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Page 21 of 731954 · PDF PAGE 330
…pheres of action, as of course they do, it seems less trouble for them to remain in their original ambit. As I pointed out long ago, the Law of Karma is the Law of Inertia. Nor is it necessary to assert that it always works out in this way; "sometimes" is quite good enough. Besides, to say "sometimes" explains (or rather, avoids) most of the evident objections to the theory . I grant you cheerfully that Reincarnation is a comparatively rare occurrence; and it throws upon the objector the onus of proving an A or an E proposition. What is it that…
1996 · PDF PAGE 33
34 The Law is for All 1:34 “my servants”; not those of the Lord of the /Eon. “the Law is for all”; there can be no secrecy about that. The verse refers to specially chosen “servants”; perhaps those who, worshipping the Khabs, have beheld Her light shed over them. Such persons indeed consummate the marriage of Nuit and Hadit in them selves; in that case they are aware of certain Ways to Power. There is also a mystical sense in this verse. We are to organize our minds thoroughly, appointing few and secret chiefs, serving Nuit, to discipline the …
1996 · PDF PAGE 83
84 The Law is for All P.S. The Gnostic Mass is intended to supply this need; “Liber XV.” It has been said continuously in California for some years.1 1 [Crowley refers to Agape Lodge of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) in Southern California, founded by Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885-1957) in 1935 E.v. “Liber XV” is now celebrated weekly around the world.] 2 The Equinox 1(9). [See “Liber 811,” Works Cited.] 63. Sing the rapturous love-song unto me! Burn to me perfumes! Wear to me jewels! Drink to me, for I love you! I love you! Commentary: All those a…
1996 · PDF PAGE 128
… are not to judge by temporary circumstances, but to penetrate to the True Nature. It has naturally been objected by economists that our Law, in declaring every man and every woman to be a star, reduces society to its elements, and makes hierarchy or even democracy impos sible. The view is superficial. Each star has a function in its galaxy proper to its own nature. Much mischief has come from our igno rance in insisting, on the contrary, that each citizen is fit for any and every social duty. But also our Law teaches that a star often
1996 · PDF PAGE 289
288 The Law is for All 4 ------------ (with Mary Desti and Leila Waddell). Magick. Book 4, Parts I-IV. Revised edition, ed. Hymenaeus Beta (York Beach, me: Weiser, 1994.) 5 ------------ (received by). [The Book of the Law]. Liber AL vel Legis sub figura CCXX. London: o.T.o., 1938; 2nd rev. ed., Pasadena, ca: Church of Thelema [1942]; corrected rpt. of London ed., with facsimile ms., New York: Weiser, 1976, 1979; rpt. York Beach, me: Weiser, 1993. 6 ------------ (received by). [The Book of the Latv]. Liber AL vel Legis sub figura CCXX. New York:…
1922 · PDF PAGE 11
…the angels, nor even unto death utterly, save through the weak- ness of his own feeble will. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. ALEISTER CROWLEY.
1907 · PDF PAGE 54
34 KONX OM PAX perception of the Great Falsehood. Just as in chemistry the school boy blunders over the law of Combining Weights, and finds difficulty in accepting it, only to discover that the real difficulty of the chemist is that the law is not true; just as the golfer painfully corrects his pull and his slice, only to learn that the pull and the slice are the master strokes of the game; just as the brilliant and studious person arrives at the summit of his academic career, only to discover (if he have sufficient wit left over from the process) …
1996 · PDF PAGE 117
118 The Law is for All casual, our minds would still insist that casuality itself was the effect of some cause. Our daily experience hammers home this conviction; and a man’s mental excellence seems to be measurable almost entirely in terms of the strength and depth of his apprecia tion thereof as the soul of the structure of the Universe. It is the spine of Science which has vertebrated human Knowledge above the slimy mollusc whose principle was Faith. We must not suppose for an instant that The Book of the Law is opposed to reason. On the co…
1905 · PDF PAGE 142
…ght, him doth pain follow sure and blind : So the ox plants his foot and so the car-wheel follows hard behind. [Blind, i.e., operated by law, not by caprice of a deity.] All that we are from mind results, on mind is founded, built of mind. Who acts or speaks with righteous thought, him happiness doth surely find. So failing not, the shadow falls for ever in its place assigned. “ Me he abused and me he beat, he robbed me, he defeated me.” In whom such thoughts find harbourage hatred will never cease to be. * An attempt to translate this noblest …
1919 · PDF PAGE 252
…eth . . . you are perfectly right to retort that it need not speak so much! I add no more, but our glad greeting to all men: Love is the law, love under will. Iam, dear sir, Yours in the Bonds of the Order, J. B. MASON. 238
1910 · PDF PAGE 148
THE EQUINOX or Soul; and a Selecting Power, which however is strenuously denied by the rigid law of Cause and Effect. However the mental eyes of the vast majority of his followers were not so clear as to pierce far into the darkness of metaphysical philosophy, and so it happened that, where the idealism of the Vedanta had failed the realism of Buddhism succeeded.* This denial ofa Universal Atman, and a personal Atman, soon brought the ethical and philosophical arguments of Gotama up against a brick wall (Kant’s “a priori”). As we have seen he c…
1910 · PDF PAGE 148
THE EQUINOX or Soul; and a Selecting Power, which however is strenuously denied by the rigid law of Cause and Effect. However the mental eyes of the vast majority of his followers were not so clear as to pierce far into the darkness of metaphysical philosophy, and so it happened that, where the idealism of the Vedanta had failed the realism of Buddhism succeeded.* This denial ofa Universal Atman, and a personal Atman, soon brought the ethical and philosophical arguments of Gotama up against a brick wall (Kant’s “a priori”). As we have seen he c…
1954 · PDF PAGE 349
316 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS in it is the word secret and 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." I mistook "Comment" for "Commentary-a word-by-word exposition of every verse (and much of it I loathed with all my heart!) including the Qabalistic…
1899 · PDF PAGE 5
…ircle of the fiery ring Became one moment like a littlé thing, And Truth and God were'near us to withdraw The veil of Love’s unalterable law. - We feared no fury of the jealous King, But, lest in honour love should find a flaw. Only our looks and trembling lips we dread, And the dear nimbus of a lover’s head, The dreamy splendour and the dim delight ' That feels the fragrance fallen from the night,
1909 · PDF PAGE 25
…ive you a war-engine. 8. With it ye shall smite the peoples; and none shall stand before you. 9. Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them-! this is the Law of the Battle of Conquest: thus shall my worship be about my secret house. IO. Get the stélé of revealing itself; set it in thy secret templemand that temple is al- 24
1899 · PDF PAGE 141
…ircle of the fiery ring Became one moment like a littlé thing, And Truth and God were'near us to withdraw The veil of Love’s unalterable law. - We feared no fury of the jealous King, But, lest in honour love should find a flaw. Only our looks and trembling lips we dread, And the dear nimbus of a lover’s head, The dreamy splendour and the dim delight ' That feels the fragrance fallen from the night,
1926 · PDF PAGE 24
…ive you a war-engine. 8. With it ye shall smite the peoples; and none shall stand before you. 9. Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them-! this is the Law of the Battle of Conquest: thus shall my worship be about my secret house. IO. Get the stélé of revealing itself; set it in thy secret templemand that temple is al- 24
1944 · PDF PAGE 78
…rience passes to its next manifestation. She poises herself before a throne composed of spheres and pyramids (four in number, signifying Law and Limitation) which themselves maintain the same equity that she herself manifests, though on a completely impersonal plane, in the framework within which all op‐ erations take place. Outside this again, at the corner of the card, are indicated balanced spheres of light and darkness, and constantly equilibrated rays from these spheres form a cur‐ tain, the interplay of all those forces which she sums up …
1996 · PDF PAGE 173
174 The Law is for All It is we of Thelema who truly love and respect Woman, who hold Her sinless and shameless even as we are; and those who say that we despise Her are those who shrink from the flash of our falchions1 as we strike from Her limbs their foul fetters. 1 [A broad, curved mediaeval sword.] Do we call Woman Whore? Ay, Verily and Amen, She is that; the air shudders and burns as we shout it, exulting and eager. O ye! Was not this your sneer, your vile Whisper that scorned Her and shamed Her? Was not “Whore” the truth of Her, the titl…
1910 · PDF PAGE 225
… like shops or booths that flare When all the world keeps holiday, still glare, Using a borrowed power with insolence, Ignoring beautys law that lent them sense. Blind wheel and deaf, of Hell in travail curled ! Brave tool that drinks the blood of all the world ! Hast thou no shame ? and hast thou no alarm Whose mirror shows thee thy decaying charm ? Hath not the vastness of the evil thing Thou thinkst thee wise of, sent thee shuddering When Naturegrand, persistent, tenebrous Uses thee, woman, thee, princess of pus, Vile animal !to slay a …