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Page 12 of 1151907 · PDF PAGE 303
…ve a superior faculty To reasoning , which makes absurd , Unthinkable and wicked too , A great deal that I know is true ! In short , the mind is capable , Besides mere ratiocination , Of twenty other things as well , The first of which is concentration ! Bloom , Concentration's midnight flower ! After much practice to this end I gain at last the long -sought power (Which you believe you have this hour, But certainly have not , my friend !), Of keeping close the mind to one Thing at a time - suppose , the Sun. I gain this (Reverence to Ganesh '!…
1961 · PDF PAGE 106
… with Shame of his weak Nature. But he will analyse himself without Pity, and he will do all Things soever that may free and fortify his Mind and Will. Know that the Technick of the Right Use of this Magick with Poisons is subtle; and since the Nature of every Man differeth from that of his Fellow, there entereth Idiosyncrasy, and thine Experience shall be thy Master in this Art. Heed also this Word following: The Right Use of these Agents is to gain a Knowledge preliminary of thine own Powers, and of High States, so that thou goest not altoget…
1954 · PDF PAGE 179
146 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS you will make up your mind rapidly on this point . This is where your daily practice of the Qabalah will come in useful. You run through in your mind the seven sacred planets . The very first of them seems quite consonant with what you have so far seen. Everything suits Saturn well enough. To be on the safe side, you go through the others; but this is a very obvious case-Saturn is the only planet that agrees with everything. The only other possibility will be the Moon; but there is no trace noticeable of any of her more…
1913 · PDF PAGE 122
…sturbance. Now considering that Sirius itself is only, as far as you know, but one, and one of the least important, of the ideas in your mind, why should that mind be disturbed by your toothache? It is not possible to labour this point without tautology, for it is a very simple one; but it should be emphasised, for it is a very simple one. Waugh ! Waugh ! Waugh! Waugh! Waugh !^ In the question of ethics it again becomes vital, for to many people it seems impossible to consider the merits of any act without dragging in a number of subjects which…
1909 · PDF PAGE 385
… these two handsome creatures been left with me? I only reproduce here an infinitesimal part of the numberless thoughts which came to my mind in that moment. However—for this should prove a too long narrative— IT soon ceased ruminating upon the future, for the women began singing a sort of cheerless lay. ‘“ How, fah, fah, how, loh, hew, hew,” it went on, and I could foresee no end to the romance. In the meantime the maidens advanced towards me, and while their thoughts gave way to the noise referred to already, their hands soon began gently scr…
1909 · PDF PAGE 385
… these two handsome creatures been left with me? I only reproduce here an infinitesimal part of the numberless thoughts which came to my mind in that moment. However—for this should prove a too long narrative— IT soon ceased ruminating upon the future, for the women began singing a sort of cheerless lay. ‘“ How, fah, fah, how, loh, hew, hew,” it went on, and I could foresee no end to the romance. In the meantime the maidens advanced towards me, and while their thoughts gave way to the noise referred to already, their hands soon began gently scr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 119
…otion, the senses of pleasure and pain, lead the observer infallibly to err. This though they be not sufficiently excited to disturb his mind. Plunge one hand into a basin of hot water, the other into a basin of cold water, then both together into a basin of tepid water; the one hand will say hot, the other cold. Even in instruments themselves, their physical qualities, such as ex- pansion and contraction (which may be called, in a way, the roots of pleasure and pain), cause error. Make a thermometer, and the glass is so excited by the necessar…
1954 · PDF PAGE 421
…y another aspect. We tracked the cause: it was frustration . Good: then we must counter it. How? Only (in the last event) by getting the mind firmly fixed in the complete philosophy of Thelema. There is no such thing as frustration . Every step is a step on the Path. It is simply not true that you are being baulked. The height of your irritation is a direct measure of the intensity of your Energy. Again, you soon come to laugh at yourself for your impatience . Probably (you surmise) your trouble is exactly that: you are pushing too hard. Your m…
1912 · PDF PAGE 29
… always, the moment that one becomes conscious of this, it stops, and the dreary old struggle between the cowboy will and the buckjumper mind begins again. Like every other physiological process, consciousness of it implies disorder or disease. In analysing the nature of this work of controlling the mind, the student will appreciate without trouble the fact that two things are involved—the person seeing and the thing seen—the person knowing and the thing known; and he will come to regard this as the necessary condition of all consciousness. We …
1913 · PDF PAGE 134
…uch great moment; all impressions are phases of the non-ego, and the Ego serves merely as a receptacle. In fact, to the well regu- lated mind, there is no question but that the impressions are real, and that the mind, if not a tabula fasa, is only not so because of the "ten- dencies " or " innate ideas " which prevent some ideas from being received as readily as others.' These "tendencies" must be combated: distasteful facts should be insisted upon until the Ego is perfectly indifferent to the nature of its food. " Even as the diamond shall glo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 56
…f the Qabalah. It is just possible that the magi wrote their conjurations on this crude hypothesis in order to avoid the clouding of the mind by doubt and metaphysical spéculation. He who became the Master Therion was once confronted by this very difficulty. Being determined to instruct mankind, He sought a simple statement of his object. His will was sufficiently informed by common sense to décidé him to teach man T he Nexi Step, the thing which was immediately above him. He might hâve called this “God”, or “The Higher Self”, or “The Augoeides…
1903 · PDF PAGE 24
…ier qualifi- cation. By meditation I do not mean merely “thinking about” anything, however profoundly, but the absolute restraint of the mind to the contemplation of a single object, whether gross, fine, or altogether spiritual. Now true magical ceremonial is entirely directed to attain this end, and forms a magnificent gymnasium for those who are not already finished mental athletes. By act, word, and thought, both in quantity and quality, the one object of the ceremony is being constantly indicated. Every fumigation, purification, banishing, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 165
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING in Daath, the attainment of the Mind, or in Kether, the attainment of that which includes and transcends all, the message itself is simple. It involves no reference to facts. Frater Perdurabo may be a myth. The methods are experi- mental. 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
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING in Daath, the attainment of the Mind, or in Kether, the attainment of that which includes and transcends all, the message itself is simple. It involves no reference to facts. Frater Perdurabo may be a myth. The methods are experi- mental. 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
1944 · PDF PAGE 260
…s fully discussed in the text of the Essay. This diagram should be studied so deeply and so constantly that it becomes automatic for the mind to accept it as the basis of all thinking on the subject of The Tarot, exactly as the letters of the alphabet and their arbitrary order is accepted as the basis of all our thinking in respect of words and their pronunciation. Until this first task has been mastered, the details of the Tarot may prove a source of continual annoyance; every symbol of the book must be so familiar as to have sunk completely i…
1906 · PDF PAGE 100
94 THE ARGONAUTS ARGUS. I stand with brows abashed. Thou art the master—build the ship thyself. JASON. Nay, but my knowledge is of mind alone. I cannot so apply it as to build An Argo. ARGUS. Yet I verily believe Such mind must pierce far deeper than these names, Seeking the very nature of the things Thou namest thus so pat. Perchance to thee These logs, nails, bolts, tools, have some life of sense, Some subtle language. say !1 Tell us what they THESEUS. Tis but a giber—leave the churl alone. JASON. Indeed I spake of things I knew not of. ARGUS…
1930 · PDF PAGE 45
…e spirit. Before tracing the dashes which are to détermine the four “Mothers”, he must strictly examine himself. He must banish from his mind every thought which can possibly act as an attachment to his proposed partner. He must banish ail thoughts which concern himself, those of appré¬ hension no less than those of ardour. He must carry his introspec¬ tion as far as possible. He must observe with ail the subtletv at his command whether it pains him to abandon any of these thoughts. So long as his mind is stirred, however slightly, by one singl…
1909 · PDF PAGE 89
…main in that simplicity. I got this “revelation” through the Egyptian plane, a partial illumination of the reason. It has cleared up the mind; but alas! the mind is still there. This is the strength and weakness both of the Egyptian plane, 87
1912 · PDF PAGE 24
…t by these two things, we find that they are only one. For what is the state of either prayer or meditation? It is the restraining of the mind to a single act, state, or thought. If we sit down quietly and investigate the contents of our minds, we shall find that even at the best 05 times the principal characteristics are wandering and distraction. Any one who has had anything to do with children and untrained minds generally knows that fixity of attention is never present, even when there is a large amount of intelligence and good will. If then w…
1899 · PDF PAGE 10
…n the shadow far behind Dim and divine, within the shadow blind. My own love’s face most amorously draw Out of the deep toward my cloudy mind. And suddenly I felt a kiss enclose My whole live body, as a rich red rose Folding its sweetness round the honey-bee. I felt a perfect soul embracing me, And in my spirit like a river flows A passion like the passion of the sea.