvi
1913 · PDF PAGE 56
KE®AAH MA CORN BEEF HASH” chosen to manifest; and this one hath given His ring as a Seal of Authority to the Work of the A.*. A.*. through the colleagues of FRATER PERDURABO. But this concerns themselves and their ad- ministration; it concerneth none below the grade of Exempt Adept, and such an one only by command. Also, since below the Abyss Reason is Lord, let men seek by experiment, and not by Questionings.
1996 · PDF PAGE 107
…infinity made manifest, mood after mood, by her magick to mould him when his passion makes molten her metal. Thus then must every Artist work. First, he must find himself. Next, he must find the form that is fitted to express himself. Next, he must love that form, as a form, adoring it, understanding it, and mastering it with most minute attention, until it (as it seems) adapts itself to him with eager elasticity, and answers accurately and aptly, with the unconscious automatism of an organ perfected by evolution, to his most subtle suggestion,…
1912 · PDF PAGE 62
…rday’s vision a real illumination, since it 22 26. showed me an obvious mistake which I had utterly failed to see. The word in my Kamma- work (in Burma) was Augoeides, and the method Invoking Often. Therefore a self—glittering One, whether my conscience approves or not, whether my desires fit or not, is to be my guide. I am to invoke often, not to criticize. Am I to lose my grade of Babe of the Abyss? I cannot go wrong, for I am the chosen one; that is the very postulate of the whole work. This boat carries Caesar and his fortunes. A fair to goo…
1912 · PDF PAGE 62
…rday’s vision a real illumination, since it 22 26. showed me an obvious mistake which I had utterly failed to see. The word in my Kamma- work (in Burma) was Augoeides, and the method Invoking Often. Therefore a self—glittering One, whether my conscience approves or not, whether my desires fit or not, is to be my guide. I am to invoke often, not to criticize. Am I to lose my grade of Babe of the Abyss? I cannot go wrong, for I am the chosen one; that is the very postulate of the whole work. This boat carries Caesar and his fortunes. A fair to goo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 165
…Faith, in the conventional sense, is a condition of failure, not of success. The Word has been proclaimed. It is of no avail without the Work. 125
1913 · PDF PAGE 165
…Faith, in the conventional sense, is a condition of failure, not of success. The Word has been proclaimed. It is of no avail without the Work. 125
1909 · PDF PAGE 46
…any odd things, necessary as they may have been. I had better take a solid hour willing the Tryst with Adonai. Have done all this, and a Work of Kindness. I will again revise the new ritual, dine, return and copy it fair for use. Let Adonai the Lord oversee the Work, that it be per- fect, a sure link with Him, a certain and infallible Conjuration, and Spell, and Working of true Magick Art, that I may invoke Him with success whenever seemeth good unto Him. Unto Him; not unto Me! Is it not written that Except Adonai build the House, they labour i…
1930 · PDF PAGE 71
itself. It anses from a defect of understanding. Until tlie Great Work lias been performed, it is presumptuous for the magician to prétend to understand the universe, and dictate its policy. Only the Master of the Temple can say whether any given act is a crime. “Slay that innocent child?” (I hear the ignorant say) “What a horror!” “Ah!” replies the Knower, with foresight of history, “but that child will become Nero. Hasten to strangle him!” lhere is a third, above these, who understands that Nero was as necessary as Julius Caesar. The Master o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 70
KE®AAH NA TERRIER-WORK Doubt. Doubt thyself. Doubt even if thou doubtest thyself. Doubt all. Doubt even if thou doubtest all. It seems sometimes as if beneath all conscious doubt there lay some deepest certainty. O kill it! Slay the snake! The horn of the Doubt-Goat be exalted! Dive deeper, ever deeper, into the Abyss of Mind, until thou unearth the fox THAT. On, hounds! Yoicks! Tally-ho! Bring THAT to bay! Then, wind the Mort!
1929 · PDF PAGE 580
…l they must be filled up with fiction, and where they obstructed his wild career, they must be distorted into fantastic form. He did his work well on the whole. He was as fair as his circumstances permitted and in my judgment the ultimate effect of his hotel polish mixed fact and fable will be to familiarize the American public with my name and interest {915} them in my career sufficiently to induce the few intelligent individuals who have read it to inquire independently into the facts of the case. The strong point of my position is that there…
1904 · PDF PAGE 104
…niverse. Closely connected with this question is that of the will of God. People argue that an Infi- nite intelligence must have been at work on this cosmos. I reply No ! There is no intelligence at work worthy of the name. The Laws of Nature may be generalised in one—the Law of Inertia. Everything moves in the direction determined by the path of least resistance ; species arise, develop, and die as their collec- tive inertia determines; to this Law there is no exception but the doubtful one of Free- will ; the Law of Destiny itself is form all…
1904 · PDF PAGE 114
…ncipii. (2) This, to a scientist, is apparently anathema. But it only means, I think, that if we are not settled in our m inds we cannot work. And this is unquestionable. Suppose a chemist to set to work to determ ine the boiling-point of a new organic substance. Does he stop in the midst, struck by the fear that his therm ometer is inaccurate ? No ! he has, unless he is a fool, tested it previously. We must have our principia fixed before we can do research work. (3) A scientist hardly requires conviction on this point! (4) Do you think to com…
1909 · PDF PAGE 62
…performing a ritual in one’s Astral Body, so called. For one is on the same plane as the things one’s dealing with. If, however, serious work is wanted, one must be all there. To get “ materialised " “spirits "—pardon the absurd language !——one should (nay, must I) work inside
1910 · PDF PAGE 42
…when I lived, as will be obvious from the style, in Paddington. I will therefore beg my readers to proceed to the same and thence to the work itself ; and leave the Bal Bullier and his Dorothy to their glad work of restoring the victim of Bri- tish stupidity — else why these miles of preface ? — weary Aleister Crowley, to his Pagan rapture.
1907 · PDF PAGE 9
…good or evil ; if logic alarm you , or the naked truth make you blush ; if you are hurt when accepted errors are assailed ; condemn this work straight away ; do not read it ; let it cease to exist for you ; but at the same time do not cry it down as dangerous ." ELIPHAS LÉVI .
1954 · PDF PAGE 523
…n be. But what I have said above amounts really to a regular Rule of Life. Need I add that the prime and essential requisite in all this Work is that you so devote yourself to, and identify yourself with, the Gods, that there is never any doubt in your mind as to what They intend you to do? Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666