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Page 17 of 731913 · PDF PAGE 70
…oduction of this ink and paper for ever—for in it is the word secret & not only in the English—and thy comment upon this the Book of the Law shall be printed beautifully in red ink and black upon beautiful paper made by hand; and to each man and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to abide in this bliss or no; it is no odds. Do this quickly! 40. But the work of the comment? That is easy; and Hadit burning in thy heart shall make swift and secure thy pen. 41. Establish a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 70
…oduction of this ink and paper for ever—for in it is the word secret & not only in the English—and thy comment upon this the Book of the Law shall be printed beautifully in red ink and black upon beautiful paper made by hand; and to each man and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to abide in this bliss or no; it is no odds. Do this quickly! 40. But the work of the comment? That is easy; and Hadit burning in thy heart shall make swift and secure thy pen. 41. Establish a…
1919 · PDF PAGE 451
…@’s roots torn out. But stay, Disciple . . . Yet one word. Canst thou de- stroy divine COMPASSION? Compassion is no attribute. It is the Law of LAWS—eternal Harmony, Alaya’s SELF; a shoreless universal essence, the light of everlasting Right, and fitness of all things, the law of Love eternal. Here again is apparently a serious difficulty. The idea of Klesha, here identified with Love of worldly enjoyment, seems to put one back almost before the beginning. Is it now only that the almost-Arhat no longer wants to go to the theatre? It must not be…
1996 · PDF PAGE 133
134 The Law is for All 61. There is a light before thine eyes, o prophet, a light undesired, most desirable. 62. I am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body. Commentary: “uplifted in thine heart”:—compare “The Book of the Heart Girt with a Serpent.”1 1 [“Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente sub figura LXV.”] See Equinox III(l) [(1919), and The Holy Books ofThelema (Equinox 111(9)) (1983).] 63. Thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness of the inspiration; the expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laught…
1938 · PDF PAGE 9
…the Wheel a Serpent with the head of a Sphinx, and toucheth the mouth of the Master, so that His voice breaks into Song: The Word of the law is µ»· ¼±. Many and marvelous are the mysteries of this Word, and of the Numeration thereof! Nor may I declare them, save this the simplest, for Then is all Heaven aflame with a great blast of trumpets; and the world is alight with one flash, that sundereth every spirit that liveth, branding this Sign upon them: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Aves. Now the whole air is thrilled by the v…
1954 · PDF PAGE 167
…he Great Work. Meditation should lead the student to considerations even deeper and more fruitful. Invoke me under my stars! Love is the law, love under will. Nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. There is the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and brigh t glory, and stir th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 160
NOISE 127 are all subjected by law to the bleatings, bellowings, be1chings of the boring balderdash of the B.B.C.-issies? So nobody must be allowed to think at aU. Down with the public schools! Children must be drilled mentally by quarter-educated herdsmen, whose wages would stop at the first sign of disagreement with the bosses. For the rest, deafen the whole world with senseless clamour. Mechanize everything! Give nobody a chance to think. Standardize "amusement. " The louder and more cacophonous, the better! Brief intervals between one din a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 60
46 WHY JESUS WEPT. CARRUTHERS. I warn you, Lady Baird. The laws calls this abduction. ANGELA. Pish ! the law ! Go, my dear (Whispers) husband — ah ! how proud you look ! Come when you will ! CARRUTHERS. Sir Percy Percivale ! I stand here in your dear dead father’s name. ANGELA. You stand here, Percy, for yourself — and me. CARRUTHERS. Come down ; I am your guardian. Know this ! Without me you do nought, say nought, spend nought. Obey me ! SIR PERCY. Silence, sir, I am your master. Whatever powers my father may have given To you, there’s one tha…
1909 · PDF PAGE 99
…hem than you will from some maudlin hysteric professional mountebank. All talk to the contrary is the merest froth; Mohammed was a great law- giver and a great fighter ; try your experiment with the sane, and not with the crazy! True, you will get hallucinations more easily with the unsound ; but you will never, never, never find a woman or a degenerate who is capable of any trance of type higher than Vedana. Take my word for it! No! take my word for nothing: try all things ; hold fast that which is good ! MaprIp, August 1908, 0.8. 89
1909 · PDF PAGE 99
…hem than you will from some maudlin hysteric professional mountebank. All talk to the contrary is the merest froth; Mohammed was a great law- giver and a great fighter ; try your experiment with the sane, and not with the crazy! True, you will get hallucinations more easily with the unsound ; but you will never, never, never find a woman or a degenerate who is capable of any trance of type higher than Vedana. Take my word for it! No! take my word for nothing: try all things ; hold fast that which is good ! MaprIp, August 1908, 0.8. 89
1919 · PDF PAGE 230
…t and fit, use all its power to redress or to avenge it. 30. In the case of any Brother being accused of an offence against the criminal law of the country in which he resides, so that any other Brother cognisant of the fact feels bound in self-defence to bring accusation, he shall report the mat- ter to the Grand Tribunal as well as to the Civil Authority, claiming exemption on this ground. 31. The accused Brother will, however, be defended by the Order to the utmost of its power on his affirming his in- nocence upon the Volume of the Sacred L…
1954 · PDF PAGE 184
THE IMPORTANCE OF GREETINGS 151 "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law" to spring to the forefront of the mind when one is introduced to a stranger, or comes down to breakfast, or hears the telephone bell, or observes the hour of the adoration, (these are to be the superficial reactions, like instinctively rising when a lady enters the room) or, at the other end, in moments of immediate peril, or of sudden apprehension, or when in one's meditation, one approaches the deepest strata. One need not be dogmatic about the use of these spec…
1961 · PDF PAGE 221
Notes by the creator of this electronic edition Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Liber Aleph was written over the winter 1917-18 and first advertised for publication in the Præmonstrance of A∴A∴ in Equinox III (1). It is addressed to Charles Stansfeld Jones, Frater Achad (O.I.V., Parzival, O.I.V.V.I.O., Arctæon, &c.), who had not long previously taken the Oath of the Abyss and declared himself 8°=38 (without bothering to go through the grades Zelator to Adeptus Exemptus inclusive first), and whom at the time Crowley believed t…
1939 · PDF PAGE 13
…e may be in perfect condition to fling ourselves up into the furnace of ecstasy which flames from the abyss of annihilation. Love is the law, love under will.
1911 · PDF PAGE 41
…jesty, and behold! there is nothing but this abomination of desolation. He speaks; I cannot hear a word; something about the Book of the Law. The answer is written in the Book of the Law, or something of that sort. This is a long speech; all that I can hear is: From me pour down the fires of life and increase continually upon the earth. From me flow down the rivers of water and oil and wine. From me cometh forth the wind that beareth the seed of trees and flowers and fruits and all herbs upon its bosom. From me cometh forth the earth in her uns…
1904 · PDF PAGE 108
… causes, those which have already germ inated, are utterly worked out (for even the Buddha himself could not swing back the Wheel of the Law) his certain anticipation of the approach of Nirvana is so intense as to bathe him constantly in the unfathom able ocean of apprehension of immediate bliss. AUM MANI PADME HOUM.
1906 · PDF PAGE 249
…t causes, those which have already germinated, are utterly worked out (for even the Buddha himself could not swing back the Wheel of the Law), his certain anticipation of the approach of Nirvana is so intense as to bathe him con- stantly in the unfathomable ocean of the apprehension of immediate bliss. AUM MANI PADME HOUM.
1906 · PDF PAGE 15
By mindless Law? Their death-embrace A simple accident of space? Vv. Where is thy fame, when million leagues Of flaming gas absorb the roll Of many a system ruinous hurled With infinite pains and dire fatigues To build another stupid soul For fools to call another world? Where then thy fame, O soul sublime? Where then thy victory over Time? Vi. Wilt thou seek deeper than the fact? Take refuge in a city of mind? Build thee an house, and call it heaven? Rush on! there foams the cataract, Blind steersman leader of the blind, Sole devil herald of t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 469
…til one makes it real by dint of honest travel, which does not mean either "commuting" or "luxury cruises," still less "globe-trotting." Law is a specialized study, with a view to a career; History is too unsystematic and uncertain to be of much use as mental training; Art is to be studied for and by one's solitary self; any teaching soever is rank poison. The final wisdom on this subject is perhaps the old "Something of everything, and everything of something." Love is the law, love under will. Yours ever, 666 P.S. Better mention, perhaps, tha…
1954 · PDF PAGE 204
…inary "freak of chance." Or . .. In a word, you seem to have strolled into a world where-well, it might be going too far to say that the Law of Cause and Effect is suspended; but at least the Law of Probability seems to be playing practical jokes on you. This means that your manoeuvres have somehow attracted the notice of the Astral Plane: your new neighbours (May I call them?) are taking an interest in the latest Tenderfoot, some to welcome, to do all they can to help you to settle down, others indignant or apprehensive at this disturbance of …